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May 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Roberts, Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology The coronavirus pandemic has caused a massive surge in global unemployment. It has also highlighted the increasingly valuable role of automation in today’s world. Although there are some jobs machines just can’t do, COVID-19 has left us wondering ... <a title="The coronavirus has thrust human limitations into the spotlight. Will it mark the rise of automation?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/the-coronavirus-has-thrust-human-limitations-into-the-spotlight-will-it-mark-the-rise-of-automation-139198/" aria-label="Read more about The coronavirus has thrust human limitations into the spotlight. Will it mark the rise of automation?">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University Group B streptococcal (GBS) is a common bacteria that likes to live in the human gut and migrate down the rectum, vagina and sometimes to the urinary tract. Not everyone has ... <a title="Group B strep and having a baby: what pregnant women need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/group-b-strep-and-having-a-baby-what-pregnant-women-need-to-know-131893/" aria-label="Read more about Group B strep and having a baby: what pregnant women need to know">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Hitchcock, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Canberra Each year the ocean is inundated with 4.8 to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic washed in from land. A big proportion of this plastic is between 0.001 to 5 millimetres, and called “microplastic”. But what happens during a storm, ... <a title="A fire extinguisher, a suit and 14 million plastic particles: after a storm, microplastic pollution surged in the Cooks River" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/a-fire-extinguisher-a-suit-and-14-million-plastic-particles-after-a-storm-microplastic-pollution-surged-in-the-cooks-river-139043/" aria-label="Read more about A fire extinguisher, a suit and 14 million plastic particles: after a storm, microplastic pollution surged in the Cooks River">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Malcolm Burt, Amusement academic and disruptive media researcher, CQUniversity Australia In the not-so-distant past I commuted fairly hefty distances in a fairly garbage car. But you didn’t hear me complaining – I had an extensive library of podcasts (or “my stories” as I liked to call them) ... <a title="Friday essay: missing the commute, the spaces between places and the podcast stories in our pockets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/friday-essay-missing-the-commute-the-spaces-between-places-and-the-podcast-stories-in-our-pockets-139222/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: missing the commute, the spaces between places and the podcast stories in our pockets">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It was Greg Combet, one-time ACTU secretary and former Labor minister, who got Christian Porter and Sally McManus together in the early days of the pandemic. Recalling what happened, Porter told the Australian Financial Review he said to Combet he ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: When Christian met Sally – the match made by a pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/grattan-on-friday-when-christian-met-sally-the-match-made-by-a-pandemic-139562/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: When Christian met Sally – the match made by a pandemic">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristy Hess, Associate Professor (Communication), Deakin University With swift and savage force, the COVID-19 pandemic has inadvertently attacked Australia’s local news media ecology, which was already battling a weakened immune system. As a researcher working on Australia’s largest academic study into the future of local newspapers, the ... <a title="Another savage blow to regional media spells disaster for the communities they serve" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/another-savage-blow-to-regional-media-spells-disaster-for-the-communities-they-serve-139559/" aria-label="Read more about Another savage blow to regional media spells disaster for the communities they serve">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael (Mike) Joy, Senior Researcher; Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand’s government has been praised for listening to health experts in its pandemic response, but when it comes to dealing with pollution of the country’s waterways, scientific ... <a title="New Zealand government ignores expert advice in its plan to improve water quality in rivers and lakes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/new-zealand-government-ignores-expert-advice-in-its-plan-to-improve-water-quality-in-rivers-and-lakes-139554/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand government ignores expert advice in its plan to improve water quality in rivers and lakes">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. On Project Syndicate – and in other places in recent months – orthodox US economist Kenneth Rogoff has presented the case for deeply negative interest rates. Another financial sacred cow falls; yes, interest rates can be negative, even substantially negative. It can take a while, though, for shot sacred cows to ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Deeply Negative Interest Rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/keith-rankin-on-deeply-negative-interest-rates/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Deeply Negative Interest Rates">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics, University of South Australia Australia’s chief medical officer Brendan Murphy told a senate inquiry earlier this week our COVID-19 public health response had avoided about 14,000 deaths. This is in contrast to his deputy Paul Kelly, who estimated on March 16 that ... <a title="Has Australia really avoided 14,000 coronavirus deaths?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/has-australia-really-avoided-14-000-coronavirus-deaths-139465/" aria-label="Read more about Has Australia really avoided 14,000 coronavirus deaths?">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nik Thompson, Senior Lecturer, Curtin University Data is the new oil, and online platforms will siphon it off at any opportunity. Platforms increasingly demand our personal information in exchange for a service. Avoiding online services altogether can limit your participation in society, so the advice to just ... <a title="Don’t be phish food! Tips to avoid sharing your personal information online" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/dont-be-phish-food-tips-to-avoid-sharing-your-personal-information-online-138613/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t be phish food! Tips to avoid sharing your personal information online">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jarrod Haar, Professor of Human Resource Management, Auckland University of Technology When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said recently, “I’ve heard lots of people suggesting we should have a four-day week”, she inevitably ignited debate. Ardern was not, as some critics seemed to assume, just flying ... <a title="A four-day working week could be the shot in the arm post-coronavirus tourism needs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/a-four-day-working-week-could-be-the-shot-in-the-arm-post-coronavirus-tourism-needs-139388/" aria-label="Read more about A four-day working week could be the shot in the arm post-coronavirus tourism needs">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Bricknell, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health, CQUniversity Australia Now we have fewer cases of COVID-19, and restrictions are lifting, many of us are thinking of rejuvenating our social lives by heading to our local cafe or favourite restaurant. What can we do to reduce the risk ... <a title="How to stay safe in restaurants and cafes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/how-to-stay-safe-in-restaurants-and-cafes-139117/" aria-label="Read more about How to stay safe in restaurants and cafes">Read more</a>
