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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peta-Anne Zimmerman, Senior Lecturer/Program Advisor Griffith Graduate Infection Prevention and Control Program, Griffith University On Monday the Victorian government announced an overhaul of the state’s hotel quarantine program. The government has introduced a new oversight agency, COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria, and crafted a “reset” of rules and regulations ... <a title="Victoria’s hotel quarantine overhaul is a step in the right direction, but issues remain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/victorias-hotel-quarantine-overhaul-is-a-step-in-the-right-direction-but-issues-remain-151101/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s hotel quarantine overhaul is a step in the right direction, but issues remain">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon C. Day, PSM, Post-career PhD candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University The Great Barrier Reef is now in “critical” condition and the health of four other Australian World Heritage properties has worsened, according to a sobering report just released by ... <a title="‘Severely threatened and deteriorating’: global authority on nature lists the Great Barrier Reef as critical" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/severely-threatened-and-deteriorating-global-authority-on-nature-lists-the-great-barrier-reef-as-critical-151275/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Severely threatened and deteriorating’: global authority on nature lists the Great Barrier Reef as critical">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Baxter, Fellow – Melbourne Law School; Senior Researcher – Climate Council; Associate – Australian-German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne Australia’s latest emissions data, released this week, contained one particularly startling, and unjustifiable, fact. Against all odds, in a year when emissions fell in almost ... <a title="‘Unjustifiable’: new report shows how the nation’s gas expansion puts Australians in harm’s way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/unjustifiable-new-report-shows-how-the-nations-gas-expansion-puts-australians-in-harms-way-151199/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Unjustifiable’: new report shows how the nation’s gas expansion puts Australians in harm’s way">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Ziguras, Professor of Global Studies, RMIT University The arrival at Darwin airport on Monday of 63 students from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia on a charter flight from Singapore ended an eight-month hiatus in international student arrivals in Australia. They are now in the ... <a title="How unis can use student housing to solve international student quarantine issues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/how-unis-can-use-student-housing-to-solve-international-student-quarantine-issues-150180/" aria-label="Read more about How unis can use student housing to solve international student quarantine issues">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Clements, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Sydney Many Australian cities have fallen back on offering free car parking to attract visitors back to the CBD after the pandemic. In contrast, cities around the world are basing their recovery strategies on ... <a title="Why Australian cities need post-COVID vision, not free parking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/why-australian-cities-need-post-covid-vision-not-free-parking-150380/" aria-label="Read more about Why Australian cities need post-COVID vision, not free parking">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica White, UQ Amplify Associate Lecturer, The University of Queensland Fiction and non-fiction works about disability and Deafness are often hampered by stereotypical representations. A disability is frequently presented as something to “overcome”, or used to characterise someone (ever notice all those evil characters portrayed as disfigured?). ... <a title="In our own voices: 5 Australian books about living with disability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/in-our-own-voices-5-australian-books-about-living-with-disability-150543/" aria-label="Read more about In our own voices: 5 Australian books about living with disability">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Chinese official Lijian Zhao’s tweeting an image depicting an Australian soldier holding a knife against a child’s throat and the subsequent angry exchanges is the latest incident in an exceptionally poor year for Australian-Chinese relations. Tensions deepened after Australia’s call ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Asia-Pacific expert Bates Gill on China’s endgame" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/politics-with-michelle-grattan-asia-pacific-expert-bates-gill-on-chinas-endgame-151292/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Asia-Pacific expert Bates Gill on China’s endgame">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University It’d be wrong to say that we are out of recession, although that’s how the graph of Wednesday’s GDP numbers makes it look. Gross domestic product (the measure of everything produced and earned and spent) ... <a title="It isn’t right to say we are out of recession, as these six graphs demonstrate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/it-isnt-right-to-say-we-are-out-of-recession-as-these-six-graphs-demonstrate-151210/" aria-label="Read more about It isn’t right to say we are out of recession, as these six graphs demonstrate">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Chalmers, Senior Lecturer in Pain Sciences, University of South Australia Cardi B’s song WAP and the Netflix show Sex Education place female orgasms on centre stage in popular culture. But female orgasms are also the subject of serious academic research. Here’s a snapshot of what research ... <a title="4 things about female orgasms researchers actually study" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/4-things-about-female-orgasms-researchers-actually-study-151015/" aria-label="Read more about 4 things about female orgasms researchers actually study">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chongyi Feng, Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology Sydney As the diplomatic fallout continues over the digitally altered war crimes tweet sent by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, earlier this week, it’s important to note this inflammatory and offensive post is not an isolated ... <a title="What’s behind China’s bullying of Australia? It sees a soft target — and an essential one" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/whats-behind-chinas-bullying-of-australia-it-sees-a-soft-target-and-an-essential-one-151273/" aria-label="Read more about What’s behind China’s bullying of Australia? It sees a soft target — and an essential one">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Bryant, Professor & Director of Traumatic Stress Clinic, UNSW A film being made about the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, which claimed 35 lives, has been criticised by Tasmanian politicians, survivors of the mass shooting, the local community and police. The film, to air next year on ... <a title="Is it wrong to make a film about the Port Arthur massacre? A trauma expert’s perspective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/is-it-wrong-to-make-a-film-about-the-port-arthur-massacre-a-trauma-experts-perspective-151277/" aria-label="Read more about Is it wrong to make a film about the Port Arthur massacre? A trauma expert’s perspective">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bernadette McSherry, Foundation Director, Melbourne Social Equity Institute and Professor of Law, University of Melbourne Louise Milligan’s new book, Witness, reports how traumatic the criminal justice system can be for victim-survivors of sexual assault. This is not the first time we have heard how official responses to ... <a title="‘What I had to say mattered’ — how can we provide justice for sexual assault victims beyond criminal trials?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/what-i-had-to-say-mattered-how-can-we-provide-justice-for-sexual-assault-victims-beyond-criminal-trials-150075/" aria-label="Read more about ‘What I had to say mattered’ — how can we provide justice for sexual assault victims beyond criminal trials?">Read more</a>
