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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherie Russell, PhD Candidate, Deakin University Unsplash/Rod Long, CC BY Humans have an evolutionary preference for sweetness. Sweet foods, like fruit and honey, were an important energy source for our ancestors. However, in the modern world, sweetened foods are readily available, very cheap and advertised extensively. Now, ... <a title="Food and drinks are getting sweeter. Even if it’s not all sugar, it’s bad for our health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/food-and-drinks-are-getting-sweeter-even-if-its-not-all-sugar-its-bad-for-our-health-187605/" aria-label="Read more about Food and drinks are getting sweeter. Even if it’s not all sugar, it’s bad for our health">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Welch, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland Getty Images New Zealand has likely passed the peak of the most recent COVID-19 wave, thanks to strong hybrid immunity in the community and with the number of hospitalisations at the lower end of what was originally expected. The seven-day ... <a title="New Zealand’s latest COVID wave is levelling off, with fewer people in hospital than feared" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/new-zealands-latest-covid-wave-is-levelling-off-with-fewer-people-in-hospital-than-feared-187773/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s latest COVID wave is levelling off, with fewer people in hospital than feared">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Another trial over secret political donations Allegations of political corruption are once again at the heart of a new High Court trial this week. The trial follows straight on from the “not guilty” verdict for those running the New Zealand First Foundation. And this latest trial is once again ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Another trial over secret political donations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-another-trial-over-secret-political-donations/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Another trial over secret political donations">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meredith Nash, Professor and Associate Dean – Community, Australian National University Shutterstock Women have been doing fieldwork in Antarctica for more than 40 years. Yet they comprise just 25% of expeditioners in the Australian Antarctic Program. Despite decades of progress, historical issues with sexism and gender bias ... <a title="People stationed in Antarctica menstruate too – and it’s a struggle. Here’s how we can support them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/people-stationed-in-antarctica-menstruate-too-and-its-a-struggle-heres-how-we-can-support-them-187617/" aria-label="Read more about People stationed in Antarctica menstruate too – and it’s a struggle. Here’s how we can support them">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Russian President Vladimir Putin habitually rattles his nuclear sabres when things start looking grim for Moscow, and has done so long before his ill-advised invasion of Ukraine. In February 2008, he promised to target Ukraine with ... <a title="Are Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats a bluff? In a word – probably" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/are-vladimir-putins-nuclear-threats-a-bluff-in-a-word-probably-187689/" aria-label="Read more about Are Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats a bluff? In a word – probably">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Swerissen, Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University Shutterstock Around 3% (6,100) of the 200,000 residents in Australia’s aged care facilities had COVID, as of July 22, in addition to 3,400 staff. About 1,000 facilities – nearly 40% of the total – had an outbreak. Aged care residents ... <a title="4 in 10 nursing homes have a COVID outbreak and the death rate is high. What’s going wrong?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/4-in-10-nursing-homes-have-a-covid-outbreak-and-the-death-rate-is-high-whats-going-wrong-187775/" aria-label="Read more about 4 in 10 nursing homes have a COVID outbreak and the death rate is high. What’s going wrong?">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Cooke, Senior lecturer, RMIT University Getty You would have heard Australia’s environment isn’t doing well. A grim story of “crisis and decline” was how Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek described the situation when she launched the State of the Environment Report last week. Climate change, habitat destruction, ... <a title="Protecting 30% of Australia’s land and sea by 2030 sounds great – but it’s not what it seems" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/protecting-30-of-australias-land-and-sea-by-2030-sounds-great-but-its-not-what-it-seems-187435/" aria-label="Read more about Protecting 30% of Australia’s land and sea by 2030 sounds great – but it’s not what it seems">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Neil Saintilan, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Image: Pamela Marcum, GTM Research Reserve, Florida, Author provided It may not always be clear why global temperature rise must be kept below 1.5℃, compared to 2℃ or 3℃. Research published today in the journal Science shows this ... <a title="Not waving, drowning: why keeping warming under 1.5℃ is a life-or-death matter for tidal marshes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/not-waving-drowning-why-keeping-warming-under-1-5-is-a-life-or-death-matter-for-tidal-marshes-187540/" aria-label="Read more about Not waving, drowning: why keeping warming under 1.5℃ is a life-or-death matter for tidal marshes">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucas Walsh, Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University Darren England/AAP You might think that in 2022 it would be utterly uncontroversial for a footy club to have rainbow colours on a jersey to celebrate diversity. Unfortunately, the Manly Sea ... <a title="‘It’s kind of suffocating’: queer young Australians speak about how they feel at school and what they think of politicians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/its-kind-of-suffocating-queer-young-australians-speak-about-how-they-feel-at-school-and-what-they-think-of-politicians-187010/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It’s kind of suffocating’: queer young Australians speak about how they feel at school and what they think of politicians">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Lukas Coch/AAP Jim Chalmers delivers bad economic news well, which is a good thing because there’s a great deal of it about, with a lot more to come. The treasurer – at this early stage shaping up as one of ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Jim Chalmers is a good performer, but can he hold the public’s trust through hard times?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/grattan-on-friday-jim-chalmers-is-a-good-performer-but-can-he-hold-the-publics-trust-through-hard-times-187872/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Jim Chalmers is a good performer, but can he hold the public’s trust through hard times?">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Saul Eslake, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania As he had promised to do almost since the day he became treasurer, Jim Chalmers has presented a gloomy set of forecasts for the Australian economy in his first formal economic statement to the new parliament on Thursday. Inflation is ... <a title="The Chalmers graphs: 7.75% inflation, plunging real wages, weak growth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/the-chalmers-graphs-7-75-inflation-plunging-real-wages-weak-growth-187851/" aria-label="Read more about The Chalmers graphs: 7.75% inflation, plunging real wages, weak growth">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Coles, Senior Lecturer, Employment Relations, Department of Management, Deakin University, Deakin University Shutterstock It has been a fantastic year for Australian cinematographers in Hollywood. Australian directors of photography represented two of the five nominees for best cinematography at the 2022 Oscars. Greig Fraser won the Oscar ... <a title="Precarious employment, hiring discrimination and a toxic workplace: what work looks like for Australian cinematographers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/precarious-employment-hiring-discrimination-and-a-toxic-workplace-what-work-looks-like-for-australian-cinematographers-187080/" aria-label="Read more about Precarious employment, hiring discrimination and a toxic workplace: what work looks like for Australian cinematographers">Read more</a>
