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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Cross, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Fraudsters are ruthless and will use any means necessary to gain financial advantage. Earlier this year, as Australians were battling the devastating bushfires, fraudsters were tailoring their approaches to exploit the ... <a title="Fake COVID-19 testing kits and lockdown puppy scams: how to protect yourself from fraud in a pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/fake-covid-19-testing-kits-and-lockdown-puppy-scams-how-to-protect-yourself-from-fraud-in-a-pandemic-144060/" aria-label="Read more about Fake COVID-19 testing kits and lockdown puppy scams: how to protect yourself from fraud in a pandemic">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Mitchell, Conjoint Clinical Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University Although most hospitals are coping right now, COVID-19 has brought up many questions about how health-care resources should be rationed during a pandemic. Ideally, every unwell person should get anything they ... <a title="In Victoria, whether you get an ICU bed could depend on the hospital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/in-victoria-whether-you-get-an-icu-bed-could-depend-on-the-hospital-144209/" aria-label="Read more about In Victoria, whether you get an ICU bed could depend on the hospital">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brad Ridoutt, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Agriculture, CSIRO Croplands are a valuable, yet scarce natural resource. To guard against serious and potentially irreversible environmental harm, croplands should not extend beyond 15% of the earth’s ice-free surface. Croplands are mainly used for food production. So it’s important to ... <a title="We each get 7 square metres of cropland per day. Too much booze and pizza makes us exceed it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/we-each-get-7-square-metres-of-cropland-per-day-too-much-booze-and-pizza-makes-us-exceed-it-141361/" aria-label="Read more about We each get 7 square metres of cropland per day. Too much booze and pizza makes us exceed it">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ann McGrath, Professor, Australian National University The bushfire royal commission is examining ways Indigenous land and fire management could improve Australia’s resilience to national disasters. On the face of it, this offers an opportunity to embrace Indigenous ways of knowing. But one traditional practice unlikely to be ... <a title="‘All things will outlast us’: how the Indigenous concept of deep time helps us understand environmental destruction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/all-things-will-outlast-us-how-the-indigenous-concept-of-deep-time-helps-us-understand-environmental-destruction-132201/" aria-label="Read more about ‘All things will outlast us’: how the Indigenous concept of deep time helps us understand environmental destruction">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pnina Levine, Lecturer in Law, Curtin Law School, Curtin University Questions about the purpose of universities have been highly topical lately. Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has suggested the purpose of universities is to produce job-ready graduates – preferably in STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) rather than ... <a title="What are universities for? If mainly teaching, can they sack academics for not meeting research targets?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/what-are-universities-for-if-mainly-teaching-can-they-sack-academics-for-not-meeting-research-targets-143091/" aria-label="Read more about What are universities for? If mainly teaching, can they sack academics for not meeting research targets?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Lennox, Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS), Victoria University For most of us the experience of working from home this year has, on balance, been positive – enough that it may well become the norm after the COVID-19 crisis ends. But modelling by Victoria ... <a title="More urban sprawl while jobs cluster: working from home will reshape the nation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/more-urban-sprawl-while-jobs-cluster-working-from-home-will-reshape-the-nation-144409/" aria-label="Read more about More urban sprawl while jobs cluster: working from home will reshape the nation">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University To live through a pandemic, Albert Camus wrote, is to be made to live as an exile. Lovers are parted from lovers, (grand)parents from children, families from their dead. And we are exiled from many things we enjoy: freedom ... <a title="What would Seneca say? Six Stoic tips for surviving lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/what-would-seneca-say-six-stoic-tips-for-surviving-lockdown-144346/" aria-label="Read more about What would Seneca say? Six Stoic tips for surviving lockdown">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The federal government has signed a letter of intent with the United Kingdom-based drug company AstraZeneca to supply a University of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to Australia, and entered a contract with the American company Becton Dickinson for the supply of ... <a title="Morrison government promises all Australians will get free COVID vaccine – if there is one" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/morrison-government-promises-all-australians-will-get-free-covid-vaccine-if-there-is-one-144694/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison government promises all Australians will get free COVID vaccine – if there is one">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew McLachlan, Head of School and Dean of Pharmacy, University of Sydney The head lice drug ivermectin has yet again been touted in the media as a possible treatment for COVID-19. But despite the favourable headlines, huge uncertainty remains about whether this treatment can be safely and ... <a title="Ivermectin is still not a miracle cure for COVID-19, despite what you may have read" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/18/ivermectin-is-still-not-a-miracle-cure-for-covid-19-despite-what-you-may-have-read-144569/" aria-label="Read more about Ivermectin is still not a miracle cure for COVID-19, despite what you may have read">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dougal Sutherland, Clinical Psychologist, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Many New Zealanders will be feeling anxious, disappointed and even angry about the return of COVID-19 in the community. Many of us prefer to suppress these emotions because they are unpleasant or we may feel ... <a title="How setting aside some ‘worry time’ can help reduce anxiety over COVID-19 lockdowns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/18/how-setting-aside-some-worry-time-can-help-reduce-anxiety-over-covid-19-lockdowns-144561/" aria-label="Read more about How setting aside some ‘worry time’ can help reduce anxiety over COVID-19 lockdowns">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bryan Cranston, Academic Teacher, Swinburne University of Technology Less than three months out from the presidential election, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has become the centre of a political storm. So much so that Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, has recalled the house ... <a title="Explainer: what is the controversy around the US postal service and how might it affect the election?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/18/explainer-what-is-the-controversy-around-the-us-postal-service-and-how-might-it-affect-the-election-144663/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is the controversy around the US postal service and how might it affect the election?">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Belinda Barnet, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology If you went to use Google yesterday, you may have been met with a pop-up warning that the tech giant’s functionality was “at risk” from new Australian government regulation. Google Australia’s managing director, Mel Silva, ... <a title="Google’s ‘open letter’ is trying to scare Australians. The company simply doesn’t want to pay for news" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/18/googles-open-letter-is-trying-to-scare-australians-the-company-simply-doesnt-want-to-pay-for-news-144573/" aria-label="Read more about Google’s ‘open letter’ is trying to scare Australians. The company simply doesn’t want to pay for news">Read more</a>
