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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Patrick Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, Macquarie University Shutterstock Come on, you know you do it. Whether you’re in the trusted company of your spouse, or sneaking a quick one when you think nobody’s looking, we all pick our noses. Other primates do ... <a title="When you pick your nose, you’re jamming germs and contaminants up there too. 3 scientists on how to deal with your boogers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/when-you-pick-your-nose-youre-jamming-germs-and-contaminants-up-there-too-3-scientists-on-how-to-deal-with-your-boogers-185052/" aria-label="Read more about When you pick your nose, you’re jamming germs and contaminants up there too. 3 scientists on how to deal with your boogers">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Hutton, Professor, University of Newcastle Krists Luhaers/Unsplash On Monday night, Splendour in the Grass, an annual three-day music festival in Byron, New South Wales, posted to social media the news that all patrons under the age of 18 “must be accompanied by a responsible adult at ... <a title="Enforcing adult chaperones of teens at Splendour in the Grass actually undermines public health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/enforcing-adult-chaperones-of-teens-at-splendour-in-the-grass-actually-undermines-public-health-186831/" aria-label="Read more about Enforcing adult chaperones of teens at Splendour in the Grass actually undermines public health">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arman Pili, PhD candidate, Monash University Shutterstock Cane toads are invasive frogs that threaten the survival of several Australian wildlife species. Scientists and conservation managers have long grappled with how to stop the toad’s march across the continent. That’s where our new research comes in. A paper ... <a title="‘The ultimate invader’: high-tech tool promises scientists an edge over the cane toad scourge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/the-ultimate-invader-high-tech-tool-promises-scientists-an-edge-over-the-cane-toad-scourge-186542/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The ultimate invader’: high-tech tool promises scientists an edge over the cane toad scourge">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Achieving the SDGs in extraordinary times OP-ED by Armida Alisjahbana, Woochong Um and Kanni Wignaraja The start of the “Decade of Action” to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has also marked the start of an unprecedented period of overlapping crises. The Covid-19 pandemic and crises of conflict, hunger, climate change and environmental ... <a title="OP-ED: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in extraordinary times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/op-ed-achieving-the-sustainable-development-goals-in-extraordinary-times/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in extraordinary times">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Bissell, Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock The gig economy is in trouble. Rideshare drivers are cancelling in droves. Wait times for food delivery are ballooning out and driver shortages are leading to food waste. So, what’s going on? To find out more, I interviewed ... <a title="Guilt, shame, dissatisfaction: workers and customers on the gig economy (and how to make it better)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/guilt-shame-dissatisfaction-workers-and-customers-on-the-gig-economy-and-how-to-make-it-better-185502/" aria-label="Read more about Guilt, shame, dissatisfaction: workers and customers on the gig economy (and how to make it better)">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew MacLeod, Visiting Professor, War and Security Studies/International Genetics, King’s College London Independent? Helicopters rehearsing with a Taiwanese flag for Taiwan’s national day last October. Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images There is a growing antagonism towards China in Western commentary, provoked by its treatment of the ... <a title="When people say the West should support Taiwan, what exactly do they mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/when-people-say-the-west-should-support-taiwan-what-exactly-do-they-mean-186744/" aria-label="Read more about When people say the West should support Taiwan, what exactly do they mean?">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ashwin Swaminathan, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University My glorious two and a half year run of negative COVID tests came to a shuddering halt last week, after receiving a text confirming I was among the pandemic’s latest catch. My case adds to the rising slope of the ... <a title="How soon can I get COVID again? Experts now say 28 days – but you can protect yourself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/how-soon-can-i-get-covid-again-experts-now-say-28-days-but-you-can-protect-yourself-185491/" aria-label="Read more about How soon can I get COVID again? Experts now say 28 days – but you can protect yourself">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Selwyn Jones, Research Fellow, Monash University Richard Selwyn Jones, Author provided Alarming stories from Antarctica are now more frequent than ever; the ice surface is melting, floating ice shelves are collapsing and glaciers are flowing faster into the ocean. Antarctica will be the largest source of ... <a title="We studied how the Antarctic ice sheet advanced and retreated over 10,000 years. It holds warnings for the future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/we-studied-how-the-antarctic-ice-sheet-advanced-and-retreated-over-10-000-years-it-holds-warnings-for-the-future-185505/" aria-label="Read more about We studied how the Antarctic ice sheet advanced and retreated over 10,000 years. It holds warnings for the future">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah O’ Shea, Professor and Director, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, Curtin University Shutterstock The proportion of Australian university students from under-represented backgrounds has “barely moved” in more than a decade, federal Education Minister Jason Clare noted last week. About 15% of undergraduates came ... <a title="$1.5bn has gone into getting disadvantaged students into uni for very small gains. So what more can be done?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/1-5bn-has-gone-into-getting-disadvantaged-students-into-uni-for-very-small-gains-so-what-more-can-be-done-186630/" aria-label="Read more about $1.5bn has gone into getting disadvantaged students into uni for very small gains. So what more can be done?">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed Australia will follow Aotearoa New Zealand’s example and put wellbeing at the centre of the national budget. So what is a wellbeing budget? To understand that requires a short explanation of how Australia ... <a title="Australia is getting a wellbeing budget: what we can – and can’t – learn from New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/australia-is-getting-a-wellbeing-budget-what-we-can-and-cant-learn-from-new-zealand-186725/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is getting a wellbeing budget: what we can – and can’t – learn from New Zealand">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael P. Cameron, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Waikato Getty Images New Zealand’s unemployment rate hit a low of 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2021 and again in the first quarter of this year. That’s the lowest the rate has been since at least 1986, ... <a title="NZ has reached ‘full employment’ – but not all workers will benefit from a tighter labour market" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/nz-has-reached-full-employment-but-not-all-workers-will-benefit-from-a-tighter-labour-market-186717/" aria-label="Read more about NZ has reached ‘full employment’ – but not all workers will benefit from a tighter labour market">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Michelle Grattan As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. Politics editor Amanda Dunn and Michelle discuss the ... <a title="Word from The Hill: ‘Pandemic fatigue’ takes its toll of mandates and even the expert health advice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/word-from-the-hill-pandemic-fatigue-takes-its-toll-of-mandates-and-even-the-expert-health-advice-186832/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: ‘Pandemic fatigue’ takes its toll of mandates and even the expert health advice">Read more</a>
