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November 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Donne Potter, Professor, Research Centre for Hauora and Health, Massey University Getty Images Almost three years into the COVID pandemic, it clearly isn’t over. New offshoots of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 continue to proliferate worldwide. The virus is mutating extensively and convergently (meaning the same ... <a title="With a COVID ‘variant soup’ looming, New Zealand urgently needs another round of vaccine boosters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/08/with-a-covid-variant-soup-looming-new-zealand-urgently-needs-another-round-of-vaccine-boosters-193616/" aria-label="Read more about With a COVID ‘variant soup’ looming, New Zealand urgently needs another round of vaccine boosters">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Jackson, Professor, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University Shutterstock A water war is brewing in the Northern Territory – and the battle centres around a line on a map. Where the line is drawn determines how much groundwater is available for irrigation, mining and gas extraction. The ... <a title="Mining vs rivers: a single line on a map could determine the future of water in the Northern Territory" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/08/mining-vs-rivers-a-single-line-on-a-map-could-determine-the-future-of-water-in-the-northern-territory-192626/" aria-label="Read more about Mining vs rivers: a single line on a map could determine the future of water in the Northern Territory">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Penelope Crossley, Associate Professor of Law, The University of Sydney Law School, University of Sydney Prudence Upton/Sydney Theatre Company Review: RBG: Of Many, One, directed by Priscilla Jackman, Sydney Theatre Company Writing a play about the life and legacy of American Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... <a title="RBG: Of Many, One is a beautifully crafted, virtuosically performed play about Ruth Bader Ginsberg" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/08/rbg-of-many-one-is-a-beautifully-crafted-virtuosically-performed-play-about-ruth-bader-ginsberg-192854/" aria-label="Read more about RBG: Of Many, One is a beautifully crafted, virtuosically performed play about Ruth Bader Ginsberg">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nataliya Ilyushina, Research Fellow, RMIT University Koshiro K/Shutterstock In the wake of Elon Musk closing the deal to buy Twitter on October 27 and soon after firing the management, users have been reconsidering the platform. Hashtags #TwitterMigration and #TwitterExodus are gaining popularity, and the most common name ... <a title="What is Mastodon, the ‘Twitter alternative’ people are flocking to? Here’s everything you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/08/what-is-mastodon-the-twitter-alternative-people-are-flocking-to-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-194059/" aria-label="Read more about What is Mastodon, the ‘Twitter alternative’ people are flocking to? Here’s everything you need to know">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karen E McNamara, Associate Professor, The University of Queensland Dan Himbrechts/AAP There’s a lot at stake over the next fortnight as nations gather at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt. But the stakes are perhaps highest for the Pacific islands and their people. A report by the ... <a title="‘Teaching our children from books, not the sea’: how climate change is eroding human rights in Vanuatu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/08/teaching-our-children-from-books-not-the-sea-how-climate-change-is-eroding-human-rights-in-vanuatu-192016/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Teaching our children from books, not the sea’: how climate change is eroding human rights in Vanuatu">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sukhmani Khorana, Senior Research Fellow, Western Sydney University Shutterstock Australia’s mainstream media has long viewed refugees, migrants and Indigenous communities through a “deficit lens”. That’s where these populations – in all their glorious complexity – are framed simply as a “problem” that needs to be “fixed”. Never ... <a title="Moving beyond the media’s ‘deficit lens’ is essential for racialised peoples to claim belonging. Here’s how they’re doing it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/08/moving-beyond-the-medias-deficit-lens-is-essential-for-racialised-peoples-to-claim-belonging-heres-how-theyre-doing-it-192739/" aria-label="Read more about Moving beyond the media’s ‘deficit lens’ is essential for racialised peoples to claim belonging. Here’s how they’re doing it">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2022
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT, ELECTION Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Much Worse Than It Looks Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Battle of the polls: Internal poll has Labour equal with ... <a title="Newsletter – New Zealand Politics Daily – November 08 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/08/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-08-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter – New Zealand Politics Daily – November 08 2022">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephan Lewandowsky, Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol, and Honorary Professor of Psychology, The University of Western Australia Here are two common ways of thinking about democracy in the online era. First, the internet is a liberation technology and will usher in an era of global ... <a title="Is the global decline in democracy linked to social media? We combed through the evidence to find out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/08/is-the-global-decline-in-democracy-linked-to-social-media-we-combed-through-the-evidence-to-find-out-193841/" aria-label="Read more about Is the global decline in democracy linked to social media? We combed through the evidence to find out">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia The recent sudden end to the Bruce Lehrmann trial last month raises again whether the jury is fit for purpose in a 21st century hyper-connected world. That jury’s service in the Lehrmann case ended ... <a title="Can juries still deliver justice in high-profile cases in the age of social media?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/08/can-juries-still-deliver-justice-in-high-profile-cases-in-the-age-of-social-media-193843/" aria-label="Read more about Can juries still deliver justice in high-profile cases in the age of social media?">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Graham, Associate Professor of Psychology, UNSW Sydney Pexels, CC BY-SA For the one in 13 people who suffer from phobias, the mere mention of spiders, heights, enclosed spaces or other triggers can cause distress. Fortunately, phobias are highly treatable with a psychological therapy called “exposure therapy”. ... <a title="Scared of needles? Claustrophobic? One longer session of exposure therapy could help as much as several short ones" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/08/scared-of-needles-claustrophobic-one-longer-session-of-exposure-therapy-could-help-as-much-as-several-short-ones-193525/" aria-label="Read more about Scared of needles? Claustrophobic? One longer session of exposure therapy could help as much as several short ones">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dorina Pojani, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Chauffeur mums are a well-known Australian phenomenon. A lack of convenient transport options coupled with gendered roles has made many suburban women (and their children) car-dependent, whether they like it or not. And, more often ... <a title="The challenge for ‘chauffeur mums’: navigating a city that wasn’t planned for women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/08/the-challenge-for-chauffeur-mums-navigating-a-city-that-wasnt-planned-for-women-193392/" aria-label="Read more about The challenge for ‘chauffeur mums’: navigating a city that wasn’t planned for women">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca English, Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology Jessica Lewis/Unsplash, CC BY-NC An increasing number of Australian families are educating their children at home, either through homeschooling or distance education. My research highlights how some parents are not necessarily choosing to homeschool for religious reasons ... <a title="‘He was in fear of his life’: bullying can be a major factor in deciding to homeschool" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/08/he-was-in-fear-of-his-life-bullying-can-be-a-major-factor-in-deciding-to-homeschool-193621/" aria-label="Read more about ‘He was in fear of his life’: bullying can be a major factor in deciding to homeschool">Read more</a>
