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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Gibbons, Professor, Australian National University As we witnessed last summer, the number of houses destroyed during bushfires in Australia has not been stemmed by advances in weather forecasting, building design and the increased use of large water-bombing aircraft. At the latest count, more than 3,500 homes ... <a title="If you’re worried about bushfires but want to keep your leafy garden, follow these tips" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/if-youre-worried-about-bushfires-but-want-to-keep-your-leafy-garden-follow-these-tips-130876/" aria-label="Read more about If you’re worried about bushfires but want to keep your leafy garden, follow these tips">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Menzies, Principal Research Fellow, Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith University Crises pose particular challenges for democratic leaders. They are expected to make critical decisions in times of uncertainty and rapidly develop effective plans to lead us out of the crisis. Normally, we are more interested in constraining ... <a title="Explainer: what is the national cabinet and is it democratic?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/explainer-what-is-the-national-cabinet-and-is-it-democratic-135036/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is the national cabinet and is it democratic?">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology The Morrison government keeps using the word “essential” to describe employees, public gatherings, services and businesses that are still allowed and not restricted as it tries to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. But what ... <a title="What actually are ‘essential services’ and who decides?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/what-actually-are-essential-services-and-who-decides-135029/" aria-label="Read more about What actually are ‘essential services’ and who decides?">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aude Bernard, Lecturer, Queensland Centre for Population Research, The University of Queensland Australians are among the most mobile populations in the world. More than 40% of us change address every five years, about twice the global average. Yet the level of internal migration – moving within Australia ... <a title="Australians are moving home less. Why? And does it matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/australians-are-moving-home-less-why-and-does-it-matter-133767/" aria-label="Read more about Australians are moving home less. Why? And does it matter?">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Stubbs, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Industries, University of South Australia Being in isolation might be a great time to try something new. In this series, we get the basics on hobbies and activities to start while you’re spending more time at home. While many are ... <a title="Great first time to try: travel writing from the home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/great-first-time-to-try-travel-writing-from-the-home-134664/" aria-label="Read more about Great first time to try: travel writing from the home">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin While, United States’ local data on Covid19 is more readily available than for other countries, the American ‘county’ system of local governance is way out of date and often does not well represent urban conglomerations. Doing my best from the available data, I constructed the following chart yesterday evening, and will ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United States’ Deaths as at 29 March 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-united-states-deaths-as-at-29-march-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United States’ Deaths as at 29 March 2020">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By COHA’s Editorial Board From Washington DC The defense of human life in the Americas, in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic, has become an ethical imperative for progressive forces throughout the region and beyond. The manner in which each government is now responding to the crisis ... <a title="COVID-19 Pandemic Spotlights Ethical Dimension of Hemispheric Affairs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/covid-19-pandemic-spotlights-ethical-dimension-of-hemispheric-affairs/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 Pandemic Spotlights Ethical Dimension of Hemispheric Affairs">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government will provide a flat $1,500 a fortnight JobKeeper payment per employee for businesses to retain or rehire nearly six million workers, in a massive $130 billion six-month wage subsidy scheme to limit the economic devastation caused by ... <a title="Australia: $1,500 a fortnight JobKeeper wage subsidy in massive $130 billion program" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/1-500-a-fortnight-jobkeeper-wage-subsidy-in-massive-130-billion-program-135049/" aria-label="Read more about Australia: $1,500 a fortnight JobKeeper wage subsidy in massive $130 billion program">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Armstrong, Executive Director, Climate and Health Alliance, Occasional Lecturer, School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, La Trobe University The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world is a crisis of our own making. That’s the message from infectious disease and environmental health experts, and from those ... <a title="Coronavirus is a wake-up call: our war with the environment is leading to pandemics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/coronavirus-is-a-wake-up-call-our-war-with-the-environment-is-leading-to-pandemics-135023/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus is a wake-up call: our war with the environment is leading to pandemics">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dana M Bergstrom, Principal Research Scientist, University of Wollongong While the world rightfully focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic, the planet is still warming. This summer’s Antarctic weather, as elsewhere in the world, was unprecedented in the observed record. Our research, published today in Global Change Biology, describes ... <a title="Anatomy of a heatwave: how Antarctica recorded a 20.75°C day last month" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/anatomy-of-a-heatwave-how-antarctica-recorded-a-20-75-c-day-last-month-134550/" aria-label="Read more about Anatomy of a heatwave: how Antarctica recorded a 20.75°C day last month">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Weaving, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Industries, University of Newcastle Images of the latest coronavirus have become instantly recognisable, often vibrantly coloured and floating in an opaque background. In most representations, the shape of the virus is the same – a spherical particle with spikes, resembling ... <a title="Scary red or icky green? We can’t say what colour coronavirus is and dressing it up might feed fears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/scary-red-or-icky-green-we-cant-say-what-colour-coronavirus-is-and-dressing-it-up-might-feed-fears-134380/" aria-label="Read more about Scary red or icky green? We can’t say what colour coronavirus is and dressing it up might feed fears">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Omar Mubin, Senior Lecturer in human-centred computing & human-computer interaction, Western Sydney University The Australian government has launched an app offering up-to-date advice and information on the COVID-19 pandemic. The Coronavirus Australia app, available on the Apple App Store and Google Play, was released alongside a new ... <a title="The government’s coronavirus mobile app is a solid effort, but it could do even better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/30/the-governments-coronavirus-mobile-app-is-a-solid-effort-but-it-could-do-even-better-135030/" aria-label="Read more about The government’s coronavirus mobile app is a solid effort, but it could do even better">Read more</a>
