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July 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dougal Sutherland, Clinical Psychologist, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Shutterstock/thanun vongsuravanich A recent survey of New Zealand workplaces revealed more than a third have no workplace well-being plan in place. Yet it is necessary, now more than ever, for organisations to understand what a ... <a title="Why it’s more important than ever for workplaces to have staff well-being plans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/why-its-more-important-than-ever-for-workplaces-to-have-staff-well-being-plans-186807/" aria-label="Read more about Why it’s more important than ever for workplaces to have staff well-being plans">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Hannan, Head of Neural Plasticity and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health In a recent interview, Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke spoke about being able to live “completely normally” after two aneurysms – one in 2011 and one in 2013 ... <a title="Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is missing ‘quite a bit’ of her brain. How can people survive and thrive after brain injury?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/game-of-thrones-star-emilia-clarke-is-missing-quite-a-bit-of-her-brain-how-can-people-survive-and-thrive-after-brain-injury-187285/" aria-label="Read more about Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is missing ‘quite a bit’ of her brain. How can people survive and thrive after brain injury?">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Renee Barnes, Senior Lecturer, Journalism, University of the Sunshine Coast Shutterstock Twenty-something Melburnian Harrison Pawluck could be doing worse things than building a TikTok audience through “random acts of kindness”. He’s not out on the streets pulling risky pranks or provoking angry confrontations. He doesn’t promote bogus ... <a title="Playing on good feelings: when ‘eudaimonic’ social media goes bad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/playing-on-good-feelings-when-eudaimonic-social-media-goes-bad-187074/" aria-label="Read more about Playing on good feelings: when ‘eudaimonic’ social media goes bad">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jill Sheppard, Senior Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University The Albanese government’s turnback of a Sri Lankan asylum seeker vessel just a day after being sworn in suggests it’s business as usual for Australia’s treatment of arrivals by boat. Ever since the 2001 ... <a title="Does Australia’s harsh asylum seeker policy matter to the average Australian? It depends whether they have to get off the couch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/does-australias-harsh-asylum-seeker-policy-matter-to-the-average-australian-it-depends-whether-they-have-to-get-off-the-couch-180779/" aria-label="Read more about Does Australia’s harsh asylum seeker policy matter to the average Australian? It depends whether they have to get off the couch">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Thompson, Lecturer, Australian Catholic University Jodie Hutchinson Review: Future. Joy. Club., Finucane & Smith The theatre of the occasion starts with a selfie-seat at the foot of the staircase: floral garlands, red backcloth and a teal throne complete with hand-held mirror ball. We’re all posting on ... <a title="In Finucane & Smith’s Future. Joy. Club. the joy is much more than the sum of its parts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/in-finucane-and-smiths-future-joy-club-the-joy-is-much-more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts-186918/" aria-label="Read more about In Finucane & Smith’s Future. Joy. Club. the joy is much more than the sum of its parts">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christina Ho, Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney Mick Tsikas/AAP The NSW state government has just announced a major overhaul of its selective school program. From the 2023 intake, up to 20% of the places on offer will be set aside for students from a disadvantaged background. ... <a title="NSW is trying to make the selective school application process fairer – but is it doing enough?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/nsw-is-trying-to-make-the-selective-school-application-process-fairer-but-is-it-doing-enough-187283/" aria-label="Read more about NSW is trying to make the selective school application process fairer – but is it doing enough?">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thea van de Mortel, Professor, Nursing and Deputy Head (Learning & Teaching), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University Health departments are predicting another COVID surge related, in part, to more easily transmitted new variants and waning immunity. Given COVID cases are rising and likely underestimated, Chief ... <a title="Masks are ‘strongly suggested’ by health authorities as the winter COVID wave hits. Here’s how effective they are" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/masks-are-strongly-suggested-by-health-authorities-as-the-winter-covid-wave-hits-heres-how-effective-they-are-187006/" aria-label="Read more about Masks are ‘strongly suggested’ by health authorities as the winter COVID wave hits. Here’s how effective they are">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ellen K. Mather, Adjunct associate lecturer, Flinders University The extinct species may have been a relative of the living Griffon Vulture (pictured). Shutterstock In 1905, a fragment of a fossil wing bone discovered near the Kalamurina Homestead, South Australia, was described as an extinct eagle and named ... <a title="It was long thought these fossils came from an eagle. Turns out they belong to the only known vulture species from Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/it-was-long-thought-these-fossils-came-from-an-eagle-turns-out-they-belong-to-the-only-known-vulture-species-from-australia-187017/" aria-label="Read more about It was long thought these fossils came from an eagle. Turns out they belong to the only known vulture species from Australia">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stanley Serafin, Senior lecturer, UNSW Sydney Bradley Russell, Author provided The city of Mayapán was the largest Mayan city from approximately 1200 to 1450 AD. It was an important political, economic and religious centre, and the capital of a large state that controlled much of northwestern Yucatan ... <a title="Climate, conflict, collapse: how drought destabilised the last major precolonial Mayan city" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/climate-conflict-collapse-how-drought-destabilised-the-last-major-precolonial-mayan-city-187165/" aria-label="Read more about Climate, conflict, collapse: how drought destabilised the last major precolonial Mayan city">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne Wallis, Professor of International Security, University of Adelaide The Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting hosted by Fiji last week was the first to be held in person since 2019. Following a particularly challenging period, it was an opportunity for leaders to reconnect and agree to the ... <a title="Australia and New Zealand have a golden opportunity to build stronger ties in the Pacific – but will they take it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/australia-and-new-zealand-have-a-golden-opportunity-to-build-stronger-ties-in-the-pacific-but-will-they-take-it-186924/" aria-label="Read more about Australia and New Zealand have a golden opportunity to build stronger ties in the Pacific – but will they take it?">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia Australia is currently in its third Omicron wave (second if you live in Western Australia). This one is caused by the subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. New variants gain an advantage over previous variants by being able ... <a title="COVID hospitalisations and deaths are rising faster than cases – but that doesn’t mean more severe disease" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/covid-hospitalisations-and-deaths-are-rising-faster-than-cases-but-that-doesnt-mean-more-severe-disease-187163/" aria-label="Read more about COVID hospitalisations and deaths are rising faster than cases – but that doesn’t mean more severe disease">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ashika Paramita, PhD Candidate, Deakin University Marvel Studios Thor: Love and Thunder, the latest movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has just hit Australian cinemas. Following Thor’s adventure in the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame, the film re-introduces Jane Foster, played by Natalie Portman, now as the Mighty ... <a title="Biceps instead of boobs and butts: how Natalie Portman’s Mighty Thor brings us a new physical reality for female superheroes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/biceps-instead-of-boobs-and-butts-how-natalie-portmans-mighty-thor-brings-us-a-new-physical-reality-for-female-superheroes-186716/" aria-label="Read more about Biceps instead of boobs and butts: how Natalie Portman’s Mighty Thor brings us a new physical reality for female superheroes">Read more</a>
