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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nenad Naumovski, Associate Professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Canberra Sleep is essential for good health. Poor sleep quality, or not enough sleep, can negatively affect our mood, cognitive function, and immune system. Stress can impact our sleep, and stress and anxiety associated with ... <a title="Having trouble sleeping? Here’s the science on 3 traditional bedtime remedies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/having-trouble-sleeping-heres-the-science-on-3-traditional-bedtime-remedies-150360/" aria-label="Read more about Having trouble sleeping? Here’s the science on 3 traditional bedtime remedies">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The base level of JobSeeker and related payments will increase by $50 a fortnight from April 1 under changes that will also toughen the obligations on people seeking work. The boost will take the payment to $307 a week. It ... <a title="$50 a fortnight rise in JobSeeker comes with tougher job search requirements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/50-a-fortnight-rise-in-jobseeker-comes-with-tougher-job-search-requirements-155858/" aria-label="Read more about $50 a fortnight rise in JobSeeker comes with tougher job search requirements">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caroline Shaw, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of Otago New Zealand has the highest per capita car ownership in the OECD, and reducing emissions from the transport sector is seen as a wicked problem. As part of its recently released advice for the government’s first emissions ... <a title="NZ’s smoking rates dropped dramatically thanks to a hard-hitting campaign. Could we do the same to bring emissions down?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/nzs-smoking-rates-dropped-dramatically-thanks-to-a-hard-hitting-campaign-could-we-do-the-same-to-bring-emissions-down-153081/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s smoking rates dropped dramatically thanks to a hard-hitting campaign. Could we do the same to bring emissions down?">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Liberal maverick Craig Kelly has defected to the crossbench, giving Prime Minister Scott Morrison no warning before his surprise announcement to Tuesday’s Coalition parties meeting. Kelly, who strongly promotes alternative, unproven treatments for COVID said: “If I’m to speak out ... <a title="Maverick Liberal Craig Kelly defects to crossbench, vowing to continue to ‘use my voice’ on controversial COVID treatments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/maverick-liberal-craig-kelly-defects-to-crossbench-vowing-to-continue-to-use-my-voice-on-controversial-covid-treatments-155857/" aria-label="Read more about Maverick Liberal Craig Kelly defects to crossbench, vowing to continue to ‘use my voice’ on controversial COVID treatments">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Greenberg, Dean of Arts, University of Auckland The world was excited by the news last week that NASA’s Perseverance rover had successfully landed in a Martian crater. The rover will now set about collecting samples from what scientists say was an ancient lake fed by a ... <a title="How did NASA’s Martian rover come to land in a crater named after a tiny Balkan village?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/how-did-nasas-martian-rover-come-to-land-in-a-crater-named-after-a-tiny-balkan-village-155740/" aria-label="Read more about How did NASA’s Martian rover come to land in a crater named after a tiny Balkan village?">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Pike, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, The Open University In 2020, World Rugby undertook a painstaking policy process to address the issue of transwomen in rugby. This led to guidelines that exclude transwomen from competing in women’s rugby at the World Cup level — the first international ... <a title="Why the World Rugby guidelines banning trans athletes from the women’s game are reasonable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/why-the-world-rugby-guidelines-banning-trans-athletes-from-the-womens-game-are-reasonable-152178/" aria-label="Read more about Why the World Rugby guidelines banning trans athletes from the women’s game are reasonable">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chandra Salgado Kent, Associate Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University Review: Whale Fall, written by Ian Sinclair and directed by Melissa Cantwell for The Kabuki Drop. Commissioned by PICA and co-presented with Perth Festival. Whale Fall follows the emotional journey of a 12-year-old boy, Caleb (Ashton ... <a title="Perth Festival review: Whale Fall is a powerful story about a trans boy, and the life of a whale" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/perth-festival-review-whale-fall-is-a-powerful-story-about-a-trans-boy-and-the-life-of-a-whale-155733/" aria-label="Read more about Perth Festival review: Whale Fall is a powerful story about a trans boy, and the life of a whale">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University What’s the difference between Google and Facebook? One difference is that in the past week Google has more-or-less agreed to pay Australian news outlets for their content faced with the threat of government action to ... <a title="One of these things is not like the others: why Facebook is beyond our control" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others-why-facebook-is-beyond-our-control-155748/" aria-label="Read more about One of these things is not like the others: why Facebook is beyond our control">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damien Finch, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Melbourne In Western Australia’s northeast Kimberley region, on Balanggarra Country, a two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo spans the sloping ceiling of a rock shelter above the Drysdale River. In a paper published today in Nature Human Behaviour, we date the artwork ... <a title="This 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia’s oldest Aboriginal rock painting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/this-17-500-year-old-kangaroo-in-the-kimberley-is-australias-oldest-aboriginal-rock-painting-154181/" aria-label="Read more about This 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia’s oldest Aboriginal rock painting">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Hendriks, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Curtin University A recent petition circulated by Sydney school girl Chanel Contos called for schools to provide better education on consent, and to do so much earlier. In the petition, which since Thursday has been signed by more than 5,000 people, ... <a title="Not as simple as ‘no means no’: what young people need to know about consent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/not-as-simple-as-no-means-no-what-young-people-need-to-know-about-consent-155736/" aria-label="Read more about Not as simple as ‘no means no’: what young people need to know about consent">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Wilkie, Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics; Head of Monash Business School, Monash University When I was the chief economist at the US Federal Communications Commission, we oversaw was the acquisition of DirecTV, the satellite pay-TV platform, by News Corp in 2003. Prior to the merger, ... <a title="The news media bargaining code could backfire if small media outlets aren’t protected: an economist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/the-news-media-bargaining-code-could-backfire-if-small-media-outlets-arent-protected-an-economist-explains-155745/" aria-label="Read more about The news media bargaining code could backfire if small media outlets aren’t protected: an economist explains">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, La Trobe University A lot has happened over the past year, so you can be forgiven for not having a clear memory of what some of the major concerns were at the beginning of the pandemic. However, if you think back to the ... <a title="Catching COVID from surfaces is very unlikely. So perhaps we can ease up on the disinfecting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/catching-covid-from-surfaces-is-very-unlikely-so-perhaps-we-can-ease-up-on-the-disinfecting-155359/" aria-label="Read more about Catching COVID from surfaces is very unlikely. So perhaps we can ease up on the disinfecting">Read more</a>
