CoveragePost
April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Morris, Professor, University of Technology Sydney About half of international students in Australia are private renters and more than half of them rely on paid work to pay the rent, but most of the casual jobs they depend on have been lost in the coronavirus pandemic. ... <a title="Why coronavirus impacts are devastating for international students in private rental housing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/why-coronavirus-impacts-are-devastating-for-international-students-in-private-rental-housing-134792/" aria-label="Read more about Why coronavirus impacts are devastating for international students in private rental housing">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Many temporary Australian residents will be excluded from the JobSeeker Payment and Coronavirus Supplement to be provided to permanent residents. In this open letter to the prime minister, 40 leading Australian experts on public policy argue ... <a title="Open letter to the prime minister: extend coronavirus support to temporary workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/open-letter-to-the-prime-minister-extend-coronavirus-support-to-temporary-workers-135691/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to the prime minister: extend coronavirus support to temporary workers">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 6, 2020
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern does not want New Zealand to be at level four for “a minute longer than needed”, but says there is no plan to lift it earlier than the planned four weeks. As New Zealand approaches the halfway point of the four-week lockdown, Ardern said today the country needed ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 12: Nation needs to ‘stay the course’, says PM Ardern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/nz-lockdown-day-12-nation-needs-to-stay-the-course-says-pm-ardern/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 12: Nation needs to ‘stay the course’, says PM Ardern">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew McLachlan, Head of School and Dean of Pharmacy, University of Sydney Researchers testing the head lice drug Ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19 have seen promising results in lab studies. But the research is in its early stages and the drug is yet to be ... <a title="Head lice drug Ivermectin is being tested as a possible coronavirus treatment, but that’s no reason to buy it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/head-lice-drug-ivermectin-is-being-tested-as-a-possible-coronavirus-treatment-but-thats-no-reason-to-buy-it-135683/" aria-label="Read more about Head lice drug Ivermectin is being tested as a possible coronavirus treatment, but that’s no reason to buy it">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne This week’s Newspoll, conducted April 1-3 from a sample of 1,508 people, showed a huge boost in Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s approval rating based on his leadership thus far in the coronavirus crisis. Nearly two-thirds ... <a title="Morrison sees massive ratings surge in Newspoll over coronavirus crisis; Trump also improves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/morrison-sees-massive-ratings-surge-in-newspoll-over-coronavirus-crisis-trump-also-improves-135693/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison sees massive ratings surge in Newspoll over coronavirus crisis; Trump also improves">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Komesaroff, Professor of Medicine, Monash University Although recent encouraging news suggests the rate of new coronavirus cases in Australia is slowing, our medical facilities could still be overwhelmed at some point. One modelling study has suggested that, if public health measures are not observed or do ... <a title="A coronavirus spike may put ICU beds in short supply. But that doesn’t mean the elderly shouldn’t get them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/a-coronavirus-spike-may-put-icu-beds-in-short-supply-but-that-doesnt-mean-the-elderly-shouldnt-get-them-134782/" aria-label="Read more about A coronavirus spike may put ICU beds in short supply. But that doesn’t mean the elderly shouldn’t get them">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilan Noy, Professor and Chair in the Economics of Disasters, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Governments across the world have rolled out extensive financial packages to support individuals, businesses and large corporations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Equally, central banks have decreased their lending ... <a title="Coronavirus support packages will reshape the future economy, and that presents an opportunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/coronavirus-support-packages-will-reshape-the-future-economy-and-that-presents-an-opportunity-135296/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus support packages will reshape the future economy, and that presents an opportunity">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 6, 2020
Pacific Media Watch From the second week of lockdown in New Zealand, to Covid-19 in the Pacific and an “authoritarianism creep” by governments in the Asia-Pacific region provided a fast-changing landscape on the Pacific Media Centre’s Southern Cross radio programme on 95bFM today. New Zealand had crossed the 1000-case threshold on Sunday with 89 new ... <a title="Southern Cross covers host of issues in fast-moving Covid-19 time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/southern-cross-covers-host-of-issues-in-fast-moving-covid-19-time/" aria-label="Read more about Southern Cross covers host of issues in fast-moving Covid-19 time">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Wylie, Adjunct Associate Professor, Murdoch University Viruses are little more than parasitic fragments of RNA or DNA. Despite this, they are astonishingly abundant in number and genetic diversity. We don’t know how many virus species there are, but there could be trillions. Past viral epidemics have ... <a title="How do viruses mutate and jump species? And why are ‘spillovers’ becoming more common?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/how-do-viruses-mutate-and-jump-species-and-why-are-spillovers-becoming-more-common-134656/" aria-label="Read more about How do viruses mutate and jump species? And why are ‘spillovers’ becoming more common?">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University Some weeks ago, I got an email from a student who had returned to Northern Italy over Christmas to see family. Unable to return to Australia, they were in lockdown. The hospitals were filling up fast, as COVID-19 began ... <a title="Guide to the Classics: Albert Camus’ The Plague" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/guide-to-the-classics-albert-camus-the-plague-134244/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the Classics: Albert Camus’ The Plague">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 6, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. As New Zealand edges toward the third week of lockdown having passed 1000 cases threshold (1039) with 89 new cases, 12 clusters and one death on day 11 the bigger angst during the ... <a title="NZ passes 1000 cases threshold, but Bauer collapse main talking point" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/nz-passes-1000-cases-threshold-but-bauer-collapse-main-talking-point/" aria-label="Read more about NZ passes 1000 cases threshold, but Bauer collapse main talking point">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 6, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Authorities are cracking down to try and stop the spread of the coronavirus in Fiji, which already has 12 cases, reports TVNZ One News. Police have arrested more than 240 people in the last two days for breaching curfew. “This level of lawlessness is irresponsible, un-Fijian and not just plain stupid,” Fijian ... <a title="‘Stay at home’ – sweeping virus curfew arrests as Fiji braces for TC Harold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/stay-at-home-sweeping-virus-curfew-arrests-as-fiji-braces-for-tc-harold/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Stay at home’ – sweeping virus curfew arrests as Fiji braces for TC Harold">Read more</a>
