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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie Perkiss, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong The coronavirus might make Easter celebrations a little subdued this year, but that doesn’t mean going without chocolate eggs. In fact, South Australia’s chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier reportedly said people should partake in the Easter treats “to cheer ... <a title="Turning to Easter eggs to get through these dark times? Here’s the bitter truth about chocolate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/turning-to-easter-eggs-to-get-through-these-dark-times-heres-the-bitter-truth-about-chocolate-130295/" aria-label="Read more about Turning to Easter eggs to get through these dark times? Here’s the bitter truth about chocolate">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joo-Cheong Tham, Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne The centerpiece of the Commonwealth government’s COVID-19 economic stimulus program is JobKeeper. Priced at A$130 billion, it will pay eligible employers $1,500 per fortnight for each eligible employee for up to six months. The aim, according to the ... <a title="Why temporary migrants need JobKeeper" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/why-temporary-migrants-need-jobkeeper-135688/" aria-label="Read more about Why temporary migrants need JobKeeper">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Mathews, Professor, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology The High Court today granted Cardinal George Pell special leave to appeal, and unanimously allowed the appeal. In other words, Pell won. His convictions were quashed and he will be released from prison. Pell’s prosecution has been ... <a title="How George Pell won in the High Court on a legal technicality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/how-george-pell-won-in-the-high-court-on-a-legal-technicality-133156/" aria-label="Read more about How George Pell won in the High Court on a legal technicality">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh, Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University The unfolding COVID-19 situation has brought many changes to school education. NAPLAN tests have been cancelled for 2020 and most children are learning online. Education minister Dan Tehan is meeting with the states on what to do with year ... <a title="US private schools often inflate student grades. This could happen in Australia if we cancel year 12 exams" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/us-private-schools-often-inflate-student-grades-this-could-happen-in-australia-if-we-cancel-year-12-exams-135051/" aria-label="Read more about US private schools often inflate student grades. This could happen in Australia if we cancel year 12 exams">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Danny ShawFrom New York In the midst of the public health emergency ripping through the world, the United Nations and progressive forces throughout the Americas have called for a unified effort, transcending ideological differences, in defense of human life in the face of the COVID-10 pandemic. Russia ... <a title="Despite US Military Threats against Venezuela, Country Remains Strong against COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/despite-us-military-threats-against-venezuela-country-remains-strong-against-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Despite US Military Threats against Venezuela, Country Remains Strong against COVID-19">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Berto Pandolfo, Senior Lecturer Product Design, University of Technology Sydney Around the world, people are racing to design and manufacture much-needed ventilators to address a global lack of supply. One New York hospital has reportedly attempted treating two patients per ventilator out of desperation. On March 26, ... <a title="ICU ventilators: what they are, how they work and why it’s hard to make more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/icu-ventilators-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-why-its-hard-to-make-more-135423/" aria-label="Read more about ICU ventilators: what they are, how they work and why it’s hard to make more">Read more</a>
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April 7, 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 Health minister demoted, Bridges defends commute 1News: ‘I got it wrong’ – David Clark says he’ll continue as Health Minister at PM’s discretion after breaking lockdown rules Newshub: Health Minister Dr David Clark ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 07 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-07-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 07 2020">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand’s Health Minister David Clark has revealed that he took a trip to the beach during the alert level 4 lockdown and has offered to resign. Dr Clark said he drove his family 20km from his house in Dunedin to Doctor’s Point Beach for a walk during the first weekend of ... <a title="NZ Health Minister offers to resign over beach trip in virus lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/nz-health-minister-offers-to-resign-over-beach-trip-in-virus-lockdown/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Health Minister offers to resign over beach trip in virus lockdown">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Sanderson, Professor of Information Retrieval, RMIT University Wrapping your head around the scale of a global pandemic is not easy, and the volume of stats and data can be bewildering. What, for instance, are we to make of the fact Australia recorded just 109 new cases ... <a title="The bar necessities: 5 ways to understand coronavirus graphs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/the-bar-necessities-5-ways-to-understand-coronavirus-graphs-135537/" aria-label="Read more about The bar necessities: 5 ways to understand coronavirus graphs">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Saeri, Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University More Australians are worried about the longer-lasting, societal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic – specifically that the health system could be overburdened and the country could enter a recession – than they are about the ... <a title="More Australians are worried about a recession and an increasingly selfish society than about coronavirus itself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/more-australians-are-worried-about-a-recession-and-an-increasingly-selfish-society-than-about-coronavirus-itself-135297/" aria-label="Read more about More Australians are worried about a recession and an increasingly selfish society than about coronavirus itself">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Meekan, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science It might surprise you to learn that nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War are now helping conserve whale sharks, the largest living fish. Growing up to 18 metres – longer than the average bus – ... <a title="The mushroom cloud’s silver lining: how the Cold War is helping the biggest fish in the sea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/the-mushroom-clouds-silver-lining-how-the-cold-war-is-helping-the-biggest-fish-in-the-sea-135429/" aria-label="Read more about The mushroom cloud’s silver lining: how the Cold War is helping the biggest fish in the sea">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Terry Hughes, Distinguished Professor, James Cook University The Australian summer just gone will be remembered as the moment when human-caused climate change struck hard. First came drought, then deadly bushfires, and now a bout of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef – the third in just ... <a title="We just spent two weeks surveying the Great Barrier Reef. What we saw was an utter tragedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/we-just-spent-two-weeks-surveying-the-great-barrier-reef-what-we-saw-was-an-utter-tragedy-135197/" aria-label="Read more about We just spent two weeks surveying the Great Barrier Reef. What we saw was an utter tragedy">Read more</a>
