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August 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lont, Professor of Accounting and Finance, University of Otago Getty Images When record-breaking heatwaves cause train tracks to bend, airport runways to buckle, and roads to melt, as happened in the United Kingdom last month, it is likely that business performance will suffer. The problem is ... <a title="Business can no longer ignore extreme heat events – it’s becoming a danger to the bottom line" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/business-can-no-longer-ignore-extreme-heat-events-its-becoming-a-danger-to-the-bottom-line-188151/" aria-label="Read more about Business can no longer ignore extreme heat events – it’s becoming a danger to the bottom line">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Shutterstock What is the apex predator of the world? – Mahmood, age 11, Brisbane Hi Mahmood, thanks for this interesting question! Well, what sorts of animals do ... <a title="Curious Kids: what is the apex predator of the world?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/curious-kids-what-is-the-apex-predator-of-the-world-187616/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: what is the apex predator of the world?">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland Rob Griffith/AAP Counting is still underway following Papua New Guinea’s national elections, and there is still some hope that at least one woman might be elected to the country’s 118-seat parliament. At this ... <a title="Why Papua New Guinea urgently needs to elect more women to parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/why-papua-new-guinea-urgently-needs-to-elect-more-women-to-parliament-188058/" aria-label="Read more about Why Papua New Guinea urgently needs to elect more women to parliament">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Hermens, Professor of Youth Mental Health & Neurobiology, University of the Sunshine Coast Shutterstock Despite the best efforts of clinicians and researchers for decades, we still do not fully know why some people develop mental disorders and others do not. However, changes in the brain are ... <a title="‘Brain fingerprinting’ of adolescents might be able to predict mental health problems down the line" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/brain-fingerprinting-of-adolescents-might-be-able-to-predict-mental-health-problems-down-the-line-187765/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Brain fingerprinting’ of adolescents might be able to predict mental health problems down the line">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Wilson, Associate Professor in Education, University of Sydney This week, teachers in New South Wales learned they were going to get a “helping hand” preparing lessons from the start of term 4. The state’s education minister Sarah Mitchell announced teachers will be given curriculum lesson plans, ... <a title="‘This is like banging our heads against the wall’: why a move to outsource lesson planning has NSW teachers hopping mad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/this-is-like-banging-our-heads-against-the-wall-why-a-move-to-outsource-lesson-planning-has-nsw-teachers-hopping-mad-188081/" aria-label="Read more about ‘This is like banging our heads against the wall’: why a move to outsource lesson planning has NSW teachers hopping mad">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucinda O’Brien, Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Cigno is exactly the sort of business the Australian Securities and Investments Commission had in mind when it asked for stronger powers to ban the sale of harmful financial products. Cigno offers short-term loans (commonly called payday loans) ... <a title="How ‘bad credit’ lender Cigno has dodged ASIC’s grasp" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/how-bad-credit-lender-cigno-has-dodged-asics-grasp-187887/" aria-label="Read more about How ‘bad credit’ lender Cigno has dodged ASIC’s grasp">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Thomasson, Lecturer in Theatre, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images After two years of pandemic programming, with performers and audiences moved into virtual online venues, the Edinburgh International Festival celebrates its 75th anniversary this year with the best possible birthday present – ... <a title="Cancelled culture comes back: the Edinburgh Festival turns 75, alive and well after two years of pandemic disruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/cancelled-culture-comes-back-the-edinburgh-festival-turns-75-alive-and-well-after-two-years-of-pandemic-disruption-187519/" aria-label="Read more about Cancelled culture comes back: the Edinburgh Festival turns 75, alive and well after two years of pandemic disruption">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Perhaps not since the marriage equality vote has the passage of a bill in the House of Representatives carried such a combination of substantive and symbolic import as the Albanese government’s climate legislation. While not actually necessary for the implementation ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Government win on climate legislation leaves opposition looking like a stranded asset" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/grattan-on-friday-government-win-on-climate-legislation-leaves-opposition-looking-like-a-stranded-asset-188231/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Government win on climate legislation leaves opposition looking like a stranded asset">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Perhaps not since the marriage equality vote has the passage of a bill in the House of Representatives carried such a combination of substantive and symbolic import as the Albanese government’s climate legislation. While not actually necessary for the implementation ... <a title="Government win on climate legislation leaves opposition looking like a stranded asset" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/government-win-on-climate-legislation-leaves-opposition-looking-like-a-stranded-asset-188231/" aria-label="Read more about Government win on climate legislation leaves opposition looking like a stranded asset">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney Caroline Brehman/EPA/AAP Health Minister Mark Butler today announced Australia had secured 450,000 doses of a third-generation monkeypox vaccine, 22,000 of which will arrive later this week. There are now ... <a title="Australia secures 450,000 new monkeypox vaccines. What are they and who can have them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/australia-secures-450-000-new-monkeypox-vaccines-what-are-they-and-who-can-have-them-187691/" aria-label="Read more about Australia secures 450,000 new monkeypox vaccines. What are they and who can have them?">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These three charts show pandemic and post-pandemic excess deaths by age group. I highlight South Korea in light of this RNZ piece of ‘journalism’. For Omicron-related deaths, look for the period from February to May 2022. I include Italy and New Zealand for comparison; Italy and South Korea were – in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Is South Korea the Country to Follow?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-is-south-korea-the-country-to-follow/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Is South Korea the Country to Follow?">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute The Albanese government has accepted the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s recommendation to “initiate the first step” to trigger the controversial Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism to avert a supply crisis in eastern Australia. What the competition watchdog hasn’t recommended ... <a title="Avoiding a gas shortage is one thing, but what’s needed is action on prices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/avoiding-a-gas-shortage-is-one-thing-but-whats-needed-is-action-on-prices-187980/" aria-label="Read more about Avoiding a gas shortage is one thing, but what’s needed is action on prices">Read more</a>
