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August 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Review: The Meddler, screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival For movie scholars and enthusiasts, one of the worst things about the COVID-19 pandemic has been the shutting down of cinemas. It’s a fundamentally different ... <a title="In The Meddler, we join a creeping nightcrawler as he chronicles death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/in-the-meddler-we-join-a-creeping-nightcrawler-as-he-chronicles-death-144054/" aria-label="Read more about In The Meddler, we join a creeping nightcrawler as he chronicles death">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Royal Commission into Aged-Care Quality and Safety delivered it’s interim report in October 2019. Titled ‘Neglect’, it provided a scathing insight into the aged care industry – finding it centred around transactions not care. It minimised the voices of ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Concetta Fierravanti-Wells on aged care – what needs to be done differently" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/politics-with-michelle-grattan-concetta-fierravanti-wells-on-aged-care-what-needs-to-be-done-differently-144098/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Concetta Fierravanti-Wells on aged care – what needs to be done differently">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damien Manuel, Director, Centre for Cyber Security Research & Innovation (CSRI), Deakin University Australia’s long-awaited cybersecurity strategy, released yesterday, pledges to spend A$1.67 billion over the next ten years to improve online protection for businesses, individuals and the country as a whole. The lion’s share of the ... <a title="Australia’s cybersecurity strategy: cash for cyberpolice and training, but the cyberdevil is in the cyberdetail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/australias-cybersecurity-strategy-cash-for-cyberpolice-and-training-but-the-cyberdevil-is-in-the-cyberdetail-144070/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s cybersecurity strategy: cash for cyberpolice and training, but the cyberdevil is in the cyberdetail">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roxana Diamond, PhD Candidate, Flinders University This article has links that contain graphic content Many industries and employees have been hurt by COVID-19. But sex workers, who face stigma and discrimination at the best of times, have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. The United Nations ... <a title="How the ‘National Cabinet of Whores’ is leading Australia’s coronavirus response for sex workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/how-the-national-cabinet-of-whores-is-leading-australias-coronavirus-response-for-sex-workers-142833/" aria-label="Read more about How the ‘National Cabinet of Whores’ is leading Australia’s coronavirus response for sex workers">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Port Moresby may need to expand its covid-19 isolation facilities quickly and effectively in case a big spike in cases occurs, a doctor says. Rita Flynn isolation facility manager Dr Gary Nou said it would be a disaster if the spread of covid-19 in the capital city continued to ... <a title="Port Moresby may need to expand covid isolation facilities, warns doctor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/port-moresby-may-need-to-expand-covid-isolation-facilities-warns-doctor/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby may need to expand covid isolation facilities, warns doctor">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cathy Foley, Chief Scientist, CSIRO Universities and other research organisations in Australia have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. In May, a group led by Australia’s Chief Scientist Alan Finkel forecasted severe impacts for our research workforce. These included the loss of the equivalent of up ... <a title="We can’t let STEM skills become a casualty of COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/we-cant-let-stem-skills-become-a-casualty-of-covid-19-143752/" aria-label="Read more about We can’t let STEM skills become a casualty of COVID-19">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Carnt, Scientia Senior Lecturer, School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW, Sydney, UNSW You’re rushing and accidentally drop a contact lens on the bathroom floor. Should you: a) run it under the tap and pop it in? b) spit on it and do the same? c) ... <a title="How to keep your contact lenses clean (and what can go wrong if you don’t)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/how-to-keep-your-contact-lenses-clean-and-what-can-go-wrong-if-you-dont-141117/" aria-label="Read more about How to keep your contact lenses clean (and what can go wrong if you don’t)">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Wayland, Lecturer, University of Sydney As part of new research into missing persons in Australia, I have been asking people who return after disappearing what they needed or wanted. Mary, who has gone missing four times in the last few years, responded, I just wanted someone ... <a title="‘No one is truly there to help’: why so little is known about the reasons people go missing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/no-one-is-truly-there-to-help-why-so-little-is-known-about-the-reasons-people-go-missing-143615/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No one is truly there to help’: why so little is known about the reasons people go missing">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Election Simon Wilson (Herald): Election diary: Stimulus or austerity? (paywalled) Tim Watkin (RNZ): This election is brought to you by the letter C Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup – Where is the contest of ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 07 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-07-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 07 2020">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alistair Sisson, Postdoctoral Research Associate, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Social and public housing is intensely stigmatised in Australia and has been for several decades. Estates in particular are often labelled “ghettos”, framed as places of danger, drugs and vice. This stigma can lead to discrimination against ... <a title="Why public housing is stigmatised and how we can fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/why-public-housing-is-stigmatised-and-how-we-can-fix-it-142913/" aria-label="Read more about Why public housing is stigmatised and how we can fix it">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW One of the many things COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on is the way many of us work. Those fortunate enough to be able to work from home have been able to adapt to this new reality – and it ... <a title="Vital Signs. Shorter meetings but longer days: how COVID-19 has changed the way we work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/vital-signs-shorter-meetings-but-longer-days-how-covid-19-has-changed-the-way-we-work-143894/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs. Shorter meetings but longer days: how COVID-19 has changed the way we work">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Moffat, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Archaeological Science, Flinders University How did the first person evolve? Mabel, age 7, Anglesea, Victoria. Hi Mabel, what a great question! We know humans haven’t always been around. After all, we wouldn’t have survived alongside meat-eating dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus ... <a title="Curious Kids: how did the first person evolve?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/curious-kids-how-did-the-first-person-evolve-142735/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how did the first person evolve?">Read more</a>
