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January 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Villeneuve, Associate Professor, University of Sydney People with disability are disproportionately affected by disasters, but have fewer choices when emergencies unfold. Our previous research showed how, for people with disability, natural hazard disasters can mean: loss of power for life-sustaining equipment transportation challenges meaning people have ... <a title="3 things we can do now to help people with disability prepare for disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/11/3-things-we-can-do-now-to-help-people-with-disability-prepare-for-disaster-151843/" aria-label="Read more about 3 things we can do now to help people with disability prepare for disaster">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content US politics and NZ Chris Keall (Herald): NZ Privacy Commissioner critical of Facebook and Twitter’s decision to ban Trump Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): NZ privacy commissioner says social media bans on Trump ‘arbitrary and cynical’ RNZ: PM should not ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 11 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-january-11-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 11 2021">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hoffmann, Professor of Economics and Chair of Behavioural Business Lab, RMIT University Incredibly, a whole year has passed since the first emergence of COVID-19. What looked like a temporary inconvenience at first is turning into a permanent fixture that might forever change life as we knew ... <a title="Even with a vaccine, we need to adjust our mindset to playing the COVID-19 long game" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/11/even-with-a-vaccine-we-need-to-adjust-our-mindset-to-playing-the-covid-19-long-game-152686/" aria-label="Read more about Even with a vaccine, we need to adjust our mindset to playing the COVID-19 long game">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Kristin Merga, Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University Academics are increasingly expected to share their research widely beyond academia. However, our recent study of academics in Australia and Japan suggests Australian universities are still very much focused on supporting the production of scholarly outputs. They ... <a title="Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back academics to do it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/11/unis-want-research-shared-widely-so-why-dont-they-properly-back-academics-to-do-it-151375/" aria-label="Read more about Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back academics to do it?">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meg Elkins, Senior Lecturer with School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University For many of us, one of the upsides of 2020 was being freed from the grind of the daily commute. For the 40% of the workforce able to “telecommute”, COVID-19 social distancing measures saved ... <a title="The commuter’s paradox: there’s something to gain in the space between home and work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/11/the-commuters-paradox-theres-something-to-gain-in-the-space-between-home-and-work-152887/" aria-label="Read more about The commuter’s paradox: there’s something to gain in the space between home and work">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In my latest charts, I include a robust set of estimates of actual proportion of people who have – or have had – Covid19. The principal basis for these estimates is the number of deaths being recorded. Using the appropriate log scale for such charts, we can see that Belgium’s ‘second ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Belgium and Ireland – Three Perspectives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/09/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-belgium-and-ireland-three-perspectives/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Belgium and Ireland – Three Perspectives">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University Greater Brisbane’s 72-hour COVID lockdown, which takes effect at 6pm on Friday, has a crucial difference from the months-long lockdown endured by Melbourne earlier this year, or the current restrictions aimed at stamping out Sydney’s COVID clusters. In Brisbane’s case, ... <a title="Brisbane’s COVID lockdown has a crucial difference: it aims to squash an outbreak before it even starts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/08/brisbanes-covid-lockdown-has-a-crucial-difference-it-aims-to-squash-an-outbreak-before-it-even-starts-152892/" aria-label="Read more about Brisbane’s COVID lockdown has a crucial difference: it aims to squash an outbreak before it even starts">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Maund, Research Affiliate, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle In cities around the world, temperatures could rise by more than 4℃ by 2100 under a high-emissions climate change scenario, suggests research published this week in Nature Climate Change. It comes as the Bureau ... <a title="Cities could get more than 4°C hotter by 2100. To keep cool in Australia, we urgently need a national planning policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/08/cities-could-get-more-than-4-c-hotter-by-2100-to-keep-cool-in-australia-we-urgently-need-a-national-planning-policy-152680/" aria-label="Read more about Cities could get more than 4°C hotter by 2100. To keep cool in Australia, we urgently need a national planning policy">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Clift, Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate, University of Melbourne Nearly overshadowed by the chaos in the US this week was a dramatic escalation of the crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. Authorities arrested more than 50 pro-democracy figures in early morning raids under the territory’s ... <a title="With mass arrests, running for office in Hong Kong is now not only futile, it can be criminal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/08/with-mass-arrests-running-for-office-in-hong-kong-is-now-not-only-futile-it-can-be-criminal-152755/" aria-label="Read more about With mass arrests, running for office in Hong Kong is now not only futile, it can be criminal">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jordan McSwiney, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Hundreds of pro-Trump rioters today charged into the US Capitol, where Congress was set to certify Joe Biden’s presidency. Four people have reportedly died in relation to this protest, including a woman who was shot. The protesters included “Proud Boys”, ... <a title="Why were the Capitol rioters so angry? Because they’re scared of losing grip on their perverse idea of democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/08/why-were-the-capitol-rioters-so-angry-because-theyre-scared-of-losing-grip-on-their-perverse-idea-of-democracy-152812/" aria-label="Read more about Why were the Capitol rioters so angry? Because they’re scared of losing grip on their perverse idea of democracy">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Timothy Graham, Queensland University of Technology Amid the chaos in the US Capitol, stoked largely by rhetoric from President Donald Trump, Twitter has locked his account, with 88.7 million followers, for 12 hours. Facebook and Instagram quickly followed suit, locking Trump’s accounts — with 35.2 million followers and 24.5 million, respectively — for ... <a title="Social media giants have finally confronted Trump’s lies. But why wait for the Capitol riot?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/08/social-media-giants-have-finally-confronted-trumps-lies-but-why-wait-for-the-capitol-riot/" aria-label="Read more about Social media giants have finally confronted Trump’s lies. But why wait for the Capitol riot?">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2021
ANALYSIS: By David Smith, University of Sydney After weeks of President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about voter fraud and other improprieties costing him the presidential election, Washington erupted in chaos today as his supporters stormed the Capitol during a joint session of Congress to certify the results. While shocking to watch, in hindsight, today’s riots ... <a title="‘Delighting in causing complete chaos’ – behind Trump supporters’ brazen storming of the Capitol" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/08/delighting-in-causing-complete-chaos-behind-trump-supporters-brazen-storming-of-the-capitol/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Delighting in causing complete chaos’ – behind Trump supporters’ brazen storming of the Capitol">Read more</a>
