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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dr Mette Hotker, Lecturer in Social Planning, RMIT University Most Australians know you never end up winning on the pokies. What Australians might not know is that the odds of winning a case against a poker-machine proposal in their local neighbourhood are very poor too. My recent ... <a title="Most community bids to block pokies fail – the law is stacked against them too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/most-community-bids-to-block-pokies-fail-the-law-is-stacked-against-them-too-132876/" aria-label="Read more about Most community bids to block pokies fail – the law is stacked against them too">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Jeffrey, Director and CEO of the Australia India Institute; Professor of Development Geography, University of Melbourne Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown for India’s 1.3 billion people. With just four hours’ notice, the government instructed everyone to remain in their homes, banned ... <a title="‘How will we eat’? India’s coronavirus lockdown threatens millions with severe hardship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/how-will-we-eat-indias-coronavirus-lockdown-threatens-millions-with-severe-hardship-135193/" aria-label="Read more about ‘How will we eat’? India’s coronavirus lockdown threatens millions with severe hardship">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Kearnes, Professor, Environment & Society, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW Public health messages about COVID-19 have been inconsistent and changed rapidly. Many have called for a unified source of expertise to guide responses to the crisis. However, with the federal, state and local governments, as ... <a title="We should listen to coronavirus experts, but local wisdom counts too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/we-should-listen-to-coronavirus-experts-but-local-wisdom-counts-too-134034/" aria-label="Read more about We should listen to coronavirus experts, but local wisdom counts too">Read more</a>
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April 1, 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 Public health strategy Derek Cheng (Herald): Lockdown ‘not enough’, top professor tells Govt video conference Derek Cheng (Herald): Just when you thought the Opposition had become irrelevant (paywalled) James Fyfe (Newshub): Sir David Skegg urges ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 01 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-01-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 01 2020">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Gearing, Journalist, author, broadcaster, Queensland University of Technology I’m trying to work out what to do before I end up in a body bag but that seems unavoidable right now. This was one of the first replies this month to my research questionnaire on domestic violence. ... <a title="Coronavirus and ‘domestic terrorism’: how to stop family violence under lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/coronavirus-and-domestic-terrorism-how-to-stop-family-violence-under-lockdown-135056/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus and ‘domestic terrorism’: how to stop family violence under lockdown">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, University of Melbourne Tree kangaroos are so unusual that when Europeans first encountered them in Australia in 1872, they were sceptical. Who would believe a kangaroo could climb a tree? But the ... <a title="Meet Chimbu, the blue-eyed, bear-eared tree kangaroo. Your cuppa can help save his species" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/meet-chimbu-the-blue-eyed-bear-eared-tree-kangaroo-your-cuppa-can-help-save-his-species-135033/" aria-label="Read more about Meet Chimbu, the blue-eyed, bear-eared tree kangaroo. Your cuppa can help save his species">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Zaphir, Researcher for the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland With the COVID-19 pandemic causing a great deal of anxiety, we might come to think people are irrational, selfish or downright crazy. We see people showing up to public venues en masse ... <a title="How not to fall for coronavirus BS: avoid the 7 deadly sins of thought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/how-not-to-fall-for-coronavirus-bs-avoid-the-7-deadly-sins-of-thought-133069/" aria-label="Read more about How not to fall for coronavirus BS: avoid the 7 deadly sins of thought">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warwick Smith, Research economist, University of Melbourne Understandably, given we are in a crisis, the government has baulked at including superannuation contributions in the A$140 billion worth of $1,500 per fortnight wage top-ups it will be directing to six million Australians. As the JobKeeper fact sheet puts ... <a title="The coronavirus response calls into question the future of super" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/the-coronavirus-response-calls-into-question-the-future-of-super-133906/" aria-label="Read more about The coronavirus response calls into question the future of super">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Larisa Labzin, Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland With much of society now effectively in lockdown, how will we know when it’s safe to resume something like normality? It will largely depend on being able to say who is safe from contracting the ... <a title="Antibody tests: to get a grip on coronavirus, we need to know who’s already had it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/antibody-tests-to-get-a-grip-on-coronavirus-we-need-to-know-whos-already-had-it-134547/" aria-label="Read more about Antibody tests: to get a grip on coronavirus, we need to know who’s already had it">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Richardson, Senior Research Fellow, UNSW People in Western Australia may soon see more than birds in the sky, as the state’s police force has announced plans to deploy drones to enforce social distancing. The drones will visit parks, beaches and cafe strips, ensuring people comply with ... <a title="‘Pandemic drones’: useful for enforcing social distancing, or for creating a police state?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/pandemic-drones-useful-for-enforcing-social-distancing-or-for-creating-a-police-state-134667/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Pandemic drones’: useful for enforcing social distancing, or for creating a police state?">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Private hospitals will be on the frontline in the coronavirus battle, under an arrangement with the federal government that makes available the sector’s more than 30,000 beds and 105,000 workforce, including more than 57,000 nursing staff. The government will offer ... <a title="Federal government gets private hospital resources for COVID-19 fight in exchange for funding support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/federal-government-gets-private-hospital-resources-for-covid-19-fight-in-exchange-for-funding-support-135207/" aria-label="Read more about Federal government gets private hospital resources for COVID-19 fight in exchange for funding support">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Richardson, Senior Research Fellow, UNSW People in Western Australia may soon see more than birds in the sky, as the state’s police force has announced plans to deploy drones to enforce social distancing. The drones will visit parks, beaches and cafe strips, ensuring people comply with ... <a title="‘Pandemic drones’: useful for enforcing social distancing, or just for creating a police state?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/pandemic-drones-useful-for-enforcing-social-distancing-or-just-for-creating-a-police-state-134667/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Pandemic drones’: useful for enforcing social distancing, or just for creating a police state?">Read more</a>
