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July 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Sievert, Research Fellow in Food Systems, Deakin University Australia was once the world’s largest exporter of live animals. But exports have declined in recent years. In May, the federal government announced live export of sheep by sea would end on May 1 2028, in response to ... <a title="Our beef with ‘Big Meat’: the power perpetuating Australia’s live export trade is at play elsewhere" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/30/our-beef-with-big-meat-the-power-perpetuating-australias-live-export-trade-is-at-play-elsewhere-235655/" aria-label="Read more about Our beef with ‘Big Meat’: the power perpetuating Australia’s live export trade is at play elsewhere">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stuart Evans, Lecturer Teacher Education, Physical Education, Sport and Movement., La Trobe University Ziggy Mars/Shutterstock Apart from literacy and numeracy, some of the most important skills children learn in their primary school years are throwing and catching. These are considered “fundamental movement skills” because they underpin other, ... <a title="Even if they aren’t sporty, all kids need to throw and catch. How can you help if your child is struggling?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/30/even-if-they-arent-sporty-all-kids-need-to-throw-and-catch-how-can-you-help-if-your-child-is-struggling-234274/" aria-label="Read more about Even if they aren’t sporty, all kids need to throw and catch. How can you help if your child is struggling?">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John L. Hopkins, Associate professor, Swinburne University of Technology Next month, changes to the Australian Fair Work Act will give workers the formal right to disconnect from all work communication outside their usual work hours. The main driver for introducing “right to disconnect” laws has been to ... <a title="The right to disconnect is coming to Australia. What does this mean for you?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/30/the-right-to-disconnect-is-coming-to-australia-what-does-this-mean-for-you-231690/" aria-label="Read more about The right to disconnect is coming to Australia. What does this mean for you?">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edith Jennifer Hill, Associate Lecturer, Learning & Teaching Innovation, Flinders University Nara Smith/Instagram If you’re on TikTok, you’ve probably come across Nara Smith. The 22-year-old model and influencer has been showered in viral fame since she started posting on the platform in late 2022. At the time ... <a title="TikTokers are entranced by Nara Smith’s tradwife aesthetic and ‘domestic bliss’. But confusing it for reality could be harmful" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/30/tiktokers-are-entranced-by-nara-smiths-tradwife-aesthetic-and-domestic-bliss-but-confusing-it-for-reality-could-be-harmful-235017/" aria-label="Read more about TikTokers are entranced by Nara Smith’s tradwife aesthetic and ‘domestic bliss’. But confusing it for reality could be harmful">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2024
The fifth report in a five-part series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women that took place in the Marshall Islands last week. SPECIAL REPORT: By Netani Rika in Majuro On a hastily-erected wall in the Marshall Islands International Conference Centre hang the names of dead women, victims of gender-based violence (GBV). At ... <a title="A Wall of Shame – but do Pacific Islanders even notice gender deaths?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/30/a-wall-of-shame-but-do-pacific-islanders-even-notice-gender-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about A Wall of Shame – but do Pacific Islanders even notice gender deaths?">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nial Wheate, Professor and Director Academic Excellence, Macquarie University Pavel Kosolapov/Shutterstock Last week, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration added intravenous (IV) fluids to the growing list of medicines in short supply. The shortage is due to higher-than-expected demand and manufacturing issues. Two particular IV fluids are affected: ... <a title="Hospitals worldwide are short of saline. We can’t just switch to other IV fluids – here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/hospitals-worldwide-are-short-of-saline-we-cant-just-switch-to-other-iv-fluids-heres-why-235584/" aria-label="Read more about Hospitals worldwide are short of saline. We can’t just switch to other IV fluids – here’s why">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior sports journalist The Fijiana women’s sevens rugby team have lost both pool matches at the Paris Olympics today and look set to miss the quarterfinals in the process. Bronze medallists at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Fijians lost 17-14 to Canada in their first pool game. China then handed ... <a title="Paris Olympics: Fijiana sevens on thin ice after losing two games" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/paris-olympics-fijiana-sevens-on-thin-ice-after-losing-two-games/" aria-label="Read more about Paris Olympics: Fijiana sevens on thin ice after losing two games">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily Nabong, PhD Researcher in Civil Engineering, University of Sydney Last week, a strong typhoon left a trail of destruction across the Philippines, Taiwan and China. Super Typhoon Gaemi began as a tropical storm but intensified rapidly, leaving at least 65 people dead and triggering environmental fears ... <a title="Manila is reeling after a super typhoon. We must prepare fast-growing megacities for worsening disasters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/manila-is-reeling-after-a-super-typhoon-we-must-prepare-fast-growing-megacities-for-worsening-disasters-235598/" aria-label="Read more about Manila is reeling after a super typhoon. We must prepare fast-growing megacities for worsening disasters">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Blair, Teaching Fellow in Music, University of Otago Getty Images The announcement on The Chills’ social media last night that Martin Phillipps had died hit me in the chest: shock, sadness, my stomach in flutters. Martin was a friend, and his death has deeply saddened me. ... <a title="Martin Phillipps, 1963–2024: Dunedin loses a musical son, ‘rain taps the window pane’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/martin-phillipps-1963-2024-dunedin-loses-a-musical-son-rain-taps-the-window-pane-235647/" aria-label="Read more about Martin Phillipps, 1963–2024: Dunedin loses a musical son, ‘rain taps the window pane’">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University Maximumm/Shutterstock Our insatiable demand for digital content and services has been driving a rise in energy-hungry data centres. The International Energy Agency reports global data centre electricity consumption could double in a few short years, reaching 1,000 ... <a title="Data centres are guzzling up too much electricity. Can we make them more efficient?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/data-centres-are-guzzling-up-too-much-electricity-can-we-make-them-more-efficient-235591/" aria-label="Read more about Data centres are guzzling up too much electricity. Can we make them more efficient?">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne The United States election will be held on November 5. It’s been a week since President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential contest and endorsed his vice ... <a title="Trump marginally ahead of Harris in US national polls, but Harris improves from Biden’s polls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/trump-marginally-ahead-of-harris-in-us-national-polls-but-harris-improves-from-bidens-polls-235632/" aria-label="Read more about Trump marginally ahead of Harris in US national polls, but Harris improves from Biden’s polls">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Flinders University In the past week, old comments by Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance about people without children have resurfaced, offending huge swathes of the American public. In a 2021 interview, Vance ... <a title="George Washington didn’t have biological children. So, why is the criticism of Kamala Harris touching such a nerve?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/george-washington-didnt-have-biological-children-so-why-is-the-criticism-of-kamala-harris-touching-such-a-nerve-235590/" aria-label="Read more about George Washington didn’t have biological children. So, why is the criticism of Kamala Harris touching such a nerve?">Read more</a>
