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November 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoë Hyde, Epidemiologist, University of Western Australia The role children, and consequently schools, play in the COVID-19 pandemic has been hard to work out, but that puzzle is now finally starting to be solved. The latest research shows infections in children frequently go undetected, and that children ... <a title="Children may transmit coronavirus at the same rate as adults: what we now know about schools and COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/children-may-transmit-coronavirus-at-the-same-rate-as-adults-what-we-now-know-about-schools-and-covid-19-150523/" aria-label="Read more about Children may transmit coronavirus at the same rate as adults: what we now know about schools and COVID-19">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Wallis, Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland The idea of moving to the country has gained momentum through the COVID-19 pandemic. Many workplaces have introduced new policies on working from home that give employees the flexibility needed to make the switch. Lockdowns have shown many just how ... <a title="It seemed like a good idea in lockdown, but is moving to the country right for you?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-in-lockdown-but-is-moving-to-the-country-right-for-you-148807/" aria-label="Read more about It seemed like a good idea in lockdown, but is moving to the country right for you?">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Freebairn, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne In tax design as in many endeavours, it’s easy to work out how things should be; harder to work out how to get there. In NSW, Treasurer Dominic Perrottet wants to replace the one-off stamp duty on real ... <a title="Axing stamp duty is a great idea, but NSW is going about it the wrong way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/axing-stamp-duty-is-a-great-idea-but-nsw-is-going-about-it-the-wrong-way-150629/" aria-label="Read more about Axing stamp duty is a great idea, but NSW is going about it the wrong way">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Higham, Professor of Tourism, University of Otago Raise your hand if you’ve ever travelled for weeks or months as a backpacker on a limited daily budget. Keep your hand up if you were made welcome in the places you visited on your OE, enjoyed chance encounters ... <a title="5 reasons why banishing backpackers and targeting wealthy tourists would be a mistake for NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/5-reasons-why-banishing-backpackers-and-targeting-wealthy-tourists-would-be-a-mistake-for-nz-150639/" aria-label="Read more about 5 reasons why banishing backpackers and targeting wealthy tourists would be a mistake for NZ">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Giblin, ARC Future Fellow; Associate Professor; Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, University of Melbourne Many culturally important books by Australian authors are out of print, hard to find as secondhand copies, and confined to the physical shelves of a limited number of libraries. Effectively, ... <a title="10 ‘lost’ Australian literary treasures you should read – and can soon borrow from any library" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/10-lost-australian-literary-treasures-you-should-read-and-can-soon-borrow-from-any-library-150280/" aria-label="Read more about 10 ‘lost’ Australian literary treasures you should read – and can soon borrow from any library">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australia’s actions should not be seen just through the lens of the strategic competition between China and the United States, Scott Morrison has said in a speech rejecting “binary choices”. With China casting Australia as an extension of America, disrupting ... <a title="Scott Morrison’s message to China: Don’t pigeonhole us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/scott-morrisons-message-to-china-dont-pigeonhole-us-150663/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison’s message to China: Don’t pigeonhole us">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Victorian government plans a pilot scheme for up to five days sick and carer’s pay, at the national minimum wage, for casuals or insecure workers in priority industries. Even though the initiative is at a very early stage, with ... <a title="Daniel Andrews plans pilot for casual workers’ sick pay but Morrison government critical" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/23/daniel-andrews-plans-pilot-for-casual-workers-sick-pay-but-morrison-government-critical-150648/" aria-label="Read more about Daniel Andrews plans pilot for casual workers’ sick pay but Morrison government critical">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roberto Musotto, Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre Postdoctoral Fellow, Edith Cowan University It’s no secret the trail of data we leave online can reveal intimate details about our lives. And there are myriad people whose job it is to collect and sift through this, often with a ... <a title="Prosecuting within complex criminal networks is hard. Data analysis could save the courts precious time and money" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/23/prosecuting-within-complex-criminal-networks-is-hard-data-analysis-could-save-the-courts-precious-time-and-money-150087/" aria-label="Read more about Prosecuting within complex criminal networks is hard. Data analysis could save the courts precious time and money">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charlotte Ganderton, Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Swinburne University of Technology Many of us might not be as fit as we were before the pandemic hit, and as community sport restarts and gyms reopen across the country amid eased coronavirus restrictions, some people might be at increased ... <a title="Physio, chiro, osteo and myo: what’s the difference and which one should I get?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/23/physio-chiro-osteo-and-myo-whats-the-difference-and-which-one-should-i-get-149993/" aria-label="Read more about Physio, chiro, osteo and myo: what’s the difference and which one should I get?">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Churchill, Research Fellow in Sociology, University of Melbourne The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been so profound, particularly for women, that it threatens to upend the progress on gender equality in recent years. During the lockdown, women were doing more of the unpaid labour ... <a title="No one escaped COVID’s impacts, but big fall in tertiary enrolments was 80% women. Why?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/23/no-one-escaped-covids-impacts-but-big-fall-in-tertiary-enrolments-was-80-women-why-149994/" aria-label="Read more about No one escaped COVID’s impacts, but big fall in tertiary enrolments was 80% women. Why?">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Dalziell, Associate Professor, English and Literary Studies, University of Western Australia In a new series, writers pay tribute to fictional detectives on page and on screen. Trixie Belden, girl detective, does not rank in the world’s pantheon of cool sleuths. She’s unlikely to appear in a ... <a title="My favourite detective: Trixie Belden, the uncool girl sleuth with a sensitive moral compass" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/23/my-favourite-detective-trixie-belden-the-uncool-girl-sleuth-with-a-sensitive-moral-compass-149624/" aria-label="Read more about My favourite detective: Trixie Belden, the uncool girl sleuth with a sensitive moral compass">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Glasziou, Professor of Medicine, Bond University In controlled laboratory situations, face masks appear to do a good job of reducing the spread of coronavirus (at least in hamsters) and other respiratory viruses. However, evidence shows mask-wearing policies seem to have had much less impact on the ... <a title="Face masks cut disease spread in the lab, but have less impact in the community. We need to know why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/23/face-masks-cut-disease-spread-in-the-lab-but-have-less-impact-in-the-community-we-need-to-know-why-147912/" aria-label="Read more about Face masks cut disease spread in the lab, but have less impact in the community. We need to know why">Read more</a>
