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October 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The royal commission into aged care has said government did not prepare the sector well enough for the pandemic. In a damning report the commission rejected the government’s repeated claim it had a plan for aged care, which is a ... <a title="Federal government did not prepare aged care sector adequately for COVID: royal commission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/02/federal-government-did-not-prepare-aged-care-sector-adequately-for-covid-royal-commission-147307/" aria-label="Read more about Federal government did not prepare aged care sector adequately for COVID: royal commission">Read more</a>
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October 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The pandemic is the worst of times to be governing but Scott Morrison is determined to make it the best of opportunities to be seen to be doing things. It’s also the most difficult period to be an opposition. In ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Next week will belong to the government, but Albanese needs to make an impression too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/02/grattan-on-friday-next-week-will-belong-to-the-government-but-albanese-needs-to-make-an-impression-too-147287/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Next week will belong to the government, but Albanese needs to make an impression too">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Tregear, Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne There’s a telling scene in Peter Bogdanovich’s 1972 screwball comedy What’s Up, Doc? in which a judge asks an academic to tell the court what kind of doctor he is. When he responds “music”, the judge then demands to know ... <a title="Monash University plans to cut its musicology subjects. Why does this matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/monash-university-plans-to-cut-its-musicology-subjects-why-does-this-matter-147172/" aria-label="Read more about Monash University plans to cut its musicology subjects. Why does this matter?">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Balanzategui, Lecturer in Cinema and Screen Studies, Swinburne University of Technology Today ABC, BBC Studios and Screen Australia announced series three of the award-winning animation series Bluey will commence production in Brisbane later this year. But despite Bluey’s global success, policy changes announced yesterday mean that ... <a title="Cheese ‘n’ crackers! Concerns deepen for the future of Australian children’s television" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/cheese-n-crackers-concerns-deepen-for-the-future-of-australian-childrens-television-147183/" aria-label="Read more about Cheese ‘n’ crackers! Concerns deepen for the future of Australian children’s television">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Lim, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University There’s no shortage of scientific studies projecting a bleak future for the planet and her people, but none have led to real change. It’s clear we need better ways to envisage the futures we want. Take, for example, ... <a title="‘You wake up with lab-engineered coffee’: how our imaginations can help decide Earth’s future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/you-wake-up-with-lab-engineered-coffee-how-our-imaginations-can-help-decide-earths-future-145167/" aria-label="Read more about ‘You wake up with lab-engineered coffee’: how our imaginations can help decide Earth’s future">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne The pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges. Many of us have lost work, gained carer responsibilities and grappled with social isolation. Experts have warned of a looming wave of mental illness as a result. Research suggests they’re largely correct. Surveys ... <a title="Am I coping well during the pandemic?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/am-i-coping-well-during-the-pandemic-146570/" aria-label="Read more about Am I coping well during the pandemic?">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick van Esch, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, AUT Business School, Auckland University of Technology The latest poll shows a drop in support by New Zealanders for the recreational use of cannabis ahead of next month’s referendum on the issue. The 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton Poll found only ... <a title="Undecided on the cannabis referendum: 10 pros and cons of legalising the drug" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/undecided-on-the-cannabis-referendum-10-pros-and-cons-of-legalising-the-drug-146399/" aria-label="Read more about Undecided on the cannabis referendum: 10 pros and cons of legalising the drug">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre; Associate Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Arts, Monash University There are increasing calls to making coercive control a criminal offence across Australia. The NSW Labor opposition has proposed a bill to criminalise coercive control, with a ten ... <a title="Australia is not ready to criminalise coercive control — here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/australia-is-not-ready-to-criminalise-coercive-control-heres-why-146929/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is not ready to criminalise coercive control — here’s why">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tess Newton Cain, Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University On October 4, the people of New Caledonia will go to the polls. For the second time in the past two years, they will be asked if they wish to remain a part of France or ... <a title="New Caledonians will vote again on independence. Will the answer this time be ‘Oui’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/new-caledonians-will-vote-again-on-independence-will-the-answer-this-time-be-oui-146101/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonians will vote again on independence. Will the answer this time be ‘Oui’?">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graziella Caprarelli, Adjunct Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland In 2018 a team of Italian scientists announced to the world that there was a lake on Mars. Using satellite radar data, the team detected a very bright area approximately 20 kilometres across located about 1.5 kilometres deep ... <a title="Buried lakes of salty water on Mars may provide conditions for life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/buried-lakes-of-salty-water-on-mars-may-provide-conditions-for-life-146928/" aria-label="Read more about Buried lakes of salty water on Mars may provide conditions for life">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Strangio, Associate Professor of Politics, Monash University We have long been accustomed in Australia to the Commonwealth’s pre-eminence over the states and prime ministers dwarfing premiers. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has given us a practical reminder of the extensive day-to-day powers that still sit with state ... <a title="Andrews under fire: why an activist premier’s greatest challenges may yet lie ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/andrews-under-fire-why-an-activist-premiers-greatest-challenges-may-yet-lie-ahead-146838/" aria-label="Read more about Andrews under fire: why an activist premier’s greatest challenges may yet lie ahead">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vasso Apostolopoulos, Professor of Immunology and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research Partnerships, Victoria University Vaccines are traditionally administered with a needle, but this isn’t the only way. For example, certain vaccines can be delivered orally, as a drop on the tongue, or via a jet-like device. Vaccines that appear ... <a title="A COVID-19 vaccine may come without a needle, the latest vaccine to protect without jabbing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/a-covid-19-vaccine-may-come-without-a-needle-the-latest-vaccine-to-protect-without-jabbing-146564/" aria-label="Read more about A COVID-19 vaccine may come without a needle, the latest vaccine to protect without jabbing">Read more</a>
