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September 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chari Larsson, Lecturer of art history, Griffith University Our memories are malleable, they change over time. Memories can, however, crystallise through repetition. One of the most interesting things about memory is it is distinctly visual. With time, dramatic events reduce to a series of still images, which ... <a title="Friday essay: COVID in ten photos" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/11/friday-essay-covid-in-ten-photos-145318/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: COVID in ten photos">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It’s been welcome to see governments taking expert health advice during the pandemic. But on the issue of ultimate responsibility, situations can become tricky, as Annastacia Palaszczuk and Daniel Andrews found this week. When an agitated Palaszczuk said on Thursday ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: When grief meets politics, it is sad and ugly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/11/grattan-on-friday-when-grief-meets-politics-it-is-sad-and-ugly-145954/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: When grief meets politics, it is sad and ugly">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Peter Westcott, Post-doc research fellow, Murdoch University In the midst of all the stories about China’s oppression in Hong Kong and Xinjiang and its expulsion of foreign journalists, a recent clash on its border with India may pose the greater threat to Asian security. For the ... <a title="Shots fired in the Himalayas: a dangerous development in the China-India border standoff" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/shots-fired-in-the-himalayas-a-dangerous-development-in-the-china-india-border-standoff-145856/" aria-label="Read more about Shots fired in the Himalayas: a dangerous development in the China-India border standoff">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karin Verspoor, Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne Victoria’s health authorities are now looking overseas for a reprieve following the federal government’s criticism of the state’s coronavirus response. The state government has enlisted US cloud-based software company Salesforce to administer a data management ... <a title="Victoria’s coronavirus contact tracing is about to get faster. Let’s make it the first step in a larger digital boost" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/victorias-coronavirus-contact-tracing-is-about-to-get-faster-lets-make-it-the-first-step-in-a-larger-digital-boost-145759/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s coronavirus contact tracing is about to get faster. Let’s make it the first step in a larger digital boost">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karin Verspoor, Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne Victoria’s health authorities are now looking overseas for a reprieve following the federal government’s criticism of the state’s coronavirus response. The state government has enlisted US cloud-based software company Salesforce to administer a data management ... <a title="Victoria’s coronavirus contract tracing is about to get faster. Let’s make it the first step in a larger digital boost" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/victorias-coronavirus-contract-tracing-is-about-to-get-faster-lets-make-it-the-first-step-in-a-larger-digital-boost-145759/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s coronavirus contract tracing is about to get faster. Let’s make it the first step in a larger digital boost">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University News that US President Donald Trump was fully seized of the deadly potential of the novel coronavirus, despite his sustained public dismissals, has provoked anger and surprise. Audio recordings from interviews granted to veteran reporter Bob Woodward expose ... <a title="Trump reportedly played down the risk of COVID-19 to avoid ‘panic’. How much should leaders say, and when?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/trump-reportedly-played-down-the-risk-of-covid-19-to-avoid-panic-how-much-should-leaders-say-and-when-145919/" aria-label="Read more about Trump reportedly played down the risk of COVID-19 to avoid ‘panic’. How much should leaders say, and when?">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Flaws in Papua New Guinea’s public health system and the medicine supply chain are because of poor management in the Health Department, with some officers “living extravagant lifestyles far beyond their salary”, according to a new report. Public Accounts Committee chairman Sir John Pundari yesterday tabled in Parliament the ... <a title="Audit report slams ‘flawed’ PNG health management, ‘extravagant lifestyles’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/audit-report-slams-flawed-png-health-management-extravagant-lifestyles/" aria-label="Read more about Audit report slams ‘flawed’ PNG health management, ‘extravagant lifestyles’">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Meese, Research fellow, RMIT University Google and Facebook have launched a nationwide public relations campaign in response to the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission’s draft news media bargaining code. Rather than agree to negotiate with media companies to pay for using news content, Google has launched ... <a title="Platform regulation in Australia is just the start. Facebook and Google are fighting a global battle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/platform-regulation-in-australia-is-just-the-start-facebook-and-google-are-fighting-a-global-battle-145748/" aria-label="Read more about Platform regulation in Australia is just the start. Facebook and Google are fighting a global battle">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Schuijers, Research Fellow in Environmental Law, University of Melbourne On Tuesday, eight young Australians aged 13-17 filed a class action seeking an injunction to prevent federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley approving a new coal project expansion. They are bringing their case to the Federal Court. They ... <a title="These Aussie teens have launched a landmark climate case against the government. Win or lose, it’ll make a difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/these-aussie-teens-have-launched-a-landmark-climate-case-against-the-government-win-or-lose-itll-make-a-difference-145830/" aria-label="Read more about These Aussie teens have launched a landmark climate case against the government. Win or lose, it’ll make a difference">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland In another round of the increasingly bitter exchanges between China and Australia, a columnist for China’s Global Times, Yu Lei, suggested that a further decoupling from China will make former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s famous ... <a title="Relax, losing access to China won’t make us the ‘poor white trash of Asia’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/relax-losing-access-to-china-wont-make-us-the-poor-white-trash-of-asia-145442/" aria-label="Read more about Relax, losing access to China won’t make us the ‘poor white trash of Asia’">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Gill, Post-doctoral Researcher (Gastroenterology and Immunology), Monash University The Oxford vaccine trial at the centre of safety concerns this week highlights the idea that people’s immune systems respond to vaccines differently. We don’t yet know whether reports of immune complications in one or two trial participants ... <a title="5 ways our immune responses to COVID vaccines are unique" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/5-ways-our-immune-responses-to-covid-vaccines-are-unique-145248/" aria-label="Read more about 5 ways our immune responses to COVID vaccines are unique">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Narrelle Morris, Senior Lecturer, Curtin Law School, Curtin University A proposed law would give the federal government power to cancel arrangements between foreign governments and Australian states, territories, local councils and public universities. At first glance, it’s not meant to cover universities’ arrangements with all foreign universities. ... <a title="Why unis are worried about a federal power to cancel their foreign ‘arrangements’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/why-unis-are-worried-about-a-federal-power-to-cancel-their-foreign-arrangements-145689/" aria-label="Read more about Why unis are worried about a federal power to cancel their foreign ‘arrangements’">Read more</a>
