CoveragePost
August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Flavio Romero Macau, Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management and Global Logistics, Edith Cowan University With Victoria’s declaration of a state of disaster and imposition of Stage 4 restrictions, many Melburnians have returned to panic buying. Supermarket shelves across the city have been stripped of canned goods, ... <a title="What Victoria’s abattoir rules mean for the supply and price of meat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/what-victorias-abattoir-rules-mean-for-the-supply-and-price-of-meat-143895/" aria-label="Read more about What Victoria’s abattoir rules mean for the supply and price of meat">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Noble, Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Read more: Melbourne non-essential retailers closed, as Morrison unveils pandemic leave Childcare services and most preschools have remained open throughout the COVID-19 restrictions in Australia. From Wednesday, however, Melbourne’s stage 4 restrictions mean most children (except for vulnerable ... <a title="Childcare closed to most families, no JobKeeper: what Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown means for parents and the sector" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/childcare-closed-to-most-families-no-jobkeeper-what-melbournes-stage-4-lockdown-means-for-parents-and-the-sector-143845/" aria-label="Read more about Childcare closed to most families, no JobKeeper: what Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown means for parents and the sector">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Crowe, Professor of Law, Bond University The Queensland government has quietly released the state Law Reform Commission’s long-awaited report on reforming the state’s controversial sexual consent laws. After much lobbying by survivors of sexual assault for comprehensive changes to the law, the recommendations are a huge ... <a title="Queensland rape law ‘loophole’ could remain after review ignores concerns about rape myths and consent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/queensland-rape-law-loophole-could-remain-after-review-ignores-concerns-about-rape-myths-and-consent-141772/" aria-label="Read more about Queensland rape law ‘loophole’ could remain after review ignores concerns about rape myths and consent">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeremy Moses, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Canterbury Perhaps predictably, last week’s announcement that Behrouz Boochani had been granted refugee status in New Zealand quickly became election campaign fodder. Both National Party leader Judith Collins and NZ First leader Winston Peters alluded to Boochani being ... <a title="Claims that Behrouz Boochani jumped the queue are a reminder of the dangers of anti-refugee politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/claims-that-behrouz-boochani-jumped-the-queue-are-a-reminder-of-the-dangers-of-anti-refugee-politics-143743/" aria-label="Read more about Claims that Behrouz Boochani jumped the queue are a reminder of the dangers of anti-refugee politics">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Klein, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University Australia is facing one of its biggest crises in unemployment since the Great Depression, and yet already, extra COVID-19 supports to the unemployed are being wound back. From today, the conditions around JobSeeker payment will get tougher for all job ... <a title="Australia has been stigmatising unemployed people for almost 100 years. COVID-19 is our big chance to change this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/australia-has-been-stigmatising-unemployed-people-for-almost-100-years-covid-19-is-our-big-chance-to-change-this-143349/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has been stigmatising unemployed people for almost 100 years. COVID-19 is our big chance to change this">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Mahoney, Senior Research Scientist, Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO The federal government recently announced 16 Closing the Gap targets, seen by some as a policy re-set for yet another “once in a generation” chance to address Indigenous disadvantage. But one barrier Indigenous people still face when ... <a title="Yes, we need to Close the Gap on health. But many patients won’t tell hospitals they’re Indigenous for fear of poorer care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/yes-we-need-to-close-the-gap-on-health-but-many-patients-wont-tell-hospitals-theyre-indigenous-for-fear-of-poorer-care-143678/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, we need to Close the Gap on health. But many patients won’t tell hospitals they’re Indigenous for fear of poorer care">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Siouxsie Wiles, Associate Professor in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Auckland The restrictions in place for metropolitan Melbourne now are in some ways stricter than those that were in force during New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown. A curfew is in place and most people have to wear ... <a title="‘An endless game of COVID-19 whack-a-mole’: a New Zealand expert on why Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown should cover all of Victoria" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/an-endless-game-of-covid-19-whack-a-mole-a-new-zealand-expert-on-why-melbournes-stage-4-lockdown-should-cover-all-of-victoria-143831/" aria-label="Read more about ‘An endless game of COVID-19 whack-a-mole’: a New Zealand expert on why Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown should cover all of Victoria">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Kindt, Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic. During the lockdown in Sydney, I turned to my shelf of well-loved books and ... <a title="‘The essential is invisible to the eye’: the wisdom of The Little Prince in lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/the-essential-is-invisible-to-the-eye-the-wisdom-of-the-little-prince-in-lockdown-143095/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The essential is invisible to the eye’: the wisdom of The Little Prince in lockdown">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 4, 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 Labour Party Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Third Referendum Jason Walls (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warns voters not to expect big Labour Party policies this election Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Labour’s hiding ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 04 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-04-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 04 2020">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 4, 2020
Police Commissioner David Manning’s media conference yesterday about the K200 million drug heist. Video: Loop PNG Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Papuan New Guinea’s massive drug haul of more than 600kg of cocaine, seized after a mysterious plane crash by the alleged smugglers more than a week ago, has shaken authorities in both Australia and PNG. ... <a title="Four Papua New Guineans arrested in cocaine for Australia plot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/four-papua-new-guineans-arrested-in-cocaine-for-australia-plot/" aria-label="Read more about Four Papua New Guineans arrested in cocaine for Australia plot">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hickie, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Sydney As Victorians face yet another long period of enforced lockdown, serious concerns are being raised about people’s capacity to comply with the new orders and the mental health impacts of such prolonged social isolation. The risks of being dispirited, ... <a title="As ‘lockdown fatigue’ sets in, the toll on mental health will require an urgent response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/as-lockdown-fatigue-sets-in-the-toll-on-mental-health-will-require-an-urgent-response-143817/" aria-label="Read more about As ‘lockdown fatigue’ sets in, the toll on mental health will require an urgent response">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hickie, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Sydney As Victorians face yet another long period of enforced lockdown, serious concerns are being raised about people’s capacity to comply with the new orders and the mental health impacts of such prolonged social isolation. The risks of being dispirited, ... <a title="As ‘lockdown fatigue’ sets in, the toll on mental health will require an urgent mental health response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/as-lockdown-fatigue-sets-in-the-toll-on-mental-health-will-require-an-urgent-mental-health-response-143817/" aria-label="Read more about As ‘lockdown fatigue’ sets in, the toll on mental health will require an urgent mental health response">Read more</a>
