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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter O’Connor, Professor, Business and Management, Queensland University of Technology Young workers lack resilience and “need hugging”, according to eminent Australian Ita Buttrose. This week the 78-year old ABC chair told a forum of the Australia-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce: They’re very keen on being thanked and ... <a title="Yes Ita, younger workers might actually be less resilient. But all workers should be thanked" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/yes-ita-younger-workers-might-actually-be-less-resilient-but-all-workers-should-be-thanked-143277/" aria-label="Read more about Yes Ita, younger workers might actually be less resilient. But all workers should be thanked">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist The events of 2020 are reshaping the way we live, work, teach and learn. And while we have all been affected differently, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women has been particularly significant. A recent report ... <a title="Chief Scientist: women in STEM are still far short of workplace equity. COVID-19 risks undoing even these modest gains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/chief-scientist-women-in-stem-are-still-far-short-of-workplace-equity-covid-19-risks-undoing-even-these-modest-gains-143092/" aria-label="Read more about Chief Scientist: women in STEM are still far short of workplace equity. COVID-19 risks undoing even these modest gains">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Changing Income-Relaxation Balance as a sequence of Pie Charts On June 30 (Chart Analysis on Evening Report) I promised to elaborate on the economic policies that would underpin the new optimisation of work-life balance. I argued that economic optimisation means a balance between income and leisure, and that the Covid19 pandemic ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Optimising Work-Life Balance in the wake of Covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/keith-rankin-analysis-optimising-work-life-balance-in-the-wake-of-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Optimising Work-Life Balance in the wake of Covid-19">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Audrey Courty, PhD candidate, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University Twitter has announced it’s taking sweeping action to limit the reach of content associated with QAnon. Believers of this fringe far-right conspiracy theory claim there is a “deep state” plot against US President Donald ... <a title="QAnon believers will likely outlast and outsmart Twitter’s bans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/qanon-believers-will-likely-outlast-and-outsmart-twitters-bans-143192/" aria-label="Read more about QAnon believers will likely outlast and outsmart Twitter’s bans">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nial Wheate, Associate Professor | Program Director, Undergraduate Pharmacy, University of Sydney What do multiple sclerosis (MS) and the novel coronavirus have in common? Until this week, not much, but a recent clinical trial has shown a reformulation of a drug used to treat MS can potentially ... <a title="Multiple sclerosis drug may help treat COVID-19 and lead to faster recovery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/multiple-sclerosis-drug-may-help-treat-covid-19-and-lead-to-faster-recovery-143090/" aria-label="Read more about Multiple sclerosis drug may help treat COVID-19 and lead to faster recovery">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lana D. Hartwig, Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University Water management in the Murray-Darling Basin has radically changed over the past 30 years. But none of the changes have addressed a glaring injustice: Aboriginal people’s share of water rights is minute, and in New South Wales ... <a title="Australia has an ugly legacy of denying water rights to Aboriginal people. Not much has changed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/australia-has-an-ugly-legacy-of-denying-water-rights-to-aboriginal-people-not-much-has-changed-141743/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has an ugly legacy of denying water rights to Aboriginal people. Not much has changed">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Corbould, Associate Professor, Deakin University Most Australians — aside from a few groups dedicated to reenacting American Civil War battles and history buffs including Bob Carr and Kim Beazley — were not familiar until recently with the charged history of the flag of the Confederate States ... <a title="Why is the Confederate flag so offensive?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/why-is-the-confederate-flag-so-offensive-143256/" aria-label="Read more about Why is the Confederate flag so offensive?">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Corbould, Associate Professor, Deakin University Most Australians — aside from a few groups dedicated to reenacting American Civil War battles and history buffs including Bob Carr and Kim Beazley — were not familiar until recently with the charged history of the flag of the Confederate States ... <a title="Seeing red: the problematic history behind the Confederate flag" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/seeing-red-the-problematic-history-behind-the-confederate-flag-143256/" aria-label="Read more about Seeing red: the problematic history behind the Confederate flag">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW If you’re not sure whether wearing a face mask is worth it, or you need to wear a mask but are unsure which type, our new research should help you ... <a title="Which mask works best? We filmed people coughing and sneezing to find out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/which-mask-works-best-we-filmed-people-coughing-and-sneezing-to-find-out-143173/" aria-label="Read more about Which mask works best? We filmed people coughing and sneezing to find out">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Parliament Gordon Campbell: On who really deserves sympathy when stress makes people behave badly Peter Dunne: The 52nd Parliament is hurtling towards an inglorious end Peter Dunne (Newsroom): MPs: Pick them carefully, treat with ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 24 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-july-24-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 24 2020">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vikrant Minhas, PhD candidate, University of Adelaide China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country’s Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars’s surface by early next year. Similarly, the launch ... <a title="As if space wasn’t dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/as-if-space-wasnt-dangerous-enough-bacteria-become-more-deadly-in-microgravity-141053/" aria-label="Read more about As if space wasn’t dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Dwyer, Professor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle Stories of alleged unlawful killings by Australian special forces in Afghanistan continue to emerge in the media — now on a regular basis. In the latest ... <a title="It’s time for Australia’s SAS to stop its culture of cover-up and take accountability for possible war crimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/its-time-for-australias-sas-to-stop-its-culture-of-cover-up-and-take-accountability-for-possible-war-crimes-142808/" aria-label="Read more about It’s time for Australia’s SAS to stop its culture of cover-up and take accountability for possible war crimes">Read more</a>
