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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Elshaug, Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, Professor of Health Policy and Co-Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney This is one of our occasional Essays on Health, this time from an Australian visiting fellow in Washington, DC. Adam Elshaug, professor of health policy, ... <a title="Pandemic letter from America: how the US handling of COVID-19 provides the starkest warning for us all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/pandemic-letter-from-america-how-the-us-handling-of-covid-19-provides-the-starkest-warning-for-us-all-144357/" aria-label="Read more about Pandemic letter from America: how the US handling of COVID-19 provides the starkest warning for us all">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick D. Nunn, Professor of Geography, School of Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast Sea level rise is a serious threat to the low-lying islands of the Republic of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean. To fight it, their president recently announced he plans to raise ... <a title="Pacific people have been ‘pummelled and demeaned’ for too long – now they’re fighting back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/pacific-people-have-been-pummelled-and-demeaned-for-too-long-now-theyre-fighting-back-144278/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific people have been ‘pummelled and demeaned’ for too long – now they’re fighting back">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Lintermans, Associate professor, University of Canberra The tragic fish kills in the lower Darling River drew attention to the plight of Australia’s freshwater fish, but they’ve been in trouble for a long time. Many species have declined sharply in recent decades, and as many as 90 ... <a title="Australia’s smallest fish among 22 at risk of extinction within two decades" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/australias-smallest-fish-among-22-at-risk-of-extinction-within-two-decades-144115/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s smallest fish among 22 at risk of extinction within two decades">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Somayeh Parvazian, Survey Methodologist, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) unpack the lives of young Australians as they leave school, enter further study or the workforce and make the transition into adulthood. The latest findings are now available for ... <a title="A 3-decade ‘moving picture’ of young Australians’ study, work and life, thanks to LSAY" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/a-3-decade-moving-picture-of-young-australians-study-work-and-life-thanks-to-lsay-141134/" aria-label="Read more about A 3-decade ‘moving picture’ of young Australians’ study, work and life, thanks to LSAY">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW In the early 1930s a 21-year-old undergraduate at the London School of Economics asked a great question during his summer research project: “if my economics professors are right that markets are an efficient way to allocate resources, then why do firms ... <a title="Vital Signs: this university funding crisis was always coming – COVID-19 just accelerated it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/vital-signs-this-university-funding-crisis-was-always-coming-covid-19-just-accelerated-it-144365/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: this university funding crisis was always coming – COVID-19 just accelerated it">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Linden, Sessional Lecturer, PhD (Management) Candidate, School of Management, RMIT University In this recession, unlike in previous ones, governments have chosen to help pay salaries to keep workers in work rather than pay unemployment benefits when they laid off. It means that the July unemployment rate ... <a title="For some companies, JobKeeper has become DividendKeeper. They are paying out, even though the future looks awful" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/for-some-companies-jobkeeper-has-become-dividendkeeper-they-are-paying-out-even-though-the-future-looks-awful-144289/" aria-label="Read more about For some companies, JobKeeper has become DividendKeeper. They are paying out, even though the future looks awful">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin John Brophy, Emeritus Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne A friend is sending me documents needed to make me the executor of his will. He does not expect to die from this pandemic but he has enough weaknesses in his body to be fairly sure ... <a title="Friday essay: on reckoning with the fact of one’s death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/friday-essay-on-reckoning-with-the-fact-of-ones-death-143822/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: on reckoning with the fact of one’s death">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The state of aged care preparation in the era of COVID is, it seems, in the eye of the beholder. Vastly different claims emerged this week, when the royal commission examining the sector turned its attention to the handling of ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Morrison government needs to improve, rather than defend, its poor COVID aged care performance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/grattan-on-friday-morrison-government-needs-to-improve-rather-than-defend-its-poor-covid-aged-care-performance-144447/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Morrison government needs to improve, rather than defend, its poor COVID aged care performance">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch Pacific health specialist Dr Collin Tukuitonga is worried that the latest community transmission of covid-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand “could get very messy”. “The latest cluster is a worry because the source is unknown and highly probable as community transmission,” says Dr Tukuitonga, who was heavily involved during ... <a title="Covid spread could ‘decimate’ Pasifika, Māori communities, warns Tukuitonga" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/covid-spread-could-decimate-pasifika-maori-communities-warns-tukuitonga/" aria-label="Read more about Covid spread could ‘decimate’ Pasifika, Māori communities, warns Tukuitonga">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Welch, Senior lecturer, University of Auckland Genetic surveillance — a technology that uses the genetic fingerprint of a virus to track its spread — is part of the public health response to New Zealand’s new COVID-19 community outbreak and could help pinpoint its source. There are ... <a title="Why New Zealand needs to focus on genome sequencing to trace the source of its new COVID-19 outbreak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/why-new-zealand-needs-to-focus-on-genome-sequencing-to-trace-the-source-of-its-new-covid-19-outbreak-144402/" aria-label="Read more about Why New Zealand needs to focus on genome sequencing to trace the source of its new COVID-19 outbreak">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Welch, Senior lecturer, University of Auckland Genetic surveillance — a technology that uses the genetic fingerprint of a virus to track its spread — is part of the public health response to New Zealand’s new COVID-19 community outbreak and could help pinpoint its source. There are ... <a title="Why New Zealand needs to ramp up genome sequencing to trace the source of its new COVID-19 outbreak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/why-new-zealand-needs-to-ramp-up-genome-sequencing-to-trace-the-source-of-its-new-covid-19-outbreak-144402/" aria-label="Read more about Why New Zealand needs to ramp up genome sequencing to trace the source of its new COVID-19 outbreak">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia The Australian poet Gwen Harwood used to submit poems to literary journals under both her own name and a male pseudonym, Walter Lehmann. Furious that the latter poems were more favourably received, in 1961, she sent ... <a title="Reclaim Her Name: why we should free Australia’s female novelists from their male pseudonyms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/reclaim-her-name-why-we-should-free-australias-female-novelists-from-their-male-pseudonyms-144404/" aria-label="Read more about Reclaim Her Name: why we should free Australia’s female novelists from their male pseudonyms">Read more</a>
