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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Baker, Lecturer in Business Strategy, Auckland University of Technology Like the coronavirus itself, joblessness can act as a pestilence on a society. People who would have otherwise gone to their local restaurant, hairdresser, café or bar, taken a holiday in Queenstown or Taupo, or chosen to ... <a title="The market is not our master — only state-led business cooperation will drive real economic recovery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/the-market-is-not-our-master-only-state-led-business-cooperation-will-drive-real-economic-recovery-141532/" aria-label="Read more about The market is not our master — only state-led business cooperation will drive real economic recovery">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Mailhammer, Associate Dean, Research, Western Sydney University Remember when Australians paid in shillings and pence? New research suggests the words for these coins and other culturally important items and concepts are the result of close contact between the early Germanic people and the Carthaginian Empire more ... <a title="Shillings, gods and runes: clues in language suggest a Semitic superpower in ancient northern Europe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/shillings-gods-and-runes-clues-in-language-suggest-a-semitic-superpower-in-ancient-northern-europe-139381/" aria-label="Read more about Shillings, gods and runes: clues in language suggest a Semitic superpower in ancient northern Europe">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Developments in Melbourne on Saturday are more important, and certainly of more interest to the public, than what has happened in Eden-Monaro. Anthony Albanese is set to struggle over the line in the Labor seat, courtesy of preferences including from ... <a title="View from The Hill: Eden-Monaro’s status quo result pales next to Victoria’s COVID crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/05/view-from-the-hill-eden-monaros-status-quo-result-pales-next-to-victorias-covid-crisis-142036/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Eden-Monaro’s status quo result pales next to Victoria’s COVID crisis">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Russo, Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University The Victorian government’s decision to “close and contain” nine public housing towers in Flemington and North Melbourne represents a significant escalation in the fight against COVID-19. Under the stringent new rules, some 3,000 ... <a title="Nine Melbourne tower blocks put into ‘hard lockdown’ – what does it mean, and will it work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/05/nine-melbourne-tower-blocks-put-into-hard-lockdown-what-does-it-mean-and-will-it-work-142033/" aria-label="Read more about Nine Melbourne tower blocks put into ‘hard lockdown’ – what does it mean, and will it work?">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne This article was updated July 5. With 77% of enrolled voters counted at Saturday’s Eden-Monaro byelection, Labor’s Kristy McBain currently leads the Liberals’ Fiona Kotvojs by a 50.8-49.2 projected margin in The Poll Bludger’s Eden-Monaro ... <a title="Labor set to win Eden-Monaro; Andrews’s ratings fall in Victoria" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/05/labor-set-to-win-eden-monaro-andrewss-ratings-fall-in-victoria-141282/" aria-label="Read more about Labor set to win Eden-Monaro; Andrews’s ratings fall in Victoria">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne At Saturday’s Eden-Monaro byelection, Labor’s Kristy McBain currently leads the Liberals’ Fiona Kotvojs by a 50.7-49.3 projected margin in The Poll Bludger’s Eden-Monaro election page. This page has all the numbers, including booth by booth ... <a title="Labor likely to win Eden-Monaro; Andrews’s ratings fall in Victoria" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/05/labor-likely-to-win-eden-monaro-andrewss-ratings-fall-in-victoria-141282/" aria-label="Read more about Labor likely to win Eden-Monaro; Andrews’s ratings fall in Victoria">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW The term “heatwave” is no stranger to Australians. Defined as when conditions are excessively hot for at least three days in a row, these extreme temperature events have always punctuated our climate. With many of us in the thick of winter ... <a title="The world endured 2 extra heatwave days per decade since 1950 – but the worst is yet to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/the-world-endured-2-extra-heatwave-days-per-decade-since-1950-but-the-worst-is-yet-to-come-141983/" aria-label="Read more about The world endured 2 extra heatwave days per decade since 1950 – but the worst is yet to come">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barbara Mintzes, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney To beat the coronavirus pandemic, countries need to collaborate. We need the best possible science to develop vaccines and drugs, and to test, track and contain the virus. If we’ve learned anything from the rapid global spread ... <a title="The US has bought most of the world’s remdesivir. Here’s what it means for the rest of us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/the-us-has-bought-most-of-the-worlds-remdesivir-heres-what-it-means-for-the-rest-of-us-141791/" aria-label="Read more about The US has bought most of the world’s remdesivir. Here’s what it means for the rest of us">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Russell Dean Christopher Bicknell, Post-doctoral researcher in Palaeobiology , University of New England Let’s turn back the hands of time. Before extinction knocked dinosaurs off their pillar, before the “Great Dying” extinction wiped out 95% of all organisms – we had the Paleozoic Era. During this age ... <a title="Giant sea scorpions were the underwater titans of prehistoric Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/giant-sea-scorpions-were-the-underwater-titans-of-prehistoric-australia-141290/" aria-label="Read more about Giant sea scorpions were the underwater titans of prehistoric Australia">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Williams, Researcher at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), University of Sydney Last week, outgoing chief medical officer Brendan Murphy announced all returned travellers would be tested for COVID-19 before and after quarantine. Some were surprised testing was not already required. ... <a title="Why some people don’t want to take a COVID-19 test" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/why-some-people-dont-want-to-take-a-covid-19-test-141794/" aria-label="Read more about Why some people don’t want to take a COVID-19 test">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Clift, Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate, University of Melbourne In recent days, the prime ministers of the UK and Australia each declared they are working toward providing safe haven visas for Hong Kong residents. In the US, lawmakers passed a bill that would impose sanctions on ... <a title="Hong Kong activists now face a choice: stay silent, or flee the city. The world must give them a path to safety" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/hong-kong-activists-now-face-a-choice-stay-silent-or-flee-the-city-the-world-must-give-them-a-path-to-safety-141880/" aria-label="Read more about Hong Kong activists now face a choice: stay silent, or flee the city. The world must give them a path to safety">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gerard Fitzgerald, Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology The emergence of significant community transmission of COVID-19 in Melbourne over the past week is greatly concerning to the whole of Australia. Earlier this week, Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton said the state was ... <a title="Victoria’s coronavirus contact tracers are already under the pump. What happens next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/victorias-coronavirus-contact-tracers-are-already-under-the-pump-what-happens-next-141792/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s coronavirus contact tracers are already under the pump. What happens next?">Read more</a>
