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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn Holbrook, ARC DECRA Fellow at Deakin University, Deakin University Is the Morrison government’s COVID vaccination rollout program one of Australia’s biggest ever public policy failures? As COVID-19 infection numbers in locked-down Sydney show little sign of abating and Victoria extends its fifth lockdown, the prospect of ... <a title="Is the COVID vaccine rollout the greatest public policy failure in recent Australian history?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/is-the-covid-vaccine-rollout-the-greatest-public-policy-failure-in-recent-australian-history-164396/" aria-label="Read more about Is the COVID vaccine rollout the greatest public policy failure in recent Australian history?">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Moynihan, Assistant Professor, Bond University Shutterstock There’s a great moment in George Eliot’s 1861 classic Silas Marner, where a young woman bemoans how people with “neither ache nor pain” want to be “better than well”. Written more than a century before the rise of the “wellness ... <a title="Dr Norman Swan’s new book tests the evidence on diet, sex and the ‘bullshit’ wellness trend. Does he know what’s good for us?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/dr-norman-swans-new-book-tests-the-evidence-on-diet-sex-and-the-bullshit-wellness-trend-does-he-know-whats-good-for-us-164387/" aria-label="Read more about Dr Norman Swan’s new book tests the evidence on diet, sex and the ‘bullshit’ wellness trend. Does he know what’s good for us?">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Pirotta, Wildlife scientist, Macquarie University Shutterstock Blue whales, the largest animals to ever live, are surprisingly elusive. They’re bigger than the biggest dinosaur ever was, capable of growing over 30 metres long and can weigh over 100 tonnes — almost as long as a 737 plane ... <a title="If you see something, say something: why scientists need your help to spot blue whales off Australia’s east coast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/if-you-see-something-say-something-why-scientists-need-your-help-to-spot-blue-whales-off-australias-east-coast-164620/" aria-label="Read more about If you see something, say something: why scientists need your help to spot blue whales off Australia’s east coast">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriele Suder, Professor, RMIT University Shutterstock Online teaching became the norm almost overnight when the pandemic hit. For students, the situation’s complexity was brutal, the shift frustrating but unavoidable. Prospective students weighing up study options might have been confused too. However, they are now better placed to ... <a title="What to look for when choosing a university as the digital competition grows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/what-to-look-for-when-choosing-a-university-as-the-digital-competition-grows-162766/" aria-label="Read more about What to look for when choosing a university as the digital competition grows">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raquel Peel, Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland Netflix Netflix’s Sexy Beasts, out today, promises to move past superficial dating by having contestants meet while wearing heavy make-up and prosthetics to disguise their physical attributes. First up is Emma, the demon, a six-foot tall model from New York. ... <a title="Netflix’s Sexy Beasts tells us you can take physical attraction out of love. The reality is much more complicated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/netflixs-sexy-beasts-tells-us-you-can-take-physical-attraction-out-of-love-the-reality-is-much-more-complicated-164241/" aria-label="Read more about Netflix’s Sexy Beasts tells us you can take physical attraction out of love. The reality is much more complicated">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversations’s politics team. In this episode, politics + society editor Amanda Dunn ... <a title="Podcast with Michelle Grattan: three states in lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/podcast-with-michelle-grattan-three-states-in-lockdown-164793/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast with Michelle Grattan: three states in lockdown">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Kang, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Sydney Shutterstock The Delta variant has taken hold in NSW and Victoria, which are both in lockdown, and now in South Australia too, which will enter a lockdown tonight. The World Health Organization has predicted Delta will become the dominant ... <a title="Teens should have a say in whether they get a COVID vaccine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/teens-should-have-a-say-in-whether-they-get-a-covid-vaccine-164388/" aria-label="Read more about Teens should have a say in whether they get a COVID vaccine">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Loosemore, Professor of Construction Management, University of Technology Sydney OlegDoroshin/Shutterstock The federal government has declared its “independent assessments” plan for the National Disability Insurance Scheme “dead”. But it has another plan to save money: get people with disabilities off welfare and into jobs. It is committing ... <a title="The problem with employment services: providers profit more than job seekers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/the-problem-with-employment-services-providers-profit-more-than-job-seekers-162421/" aria-label="Read more about The problem with employment services: providers profit more than job seekers">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yee-Fui Ng, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University Dean Lewins/AAP On Monday, a senate hearing produced yet more damning evidence about the “car park rorts” affair. The Australian National Audit Office told a parliamentary committee a list of the top 20 marginal electorates guided the distribution ... <a title="The ‘car park rorts’ story is scandalous. But it will keep happening unless we close grant loopholes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/the-car-park-rorts-story-is-scandalous-but-it-will-keep-happening-unless-we-close-grant-loopholes-164779/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘car park rorts’ story is scandalous. But it will keep happening unless we close grant loopholes">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australian Tax Office The biggest unstated message from the intergenerational report released during the lull between lockdowns is that we will need more tax. Not now. At the moment it’s a matter of throwing everything ... <a title="When COVID is behind us, Australians are going to have to pay more tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/when-covid-is-behind-us-australians-are-going-to-have-to-pay-more-tax-164707/" aria-label="Read more about When COVID is behind us, Australians are going to have to pay more tax">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phil Edwards, Program Director, Australia Telescope National Facility Science, CSIRO Event Horizon Telescope project/Nature Astronomy In 2019, when astronomers captured the first image of a black hole’s shadow — a bright orange doughnut-shaped halo created by the black hole’s intense gravity bending light around it — it ... <a title="A new image shows jets of plasma shooting out of a supermassive black hole" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/a-new-image-shows-jets-of-plasma-shooting-out-of-a-supermassive-black-hole-164709/" aria-label="Read more about A new image shows jets of plasma shooting out of a supermassive black hole">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rose Butler, DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Mick Tsikas/AAP People from different class backgrounds often fall in love in books and on screen — think Sally Rooney’s Normal People, Melina Marchetta’s Looking For Alibrandi, or Arundhati Roy’s The God ... <a title="How does class impact on Australians’ love lives? New research brings a complex issue into the open" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/how-does-class-impact-on-australians-love-lives-new-research-brings-a-complex-issue-into-the-open-163893/" aria-label="Read more about How does class impact on Australians’ love lives? New research brings a complex issue into the open">Read more</a>
