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September 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Victoria’s ultra-cautious roadmap out of its lockdown, outlined by Daniel Andrews on Sunday, reinforced the strong message that came from Friday’s national cabinet. Premiers are in the driving seat of exiting COVID restrictions, and they are imposing the strictest speed ... <a title="View from The Hill: Daniel Andrews frustrates Scott Morrison with a slow-pace lockdown exit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/06/view-from-the-hill-daniel-andrews-frustrates-scott-morrison-with-a-slow-pace-lockdown-exit-145676/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Daniel Andrews frustrates Scott Morrison with a slow-pace lockdown exit">Read more</a>
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September 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laxman Bablani, Research Fellow, Population Interventions Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne The Victorian government today announced the eagerly anticipated roadmap out of COVID-19 lockdown. It features several steps that reflect a much slower relaxing of restrictions ... <a title="‘Slow and steady’ exit from lockdown as Victorian government sets sights on ‘COVID-normal’ Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/06/slow-and-steady-exit-from-lockdown-as-victorian-government-sets-sights-on-covid-normal-christmas-145558/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Slow and steady’ exit from lockdown as Victorian government sets sights on ‘COVID-normal’ Christmas">Read more</a>
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September 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Hopkin, Editor, Science + Technology, Health + Medicine, The Conversation Victorian Premier Dan Andrews and Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton on Sunday announced steps to slowly ease COVID-19 restrictions in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. There are four steps before Victoria totally opens up – a ... <a title="Victoria’s path out of COVID-19 lockdown – quick reference guides" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/06/victorias-path-out-of-covid-19-lockdown-quick-reference-guides-145674/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s path out of COVID-19 lockdown – quick reference guides">Read more</a>
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September 6, 2020
The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange, a film by Juan Passarelli @jlpassarelli By Simon Floth in Armidale, NSW On Monday, September 7, Julian Assange is scheduled to appear in a British court for several weeks of hearings regarding the U.S. attempt to extradite him. This concerns Wikileaks obtaining and jointly publishing US-classified ... <a title="Assange’s UK detention violates international law – Australia must intervene" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/06/assanges-uk-detention-violates-international-law-australia-must-intervene/" aria-label="Read more about Assange’s UK detention violates international law – Australia must intervene">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The national cabinet, created to impose maximum unity on Australia’s response to COVID, has formally fractured. It hasn’t broken altogether, but the rubber band holding it together has been stretched too far and has now dramatically slackened. Scott Morrison, who ... <a title="The wild west channels those old secessionist dreams by refusing to get on Scott Morrison’s COVID bus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/the-wild-west-channels-those-old-secessionist-dreams-by-refusing-to-get-on-scott-morrisons-covid-bus-145630/" aria-label="Read more about The wild west channels those old secessionist dreams by refusing to get on Scott Morrison’s COVID bus">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richelle Mychasiuk, Associate Professor (Research), Department of Neuroscience, Monash University News emerged this week former AFL footballer Danny Frawley was suffering from a brain disease called CTE when he died last year, according to reports received by the Victorian Coroner. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, refers to ... <a title="Here’s what we know about CTE, the brain condition that affected Danny Frawley" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/heres-what-we-know-about-cte-the-brain-condition-that-affected-danny-frawley-145395/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what we know about CTE, the brain condition that affected Danny Frawley">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Bloomer, Associate Professor, Nursing, Deakin University While the number of new COVID-19 cases in Victoria continues to trend downwards, we’re still seeing a significant number of deaths from the disease. The ongoing outbreaks in aged care, and the fact community transmission is continuing to occur, mean ... <a title="Patients with COVID-19 shouldn’t have to die alone. Here’s how a loved one could be there at the end" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/patients-with-covid-19-shouldnt-have-to-die-alone-heres-how-a-loved-one-could-be-there-at-the-end-145324/" aria-label="Read more about Patients with COVID-19 shouldn’t have to die alone. Here’s how a loved one could be there at the end">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Since its first death (in China) in January, 873 thousand people worldwide have died from Covid19. The chart shows the population-adjusted death tolls for the most-affected countries (excluding countries with less than 300,000 people. (San Marino – with 34,000 people – actually has the highest death rate.) In recent days, Peru ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Countries with most Deaths and Cases to date" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-countries-with-most-deaths-and-cases-to-date/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Countries with most Deaths and Cases to date">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
How badly will James Shaw’s private school debacle affect the Greens? Will it push them out of Parliament? This is increasingly the question being asked as the scandal rolls on and on this week. After all, the two main polling companies have had the party very close to the 5% MMP threshold in their surveys ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Has James Shaw sunk the Greens?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-has-james-shaw-sunk-the-greens/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Has James Shaw sunk the Greens?">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Paddy Nixon discuss the week in politics. This week Michelle and Paddy discuss the first recession in Australia since the early 90’s, Scott Morrison’s continued ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Australia’s recession, state borders, and ‘COVID parliament’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/video-michelle-grattan-on-australias-recession-state-borders-and-covid-parliament-145625/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Australia’s recession, state borders, and ‘COVID parliament’">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Quentin Grafton, Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The Morrison government today declared it will axe buybacks of water entitlements from irrigators, placating farmers who say the system has damaged their livelihood and communities. Instead, ... <a title="Morrison government plan to scrap water buybacks will hurt taxpayers and the environment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/morrison-government-plan-to-scrap-water-buybacks-will-hurt-taxpayers-and-the-environment-145613/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison government plan to scrap water buybacks will hurt taxpayers and the environment">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew McLachlan, Head of School and Dean of Pharmacy, University of Sydney Readily available drugs, which dampen the runaway inflammatory response in patients severely ill with COVID-19, save lives, according to evidence released this week. An analysis by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which drew together results ... <a title="The evidence is in. WHO says corticosteroids really do save lives of people critically ill with COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/the-evidence-is-in-who-says-corticosteroids-really-do-save-lives-of-people-critically-ill-with-covid-19-145536/" aria-label="Read more about The evidence is in. WHO says corticosteroids really do save lives of people critically ill with COVID-19">Read more</a>
