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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dinesh Kumar, Professor, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, RMIT University The Australian government’s contact-tracing app, COVIDSafe, has been touted as crucial for restarting the country’s economy and curbing COVID-19’s spread. But until more data are collected, it’s hard to estimate how effective the app will be. Nonetheless, there ... <a title="False positives, false negatives: it’s hard to say if the COVIDSafe app can overcome its shortcomings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/false-positives-false-negatives-its-hard-to-say-if-the-covidsafe-app-can-overcome-its-shortcomings-138129/" aria-label="Read more about False positives, false negatives: it’s hard to say if the COVIDSafe app can overcome its shortcomings">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne The latest Newspoll, conducted May 13-16 from a sample of 1,500, gave the Coalition a 51-49 lead, a one-point gain for the Coalition since the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes were 43% Coalition ... <a title="Coalition gains Newspoll lead as Labor ahead in Eden-Monaro; Trump’s ratings recover" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/coalition-gains-newspoll-lead-as-labor-ahead-in-eden-monaro-trumps-ratings-recover-138793/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition gains Newspoll lead as Labor ahead in Eden-Monaro; Trump’s ratings recover">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helena Steel, Lecturer HRM, PhD Candidate – Job loss, career adaptability & HRM interventions, Swinburne University of Technology As the COVID-19 economic crisis crimps travel and hurts airlines worldwide, Virgin Australia has been placed under external administrators. The Queensland government has put a $200m bid on it ... <a title="How to survive a crisis: what Virgin Australia staff can learn from ex-Ansett workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/how-to-survive-a-crisis-what-virgin-australia-staff-can-learn-from-ex-ansett-workers-138269/" aria-label="Read more about How to survive a crisis: what Virgin Australia staff can learn from ex-Ansett workers">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa A. Wheeler, Senior lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology It wasn’t the usual end to our staff meeting. This time, the head of our university department wrapped up the video conference by inviting her nine-year-old son to come and say hello to about a hundred colleagues. It ... <a title="Forget work-life balance – it’s all about integration in the age of COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/forget-work-life-balance-its-all-about-integration-in-the-age-of-covid-19-137386/" aria-label="Read more about Forget work-life balance – it’s all about integration in the age of COVID-19">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Sri Krishnamurthi discusses a new book today on West Papua, The Road: Uprising in West Papua, reviewed by Professor David Robie, in his weekly 95bFM segment Southern Cross. The book is authored by Australian investigative journalist John Martinkus who has covered wars and conflicts in Asia and ... <a title="Southern Cross features ‘The Road’ and Papuan repression" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/southern-cross-features-the-road-and-papuan-repression/" aria-label="Read more about Southern Cross features ‘The Road’ and Papuan repression">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Duckett, Senior Lecturer in Screen, Deakin University Cineteca Milano is renowned for its silent film holdings. With a collection of more than 35,000 Italian and international films dating back to the 1890s, it was both coincidental and fortuitous that, in December 2019, the archive began digitalisation. ... <a title="International film archives are streaming up a storm during lockdown. Australia’s movie trove isn’t even online" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/international-film-archives-are-streaming-up-a-storm-during-lockdown-australias-movie-trove-isnt-even-online-137169/" aria-label="Read more about International film archives are streaming up a storm during lockdown. Australia’s movie trove isn’t even online">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Hocknull, Senior Curator of Geosciences, Queensland Museum, and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Melbourne When people first arrived in what is now Queensland, they would have found the land inhabited by massive animals including goannas six metres long and kangaroos twice as tall as a human. ... <a title="Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/humans-coexisted-with-three-tonne-marsupials-and-lizards-as-long-as-cars-in-ancient-australia-138534/" aria-label="Read more about Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Budget, economy John Armstrong (1News): Jobs, jobs jobs or spend, spend, spend? Sue Bradford (Stuff): This is not what a post-Covid Budget should look like Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup: A homecoming or ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 18 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-18-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 18 2020">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University The New York Times passed an impressive milestone this week, with more than 6 million paid subscribers globally. Our latest research suggests it’s no coincidence it achieved this feat during the COVID-19 crisis. In ... <a title="Trust in quality news outlets strong during coronavirus pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/trust-in-quality-news-outlets-strong-during-coronavirus-pandemic-138410/" aria-label="Read more about Trust in quality news outlets strong during coronavirus pandemic">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University Once upon a very different time, British cabinet minister Michael Gove sneered that “people have had enough of experts from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.” But that was then and ... <a title="Experts are back in fashion – now more than ever we need to question them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/experts-are-back-in-fashion-now-more-than-ever-we-need-to-question-them-138113/" aria-label="Read more about Experts are back in fashion – now more than ever we need to question them">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary Sacks, Associate Professor, Deakin University Supermarkets like to portray themselves as having the health of the community at heart. And in the middle of a pandemic, we’re all grateful supermarkets are still open and, for the most part, the shelves are well stocked. But our new ... <a title="Supermarkets claim to have our health at heart. But their marketing tactics push junk foods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/supermarkets-claim-to-have-our-health-at-heart-but-their-marketing-tactics-push-junk-foods-138292/" aria-label="Read more about Supermarkets claim to have our health at heart. But their marketing tactics push junk foods">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Hensher, Associate Professor of Health Systems Financing & Organisation, Deakin University Growing numbers of Australians are choosing to receive their hospital care at home, according to figures published today in the Medical Journal of Australia. In 2017-18, more than half a million days of publicly funded ... <a title="The ‘hospital in the home’ revolution has been stalled by COVID-19. But it’s still a good idea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/18/the-hospital-in-the-home-revolution-has-been-stalled-by-covid-19-but-its-still-a-good-idea-130058/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘hospital in the home’ revolution has been stalled by COVID-19. But it’s still a good idea">Read more</a>
