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December 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hoi Lun Cheng, Marie Bashir Clinical Research Fellow in Adolescent Health, University of Sydney Shutterstock If your clothes are feeling snug after lockdown, you’re not alone. A survey of more than 22,000 people across 30 countries found almost one-third of respondents gained weight during the COVID pandemic. ... <a title="COVID kilos: why now is the best time to shed them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/covid-kilos-why-now-is-the-best-time-to-shed-them-171933/" aria-label="Read more about COVID kilos: why now is the best time to shed them">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sophie Adams, Research Fellow, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW Shutterstock Almost a third of Australia’s estimated ten million households now have solar on the roof. But as the nation moving fastest to produce energy on our homes, we are also encountering teething problems, such as “curtailment” ... <a title="Solar curtailment is emerging as a new challenge to overcome as Australia dashes for rooftop solar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/solar-curtailment-is-emerging-as-a-new-challenge-to-overcome-as-australia-dashes-for-rooftop-solar-172152/" aria-label="Read more about Solar curtailment is emerging as a new challenge to overcome as Australia dashes for rooftop solar">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne In 1980, I was in London and working at the Roundhouse performing arts centre. Thelma Holt, the legendary director of the Roundhouse, told me she had booked an Australian circus ... <a title="Circus Oz is to close after 44 years. They irrevocably changed Australian circus, and brought it to the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/circus-oz-is-to-close-after-44-years-they-irrevocably-changed-australian-circus-and-brought-it-to-the-world-173586/" aria-label="Read more about Circus Oz is to close after 44 years. They irrevocably changed Australian circus, and brought it to the world">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Huw Griffiths, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Sydney Prudence Upton Review: Death of a Salesman directed by Paige Rattray, Sydney Theatre Company Director Paige Rattray has made an interesting choice in the opening moments of Sydney Theatre Company’s new production of Arthur Miller’s Death of ... <a title="Sydney Theatre Company’s Death of a Salesman understands how our lives are defined by dreams and delusions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/sydney-theatre-companys-death-of-a-salesman-understands-how-our-lives-are-defined-by-dreams-and-delusions-173415/" aria-label="Read more about Sydney Theatre Company’s Death of a Salesman understands how our lives are defined by dreams and delusions">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Wood, Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney Shutterstock Australian children aged 5-11 will start to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from January 10, after it cleared the final regulatory step and was recommended for use in this age group by the ... <a title="Safety, side effects, allergies and doses. The COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine for 5-11 year olds explained" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/safety-side-effects-allergies-and-doses-the-covid-19-pfizer-vaccine-for-5-11-year-olds-explained-173323/" aria-label="Read more about Safety, side effects, allergies and doses. The COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine for 5-11 year olds explained">Read more</a>
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December 10, 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 Foreign affairs, defence, trade Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): China strategy dominates New Zealand’s ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 10 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-10-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 10 2021">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato GettyImages The National Party’s recent call for a royal commission of inquiry into New Zealand’s pandemic response may have been part of a wider political strategy, with former leader Judith Collins highly critical of the government’s handling of the ... <a title="A century on from the 1919 influenza inquiry, NZ needs a royal commission into its COVID-19 response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/a-century-on-from-the-1919-influenza-inquiry-nz-needs-a-royal-commission-into-its-covid-19-response-173494/" aria-label="Read more about A century on from the 1919 influenza inquiry, NZ needs a royal commission into its COVID-19 response">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Omid Rezaei, PhD Candidate, Edith Cowan University Department of Defence/ AAP In recent months we have seen images of Afghan people, fleeing their country and seeking refuge in Australia. But people from Afghanistan have a long history in Australia. From the 1860s to the 1930s, they helped ... <a title="‘I say Tajikistan or Uzbekistan’: why Afghan refugees feel unwelcome in Australia, even after becoming citizens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/i-say-tajikistan-or-uzbekistan-why-afghan-refugees-feel-unwelcome-in-australia-even-after-becoming-citizens-170557/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I say Tajikistan or Uzbekistan’: why Afghan refugees feel unwelcome in Australia, even after becoming citizens">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Russell McGregor, Adjunct Professor of History, James Cook University Mitchell Library Exactly 100 years ago tomorrow, a bird that had been relegated to extinction made a comeback. The exquisitely beautiful paradise parrot was rediscovered by Cyril Jerrard, a grazier from Gayndah in Queensland’s Burnett district, on December ... <a title="100 years ago, this man discovered an exquisite parrot thought to be extinct. What came next is a tragedy we must not repeat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/100-years-ago-this-man-discovered-an-exquisite-parrot-thought-to-be-extinct-what-came-next-is-a-tragedy-we-must-not-repeat-171939/" aria-label="Read more about 100 years ago, this man discovered an exquisite parrot thought to be extinct. What came next is a tragedy we must not repeat">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Baré, Honorary Fellow, LH Martin Institute, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Twenty years’ experience of casual conversion clauses in Australian universities’ employment agreements shows these have not reduced the number of casual staff they employ. No one should be surprised at how few offers of conversion ... <a title="Unis offered as few as 1 in 100 casuals permanent status in 2021. Why aren’t conversion rules working for these staff?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/unis-offered-as-few-as-1-in-100-casuals-permanent-status-in-2021-why-arent-conversion-rules-working-for-these-staff-172046/" aria-label="Read more about Unis offered as few as 1 in 100 casuals permanent status in 2021. Why aren’t conversion rules working for these staff?">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW shutterstock If you are worried about inequality you probably lament the end of death duties. At first in Queensland and then in the rest of the country, Australia became one of the first nations in the world to abolish death duties ... <a title="Vital Signs: the case against death duties just got stronger" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/vital-signs-the-case-against-death-duties-just-got-stronger-173409/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: the case against death duties just got stronger">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter McNeil, Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney Gabrielle Chanel, photograph by Henry Clarke, published in Vogue France, 1954. Paris Musées. © Henry Clarke, Paris Musées / Palais Galliera / ADAGP. Copyright Agency, 2021 Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, friend of artist Jean Cocteau and ... <a title="Friday essay: Chanel’s complex legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/friday-essay-chanels-complex-legacy-172761/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: Chanel’s complex legacy">Read more</a>
