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December 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Brakenridge, PhD Candidate, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute New figures show global diabetes prevalence has increased by 16% in the past two years, with 537 million adults (aged 20-79) now estimated to be living with the chronic condition. Over this same time period, COVID has stopped ... <a title="COVID saw us sitting longer – and diabetes rose globally by 16% in 2 years. Time to get moving" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/covid-saw-us-sitting-longer-and-diabetes-rose-globally-by-16-in-2-years-time-to-get-moving-171945/" aria-label="Read more about COVID saw us sitting longer – and diabetes rose globally by 16% in 2 years. Time to get moving">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Marie Emerson, Senior Lecturer in Child and Family Psychology, University of Canterbury Shutterstock Research has tremendous potential to help the estimated 93,000 autistic New Zealanders live the lives they want to live. The trouble is, funding for autism research is currently skewed away from the areas ... <a title="Autistic people need a greater say in where NZ’s autism research funding is spent – here’s a way forward" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/autistic-people-need-a-greater-say-in-where-nzs-autism-research-funding-is-spent-heres-a-way-forward-171948/" aria-label="Read more about Autistic people need a greater say in where NZ’s autism research funding is spent – here’s a way forward">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Science, in the not-so-recent-past, has often had a bad press. It’s been personified, particularly by the political left, as Frankenstein, as agents of capitalism, classical liberalism, colonialism, sexism (yang over yin), eugenics, and god-like pretension. More recently though, in the zeitgeists of climate change awareness and covid, it’s had an unusually ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Science, Scientists, and Scientism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/keith-rankin-analysis-science-scientists-and-scientism/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Science, Scientists, and Scientism">Read more</a>
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December 6, 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 National Party Morgan Godfery (Guardian): Christopher Luxon is out of step with most ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 06 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-06-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 06 2021">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin St. P. Walsh, Associate professor of art history and archaeology, Chapman University Philippe Starck / Axiom Space A new era of space stations is about to kick off. NASA has announced three commercial space station proposals for development, joining an earlier proposal by Axiom Space. These ... <a title="Private space stations are coming. Will they be better than their predecessors?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/private-space-stations-are-coming-will-they-be-better-than-their-predecessors-170871/" aria-label="Read more about Private space stations are coming. Will they be better than their predecessors?">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Isabel Booth, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania Mapbox/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Underinsurance is more common than many realise. And if you live in an area where most people don’t have enough home and/or contents insurance, the financial and social catastrophe that ... <a title="Is your neighbourhood underinsured? Search our map to find out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/is-your-neighbourhood-underinsured-search-our-map-to-find-out-168836/" aria-label="Read more about Is your neighbourhood underinsured? Search our map to find out">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia A. O’Brien, Visiting Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University; Adjunct Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC; Adjunct Professor, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University US National Archives “Pacific Ablaze” read Australian papers on December 8 1941, as the world learned about the ... <a title="80 years on, the attack on Pearl Harbour offers lessons for today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/80-years-on-the-attack-on-pearl-harbour-offers-lessons-for-today-171953/" aria-label="Read more about 80 years on, the attack on Pearl Harbour offers lessons for today">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Morphett, Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Cigarette butts with filters are the most commonly littered item worldwide, with a staggering 4.5 trillion of them tossed into the environment each year. This is a huge problem; many end up on beaches ... <a title="Making the tobacco industry pay for cigarette litter could stop 4.5 billion butts polluting the Australian environment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/making-the-tobacco-industry-pay-for-cigarette-litter-could-stop-4-5-billion-butts-polluting-the-australian-environment-171831/" aria-label="Read more about Making the tobacco industry pay for cigarette litter could stop 4.5 billion butts polluting the Australian environment">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Banks, Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Shutterstock Dingoes are often demonised as a danger to livestock, while many consider them a natural and essential part of the environment. But is our most controversial wild species actually native to ... <a title="Why dingoes should be considered native to mainland Australia – even though humans introduced them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/why-dingoes-should-be-considered-native-to-mainland-australia-even-though-humans-introduced-them-172756/" aria-label="Read more about Why dingoes should be considered native to mainland Australia – even though humans introduced them">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Josephine Ryan, English/Literacy Education Lecturer and Deputy Head, School of Education (Victoria), Australian Catholic University Shutterstock Teaching graduates want “more time spent in schools”. This research finding is noted in the discussion paper of the teacher education review announced by the federal education minister in March this ... <a title="We’re short of teachers, and the struggles to find training placements in schools add to the problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/were-short-of-teachers-and-the-struggles-to-find-training-placements-in-schools-add-to-the-problem-172486/" aria-label="Read more about We’re short of teachers, and the struggles to find training placements in schools add to the problem">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tara Stringer, PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology You’ve found the perfect dress. You’ve tried it on before and you know it looks great. Now it’s on sale, a discount so large the store is practically giving it away. Should you buy it? For some of us ... <a title="‘I can only do so much’: we asked fast-fashion shoppers how ethical concerns shape their choices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/06/i-can-only-do-so-much-we-asked-fast-fashion-shoppers-how-ethical-concerns-shape-their-choices-172978/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I can only do so much’: we asked fast-fashion shoppers how ethical concerns shape their choices">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judith Parson, Senior Lecturer, Child Play Therapy, Deakin University Shutterstock Your child’s experience of needles in their early years may impact how they feel about and react to subsequent vaccinations. So it’s important to reduce the chance of a negative experience. But what can parents do to ... <a title="Is your child frightened of needles? Here’s how to prepare them for their COVID vaccine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/05/is-your-child-frightened-of-needles-heres-how-to-prepare-them-for-their-covid-vaccine-170791/" aria-label="Read more about Is your child frightened of needles? Here’s how to prepare them for their COVID vaccine">Read more</a>
