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May 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erica Millar, Lecturer, La Trobe University The COVID-19 crisis has starkly revealed the patchy and precarious provision of abortion in Australia, deepening existing inequalities in access. What was already an expensive procedure may be even less attainable for many women facing financial strain during the pandemic. Meanwhile, ... <a title="Getting an abortion just got harder, thanks to the coronavirus. Here’s what we can do better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/getting-an-abortion-just-got-harder-thanks-to-the-coronavirus-heres-what-we-can-do-better-138110/" aria-label="Read more about Getting an abortion just got harder, thanks to the coronavirus. Here’s what we can do better">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judith Godden, Honorary Associate, Department of History, University of Sydney Florence Nightingale’s birth on May 12, 1820, is commemorated as International Nurses Day, honouring her founding role in modern nursing. Today would be her 200th birthday, so expect to hear even more about her. Yet mention her ... <a title="Which Florence Nightingale will we remember today? The ‘Lady with the Lamp’ or the influential writer and activist?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/which-florence-nightingale-will-we-remember-today-the-lady-with-the-lamp-or-the-influential-writer-and-activist-136497/" aria-label="Read more about Which Florence Nightingale will we remember today? The ‘Lady with the Lamp’ or the influential writer and activist?">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Currell, Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University Australia’s relative success in stopping the spread of COVID-19 is largely due governments taking expert advice on a complex problem. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of decisions on projects that threaten the environment – ... <a title="Australia listened to the science on coronavirus. Imagine if we did the same for coal mining" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/australia-listened-to-the-science-on-coronavirus-imagine-if-we-did-the-same-for-coal-mining-138212/" aria-label="Read more about Australia listened to the science on coronavirus. Imagine if we did the same for coal mining">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Pawson, Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Australians had become used to walking past rough sleepers. Policymakers too, seemed unmoved by the people huddled in doorways or sheltering in parks under plastic sheets. That’s until the COVID-19 pandemic ... <a title="Coronavirus lays bare 5 big housing system flaws to be fixed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/coronavirus-lays-bare-5-big-housing-system-flaws-to-be-fixed-137162/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus lays bare 5 big housing system flaws to be fixed">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joseph L Tomkins, Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology, University of Western Australia When a mother gives birth to twins, the offspring are not always identical or even the same gender. Known as fraternal twins, they represent a longstanding evolutionary puzzle. Identical twins arise from a single fertilised ... <a title="Not all twins are identical and that’s been an evolutionary puzzle, until now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/not-all-twins-are-identical-and-thats-been-an-evolutionary-puzzle-until-now-138209/" aria-label="Read more about Not all twins are identical and that’s been an evolutionary puzzle, until now">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Richardson, Associate professor, Australian National University When you’re in a medical emergency, you don’t typically think of calling a statistician. However, the COVID-19 outbreak has shown just how necessary a clear understanding of data and modelling is to help prevent the spread of disease. One person ... <a title="The healing power of data: Florence Nightingale’s true legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/the-healing-power-of-data-florence-nightingales-true-legacy-134649/" aria-label="Read more about The healing power of data: Florence Nightingale’s true legacy">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Bisley, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, La Trobe University Even before the COVID-19 crisis upended the world, US-China relations had entered a particularly mistrustful and combative period. While the mutual antagonism predated the Trump administration – ... <a title="US-China relations were already heated. Then coronavirus threw fuel on the flames" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/us-china-relations-were-already-heated-then-coronavirus-threw-fuel-on-the-flames-137886/" aria-label="Read more about US-China relations were already heated. Then coronavirus threw fuel on the flames">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Belgrave, Professor History, Massey University New Zealand’s 2020 budget will be one of the most significant in the country’s history. Whatever its content, it will be remembered alongside those of 1938 and 1991 as a pivotal event. For any minister of finance, the stakes have never ... <a title="The ghosts of budgets past haunt New Zealand’s shot at economic recovery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/the-ghosts-of-budgets-past-haunt-new-zealands-shot-at-economic-recovery-138290/" aria-label="Read more about The ghosts of budgets past haunt New Zealand’s shot at economic recovery">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Improved demand including in the retail sector and the re-opening of schools will be the largest contributors to an estimated $9.4 billion monthly rise in GDP from the planned three-stage lifting of COVID restrictions, according to Treasury estimates. The first ... <a title="First stage of ‘road back’ will boost monthly GDP by $3.1 billion and jobs by 252,500: Frydenberg" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/first-stage-of-road-back-will-boost-monthly-gdp-by-3-1-billion-and-jobs-by-252-500-frydenberg-138330/" aria-label="Read more about First stage of ‘road back’ will boost monthly GDP by $3.1 billion and jobs by 252,500: Frydenberg">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Tochka, Head of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Melbourne When he landed in Australia in October 1957, Little Richard should have been on top of the world. In just two years, the wild showman had traded the chitlin’ circuit for an international audience. Instead, he was ... <a title="Rock and roll and nuclear weapons: how the Cold War shaped Little Richard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/rock-and-roll-and-nuclear-weapons-how-the-cold-war-shaped-little-richard-138295/" aria-label="Read more about Rock and roll and nuclear weapons: how the Cold War shaped Little Richard">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Weihuan Zhou, Senior Lecturer and member of Herbert Smith Freehills CIBEL Centre, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Australia’s surprising call for an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus in China has provoked escalating threats of retaliation by China. China started with a warning that Australia’s ... <a title="China might well refuse to take our barley, and there would be little we could do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/china-might-well-refuse-to-take-our-barley-and-there-would-be-little-we-could-do-138267/" aria-label="Read more about China might well refuse to take our barley, and there would be little we could do">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Associate Professor in Biogeography, University of Melbourne If you go to the Surrey Hills of northwest Tasmania, you’ll see a temperate rainforest dominated by sprawling trees with genetic links going back millions of years. It’s a forest type many consider to be ancient “wilderness”. But ... <a title="This rainforest was once a grassland savanna maintained by Aboriginal people – until colonisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/this-rainforest-was-once-a-grassland-savanna-maintained-by-aboriginal-people-until-colonisation-138289/" aria-label="Read more about This rainforest was once a grassland savanna maintained by Aboriginal people – until colonisation">Read more</a>
