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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The state of aged care preparation in the era of COVID is, it seems, in the eye of the beholder. Vastly different claims emerged this week, when the royal commission examining the sector turned its attention to the handling of ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Morrison government needs to improve, rather than defend, its poor COVID aged care performance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/grattan-on-friday-morrison-government-needs-to-improve-rather-than-defend-its-poor-covid-aged-care-performance-144447/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Morrison government needs to improve, rather than defend, its poor COVID aged care performance">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Welch, Senior lecturer, University of Auckland Genetic surveillance — a technology that uses the genetic fingerprint of a virus to track its spread — is part of the public health response to New Zealand’s new COVID-19 community outbreak and could help pinpoint its source. There are ... <a title="Why New Zealand needs to focus on genome sequencing to trace the source of its new COVID-19 outbreak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/why-new-zealand-needs-to-focus-on-genome-sequencing-to-trace-the-source-of-its-new-covid-19-outbreak-144402/" aria-label="Read more about Why New Zealand needs to focus on genome sequencing to trace the source of its new COVID-19 outbreak">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Welch, Senior lecturer, University of Auckland Genetic surveillance — a technology that uses the genetic fingerprint of a virus to track its spread — is part of the public health response to New Zealand’s new COVID-19 community outbreak and could help pinpoint its source. There are ... <a title="Why New Zealand needs to ramp up genome sequencing to trace the source of its new COVID-19 outbreak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/why-new-zealand-needs-to-ramp-up-genome-sequencing-to-trace-the-source-of-its-new-covid-19-outbreak-144402/" aria-label="Read more about Why New Zealand needs to ramp up genome sequencing to trace the source of its new COVID-19 outbreak">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia The Australian poet Gwen Harwood used to submit poems to literary journals under both her own name and a male pseudonym, Walter Lehmann. Furious that the latter poems were more favourably received, in 1961, she sent ... <a title="Reclaim Her Name: why we should free Australia’s female novelists from their male pseudonyms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/reclaim-her-name-why-we-should-free-australias-female-novelists-from-their-male-pseudonyms-144404/" aria-label="Read more about Reclaim Her Name: why we should free Australia’s female novelists from their male pseudonyms">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Shaw, Conservation Biologist, The University of Queensland The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on research in Australia. We surveyed 333 early and mid-career researchers in science, technical, engineering and medical (STEM) fields and found the impact on their productivity and mental health has been ... <a title="Early and mid-career scientists face a bleak future in the wake of the pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/early-and-mid-career-scientists-face-a-bleak-future-in-the-wake-of-the-pandemic-144350/" aria-label="Read more about Early and mid-career scientists face a bleak future in the wake of the pandemic">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The second wave of the pandemic in Victoria has pushed the post-COVID economic recovery further beyond the horizon. Among the challenges for the federal opposition are dealing itself into the debate and formulating alternative economic policies before the next election. ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on tax cuts, inequality, and the Queensland election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/politics-with-michelle-grattan-jim-chalmers-on-tax-cuts-inequality-and-the-queensland-election-144410/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on tax cuts, inequality, and the Queensland election">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle H Lim, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to loneliness in Australia. This is especially so as Melburnians entered the strictest lockdown to date. Meanwhile, the rest of Australia braces for the possibility of a second wave ... <a title="It’s hard to admit we’re lonely, even to ourselves. Here are the signs and how to manage them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/its-hard-to-admit-were-lonely-even-to-ourselves-here-are-the-signs-and-how-to-manage-them-143987/" aria-label="Read more about It’s hard to admit we’re lonely, even to ourselves. Here are the signs and how to manage them">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoe Loh, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO COVID-19 has curtailed the activities of millions of people across the world and with it, greenhouse gas emissions. As climate scientists at the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, we are routinely asked: does this mean carbon dioxide concentrations in the ... <a title="Carbon dioxide levels over Australia rose even after COVID-19 forced global emissions down. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/carbon-dioxide-levels-over-australia-rose-even-after-covid-19-forced-global-emissions-down-heres-why-144119/" aria-label="Read more about Carbon dioxide levels over Australia rose even after COVID-19 forced global emissions down. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Wilson, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago As New Zealand enters its second day at heightened alert levels to contain a community outbreak of COVID-19, we expect that it should only be a temporary setback. Four cases with no direct links to border or quarantine ... <a title="Masking the outbreak: despite New Zealand’s growing COVID-19 cases, there are more ways to get back to elimination faster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/masking-the-outbreak-despite-new-zealands-growing-covid-19-cases-there-are-more-ways-to-get-back-to-elimination-faster-144356/" aria-label="Read more about Masking the outbreak: despite New Zealand’s growing COVID-19 cases, there are more ways to get back to elimination faster">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bain Munro Attwood, Professor of History, Monash University The Conversation is running a series of explainers on key figures in Australian political history, looking at the way they changed the nature of debate, its impact then, and it relevance to politics today. You can read the rest ... <a title="William Cooper: the Indigenous leader who petitioned the king, demanding a Voice to Parliament in the 1930s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/william-cooper-the-indigenous-leader-who-petitioned-the-king-demanding-a-voice-to-parliament-in-the-1930s-140056/" aria-label="Read more about William Cooper: the Indigenous leader who petitioned the king, demanding a Voice to Parliament in the 1930s">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas McGee, PhD researcher, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, University of Melbourne No child should be denied her rights because her parents are LGBTIQ+, and no family should have to endure the indignity we did. These are the words of Roee and Adiel Kiviti, a same-sex married ... <a title="‘We are taboo everywhere’: how LGBTIQ+ people, and their children, become stateless" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/we-are-taboo-everywhere-how-lgbtiq-people-and-their-children-become-stateless-141987/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We are taboo everywhere’: how LGBTIQ+ people, and their children, become stateless">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Varela, Research Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Many economists think that earnings in super funds should be taxed at a relatively low rate, compared to labour earnings and other types of earnings such as interest and dividends. ... <a title="We need super, but we’re taxing it the wrong way round" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/we-need-super-but-were-taxing-it-the-wrong-way-round-143421/" aria-label="Read more about We need super, but we’re taxing it the wrong way round">Read more</a>
