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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Courtney Walton, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mental Health in Elite Sports, The University of Melbourne With the Olympics drawing to a close, many athletes will begin to turn their attention to a crucial yet daunting question: what’s next? The Olympic Games are a unique event, with the ... <a title="‘When you get home it’s really lonely’: new research shows how athletes cope with post-Olympic life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/when-you-get-home-its-really-lonely-new-research-shows-how-athletes-cope-with-post-olympic-life-163576/" aria-label="Read more about ‘When you get home it’s really lonely’: new research shows how athletes cope with post-Olympic life">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Fletcher, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Finance Minister Grant Robertson delivering the 2021 budget, which included the proposed social insurance policy. GettyImages If it goes ahead, the social insurance scheme currently being discussed behind ... <a title="Why is New Zealand’s Labour government trying to push through a two-tier benefit system?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/why-is-new-zealands-labour-government-trying-to-push-through-a-two-tier-benefit-system-165615/" aria-label="Read more about Why is New Zealand’s Labour government trying to push through a two-tier benefit system?">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin Denholm, Associate Professor, Melbourne Health from www.shutterstock.com By some estimates, 2 billion people are now infected worldwide, and in 2019, around 1.4 million people died from it. It’s a pandemic infection, spread through the air — but it’s not COVID. It’s tuberculosis (or TB). Yet we’re ... <a title="Tuberculosis, the forgotten pandemic relying on a 100-year-old vaccine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/tuberculosis-the-forgotten-pandemic-relying-on-a-100-year-old-vaccine-165303/" aria-label="Read more about Tuberculosis, the forgotten pandemic relying on a 100-year-old vaccine">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nerilie Abram, Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, Australian National University Shutterstock The much-awaited new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due later today. Ahead of the ... <a title="Yes, a few climate models give unexpected predictions – but the technology remains a powerful tool" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/yes-a-few-climate-models-give-unexpected-predictions-but-the-technology-remains-a-powerful-tool-165611/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, a few climate models give unexpected predictions – but the technology remains a powerful tool">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Kristin Merga, Honorary Adjunct, University of Newcastle; Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University Johnny McClung/Unsplash Parents at a loss to find activities for their children during COVID lockdowns can encourage them to escape into a book. New research shows how reading books can help young ... <a title="Books offer a healing retreat for youngsters caught up in a pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/books-offer-a-healing-retreat-for-youngsters-caught-up-in-a-pandemic-165247/" aria-label="Read more about Books offer a healing retreat for youngsters caught up in a pandemic">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Nils Versemann/Shutterstock Crown Resorts was very sorry it had done so many wrong things in running its Melbourne casino, the company’s senior counsel, Michael Borsky, last week told Victoria’s Finkelstein royal commission. But his ... <a title="Crown Resorts is not too big to fail. It has failed already" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/crown-resorts-is-not-too-big-to-fail-it-has-failed-already-165659/" aria-label="Read more about Crown Resorts is not too big to fail. It has failed already">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth McHugh-Dillon, Lecturer in European Languages (Spanish and Latin American Studies), Monash University Nationaal Archief, CC0 If you haven’t heard of Nada, one of the most important European novels of the 20th century, you’re not alone. Written in a few short months by Carmen Laforet, it was ... <a title="Guide to the Classics: Carmen Laforet’s Nada captures longing and desire in post-war Spain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/guide-to-the-classics-carmen-laforets-nada-captures-longing-and-desire-in-post-war-spain-164495/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the Classics: Carmen Laforet’s Nada captures longing and desire in post-war Spain">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Karoly, Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Chinatopix via AP On Monday, an extremely important report on the physical science of climate change will be released to the world. Produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the report will give world leaders the most up-to-date information ... <a title="Monday’s IPCC report is a really big deal for climate change. So what is it? And why should we trust it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/07/mondays-ipcc-report-is-a-really-big-deal-for-climate-change-so-what-is-it-and-why-should-we-trust-it-165614/" aria-label="Read more about Monday’s IPCC report is a really big deal for climate change. So what is it? And why should we trust it?">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hall, Deputy Director (Research), Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University Wikimedia Commons, CC BY This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show will have a “who am I” quiz for listeners about influential figures who ... <a title="Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision for a just and equitable post-colonial world, with India leading the way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/07/jawaharlal-nehrus-vision-for-a-just-and-equitable-post-colonial-world-with-india-leading-the-way-156307/" aria-label="Read more about Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision for a just and equitable post-colonial world, with India leading the way">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney When is a cabinet not a cabinet? When it is really an intergovernmental body that is pretending to be a cabinet so it can avoid transparency? Simply calling itself a “cabinet” is not enough to trigger an exemption ... <a title="Nowhere to hide: the significance of national cabinet not being a cabinet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/06/nowhere-to-hide-the-significance-of-national-cabinet-not-being-a-cabinet-165671/" aria-label="Read more about Nowhere to hide: the significance of national cabinet not being a cabinet">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Wark, Conjoint Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle Shutterstock We learned this week of the tragic death of a 27-year-old man from Sydney who had COVID-19. This follows a 38-year-old woman who died from the virus last month. Throughout the current Delta ... <a title="Younger adults can get very sick and die from COVID too. Here’s what the data tell us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/06/younger-adults-can-get-very-sick-and-die-from-covid-too-heres-what-the-data-tell-us-165250/" aria-label="Read more about Younger adults can get very sick and die from COVID too. Here’s what the data tell us">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design, Queensland University of Technology Wacomka / Shutterstock Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the tech giant will shift from being a social media company to becoming “a metaverse company”, functioning in an “embodied internet” that blends real and virtual ... <a title="What is the metaverse? A high-tech plan to Facebookify the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/06/what-is-the-metaverse-a-high-tech-plan-to-facebookify-the-world-165326/" aria-label="Read more about What is the metaverse? A high-tech plan to Facebookify the world">Read more</a>
