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May 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Macmillan, Associate Professor Environment and Health, University of Otago 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 ... <a title="Climate explained: how the climate impact of beef compares with plant-based alternatives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/climate-explained-how-the-climate-impact-of-beef-compares-with-plant-based-alternatives-137787/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: how the climate impact of beef compares with plant-based alternatives">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Power, Senior Lecturer in Coastal Science, University of Newcastle For millions of years, the Murray River has flowed from the Australian Alps across the inland plains, winding through South Australia before emptying into the ocean. But the final leg of its journey once looked vastly different. ... <a title="6,000 years of climate history: an ancient lake in the Murray-Darling has yielded its secrets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/6-000-years-of-climate-history-an-ancient-lake-in-the-murray-darling-has-yielded-its-secrets-133685/" aria-label="Read more about 6,000 years of climate history: an ancient lake in the Murray-Darling has yielded its secrets">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tamson Pietsch, Associate Professor, Social & Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney This essay is based on the first episode of the new UTS podcast series “The New Social Contract” that examines how the relationship between universities, the state and the public might be reshaped as we ... <a title="Universities have gone from being a place of privilege to a competitive market. What will they be after coronavirus?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/universities-have-gone-from-being-a-place-of-privilege-to-a-competitive-market-what-will-they-be-after-coronavirus-137877/" aria-label="Read more about Universities have gone from being a place of privilege to a competitive market. What will they be after coronavirus?">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Mossop, Dean of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney Our governments are committing taxpayers to further debt as part of a planned recovery from the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Infrastructure spending is great for economic stimulus, but it has to be the ... <a title="The PM wants to fast-track mega-projects for pandemic recovery. Here’s why that’s a bad idea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/the-pm-wants-to-fast-track-mega-projects-for-pandemic-recovery-heres-why-thats-a-bad-idea-136838/" aria-label="Read more about The PM wants to fast-track mega-projects for pandemic recovery. Here’s why that’s a bad idea">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hongzhi Gao, Associate professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington When it comes to our economic over-reliance on China, New Zealand consumers need look no further than their most popular big box chain, The Warehouse. The familiar “big red shed” sourced about 60% of its ... <a title="Beyond travel, a trans-Tasman bubble is an opportunity for Australia and NZ to reduce dependence on China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/beyond-travel-a-trans-tasman-bubble-is-an-opportunity-for-australia-and-nz-to-reduce-dependence-on-china-137062/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond travel, a trans-Tasman bubble is an opportunity for Australia and NZ to reduce dependence on China">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna M. Kotarba-Morley, Lecturer, Archaeology, Flinders University Many think of globalisation as a modern and corporate phenomenon, and it has been readily linked to the spread of coronavirus. But globalisation isn’t new. Archaeological research shows it began in antiquity. A global economy, with luxury consumerism and global ... <a title="From war elephants to cheap electronics: modern globalisation has its roots in ancient trade networks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/from-war-elephants-to-cheap-electronics-modern-globalisation-has-its-roots-in-ancient-trade-networks-125483/" aria-label="Read more about From war elephants to cheap electronics: modern globalisation has its roots in ancient trade networks">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With the COVID case curve currently close to the floor, Scott Morrison on Tuesday declared attention had to be directed firmly onto another curve. “Thousands of Australian lives have been saved, when you look at the experience of how coronavirus ... <a title="View from The Hill: Juggling the curves as we ease the COVID restrictions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/view-from-the-hill-juggling-the-curves-as-we-ease-the-covid-restrictions-137940/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Juggling the curves as we ease the COVID restrictions">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Eden-Monaro byelection has triggered an extraordinarily bitter attack by NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro on fellow National, deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack. In a message to McCormack, a furious Barilaro said, “You will never be acknowledged by me as ... <a title="Eden-Monaro opens wounds in Nationals, with Barilaro attack on McCormack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/eden-monaro-opens-wounds-in-nationals-with-barilaro-attack-on-mccormack-137907/" aria-label="Read more about Eden-Monaro opens wounds in Nationals, with Barilaro attack on McCormack">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yun-Hee Jeon, Susan and Isaac Wakil Professor of Healthy Ageing, University of Sydney One in four Australians who have died from COVID-19 is from an aged care facility. These deaths show how fatal and fast the spread of the infection can be, and the extreme challenge of ... <a title="Aged care visitor guidelines balance residents’ rights and coronavirus risk – but may be hard to implement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/aged-care-visitor-guidelines-balance-residents-rights-and-coronavirus-risk-but-may-be-hard-to-implement-137706/" aria-label="Read more about Aged care visitor guidelines balance residents’ rights and coronavirus risk – but may be hard to implement">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, University of South Australia We are hearing increasing talk about a trans-Tasman “travel bubble”, which could see Australia and New Zealand open their borders to each other. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was a special guest at Australia’s national ... <a title="Why a trans-Tasman travel bubble makes a lot of sense for Australia and New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/why-a-trans-tasman-travel-bubble-makes-a-lot-of-sense-for-australia-and-new-zealand-137878/" aria-label="Read more about Why a trans-Tasman travel bubble makes a lot of sense for Australia and New Zealand">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Felicity Gerry, Professor and Queen’s Counsel, Deakin University Last month, Victoria swiftly pushed through a bill introducing judge-only criminal trials as a short-term measure to tackle the absence of court sittings during the coronavirus lockdown. The new law, which was cautiously welcomed by the state Criminal Bar ... <a title="Jury is out: why shifting to judge-alone trials is a flawed approach to criminal justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/jury-is-out-why-shifting-to-judge-alone-trials-is-a-flawed-approach-to-criminal-justice-137397/" aria-label="Read more about Jury is out: why shifting to judge-alone trials is a flawed approach to criminal justice">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Carruthers, Senior lecturer, Australian Catholic University Woman? All they knew for sure was that they desired her. Désir, a gigantic five-letter word. So commented American artist Dorothea Tanning recalling her time in the surrealist milieu of New York in the 1940s. On a New York rooftop ... <a title="Dorothea Tanning – an unusual surrealist with an unique female gaze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/dorothea-tanning-an-unusual-surrealist-with-an-unique-female-gaze-131214/" aria-label="Read more about Dorothea Tanning – an unusual surrealist with an unique female gaze">Read more</a>
