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April 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Attwell, Associate professor, The University of Western Australia Shutterstock Several Australian states have used mandates to drive up COVID vaccination rates. Governments justified the mandates on the basis of preventing the spread of disease and protecting the vulnerable. Now many states are rolling back these mandates, ... <a title="Time to remove vaccine mandates? Not so fast – it could have unintended consequences" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/13/time-to-remove-vaccine-mandates-not-so-fast-it-could-have-unintended-consequences-180781/" aria-label="Read more about Time to remove vaccine mandates? Not so fast – it could have unintended consequences">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graeme Orr, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland AAP/Darren England You join a political party. Its rules are over 100 pages long. And that’s only for your state division. There’s also an overarching “federal” party constitution. Good, you think. Parties run parliament, our lawmakers should be ... <a title="Why party preselections are still a mess, and the courts haven’t helped" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/13/why-party-preselections-are-still-a-mess-and-the-courts-havent-helped-181054/" aria-label="Read more about Why party preselections are still a mess, and the courts haven’t helped">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Hanckel, Senior research fellow, Western Sydney University Shutterstock Homelessness remains a huge problem in Australia and an important contributing factor is low literacy levels. We interviewed 23 people who were homeless or had experienced homelessness to find out how they viewed literacy and participation in literacy ... <a title="‘I always have trouble with forms’: homeless people on how poor literacy affects them – and what would help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/13/i-always-have-trouble-with-forms-homeless-people-on-how-poor-literacy-affects-them-and-what-would-help-180784/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I always have trouble with forms’: homeless people on how poor literacy affects them – and what would help">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Powles, Associate Professor of Law and Technology; Director, Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab, UWA Law School, The University of Western Australia Shutterstock Over the past decade, the top end of sport has become saturated in data. Some of this is visible — such as match statistics, ... <a title="Has the monitoring of professional athletes’ intimate information gone too far?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/13/has-the-monitoring-of-professional-athletes-intimate-information-gone-too-far-180890/" aria-label="Read more about Has the monitoring of professional athletes’ intimate information gone too far?">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eddie Synot, Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University shutterstock The result of the federal election will be key for a voice to parliament protected by the Constitution as called for by the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The election will also be crucial for Indigenous affairs more ... <a title="How the election could affect the future of a First Nations Voice to Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/13/how-the-election-could-affect-the-future-of-a-first-nations-voice-to-parliament-180556/" aria-label="Read more about How the election could affect the future of a First Nations Voice to Parliament">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Esmé Louise James, Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Melbourne Colin Hutton/ Netflix The success of Netflix’s Bridgerton is owed to many different factors: an addictive storyline, inspired casting choices, a dazzling costume design… and, of course, the fact the show is incredibly sexy. Bridgerton has finally ... <a title="Did everyone in Bridgerton have syphilis? Just how sexy would it really have been in Regency era London?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/13/did-everyone-in-bridgerton-have-syphilis-just-how-sexy-would-it-really-have-been-in-regency-era-london-180581/" aria-label="Read more about Did everyone in Bridgerton have syphilis? Just how sexy would it really have been in Regency era London?">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Donne Potter, Professor, Research Centre for Hauora and Health, Massey University Getty Images Many patients recover from COVID within a week or two, but at least one in five experience persistent or new symptoms more than four weeks after first being diagnosed. Long COVID is a ... <a title="Long COVID affects 1 in 5 people following infection. Vaccination, masks and better indoor air are our best protections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/13/long-covid-affects-1-in-5-people-following-infection-vaccination-masks-and-better-indoor-air-are-our-best-protections-180668/" aria-label="Read more about Long COVID affects 1 in 5 people following infection. Vaccination, masks and better indoor air are our best protections">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2022
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 includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda ... <a title="Word from The Hill: Morrison suggests voters judge him as they would their dentist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/12/word-from-the-hill-morrison-suggests-voters-judge-him-as-they-would-their-dentist-181172/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: Morrison suggests voters judge him as they would their dentist">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University When Labor leader Anthony Albanese couldn’t say whether the unemployment rate was 5% or 4% on Monday, he might have had a point. It’s 4%. But for a decade – the entire decade leading up ... <a title="Forget the election gaffes: Australia’s unemployment rate of 4% is good news – and set to get even better by polling day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/12/forget-the-election-gaffes-australias-unemployment-rate-of-4-is-good-news-and-set-to-get-even-better-by-polling-day-181141/" aria-label="Read more about Forget the election gaffes: Australia’s unemployment rate of 4% is good news – and set to get even better by polling day">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney Before calling the election, Prime Minister Scott ... <a title="Bungled vaccine rollout, welcome financial support – here’s what Aussies thought of Morrison’s COVID response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/12/bungled-vaccine-rollout-welcome-financial-support-heres-what-aussies-thought-of-morrisons-covid-response-181149/" aria-label="Read more about Bungled vaccine rollout, welcome financial support – here’s what Aussies thought of Morrison’s COVID response">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Eckermann, Professor of Health Economics, University of Wollongong AAP Image/Supplied by Office of the Prime Minister As an opening gambit to his re-election campaign, Prime Minister Scott Morrison claimed his handling of the pandemic had saved 40,000 lives. This figure compares Australia over 2020 and 2021 ... <a title="Did the Morrison government really prevent 40,000 COVID deaths? A health economist checks claims against facts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/12/did-the-morrison-government-really-prevent-40-000-covid-deaths-a-health-economist-checks-claims-against-facts-181052/" aria-label="Read more about Did the Morrison government really prevent 40,000 COVID deaths? A health economist checks claims against facts">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Thorpe, Professor in Sociology of Sport and Physical Culture, University of Waikato GettyImages New Zealand Rugby’s just released report into the culture of the Black Ferns national women’s team is damning, but sadly all too familiar. Like a number of previous investigations into elite sporting codes ... <a title="The Black Ferns review shows – again – why real change in women’s high performance sport is urgently overdue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/12/the-black-ferns-review-shows-again-why-real-change-in-womens-high-performance-sport-is-urgently-overdue-181144/" aria-label="Read more about The Black Ferns review shows – again – why real change in women’s high performance sport is urgently overdue">Read more</a>
