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August 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zuleyha Keskin, Associate Professor, Charles Sturt University With the world still in shock over the Taliban’s lightning-fast takeover of Afghanistan, Afghan people, especially women, wonder what kind of life awaits the nation. When pressed about preserving the rights of women, a Taliban spokesperson said the Taliban would ... <a title="Explainer: what is shariah law and what version of it is the Taliban likely to implement?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/25/explainer-what-is-shariah-law-and-what-version-of-it-is-the-taliban-likely-to-implement-166490/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is shariah law and what version of it is the Taliban likely to implement?">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Wood, Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney Shutterstock In July Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) provisionally approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged 12-15. The Australian Technical Advisory group on Immunisation (ATAGI) subsequently recommended kids in this age group with ... <a title="Under-12s are increasingly catching COVID-19. How sick are they getting and when will we be able to vaccinate them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/25/under-12s-are-increasingly-catching-covid-19-how-sick-are-they-getting-and-when-will-we-be-able-to-vaccinate-them-165948/" aria-label="Read more about Under-12s are increasingly catching COVID-19. How sick are they getting and when will we be able to vaccinate them?">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Martin, Research Scientist, Taronga Conservation Society Australia & Adjunct lecturer, University of Sydney Artwork by Arison Kul from Lae Papua New Guinea Am I not pretty enough? This article is part of The Conversation’s new series introducing you to unloved animals that need our help. A ... <a title="Pacific Island bats are utterly fascinating, yet under threat and overlooked. Meet 4 species" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/25/pacific-island-bats-are-utterly-fascinating-yet-under-threat-and-overlooked-meet-4-species-165765/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Island bats are utterly fascinating, yet under threat and overlooked. Meet 4 species">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By T.J. Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Media, Queensland University of Technology Headway/Unsplash Almost everyone can agree communication is important. There is much less agreement about what, exactly, communication is or how best to develop skills in it. Communication today is more multi-modal than ever, but ... <a title="Communication is changing — and most universities haven’t kept up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/25/communication-is-changing-and-most-universities-havent-kept-up-165754/" aria-label="Read more about Communication is changing — and most universities haven’t kept up">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Taylor, Senior Teaching Fellow, Bond University Mushroom Pictures and Pariah Productions Based on the autobiographical books of notorious stand-over man and self-made celebrity Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read, Andrew Dominik’s outlandish biopic Chopper detonated on Australian screens in 2000. The film was an audacious combination of hard-hitting ... <a title="Chopper is a knowing wink at the audience. Will audiences 20 years later still wink back?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/25/chopper-is-a-knowing-wink-at-the-audience-will-audiences-20-years-later-still-wink-back-165748/" aria-label="Read more about Chopper is a knowing wink at the audience. Will audiences 20 years later still wink back?">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Breen, Professor of Law, University of Waikato GettyImages With the government’s announcement last week that 12–to-15-year-olds can now receive the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, New Zealand has joined a growing list of countries expanding their vaccination rollouts. A Ministry of Health survey in June found 58% ... <a title="What rights do NZ children and their parents have when giving consent to be vaccinated?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/25/what-rights-do-nz-children-and-their-parents-have-when-giving-consent-to-be-vaccinated-166495/" aria-label="Read more about What rights do NZ children and their parents have when giving consent to be vaccinated?">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has taken to likening Australia’s coming out of COVID to the Croods, a family in a children’s film, emerging from a cave. That’s when he is not urging us to focus on the light at the end of ... <a title="View from The Hill: Achieving vaccine targets could be followed by a (pre-election) health ‘pinch point’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/24/view-from-the-hill-achieving-vaccine-targets-could-be-followed-by-a-pre-election-health-pinch-point-166678/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Achieving vaccine targets could be followed by a (pre-election) health ‘pinch point’">Read more</a>
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August 24, 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 Conversation politics team. In this episode, politics + society editor Amanda Dunn ... <a title="Podcast with Michelle Grattan: The battle to exit COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/24/podcast-with-michelle-grattan-the-battle-to-exit-covid-166679/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast with Michelle Grattan: The battle to exit COVID">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Steele, Associate Professor, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Shutterstock Across the world, people worried about the impacts of climate change are seeking creative and meaningful ways to transform their urban environments. One such approach is known as “quiet activism”. “Quiet activism” refers to the extraordinary ... <a title="Ordinary people, extraordinary change: addressing the climate emergency through ‘quiet activism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/24/ordinary-people-extraordinary-change-addressing-the-climate-emergency-through-quiet-activism-160548/" aria-label="Read more about Ordinary people, extraordinary change: addressing the climate emergency through ‘quiet activism’">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Peterfz30/Shutterstock Have you heard about the latest wage figures? I hope not. They’re meaningless. What the widely quoted measure of average weekly earnings purports to show is that wages grew a mere 0.1% over the ... <a title="The official figures say wages aren’t growing —
here’s why they’re wrong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/24/the-official-figures-say-wages-arent-growing-heres-why-theyre-wrong-166566/" aria-label="Read more about The official figures say wages aren’t growing —
here’s why they’re wrong">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Zietsch, Associate Professor, The University of Queensland Same-sex sexual behaviour may seem to present a Darwinian paradox. It provides no obvious reproductive or survival benefit, and yet same-sex sexual behaviour is fairly common — around 2-10% of individuals in diverse human societies — and is clearly ... <a title="Why has same-sex sexual behaviour persisted during evolution?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/24/why-has-same-sex-sexual-behaviour-persisted-during-evolution-166571/" aria-label="Read more about Why has same-sex sexual behaviour persisted during evolution?">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deb Massey, Associate Professor, Chair of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University Rising COVID cases in several Australian states means demand for intensive care unit (ICU) beds and specialist critical nurses will rise. This increase in demand is on top of the typical workload ICUs might ... <a title="We’re seeing more COVID patients in ICU as case numbers rise. That affects the whole hospital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/24/were-seeing-more-covid-patients-in-icu-as-case-numbers-rise-that-affects-the-whole-hospital-165966/" aria-label="Read more about We’re seeing more COVID patients in ICU as case numbers rise. That affects the whole hospital">Read more</a>
