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July 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bright, Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has been considering whether whipping cream canisters containing nitrous oxide should be placed in Schedule 10 of the Poisons Standard. Schedule 10 is the most restrictive category within the Poisons Standard, reserved ... <a title="Whipping cream canisters have many uses beyond ‘nangs’. Banning them isn’t necessary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/whipping-cream-canisters-have-many-uses-beyond-nangs-banning-them-isnt-necessary-164870/" aria-label="Read more about Whipping cream canisters have many uses beyond ‘nangs’. Banning them isn’t necessary">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Nils Versemann/Shutterstock So you don’t believe the official inflation figures. Why would you? They show prices climbing at an annual rate of 1.1% On Wednesday the update for June quarter is likely to show prices ... <a title="What’s in the CPI and what does it actually measure?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/whats-in-the-cpi-and-what-does-it-actually-measure-165162/" aria-label="Read more about What’s in the CPI and what does it actually measure?">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hugh Breakey, President, Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics. Senior Research Fellow, Moral philosophy, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Law Futures Centre., Griffith University Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in major Australian cities at the weekend, to protest the rolling lockdowns that have ... <a title="Public protest or selfish ratbaggery? Why free speech doesn’t give you the right to endanger other people’s health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/public-protest-or-selfish-ratbaggery-why-free-speech-doesnt-give-you-the-right-to-endanger-other-peoples-health-165079/" aria-label="Read more about Public protest or selfish ratbaggery? Why free speech doesn’t give you the right to endanger other people’s health">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Meade, Research Fellow in Economics, and in Social Sciences & Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology www.shutterstock.com With governments worldwide under pressure to ease pandemic restrictions as vaccination rates rise and impatience with border restrictions grows, new threats become clearer. One of the costliest, it is ... <a title="Why governments will have to consider the costs of long COVID when easing pandemic restrictions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/why-governments-will-have-to-consider-the-costs-of-long-covid-when-easing-pandemic-restrictions-164944/" aria-label="Read more about Why governments will have to consider the costs of long COVID when easing pandemic restrictions">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, Discipline of Linguistics, The University of Western Australia Indigenous Australians experience poorer health outcomes than non-Indigenous Australians. They are sick more often, die younger and are at higher risk of serious health complications, including heart disease. One way ... <a title="Yarns from the heart: the role of Aboriginal English in Indigenous health communication" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/yarns-from-the-heart-the-role-of-aboriginal-english-in-indigenous-health-communication-163892/" aria-label="Read more about Yarns from the heart: the role of Aboriginal English in Indigenous health communication">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Paterson, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of New England Javier Ortega-Hernández, Author provided Charles Darwin famously discussed the “imperfections” of the geological record in his book On The Origin of Species. He correctly pointed out that unless conditions are just right, it’s unlikely for organisms to ... <a title="Ancient brains: a look inside the extraordinary preservation of a 310-million-year-old nervous system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/ancient-brains-a-look-inside-the-extraordinary-preservation-of-a-310-million-year-old-nervous-system-164321/" aria-label="Read more about Ancient brains: a look inside the extraordinary preservation of a 310-million-year-old nervous system">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
RNZ Pacific Fiji’s opposition MPs who were arrested after their criticism of a government land bill say they will not be intimidated or silenced. Police have since released several leaders of the opposition who were arrested late Sunday. One of those arrested, the National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad, said he was wanted in ... <a title="Fiji opposition MPs pledge not to be silenced, despite arrests over criticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/fiji-opposition-mps-pledge-not-to-be-silenced-despite-arrests-over-criticism/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji opposition MPs pledge not to be silenced, despite arrests over criticism">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Osth, Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne YouTube With roughly half of Australia in lockdown at the moment, a common experience is a warped sense of time and poor memory. What day is it? What week is it? Did I go to the supermarket yesterday, or ... <a title="How the Groundhog Day grind of lockdown scrambles your memory and sense of time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/how-the-groundhog-day-grind-of-lockdown-scrambles-your-memory-and-sense-of-time-164951/" aria-label="Read more about How the Groundhog Day grind of lockdown scrambles your memory and sense of time">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Joseph, Professor of Human Rights Law, Griffith University Despite assurances from Prime Minister Scott Morrison that Australia was at “the front of the queue” for COVID-19 vaccines, Australia’s rate of vaccination ranks last in the OECD. Nevertheless, Australia is still ahead of scores of other nations ... <a title="How Australia’s fickleness on COVID vaccines is perpetuating global vaccine inequity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/how-australias-fickleness-on-covid-vaccines-is-perpetuating-global-vaccine-inequity-165001/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia’s fickleness on COVID vaccines is perpetuating global vaccine inequity">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Leask, Professor, University of Sydney As we try to control COVID-19, many people are keen to know what proportion of the population will need to be vaccinated in order to reach “herd immunity”. It’s a reasonable question. People are asking because they want to know when ... <a title="When will we reach herd immunity? Here are 3 reasons that’s a hard question to answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/when-will-we-reach-herd-immunity-here-are-3-reasons-thats-a-hard-question-to-answer-164560/" aria-label="Read more about When will we reach herd immunity? Here are 3 reasons that’s a hard question to answer">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicky Wright, Research Fellow, University of Sydney Shutterstock This month we’ve seen some crazy, devastating weather. Perth recorded its wettest July in decades, with 18 straight days of relentless rain. Overseas, parts of Europe and China have endured extensive flooding, with hundreds of lives lost and hundreds ... <a title="A wet winter, a soggy spring: what is the negative Indian Ocean Dipole, and why is it so important?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/a-wet-winter-a-soggy-spring-what-is-the-negative-indian-ocean-dipole-and-why-is-it-so-important-164957/" aria-label="Read more about A wet winter, a soggy spring: what is the negative Indian Ocean Dipole, and why is it so important?">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cath Ferguson, Senior research fellow, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock A parliamentary inquiry is looking into how to improve adult literacy in Australia. Having a low level of literacy is not the same thing as being illiterate. The definition of “illiterate” is the inability to read or write. ... <a title="Yes adult literacy should be improved. But governments can make their messages easier to read right now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/yes-adult-literacy-should-be-improved-but-governments-can-make-their-messages-easier-to-read-right-now-164621/" aria-label="Read more about Yes adult literacy should be improved. But governments can make their messages easier to read right now">Read more</a>
