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November 22, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Last week the world population reached eight billion people, at least according to some sources. See these world population clocks, which do not agree: refer Worldometer and the US Census Bureau. The growth rate of the world population is slowing. Indeed, there is a possibility that it will never reach nine ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Population Imbalances in a World of Eight Billion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/keith-rankin-essay-population-imbalances-in-a-world-of-eight-billion/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Population Imbalances in a World of Eight Billion">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dimitria Groutsis, Associate professor, University of Sydney Shutterstock Research from the Who Gets to Tell Australian Stories? 2.0 report released today shows newsrooms across Australia are responsible for reinforcing and reproducing racial inequalities because they fail to represent the voices and faces of the society they serve. ... <a title="‘Overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic’: new report shows diversity still lacking on Australian free-to-air TV news" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/overwhelmingly-anglo-celtic-new-report-shows-diversity-still-lacking-on-australian-free-to-air-tv-news-195091/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic’: new report shows diversity still lacking on Australian free-to-air TV news">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clarice Tang, Senior lecturer in Physiotherapy, Western Sydney University Design Ecologist/Unsplash With COVID isolation rules largely gone, some people feel pressured to rush back to work, school, or other activities after testing positive to COVID. If your symptoms are mild, you might be tempted to just keep ... <a title="Tested positive to COVID? Go easy on yourself – try not to rush back to work or exercise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/tested-positive-to-covid-go-easy-on-yourself-try-not-to-rush-back-to-work-or-exercise-193712/" aria-label="Read more about Tested positive to COVID? Go easy on yourself – try not to rush back to work or exercise">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Angus, Professor of Digital Communication, Queensland University of Technology John G. Mabanglo/EPA After a few chaotic weeks it’s clear Elon Musk is intent on taking Twitter in a direction that’s at odds with the prevailing cultures of the diverse users who call it home. Musk has ... <a title="Thinking of breaking up with Twitter? Here’s the right way to do it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/thinking-of-breaking-up-with-twitter-heres-the-right-way-to-do-it-195002/" aria-label="Read more about Thinking of breaking up with Twitter? Here’s the right way to do it">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Joel Carrett/James Ross/AAP The Victorian state election is on Saturday with polls closing at 6pm AEDT. There are 88 single-member lower house seats with members elected by ... <a title="Victorian Labor slumps in Resolve poll but still in winning position; Labor failure on upper house reform comes back to bite" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/victorian-labor-slumps-in-resolve-poll-but-still-in-winning-position-labor-failure-on-upper-house-reform-comes-back-to-bite-194923/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian Labor slumps in Resolve poll but still in winning position; Labor failure on upper house reform comes back to bite">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Trenos, Lecturer (Theatre & Creative Arts), Curtin University The Last Great Hunt Review: D*ck Pics in the Garden of Eden, written and directed by Jeffrey Jay Fowler, The Last Great Hunt. We see this played out in the media: famous men, a dick pic unwisely texted, ... <a title="New Australian play D*ck Pics in the Garden of Eden is bold, funny – and very, very lewd" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/new-australian-play-d-ck-pics-in-the-garden-of-eden-is-bold-funny-and-very-very-lewd-194735/" aria-label="Read more about New Australian play D*ck Pics in the Garden of Eden is bold, funny – and very, very lewd">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Henry Bowen, Senior Research Officer, University of South Australia Pexels/Rodnae, CC BY-SA Suicide is a complex issue that impacts 425,000 Australians every year. That’s because up to 135 people are directly or indirectly impacted by each suicide death. Military and emergency services personnel (such as those in ... <a title="Suicide risk is high for military and emergency workers – but support for their families and peers is missing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/suicide-risk-is-high-for-military-and-emergency-workers-but-support-for-their-families-and-peers-is-missing-193451/" aria-label="Read more about Suicide risk is high for military and emergency workers – but support for their families and peers is missing">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judy Friedlander, Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Citizen science is touted as a way for the general public to contribute to producing new knowledge. But citizen science volunteers don’t always represent a broad cross-section of society. Rather, they’re often white, male, middle-aged, ... <a title="Scientists need help to save nature. With a smartphone and these 8 tips, we can get our kids on the case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/scientists-need-help-to-save-nature-with-a-smartphone-and-these-8-tips-we-can-get-our-kids-on-the-case-192622/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists need help to save nature. With a smartphone and these 8 tips, we can get our kids on the case">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: The High barriers to lowering the voting age Sixteen-year-olds aren’t about to get the right to vote anytime soon. Despite yesterday’s Supreme Court declaration that a voting age of 18 violates the Bill of Rights, there are still many barriers to get over before the voting age could ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The High barriers to lowering the voting age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-high-barriers-to-lowering-the-voting-age/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The High barriers to lowering the voting age">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Munn, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Waikato GettyI mages This week’s Supreme Court judgment on lowering New Zealand’s legal voting age has, at times, been interpreted as some kind of mandate for change. That’s not quite the case, but the court’s ruling does at least ... <a title="Parliament now has to justify keeping the voting age at 18 – it’s a hard argument to make" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/parliament-now-has-to-justify-keeping-the-voting-age-at-18-its-a-hard-argument-to-make-195009/" aria-label="Read more about Parliament now has to justify keeping the voting age at 18 – it’s a hard argument to make">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marion Terrill, Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute An election campaign can sometimes feel like Groundhog Day, but this Victorian election is genuinely different. While the major parties are still making plenty of transport promises, they’ve dialled them way down from the dizzy heights of 2018. ... <a title="Transport election promises are much smaller this time round in Victoria, but the quality control is no better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/transport-election-promises-are-much-smaller-this-time-round-in-victoria-but-the-quality-control-is-no-better-194740/" aria-label="Read more about Transport election promises are much smaller this time round in Victoria, but the quality control is no better">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Gleeson, Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University Global inequities in access to COVID vaccines have turned out to be a “catastrophic moral failure”, just as the World Health Organization warned they would in January 2021. Yet it took 20 months of negotiations for members ... <a title="Intellectual property waiver for COVID vaccines should be expanded to include treatments and tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/intellectual-property-waiver-for-covid-vaccines-should-be-expanded-to-include-treatments-and-tests-194918/" aria-label="Read more about Intellectual property waiver for COVID vaccines should be expanded to include treatments and tests">Read more</a>
