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August 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Krumdieck, Professor and Director, Advanced Energy and Material Systems Lab, University of Canterbury CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an ... <a title="Climate explained: why does geothermal electricity count as renewable?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/climate-explained-why-does-geothermal-electricity-count-as-renewable-143433/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: why does geothermal electricity count as renewable?">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erika Martino, Research Fellow In Healthy Housing, University of Melbourne There is a crisis within crisis accommodation. Homelessness providers struggle to meet women’s requests for accommodation under usual circumstances. During COVID-19 lockdowns the dramatic increase in domestic abuse has put an already stretched system under greater pressure. ... <a title="As demand for crisis housing soars, surely we can tap into COVID-19 vacancies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/as-demand-for-crisis-housing-soars-surely-we-can-tap-into-covid-19-vacancies-143815/" aria-label="Read more about As demand for crisis housing soars, surely we can tap into COVID-19 vacancies">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barry Oliver, Associate Professor, The University of Queensland Insider trading comes in two main forms: arguably legal and clearly illegal. But, as with drugs in sport, it’s hard to tell when arguably legal ends and clearly illegal begins. It is generally accepted that it is wrong to ... <a title="Insider trading has become more subtle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/insider-trading-has-become-more-subtle-142981/" aria-label="Read more about Insider trading has become more subtle">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frances Di Lauro, Senior Lecturer, Department of Writing Studies, University of Sydney In the year then of our Lord 1348, there happened at Florence, the finest city in all Italy, a most terrible plague… Giovanni Boccaccio introduces his acclaimed collection of novellas, the Decameron, with a reference ... <a title="Guide to the Classics: Boccaccio’s Decameron, a masterpiece of plague and resilience" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/guide-to-the-classics-boccaccios-decameron-a-masterpiece-of-plague-and-resilience-143437/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the Classics: Boccaccio’s Decameron, a masterpiece of plague and resilience">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Nationals are demanding major changes to the government’s controversial new higher education fee plan, declaring it would disadvantage regional communities and students as it stands. The Nationals party room on Monday discussed the JobReady Graduates Package draft legislation – ... <a title="Nationals revolt over the government’s proposed university fee changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/nationals-revolt-over-the-governments-proposed-university-fee-changes-144306/" aria-label="Read more about Nationals revolt over the government’s proposed university fee changes">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The federal government has clashed with the Royal Commission into Aged Care, strongly rejecting the claim by senior counsel assisting the inquiry Peter Rozen that it had no specific COVID-19 plan for the sector. Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck told ... <a title="Government rejects Royal Commission’s claim of no aged care plan, as commission set to grill regulator" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/government-rejects-royal-commissions-claim-of-no-aged-care-plan-as-commission-set-to-grill-regulator-144301/" aria-label="Read more about Government rejects Royal Commission’s claim of no aged care plan, as commission set to grill regulator">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Four positive cases of covid-19 outside of managed isolation or quarantine have been reported and New Zealand has activated a resurgence plan. After 102 days without community transmission they are the first cases acquired from an unknown source, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced tonight. Ardern said New Zealand must take a “precautionary” approach as no ... <a title="Four new covid cases push NZ into three-day resurgence plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/four-new-covid-cases-push-nz-into-three-day-resurgence-plan/" aria-label="Read more about Four new covid cases push NZ into three-day resurgence plan">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Welcome to Evening Report’s TECH NOW. This week, we examine the BIG ISSUES behind the TECH HEADLINES with ComputerWorld NZ’s editor, Sarah Putt. What’s Happening in the Tech World? Govt & IT – Old-Tech’s Got to Go. What’s New-Tech Look Like? Excessive Online Data Collection – Unfriendly Databases – Why is Data Theft Still a Thing? ... <a title="VIDEO: Evening Report’s Tech Now with Sarah Putt and Selwyn Manning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/live-evening-reports-tech-now-with-sarah-putt-and-selwyn-manning/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Evening Report’s Tech Now with Sarah Putt and Selwyn Manning">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government and the Australian Defence Force are bracing for reputational damage to the military from damning findings in an imminent report on Australian Special Forces’ behaviour in Afghanistan. The report, expected within a month, is from a long-running inquiry ... <a title="Government bracing for damning report on alleged Special Forces’ incidents in Afghanistan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/government-bracing-for-damning-report-on-alleged-special-forces-incidents-in-afghanistan-144284/" aria-label="Read more about Government bracing for damning report on alleged Special Forces’ incidents in Afghanistan">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government and the Australian Defence Force are bracing for reputational damage to the military from damning findings in an imminent report on Australian Special Forces’ behaviour in Afghanistan. The report, expected within a month, is from a long-running inquiry ... <a title="Government bracing for damning report on Special Forces’ incidents in Afghanistan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/government-bracing-for-damning-report-on-special-forces-incidents-in-afghanistan-144284/" aria-label="Read more about Government bracing for damning report on Special Forces’ incidents in Afghanistan">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zachariah Wylde, Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Biology, UNSW As time passes, our fertility declines and our bodies start to fail. These natural changes are what we call ageing. In recent decades, we’ve come leaps and bounds in treating and preventing some of the world’s leading age-related diseases, ... <a title="Can ageing really be ‘treated’ or ‘cured’? An evolutionary biologist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/can-ageing-really-be-treated-or-cured-an-evolutionary-biologist-explains-143255/" aria-label="Read more about Can ageing really be ‘treated’ or ‘cured’? An evolutionary biologist explains">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janneke Berecki-Gisolf, Associate Professor, Accident Research Centre, Monash University COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria have had a marked effect on how and where we spend our time. For many people, home has become the workplace, and for most school-aged children, home is also the classroom. We compared Victorian ... <a title="Victorian emergency departments during COVID-19: overall presentations down but assault, DIY injuries up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/victorian-emergency-departments-during-covid-19-overall-presentations-down-but-assault-diy-injuries-up-144071/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian emergency departments during COVID-19: overall presentations down but assault, DIY injuries up">Read more</a>
