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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shelley Hannigan, Senior Lecturer in Art Education, Deakin University Shutterstock This article is part of a series providing school students with evidence-based advice for choosing subjects in their senior years. If you’re thinking of taking a performing or visual arts subject in years 11 and 12, you ... <a title="Art, drama and music lower stress. Here’s what you need to know if you’re thinking of taking arts in years 11 and 12" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/art-drama-and-music-lower-stress-heres-what-you-need-to-know-if-youre-thinking-of-taking-arts-in-years-11-and-12-164713/" aria-label="Read more about Art, drama and music lower stress. Here’s what you need to know if you’re thinking of taking arts in years 11 and 12">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne AAP/Lukas Coch This week’s Newspoll, conducted August 4-7 from a sample of 1,527, gave Labor a 53-47 lead, unchanged from three weeks ago. Primary votes were 39% Coalition (steady), 39% Labor (steady), 11% Greens ... <a title="First negative Newspoll rating for Morrison since start of pandemic; 47% of unvaccinated would take Pfizer but not AstraZeneca" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/first-negative-newspoll-rating-for-morrison-since-start-of-pandemic-47-of-unvaccinated-would-take-pfizer-but-not-astrazeneca-165665/" aria-label="Read more about First negative Newspoll rating for Morrison since start of pandemic; 47% of unvaccinated would take Pfizer but not AstraZeneca">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
By Jordan Bond , RNZ News reporter A New Zealand public health expert says the highly transmissible delta variant of covid-19 could prompt a local lockdown with even one community case in the country. Otago University professor Nick Wilson said of the the 25 covid-19 cases currently in managed isolation and quarantine, “most” are likely ... <a title="Just one delta covid-19 case could prompt NZ lockdown, says expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/just-one-delta-covid-19-case-could-prompt-nz-lockdown-says-expert/" aria-label="Read more about Just one delta covid-19 case could prompt NZ lockdown, says expert">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Journalists already under threat of military arrest, jail and torture in Myanmar are now fronting a covid-19 national crisis as the virus rips through a country stripped bare, writes Phil Thornton. SPECIAL REPORT: By Phil Thornton of the International Federation of Journalists It is six months since Myanmar’s military began dismantling the institutional framework supporting ... <a title="Myanmar: A nation in crisis as the covid pandemic takes hold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/myanmar-a-nation-in-crisis-as-the-covid-pandemic-takes-hold/" aria-label="Read more about Myanmar: A nation in crisis as the covid pandemic takes hold">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content National Party Jane Patterson (RNZ): National Party’s annual conference: Something old, something blue – but little new Liam Hehir ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 9 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-9-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 9 2021">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phil Bellinger, Lecturer in exercise science, Griffith University The Tokyo Olympic Games have seen incredible performances in the short-distance track events. We have seen two major world records fall: the men’s and women’s 400-metre hurdles – and numerous personal best times. In the women’s 400-metre hurdles, five ... <a title="What’s behind the spate of super-fast sprints at the Tokyo Olympics? Technology plays a role, but the real answer is training" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/whats-behind-the-spate-of-super-fast-sprints-at-the-tokyo-olympics-technology-plays-a-role-but-the-real-answer-is-training-165737/" aria-label="Read more about What’s behind the spate of super-fast sprints at the Tokyo Olympics? Technology plays a role, but the real answer is training">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Klugman, Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Murmurs regarding the decline of the Olympics appear to have been premature. Despite the well-founded critiques, doubts, concerns, and ambivalence before the Tokyo games began, they have ... <a title="The Olympics still have the power to inspire — and reveal our nastier impulses and hypocrisies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/the-olympics-still-have-the-power-to-inspire-and-reveal-our-nastier-impulses-and-hypocrisies-165602/" aria-label="Read more about The Olympics still have the power to inspire — and reveal our nastier impulses and hypocrisies">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Courtney Walton, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mental Health in Elite Sports, The University of Melbourne With the Olympics drawing to a close, many athletes will begin to turn their attention to a crucial yet daunting question: what’s next? The Olympic Games are a unique event, with the ... <a title="‘When you get home it’s really lonely’: new research shows how athletes cope with post-Olympic life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/when-you-get-home-its-really-lonely-new-research-shows-how-athletes-cope-with-post-olympic-life-163576/" aria-label="Read more about ‘When you get home it’s really lonely’: new research shows how athletes cope with post-Olympic life">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Fletcher, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Finance Minister Grant Robertson delivering the 2021 budget, which included the proposed social insurance policy. GettyImages If it goes ahead, the social insurance scheme currently being discussed behind ... <a title="Why is New Zealand’s Labour government trying to push through a two-tier benefit system?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/why-is-new-zealands-labour-government-trying-to-push-through-a-two-tier-benefit-system-165615/" aria-label="Read more about Why is New Zealand’s Labour government trying to push through a two-tier benefit system?">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin Denholm, Associate Professor, Melbourne Health from www.shutterstock.com By some estimates, 2 billion people are now infected worldwide, and in 2019, around 1.4 million people died from it. It’s a pandemic infection, spread through the air — but it’s not COVID. It’s tuberculosis (or TB). Yet we’re ... <a title="Tuberculosis, the forgotten pandemic relying on a 100-year-old vaccine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/tuberculosis-the-forgotten-pandemic-relying-on-a-100-year-old-vaccine-165303/" aria-label="Read more about Tuberculosis, the forgotten pandemic relying on a 100-year-old vaccine">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nerilie Abram, Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, Australian National University Shutterstock The much-awaited new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due later today. Ahead of the ... <a title="Yes, a few climate models give unexpected predictions – but the technology remains a powerful tool" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/yes-a-few-climate-models-give-unexpected-predictions-but-the-technology-remains-a-powerful-tool-165611/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, a few climate models give unexpected predictions – but the technology remains a powerful tool">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Kristin Merga, Honorary Adjunct, University of Newcastle; Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University Johnny McClung/Unsplash Parents at a loss to find activities for their children during COVID lockdowns can encourage them to escape into a book. New research shows how reading books can help young ... <a title="Books offer a healing retreat for youngsters caught up in a pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/books-offer-a-healing-retreat-for-youngsters-caught-up-in-a-pandemic-165247/" aria-label="Read more about Books offer a healing retreat for youngsters caught up in a pandemic">Read more</a>
