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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Walters, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Recreation, Auckland University of Technology Playing sports has clear social, physical and mental health benefits for children. But evidence shows that youth sports in Western societies have become increasingly controlled and regulated by adults, which takes the fun out for ... <a title="Children have fun playing sports and don’t need to satisfy adults’ ambitions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/children-have-fun-playing-sports-and-dont-need-to-satisfy-adults-ambitions-115373/" aria-label="Read more about Children have fun playing sports and don’t need to satisfy adults’ ambitions">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
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 Defence Wayne Mapp (Spinoff): This belated withdrawal suggests the 2015 Iraq controversy wasn’t all it seemed Gordon Campbell: On the military withdrawal from Iraq No Right Turn: Finally Richard Harman (Politik): How Ron Mark persuaded ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 12 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-12-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 12 2019">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Blaskovich, Senior Research Officer, The University of Queensland To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements we’re taking a look at some of the elements used by researchers in their work. Today’s focus is silver, an element seen as a marker of ... <a title="Silver makes beautiful bling but it’s also good for keeping the bacterial bugs away" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/silver-makes-beautiful-bling-but-its-also-good-for-keeping-the-bacterial-bugs-away-115367/" aria-label="Read more about Silver makes beautiful bling but it’s also good for keeping the bacterial bugs away">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Burn, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney We might not want to believe it, but human trafficking and slavery happens in Australia. Slavery is not an historical artefact, but a tragic reality for millions of people around the world, including in Australia. Recently, the ... <a title="Human trafficking and slavery still happen in Australia. This comic explains how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/human-trafficking-and-slavery-still-happen-in-australia-this-comic-explains-how-112294/" aria-label="Read more about Human trafficking and slavery still happen in Australia. This comic explains how">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Mulraney, Postdoctoral research fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Three-quarters of Australian children with mental health disorders aren’t getting professional help, according to our new research. Girls, younger children and families from non-English-speaking backgrounds are the least likely to access mental health services. We looked at the ... <a title="3 out of 4 kids with mental health disorders aren’t accessing care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/3-out-of-4-kids-with-mental-health-disorders-arent-accessing-care-118597/" aria-label="Read more about 3 out of 4 kids with mental health disorders aren’t accessing care">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chloe Lucas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania So much for Australia’s “climate election”. In the event, voters in last month’s federal poll didn’t put climate policy at the top of their wish list. Contrary to opinion polls predicting a groundswell of support for Labor’s relatively progressive ... <a title="Not everyone cares about climate change, but reproach won’t change their minds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/not-everyone-cares-about-climate-change-but-reproach-wont-change-their-minds-118255/" aria-label="Read more about Not everyone cares about climate change, but reproach won’t change their minds">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christina Ho, Senior Lecturer, Social & Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has re-ignited the ongoing debate about selective schools by announcing a new selective school will be built in the “key growth area” of southwest Sydney. In announcing the school, the premier ... <a title="Selective schools mainly ‘select’ advantage, so another one won’t ease Sydney’s growing pains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/selective-schools-mainly-select-advantage-so-another-one-wont-ease-sydneys-growing-pains-118449/" aria-label="Read more about Selective schools mainly ‘select’ advantage, so another one won’t ease Sydney’s growing pains">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Morris, Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney Loneliness is increasingly recognised worldwide as a critical social issue and one of the major health hazards of our time. Our research shows older private renters are at high risk of loneliness and anxiety. This is a growing concern ... <a title="‘I really have thought this can’t go on’: loneliness looms for rising numbers of older private renters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/i-really-have-thought-this-cant-go-on-loneliness-looms-for-rising-numbers-of-older-private-renters-118046/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I really have thought this can’t go on’: loneliness looms for rising numbers of older private renters">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin University The number of mature age Australians carrying mortgage debt into retirement is soaring. And on average each mature age Australian with a mortgage debt owes much more relative to their income than 25 ... <a title="More people are retiring with high mortgage debts. The implications are huge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/more-people-are-retiring-with-high-mortgage-debts-the-implications-are-huge-115134/" aria-label="Read more about More people are retiring with high mortgage debts. The implications are huge">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Broomhall, Professor of History, University of Western Australia Every day, thousands of people from around the world crowd into a stark, beige room at Paris’s Louvre Museum to view its single mounted artwork, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. To do so, they walk straight past countless ... <a title="What’s so special about the Mona Lisa?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/whats-so-special-about-the-mona-lisa-117180/" aria-label="Read more about What’s so special about the Mona Lisa?">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton told his departmental secretary Mike Pezzullo he shouldn’t go ringing up senators to set them straight, it was a rebuke laced with empathy, a message delivered from one hard man to another in a ... <a title="View from The Hill: A soft reprimand from one hard man to another" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/11/view-from-the-hill-a-soft-reprimand-from-one-hard-man-to-another-118619/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: A soft reprimand from one hard man to another">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of South Australia If you’re a red meat-eater, there’s a good chance you’re eating more of it than you should. At last count, Australians ate an average of 81 grams of red meat per day. The planetary ... <a title="How to get the nutrients you need without eating as much red meat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/11/how-to-get-the-nutrients-you-need-without-eating-as-much-red-meat-110274/" aria-label="Read more about How to get the nutrients you need without eating as much red meat">Read more</a>
