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June 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Grzeskowiak, The Hospital Research Foundation Mid-Career Research Fellow – Robinson Research Institute & South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, University of Adelaide It’s well known smoking cigarettes during pregnancy can increase the risk of harm to the baby and is best avoided. But in our ... <a title="Using cannabis during pregnancy could be bad news for your baby: new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/using-cannabis-during-pregnancy-could-be-bad-news-for-your-baby-new-research-140443/" aria-label="Read more about Using cannabis during pregnancy could be bad news for your baby: new research">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Murdoch, Dean and Head of Campus, University of Otago COVID-19 is being referred to as a “once in a century event” – but the next pandemic is likely to hit sooner than you think. In the next few decades, we will likely see other pandemics. We ... <a title="The next once-a-century pandemic is coming sooner than you think – but COVID-19 can help us get ready" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/the-next-once-a-century-pandemic-is-coming-sooner-than-you-think-but-covid-19-can-help-us-get-ready-139976/" aria-label="Read more about The next once-a-century pandemic is coming sooner than you think – but COVID-19 can help us get ready">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lee Baumgartner, Professor of Fisheries and River Management, Institute for Land, Water, and Society, Charles Sturt University The New South Wales government plans to release two million native fish into rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin, in the largest breeding program of its kind in the state. But ... <a title="Don’t count your fish before they hatch: experts react to plans to release two million fish into the Murray Darling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/dont-count-your-fish-before-they-hatch-experts-react-to-plans-to-release-two-million-fish-into-the-murray-darling-140428/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t count your fish before they hatch: experts react to plans to release two million fish into the Murray Darling">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Sonnemann, Fellow, Grattan Institute Despite massive efforts by teachers and schools during the remote learning period, many students are likely to have learnt less than they would have in the classroom. Most of these students will recover without too much trouble, but disadvantaged students will need ... <a title="Disadvantaged students may have lost 1 month of learning during COVID-19 shutdown. But the government can fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/disadvantaged-students-may-have-lost-1-month-of-learning-during-covid-19-shutdown-but-the-government-can-fix-it-140540/" aria-label="Read more about Disadvantaged students may have lost 1 month of learning during COVID-19 shutdown. But the government can fix it">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caroline Osborne, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Office of Community Engagement, University of the Sunshine Coast The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the need for connection to our local community and the health challenges of the retirement village model. We know that, as we age, most people ... <a title="‘Ageing in neighbourhood’: what seniors want instead of retirement villages and how to achieve it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/ageing-in-neighbourhood-what-seniors-want-instead-of-retirement-villages-and-how-to-achieve-it-138729/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Ageing in neighbourhood’: what seniors want instead of retirement villages and how to achieve it">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology Retailers have tried many overt tactics to limit theft, such as signs that display images of CCTV cameras, threats to prosecute offenders, bag checks, checkout weighing plates and electronic security gates. These tactics are extremely ... <a title="Watch yourself: the self-surveillance strategy to keep supermarket shoppers honest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/watch-yourself-the-self-surveillance-strategy-to-keep-supermarket-shoppers-honest-139977/" aria-label="Read more about Watch yourself: the self-surveillance strategy to keep supermarket shoppers honest">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide November 1959. Film director Alfred Hitchcock is at his commercial and critical peak after the successes of Vertigo (1958) and North by Northwest (1959). So what does he do next? A black-and-white made-for-TV movie hastily shot, with ... <a title="Psycho turns 60 – Hitchcock’s famous fright film broke all the rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/psycho-turns-60-hitchcocks-famous-fright-film-broke-all-the-rules-140175/" aria-label="Read more about Psycho turns 60 – Hitchcock’s famous fright film broke all the rules">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie What an irony. The 12-nation regional University of the South Pacific that prides itself on its pan-Pacific culture has unwittingly suffered collateral damage in the wake of the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in the Pacific. Although the Pacific has largely fended off serious incursions by the virus with the Cook ... <a title="Covid, culture and USP’s fight to save academic freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/covid-culture-and-usps-fight-to-save-academic-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Covid, culture and USP’s fight to save academic freedom">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison will announce a further $1.5 billion for an immediate start on small infrastructure projects in the government’s latest initiative to spur economic activity. Of this, $1 billion will be provided to priority “shovel-ready” projects, with $500 million targeted ... <a title="Morrison commits another $1.5 billion for infrastructure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/morrison-commits-another-1-5-billion-for-infrastructure-140717/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison commits another $1.5 billion for infrastructure">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch Thousands of people took part in the Black Lives Matter protests in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin today. Auckland’s Aotea Square protesters, largely peaceful and family oriented, marched to Custom Street and demonstrated outside the American consulate where protesters took a knee and observed a minute of silence for ... <a title="Thousands throng Auckland for NZ Black Lives Matter protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/14/thousands-throng-auckland-for-nz-black-lives-matter-protests/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands throng Auckland for NZ Black Lives Matter protests">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Former Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma says President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo promised to release Papuan political prisoners during his administration. Widodo made this pledge, said Karma, to five of his fellow political prisoners in Jayapura, Papua, who were released in 2015, reports CNN Indonesia. “When the Bapak [Mr] president released my five ... <a title="Filep Karma reveals Jokowi’s unkept promise to free all Papua tapols" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/14/filep-karma-reveals-jokowis-unkept-promise-to-free-all-papua-tapols/" aria-label="Read more about Filep Karma reveals Jokowi’s unkept promise to free all Papua tapols">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2020
By Luke Nacei in Suva The Fiji Labour Party believes suspended University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia is being harassed for his attempt to clean up governance at USP. In a statement, party leader Mahendra Chaudhry claimed the suspended vice-chancellor had been denied justice. “We commend his stand to fight for the ... <a title="Labour claims USP vice-chancellor ‘denied justice’ in clean up drive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/14/labour-claims-usp-vice-chancellor-denied-justice-in-clean-up-drive/" aria-label="Read more about Labour claims USP vice-chancellor ‘denied justice’ in clean up drive">Read more</a>
