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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucas Walsh, Professor, Education Policy and Practice, Monash University By June 2020, the COVID-19 crisis had forced schools to close in 188 countries, disrupting the learning of more than 1.7 billion children. The OECD estimated the impact of these school closures would be at least two months ... <a title="We have the evidence for what works in schools, but that doesn’t mean everyone uses it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/we-have-the-evidence-for-what-works-in-schools-but-that-doesnt-mean-everyone-uses-it-160712/" aria-label="Read more about We have the evidence for what works in schools, but that doesn’t mean everyone uses it">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Fruhen, Lecturer, School of Psychological Science, The University of Western Australia To protect cyclists on the roads, state governments in Australia have introduced laws that set a minimum space drivers must give cyclists when overtaking them. These laws are now in place nationwide, with Victoria the ... <a title="Minimum space for passing cyclists is now law Australia-wide. It increases safety – but possibly road rage too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/minimum-space-for-passing-cyclists-is-now-law-australia-wide-it-increases-safety-but-possibly-road-rage-too-159926/" aria-label="Read more about Minimum space for passing cyclists is now law Australia-wide. It increases safety – but possibly road rage too">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University We got an awful lot right during the COVID crisis — an awful lot that we couldn’t have got right just a few years earlier. Which is another way of saying we were incredibly lucky. ... <a title="The GFC provided the secret sauce we used to ward off the COVID recession" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/the-gfc-provided-the-secret-sauce-we-used-to-ward-off-the-covid-recession-160989/" aria-label="Read more about The GFC provided the secret sauce we used to ward off the COVID recession">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel M Campbell, Academic, University of Canberra Dame Nellie Melba, who appears on our $100 note, was born Helen Porter Mitchell in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond on May 19, 1861. An operatic soprano with a voice described as sparklingly clear, her career would take her across ... <a title="Happy 160th birthday Dame Nellie Melba: 5 surprising facts about the canny songstress" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/happy-160th-birthday-dame-nellie-melba-5-surprising-facts-about-the-canny-songstress-160993/" aria-label="Read more about Happy 160th birthday Dame Nellie Melba: 5 surprising facts about the canny songstress">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jagadish Thaker, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University More than two in five New Zealanders (41%) say incidents of racism have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a national survey carried out in February and March this year. The experience of racism ... <a title="A year after New Zealand’s first COVID-19 lockdown, discrimination and racism are on the rise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/a-year-after-new-zealands-first-covid-19-lockdown-discrimination-and-racism-are-on-the-rise-160858/" aria-label="Read more about A year after New Zealand’s first COVID-19 lockdown, discrimination and racism are on the rise">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate C. Prickett, Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s promise of a “recovery and well-being budget” is an apt recognition of the current social and economic reality. Although ... <a title="NZ’s second ‘Well-being Budget’ must deliver for the families that sacrificed most during the pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/nzs-second-well-being-budget-must-deliver-for-the-families-that-sacrificed-most-during-the-pandemic-160528/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s second ‘Well-being Budget’ must deliver for the families that sacrificed most during the pandemic">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University A 47-year-old Sydney man has died in India after contracting COVID-19. This news comes amid anger after the first repatriation flight from India following the controversial travel ban arrived in Darwin half empty on Saturday. Some 40 passengers tested positive ... <a title="It may not be possible to bring all Australians with COVID home from India. But we can do better than we are now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/18/it-may-not-be-possible-to-bring-all-australians-with-covid-home-from-india-but-we-can-do-better-than-we-are-now-161084/" aria-label="Read more about It may not be possible to bring all Australians with COVID home from India. But we can do better than we are now">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nial Wheate, Associate Professor of the Sydney Pharmacy School, University of Sydney The world is now 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic and we’ve yet to find a single drug that can stop the virus. At best, we can treat the effects of the virus through oxygen ... <a title="Have Australian researchers developed an effective COVID-19 treatment? Potentially, but we need to wait for human trials" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/18/have-australian-researchers-developed-an-effective-covid-19-treatment-potentially-but-we-need-to-wait-for-human-trials-161085/" aria-label="Read more about Have Australian researchers developed an effective COVID-19 treatment? Potentially, but we need to wait for human trials">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gavin Mudd, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, RMIT University Buried in last week’s budget was money for rehabilitating the Rum Jungle uranium mine near Darwin. The exact sum was not disclosed. Rum Jungle used to be a household name. It was Australia’s first large-scale uranium mine and ... <a title="The story of Rum Jungle: a Cold War-era uranium mine that’s spewed acid into the environment for decades" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/18/the-story-of-rum-jungle-a-cold-war-era-uranium-mine-thats-spewed-acid-into-the-environment-for-decades-160871/" aria-label="Read more about The story of Rum Jungle: a Cold War-era uranium mine that’s spewed acid into the environment for decades">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ted Snell, Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University For any serious artist, funding the production of ambitious works — let alone finding the resources to keep yourself alive during the process — can be daunting. However, if studio expenses, rent, and the cost of living are taken care ... <a title="How to survive as a figurative sculptor? WA’s The Syndicate is a novel form of philanthropy in the spirit of the Medicis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/18/how-to-survive-as-a-figurative-sculptor-was-the-syndicate-is-a-novel-form-of-philanthropy-in-the-spirit-of-the-medicis-160603/" aria-label="Read more about How to survive as a figurative sculptor? WA’s The Syndicate is a novel form of philanthropy in the spirit of the Medicis">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ralph Sims, Professor, School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University 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 expert to answer, ... <a title="Climate explained: is natural gas really cheaper than renewable electricity?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/18/climate-explained-is-natural-gas-really-cheaper-than-renewable-electricity-155199/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: is natural gas really cheaper than renewable electricity?">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Kelsey, Professor of Law, University of Auckland With more countries considering joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), New Zealand urgently needs a real public debate on the future of such trade and investment agreements. In February this year the UK formally applied ... <a title="New Zealand is overdue for an open and honest debate about 21st-century trade relations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/18/new-zealand-is-overdue-for-an-open-and-honest-debate-about-21st-century-trade-relations-160922/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand is overdue for an open and honest debate about 21st-century trade relations">Read more</a>
