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April 1, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erika Penney, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Technology Sydney Photo by cottonbro studio/Pexels So Mum or Dad has died, or moved to aged care, and now you’ve got to pack up their house. It’s a huge job and you’re dreading it. It’s normal to feel grief, ... <a title="How to look after your mental health while packing up Mum or Dad’s home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/01/how-to-look-after-your-mental-health-while-packing-up-mum-or-dads-home-223956/" aria-label="Read more about How to look after your mental health while packing up Mum or Dad’s home">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Pirotta, Postdoctoral Researcher and Wildlife Scientist, Macquarie University Michael Smith ITWP, Shutterstock Thousands of bus-sized humpback whales are currently on their way to Australian waters. They’ve spent the summer feeding in the cold waters of Antarctica before heading north to breed and calve. You can see ... <a title="Sex, birth and whalesong: life on the humpback highway" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/01/sex-birth-and-whalesong-life-on-the-humpback-highway-225580/" aria-label="Read more about Sex, birth and whalesong: life on the humpback highway">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Menzies, Senior Lecturer in International Business, University of the Sunshine Coast Have you ever met someone, been handed a business card, and found yourself without one to hand back? Perhaps you offered an alternative, saying “let’s connect on LinkedIn”, or displayed a scannable QR code on ... <a title="Despite appearances, digital networking hasn’t killed the business card – yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/01/despite-appearances-digital-networking-hasnt-killed-the-business-card-yet-223858/" aria-label="Read more about Despite appearances, digital networking hasn’t killed the business card – yet">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca J. Collie, Scientia Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW Sydney Research shows that students who are confident about their ability to succeed at school tend to be more academically successful. Researchers call the thoughts, actions and emotions behind this confidence “academic agency”. Essentially, it is about ... <a title="How do we help students from disadvantaged backgrounds feel confident about school?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/01/how-do-we-help-students-from-disadvantaged-backgrounds-feel-confident-about-school-222895/" aria-label="Read more about How do we help students from disadvantaged backgrounds feel confident about school?">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology Burger King France/YouTube/Screenshot This morning, breakfast television shows will be reporting obscure, although mildly believable, announcements from organisations and brands about new products, services or discoveries. Social media platforms will also be awash with similar ... <a title="Will you be this year’s ‘April fish’? Businesses have a long history of using April Fools’ Day to try and prank us all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/01/will-you-be-this-years-april-fish-businesses-have-a-long-history-of-using-april-fools-day-to-try-and-prank-us-all-224861/" aria-label="Read more about Will you be this year’s ‘April fish’? Businesses have a long history of using April Fools’ Day to try and prank us all">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jocelyn Jones, Research Associate in Justice Health and Social Issues, Curtin University The 1997 Bringing Them Home report into the removal of Aboriginal children from their families was a turning point in Australia’s history. The inquiry rejected past government policies of assimilation and endorsed the importance of ... <a title="What is kinship care? Why is it favoured for Aboriginal children over foster care?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/30/what-is-kinship-care-why-is-it-favoured-for-aboriginal-children-over-foster-care-219115/" aria-label="Read more about What is kinship care? Why is it favoured for Aboriginal children over foster care?">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2024
EDITORIAL: By Pip Hinman and Susan Price Meta, the giant social media corporation, has “unpublished” Green Left’s longstanding Facebook page, which had tens of thousands of followers. We had been regularly posting stories, videos and photographs on the page from our consistent reporting of the news and views that seldom get into the mainstream media. ... <a title="Green Left fights another Facebook ban without warning over Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/30/green-left-fights-another-facebook-ban-without-warning-over-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Green Left fights another Facebook ban without warning over Gaza">Read more</a>
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March 29, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Ronny Kareni Since the atrocious footage of the suffering of an indigenous Papuan man reverberates in the heart of Puncak by the brute force of Indonesia’s army in early February, shocking tactics deployed by those in power to silence critics has been unfolding. Nowhere is this more evident than in the plight of ... <a title="Indonesian military apologies fail to mask the harassment, gagging of Papuan leaders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/29/indonesian-military-apologies-fail-to-mask-the-harassment-gagging-of-papuan-leaders/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military apologies fail to mask the harassment, gagging of Papuan leaders">Read more</a>
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March 29, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. My earlier article – Can ‘Good’ be the Greater Evil? – looked at the issue of how wars should end, and how Good versus Evil framing of international conflicts makes it difficult for participants – especially those who are convinced they are the Good in an epic battle against an Evil ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – World War Two: Baddies and Goodies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/29/keith-rankin-analysis-world-war-two-baddies-and-goodies/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – World War Two: Baddies and Goodies">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
EDITORIAL: The Jakarta Post It happens again and again; indigenous Papuans fall victim to Indonesian soldiers. This time, we have photographic evidence for the brutality, with videos on social media showing a Papuan man being tortured by a group of plainclothes men alleged to be the Indonesian Military (TNI) members. One clip shows the man’s ... <a title="The Jakarta Post: Stop fighting fire with fire in Papua – it only leads to a bigger fire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/the-jakarta-post-stop-fighting-fire-with-fire-in-papua-it-only-leads-to-a-bigger-fire/" aria-label="Read more about The Jakarta Post: Stop fighting fire with fire in Papua – it only leads to a bigger fire">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tama Leaver, Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University Prateek Katyal/Unsplash Meta’s Instagram and Threads apps are “slowly” rolling out a change that will no longer recommend political content by default. The company defines political content broadly as being “potentially related to things like laws, elections, or social ... <a title="Instagram and Threads are limiting political content. This is terrible for democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/instagram-and-threads-are-limiting-political-content-this-is-terrible-for-democracy-226756/" aria-label="Read more about Instagram and Threads are limiting political content. This is terrible for democracy">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn J. Whitaker, Director of the Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy & Associate Professor, New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity A strange and eclectic range of activities takes place across these few weeks of the year. Some enjoy the season of hot ... <a title="What is the Stations of the Cross ritual, and why do Christians still perform it at Easter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/what-is-the-stations-of-the-cross-ritual-and-why-do-christians-still-perform-it-at-easter-225902/" aria-label="Read more about What is the Stations of the Cross ritual, and why do Christians still perform it at Easter?">Read more</a>
