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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alicia Dennis, Associate Professor MBBS, PhD, MPH, PGDipEcho, FANZCA, University of Melbourne In Victoria, more than 1,100 health-care workers have now been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Some 11% of active cases are workers in the health-care sector. Health-care workers are reported to be ... <a title="PPE unmasked: why health-care workers in Australia are inadequately protected against coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/ppe-unmasked-why-health-care-workers-in-australia-are-inadequately-protected-against-coronavirus-143751/" aria-label="Read more about PPE unmasked: why health-care workers in Australia are inadequately protected against coronavirus">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthea Batsakis, Deputy Editor: Environment + Energy, The Conversation Weaving creative, heartfelt or even risqué words into the formal Latin names for new species has long been common in taxonomy — the science of classifying flora and fauna. An 18th century botanist, for example, named a genus ... <a title="From superheroes to the clitoris: 5 scientists tell the stories behind these species names" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/from-superheroes-to-the-clitoris-5-scientists-tell-the-stories-behind-these-species-names-142922/" aria-label="Read more about From superheroes to the clitoris: 5 scientists tell the stories behind these species names">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Vargo, Research Fellow in the Antarctic Research Centre, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Glaciers around the world are melting — and for the first time, we can now directly attribute annual ice loss to climate change. We analysed two years in which glaciers ... <a title="How climate change made the melting of New Zealand’s glaciers ten times more likely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/how-climate-change-made-the-melting-of-new-zealands-glaciers-ten-times-more-likely-143626/" aria-label="Read more about How climate change made the melting of New Zealand’s glaciers ten times more likely">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Phillips, Associate Professor in Education, James Cook University All Victorian school students will be learning remotely from Wednesday. Prior to the state’s premier Daniel Andrews announcing a tightening of restrictions over the weekend, only students in prep to Year 10 in Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire ... <a title="‘Exhausted beyond measure’: what teachers are saying about COVID-19 and the disruption to education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/exhausted-beyond-measure-what-teachers-are-saying-about-covid-19-and-the-disruption-to-education-143601/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Exhausted beyond measure’: what teachers are saying about COVID-19 and the disruption to education">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Power, Senior Research Fellow, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University Older women renters are struggling in an insecure and unaffordable rental housing market. A combination of high rents and low incomes leaves many living in substandard housing and unable to afford necessities like food and ... <a title="‘Uprooting, no matter how small a plant you are, is a trauma’: older women renters are struggling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/uprooting-no-matter-how-small-a-plant-you-are-is-a-trauma-older-women-renters-are-struggling-142907/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Uprooting, no matter how small a plant you are, is a trauma’: older women renters are struggling">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Debbie Faulkner, Senior Research Fellow, UniSA Business, University of South Australia Older women have been recognised as the fastest-growing group of homeless people in Australia in recent years. Yet until now we have not known exactly how many older women are at risk of homelessness. Our research, ... <a title="400,000 women over 45 are at risk of homelessness in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/400-000-women-over-45-are-at-risk-of-homelessness-in-australia-142906/" aria-label="Read more about 400,000 women over 45 are at risk of homelessness in Australia">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Murray, Research Fellow – Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney Throughout Australia, when land is rezoned from industrial to high-rise residential, a charge is levied to help fund the required infrastructure. In NSW it is called an infrastructure contribution. The NSW government is reviewing it in ... <a title="Our states are crying poor. They wouldn’t if they charged for rezoning like the ACT" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/our-states-are-crying-poor-they-wouldnt-if-they-charged-for-rezoning-like-the-act-142838/" aria-label="Read more about Our states are crying poor. They wouldn’t if they charged for rezoning like the ACT">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland It wasn’t the first time I’d crashed a film set. My first was the 1984 film The Coolangatta Gold. You’ll recognise me in one of the shots because I’m the only person wearing jeans on ... <a title="That’ll do, pig, that’ll do: Babe at 25, a trailblazing cinematic classic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/thatll-do-pig-thatll-do-babe-at-25-a-trailblazing-cinematic-classic-143813/" aria-label="Read more about That’ll do, pig, that’ll do: Babe at 25, a trailblazing cinematic classic">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Timor-Leste’s Journalist Association (AJTL) and journalism students marched through the streets of the capital Dili today calling on the government to scrap plans to change the law to make defamation a criminal offence. Under the proposed law journalists could face jail sentences. Opponents of the proposed law say it is an ... <a title="Timorese journalists protest over plan to turn defamation into crime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/timorese-journalists-protest-over-plan-to-turn-defamation-into-crime/" aria-label="Read more about Timorese journalists protest over plan to turn defamation into crime">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute The announcement of stage 4 restrictions in Victoria marks a new, and depressing, stage in Australia’s response to COVID-19. The new measures will close non-essential retailers and most child-care centres across Melbourne, and impose stringent controls on industries such ... <a title="Australia won’t recover unless Victoria does too. The federal government must step up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/australia-wont-recover-unless-victoria-does-too-the-federal-government-must-step-up-143840/" aria-label="Read more about Australia won’t recover unless Victoria does too. The federal government must step up">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Wood, Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute How do you occupy a child for long enough to get any work done? This will be the question confronting more than 150,000 Melbourne families for at least the next six weeks. The Stage 4 restrictions announced by the Victorian ... <a title="Victoria’s child-care shutdown is a hard blow for working mothers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/victorias-child-care-shutdown-is-a-hard-blow-for-working-mothers-143837/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s child-care shutdown is a hard blow for working mothers">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Non-essential retailers across Melbourne will be shut except for “click and collect” and delivery sales, and industries including meatworks and construction will be drastically scaled back, under Victoria’s unprecedented lockdown. The business shutdown details came as Scott Morrison announced a ... <a title="Melbourne non-essential retailers closed, as Morrison unveils pandemic leave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/melbourne-non-essential-retailers-closed-as-morrison-unveils-pandemic-leave-143835/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne non-essential retailers closed, as Morrison unveils pandemic leave">Read more</a>
