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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeanne Marie Iorio, Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Education, University of Melbourne At childcare and preschool, children experience belonging to a community and engage actively with their learning. They also collaborate in groups, which helps them learn how to negotiate, listen and engage together. Learning in this sense ... <a title="Don’t worry, your child’s early learning doesn’t stop just because they’re not in childcare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/dont-worry-your-childs-early-learning-doesnt-stop-just-because-theyre-not-in-childcare-134668/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t worry, your child’s early learning doesn’t stop just because they’re not in childcare">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Graves, Distinguished Professor of Genetics, La Trobe University All over the world – in China, Italy, the United States and Australia – many more men than women are dying from COVID-19. Why? Is it genes, hormones, the immune system – or behaviour – that makes men ... <a title="Why do more men die from coronavirus than women?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/why-do-more-men-die-from-coronavirus-than-women-136038/" aria-label="Read more about Why do more men die from coronavirus than women?">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University For more than 190,000 Australians employed in the cultural sector, the last month brought a quadrella of horror. First, having spent decades promoting flexible labour markets, the federal government is now using those same conditions to exclude thousands of ... <a title="Artists shouldn’t have to endlessly demonstrate their value. Coalition leaders used to know it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/artists-shouldnt-have-to-endlessly-demonstrate-their-value-coalition-leaders-used-to-know-it-136608/" aria-label="Read more about Artists shouldn’t have to endlessly demonstrate their value. Coalition leaders used to know it">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Baker, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine, Deakin University Toilet paper and ventilators may be unlikely bedfellows, but they serve as powerful symbols of the growing tensions between urban and rural regions in Australia and elsewhere amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Last month, the ... <a title="Healing the urban-rural divide: Why a ‘locals-first’ approach doesn’t work in a pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/healing-the-urban-rural-divide-why-a-locals-first-approach-doesnt-work-in-a-pandemic-135301/" aria-label="Read more about Healing the urban-rural divide: Why a ‘locals-first’ approach doesn’t work in a pandemic">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne This past week the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed arts and recreation is the hardest hit of all the sectors most affected by government-imposed shutdowns in Australia. At least 53% of ... <a title="Coronavirus: 3 in 4 Australians employed in the creative and performing arts could lose their jobs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/coronavirus-3-in-4-australians-employed-in-the-creative-and-performing-arts-could-lose-their-jobs-136505/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus: 3 in 4 Australians employed in the creative and performing arts could lose their jobs">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University As the number of COVID-19 infections climbs across the globe, so too do stories about journalism job losses, newsroom cutbacks and masthead closures. This raises the question: what does the pandemic-induced economic crisis mean ... <a title="Now more than ever, we need quality health reporting in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/now-more-than-ever-we-need-quality-health-reporting-in-australia-136229/" aria-label="Read more about Now more than ever, we need quality health reporting in Australia">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hesketh, ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland Respirators and face masks are staple pieces of personal protective equipment for hospital workers and others in public health, as the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us. They can protect the wearer, but for diseases like COVID-19 that spread ... <a title="How a 150-year-old experiment with a beam of light showed germs exist — and that a face mask can help filter them out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/how-a-150-year-old-experiment-with-a-beam-of-light-showed-germs-exist-and-that-a-face-mask-can-help-filter-them-out-136391/" aria-label="Read more about How a 150-year-old experiment with a beam of light showed germs exist — and that a face mask can help filter them out">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin University What began as a global health crisis in the form of COVID-19 is now also an economic crisis of historic proportions. Much of the housing policy focus during the pandemic has rightly centred ... <a title="As coronavirus widens the renter-owner divide, housing policies will have to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/as-coronavirus-widens-the-renter-owner-divide-housing-policies-will-have-to-change-135808/" aria-label="Read more about As coronavirus widens the renter-owner divide, housing policies will have to change">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Francis Markham, Research Fellow, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University On March 23 the government effectively doubled payments to the unemployed, single parents and students, introducing a new unconditional Coronavirus Supplement to go on top of existing allowances such as Newstart, Youth Allowance, Parenting ... <a title="The coronavirus supplement is the biggest boost to Indigenous incomes since Whitlam. It should be made permanent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/the-coronavirus-supplement-is-the-biggest-boost-to-indigenous-incomes-since-whitlam-it-should-be-made-permanent-135936/" aria-label="Read more about The coronavirus supplement is the biggest boost to Indigenous incomes since Whitlam. It should be made permanent">Read more</a>
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April 20, 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 In recent weeks a growing chorus of Australian commentators has called for social distancing measures to be eased or radically curtailed. Some have claimed the lives saved by the lockdowns ... <a title="Open letter from 118 Australian economists: don’t sacrifice health for ‘the economy’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/open-letter-from-118-australian-economists-dont-sacrifice-health-for-the-economy-136686/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter from 118 Australian economists: don’t sacrifice health for ‘the economy’">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lindsay Kelley, Lecturer, Art & Design, UNSW The plan was to land in Sydney from an overseas trip on a Friday morning and immediately bake Anzac biscuits to bring along to the Country Women’s Association Tea Room at the Royal Easter Show on Saturday. Then everything changed, ... <a title="Anzac biscuits, battles and a great Australian isolation bake-off" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/anzac-biscuits-battles-and-a-great-australian-isolation-bake-off-135948/" aria-label="Read more about Anzac biscuits, battles and a great Australian isolation bake-off">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government has told the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to develop a mandatory code of conduct to address bargaining power imbalances between media companies and digital platforms such as Facebook and Google – and the question of payment for ... <a title="Government orders mandatory code of conduct for Google, Facebook" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/government-orders-mandatory-code-of-conduct-for-google-facebook-136694/" aria-label="Read more about Government orders mandatory code of conduct for Google, Facebook">Read more</a>
