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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Noble, Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University This week, the federal government released a review of a relief package it put in place in April to ensure the early childhood education and care sector remained financially viable and children of essential workers, as well as ... <a title="Childcare is critical for COVID-19 recovery. We can’t just snap back to ‘normal’ funding arrangements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/childcare-is-critical-for-covid-19-recovery-we-cant-just-snap-back-to-normal-funding-arrangements-139027/" aria-label="Read more about Childcare is critical for COVID-19 recovery. We can’t just snap back to ‘normal’ funding arrangements">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University The controversial Snowy 2.0 project has mounted a major hurdle after the New South Wales government today announced approval for its main works. The pumped hydro venture in southern NSW will pump water uphill into dams and release ... <a title="NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that’s a bad move" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/nsw-has-approved-snowy-2-0-here-are-six-reasons-why-thats-a-bad-move-139112/" aria-label="Read more about NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that’s a bad move">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nigel McMillan, Program Director, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Menzies Health Institute, Griffith University If you’ve already recovered from the coronavirus, can you go back to the workplace carefree? This is the question governments including in the UK, Chile, Germany and Italy are trying to answer by considering ... <a title="Immunity passports could help end lockdown, but risk class divides and intentional infections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/immunity-passports-could-help-end-lockdown-but-risk-class-divides-and-intentional-infections-138513/" aria-label="Read more about Immunity passports could help end lockdown, but risk class divides and intentional infections">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gerard Reinmuth, Professor of Practice, University of Technology Sydney China has a new ban on “plagiarising, imitating, and copycatting” building designs for public facilities across the country. In recent years, developers across China have used the allure of copies in projects such an Austrian village in Guangdong, ... <a title="Architecture was built on copies – China wants it built on nationalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/architecture-was-built-on-copies-china-wants-it-built-on-nationalism-138422/" aria-label="Read more about Architecture was built on copies – China wants it built on nationalism">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elina Hypponen, Professor of Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology, University of South Australia Recent headlines have suggested vitamin D deficiency could increase the risk of dying from COVID-19, and in turn, that we should consider taking vitamin D supplements to protect ourselves. Is this all just hype, or ... <a title="Does vitamin D protect against coronavirus?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/does-vitamin-d-protect-against-coronavirus-138001/" aria-label="Read more about Does vitamin D protect against coronavirus?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Harvey, Veterinary Specialist, PhD scholar (wild horse ecology & welfare), University of Technology Sydney Cats have recently been on the tail-end of bad press, with recent research finding roaming pet cats kill 390 million animals per year in Australia. Most of them are native species. To ... <a title="Don’t let them out: 15 ways to keep your indoor cat happy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/dont-let-them-out-15-ways-to-keep-your-indoor-cat-happy-138716/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t let them out: 15 ways to keep your indoor cat happy">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre; Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Faculty of Arts, Monash University One week after the horrific killing in February of Hannah Clarke and her three children, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey, the Australian Senate established an inquiry into domestic violence. ... <a title="The Senate inquiry into family violence has closed, missing an important opportunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/the-senate-inquiry-into-family-violence-has-closed-missing-an-important-opportunity-139106/" aria-label="Read more about The Senate inquiry into family violence has closed, missing an important opportunity">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW One major theme of COVID-19 media reporting has been stories of individuals craving physical contact and struggling with loneliness. But for some people with disability, this isn’t just the byproduct of a pandemic, it’s their everyday existence. A recent Federal ... <a title="Why it is “reasonable and necessary” for the NDIS to support people’s sex lives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/why-it-is-reasonable-and-necessary-for-the-ndis-to-support-peoples-sex-lives-138727/" aria-label="Read more about Why it is “reasonable and necessary” for the NDIS to support people’s sex lives">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Vredenburg, Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Marketing, Auckland University of Technology So you finally hit the shops and cafes after weeks of lockdown. After disinfecting your hands, following the arrows around the shop or to your table, taking care to avoid others where possible and, in ... <a title="Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety – keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/coronavirus-has-turned-retail-therapy-into-retail-anxiety-keeping-customers-calm-will-be-key-to-carrying-on-138777/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety – keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University No other event in our lifetimes has brought such sudden, drastic loss to Australia’s biodiversity as the last bushfire season. Governments, researchers and conservationists have committed to the long road to recovery. But in those vast burnt landscapes, where ... <a title="After the bushfires, we helped choose the animals and plants in most need. Here’s how we did it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/after-the-bushfires-we-helped-choose-the-animals-and-plants-in-most-need-heres-how-we-did-it-138736/" aria-label="Read more about After the bushfires, we helped choose the animals and plants in most need. Here’s how we did it">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ishita Chatterjee, PhD Candidate, Informal Urbanism (InfUr-) Hub, University of Melbourne Informal settlements are experiencing a greater surge in COVID-19 cases than other urban neighbourhoods in Mumbai, India. Their high density, narrow streets, tight internal spaces, poor access to water and sanitation leave residents highly vulnerable to ... <a title="How Mumbai’s poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/how-mumbais-poorest-neighbourhood-is-battling-to-keep-coronavirus-at-bay-137504/" aria-label="Read more about How Mumbai’s poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The Morrison government’s changes to welfare payments were among its most significant responses to the coronavirus crisis. In April, the new Coronavirus Supplement roughly doubled the level of benefits for unemployed people on the JobSeeker Payment ... <a title="When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/when-the-coronavirus-supplement-stops-jobseeker-needs-to-increase-by-185-a-week-138417/" aria-label="Read more about When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week">Read more</a>
