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August 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kasey Symons, Postdoctoral research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology With the Matlidas progressing to the quarter finals of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, Australia’s sports media is focussed on this global mega event and the potential it has to change the women’s game. Broadcast numbers are ... <a title="Australia just won the netball world cup. Why isn’t there room for multiple women’s world cups in our sports media?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/australia-just-won-the-netball-world-cup-why-isnt-there-room-for-multiple-womens-world-cups-in-our-sports-media-211413/" aria-label="Read more about Australia just won the netball world cup. Why isn’t there room for multiple women’s world cups in our sports media?">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Today’s release of the threat assessment by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) is the final piece in a defence and security puzzle that marks a genuine shift towards more open and public discussion of these crucial policy ... <a title="Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public for the first time is the right move" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/out-of-the-shadows-why-making-nzs-security-threat-assessment-public-for-the-first-time-is-the-right-move-211183/" aria-label="Read more about Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public for the first time is the right move">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madeline Sprajcer, Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia Shutterstock After a long day, you flop onto the sofa and find yourself dozing off while watching TV. The room is nice and warm, the sofa is comfortable, and the background noise of the TV lulls you to sleep. Then ... <a title="Why do I fall asleep on the sofa but am wide awake when I get to bed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/why-do-i-fall-asleep-on-the-sofa-but-am-wide-awake-when-i-get-to-bed-208371/" aria-label="Read more about Why do I fall asleep on the sofa but am wide awake when I get to bed?">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
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. Today’s content ELECTION Henry Cooke (Guardian): New Zealand’s Labour party is stumbling towards defeat – a scare campaign could save them Richard Harman: He’s back (paywalled) Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Christopher Luxon really ... <a title="Newsletter: August 11 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/newsletter-august-11-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: August 11 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University The federal government has scrapped plans to build the nation’s first radioactive waste storage facility on farmland near Kimba in South Australia. Frankly, it was never going to work. The plan was doomed from the start. ... <a title="The Kimba nuclear waste plan bites the dust. Here’s what went wrong and how to do better next time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/the-kimba-nuclear-waste-plan-bites-the-dust-heres-what-went-wrong-and-how-to-do-better-next-time-211344/" aria-label="Read more about The Kimba nuclear waste plan bites the dust. Here’s what went wrong and how to do better next time">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Worthley, Gastroenterologist and cancer scientist, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute Shutterstock As medical technology advances, many diseases could be detected, prevented and cured with cells, rather than pills. This branch of medicine is called cellular or cell therapy. It’s already used in clinical practice ... <a title="Genetically engineered bacteria can detect cancer cells in a world-first experiment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/genetically-engineered-bacteria-can-detect-cancer-cells-in-a-world-first-experiment-211201/" aria-label="Read more about Genetically engineered bacteria can detect cancer cells in a world-first experiment">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Howard Manns, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University It’s hard to sympathise with powerful people hounding out innocents — which is why the Coalition wanted us to know the Robodebt Royal Commission was a political witch-hunt. Poor Donald Trump wants us to know he’s the victim of ... <a title="How ‘witch-hunts’ and ‘Stockholm syndrome’ became part of political language (and what it has to do with wrestling)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/how-witch-hunts-and-stockholm-syndrome-became-part-of-political-language-and-what-it-has-to-do-with-wrestling-209375/" aria-label="Read more about How ‘witch-hunts’ and ‘Stockholm syndrome’ became part of political language (and what it has to do with wrestling)">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Moremon, Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies, Massey University New Zealanders have been put on notice that defence and security are among the bigger challenges the country faces this century. The assessment earlier this year by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Navigating a Shifting World-Te whakatere i ... <a title="The ‘number 8 wire’ days for NZ’s defence force are over – new priorities will demand bigger budgets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/the-number-8-wire-days-for-nzs-defence-force-are-over-new-priorities-will-demand-bigger-budgets-211182/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘number 8 wire’ days for NZ’s defence force are over – new priorities will demand bigger budgets">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Larcombe, Associate Professor and Head of Respiratory Environmental Health, Telethon Kids Institute Shutterstock If you asked me what’s in e-cigarettes, disposable vapes or e-liquids, my short answer would be “we don’t fully know”. The huge and increasing range of products and flavours on the market, changes ... <a title="What’s in vapes? Toxins, heavy metals, maybe radioactive polonium" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/whats-in-vapes-toxins-heavy-metals-maybe-radioactive-polonium-210462/" aria-label="Read more about What’s in vapes? Toxins, heavy metals, maybe radioactive polonium">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Hardisty, CEO, Australian Institute of Marine Science Coral on the Great Barrier Reef has regrown strongly after the big losses of 2016 and 2017, when water temperatures were significantly above the long-term average. While this is good news, it’s largely luck. The reef experienced mass bleaching ... <a title="Accelerated evolution and automated aquaculture could help coral weather the heat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/accelerated-evolution-and-automated-aquaculture-could-help-coral-weather-the-heat-209388/" aria-label="Read more about Accelerated evolution and automated aquaculture could help coral weather the heat">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Bartlett, Industry Fellow, Griffith University Shutterstock Last week, a former childcare centre worker was charged with more than 1,600 child abuse offences, sending shivers through the Australian community. There are about 1.4 million children using a childcare service (including centre-based care, family daycare and outside school ... <a title="We need more than police checks: how parents and educators can keep childcare services safe from abuse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/we-need-more-than-police-checks-how-parents-and-educators-can-keep-childcare-services-safe-from-abuse-211197/" aria-label="Read more about We need more than police checks: how parents and educators can keep childcare services safe from abuse">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giuseppe Carabetta, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock Zoom, the videoconferencing company whose fortunes soared with the pandemic-driven shift to working from home, has reportedly told its staff to get back to the office – for at least two days a week, if the commute is ... <a title="Can Australian employers stop you working from home? Here’s what the law says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/can-australian-employers-stop-you-working-from-home-heres-what-the-law-says-211339/" aria-label="Read more about Can Australian employers stop you working from home? Here’s what the law says">Read more</a>
