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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michaela Pascoe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mental Health, Victoria University Don’t shake hands, don’t high-five, and definitely don’t hug. We’ve been bombarded with these messages during the pandemic as a way to slow the spread of COVID-19, meaning we may not have hugged our friends and family ... <a title="Miss hugs? Touch forms bonds and boosts immune systems. Here’s how to cope without it during coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/miss-hugs-touch-forms-bonds-and-boosts-immune-systems-heres-how-to-cope-without-it-during-coronavirus-137612/" aria-label="Read more about Miss hugs? Touch forms bonds and boosts immune systems. Here’s how to cope without it during coronavirus">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Hamilton, Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University JobKeeper was always quick and dirty. Its design was far from perfect, with shortcomings I and others cautioned against. These were forgiven in the face of an impending calamity, but ... <a title="How to tweak JobKeeper, if we must" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/how-to-tweak-jobkeeper-if-we-must-138321/" aria-label="Read more about How to tweak JobKeeper, if we must">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Plekhanova, Lecturer, Massey University The New Zealand government’s recently announced NZ$50 million subsidy package to support local media was necessary and urgent – even if it came too late to save the Bauer magazine titles from closing. But the injection of government cash did not address ... <a title="Google and Facebook pay way less tax in New Zealand than in Australia – and we’re paying the price" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/google-and-facebook-pay-way-less-tax-in-new-zealand-than-in-australia-and-were-paying-the-price-137075/" aria-label="Read more about Google and Facebook pay way less tax in New Zealand than in Australia – and we’re paying the price">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Winnifred Louis, Professor, Social Psychology, The University of Queensland The coronavirus restrictions are slowly being eased but the pressures on families at home still probably lead to many tears of frustration. It could be tensions about noise and clutter, keeping up with home schooling and mums and ... <a title="How to stay calm and manage those family tensions during the coronavirus lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/how-to-stay-calm-and-manage-those-family-tensions-during-the-coronavirus-lockdown-137166/" aria-label="Read more about How to stay calm and manage those family tensions during the coronavirus lockdown">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katja Lee, Lecturer, Communication and Media Studies, University of Western Australia If you need confirmation of how much the world has changed, consider this. Finally I have a thing or two to teach Matthew McConaughey about performance. McConaughey may have acted in more than 50 movies. He ... <a title="Hide self: one tip on video conferencing good enough for Matthew McConaughey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/hide-self-one-tip-on-video-conferencing-good-enough-for-matthew-mcconaughey-136609/" aria-label="Read more about Hide self: one tip on video conferencing good enough for Matthew McConaughey">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australians have been told they can no longer be “heroes” and go to work if they have a cold. During Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s press conference last week announcing plans to re-open the economy, workers were ... <a title="If we want workers to stay home when sick, we need paid leave for casuals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/if-we-want-workers-to-stay-home-when-sick-we-need-paid-leave-for-casuals-138431/" aria-label="Read more about If we want workers to stay home when sick, we need paid leave for casuals">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Dane, Lecturer, University of Melbourne Australia’s literary journals are produced in a fragile ecosystem propped up by a patchwork of volunteer labour, generous patrons and, with any luck, a small slice of government funding. The Sydney Review of Books, the Australian Book Review and Overland were ... <a title="Literary magazines are often the first place new authors are published. We can’t lose them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/literary-magazines-are-often-the-first-place-new-authors-are-published-we-cant-lose-them-137900/" aria-label="Read more about Literary magazines are often the first place new authors are published. We can’t lose them">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW As Australia’s coronavirus restrictions are gradually lifted, we may well see an upswing in cases of COVID-19. The World Health Organisation has warned of the need for “extreme vigilance” in ... <a title="As restrictions ease, here are 5 crucial ways for Australia to stay safely on top of COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/as-restrictions-ease-here-are-5-crucial-ways-for-australia-to-stay-safely-on-top-of-covid-19-138000/" aria-label="Read more about As restrictions ease, here are 5 crucial ways for Australia to stay safely on top of COVID-19">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elek Pafka, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Urban Design, University of Melbourne The coronavirus pandemic has left many people questioning the relationship between urban density and healthy cities. After all, physical distancing has been the most common measure to contain the spread of the virus. But this ... <a title="As coronavirus forces us to keep our distance, city density matters less than internal density" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/as-coronavirus-forces-us-to-keep-our-distance-city-density-matters-less-than-internal-density-137790/" aria-label="Read more about As coronavirus forces us to keep our distance, city density matters less than internal density">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Slonim, Professor of Economics, University of Sydney It’s 18 days since the government launched its digital contact-tracing app COVIDSafe. The latest figure we have for downloads is 5.4 million, on May 8, about 29% of smartphone users aged 14 and over. My own mini-survey suggests that ... <a title="In some places 40% of us may have downloaded COVIDSafe. Here’s why the government should share what it knows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/in-some-places-40-of-us-may-have-downloaded-covidsafe-heres-why-the-government-should-share-what-it-knows-138323/" aria-label="Read more about In some places 40% of us may have downloaded COVIDSafe. Here’s why the government should share what it knows">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Baerbel Koribalski, Senior research scientist, CSIRO A team of US and South African researchers has published highly detailed images of the largest X-shaped “radio galaxy” ever discovered – PKS 2014-55. Notably, they’ve helped resolve ongoing confusion about the galaxy’s unusual shape. The MeerKAT image of the giant ... <a title="Experts solve the mystery of a giant X-shaped galaxy, with a monster black hole as its engine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/experts-solve-the-mystery-of-a-giant-x-shaped-galaxy-with-a-monster-black-hole-as-its-engine-138205/" aria-label="Read more about Experts solve the mystery of a giant X-shaped galaxy, with a monster black hole as its engine">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Renwick, Professor, Physical Geography (climate science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington 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 ... <a title="Climate explained: what caused major climate change in the past?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/climate-explained-what-caused-major-climate-change-in-the-past-137874/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: what caused major climate change in the past?">Read more</a>
