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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simone Buzwell, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology Kulli Kittus/Unsplash When a comic about “mental load” went viral in 2017, it sparked conversations about the invisible workload women carry. Even when women are in paid employment, they remember their mother-in-law’s birthday, know what’s in the ... <a title="Don’t blame women for low libido. Sexual sparks fly when partners do their share of chores – including calling the plumber" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/dont-blame-women-for-low-libido-sexual-sparks-fly-when-partners-do-their-share-of-chores-including-calling-the-plumber-185401/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t blame women for low libido. Sexual sparks fly when partners do their share of chores – including calling the plumber">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mel Taylor, Associate Professor, Macquarie University Hearts sank along the Australian east coast this week when the Bureau of Meteorology announced a third consecutive La Niña was likely this year. La Niña weather events typically deliver above-average rainfall in spring and summer. But the last two La ... <a title="No, not again! A third straight La Niña is likely – here’s how you and your family can prepare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/no-not-again-a-third-straight-la-nina-is-likely-heres-how-you-and-your-family-can-prepare-188970/" aria-label="Read more about No, not again! A third straight La Niña is likely – here’s how you and your family can prepare">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Blunden, Associate Professor and Head of Paediatric Sleep Research, CQUniversity Australia Shutterstock Clueless actor Alicia Silverstone recently told a podcast she co-sleeps with her 11-year-old son, explaining she is “just following nature”. “Bear and I still sleep together,” she told The Ellen Fisher Podcast last month. ... <a title="Is there such a thing as ‘too old’ to co-sleep with your child? The research might surprise you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-old-to-co-sleep-with-your-child-the-research-might-surprise-you-188145/" aria-label="Read more about Is there such a thing as ‘too old’ to co-sleep with your child? The research might surprise you">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily Wade, Associate Lecturer in Communication, Deakin University Shutterstock BeReal hit the social networking scene in late 2019 but didn’t take off until downloads started skyrocketing in 2022. So, what is BeReal all about, and is it here to stay? BeReal is based in France and was ... <a title="Social network BeReal shares unfiltered and unedited moments from our lives – will it last?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/social-network-bereal-shares-unfiltered-and-unedited-moments-from-our-lives-will-it-last-188643/" aria-label="Read more about Social network BeReal shares unfiltered and unedited moments from our lives – will it last?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It’s not breaking news that Scott Morrison has trouble with women. His “woman problem” was one factor in his election defeat. But really, his treatment this week of Karen Andrews, his former home affairs minister, was particularly gratuitous. By Tuesday ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: The Scott Morrison horror show has a way to run yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/grattan-on-friday-the-scott-morrison-horror-show-has-a-way-to-run-yet-188985/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: The Scott Morrison horror show has a way to run yet">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific journalist The president of Vanuatu has dissolved the country’s Parliament just over halfway through the current four-year-term. President Nikenike Vurobaravu signed the instrument for the dissolution of Parliament this afternoon on the eve of a proposed motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Bob Loughman that was to have been ... <a title="Vanuatu president dissolves parliament – ‘respect it’ plea by Loughman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/vanuatu-president-dissolves-parliament-respect-it-plea-by-loughman/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu president dissolves parliament – ‘respect it’ plea by Loughman">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2022
By Philip Cass of Kaniva News in Auckland Tonga has not done enough to combat people trafficking and will remain on an American watch list, according to the US State Department’s annual report. Since convicting its first trafficker in April 2011, the government has not prosecuted or convicted any traffickers, the State Department said. The ... <a title="Tonga stays on US watch list for not doing enough on people trafficking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/tonga-stays-on-us-watch-list-for-not-doing-enough-on-people-trafficking/" aria-label="Read more about Tonga stays on US watch list for not doing enough on people trafficking">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya Sixty years ago today — on 15 August 1962 — the fate of a newly born nation-state West Papua was stolen by men in New York. The infamous event is known as “The New Agreement”, a deal between the Netherlands and Indonesia over West Papua’s sovereignty. A different fate had been ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/yamin-kogoya-west-papuas-colonial-fate-un-new-york-agreement/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Papuan student advocacy group has called for the establishment of a future Aotearoa New Zealand scholarship for West Papuans to replace a controversial Indonesian-funded programme that left many students stranded this year with incomplete studies. The call has been made by the Papuan Students Association Oceania (PSAO) as a cohort ... <a title="Papuan advocacy group calls for New Zealand scholarship to aid students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/papuan-advocacy-group-calls-for-new-zealand-scholarship-to-aid-students/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan advocacy group calls for New Zealand scholarship to aid students">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s incumbent leader, James Marape, has been returned to the top job as the country’s ninth prime minister, reports the ABC’s Port Moresby correspondent Natalie Whiting. “Marape was voted in as prime minister unopposed, with unanimous support from all MPs present in the first parliamentary sitting following the country’s ... <a title="Marape has the numbers and keeps PNG’s top post as prime minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/marape-has-the-numbers-and-keeps-pngs-top-post-as-prime-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Marape has the numbers and keeps PNG’s top post as prime minister">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Renae Barker, Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia St. Andrew’s Cronulla Anglican Church of Australia Shutterstock In the opening address of this year’s Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON) Australasia, Bishop Richard Condie announced the creation of the Diocese of the Southern Cross. In Bishop Condie’s words: ... <a title="Behind the split of the Anglican church in Australia over gay marriage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/behind-the-split-of-the-anglican-church-in-australia-over-gay-marriage-188893/" aria-label="Read more about Behind the split of the Anglican church in Australia over gay marriage">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Paul Wolffram It was at the end of a long day of walking back and forth over the dusty roads of Goroka town in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea that I first met Evelyn. I’d spent the morning interviewing three inmates in the regional penitentiary, Bihute Prison, about their participation in the ... <a title="Paul Wolffram: Resisting sorcery violence in PNG from the ‘grasruts’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/paul-wolffram-resisting-sorcery-violence-in-png-from-the-grasruts/" aria-label="Read more about Paul Wolffram: Resisting sorcery violence in PNG from the ‘grasruts’">Read more</a>
