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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathy Ann Townsend, Senior Lecturer in Animal Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast This, if you can believe it, is part of a magpie nest. Kathy Townsend, Author provided Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited ... <a title="Headphones, saw blades, coat hangers: how human trash in Australian bird nests changed over 195 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/headphones-saw-blades-coat-hangers-how-human-trash-in-australian-bird-nests-changed-over-195-years-164316/" aria-label="Read more about Headphones, saw blades, coat hangers: how human trash in Australian bird nests changed over 195 years">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Johnson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education, Deakin University Shutterstock Social distancing and lockdowns have disrupted university study for the past 18 months. Students are understandably stressed as shown by a dramatic drop in student satisfaction across Australia reported in the annual Student Experience Survey. Federal Education Minister Alan ... <a title="Digital learning is real-world learning. That’s why blended on-campus and online study is best" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/digital-learning-is-real-world-learning-thats-why-blended-on-campus-and-online-study-is-best-163002/" aria-label="Read more about Digital learning is real-world learning. That’s why blended on-campus and online study is best">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Veal, Adjunct Professor, Business School, University of Technology Sydney It almost seems too good to be true: a major trial in Iceland shows that cutting the standard five-day week to four days for the same pay needn’t cost employers a cent (or, to be accurate, a ... <a title="The success of Iceland’s ‘four-day week’ trial has been greatly overstated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/the-success-of-icelands-four-day-week-trial-has-been-greatly-overstated-164083/" aria-label="Read more about The success of Iceland’s ‘four-day week’ trial has been greatly overstated">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kenta McGrath, Sessional Academic in Screen Arts, Curtin University Tokyo Olympiad/IMDB Of the countless documentaries about the Olympic Games, two have long held their place on the podium. The first is Olympia (1938), Leni Riefenstahl’s landmark two-part film about the controversial 1936 Berlin Games. Funded by the ... <a title="Tokyo Olympiad, Kon Ichikawa’s documentary of the 1964 Games, is still a masterpiece" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/tokyo-olympiad-kon-ichikawas-documentary-of-the-1964-games-is-still-a-masterpiece-163800/" aria-label="Read more about Tokyo Olympiad, Kon Ichikawa’s documentary of the 1964 Games, is still a masterpiece">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eddie Clark, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington www.shutterstock.com Hate speech regulation is hard to get right. As media law specialist Steven Price has pointed out, the challenge for a democratic society lies in targeting the harm hate speech is ... <a title="Why ‘inciting violence’ should not be the only threshold for defining hate speech in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/why-inciting-violence-should-not-be-the-only-threshold-for-defining-hate-speech-in-new-zealand-164153/" aria-label="Read more about Why ‘inciting violence’ should not be the only threshold for defining hate speech in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jagadish Thaker, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University Associate health minister Ayesha Verrall receives the Pfizer vaccine. Lynn Grieveson – Newsroom/Newsroom via Getty Images New Zealanders’ intention to get a COVID-19 vaccine is at its highest since last year, at 81% of the ... <a title="Four in five New Zealanders plan to get vaccinated, but many people want more information about vaccine safety" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/four-in-five-new-zealanders-plan-to-get-vaccinated-but-many-people-want-more-information-about-vaccine-safety-164322/" aria-label="Read more about Four in five New Zealanders plan to get vaccinated, but many people want more information about vaccine safety">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison and Berejiklian governments have unveiled a joint support package for businesses and workers, as the Sydney lockdown is set to extend to and probably beyond a fourth week. But the assistance has set off a row between the ... <a title="Federal help for NSW triggers slanging match between Andrews and Morrison governments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/federal-help-for-nsw-triggers-slanging-match-between-andrews-and-morrison-governments-164404/" aria-label="Read more about Federal help for NSW triggers slanging match between Andrews and Morrison governments">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Hamilton, Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The economic support package announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is exactly what is needed, and just in the nick of time. In a number ... <a title="Support package for Sydney better and more fit for purpose than JobKeeper" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/support-package-for-sydney-better-and-more-fit-for-purpose-than-jobkeeper-164394/" aria-label="Read more about Support package for Sydney better and more fit for purpose than JobKeeper">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. We now have excess death data for most of western Europe, until the end of June 2021. The peaks are all due to Covid19. We can see clearly that the pandemic in Europe began simultaneously in Italy and Spain, and almost certainly in January 2020. While we are yet to even ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: West Europe at the onset of a New Wave of Cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-west-europe-at-the-onset-of-a-new-wave-of-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: West Europe at the onset of a New Wave of Cases">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoë Hyde, Epidemiologist, The University of Western Australia Shutterstock Earlier this month, the Australian government announced a four-phase plan to return us to something resembling normality. Under this plan, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, we will eventually treat COVID-19 “like the flu”. The hope is vaccines will ... <a title="No, we can’t treat COVID-19 like the flu. We have to consider the lasting health problems it causes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/no-we-cant-treat-covid-19-like-the-flu-we-have-to-consider-the-lasting-health-problems-it-causes-164072/" aria-label="Read more about No, we can’t treat COVID-19 like the flu. We have to consider the lasting health problems it causes">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Lim, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University Shutterstock We all know action on climate change is urgently needed. But that doesn’t mean a forest should be razed to build a wind farm. Nor should vast fields of a single crop be grown year after year ... <a title="Raze paradise to put in a biofuel crop? No, there are far better ways to tackle climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/raze-paradise-to-put-in-a-biofuel-crop-no-there-are-far-better-ways-to-tackle-climate-change-162800/" aria-label="Read more about Raze paradise to put in a biofuel crop? No, there are far better ways to tackle climate change">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sebastian Leuzinger, Professor, Auckland University of Technology Shutterstock/riekephotos CC BY-ND Climate explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it ... <a title="Climate explained: is New Zealand losing or gaining native forests?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/climate-explained-is-new-zealand-losing-or-gaining-native-forests-163976/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: is New Zealand losing or gaining native forests?">Read more</a>
