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September 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Phillips, Adjunct Professor, Griffith University In a year shaped by climate disasters and a pandemic, Australia’s most powerful sporting organisation – the Australian Football League (AFL) – continues to be confronted by another foundational issue: systemic racism. At issue is not only the question of how ... <a title="The AFL has moved the grand final from Melbourne for the first time – but it has a far more pressing issue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/the-afl-has-moved-the-grand-final-from-melbourne-for-the-first-time-but-it-has-a-far-more-pressing-issue-145184/" aria-label="Read more about The AFL has moved the grand final from Melbourne for the first time – but it has a far more pressing issue">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Magdalene Montgomery, NHMRC CDF Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Head Metabolic Crosstalk Laboratory, University of Melbourne A newly discovered protein produced by the liver, and which helps to control blood sugar levels, could potentially revolutionise treatment for type 2 diabetes. Our research, published today in Science Translational Medicine, ... <a title="Weekly injection could treat type 2 diabetes, new enzyme discovery suggests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/weekly-injection-could-treat-type-2-diabetes-new-enzyme-discovery-suggests-145312/" aria-label="Read more about Weekly injection could treat type 2 diabetes, new enzyme discovery suggests">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rita Krishnamurthi, Associate Professor (cerebrovascular epidemiology), Auckland University of Technology Stroke is the third highest cause of death in New Zealand, after cancer and coronary heart disease. But our new research shows very few people are aware of the risk, particularly in Pasifika communities – despite being ... <a title="Most New Zealanders don’t know how deadly strokes are – claiming 2,300 lives a year and rising" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/most-new-zealanders-dont-know-how-deadly-strokes-are-claiming-2-300-lives-a-year-and-rising-144576/" aria-label="Read more about Most New Zealanders don’t know how deadly strokes are – claiming 2,300 lives a year and rising">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hayley Geyle, Research Assistant, Charles Darwin University Action came too late for the Christmas Island forest skink, despite early warnings of significant declines. It was lost from the wild before it was officially listed as “threatened”, and the few individuals brought into captivity died soon after. Australia ... <a title="New research reveals these 20 Australian reptiles are set to disappear by 2040" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/new-research-reveals-these-20-australian-reptiles-are-set-to-disappear-by-2040-145385/" aria-label="Read more about New research reveals these 20 Australian reptiles are set to disappear by 2040">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Mundy, Research Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Children aged 8 and 9 who watched more than two hours of TV a day or spent more than one hour a day on a computer had lower scores than their peers on reading and numeracy at ages 10 ... <a title="2 hours of TV a day in late childhood linked to lower test scores later" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/2-hours-of-tv-a-day-in-late-childhood-linked-to-lower-test-scores-later-145095/" aria-label="Read more about 2 hours of TV a day in late childhood linked to lower test scores later">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth Boyask, Senior Lecturer in Education, Auckland University of Technology The anger and outrage expressed by school leaders and teacher unions towards Green Party co-leader James Shaw’s announcement of a government grant of NZ$11.7 million to the private Green School New Zealand comes at a time of ... <a title="We need public value from govt funding of the private Green School New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/we-need-public-value-from-govt-funding-of-the-private-green-school-new-zealand-145441/" aria-label="Read more about We need public value from govt funding of the private Green School New Zealand">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Stanley, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney Up to now the focus has been on managing “hot spots” in the COVID lockdowns of Melbourne and Victoria. We have identified four key factors that might help explain ... <a title="Open COVID ‘cold spots’ first: a way out of lockdown for Melbourne" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/open-covid-cold-spots-first-a-way-out-of-lockdown-for-melbourne-145387/" aria-label="Read more about Open COVID ‘cold spots’ first: a way out of lockdown for Melbourne">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darius Sepehri, Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature, Religion and History of Philosophy, University of Sydney In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic. In Memoriam AHH, cantos 27 & 28, read by Darius Sepehri. Alfred ... <a title="‘A doubtful gleam of solace’: reading Tennyson’s In Memoriam AHH in difficult times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/a-doubtful-gleam-of-solace-reading-tennysons-in-memoriam-ahh-in-difficult-times-143614/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A doubtful gleam of solace’: reading Tennyson’s In Memoriam AHH in difficult times">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Ho, Senior Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University Media reports earlier this week described a Queensland nurse with stomach pains who went on to test positive for COVID-19. Could stomach pains be another symptom of COVID-19? And if you have stomach pains, should you ... <a title="Diarrhoea, stomach ache and nausea: the many ways COVID-19 can affect your gut" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/diarrhoea-stomach-ache-and-nausea-the-many-ways-covid-19-can-affect-your-gut-145440/" aria-label="Read more about Diarrhoea, stomach ache and nausea: the many ways COVID-19 can affect your gut">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia’s recession is the deepest since the Great Depression of the early 1930s. Nothing else comes close. The economy shrank an extraordinary 7% in the three months to June – by far the biggest collapse ... <a title="Six graphs that explain Australia’s recession" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/six-graphs-that-explain-australias-recession-145445/" aria-label="Read more about Six graphs that explain Australia’s recession">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Daley, Senior Fellow, Grattan Institute It’s become a truism of Australian politics that important economic reform peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. Sometimes the early years of the Howard government in the late 1990s are given credit as well. This Grattan Institute map of important reforms ... <a title="When it comes to economic reform, the old days really were better. We checked" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/when-it-comes-to-economic-reform-the-old-days-really-were-better-we-checked-145296/" aria-label="Read more about When it comes to economic reform, the old days really were better. We checked">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre Six years on from being appointed head of the Pacific Community, Director-General Collin Tukuitonga, a boy born on the tiny Pacific island of Niue, has a voice louder than a schoolboy rugby captain, a voice that serves him well as a Pasifika community leader. There is ... <a title="Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/common-enemy-overcomes-fragile-pacific-regional-unity-climate-change/" aria-label="Read more about Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change">Read more</a>
