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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University The pandemic is prompting some Australian pregnant women to give birth at home without a midwife or registered health provider, according to a survey out this week. Another new survey helps ... <a title="During COVID-19, women are opting for ‘freebirthing’ if homebirths aren’t available. And that’s a worry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/during-covid-19-women-are-opting-for-freebirthing-if-homebirths-arent-available-and-thats-a-worry-142261/" aria-label="Read more about During COVID-19, women are opting for ‘freebirthing’ if homebirths aren’t available. And that’s a worry">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Stone, General practitioner; Clinical Associate Professor, ANU Medical School, Australian National University Metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire are beginning another six weeks of lockdown due to a spike in COVID-19 cases. While this second round of lockdown may bring the case numbers under control, its effects ... <a title="Melbourne’s second lockdown will take a toll on mental health. We need to look out for the vulnerable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/melbournes-second-lockdown-will-take-a-toll-on-mental-health-we-need-to-look-out-for-the-vulnerable-142172/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne’s second lockdown will take a toll on mental health. We need to look out for the vulnerable">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Debbie Bargallie, Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University The Morrison government has just announced a plan to boost the number of Indigenous Australians in the top ranks of the Australian Public Service. The plan may be well-intentioned, but it is also one in a long line of ... <a title="‘Tokenised, silenced’: new research reveals Indigenous public servants’ experiences of racism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/tokenised-silenced-new-research-reveals-indigenous-public-servants-experiences-of-racism-141372/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Tokenised, silenced’: new research reveals Indigenous public servants’ experiences of racism">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Russell Dean Christopher Bicknell, Post-doctoral researcher in Palaeobiology , University of New England If you ventured to the New York seaside in summer, you might see a large dome-shaped animal with a spiky tail, slowly moving towards the water. These are horseshoe crabs – the animals time ... <a title="‘Living fossils’: we mapped half a billion years of horseshoe crabs to save them from blood harvests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/living-fossils-we-mapped-half-a-billion-years-of-horseshoe-crabs-to-save-them-from-blood-harvests-141042/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Living fossils’: we mapped half a billion years of horseshoe crabs to save them from blood harvests">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Kamradt-Scott, Associate professor, University of Sydney This week US President Donald Trump made good on his threat to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organisation (WHO) by sending a formal letter of withdrawal to the UN Secretary-General. In so doing, the president has initiated ... <a title="Lives at ‘grave risk’: Trump’s withdrawal from the WHO is a hit to global health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/lives-at-grave-risk-trumps-withdrawal-from-the-who-is-a-hit-to-global-health-142266/" aria-label="Read more about Lives at ‘grave risk’: Trump’s withdrawal from the WHO is a hit to global health">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Molly Glassey, Digital Editor, The Conversation Live on YouTube from 3pm WIB, 5 pm WIT, 6pm AEST today (Thursday, July 9). Use this link to watch. For West Papuans in Indonesia and Indigenous Australians who live within systemic racism and oppression, #BlackLivesMatter resonated deeply. Join Elvira Rumkabu, ... <a title="Join us for #BlackLivesMatter in the Asia Pacific – a free, live-streamed event" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/join-us-for-blacklivesmatter-in-the-asia-pacific-a-free-live-streamed-event-142292/" aria-label="Read more about Join us for #BlackLivesMatter in the Asia Pacific – a free, live-streamed event">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Blyth, Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, University of Western Australia A Victorian teenager holidaying on the NSW South Coast has been diagnosed with COVID-19, NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant said on Wednesday. The revelation follows reports senior students at Al-Taqwa College in Melbourne ... <a title="Why children and teens with symptoms should get a COVID-19 test, even if you think it’s ‘just a cough’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/why-children-and-teens-with-symptoms-should-get-a-covid-19-test-even-if-you-think-its-just-a-cough-142276/" aria-label="Read more about Why children and teens with symptoms should get a COVID-19 test, even if you think it’s ‘just a cough’">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Scheele, Research Fellow in Ecology, Australian National University This article is a preview of Flora, Fauna, Fire, a multimedia project launching on Monday July 13. The project tracks the recovery of Australia’s native plants and animals after last summer’s bushfire tragedy. Sign up to The Conversation’s ... <a title="Our field cameras melted in the bushfires. When we opened them, the results were startling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/our-field-cameras-melted-in-the-bushfires-when-we-opened-them-the-results-were-startling-139922/" aria-label="Read more about Our field cameras melted in the bushfires. When we opened them, the results were startling">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Joanne Adam, Senior Lecturer in Literacy Education and Children’s Literature: Course Coordinator Master of Teaching (Primary), Edith Cowan University Global support for the Black Lives Matter movement isn’t only about standing up against the injustice done to George Floyd, or Indigenous Australians in custody. People are ... <a title="Children’s books must be diverse, or kids will grow up believing white is superior" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/childrens-books-must-be-diverse-or-kids-will-grow-up-believing-white-is-superior-140736/" aria-label="Read more about Children’s books must be diverse, or kids will grow up believing white is superior">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Flavio Romero Macau, Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management and Global Logistics, Edith Cowan University You’re nervous, I get it. Panic buying is back, not as strong as in March and more localised in Melbourne. Once again shop shelves have been emptied of pasta, toilet paper and ... <a title="Don’t panic (again): here’s why Melbourne’s supermarket shortages will quickly pass" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/dont-panic-again-heres-why-melbournes-supermarket-shortages-will-quickly-pass-142288/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t panic (again): here’s why Melbourne’s supermarket shortages will quickly pass">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Webb, Dean, Graduate Research, University of Canberra It seems sometimes literary fiction performs a bellwether function: signalling changes; alerting us to the directions in which a society is headed. The 2020 Miles Franklin shortlist seems to bear this out in six novels whose topics shimmer with ... <a title="Trauma, resilience, sex and art: your guide to the 2020 Miles Franklin shortlist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/trauma-resilience-sex-and-art-your-guide-to-the-2020-miles-franklin-shortlist-140937/" aria-label="Read more about Trauma, resilience, sex and art: your guide to the 2020 Miles Franklin shortlist">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liam Petterson, Assistant Editor, Health + Medicine, The Conversation Australia Let’s be honest: during coronavirus lockdown it was hard to resist the allure of internet intimacy. Rates of watching porn skyrocketed in Australia during isolation. But have you ever wondered what effects consuming adult content can have ... <a title="Is watching adult content bad for your health? We asked 5 experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/is-watching-adult-content-bad-for-your-health-we-asked-5-experts-140550/" aria-label="Read more about Is watching adult content bad for your health? We asked 5 experts">Read more</a>
