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October 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shauna Hurley, PhD candidate, School of Public Health, Monash University Pexels/The Conversation There’s a common thread linking our experience of pandemics over the past 700 years. From the black death in the 14th century to COVID in the 21st, public health authorities have put emergency measures such ... <a title="How can we improve public health communication for the next pandemic? Tackling distrust and misinformation is key" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/03/how-can-we-improve-public-health-communication-for-the-next-pandemic-tackling-distrust-and-misinformation-is-key-226718/" aria-label="Read more about How can we improve public health communication for the next pandemic? Tackling distrust and misinformation is key">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Jefferson, Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University It is very common for children to have a day or two away from school due to illness. But children can also miss much longer periods of schooling if they have a serious illness or injury. This could ... <a title="How to help your child return to school after a long illness, new diagnosis or an accident" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/03/how-to-help-your-child-return-to-school-after-a-long-illness-new-diagnosis-or-an-accident-240012/" aria-label="Read more about How to help your child return to school after a long illness, new diagnosis or an accident">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Wray, PhD Candidate in Geography, Western University In recent months, many Canadian employers in both the public and private sectors have implemented return-to-office mandates, requiring workers that transitioned to remote or hybrid work during the COVID-19 pandemic to work in-person again. Employers are justifying these mandates ... <a title="Return-to-office mandates may not be the solution to downtown struggles that Canadian cities are banking on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/03/return-to-office-mandates-may-not-be-the-solution-to-downtown-struggles-that-canadian-cities-are-banking-on-239682/" aria-label="Read more about Return-to-office mandates may not be the solution to downtown struggles that Canadian cities are banking on">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colin Campbell-Hunt, Emeritus Professor in Business, University of Otago Getty Images Recent research showing the richest New Zealanders pay less tax than their counterparts in nine similar OECD countries raises, yet again, serious questions about wealth, equality and fairness. How unequal is the distribution of income in ... <a title="OECD comparisons reveal an unflattering picture of inequality in NZ – could that change?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/03/oecd-comparisons-reveal-an-unflattering-picture-of-inequality-in-nz-could-that-change-239306/" aria-label="Read more about OECD comparisons reveal an unflattering picture of inequality in NZ – could that change?">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra CHIOICE/TheConversation The Albanese government will tackle “shrinkflation” in supermarkets and potentially other parts of the retail sector. This is where the product’s size is reduced but the price stays the same, or the price is cut by less than the ... <a title="‘Shrinkflation’ is the Albanese government’s next target to protect supermarket shoppers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/03/shrinkflation-is-the-albanese-governments-next-target-to-protect-supermarket-shoppers-240339/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Shrinkflation’ is the Albanese government’s next target to protect supermarket shoppers">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deyanira Nevárez Martínez, Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University Police officers watch a homeless man follow their order to break down his tent in Venice, Calif., in July 2024. Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Homelessness is a rare issue in American ... <a title="Cities are clearing encampments, but this won’t solve homelessness − here’s a better way forward" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/03/cities-are-clearing-encampments-but-this-wont-solve-homelessness-heres-a-better-way-forward-236762/" aria-label="Read more about Cities are clearing encampments, but this won’t solve homelessness − here’s a better way forward">Read more</a>
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October 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shahram Akbarzadeh, Convenor, Middle East Studies Forum (MESF), and Deputy Director (International), Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University With Iran’s firing of some 180 ballistic missiles at Israel overnight, the Middle East is again on the brink of what would be a costly, ruinous ... <a title="Iran’s leaders have everything to lose in a direct war with Israel. Why take such a massive risk?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/02/irans-leaders-have-everything-to-lose-in-a-direct-war-with-israel-why-take-such-a-massive-risk-240322/" aria-label="Read more about Iran’s leaders have everything to lose in a direct war with Israel. Why take such a massive risk?">Read more</a>
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October 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jamie Cross, Assistant Professor of Econometrics & Statistics, Melbourne Business School Iran’s missile attack on Israel has caused global oil prices to spike this week amid growing fears a retaliation could put the global oil supply at risk. Almost one year ago to the day, I wrote ... <a title="Oil prices set to rise as Middle East tensions worsen, adding to cost-of-living crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/02/oil-prices-set-to-rise-as-middle-east-tensions-worsen-adding-to-cost-of-living-crisis-240307/" aria-label="Read more about Oil prices set to rise as Middle East tensions worsen, adding to cost-of-living crisis">Read more</a>
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October 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University Just like vice presidents themselves, in US politics, debates don’t really matter until they do. The most recent debate (and likely the last of the 2024 election cycle) between aspiring vice presidents Senator ... <a title="In a largely uneventful and inconsequential US vice presidential debate, no one can claim victory" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/02/in-a-largely-uneventful-and-inconsequential-us-vice-presidential-debate-no-one-can-claim-victory-240202/" aria-label="Read more about In a largely uneventful and inconsequential US vice presidential debate, no one can claim victory">Read more</a>
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October 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sebastian Furness, ARC Future Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland Halfpoint/Shutterstock Fourteen years ago, the older drug cousin of semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy) came onto the market. The drug, liraglutide, is sold under the brand names Victoza and Saxenda. Patents for Victoza and Saxenda ... <a title="Ozempic’s cousin drug liraglutide is about to get cheaper. But how does it stack up?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/02/ozempics-cousin-drug-liraglutide-is-about-to-get-cheaper-but-how-does-it-stack-up-234922/" aria-label="Read more about Ozempic’s cousin drug liraglutide is about to get cheaper. But how does it stack up?">Read more</a>
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October 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis B. Desmond, Lecturer, Cyberintelligence and Cybercrime Investigations, University of the Sunshine Coast AlinStock/Shutterstock In April, US lawmakers urged President Joe Biden to ban Chinese-built electric vehicles (EVs), labelling them an “existential threat to the American auto industry”. The proposed ban arose from concerns that Chinese car ... <a title="Is your car a threat to national security? It can be – regardless of where it’s made" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/02/is-your-car-a-threat-to-national-security-it-can-be-regardless-of-where-its-made-240206/" aria-label="Read more about Is your car a threat to national security? It can be – regardless of where it’s made">Read more</a>
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October 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexa Scarlata, Research Fellow, Media & Communications, RMIT University Joel Pratley/Disney+ Disney+ will add their latest Australian original to their catalogue today. The brief seems to have been to “amp up the Australianness” – and boy is it a cacophony. Last Days of the Space Age is ... <a title="Disney+ dials up the Australiana in star-studded drama Last Days of the Space Age. But does it deliver?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/02/disney-dials-up-the-australiana-in-star-studded-drama-last-days-of-the-space-age-but-does-it-deliver-239619/" aria-label="Read more about Disney+ dials up the Australiana in star-studded drama Last Days of the Space Age. But does it deliver?">Read more</a>
