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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Filia Garivaldis, Senior Lecturer, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash University Shutterstock One thing the COVID-19 pandemic has not changed is the need for employee training and skills development. Although lockdowns have reduced access to offices and increased job insecurity, they have provided the time and opportunity for building skills. ... <a title="3 things we need to get right to ensure online professional development works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/3-things-we-need-to-get-right-to-ensure-online-professional-development-works-164785/" aria-label="Read more about 3 things we need to get right to ensure online professional development works">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Twinsterphoto/Sutterstock Uber has been great for some people and bad for others. It has been good for its founders and investors. It has been good for riders who get a convenient and well-priced new way to travel. And it has been ... <a title="Vital Signs: Uber’s impact on traffic accidents is a lesson in calculating social benefit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/vital-signs-ubers-impact-on-traffic-accidents-is-a-lesson-in-calculating-social-benefit-165306/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Uber’s impact on traffic accidents is a lesson in calculating social benefit">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Michelle Grattan discusses the week in politics with University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher. This week the pair discuss the extension of the Sydney lockdown, and the anti-lockdown protests which took place over the weekend. It has been announced ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on changes in opposition policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/video-michelle-grattan-on-changes-in-opposition-policy-165384/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on changes in opposition policy">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UNSW Online wagering is the fastest-growing segment of gambling in Australia. It’s a trend of particular concern because losing money through online brokering and betting apps is associated with higher rates of gambling-related harm than other types of gambling. These apps ... <a title="Gamblers bet more when in the dark: feedback can curb their online losses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/gamblers-bet-more-when-in-the-dark-feedback-can-curb-their-online-losses-161904/" aria-label="Read more about Gamblers bet more when in the dark: feedback can curb their online losses">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathomi Gatwiri, Senior lecturer, Southern Cross University Simone Biles, the US gymnast widely considered “the greatest of all time”, withdrew from the Olympic finals this week, saying: I have to focus on my mental health […] We have to protect our minds and our bodies and not ... <a title="The power of no: Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka and Black women’s resistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/the-power-of-no-simone-biles-naomi-osaka-and-black-womens-resistance-165318/" aria-label="Read more about The power of no: Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka and Black women’s resistance">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lilly Brown, Lecturer, The University of Melbourne Content warning: This article contains distressing information on Stolen Generations and residential schools. When I read that the bodies of 215 children had been found in unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, ... <a title="The discovery of Indigenous children’s bodies in Canada is horrific, but Australia has similar tragedies it’s yet to reckon with" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/the-discovery-of-indigenous-childrens-bodies-in-canada-is-horrific-but-australia-has-similar-tragedies-its-yet-to-reckon-with-164706/" aria-label="Read more about The discovery of Indigenous children’s bodies in Canada is horrific, but Australia has similar tragedies it’s yet to reckon with">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Williamson, Professor of Microbiology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Shutterstock Since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 testing in Australia has been performed using highly sensitive PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests. But this conventional model of testing, which involves swabbing by a health-care ... <a title="Rapid antigen testing isn’t perfect. But it could be a useful part of Australia’s COVID response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/rapid-antigen-testing-isnt-perfect-but-it-could-be-a-useful-part-of-australias-covid-response-164873/" aria-label="Read more about Rapid antigen testing isn’t perfect. But it could be a useful part of Australia’s COVID response">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vicki Sentas, Senior Lecturer, UNSW Law, UNSW With rolling lockdowns now part of how Australians live in the pandemic age, important questions arise about corresponding changes in policing. Constantly changing public health orders bring not only confusion but expansive police authority to enforce many new criminal offences. ... <a title="COVID has changed policing — but now policing needs to change to respond better to COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/covid-has-changed-policing-but-now-policing-needs-to-change-to-respond-better-to-covid-164959/" aria-label="Read more about COVID has changed policing — but now policing needs to change to respond better to COVID">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia Myanmar is facing a catastrophic health crisis that could have ramifications not just for the country’s long-suffering people, but across the region as well. The country is experiencing a major spike in COVID cases — what one Doctors Without ... <a title="How a perfect storm of events is turning Myanmar into a ‘super-spreader’ COVID state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/how-a-perfect-storm-of-events-is-turning-myanmar-into-a-super-spreader-covid-state-165174/" aria-label="Read more about How a perfect storm of events is turning Myanmar into a ‘super-spreader’ COVID state">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Blair Williams, Research Fellow, Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL), Australian National University Lukas Coch/AAP Australia has been rocked by serious allegations of sexual assault and harassment that have poured out of parliament house this year. In February, former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins revealed a toxic workplace ... <a title="If Australia is serious about fixing the culture at parliament, this is the code of conduct we need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/if-australia-is-serious-about-fixing-the-culture-at-parliament-this-is-the-code-of-conduct-we-need-161884/" aria-label="Read more about If Australia is serious about fixing the culture at parliament, this is the code of conduct we need">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Earlier this month National Cabinet released a four-phase COVID response plan. It wasn’t so much a plan – it had no dates and no thresholds – but more a back-of-the-napkin thought bubble. It was sensible, but vague. National Cabinet ... <a title="Australia shouldn’t ‘open up’ before we vaccinate at least 80% of the population. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/australia-shouldnt-open-up-before-we-vaccinate-at-least-80-of-the-population-heres-why-165073/" aria-label="Read more about Australia shouldn’t ‘open up’ before we vaccinate at least 80% of the population. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University AAP Shamefully, Australia has one of the highest extinction rates in the world. And the number one threat to our ... <a title="Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year – and it will get worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/pest-plants-and-animals-cost-australia-around-25-billion-a-year-and-it-will-get-worse-164969/" aria-label="Read more about Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year – and it will get worse">Read more</a>
