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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma Sharp, NHMRC Early Career Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Shutterstock Last week Facebook’s internal research revealed Instagram’s toxic effects on some young people’s body image — particularly girls. One study by Facebook of teen Instagram users in the US and UK found more than 40% of ... <a title="Instagram can make teens feel bad about their body, but parents can help. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/instagram-can-make-teens-feel-bad-about-their-body-but-parents-can-help-heres-how-168093/" aria-label="Read more about Instagram can make teens feel bad about their body, but parents can help. Here’s how">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Govt Covid strategy Tess McClure (Guardian): ‘Calculated risk’: Ardern gambles as New Zealand ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 23 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-23-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 23 2021">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hall, Deputy Director (Research), Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University Ryohei Moriya/Yomiuri Shimbun/AP On Friday, the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the US will meet in Washington for the first in-person Quad summit. Hosted by US President Joe Biden, the attendees are slated to discuss a ... <a title="Explainer: what exactly is the Quad and what’s on the agenda for their Washington summit?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/explainer-what-exactly-is-the-quad-and-whats-on-the-agenda-for-their-washington-summit-167988/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what exactly is the Quad and what’s on the agenda for their Washington summit?">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Heinemann, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Canterbury Ivan YudinTASS via Getty Images Legislators around the world are being asked to reconsider how to regulate the latest developments in gene technology, genome editing and gene silencing. Both the European Court of Justice and the ... <a title="Calling the latest gene technologies ‘natural’ is a semantic distraction — they must still be regulated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/calling-the-latest-gene-technologies-natural-is-a-semantic-distraction-they-must-still-be-regulated-166352/" aria-label="Read more about Calling the latest gene technologies ‘natural’ is a semantic distraction — they must still be regulated">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Baell, Research Professor in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University Shutterstock Many hopes have been pinned on repurposing existing drugs, such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, to treat COVID-19. However, we shouldn’t be too surprised these drugs haven’t yet lived up ... <a title="Ivermectin shows us how hard it is to use old drugs for COVID. Here’s how to do better next time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/ivermectin-shows-us-how-hard-it-is-to-use-old-drugs-for-covid-heres-how-to-do-better-next-time-168192/" aria-label="Read more about Ivermectin shows us how hard it is to use old drugs for COVID. Here’s how to do better next time">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Executive Dean, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University The number of preschools pursuing learning through nature play is growing fast worldwide. However, the effectiveness and impacts of this approach is largely untested, and we recently completed the first large-scale study in the world to explicitly ... <a title="Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/children-learn-science-in-nature-play-long-before-they-get-to-school-classrooms-and-labs-166106/" aria-label="Read more about Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Davis, Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne shutter_o/Shutterstock Much has been written about the taxpayer-funded windfalls to some companies provided by the A$90 billion JobKeeper scheme. Their gains have come from grants given to them to offset projected COVID-19 losses — with no obligation ... <a title="Australia’s banks got $188 billion in cheap loans from the RBA. Now they’re funding share buybacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/australias-banks-got-188-billion-in-cheap-loans-from-the-rba-now-theyre-funding-share-buybacks-167890/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s banks got $188 billion in cheap loans from the RBA. Now they’re funding share buybacks">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Gorman, Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University NASA, CC BY-SA On October 5, an unusual crew will fly to the International Space Station. Director Klim Shipenko and actor Yulia Peresild will spend a week and a half on the station shooting scenes for ... <a title="From poo politics to rubbish disposal: 5 big questions about the International Space Station becoming a movie set" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/from-poo-politics-to-rubbish-disposal-5-big-questions-about-the-international-space-station-becoming-a-movie-set-168282/" aria-label="Read more about From poo politics to rubbish disposal: 5 big questions about the International Space Station becoming a movie set">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The New AUKUS security agreement has bound Australia even more tightly to the United States and Britain. But it has brought blowback against all three countries from France – which was blindsided by the cancellation of its contract to supply ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: British High Commissioner Vicki Treadell on AUKUS and climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/22/politics-with-michelle-grattan-british-high-commissioner-vicki-treadell-on-aukus-and-climate-change-168491/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: British High Commissioner Vicki Treadell on AUKUS and climate change">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2021
A View from Afar – LIVE @ MIDDAY Thursday September 30: In this podcast, Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will analyse the AUKUS Alliance and will deep-dive into: How the AUKUS Alliance has triggered a geopolitical realignment. Why has this Anglophone AUKUS alliance formed? And what’s the fallout? What does China do now? How ... <a title="SCHEDULED LIVE @ Midday Thurs Sept 30: AUKUS Alliance Triggers Geopolitical Realignment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/22/live-thurs-midday-buchanan-manning-deep-dive-into-aukus-alliance/" aria-label="Read more about SCHEDULED LIVE @ Midday Thurs Sept 30: AUKUS Alliance Triggers Geopolitical Realignment">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. New Zealand was said to have been sidelined when the trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States was announced a week ago. But very quickly the “Aukus” pact has taken on an unpopularity in this country, with a consensus forming that New Zealand is best out ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Why Australia’s nuclear-sub defence plans are unpopular in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/22/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-why-australias-nuclear-sub-defence-plans-are-unpopular-in-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Why Australia’s nuclear-sub defence plans are unpopular in NZ">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ann L Brower, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, University of Canterbury James Ross/AAP News of Melbourne’s earthquake today made my left leg hurt. That’s the leg I nearly lost. On February 22 2011, there were nine of us on a red bus from Sumner to Canterbury University ... <a title="Earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings do. And those lovely decorative bits are the first to fall" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/22/earthquakes-dont-kill-people-buildings-do-and-those-lovely-decorative-bits-are-the-first-to-fall-168476/" aria-label="Read more about Earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings do. And those lovely decorative bits are the first to fall">Read more</a>
