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July 21, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Patrick Angrai Jerolyn Arimbandai was the only woman teacher of a newly established Catholic-run high school in the Middle Ramu district of Papua New Guinea’s Madang province. She was married to Steven Arimbandai, a local from Josephstaal, also a teacher at Josephstaal High School. They had a child and were expecting their ... <a title="Pregnant PNG teacher Jerolyn walks 25km for her unborn baby – but dies tragically" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/pregnant-png-teacher-jerolyn-walks-25km-for-her-unborn-baby-but-dies-tragically/" aria-label="Read more about Pregnant PNG teacher Jerolyn walks 25km for her unborn baby – but dies tragically">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Jenkins, Research Fellow, University of Otago Shutterstock/elenavolf Gone are the days when health programmes were designed to simply punish or reward people to encourage behaviour change. We now know lasting behaviour change is more complex and nuanced, and this has prompted a proliferation of programmes that ... <a title="Gender-specific health programs address important issues, but risk creating new biases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/gender-specific-health-programs-address-important-issues-but-risk-creating-new-biases-155840/" aria-label="Read more about Gender-specific health programs address important issues, but risk creating new biases">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Roy, Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle Shutterstock With more infectious variants of the COVID-19 virus emerging, teachers and students have been required to wear masks in high school classrooms. It was mandatory in Greater Sydney and all of Victoria before the recent switch to remote ... <a title="7 tips for making masks work in the classroom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/7-tips-for-making-masks-work-in-the-classroom-164777/" aria-label="Read more about 7 tips for making masks work in the classroom">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Jenkins, Research Fellow, University of Otago Shutterstock/elenavolf Gone are the days when health programmes were designed to simply punish or reward people to encourage behaviour change. We now know lasting behaviour change is more complex and nuanced, and this has prompted a proliferation of programmes that ... <a title="Gender-specific health programmes address important issues, but risk creating new biases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/gender-specific-health-programmes-address-important-issues-but-risk-creating-new-biases-155840/" aria-label="Read more about Gender-specific health programmes address important issues, but risk creating new biases">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University Shutterstock A major journalistic investigation has found evidence of malicious software being used by governments around the world, including allegations of spying on prominent individuals. From a list of more 50,000 phone numbers, journalists identified more than ... <a title="How does the Pegasus spyware work, and is my phone at risk?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/how-does-the-pegasus-spyware-work-and-is-my-phone-at-risk-164781/" aria-label="Read more about How does the Pegasus spyware work, and is my phone at risk?">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn Holbrook, ARC DECRA Fellow at Deakin University, Deakin University Is the Morrison government’s COVID vaccination rollout program one of Australia’s biggest ever public policy failures? As COVID-19 infection numbers in locked-down Sydney show little sign of abating and Victoria extends its fifth lockdown, the prospect of ... <a title="Is the COVID vaccine rollout the greatest public policy failure in recent Australian history?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/is-the-covid-vaccine-rollout-the-greatest-public-policy-failure-in-recent-australian-history-164396/" aria-label="Read more about Is the COVID vaccine rollout the greatest public policy failure in recent Australian history?">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Moynihan, Assistant Professor, Bond University Shutterstock There’s a great moment in George Eliot’s 1861 classic Silas Marner, where a young woman bemoans how people with “neither ache nor pain” want to be “better than well”. Written more than a century before the rise of the “wellness ... <a title="Dr Norman Swan’s new book tests the evidence on diet, sex and the ‘bullshit’ wellness trend. Does he know what’s good for us?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/dr-norman-swans-new-book-tests-the-evidence-on-diet-sex-and-the-bullshit-wellness-trend-does-he-know-whats-good-for-us-164387/" aria-label="Read more about Dr Norman Swan’s new book tests the evidence on diet, sex and the ‘bullshit’ wellness trend. Does he know what’s good for us?">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Pirotta, Wildlife scientist, Macquarie University Shutterstock Blue whales, the largest animals to ever live, are surprisingly elusive. They’re bigger than the biggest dinosaur ever was, capable of growing over 30 metres long and can weigh over 100 tonnes — almost as long as a 737 plane ... <a title="If you see something, say something: why scientists need your help to spot blue whales off Australia’s east coast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/if-you-see-something-say-something-why-scientists-need-your-help-to-spot-blue-whales-off-australias-east-coast-164620/" aria-label="Read more about If you see something, say something: why scientists need your help to spot blue whales off Australia’s east coast">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriele Suder, Professor, RMIT University Shutterstock Online teaching became the norm almost overnight when the pandemic hit. For students, the situation’s complexity was brutal, the shift frustrating but unavoidable. Prospective students weighing up study options might have been confused too. However, they are now better placed to ... <a title="What to look for when choosing a university as the digital competition grows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/what-to-look-for-when-choosing-a-university-as-the-digital-competition-grows-162766/" aria-label="Read more about What to look for when choosing a university as the digital competition grows">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raquel Peel, Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland Netflix Netflix’s Sexy Beasts, out today, promises to move past superficial dating by having contestants meet while wearing heavy make-up and prosthetics to disguise their physical attributes. First up is Emma, the demon, a six-foot tall model from New York. ... <a title="Netflix’s Sexy Beasts tells us you can take physical attraction out of love. The reality is much more complicated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/netflixs-sexy-beasts-tells-us-you-can-take-physical-attraction-out-of-love-the-reality-is-much-more-complicated-164241/" aria-label="Read more about Netflix’s Sexy Beasts tells us you can take physical attraction out of love. The reality is much more complicated">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
RNZ News New Zealand’s cyber security agency believes China has been behind numerous hack attacks spanning years. The government joined Western allies and Japan in calling out Beijing for so-called state-sponsored hacks, including a major incursion in February when Microsoft email servers were targeted. The US has charged four Chinese nationals — three security officials ... <a title="NZ cyber agency chief worried China hacks exploiting security weakness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/nz-cyber-agency-chief-worried-china-hacks-exploiting-security-weakness/" aria-label="Read more about NZ cyber agency chief worried China hacks exploiting security weakness">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Tabloid Jubi in Jayapura The West Papuan Council of Churches (WPCC) has condemned the Indonesian government’s Special Autonomy (Otsus) law ratified by the Jakarta parliament last week, describing it as racist and warning that Papuans could “become extinct”. The WPCC was speaking in an online forum organised by the International Coalition for Papua (ICP) last ... <a title="‘We’ll be extinct,’ warns West Papuan churches, call for halt to ‘racist’ Otsus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/well-be-extinct-warns-west-papuan-churches-call-for-halt-to-racist-otsus/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’ll be extinct,’ warns West Papuan churches, call for halt to ‘racist’ Otsus">Read more</a>
