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September 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharon McLennan, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Massey University Kiribati President Taneti Maamau (rear middle) watches the country’s vaccination campaign roll out in early September. GettyImages With the COVID-19 pandemic stretching health systems worldwide, Pacific countries have capitalised on their relative isolation to avoid the worst. Border ... <a title="How Cuban medical training has helped Pacific nations face the pandemic challenge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/22/how-cuban-medical-training-has-helped-pacific-nations-face-the-pandemic-challenge-167631/" aria-label="Read more about How Cuban medical training has helped Pacific nations face the pandemic challenge">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ismini Vasileiou, Associate Professor in Information Systems, De Montfort University ScamWatch For most people, the ping of an incoming SMS will induce some level of excitement — or mild intrigue at least. But with SMS scams on the rise, many may now be meeting this same sound ... <a title="Being bombarded with delivery and post office text scams? Here’s why — and what can be done" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/22/being-bombarded-with-delivery-and-post-office-text-scams-heres-why-and-what-can-be-done-167975/" aria-label="Read more about Being bombarded with delivery and post office text scams? Here’s why — and what can be done">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naama Carlin, Lecturer, UNSW The increased prominence of antisemitic incidents during the COVID pandemic may leave you wondering: has antisemitism always been part of the Australian social fabric, or are we facing a new, sinister trend? Members of Melbourne’s Jewish community have been subjected to a surge ... <a title="How COVID has shone a light on the ugly face of Australian antisemitism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/22/how-covid-has-shone-a-light-on-the-ugly-face-of-australian-antisemitism-154743/" aria-label="Read more about How COVID has shone a light on the ugly face of Australian antisemitism">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Elliott, Executive Director, National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce, and Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University The number of people infected with COVID-19 and requiring treatment in hospital is rapidly increasing. Vaccination provides very effective protection against severe COVID but at current levels ... <a title="Here’s what happens when you’re hospitalised with COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/22/heres-what-happens-when-youre-hospitalised-with-covid-167544/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what happens when you’re hospitalised with COVID">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shelby A. Ryan, PhD Candidate | School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle Shutterstock Why do sloths go slow? Nina, Sydney, aged 5 You’re right, sloths do move very slowly! Sloths live in tropical forests in South and Central America, and they actually move so ... <a title="Curious kids: why do sloths go slow?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/22/curious-kids-why-do-sloths-go-slow-163573/" aria-label="Read more about Curious kids: why do sloths go slow?">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marg Rogers, Lecturer, Early Childhood Education, University of New England Shutterstock More than two-thirds of Australian early childhood educators reported working many extra hours to satisfy regulatory requirements in our 2021 survey. Half did unpaid work during accreditation — the process of demonstrating compliance with all the ... <a title="Early childhood educators are slaves to the demands of box-ticking regulations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/22/early-childhood-educators-are-slaves-to-the-demands-of-box-ticking-regulations-167283/" aria-label="Read more about Early childhood educators are slaves to the demands of box-ticking regulations">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giuseppe Carabetta, Senior Lecturer, Sydney University Business School, University of Sydney After violence on Monday outside the Melbourne offices of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy union, the Victorian government ordered a snap two-week shutdown of the construction industry. Yesterday these protests continued, with up to ... <a title="What are the protests against Victoria’s construction union all about? An expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/22/what-are-the-protests-against-victorias-construction-union-all-about-an-expert-explains-168367/" aria-label="Read more about What are the protests against Victoria’s construction union all about? An expert explains">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barbara Doran, Lecturer in Creativity and Innovation, Transdisciplinary School, UTS, University of Technology Sydney Topsy Turvy, Author provided A new project that spotlights the strain from COVID-19 on our health systems and the people who work in them has invited health-care leaders and artists to create artworks ... <a title="What this collaboration between artists and health-care leaders teaches us about living through COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/22/what-this-collaboration-between-artists-and-health-care-leaders-teaches-us-about-living-through-covid-19-167637/" aria-label="Read more about What this collaboration between artists and health-care leaders teaches us about living through COVID-19">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra After mishandling its cancellation of the French submarines contract, the Morrison government is making things worse by suggesting the French really must have, or should have, known what was coming. As Labor keeps saying on the domestic front, Scott Morrison ... <a title="View from The Hill: Morrison and Macron need to talk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/21/view-from-the-hill-morrison-and-macron-need-to-talk-168390/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Morrison and Macron need to talk">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2021
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 now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this episode, politics + society editor Amanda Dunn ... <a title="Podcast with Michelle Grattan: The Furious French and Porter’s fall" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/21/podcast-with-michelle-grattan-the-furious-french-and-porters-fall-168391/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast with Michelle Grattan: The Furious French and Porter’s fall">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2021
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 now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this episode, politics + society editor Amanda Dunn ... <a title="Word from The Hill: The Furious French and Porter’s fall" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/21/word-from-the-hill-the-furious-french-and-porters-fall-168391/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: The Furious French and Porter’s fall">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Baker, Research Fellow in Statistics for Biosecurity Risk, The University of Melbourne The Doherty Report, released 10 August, underpins the vaccination targets in the federal government’s national reopening plan of 70% and 80% of the population aged over 16. However, since we began this modelling, we ... <a title="Doherty modelling update provides the goalposts, but local insights will determine play" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/21/doherty-modelling-update-provides-the-goalposts-but-local-insights-will-determine-play-168364/" aria-label="Read more about Doherty modelling update provides the goalposts, but local insights will determine play">Read more</a>
