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April 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meera Atkinson, Adjunct Lecturer in Writing, University of Notre Dame Australia When I began researching the transmission of transgenerational trauma and literary trauma testimony in 2010, I rarely encountered the word “trauma” in the media and national conversation. Trauma as a concept mostly only preoccupied trauma studies ... <a title="More than half of Australians will experience trauma, most before they turn 17. We need to talk about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/more-than-half-of-australians-will-experience-trauma-most-before-they-turn-17-we-need-to-talk-about-it-159801/" aria-label="Read more about More than half of Australians will experience trauma, most before they turn 17. We need to talk about it">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Sawyer, Lecturer in Paramedicine, Australian Catholic University Last week, a Victorian woman died while reportedly waiting six hours for an ambulance. Ambulance union secretary Danny Hill linked the incident to a “busy night” and ambulance ramping, which leaves paramedic crews unable to respond to other issues ... <a title="Government demands for arbitrary performance targets are contributing to ambulance delays, paramedic exhaustion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/government-demands-for-arbitrary-performance-targets-are-contributing-to-ambulance-delays-paramedic-exhaustion-159823/" aria-label="Read more about Government demands for arbitrary performance targets are contributing to ambulance delays, paramedic exhaustion">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna McIntyre, Lecturer in Media Studies, Swinburne University of Technology RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under will premiere on Stan this Saturday. The Australian-New Zealand version of the global reality TV juggernaut will share an Antipodean mode of drag with audiences around the world. Veteran drag star RuPaul ... <a title="Sashay or stay — will RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under erase Australia’s ‘ocker’ drag past?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/sashay-or-stay-will-rupauls-drag-race-down-under-erase-australias-ocker-drag-past-159918/" aria-label="Read more about Sashay or stay — will RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under erase Australia’s ‘ocker’ drag past?">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Duncan Keenan-Jones, Lecturer in Ancient History, The University of Queensland In the second episode of the current season of the TV show Lego Masters, contestants were asked to build a castle — then watch it be destroyed by a bowling ball. In the lucky dip that followed, ... <a title="What were the Spartans like? Note to Lego Masters: they didn’t build city walls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/what-were-the-spartans-like-note-to-lego-masters-they-didnt-build-city-walls-159910/" aria-label="Read more about What were the Spartans like? Note to Lego Masters: they didn’t build city walls">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sukhbir Sandhu, Associate Professor in Sustainability and Ethics, University of South Australia More than half of Australian companies plan to scale back environmental initiatives to weather the financial harm caused by the COVID pandemic, a report released this month suggests. But such a move would be bad ... <a title="Risky business: 54% of Australian companies plan to slow ‘green’ initiatives due to COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/risky-business-54-of-australian-companies-plan-to-slow-green-initiatives-due-to-covid-158532/" aria-label="Read more about Risky business: 54% of Australian companies plan to slow ‘green’ initiatives due to COVID">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barbara Pocock, Emeritus Professor University of South Australia, University of South Australia If you have been in a children’s playground recently, you may have seen a distracted parent absorbed in an intense phone conversation, swatting a child away. Sure, some are ordering tickets for The Wiggles, but ... <a title="As boundaries between work and home vanish, employees need a ‘right to disconnect’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/as-boundaries-between-work-and-home-vanish-employees-need-a-right-to-disconnect-158897/" aria-label="Read more about As boundaries between work and home vanish, employees need a ‘right to disconnect’">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Calgaro, Research Associate, Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney Deaf people are highly vulnerable to disaster risk but tend to be excluded from programs aimed at boosting preparedness and resilience, our research has found. Our study, published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, examined ... <a title="‘We always come last’: Deaf people are vulnerable to disaster risk but excluded from preparedness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/we-always-come-last-deaf-people-are-vulnerable-to-disaster-risk-but-excluded-from-preparedness-158213/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We always come last’: Deaf people are vulnerable to disaster risk but excluded from preparedness">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Celeste Young, Collaborative Research Fellow, Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities (ISILC), Victoria University Overcoming the odds is second nature to the Gippsland community. The people in this region have seen it all — fires, floods, droughts and extreme weather. And every time, these capable, resourceful and independent ... <a title="‘We know our community better than they do’: why local knowledge is key to disaster recovery in Gippsland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/we-know-our-community-better-than-they-do-why-local-knowledge-is-key-to-disaster-recovery-in-gippsland-158703/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We know our community better than they do’: why local knowledge is key to disaster recovery in Gippsland">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul X. McCarthy, Adjunct Professor, UNSW The online world is continuously expanding — always aggregating more services, more users and more activity. Last year, the number of websites registered on the “.com” domain surpassed 150,000,000. However, more than a quarter of a century since its first commercial ... <a title="We spent six years scouring billions of links, and found the web is both expanding and shrinking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/we-spent-six-years-scouring-billions-of-links-and-found-the-web-is-both-expanding-and-shrinking-159215/" aria-label="Read more about We spent six years scouring billions of links, and found the web is both expanding and shrinking">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vera Weisbecker, Associate Professor, Flinders University If a friend boasts of having a “big-brained” dog, your reaction is probably not to ask “relative to what?”. You would simply assume your friend thinks their dog is pretty smart. But are we always right to equate big brains with ... <a title="Mammals’ brains: new research shows bigger doesn’t always mean smarter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/mammals-brains-new-research-shows-bigger-doesnt-always-mean-smarter-159141/" aria-label="Read more about Mammals’ brains: new research shows bigger doesn’t always mean smarter">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Spinks, Senior Professor, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong The double helix of DNA is one of the most iconic symbols in science. By imitating the structure of this complex genetic molecule we have found a way to make artificial muscle ... <a title="DNA-inspired ‘supercoiling’ fibres could make powerful artificial muscles for robots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/dna-inspired-supercoiling-fibres-could-make-powerful-artificial-muscles-for-robots-159714/" aria-label="Read more about DNA-inspired ‘supercoiling’ fibres could make powerful artificial muscles for robots">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Gleeson, Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University Today, we are joining over 700 health professionals and academics in sending an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison urging him to take a leadership role in expanding the global production of COVID-19 vaccines and other ... <a title="Over 700 health experts are calling for urgent action to expand global production of COVID vaccines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/over-700-health-experts-are-calling-for-urgent-action-to-expand-global-production-of-covid-vaccines-159701/" aria-label="Read more about Over 700 health experts are calling for urgent action to expand global production of COVID vaccines">Read more</a>
