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November 17, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Politics in Papua New Guinea has been plunged into more turmoil today, with government MPs continuing to meet while the opposition was out of town, thinking they had adjourned Parliament. The government MPs passed the Budget, and then made their own adjournment, until next April. Last Friday, the opposition, bolstered by government ... <a title="PNG government passes budget while rebel MPs caught out of town" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/png-government-passes-budget-while-rebel-mps-caught-out-of-town/" aria-label="Read more about PNG government passes budget while rebel MPs caught out of town">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW The people at highest risk of getting infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are close contacts of infected cases. So tracking these close contacts, and quarantining them so ... <a title="Exponential growth in COVID cases would overwhelm any state’s contact tracing. Australia needs an automated system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/exponential-growth-in-covid-cases-would-overwhelm-any-states-contact-tracing-australia-needs-an-automated-system-150166/" aria-label="Read more about Exponential growth in COVID cases would overwhelm any state’s contact tracing. Australia needs an automated system">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sebastian Leuzinger, Professor, Auckland University of Technology CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to ... <a title="Climate Explained: what would happen if we cut down the Amazon rainforest?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/climate-explained-what-would-happen-if-we-cut-down-the-amazon-rainforest-150054/" aria-label="Read more about Climate Explained: what would happen if we cut down the Amazon rainforest?">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Noble, Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Recent reports suggest several Liberal MPs are calling for child-care costs to be tax-deductible. They argue allowing families who can’t access subsidies to claim child-care costs as a tax deduction would boost women’s workforce participation and productivity. They ... <a title="The child-care sector needs an overhaul, not more tinkering with subsidies and tax deductions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/the-child-care-sector-needs-an-overhaul-not-more-tinkering-with-subsidies-and-tax-deductions-150264/" aria-label="Read more about The child-care sector needs an overhaul, not more tinkering with subsidies and tax deductions">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Trembath, Associate Professor, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University Every parent wants the best for their child on the autism spectrum, but navigating the maze of interventions can be tiring, costly and confusing. The challenge became a lot easier, we hope, with the release of our ... <a title="We examined the research evidence on 111 autism early intervention approaches. Here’s what we found" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/we-examined-the-research-evidence-on-111-autism-early-intervention-approaches-heres-what-we-found-150085/" aria-label="Read more about We examined the research evidence on 111 autism early intervention approaches. Here’s what we found">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Howell, Senior Lecturer, Griffith University In this series, our writers explore their best worst film. They’ll tell you what the critics got wrong – and why it’s time to give these movies another chance. When New York Observer film reviewer Rex Reed trashed Seth Gordon’s 2013 ... <a title="My Best Worst Film: Identity Thief — yes the movie is bad, but Melissa McCarthy is a comic genius" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/my-best-worst-film-identity-thief-yes-the-movie-is-bad-but-melissa-mccarthy-is-a-comic-genius-149451/" aria-label="Read more about My Best Worst Film: Identity Thief — yes the movie is bad, but Melissa McCarthy is a comic genius">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nareen Young, Industry Professor, Jumbunna Institute of Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney The results of the first large-scale survey of the experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at work give plenty of food for thought. They show that racism and prejudice remain important ... <a title="10 ways employers can include Indigenous Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/10-ways-employers-can-include-indigenous-australians-149741/" aria-label="Read more about 10 ways employers can include Indigenous Australians">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Harris Rimmer, Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University The Commonwealth and state governments are responsible for keeping people safe, and the role of the ADF is to protect the nation. But how these two roles fit together is not ... <a title="Should the ADF take a bigger role in bushfires and other domestic emergencies? The answer isn’t so easy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/should-the-adf-take-a-bigger-role-in-bushfires-and-other-domestic-emergencies-the-answer-isnt-so-easy-147188/" aria-label="Read more about Should the ADF take a bigger role in bushfires and other domestic emergencies? The answer isn’t so easy">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Prime Minister James Marape says his executive is still in control for the next three weeks for doing state business, passing the budget and to serve the people of Papua New Guinea. In spite of the defection by rebel members of his majority last Friday and a vote to suspend Parliament ... <a title="Marape confident he is control in PNG and will not bow to ‘greedy few’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/marape-confident-he-is-control-in-png-and-will-not-bow-to-greedy-few/" aria-label="Read more about Marape confident he is control in PNG and will not bow to ‘greedy few’">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Dunn, Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNSW At just 11 years old, Nicole couldn’t understand why her classmates were struggling. The competition was straightforward: recognise teachers at the primary school from their baby photos. Most students struggled to recognise more than a few faces. Nicole easily named all ... <a title="Are you among Australia’s best facial super-recognisers? Take our test to find out." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/are-you-among-australias-best-facial-super-recognisers-take-our-test-to-find-out-150089/" aria-label="Read more about Are you among Australia’s best facial super-recognisers? Take our test to find out.">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Branwen Morgan, Industry Associate Research Professor, Managing Director and Co-founder – OUTBREAK Project, University of Technology Sydney Antimicrobial resistance is increasing in Australia and globally. As resistance increases, the cost of treatment and management of human and animal infections is forecast by the World Health Organisation to ... <a title="Rising antibiotic resistance to UTIs could cost Australia $1.6 billion a year by 2030. Here’s how to curb it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/rising-antibiotic-resistance-to-utis-could-cost-australia-1-6-billion-a-year-by-2030-heres-how-to-curb-it-149543/" aria-label="Read more about Rising antibiotic resistance to UTIs could cost Australia $1.6 billion a year by 2030. Here’s how to curb it">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christiaan De Beukelaer, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne The shipping of goods around the world keeps economies going. But it comes at an enormous environmental cost – producing more CO₂ than the aviation industry. This problem should be getting urgent international attention and action, but it’s not. ... <a title="Ships moved more than 11 billion tonnes of our stuff around the globe last year, and it’s killing the climate. This week is a chance to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/ships-moved-more-than-11-billion-tonnes-of-our-stuff-around-the-globe-last-year-and-its-killing-the-climate-this-week-is-a-chance-to-change-150078/" aria-label="Read more about Ships moved more than 11 billion tonnes of our stuff around the globe last year, and it’s killing the climate. This week is a chance to change">Read more</a>
