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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Freeland, Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University As the world tries to cope with the challenges of 2020, discussions around the use of mined resources from outer space continue to ratchet up. On April 6, the US White House released an executive order that Americans ... <a title="Giant leap for corporations? The Trump administration wants to mine resources in space, but is it legal?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/giant-leap-for-corporations-the-trump-administration-wants-to-mine-resources-in-space-but-is-it-legal-136395/" aria-label="Read more about Giant leap for corporations? The Trump administration wants to mine resources in space, but is it legal?">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milena Heinsch, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Brain and Mental Health, University of Newcastle We’ve now been social distancing for several weeks. While these measures have allowed us to slow the spread of COVID-19, they’ve also upended our day-to-day lives. If you’ve found yourself experiencing feelings of ... <a title="Are you worried someone you care about is thinking of suicide? Here’s how you can support them from afar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/are-you-worried-someone-you-care-about-is-thinking-of-suicide-heres-how-you-can-support-them-from-afar-135940/" aria-label="Read more about Are you worried someone you care about is thinking of suicide? Here’s how you can support them from afar">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeanne Marie Iorio, Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Education, University of Melbourne At childcare and preschool, children experience belonging to a community and engage actively with their learning. They also collaborate in groups, which helps them learn how to negotiate, listen and engage together. Learning in this sense ... <a title="Don’t worry, your child’s early learning doesn’t stop just because they’re not in childcare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/dont-worry-your-childs-early-learning-doesnt-stop-just-because-theyre-not-in-childcare-134668/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t worry, your child’s early learning doesn’t stop just because they’re not in childcare">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Analysis by Bryce Edwards How healthy is democracy at the moment in New Zealand? Criticisms are mounting about the state of the political system under the Coronavirus crisis, with complaints that things aren’t as democratic as they should be. I wrote for the Guardian last week about some of these political problems – see: New Zealand’s ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How healthy is our democracy under the Coronavirus crisis?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-how-healthy-is-our-democracy-under-the-coronavirus-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How healthy is our democracy under the Coronavirus crisis?">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Graves, Distinguished Professor of Genetics, La Trobe University All over the world – in China, Italy, the United States and Australia – many more men than women are dying from COVID-19. Why? Is it genes, hormones, the immune system – or behaviour – that makes men ... <a title="Why do more men die from coronavirus than women?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/why-do-more-men-die-from-coronavirus-than-women-136038/" aria-label="Read more about Why do more men die from coronavirus than women?">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University For more than 190,000 Australians employed in the cultural sector, the last month brought a quadrella of horror. First, having spent decades promoting flexible labour markets, the federal government is now using those same conditions to exclude thousands of ... <a title="Artists shouldn’t have to endlessly demonstrate their value. Coalition leaders used to know it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/artists-shouldnt-have-to-endlessly-demonstrate-their-value-coalition-leaders-used-to-know-it-136608/" aria-label="Read more about Artists shouldn’t have to endlessly demonstrate their value. Coalition leaders used to know it">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Baker, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine, Deakin University Toilet paper and ventilators may be unlikely bedfellows, but they serve as powerful symbols of the growing tensions between urban and rural regions in Australia and elsewhere amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Last month, the ... <a title="Healing the urban-rural divide: Why a ‘locals-first’ approach doesn’t work in a pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/healing-the-urban-rural-divide-why-a-locals-first-approach-doesnt-work-in-a-pandemic-135301/" aria-label="Read more about Healing the urban-rural divide: Why a ‘locals-first’ approach doesn’t work in a pandemic">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne This past week the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed arts and recreation is the hardest hit of all the sectors most affected by government-imposed shutdowns in Australia. At least 53% of ... <a title="Coronavirus: 3 in 4 Australians employed in the creative and performing arts could lose their jobs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/coronavirus-3-in-4-australians-employed-in-the-creative-and-performing-arts-could-lose-their-jobs-136505/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus: 3 in 4 Australians employed in the creative and performing arts could lose their jobs">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University As the number of COVID-19 infections climbs across the globe, so too do stories about journalism job losses, newsroom cutbacks and masthead closures. This raises the question: what does the pandemic-induced economic crisis mean ... <a title="Now more than ever, we need quality health reporting in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/now-more-than-ever-we-need-quality-health-reporting-in-australia-136229/" aria-label="Read more about Now more than ever, we need quality health reporting in Australia">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
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 Today’s cabinet decision Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Decision day dawns for PM Jacinda Ardern over Covid-19 lockdown John Armstrong (1News): Why New Zealand has to remain in lockdown Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Today cabinet decides on ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 20 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-20-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 20 2020">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hesketh, ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland Respirators and face masks are staple pieces of personal protective equipment for hospital workers and others in public health, as the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us. They can protect the wearer, but for diseases like COVID-19 that spread ... <a title="How a 150-year-old experiment with a beam of light showed germs exist — and that a face mask can help filter them out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/how-a-150-year-old-experiment-with-a-beam-of-light-showed-germs-exist-and-that-a-face-mask-can-help-filter-them-out-136391/" aria-label="Read more about How a 150-year-old experiment with a beam of light showed germs exist — and that a face mask can help filter them out">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin University What began as a global health crisis in the form of COVID-19 is now also an economic crisis of historic proportions. Much of the housing policy focus during the pandemic has rightly centred ... <a title="As coronavirus widens the renter-owner divide, housing policies will have to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/as-coronavirus-widens-the-renter-owner-divide-housing-policies-will-have-to-change-135808/" aria-label="Read more about As coronavirus widens the renter-owner divide, housing policies will have to change">Read more</a>
