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July 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carole Comerton-Forde, Professor of Finance, UNSW Stocks have held up relatively well during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following a steep decline in March, for example, the value of the Australian Stock has rebounded to be just 16% down on its February peak. It’s a situation that appears to ... <a title="Blue-chip, volatile, high-risk: retail investors are buying while professionals are selling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/29/blue-chip-volatile-high-risk-retail-investors-are-buying-while-professionals-are-selling-142985/" aria-label="Read more about Blue-chip, volatile, high-risk: retail investors are buying while professionals are selling">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison wasn’t going to be caught out twice. In Hawaii during the bushfires, the prime minister had hesitated before returning (slightly) early. On Tuesday he wasn’t on holiday but starting a tour of several days in Queensland, where there’s ... <a title="View from The Hill: Aged care crisis reflects poor preparation and a broken system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/view-from-the-hill-aged-care-crisis-reflects-poor-preparation-and-a-broken-system-143556/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Aged care crisis reflects poor preparation and a broken system">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Douglas, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Western Australia Australia’s defamation laws, so long criticised to so little avail, are finally changing. New South Wales Attorney-General Mark Speakman trumpeted this week: Nation agrees to NSW-led defamation revolution. His announcement followed July’s meeting of the Council of ... <a title="Australia’s ‘outdated’ defamation laws are changing – but there’s no ‘revolution’ yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/australias-outdated-defamation-laws-are-changing-but-theres-no-revolution-yet-143532/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s ‘outdated’ defamation laws are changing – but there’s no ‘revolution’ yet">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Kemp, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UNSW, and Academic Lead, UNSW Grand Challenge on Trust, UNSW Australia’s consumer watchdog is suing Google for allegedly misleading millions of people after it started tracking them on non-Google apps and websites in 2016. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ... <a title="The ACCC is suing Google for misleading millions. But calling it out is easier than fixing it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/the-accc-is-suing-google-for-misleading-millions-but-calling-it-out-is-easier-than-fixing-it-143447/" aria-label="Read more about The ACCC is suing Google for misleading millions. But calling it out is easier than fixing it">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Austin, Professor UNSW Canberra Cyber, UNSW In the past week, both the US and Australia rejected large parts of China’s extensive maritime claims in the South China Sea, as well as territorial claims by any state to undersea reefs. More worryingly, the US is also pressuring ... <a title="Explainer: why is the South China Sea such a hotly contested region?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/explainer-why-is-the-south-china-sea-such-a-hotly-contested-region-143435/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: why is the South China Sea such a hotly contested region?">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University Strong team. More jobs. Better economy. So say the National Party’s campaign hoardings. Only thing is, last Sunday’s Newshub-Reid Research poll – which had support for the Labour Party at 60.9% and for National at 25.1% – suggests the team ... <a title="Rogue poll or not, all the signs point to a tectonic shift in New Zealand politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/rogue-poll-or-not-all-the-signs-point-to-a-tectonic-shift-in-new-zealand-politics-143529/" aria-label="Read more about Rogue poll or not, all the signs point to a tectonic shift in New Zealand politics">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn Lucas, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Australian National University How does the Sun help your body make vitamin D? Wesley, aged 7 Thanks for this great question, Wesley. Vitamin D is created when the chemicals in our skin react to an invisible type of light from the ... <a title="Curious Kids: how does the Sun help your body make vitamin D?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/curious-kids-how-does-the-sun-help-your-body-make-vitamin-d-139670/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how does the Sun help your body make vitamin D?">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nanda Jarosz, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney When the ashes from Australia’s last bushfire season cooled, we were left with a few mind-boggling numbers: 34 human lives lost, more than a billion animals dead, and 18.6 million hectares of land burned. But those figures don’t necessarily help ... <a title="Humans see just 4.7km into the distance. So how can we truly understand what the bushfires destroyed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/humans-see-just-4-7km-into-the-distance-so-how-can-we-truly-understand-what-the-bushfires-destroyed-128539/" aria-label="Read more about Humans see just 4.7km into the distance. So how can we truly understand what the bushfires destroyed?">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Webb, Dean, Graduate Research, University of Canberra In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic. If anyone can express the particularities of distress, it is surely the artists; and they are surely needed ... <a title="Listening to Songs of Leonard Cohen: singing sadness to sadness in these anxious times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/listening-to-songs-of-leonard-cohen-singing-sadness-to-sadness-in-these-anxious-times-142661/" aria-label="Read more about Listening to Songs of Leonard Cohen: singing sadness to sadness in these anxious times">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kaz Ross, Lecturer in Humanities (Asian Studies), University of Tasmania You might have seen articles or comments on social media lately alluding to “sovereign citizens”, or “SovCits” for short, with some reports suggesting COVID-19 government restrictions have driven a surge of interest in this movement. So, who ... <a title="‘Living people’: who are the sovereign citizens, or SovCits, and why do they believe they have immunity from the law?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/living-people-who-are-the-sovereign-citizens-or-sovcits-and-why-do-they-believe-they-have-immunity-from-the-law-143438/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Living people’: who are the sovereign citizens, or SovCits, and why do they believe they have immunity from the law?">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Crystal Abidin, Senior Research Fellow & ARC DECRA, Internet Studies, Curtin University, Curtin University Memes might seem like they emerge “naturally”, circulated by like-minded social media users and independently generating momentum. But successful memes often don’t happen by accident. I’ve spent the past two years studying the ... <a title="Pivot to coronavirus: how meme factories are crafting public health messaging" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/pivot-to-coronavirus-how-meme-factories-are-crafting-public-health-messaging-135557/" aria-label="Read more about Pivot to coronavirus: how meme factories are crafting public health messaging">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Virginia Barbour, Director, Australasian Open Access Strategy Group, Queensland University of Technology Scientific publishing is not known for moving rapidly. In normal times, publishing new research can take months, if not years. Researchers prepare a first version of a paper on new findings and submit it to ... <a title="Science publishing has opened up during the coronavirus pandemic. It won’t be easy to keep it that way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/science-publishing-has-opened-up-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-it-wont-be-easy-to-keep-it-that-way-142984/" aria-label="Read more about Science publishing has opened up during the coronavirus pandemic. It won’t be easy to keep it that way">Read more</a>
