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July 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW As Victoria grapples with a second-wave outbreak of COVID-19, the importance of large-scale testing has again been highlighted. Without its “testing blitz” aiming at 10,000 tests a day, the extent of the outbreak would have been invisible for much longer. Read ... <a title="Vital Signs: 50,000 Australians a day are being tested for COVID-19. How to solve the maths that says the number should be 6.5 million" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/10/vital-signs-50-000-australians-a-day-are-being-tested-for-covid-19-how-to-solve-the-maths-that-says-the-number-should-be-6-5-million-142255/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: 50,000 Australians a day are being tested for COVID-19. How to solve the maths that says the number should be 6.5 million">Read more</a>
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July 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jean Burgess, Professor and Director, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Perhaps no single character has been as iconic a symbol of Twitter as the now-ubiquitous hashtag. The syntax of the hashtag has a few simple rules: it consists of the hash symbol (#) immediately ... <a title="Friday essay: Twitter and the way of the hashtag" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/10/friday-essay-twitter-and-the-way-of-the-hashtag-141693/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: Twitter and the way of the hashtag">Read more</a>
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July 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison summoned his self-restraint and resisted temptation. Invited on Thursday to attack the Victorian government over its disastrous decision to use private security guards to monitor people in hotel quarantine, the prime minister was careful. He hadn’t seen himself ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Does Victoria’s second wave suggest we should debate an elimination strategy?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/10/grattan-on-friday-does-victorias-second-wave-suggest-we-should-debate-an-elimination-strategy-142374/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Does Victoria’s second wave suggest we should debate an elimination strategy?">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Former Liberal Minister Christopher Pyne attracted critics for his political front. But he always had plenty of friends and networks, enabling him often to be a player, if not always a “fixer”. After his election to the South Australian seat ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Christopher Pyne on being ‘the ultimate insider’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/politics-with-michelle-grattan-christopher-pyne-on-being-the-ultimate-insider-142399/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Christopher Pyne on being ‘the ultimate insider’">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Reilly, Professor, University of Adelaide Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced new visa arrangements to help Hong Kong passport holders stay in Australia. This has the potential to impact thousands of Hong Kong visa holders, either already in Australia or overseas. Read more: Hong Kong activists ... <a title="Asylum or economic opportunity? The mixed messages in Australia’s new Hong Kong visa options" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/asylum-or-economic-opportunity-the-mixed-messages-in-australias-new-hong-kong-visa-options-142380/" aria-label="Read more about Asylum or economic opportunity? The mixed messages in Australia’s new Hong Kong visa options">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University The pandemic is prompting some Australian pregnant women to give birth at home without a midwife or registered health provider, according to a survey out this week. Another new survey helps ... <a title="During COVID-19, women are opting for ‘freebirthing’ if homebirths aren’t available. And that’s a worry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/during-covid-19-women-are-opting-for-freebirthing-if-homebirths-arent-available-and-thats-a-worry-142261/" aria-label="Read more about During COVID-19, women are opting for ‘freebirthing’ if homebirths aren’t available. And that’s a worry">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Stone, General practitioner; Clinical Associate Professor, ANU Medical School, Australian National University Metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire are beginning another six weeks of lockdown due to a spike in COVID-19 cases. While this second round of lockdown may bring the case numbers under control, its effects ... <a title="Melbourne’s second lockdown will take a toll on mental health. We need to look out for the vulnerable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/melbournes-second-lockdown-will-take-a-toll-on-mental-health-we-need-to-look-out-for-the-vulnerable-142172/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne’s second lockdown will take a toll on mental health. We need to look out for the vulnerable">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Debbie Bargallie, Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University The Morrison government has just announced a plan to boost the number of Indigenous Australians in the top ranks of the Australian Public Service. The plan may be well-intentioned, but it is also one in a long line of ... <a title="‘Tokenised, silenced’: new research reveals Indigenous public servants’ experiences of racism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/tokenised-silenced-new-research-reveals-indigenous-public-servants-experiences-of-racism-141372/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Tokenised, silenced’: new research reveals Indigenous public servants’ experiences of racism">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Russell Dean Christopher Bicknell, Post-doctoral researcher in Palaeobiology , University of New England If you ventured to the New York seaside in summer, you might see a large dome-shaped animal with a spiky tail, slowly moving towards the water. These are horseshoe crabs – the animals time ... <a title="‘Living fossils’: we mapped half a billion years of horseshoe crabs to save them from blood harvests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/living-fossils-we-mapped-half-a-billion-years-of-horseshoe-crabs-to-save-them-from-blood-harvests-141042/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Living fossils’: we mapped half a billion years of horseshoe crabs to save them from blood harvests">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Kamradt-Scott, Associate professor, University of Sydney This week US President Donald Trump made good on his threat to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organisation (WHO) by sending a formal letter of withdrawal to the UN Secretary-General. In so doing, the president has initiated ... <a title="Lives at ‘grave risk’: Trump’s withdrawal from the WHO is a hit to global health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/lives-at-grave-risk-trumps-withdrawal-from-the-who-is-a-hit-to-global-health-142266/" aria-label="Read more about Lives at ‘grave risk’: Trump’s withdrawal from the WHO is a hit to global health">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Molly Glassey, Digital Editor, The Conversation Live on YouTube from 3pm WIB, 5 pm WIT, 6pm AEST today (Thursday, July 9). Use this link to watch. For West Papuans in Indonesia and Indigenous Australians who live within systemic racism and oppression, #BlackLivesMatter resonated deeply. Join Elvira Rumkabu, ... <a title="Join us for #BlackLivesMatter in the Asia Pacific – a free, live-streamed event" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/join-us-for-blacklivesmatter-in-the-asia-pacific-a-free-live-streamed-event-142292/" aria-label="Read more about Join us for #BlackLivesMatter in the Asia Pacific – a free, live-streamed event">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Blyth, Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, University of Western Australia A Victorian teenager holidaying on the NSW South Coast has been diagnosed with COVID-19, NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant said on Wednesday. The revelation follows reports senior students at Al-Taqwa College in Melbourne ... <a title="Why children and teens with symptoms should get a COVID-19 test, even if you think it’s ‘just a cough’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/why-children-and-teens-with-symptoms-should-get-a-covid-19-test-even-if-you-think-its-just-a-cough-142276/" aria-label="Read more about Why children and teens with symptoms should get a COVID-19 test, even if you think it’s ‘just a cough’">Read more</a>
