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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stuart Marshall, Senior Research Fellow, Anaesthesia Teaching & Research, Monash University Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, health workers globally have been concerned about inadequate supplies of personal protective equipment, ventilators and other essential items of medical care. So many have created workarounds to fill the perceived gap ... <a title="How 80s TV show MacGyver is inspiring doctors during the coronavirus pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/how-80s-tv-show-macgyver-is-inspiring-doctors-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-140081/" aria-label="Read more about How 80s TV show MacGyver is inspiring doctors during the coronavirus pandemic">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Selwyn Manning, editor of EveningReport.nz It all boils down to this: The timeline of latest revelations suggests National Party MPs placed their want to GET their opponents – the Ardern Government – ahead of concerns that Covid-19 was potentially un-contained and again infecting New Zealanders. Is this a step too far for the ... <a title="Selwyn Manning: National ‘sat on’ vital covid-19 infection information before dropping bombshell" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/selwyn-manning-national-sat-on-vital-covid-19-infection-information-before-dropping-bombshell/" aria-label="Read more about Selwyn Manning: National ‘sat on’ vital covid-19 infection information before dropping bombshell">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
By Lena Reece in Suva The University of the South Pacific’s suspended vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia claims that his suspension was illegal. In a statement to the USP Council dated on Wednesday, Professor Ahluwalia said his suspension was done without due process and without any proper reason. Professor Ahluwalia said the council had the chance ... <a title="Suspended USP academic chief calls on council to clear his name" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/suspended-usp-academic-chief-calls-on-council-to-clear-his-name/" aria-label="Read more about Suspended USP academic chief calls on council to clear his name">Read more</a>
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June 19, 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 Border failureThomas Coughlan (Stuff): Heads have to roll over border catastrophe, but whose head should it be?Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Flat Earthers: For how much longer must New Zealand be damaged by Neoliberalism’s ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 19 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-19-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 19 2020">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Romilio, PhD, Independent Researcher, The University of Queensland Perhaps the most iconic dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus rex, a massive predator that lived in what is now North America. We have now discovered that carnivorous dinosaurs of a similar size existed in ancient Australia as well. The giant ... <a title="Dinosaur footprints show predators as big as _T. rex_ stomped across Australia 160 million years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/dinosaur-footprints-show-predators-as-big-as-t-rex-stomped-across-australia-160-million-years-ago-140931/" aria-label="Read more about Dinosaur footprints show predators as big as _T. rex_ stomped across Australia 160 million years ago">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Ball, Associate Professor/ Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University Last week, my two-year-old niece was sent home from daycare for having a runny nose – a sin that would otherwise be commonplace on a windy winter’s day. The daycare centre instructed my sister she would need to ... <a title="Employers, schools, take note. Coronavirus ‘clearance certificates’ are a waste of everybody’s time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/employers-schools-take-note-coronavirus-clearance-certificates-are-a-waste-of-everybodys-time-140929/" aria-label="Read more about Employers, schools, take note. Coronavirus ‘clearance certificates’ are a waste of everybody’s time">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Morton, Associate Professor, Journalism, Stream Leader, Climate Justice Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney The Australian government’s investment roadmap for low-emissions technologies promises more taxpayers’ money to the gas industry but fails to deliver the policy needed for people to support a transition to renewable energy. ... <a title="People need to see the benefits from local renewable energy projects, and that means jobs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/people-need-to-see-the-benefits-from-local-renewable-energy-projects-and-that-means-jobs-138433/" aria-label="Read more about People need to see the benefits from local renewable energy projects, and that means jobs">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The federal government will fund an extra 39,000 university places by 2023 in a package that will restructure the amounts students have to pay for courses to encourage them to “make more job-relevant choices”. Under the plan to produce “job-ready ... <a title="Fee cuts for nursing and teaching but big hikes for law and humanities in package expanding university places" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/fee-cuts-for-nursing-and-teaching-but-big-hikes-for-law-and-humanities-in-package-expanding-university-places-141064/" aria-label="Read more about Fee cuts for nursing and teaching but big hikes for law and humanities in package expanding university places">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Australia has done well on the public health front during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to decisive action by the National Cabinet in March. Australia has done better than most countries on the economic front, too, thanks to the federal government’s large ... <a title="Vital Signs: COVID-19 recession is different – and we need more stimulus to deal with it." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/vital-signs-covid-19-recession-is-different-and-we-need-more-stimulus-to-deal-with-it-141037/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: COVID-19 recession is different – and we need more stimulus to deal with it.">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Shirley, Edith Cowan University In his surprisingly dark and often shocking account of life at a New York performing arts school, Alan Parker’s Fame (1980) exposes the way youthful exuberance and vulnerability are easy prey for those who manipulate and abuse their position. The fim depicts ... <a title="Friday essay: training a new generation of performers about intimacy, safety and creativity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/friday-essay-training-a-new-generation-of-performers-about-intimacy-safety-and-creativity-132516/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: training a new generation of performers about intimacy, safety and creativity">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Roger D. HarrisFrom Corte Madera, California The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th was the spark that ignited the tinder of accrued injustice throughout the US and globally. This injustice has deep antecedents in the US and indeed in much of what is ... <a title="“Black Lives Matter” is International: Where there is oppression, there will be resistance " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/black-lives-matter-is-international-where-there-is-oppression-there-will-be-resistance/" aria-label="Read more about “Black Lives Matter” is International: Where there is oppression, there will be resistance ">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The notion that Nine’s 60 Minutes revelations about the appalling shenanigans of Victorian Labor power broker Adem Somyurek were a total surprise to ALP insiders deserves a horse laugh. As one federal source says, anyone with any knowledge of the ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Labor party’s dirty linen on display at bad time for Anthony Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/grattan-on-friday-labor-partys-dirty-linen-on-display-at-bad-time-for-anthony-albanese-141075/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Labor party’s dirty linen on display at bad time for Anthony Albanese">Read more</a>
