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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Laird, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong The New South Wales government has focused on delivering more motorways and rail links for Sydney, along with main roads in regional NSW, since the Coalition won office in 2011. The biggest of these, WestConnex, is still being built. ... <a title="Is another huge and costly road project really Sydney’s best option right now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/is-another-huge-and-costly-road-project-really-sydneys-best-option-right-now-136836/" aria-label="Read more about Is another huge and costly road project really Sydney’s best option right now?">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Denniss, Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Responding to COVID-19 required governments to make hard choices with enormous consequences. The biggest were whether to let the disease rip, lock it down, or strike out in search of a middle ground that delivered ... <a title="The big stimulus spending has just begun. Here’s how to get it right, quickly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/the-big-stimulus-spending-has-just-begun-heres-how-to-get-it-right-quickly-138414/" aria-label="Read more about The big stimulus spending has just begun. Here’s how to get it right, quickly">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meng Xia, PhD candidate on Literature, memory and trauma, UNSW Starting on January 25 2020, novelist and poet Fang Fang has posted 60 daily diary entries about life and death in her home town of Wuhan to WeChat, China’s most popular social media platform. Born in 1955, ... <a title="Fang Fang’s Wuhan diaries are a personal account of shared memory" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/fang-fangs-wuhan-diaries-are-a-personal-account-of-shared-memory-138007/" aria-label="Read more about Fang Fang’s Wuhan diaries are a personal account of shared memory">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Reaction to the New Zealand government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown has ranged from high praise to criticism that its actions were illegal and its management chaotic. Partly in response to the concerns, and to put ... <a title="Are New Zealand’s new COVID-19 laws and powers really a step towards a police state?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/are-new-zealands-new-covid-19-laws-and-powers-really-a-step-towards-a-police-state-138114/" aria-label="Read more about Are New Zealand’s new COVID-19 laws and powers really a step towards a police state?">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pippa Blackburn, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Griffith University, Qld, Griffith University Health-care staff are trained to deal with whatever comes through the hospital doors. But COVID-19 is a completely different ballgame. During this pandemic, health-care workers are facing traumatic experiences in both their professional and personal worlds. They ... <a title="Health-care workers share our trauma during the coronavirus pandemic – on top of their own" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/health-care-workers-share-our-trauma-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-on-top-of-their-own-137887/" aria-label="Read more about Health-care workers share our trauma during the coronavirus pandemic – on top of their own">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison wants employers and employees to come out of the COVID crisis with a new level of co-operation that delivers for both sides as well as boosting the economy. He’s set to outline his push for a compact with ... <a title="View from The Hill: Bill Kelty’s five-point plan for coming out of COVID – if Scott Morrison is looking for ideas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/view-from-the-hill-bill-keltys-five-point-plan-for-coming-out-of-covid-if-scott-morrison-is-looking-for-ideas-138848/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Bill Kelty’s five-point plan for coming out of COVID – if Scott Morrison is looking for ideas">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Markey, Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) last week announced its negotiated draft agreement with universities. The deal aims to save at least 12,000 university jobs at risk due to the COVID-19 pandemic in return for temporary salary reductions of between 5% ... <a title="Pay cuts to keep jobs: the tertiary education union’s deal with universities explained" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/pay-cuts-to-keep-jobs-the-tertiary-education-unions-deal-with-universities-explained-138623/" aria-label="Read more about Pay cuts to keep jobs: the tertiary education union’s deal with universities explained">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dinesh Kumar, Professor, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, RMIT University The Australian government’s contact-tracing app, COVIDSafe, has been touted as crucial for restarting the country’s economy and curbing COVID-19’s spread. But until more data are collected, it’s hard to estimate how effective the app will be. Nonetheless, there ... <a title="False positives, false negatives: it’s hard to say if the COVIDSafe app can overcome its shortcomings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/false-positives-false-negatives-its-hard-to-say-if-the-covidsafe-app-can-overcome-its-shortcomings-138129/" aria-label="Read more about False positives, false negatives: it’s hard to say if the COVIDSafe app can overcome its shortcomings">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne The latest Newspoll, conducted May 13-16 from a sample of 1,500, gave the Coalition a 51-49 lead, a one-point gain for the Coalition since the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes were 43% Coalition ... <a title="Coalition gains Newspoll lead as Labor ahead in Eden-Monaro; Trump’s ratings recover" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/coalition-gains-newspoll-lead-as-labor-ahead-in-eden-monaro-trumps-ratings-recover-138793/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition gains Newspoll lead as Labor ahead in Eden-Monaro; Trump’s ratings recover">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helena Steel, Lecturer HRM, PhD Candidate – Job loss, career adaptability & HRM interventions, Swinburne University of Technology As the COVID-19 economic crisis crimps travel and hurts airlines worldwide, Virgin Australia has been placed under external administrators. The Queensland government has put a $200m bid on it ... <a title="How to survive a crisis: what Virgin Australia staff can learn from ex-Ansett workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/how-to-survive-a-crisis-what-virgin-australia-staff-can-learn-from-ex-ansett-workers-138269/" aria-label="Read more about How to survive a crisis: what Virgin Australia staff can learn from ex-Ansett workers">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa A. Wheeler, Senior lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology It wasn’t the usual end to our staff meeting. This time, the head of our university department wrapped up the video conference by inviting her nine-year-old son to come and say hello to about a hundred colleagues. It ... <a title="Forget work-life balance – it’s all about integration in the age of COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/forget-work-life-balance-its-all-about-integration-in-the-age-of-covid-19-137386/" aria-label="Read more about Forget work-life balance – it’s all about integration in the age of COVID-19">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Duckett, Senior Lecturer in Screen, Deakin University Cineteca Milano is renowned for its silent film holdings. With a collection of more than 35,000 Italian and international films dating back to the 1890s, it was both coincidental and fortuitous that, in December 2019, the archive began digitalisation. ... <a title="International film archives are streaming up a storm during lockdown. Australia’s movie trove isn’t even online" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/international-film-archives-are-streaming-up-a-storm-during-lockdown-australias-movie-trove-isnt-even-online-137169/" aria-label="Read more about International film archives are streaming up a storm during lockdown. Australia’s movie trove isn’t even online">Read more</a>
