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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan O’Connell, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Several schools in Australia have closed after some students and teachers tested positive for COVID-19. Meanwhile, some independent schools have sent all students home pre-emptively, without any infections being detected. Classes will now be done online. While the federal ... <a title="COVID-19: what closing schools and childcare centres would mean for parents and casual staff" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/covid-19-what-closing-schools-and-childcare-centres-would-mean-for-parents-and-casual-staff-133768/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19: what closing schools and childcare centres would mean for parents and casual staff">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caroline Henckels, Senior Lecturer, Monash University Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that anyone entering Australia must enter a 14-day self-quarantine period. Some questions have been raised as to how this new mandate would be administered and enforced. The answer to these questions relies on a somewhat ... <a title="Explainer: what are the laws mandating self-isolation and how will they be enforced?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/explainer-what-are-the-laws-mandating-self-isolation-and-how-will-they-be-enforced-133757/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what are the laws mandating self-isolation and how will they be enforced?">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Eltham, Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University In 1606, Shakespeare and his company bolted the doors of the Globe Theatre and fled London as bubonic plague led to a total shutdown of theatres. Now we know what it must have felt like. The ... <a title="Coronavirus: Australian arts need a stimulus package. Here is what it should look like" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/coronavirus-australian-arts-need-a-stimulus-package-here-is-what-it-should-look-like-133803/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus: Australian arts need a stimulus package. Here is what it should look like">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Anderson, Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne In American sports, the term “shutout” is usually associated with a comprehensive victory over an opposition that has failed to score. Last week, the spread of the coronavirus was such that it almost secured a ... <a title="Why haven’t the Olympics been cancelled from coronavirus? That’s the A$20bn question" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/why-havent-the-olympics-been-cancelled-from-coronavirus-thats-the-a-20bn-question-133445/" aria-label="Read more about Why haven’t the Olympics been cancelled from coronavirus? That’s the A$20bn question">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Regina Scheyvens, Professor of Development Studies, Massey University New Zealand’s border restrictions will come with significant job and business losses in the tourism sector, both at home and in the Pacific. But the new travel rules are absolutely necessary to protect the health of New Zealanders and ... <a title="Why NZ’s tough coronavirus travel rules are crucial to protecting lives at home and across the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/why-nzs-tough-coronavirus-travel-rules-are-crucial-to-protecting-lives-at-home-and-across-the-pacific-133779/" aria-label="Read more about Why NZ’s tough coronavirus travel rules are crucial to protecting lives at home and across the Pacific">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Flaherty, Senior Lecturer (English and Drama) ANU, Australian National University Every year about 150 students enrol in the introductory English literature course at the Australian National University, which I teach. The course includes works by Shakespeare, Austen, Woolf and Dickens. I know what these books did ... <a title="What my students taught me about reading: old books hold new insights for the digital generation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/what-my-students-taught-me-about-reading-old-books-hold-new-insights-for-the-digital-generation-127799/" aria-label="Read more about What my students taught me about reading: old books hold new insights for the digital generation">Read more</a>
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March 17, 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 Coronavirus – government Chris Trotter (Interest): “We are all socialists now.” Tim Watkin (Pundit): Pulling Together In A Crisis: The Coalition’s Biggest Test. And Opportunity Luke Malpass (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s biggest task, heroic yet ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 17 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-17-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 17 2020">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University When the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to the bone this week, this represented the most decisive action taken so far to forestall recession caused by a global health crisis. The US central bank’s dramatic intervention is ... <a title="Lack of confidence in US leadership adds to coronavirus panic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/lack-of-confidence-in-us-leadership-adds-to-coronavirus-panic-133760/" aria-label="Read more about Lack of confidence in US leadership adds to coronavirus panic">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Glen Peters, Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research – Oslo Stock markets around the world had some of their worst performance in decades this past week, well surpassing that of the global financial crisis in 2008. Restrictions in the free movement of people is ... <a title="How changes brought on by coronavirus could help tackle climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/how-changes-brought-on-by-coronavirus-could-help-tackle-climate-change-133509/" aria-label="Read more about How changes brought on by coronavirus could help tackle climate change">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hinze Hogendoorn, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne We feel that we live in the present. When we open our eyes, we perceive the outside world as it is right now. But we are actually living slightly in the past. It takes ... <a title="What you’re seeing right now is the past, so your brain is predicting the present" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/what-youre-seeing-right-now-is-the-past-so-your-brain-is-predicting-the-present-131913/" aria-label="Read more about What you’re seeing right now is the past, so your brain is predicting the present">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Collins, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle The coronavirus presents many uncertainties, and none of us can completely eliminate our risk of getting COVID-19. But one thing we can do is eat as healthily as possible. If we do catch COVID-19, our immune system ... <a title="5 ways nutrition could help your immune system fight off the coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/5-ways-nutrition-could-help-your-immune-system-fight-off-the-coronavirus-133356/" aria-label="Read more about 5 ways nutrition could help your immune system fight off the coronavirus">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Davern, Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director, Healthy Liveable Cities Group, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University The way our growing cities are planned and built is becoming ever more important in building healthy, liveable and sustainable communities. Much of the focus on liveability has been on ... <a title="The average regional city resident lacks good access to two-thirds of community services, and liveability suffers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/the-average-regional-city-resident-lacks-good-access-to-two-thirds-of-community-services-and-liveability-suffers-131910/" aria-label="Read more about The average regional city resident lacks good access to two-thirds of community services, and liveability suffers">Read more</a>
