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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It was a small thing but a revealing moment during Scott Morrison’s Wednesday interview on Nine’s Today show. Presenter Karl Stefanovic noticed Morrison seemed out of sorts, despite the government having delivered the night before a benign budget that was ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Is that the Coalition debt truck parked just past the election?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/grattan-on-friday-is-that-the-coalition-debt-truck-parked-just-past-the-election-160877/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Is that the Coalition debt truck parked just past the election?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A promise to set up a $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund to build social and affordable housing was the centrepiece of Anthony Albanese’s Thursday night budget reply. In the program’s first five years, the investment returns would build about ... <a title="‘Frontline workers’ among those to get priority in Albanese’s housing program" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/frontline-workers-among-those-to-get-priority-in-albaneses-housing-program-160882/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Frontline workers’ among those to get priority in Albanese’s housing program">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monica Slavin, Head, Department Infectious Diseases, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre This week we’ve seen reports of an infection called mucormycosis, often termed “black fungus”, in patients with COVID, or who are recovering from COVID, in India. Fungal infections can be devastating. And in ... <a title="What is mucormycosis, the fungal infection affecting COVID patients in India?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/what-is-mucormycosis-the-fungal-infection-affecting-covid-patients-in-india-160707/" aria-label="Read more about What is mucormycosis, the fungal infection affecting COVID patients in India?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Professor of International Health, Burnet Institute Urgent global action is needed to end the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for future threats, according to a new report by the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response. The panel, co-chaired by former New Zealand prime minister Helen ... <a title="Too late, already bolted: how a faster WHO response could have slowed COVID-19’s spread" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/too-late-already-bolted-how-a-faster-who-response-could-have-slowed-covid-19s-spread-160860/" aria-label="Read more about Too late, already bolted: how a faster WHO response could have slowed COVID-19’s spread">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Higgins, Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Refugees and asylum seekers will take little comfort from the 2021–22 budget. Resettlement places remain capped, while spending on offshore processing, immigration detention and deterrence measures remains high. For those still held offshore in Papua ... <a title="With billions more allocated to immigration detention, another bleak year for refugees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/with-billions-more-allocated-to-immigration-detention-another-bleak-year-for-refugees-160783/" aria-label="Read more about With billions more allocated to immigration detention, another bleak year for refugees">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Larkins, Professor Emeritus and Former Deputy Vice Chancellor, The University of Melbourne The 2021 federal budget has largely ignored the plight of Australian universities. The forward estimates even point to an overall decline, once adjusted for inflation, in Commonwealth direct funding for higher education through to ... <a title="Big-spending ‘recovery budget’ leaves universities out in the cold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/big-spending-recovery-budget-leaves-universities-out-in-the-cold-160439/" aria-label="Read more about Big-spending ‘recovery budget’ leaves universities out in the cold">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University The federal government’s budget announcements this week included nothing new for universities — an industry hit particularly hard by the pandemic border closures and loss of international students. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday night ... <a title="The 2021-22 budget has added salt to universities’ COVID wounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/the-2021-22-budget-has-added-salt-to-universities-covid-wounds-160862/" aria-label="Read more about The 2021-22 budget has added salt to universities’ COVID wounds">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Taylor, Early Career Research Leader, Emerging Viruses, Inflammation and Therapeutics Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University Overnight, Boston-based pharmaceutical company Moderna announced a new supply agreement with Australia for 25 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine. The deal includes ten million doses against the original ... <a title="What is the Moderna COVID vaccine? Does it work, and is it safe?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/what-is-the-moderna-covid-vaccine-does-it-work-and-is-it-safe-160859/" aria-label="Read more about What is the Moderna COVID vaccine? Does it work, and is it safe?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Fitzgerald, Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University A line in this week’s federal budget allocating A$288.5 million to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) therapy might pass most people by. This is a brain stimulation technique that’s been used to treat conditions such as depression for almost ten ... <a title="What is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and how does it actually work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/what-is-repetitive-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation-and-how-does-it-actually-work-160771/" aria-label="Read more about What is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and how does it actually work?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Driss Ait Ouakrim, Research Fellow, Population Interventions Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne This week’s budget assumes Australians will be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of the year, despite Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying ... <a title="No vaccine ‘targets’, but Australians could still be vaccinated by end of year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/no-vaccine-targets-but-australians-could-still-be-vaccinated-by-end-of-year-160786/" aria-label="Read more about No vaccine ‘targets’, but Australians could still be vaccinated by end of year">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Looking at other nations around the world, the path to cutting greenhouse gas emissions seems clear. First, develop wind and solar energy and battery storage to replace coal- and gas-fired electricity. Then, replace petrol and diesel cars ... <a title="The budget should have been a road to Australia’s low-emissions future. Instead, it’s a flight of fancy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/the-budget-should-have-been-a-road-to-australias-low-emissions-future-instead-its-a-flight-of-fancy-160775/" aria-label="Read more about The budget should have been a road to Australia’s low-emissions future. Instead, it’s a flight of fancy">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decison-Making and Society, UNSW Robots have fascinated cinema-goers ever since Fritz Lang’s ... <a title="The Mitchells vs The Machines shows ‘smart’ tech might be less of a threat to family bonds than we fear" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/the-mitchells-vs-the-machines-shows-smart-tech-might-be-less-of-a-threat-to-family-bonds-than-we-fear-160442/" aria-label="Read more about The Mitchells vs The Machines shows ‘smart’ tech might be less of a threat to family bonds than we fear">Read more</a>
