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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Crowe, Professor of Law, Bond University The Queensland government has quietly released the state Law Reform Commission’s long-awaited report on reforming the state’s controversial sexual consent laws. After much lobbying by survivors of sexual assault for comprehensive changes to the law, the recommendations are a huge ... <a title="Queensland rape law ‘loophole’ could remain after review ignores concerns about rape myths and consent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/queensland-rape-law-loophole-could-remain-after-review-ignores-concerns-about-rape-myths-and-consent-141772/" aria-label="Read more about Queensland rape law ‘loophole’ could remain after review ignores concerns about rape myths and consent">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeremy Moses, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Canterbury Perhaps predictably, last week’s announcement that Behrouz Boochani had been granted refugee status in New Zealand quickly became election campaign fodder. Both National Party leader Judith Collins and NZ First leader Winston Peters alluded to Boochani being ... <a title="Claims that Behrouz Boochani jumped the queue are a reminder of the dangers of anti-refugee politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/claims-that-behrouz-boochani-jumped-the-queue-are-a-reminder-of-the-dangers-of-anti-refugee-politics-143743/" aria-label="Read more about Claims that Behrouz Boochani jumped the queue are a reminder of the dangers of anti-refugee politics">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Klein, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University Australia is facing one of its biggest crises in unemployment since the Great Depression, and yet already, extra COVID-19 supports to the unemployed are being wound back. From today, the conditions around JobSeeker payment will get tougher for all job ... <a title="Australia has been stigmatising unemployed people for almost 100 years. COVID-19 is our big chance to change this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/australia-has-been-stigmatising-unemployed-people-for-almost-100-years-covid-19-is-our-big-chance-to-change-this-143349/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has been stigmatising unemployed people for almost 100 years. COVID-19 is our big chance to change this">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Mahoney, Senior Research Scientist, Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO The federal government recently announced 16 Closing the Gap targets, seen by some as a policy re-set for yet another “once in a generation” chance to address Indigenous disadvantage. But one barrier Indigenous people still face when ... <a title="Yes, we need to Close the Gap on health. But many patients won’t tell hospitals they’re Indigenous for fear of poorer care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/yes-we-need-to-close-the-gap-on-health-but-many-patients-wont-tell-hospitals-theyre-indigenous-for-fear-of-poorer-care-143678/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, we need to Close the Gap on health. But many patients won’t tell hospitals they’re Indigenous for fear of poorer care">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Siouxsie Wiles, Associate Professor in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Auckland The restrictions in place for metropolitan Melbourne now are in some ways stricter than those that were in force during New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown. A curfew is in place and most people have to wear ... <a title="‘An endless game of COVID-19 whack-a-mole’: a New Zealand expert on why Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown should cover all of Victoria" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/an-endless-game-of-covid-19-whack-a-mole-a-new-zealand-expert-on-why-melbournes-stage-4-lockdown-should-cover-all-of-victoria-143831/" aria-label="Read more about ‘An endless game of COVID-19 whack-a-mole’: a New Zealand expert on why Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown should cover all of Victoria">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Kindt, Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic. During the lockdown in Sydney, I turned to my shelf of well-loved books and ... <a title="‘The essential is invisible to the eye’: the wisdom of The Little Prince in lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/the-essential-is-invisible-to-the-eye-the-wisdom-of-the-little-prince-in-lockdown-143095/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The essential is invisible to the eye’: the wisdom of The Little Prince in lockdown">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hickie, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Sydney As Victorians face yet another long period of enforced lockdown, serious concerns are being raised about people’s capacity to comply with the new orders and the mental health impacts of such prolonged social isolation. The risks of being dispirited, ... <a title="As ‘lockdown fatigue’ sets in, the toll on mental health will require an urgent response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/as-lockdown-fatigue-sets-in-the-toll-on-mental-health-will-require-an-urgent-response-143817/" aria-label="Read more about As ‘lockdown fatigue’ sets in, the toll on mental health will require an urgent response">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hickie, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Sydney As Victorians face yet another long period of enforced lockdown, serious concerns are being raised about people’s capacity to comply with the new orders and the mental health impacts of such prolonged social isolation. The risks of being dispirited, ... <a title="As ‘lockdown fatigue’ sets in, the toll on mental health will require an urgent mental health response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/as-lockdown-fatigue-sets-in-the-toll-on-mental-health-will-require-an-urgent-mental-health-response-143817/" aria-label="Read more about As ‘lockdown fatigue’ sets in, the toll on mental health will require an urgent mental health response">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alicia Dennis, Associate Professor MBBS, PhD, MPH, PGDipEcho, FANZCA, University of Melbourne In Victoria, more than 1,100 health-care workers have now been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Some 11% of active cases are workers in the health-care sector. Health-care workers are reported to be ... <a title="PPE unmasked: why health-care workers in Australia are inadequately protected against coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/ppe-unmasked-why-health-care-workers-in-australia-are-inadequately-protected-against-coronavirus-143751/" aria-label="Read more about PPE unmasked: why health-care workers in Australia are inadequately protected against coronavirus">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthea Batsakis, Deputy Editor: Environment + Energy, The Conversation Weaving creative, heartfelt or even risqué words into the formal Latin names for new species has long been common in taxonomy — the science of classifying flora and fauna. An 18th century botanist, for example, named a genus ... <a title="From superheroes to the clitoris: 5 scientists tell the stories behind these species names" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/from-superheroes-to-the-clitoris-5-scientists-tell-the-stories-behind-these-species-names-142922/" aria-label="Read more about From superheroes to the clitoris: 5 scientists tell the stories behind these species names">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Vargo, Research Fellow in the Antarctic Research Centre, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Glaciers around the world are melting — and for the first time, we can now directly attribute annual ice loss to climate change. We analysed two years in which glaciers ... <a title="How climate change made the melting of New Zealand’s glaciers ten times more likely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/how-climate-change-made-the-melting-of-new-zealands-glaciers-ten-times-more-likely-143626/" aria-label="Read more about How climate change made the melting of New Zealand’s glaciers ten times more likely">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Phillips, Associate Professor in Education, James Cook University All Victorian school students will be learning remotely from Wednesday. Prior to the state’s premier Daniel Andrews announcing a tightening of restrictions over the weekend, only students in prep to Year 10 in Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire ... <a title="‘Exhausted beyond measure’: what teachers are saying about COVID-19 and the disruption to education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/exhausted-beyond-measure-what-teachers-are-saying-about-covid-19-and-the-disruption-to-education-143601/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Exhausted beyond measure’: what teachers are saying about COVID-19 and the disruption to education">Read more</a>
