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November 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Murray, Research Fellow (Coastal Management), Griffith University Storms or tropical cyclones usually get the blame when Australia’s beaches suffer severe erosion. But on the New South Wales north coast at Byron Bay, another force is at play. Over the past six months, tourists and locals have ... <a title="One of Australia’s most famous beaches is disappearing, and storms aren’t to blame. So what’s the problem?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/25/one-of-australias-most-famous-beaches-is-disappearing-and-storms-arent-to-blame-so-whats-the-problem-150179/" aria-label="Read more about One of Australia’s most famous beaches is disappearing, and storms aren’t to blame. So what’s the problem?">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jed Montayre, Senior Lecturer (Nursing), Western Sydney University COVID-19 turned 2020 on its head for all healthcare workers, particularly those at the front line of the pandemic response. Unexpectedly, the need to control the spread of the coronavirus has consumed healthcare systems. The healthcare workforce’s pivotal role ... <a title="When health workers came up against COVID it laid bare gaps in their training" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/25/when-health-workers-came-up-against-covid-it-laid-bare-gaps-in-their-training-150289/" aria-label="Read more about When health workers came up against COVID it laid bare gaps in their training">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kadir Atalay, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Sydney Throughout the coronavirus recession we’ve been told there’s a balancing act when it comes to lives. On one hand, lockdowns save lives by limiting the spread of coronavirus. On the other, they are said to cost lives by ... <a title="So you think economic downturns cost lives? Our findings show they don’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/25/so-you-think-economic-downturns-cost-lives-our-findings-show-they-dont-149711/" aria-label="Read more about So you think economic downturns cost lives? Our findings show they don’t">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By T.J. Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Media, Queensland University of Technology Though we take a staggering number of photos each year (an estimated 1.43 trillion in 2020), we share relatively few of these and are using our cameras in different ways compared to the days ... <a title="I studied 5,000 phone images: objects were more popular than people, but women took way more selfies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/25/i-studied-5-000-phone-images-objects-were-more-popular-than-people-but-women-took-way-more-selfies-150080/" aria-label="Read more about I studied 5,000 phone images: objects were more popular than people, but women took way more selfies">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Apisalome Movono, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Massey University News of successful COVID-19 vaccine trials has raised hopes in the Pacific that the hard-hit tourism industry will begin to re-open in 2021. Even before the vaccine announcements, there was excitement in the Cook Islands over a recent ... <a title="Pacific tourism is desperate for a vaccine and travel freedoms, but the industry must learn from this crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/25/pacific-tourism-is-desperate-for-a-vaccine-and-travel-freedoms-but-the-industry-must-learn-from-this-crisis-150722/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific tourism is desperate for a vaccine and travel freedoms, but the industry must learn from this crisis">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Labor party will hold its national conference “virtually”, before Easter next year, Anthony Albanese has announced. The conference had been due to happen in Canberra next month but was put off due to COVID. But some in the party ... <a title="‘Virtual’ ALP national conference will maximise stage management" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/virtual-alp-national-conference-will-maximise-stage-management-150749/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Virtual’ ALP national conference will maximise stage management">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Wood, Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney AstraZeneca has become the latest pharmaceutical company to reveal promising results in clinical trials, for its viral vector vaccine developed with the University of Oxford. In a group given two full doses of the ... <a title="AstraZeneca’s results signal more good vaccine news — but efficacy is only the beginning of the story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/astrazenecas-results-signal-more-good-vaccine-news-but-efficacy-is-only-the-beginning-of-the-story-150732/" aria-label="Read more about AstraZeneca’s results signal more good vaccine news — but efficacy is only the beginning of the story">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
COMMENT: By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala in AucklandTomorrow – November 25 – is D-Day for Tahitian pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru’s trial in New Caledonia and advocates and activists across the Pacific are rallying in his support against the “colonial actions” taken by the French administration. Temaru requested this postponed date to enable him to ... <a title="Solidarity groups rally in support of Mā’ohi independence leader Temaru" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/solidarity-groups-rally-in-support-of-maohi-independence-leader-temaru/" aria-label="Read more about Solidarity groups rally in support of Mā’ohi independence leader Temaru">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
By Robert Iroga in Honiara A legal challenge will be filed in the High Court this week in a bid to block the Solomon Islands government’s decision to temporarily ban Facebook from the country. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare announced yesterday in Parliament that his government would push ahead with the temporary suspension, citing cyber-bullying, abuse ... <a title="Blogger Boso to file legal challenge to Sogavare over Facebook ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/blogger-boso-to-file-legal-challenge-to-sogavare-over-facebook-ban/" aria-label="Read more about Blogger Boso to file legal challenge to Sogavare over Facebook ban">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma Beale, PhD Candidate, Flinders University Over the course of a single week South Australia was plunged into one of the world’s strictest, and briefest, lockdowns. The drama, estimated to have cost the state’s economy A$100 million, came down to pizza – specifically, fears the state’s outbreak ... <a title="Hating on the Woodville Pizza guy won’t fix a problem that was entirely foreseeable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/hating-on-the-woodville-pizza-guy-wont-fix-a-problem-that-was-entirely-foreseeable-150650/" aria-label="Read more about Hating on the Woodville Pizza guy won’t fix a problem that was entirely foreseeable">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vinh To, Lecturer in English Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Tasmania Young children often write as they speak. But the way we speak and the way we write isn’t quite the same. When we speak, we often use many clauses (which include groups of words) in a ... <a title="Saying more with less: 4 ways grammatical metaphor improves academic writing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/saying-more-with-less-4-ways-grammatical-metaphor-improves-academic-writing-147103/" aria-label="Read more about Saying more with less: 4 ways grammatical metaphor improves academic writing">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Adelaide Grocon, the Australian construction empire that grew from the family concreting business started by Luigi Grollo in Melbourne in 1948, is on its last legs. But Grocon, the privately held property development empire headed by Luigi’s grandson Daniel ... <a title="News of the collapse of the Grocon empire is greatly exaggerated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/news-of-the-collapse-of-the-grocon-empire-is-greatly-exaggerated-150546/" aria-label="Read more about News of the collapse of the Grocon empire is greatly exaggerated">Read more</a>
