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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Noetel, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Australian Catholic University In response to COVID-19, almost every university has scrambled to move its teaching online. To do this, academics have been choosing between two approaches: live videoconferencing using tools such as Zoom, or pre-recording videos and posting to platforms ... <a title="Videos won’t kill the uni lecture, but they will improve student learning and their marks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/videos-wont-kill-the-uni-lecture-but-they-will-improve-student-learning-and-their-marks-142282/" aria-label="Read more about Videos won’t kill the uni lecture, but they will improve student learning and their marks">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Doran, Associate professor/Deputy head of school, UNSW The stock market is not the economy. This old and playful maxim is typically not true: often the stock market is a good proxy for the economy and a very good indication of what will happen to it. But ... <a title="The S&P 500 nears its all-time high. Here’s why stock markets are defying economic reality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/the-sandp-500-nears-its-all-time-high-heres-why-stock-markets-are-defying-economic-reality-142707/" aria-label="Read more about The S&P 500 nears its all-time high. Here’s why stock markets are defying economic reality">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University The government has widely touted its support for small businesses – most notably the provision of loans subsidised by the Reserve Bank. In its economic update on Friday the Reserve Bank talked up its low-cost Term Funding Facility. Take-up was ... <a title="Small businesses are being starved of funds: here’s how to make their loans cheaper" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/small-businesses-are-being-starved-of-funds-heres-how-to-make-their-loans-cheaper-143834/" aria-label="Read more about Small businesses are being starved of funds: here’s how to make their loans cheaper">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marie Hadley, Associate Lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle The Australian Copyright Agency has licensed an Indigenous artwork for a custom tattoo. It is the first instance of tattoo licensing for the agency, and perhaps Australia at large. The agency granted a licence for Jarrangini (buffalo) (2018) ... <a title="Explainer: who owns the copyright to your tattoo?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/explainer-who-owns-the-copyright-to-your-tattoo-142825/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: who owns the copyright to your tattoo?">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre has protested to Facebook over censorship of a West Papuan media freedom news item in what its director, Professor David Robie, has described as an Orwellian example of the “tyranny of algorithms”. The news item, published by the International Federation of Journalists on its Asia-Pacific website, reported the ... <a title="PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/pmc-protests-to-facebook-over-censored-west-papua-news-item/" aria-label="Read more about PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Radio 95bFM The Wire’s Zoë Larsen Cumming and Justin Wong talked to Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie today about a resurgence of coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea and the impact of other Pacific cases on two very important upcoming votes in Bougainville and New Caledonia. Speaking on the ... <a title="New covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/new-covid-cases-in-png-bougainville-new-caledonia-and-tahiti-aired/" aria-label="Read more about New covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Maylea, Senior Lecturer, Law and Social Work, RMIT University The second wave of the coronavirus and the resulting restrictions have impacted all Victorians. Many are struggling, but some are struggling more than others. In response to the increasing number of people having a hard time coping ... <a title="The Victorian government has allocated $60 million to mental health. But who gets the money? " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/the-victorian-government-has-allocated-60-million-to-mental-health-but-who-gets-the-money-144188/" aria-label="Read more about The Victorian government has allocated $60 million to mental health. But who gets the money? ">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Stone, General practitioner; Clinical Associate Professor, ANU Medical School, Australian National University Last week, the Australian government announced it will provide ten extra Medicare-subsidised psychological therapy sessions for Australians in lockdown areas due to COVID-19. In such a stressful time, many people are experiencing poorer mental ... <a title="Want to see a therapist but don’t know where to start? Here’s how to get a mental health plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/want-to-see-a-therapist-but-dont-know-where-to-start-heres-how-to-get-a-mental-health-plan-143990/" aria-label="Read more about Want to see a therapist but don’t know where to start? Here’s how to get a mental health plan">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney US President Donald Trump’s recent moves against Tiktok, the popular video-sharing platform, have been widely seen as part of a new “tech Cold War” between the US and China. Trump has cited security concerns to ... <a title="Why Trump’s WeChat ban does not make sense — and could actually cost him Chinese votes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/why-trumps-wechat-ban-does-not-make-sense-and-could-actually-cost-him-chinese-votes-144207/" aria-label="Read more about Why Trump’s WeChat ban does not make sense — and could actually cost him Chinese votes">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lily O’Neill, Research Fellow, Australian National University Huge clean energy projects, such as the Asian Renewable Energy Hub in the Pilbara, Western Australia, are set to produce gigawatts of electricity over vast expanses of land in the near future. The Asian Renewable Energy Hub is planning to ... <a title="Why most Aboriginal people have little say over clean energy projects planned for their land" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/why-most-aboriginal-people-have-little-say-over-clean-energy-projects-planned-for-their-land-139119/" aria-label="Read more about Why most Aboriginal people have little say over clean energy projects planned for their land">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Uri Gal, Associate Professor in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney The recent questioning of the heads of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple in the US Congress has highlighted the threat their practices pose to our privacy and democracy. However these big four companies are only part ... <a title="How the shady world of the data industry strips away our freedoms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/how-the-shady-world-of-the-data-industry-strips-away-our-freedoms-143823/" aria-label="Read more about How the shady world of the data industry strips away our freedoms">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne This week’s federal Newspoll, conducted August 5-8 from a sample of 1,509, gave the Coalition a 52-48 lead, a one-point gain for Labor since the last Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes were 43% Coalition ... <a title="Coalition maintains Newspoll lead federally and in Queensland; Biden’s lead over Trump narrows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/coalition-maintains-newspoll-lead-federally-and-in-queensland-bidens-lead-over-trump-narrows-144193/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition maintains Newspoll lead federally and in Queensland; Biden’s lead over Trump narrows">Read more</a>
