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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charlene Zietsma, Associate professor, Pennsylvania State University In May this year, we were convening a dream conference: 140 like-minded academics on a Greek island for three-and-a-half days to work on a topic we cared about – organising sustainably. We recognised the contradiction of travelling to Crete to ... <a title="COVID-19 forced us to move a conference from a Greek island to the web — and quickly. Here’s what we learnt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/covid-19-forced-us-to-move-a-conference-from-a-greek-island-to-the-web-and-quickly-heres-what-we-learnt-140634/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 forced us to move a conference from a Greek island to the web — and quickly. Here’s what we learnt">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marina Yue Zhang, Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology Only 40% of students in China who previously intended to study overseas still plan to, while just under 50% of those who had studied overseas plan to return to their study after the borders ... <a title="Students in China heed their government’s warnings against studying in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/students-in-china-heed-their-governments-warnings-against-studying-in-australia-141871/" aria-label="Read more about Students in China heed their government’s warnings against studying in Australia">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bjorn Sturmberg, Research Leader, Battery Storage & Grid Integration Program, Australian National University Electric vehicles can help keep the air clean in our cities – as we’ve seen recently with the reduction of traffic through COVID-19 lockdowns – but they face two obstacles. In the short term ... <a title="Owners of electric vehicles to be paid to plug into the grid to help avoid blackouts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/owners-of-electric-vehicles-to-be-paid-to-plug-into-the-grid-to-help-avoid-blackouts-132519/" aria-label="Read more about Owners of electric vehicles to be paid to plug into the grid to help avoid blackouts">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University In an age of isolation, video sharing platform TikTok has emerged as a bonding force for many. But recent headlines allege the service, owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance, is feeding users’ data to the Chinese Communist Party. ... <a title="China could be using TikTok to spy on Australians, but banning it isn’t a simple fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/china-could-be-using-tiktok-to-spy-on-australians-but-banning-it-isnt-a-simple-fix-142157/" aria-label="Read more about China could be using TikTok to spy on Australians, but banning it isn’t a simple fix">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kingsley Dixon, John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University This article is a preview from Flora, Fauna, Fire, a multimedia project launching on Monday July 13. The project tracks the recovery of Australia’s native plants and animals after last summer’s bushfire tragedy. Sign up to The Conversation’s newsletter ... <a title="After last summer’s fires, the bell tolls for Australia’s endangered mountain bells" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/after-last-summers-fires-the-bell-tolls-for-australias-endangered-mountain-bells-139665/" aria-label="Read more about After last summer’s fires, the bell tolls for Australia’s endangered mountain bells">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Shulmeister, Professor, University of Canterbury CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz ... <a title="Climate explained: what the world was like the last time carbon dioxide levels were at 400ppm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/climate-explained-what-the-world-was-like-the-last-time-carbon-dioxide-levels-were-at-400ppm-141784/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: what the world was like the last time carbon dioxide levels were at 400ppm">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dallas Rogers, Associate Dean, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney A target of 70% private and 30% public dwellings is an accepted standard for public housing renewal projects in several Australian states. This level of private ownership is said to be necessary to counter ... <a title="Public housing ‘renewal’ likely to drive shift to private renters, not owners, in Sydney" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/public-housing-renewal-likely-to-drive-shift-to-private-renters-not-owners-in-sydney-133352/" aria-label="Read more about Public housing ‘renewal’ likely to drive shift to private renters, not owners, in Sydney">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Lacey, Senior Lecturer in International Trade, University of Adelaide When the United Kingdom completed its telecom supply chain review last year it gave a green light to Huawei by concluding that nationality-based bans did nothing to improve network security and could actually harm it by weakening ... <a title="Huawei’s window of opportunity closes: how geopolitics triumphed over technology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/huaweis-window-of-opportunity-closes-how-geopolitics-triumphed-over-technology-142158/" aria-label="Read more about Huawei’s window of opportunity closes: how geopolitics triumphed over technology">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison M Joubert, Lecturer in Marketing, The University of Queensland Cancel culture — withdrawing support for public figures when they do or say something offensive — has become so widespread it was Macquarie Dictionary’s 2019 word of the year. A practice where people come together to remove ... <a title="Celebrities can be cancelled. Fandoms are forever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/celebrities-can-be-cancelled-fandoms-are-forever-141775/" aria-label="Read more about Celebrities can be cancelled. Fandoms are forever">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Fastnedge, Lecturer in Advertising Creativity, Auckland University of Technology When the New Zealand government wanted a campaign to keep kids safe online, naturally it turned to a couple of naked porn actors to get the message across. Actually the government turned to video advertising agency Motion ... <a title="Small budgets, big ideas — what a viral adult film awareness campaign tells us about New Zealand advertising" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/small-budgets-big-ideas-what-a-viral-adult-film-awareness-campaign-tells-us-about-new-zealand-advertising-141529/" aria-label="Read more about Small budgets, big ideas — what a viral adult film awareness campaign tells us about New Zealand advertising">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary-Louise McLaws, Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW From midnight Wednesday, all of Metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire will return to Stage 3 lockdown for six weeks. There are only four reasons for residents to leave their homes: shopping for essentials, care-giving, exercise, ... <a title="Melbourne’s lockdown came too late. It’s time to consider moving infected people outside the home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/07/melbournes-lockdown-came-too-late-its-time-to-consider-moving-infected-people-outside-the-home-142162/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne’s lockdown came too late. It’s time to consider moving infected people outside the home">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Vaz, Senior Lecturer, Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University The reimposition of stage 3 restrictions on metropolitan Melbourne is, as Victorian premier Daniel Andrews says, a matter of life or death. That’s also true for small businesses. A further six weeks of stay-at-home orders for ... <a title="Melbourne’s second lockdown spells death for small businesses. Here are 3 things government can do to save them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/07/melbournes-second-lockdown-spells-death-for-small-businesses-here-are-3-things-government-can-do-to-save-them-142173/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne’s second lockdown spells death for small businesses. Here are 3 things government can do to save them">Read more</a>
