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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raquel Peel, Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland With the raft of social distancing measures in place to control the spread of coronavirus, you may be spending more time with your partner than ever before. If you’re both working from home, and with nowhere to go out to ... <a title="The coronavirus lockdown could test your relationship. Here’s how to keep it intact (and even improve it)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/the-coronavirus-lockdown-could-test-your-relationship-heres-how-to-keep-it-intact-and-even-improve-it-134532/" aria-label="Read more about The coronavirus lockdown could test your relationship. Here’s how to keep it intact (and even improve it)">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney The pathogens mosquitoes spread by sucking our blood cause over half a million deaths each year and hundreds of millions of cases of severe illness. But there is no scientific evidence to suggest mosquitoes are ... <a title="Can mosquitoes spread coronavirus?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/can-mosquitoes-spread-coronavirus-134898/" aria-label="Read more about Can mosquitoes spread coronavirus?">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Rose, Research fellow, Australian National University One aspect of the COVID-19 crisis that has so far escaped widespread public attention in Australia is its potential impact on our food security. We haven’t seen supermarket shortages of fruit and vegetables like toilet paper and pasta because, being ... <a title="Why closing our borders to foreign workers could see fruit and vegetable prices spike" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/why-closing-our-borders-to-foreign-workers-could-see-fruit-and-vegetable-prices-spike-134919/" aria-label="Read more about Why closing our borders to foreign workers could see fruit and vegetable prices spike">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Cassells, Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University The A$130 billion $1,500-per-fortnight JobKeeper payment will benefit six million Australians for six months, with payments expected from May 1. Eligible businesses include not-for-profits and businesses with turnovers of less than $1 billion per year whose turnover ... <a title="JobKeeper payment: how will it work, who will miss out and how to get it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/jobkeeper-payment-how-will-it-work-who-will-miss-out-and-how-to-get-it-135189/" aria-label="Read more about JobKeeper payment: how will it work, who will miss out and how to get it?">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Portolan, PhD student, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University When Tinder issued an in-app public service announcement regarding COVID-19 on March 3 we all had a little laugh as a panoply of memes and gags hit the internet. Two weeks later the laughter has ... <a title="The safest sex you’ll never have: how coronavirus is changing online dating" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/the-safest-sex-youll-never-have-how-coronavirus-is-changing-online-dating-134382/" aria-label="Read more about The safest sex you’ll never have: how coronavirus is changing online dating">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Gibbons, Professor, Australian National University As we witnessed last summer, the number of houses destroyed during bushfires in Australia has not been stemmed by advances in weather forecasting, building design and the increased use of large water-bombing aircraft. At the latest count, more than 3,500 homes ... <a title="If you’re worried about bushfires but want to keep your leafy garden, follow these tips" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/if-youre-worried-about-bushfires-but-want-to-keep-your-leafy-garden-follow-these-tips-130876/" aria-label="Read more about If you’re worried about bushfires but want to keep your leafy garden, follow these tips">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Menzies, Principal Research Fellow, Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith University Crises pose particular challenges for democratic leaders. They are expected to make critical decisions in times of uncertainty and rapidly develop effective plans to lead us out of the crisis. Normally, we are more interested in constraining ... <a title="Explainer: what is the national cabinet and is it democratic?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/explainer-what-is-the-national-cabinet-and-is-it-democratic-135036/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is the national cabinet and is it democratic?">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology The Morrison government keeps using the word “essential” to describe employees, public gatherings, services and businesses that are still allowed and not restricted as it tries to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. But what ... <a title="What actually are ‘essential services’ and who decides?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/what-actually-are-essential-services-and-who-decides-135029/" aria-label="Read more about What actually are ‘essential services’ and who decides?">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aude Bernard, Lecturer, Queensland Centre for Population Research, The University of Queensland Australians are among the most mobile populations in the world. More than 40% of us change address every five years, about twice the global average. Yet the level of internal migration – moving within Australia ... <a title="Australians are moving home less. Why? And does it matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/australians-are-moving-home-less-why-and-does-it-matter-133767/" aria-label="Read more about Australians are moving home less. Why? And does it matter?">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Stubbs, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Industries, University of South Australia Being in isolation might be a great time to try something new. In this series, we get the basics on hobbies and activities to start while you’re spending more time at home. While many are ... <a title="Great first time to try: travel writing from the home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/great-first-time-to-try-travel-writing-from-the-home-134664/" aria-label="Read more about Great first time to try: travel writing from the home">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government will provide a flat $1,500 a fortnight JobKeeper payment per employee for businesses to retain or rehire nearly six million workers, in a massive $130 billion six-month wage subsidy scheme to limit the economic devastation caused by ... <a title="Australia: $1,500 a fortnight JobKeeper wage subsidy in massive $130 billion program" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/1-500-a-fortnight-jobkeeper-wage-subsidy-in-massive-130-billion-program-135049/" aria-label="Read more about Australia: $1,500 a fortnight JobKeeper wage subsidy in massive $130 billion program">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Armstrong, Executive Director, Climate and Health Alliance, Occasional Lecturer, School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, La Trobe University The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world is a crisis of our own making. That’s the message from infectious disease and environmental health experts, and from those ... <a title="Coronavirus is a wake-up call: our war with the environment is leading to pandemics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/coronavirus-is-a-wake-up-call-our-war-with-the-environment-is-leading-to-pandemics-135023/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus is a wake-up call: our war with the environment is leading to pandemics">Read more</a>
