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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Sanderson, Professor of Information Retrieval, RMIT University Wrapping your head around the scale of a global pandemic is not easy, and the volume of stats and data can be bewildering. What, for instance, are we to make of the fact Australia recorded just 109 new cases ... <a title="The bar necessities: 5 ways to understand coronavirus graphs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/the-bar-necessities-5-ways-to-understand-coronavirus-graphs-135537/" aria-label="Read more about The bar necessities: 5 ways to understand coronavirus graphs">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Saeri, Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University More Australians are worried about the longer-lasting, societal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic – specifically that the health system could be overburdened and the country could enter a recession – than they are about the ... <a title="More Australians are worried about a recession and an increasingly selfish society than about coronavirus itself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/more-australians-are-worried-about-a-recession-and-an-increasingly-selfish-society-than-about-coronavirus-itself-135297/" aria-label="Read more about More Australians are worried about a recession and an increasingly selfish society than about coronavirus itself">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Meekan, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science It might surprise you to learn that nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War are now helping conserve whale sharks, the largest living fish. Growing up to 18 metres – longer than the average bus – ... <a title="The mushroom cloud’s silver lining: how the Cold War is helping the biggest fish in the sea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/the-mushroom-clouds-silver-lining-how-the-cold-war-is-helping-the-biggest-fish-in-the-sea-135429/" aria-label="Read more about The mushroom cloud’s silver lining: how the Cold War is helping the biggest fish in the sea">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Terry Hughes, Distinguished Professor, James Cook University The Australian summer just gone will be remembered as the moment when human-caused climate change struck hard. First came drought, then deadly bushfires, and now a bout of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef – the third in just ... <a title="We just spent two weeks surveying the Great Barrier Reef. What we saw was an utter tragedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/we-just-spent-two-weeks-surveying-the-great-barrier-reef-what-we-saw-was-an-utter-tragedy-135197/" aria-label="Read more about We just spent two weeks surveying the Great Barrier Reef. What we saw was an utter tragedy">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Morris, Professor, University of Technology Sydney About half of international students in Australia are private renters and more than half of them rely on paid work to pay the rent, but most of the casual jobs they depend on have been lost in the coronavirus pandemic. ... <a title="Why coronavirus impacts are devastating for international students in private rental housing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/why-coronavirus-impacts-are-devastating-for-international-students-in-private-rental-housing-134792/" aria-label="Read more about Why coronavirus impacts are devastating for international students in private rental housing">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Many temporary Australian residents will be excluded from the JobSeeker Payment and Coronavirus Supplement to be provided to permanent residents. In this open letter to the prime minister, 40 leading Australian experts on public policy argue ... <a title="Open letter to the prime minister: extend coronavirus support to temporary workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/open-letter-to-the-prime-minister-extend-coronavirus-support-to-temporary-workers-135691/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to the prime minister: extend coronavirus support to temporary workers">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew McLachlan, Head of School and Dean of Pharmacy, University of Sydney Researchers testing the head lice drug Ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19 have seen promising results in lab studies. But the research is in its early stages and the drug is yet to be ... <a title="Head lice drug Ivermectin is being tested as a possible coronavirus treatment, but that’s no reason to buy it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/head-lice-drug-ivermectin-is-being-tested-as-a-possible-coronavirus-treatment-but-thats-no-reason-to-buy-it-135683/" aria-label="Read more about Head lice drug Ivermectin is being tested as a possible coronavirus treatment, but that’s no reason to buy it">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne This week’s Newspoll, conducted April 1-3 from a sample of 1,508 people, showed a huge boost in Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s approval rating based on his leadership thus far in the coronavirus crisis. Nearly two-thirds ... <a title="Morrison sees massive ratings surge in Newspoll over coronavirus crisis; Trump also improves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/morrison-sees-massive-ratings-surge-in-newspoll-over-coronavirus-crisis-trump-also-improves-135693/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison sees massive ratings surge in Newspoll over coronavirus crisis; Trump also improves">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Komesaroff, Professor of Medicine, Monash University Although recent encouraging news suggests the rate of new coronavirus cases in Australia is slowing, our medical facilities could still be overwhelmed at some point. One modelling study has suggested that, if public health measures are not observed or do ... <a title="A coronavirus spike may put ICU beds in short supply. But that doesn’t mean the elderly shouldn’t get them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/a-coronavirus-spike-may-put-icu-beds-in-short-supply-but-that-doesnt-mean-the-elderly-shouldnt-get-them-134782/" aria-label="Read more about A coronavirus spike may put ICU beds in short supply. But that doesn’t mean the elderly shouldn’t get them">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilan Noy, Professor and Chair in the Economics of Disasters, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Governments across the world have rolled out extensive financial packages to support individuals, businesses and large corporations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Equally, central banks have decreased their lending ... <a title="Coronavirus support packages will reshape the future economy, and that presents an opportunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/coronavirus-support-packages-will-reshape-the-future-economy-and-that-presents-an-opportunity-135296/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus support packages will reshape the future economy, and that presents an opportunity">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Wylie, Adjunct Associate Professor, Murdoch University Viruses are little more than parasitic fragments of RNA or DNA. Despite this, they are astonishingly abundant in number and genetic diversity. We don’t know how many virus species there are, but there could be trillions. Past viral epidemics have ... <a title="How do viruses mutate and jump species? And why are ‘spillovers’ becoming more common?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/how-do-viruses-mutate-and-jump-species-and-why-are-spillovers-becoming-more-common-134656/" aria-label="Read more about How do viruses mutate and jump species? And why are ‘spillovers’ becoming more common?">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University Some weeks ago, I got an email from a student who had returned to Northern Italy over Christmas to see family. Unable to return to Australia, they were in lockdown. The hospitals were filling up fast, as COVID-19 began ... <a title="Guide to the Classics: Albert Camus’ The Plague" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/guide-to-the-classics-albert-camus-the-plague-134244/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the Classics: Albert Camus’ The Plague">Read more</a>
