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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced details of the next stage of lockdown, but New Zealanders won’t know until Monday when the country moves out of strict level 4 conditions. Once in level 3, people will have to remain ... <a title="Five ways New Zealanders’ lives and liberties will be heavily controlled, even after lockdown eases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/five-ways-new-zealanders-lives-and-liberties-will-be-heavily-controlled-even-after-lockdown-eases-136237/" aria-label="Read more about Five ways New Zealanders’ lives and liberties will be heavily controlled, even after lockdown eases">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Crystal Abidin, Senior Research Fellow & ARC DECRA, Internet Studies, Curtin University, Curtin University For many of us who are used to working regular hours in an office, home-based isolation and lockdown is a novel and even unnerving experience. However, East Asian home vloggers (video bloggers) have ... <a title="Slow living and the art of home maintenance: East Asian vloggers celebrate the domestic space" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/slow-living-and-the-art-of-home-maintenance-east-asian-vloggers-celebrate-the-domestic-space-135555/" aria-label="Read more about Slow living and the art of home maintenance: East Asian vloggers celebrate the domestic space">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Elshaug, HCF Research Foundation Professorial Fellow, Professor in Health Policy and Co-Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney Part of Australia’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was a severe reduction in elective surgery, and so private hospitals have stood almost empty for a month ... <a title="Hospitals have stopped unnecessary elective surgeries – and shouldn’t restart them after the pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/hospitals-have-stopped-unnecessary-elective-surgeries-and-shouldnt-restart-them-after-the-pandemic-136259/" aria-label="Read more about Hospitals have stopped unnecessary elective surgeries – and shouldn’t restart them after the pandemic">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Lockdowns work. That’s the evidence from many different countries now, including Australia. To be more precise, lockdowns reduce the effective reproductive rate of the virus to the point where it is below 1, meaning that, on average, ... <a title="Unlocking Australia: What can benefit-cost analysis tell us?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/unlocking-australia-what-can-benefit-cost-analysis-tell-us-136233/" aria-label="Read more about Unlocking Australia: What can benefit-cost analysis tell us?">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Professor, Course Director Undergraduate Studies, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney Two of the most pressing needs worldwide in the coronavirus pandemic are for more hospital beds and testing centres. No country in the world has enough hospital beds or intensive-care unit (ICU) ... <a title="Hospital beds and coronavirus test centres are needed fast. Here’s an Australian-designed solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/hospital-beds-and-coronavirus-test-centres-are-needed-fast-heres-an-australian-designed-solution-136041/" aria-label="Read more about Hospital beds and coronavirus test centres are needed fast. Here’s an Australian-designed solution">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bethaney Turner, Associate Professor, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra Recent COVID-19 induced panic buying has raised concerns about food security for many Australians. While there’s plenty of food available, many Australians have seen supermarkets stripped bare of essentials in recent weeks. For some ... <a title="Supermarket shelves stripped bare? History can teach us to ‘make do’ with food" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/supermarket-shelves-stripped-bare-history-can-teach-us-to-make-do-with-food-135304/" aria-label="Read more about Supermarket shelves stripped bare? History can teach us to ‘make do’ with food">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling University of Sydney researchers have developed a new searchable database that allows people, for the first time, to compare how many COVID-19 cases there are in every NSW postcode with each suburb’s socioeconomic status and age profile. The database, which draws ... <a title="How many COVID-19 cases are in each NSW suburb? Search by postcode here" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/how-many-covid-19-cases-are-in-each-nsw-suburb-search-by-postcode-here-136490/" aria-label="Read more about How many COVID-19 cases are in each NSW suburb? Search by postcode here">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Kaltner, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney As Australians grapple with the sudden and challenging changes that COVID-19 has brought to their daily lives, the impact of the virus is being felt in extreme ways by vulnerable children and families. New research led by myself and EY ... <a title="For children in foster care, the coronavirus pandemic could be extremely destabilising" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/for-children-in-foster-care-the-coronavirus-pandemic-could-be-extremely-destabilising-135190/" aria-label="Read more about For children in foster care, the coronavirus pandemic could be extremely destabilising">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute Less than a month after restrictions first took effect, Australia appears to have contained the spread of COVID-19 more successfully than we could have possibly imagined. But we’ve done so at unimaginable cost: large swathes of the economy have ... <a title="Eradicating the COVID-19 coronavirus is also the best economic strategy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/eradicating-the-covid-19-coronavirus-is-also-the-best-economic-strategy-136488/" aria-label="Read more about Eradicating the COVID-19 coronavirus is also the best economic strategy">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pasi Sahlberg, Professor of Education Policy, UNSW Teachers say most students have lost the ability to focus, are less empathetic and spend less time on physical activity. These are some of the results from our Growing Up Digital Australia study, in which we surveyed almost 2,000 teachers ... <a title="Students less focused, empathetic and active than before – technology may be to blame" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/students-less-focused-empathetic-and-active-than-before-technology-may-be-to-blame-136249/" aria-label="Read more about Students less focused, empathetic and active than before – technology may be to blame">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roba Abbas, Lecturer, School of Management, Operations and Marketing, University of Wollongong The federal government has announced plans to introduce a contact tracing mobile app to help curb COVID-19’s spread in Australia. Read more: Explainer: what is contact tracing and how does it help limit the coronavirus ... <a title="The coronavirus contact tracing app won’t log your location, but it will reveal who you hang out with" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/the-coronavirus-contact-tracing-app-wont-log-your-location-but-it-will-reveal-who-you-hang-out-with-136387/" aria-label="Read more about The coronavirus contact tracing app won’t log your location, but it will reveal who you hang out with">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Choong, Lecturer in Creative Advertising, University of the Sunshine Coast Pete Evans came under fire again last week for fobbing off a A$15,000 machine touted to treat multiple ailments, including coronavirus. The BioCharger NG, according to Evans’s website, is a “hybrid subtle energy revitalisation platform that ... <a title="Pivot to pandemic: how advertisers are using (and abusing) the coronavirus to sell" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/pivot-to-pandemic-how-advertisers-are-using-and-abusing-the-coronavirus-to-sell-135681/" aria-label="Read more about Pivot to pandemic: how advertisers are using (and abusing) the coronavirus to sell">Read more</a>
