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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute Australia has an historic opportunity to build a new, export-focused manufacturing sector based on renewable energy. As a bonus, it could enable a less politically fraught conversation about climate change. Global action on climate change is in Australia’s national interest. ... <a title="Australians want industry, and they’d like it green. Steel is the place to start" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/australians-want-industry-and-theyd-like-it-green-steel-is-the-place-to-start-137999/" aria-label="Read more about Australians want industry, and they’d like it green. Steel is the place to start">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Blakely, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Melbourne The federal government has laid out a three-step guide for the states and territories for relaxing the physical distancing measures that have served Australia so well. We need to get back to school, work and play. Australia is one ... <a title="The stepped approach out of lockdown is the only way forward, but how much we’ll allow the curve to rise is still an unknown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/the-stepped-approach-out-of-lockdown-is-the-only-way-forward-but-how-much-well-allow-the-curve-to-rise-is-still-an-unknown-138260/" aria-label="Read more about The stepped approach out of lockdown is the only way forward, but how much we’ll allow the curve to rise is still an unknown">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Sheehan, Lecturer in the Sociology of Gender and Program Director of Gender Studies, Macquarie University Little Richard was washing dishes at a Greyhound bus station in Macon, Georgia when he wrote Tutti Frutti, Good Golly Miss Molly and Long Tall Sally. The singer, who died Saturday ... <a title="A-lop-bam-boom: Little Richard’s saucy style underpins today’s hits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/a-lop-bam-boom-little-richards-saucy-style-underpins-todays-hits-138263/" aria-label="Read more about A-lop-bam-boom: Little Richard’s saucy style underpins today’s hits">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The Reserve Bank’s long-awaited two-year forecasts for jobs, wages and growth are frightening, but I fear they are not frightening enough. The bank looks two years ahead every three months. The last set of forecasts, ... <a title="The Reserve Bank thinks the recovery will look V-shaped. There are reasons to doubt it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/09/the-reserve-bank-thinks-the-recovery-will-look-v-shaped-there-are-reasons-to-doubt-it-138213/" aria-label="Read more about The Reserve Bank thinks the recovery will look V-shaped. There are reasons to doubt it">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has warned of a potentially rocky road as COVID restrictions are lifted to reopen the economy, saying the process must proceed even in the face of expected fresh outbreaks. “This is a complex and very uncertain environment. But ... <a title="Australia starts to re-open, but the premiers have the whip hand on timing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/australia-starts-to-re-open-but-the-premiers-have-the-whip-hand-on-timing-138218/" aria-label="Read more about Australia starts to re-open, but the premiers have the whip hand on timing">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Quinn, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University This week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced it will donate A$10 million to help fund an Australian trial testing whether a very old vaccine, BCG, can be used against a new threat, ... <a title="Could BCG, a 100-year-old vaccine for tuberculosis, protect against coronavirus?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/could-bcg-a-100-year-old-vaccine-for-tuberculosis-protect-against-coronavirus-138006/" aria-label="Read more about Could BCG, a 100-year-old vaccine for tuberculosis, protect against coronavirus?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University Today, the federal court ruled feral horses can be removed from the Victorian high country. The case was brought by the Australian Brumby Alliance against the Victorian Government in 2018. Since then, the strategic management plan for feral horses ... <a title="National parks are for native wildlife, not feral horses: federal court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/national-parks-are-for-native-wildlife-not-feral-horses-federal-court-138204/" aria-label="Read more about National parks are for native wildlife, not feral horses: federal court">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology As New Zealand approaches the end of its strictest lockdown period, a debate has begun about whether it was legal in the first place. This is important because people are being prosecuted for breaching the lockdown. Naturally, lawyers ... <a title="Was New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown legal? One week might make all the difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/was-new-zealands-coronavirus-lockdown-legal-one-week-might-make-all-the-difference-138203/" aria-label="Read more about Was New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown legal? One week might make all the difference">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherine Fahd, Director Photography, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney There are images of her everywhere, especially as Mother’s Day draws near. As two photographers who happen to be mothers, we think critically about the way photography overly determines the image of “The Mother”. One iconic ... <a title="From hidden women to influencers and individuals – putting mothers in the frame" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/from-hidden-women-to-influencers-and-individuals-putting-mothers-in-the-frame-137702/" aria-label="Read more about From hidden women to influencers and individuals – putting mothers in the frame">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christine Carson, Senior Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia As the end of the second world war neared, mass production of the newly developed antibiotic penicillin enabled life-saving treatment of bacterial infections in wounded soldiers. Since then, penicillin and many other antibiotics have ... <a title="Why are there so many drugs to kill bacteria, but so few to tackle viruses?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/why-are-there-so-many-drugs-to-kill-bacteria-but-so-few-to-tackle-viruses-137480/" aria-label="Read more about Why are there so many drugs to kill bacteria, but so few to tackle viruses?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University As Australia contemplates its post-COVID economy, industrial relations reform has been repackaged by some as the way to “kickstart” growth. The Business Council of Australia (BCA) has called for our workplace relations system ... <a title="We should simplify our industrial relations system, but not in the way big business wants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/we-should-simplify-our-industrial-relations-system-but-not-in-the-way-big-business-wants-137607/" aria-label="Read more about We should simplify our industrial relations system, but not in the way big business wants">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Casswell, Professor of public health policy, Massey University New Zealand has won international praise for its strict lockdown conditions and public health response to COVID-19, but there’s one glaring blindspot. Last month, the World Health Organization released a new factsheet on alcohol and COVID-19, warning that ... <a title="Alcohol can make coronavirus worse – so why was it treated as ‘essential’ in New Zealand’s lockdown?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/alcohol-can-make-coronavirus-worse-so-why-was-it-treated-as-essential-in-new-zealands-lockdown-137698/" aria-label="Read more about Alcohol can make coronavirus worse – so why was it treated as ‘essential’ in New Zealand’s lockdown?">Read more</a>
