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October 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maximilian de Courten, Health Policy Lead and Professor in Global Public Health at the Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Europe is again in the grip of a COVID-19 resurgence, with outbreak hot-spots in the United Kingdom, Spain and France each reporting thousands of new daily cases. The level ... <a title="Europe’s second wave is worse than the first. What went so wrong, and what can it learn from countries like Vietnam?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/15/europes-second-wave-is-worse-than-the-first-what-went-so-wrong-and-what-can-it-learn-from-countries-like-vietnam-147907/" aria-label="Read more about Europe’s second wave is worse than the first. What went so wrong, and what can it learn from countries like Vietnam?">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robbie Napper, Senior Lecturer, Design, Monash University Under COVID-19 lockdowns, bike sales have been booming. Quiet streets and more time at home have opened a new opportunity for bicycles in our otherwise car-dominated culture. Every day in Victoria, more than 2.2 million trips under two kilometres are ... <a title="Forget your fixie, we’re more likely to ride bikes if we can carry more on them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/15/forget-your-fixie-were-more-likely-to-ride-bikes-if-we-can-carry-more-on-them-133441/" aria-label="Read more about Forget your fixie, we’re more likely to ride bikes if we can carry more on them">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Caple, Associate Professor, UNSW A highlight for Australian children’s literature is the announcements of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year award winners. This year’s winners will be announced on Friday October 16 — right before the start of CBCA’s Book Week ... <a title="In 20 years of award-winning picture books, non-white people made up just 12% of main characters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/15/in-20-years-of-award-winning-picture-books-non-white-people-made-up-just-12-of-main-characters-147026/" aria-label="Read more about In 20 years of award-winning picture books, non-white people made up just 12% of main characters">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacob K. Goeree, Scientia Professor, UNSW The most celebrated theory in all of economics, the so-called First Welfare Theorem, says that, provided there is perfect competition and perfect information, free markets allocate resources resources efficiently. In other words, it says the father of economics Adam Smith was ... <a title="Dissecting the Nobel: how Milgrom and Wilson changed the face of auctions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/15/dissecting-the-nobel-how-milgrom-and-wilson-changed-the-face-of-auctions-147988/" aria-label="Read more about Dissecting the Nobel: how Milgrom and Wilson changed the face of auctions">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo McDonald, Director, Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, University of Western Australia The destruction of 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge sites in the Pilbara has created great distress for their traditional owners, seismic shockwaves for heritage professionals and appalled the general public. The fallout for Rio Tinto ... <a title="Can a mining state be pro-heritage? Vital steps to avoid another Juukan Gorge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/15/can-a-mining-state-be-pro-heritage-vital-steps-to-avoid-another-juukan-gorge-146211/" aria-label="Read more about Can a mining state be pro-heritage? Vital steps to avoid another Juukan Gorge">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lara Herrero, Research Leader in Virology and Infectious Disease, Griffith University During a typical day, we touch the surfaces of many different objects, often without noticing: money, phones, door handles, elevator buttons, cups, desks, keyboards, petrol pumps and shopping trolleys. Objects with surfaces that carry pathogens (such ... <a title="How worried should I be about news the coronavirus survives on surfaces for up to 28 days?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/how-worried-should-i-be-about-news-the-coronavirus-survives-on-surfaces-for-up-to-28-days-147919/" aria-label="Read more about How worried should I be about news the coronavirus survives on surfaces for up to 28 days?">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lyn Tieu, Senior Research Fellow, Western Sydney University When we communicate, there is often just as much meaning in what we don’t say as in what we say overtly. For example, if I say “Sally coloured the circle or the triangle”, you will probably take this to ... <a title="Children can’t always read between the lines. Sometimes it’s better to be explicit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/children-cant-always-read-between-the-lines-sometimes-its-better-to-be-explicit-147008/" aria-label="Read more about Children can’t always read between the lines. Sometimes it’s better to be explicit">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graeme Orr, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland The Liberal National Party has referred some of its own fundraising activities to the Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ). As the ABC reported on Tuesday, this implicates its own parliamentary leader, Deb Frecklington. Why would a party administration ... <a title="Fundraising questions have interrupted the Queensland LNP’s election campaign. What does the law say?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/fundraising-questions-have-interrupted-the-queensland-lnps-election-campaign-what-does-the-law-say-147992/" aria-label="Read more about Fundraising questions have interrupted the Queensland LNP’s election campaign. What does the law say?">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shelley Marshall, Associate Professor and Director of the RMIT Business and Human Rights Centre, RMIT University From the United States to Brazil, Britain, Germany and Australia, meat-processing plants have played a peculiar role in spreading COVID-19. In Brazil, union officials allege one-fifth of the industry’s employees – ... <a title="Treating workers like meat: what we’ve learnt from COVID-19 outbreaks in abattoirs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/treating-workers-like-meat-what-weve-learnt-from-covid-19-outbreaks-in-abattoirs-145444/" aria-label="Read more about Treating workers like meat: what we’ve learnt from COVID-19 outbreaks in abattoirs">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Panizza Allmark, Associate Dean of Arts, Associate Professor Media & Cultural Studies, Edith Cowan University There are certain film roles that can define an actor’s career. Ralph Macchio has starred in over 25 films, yet he is most identifiable as the teenage Danny Larouso in The Karate ... <a title="Cobra Kai, Bill & Ted: comebacks redefine middle-aged masculinity, but where are the women?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/cobra-kai-bill-and-ted-comebacks-redefine-middle-aged-masculinity-but-where-are-the-women-147257/" aria-label="Read more about Cobra Kai, Bill & Ted: comebacks redefine middle-aged masculinity, but where are the women?">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
By Samisoni Pareti in Suva Attempts to remove the University of the South Pacific pro-chancellor and one of its council’s committee chairperson – both of Fiji – were thwarted yesterday when the USP Council special meeting ran out of time. Fiji’s five-member delegation led by its Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum were accused of stalling the deliberation ... <a title="Bid to oust USP’s pro-chancellor thwarted by Fiji ‘stalling’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/bid-to-oust-usps-pro-chancellor-thwarted-by-fiji-stalling/" aria-label="Read more about Bid to oust USP’s pro-chancellor thwarted by Fiji ‘stalling’">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage John Perry From Masaya US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched another attack on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government last month, accusing President Daniel Ortega of being a “dictator” who is “doubling down on repression and refusing to honor the democratic aspirations of the Nicaraguan people.”[1] The State Department openly ... <a title="Nicaragua, attacked for following the same US policies against foreign meddling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/nicaragua-attacked-for-following-the-same-us-policies-against-foreign-meddling/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaragua, attacked for following the same US policies against foreign meddling">Read more</a>
