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Australia’s government gives more support to fossil fuel research than is apparent

July 22, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Will McDowall, Associate Professor, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, UCL TKR Photography/Shutterstock Australian governments direct billions to fossil fuel companies. Among the projects funded by Commonwealth and state governments are work on coal ports, railways and power stations, and research into “clean coal” or “coal innovation”. Whether ... <a title="Australia’s government gives more support to fossil fuel research than is apparent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/22/australias-government-gives-more-support-to-fossil-fuel-research-than-is-apparent-161421/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s government gives more support to fossil fuel research than is apparent">Read more</a>

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Layer upon layer: uncovering the terrazzo treasures of the west and celebrating legacy floors

July 22, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ted Snell, Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University Underneath/Uncovered – Rebecca Mansell Communities are built from a complex layering of influences. Fremantle Walyalup, like many towns across Australia, is like a terrazzo floor made up of the contributions of the many cultural groups that live here. These rich ... <a title="Layer upon layer: uncovering the terrazzo treasures of the west and celebrating legacy floors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/22/layer-upon-layer-uncovering-the-terrazzo-treasures-of-the-west-and-celebrating-legacy-floors-164635/" aria-label="Read more about Layer upon layer: uncovering the terrazzo treasures of the west and celebrating legacy floors">Read more</a>

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The Lambda variant: is it more infectious, and can it escape vaccines? A virologist explains

July 21, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Taylor, Early Career Research Leader, Emerging Viruses, Inflammation and Therapeutics Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University The Lambda variant accounts for almost all new cases in Peru, which has the world’s highest COVID death toll per capita. Rodrigo Abd/AP/AAP The Lambda coronavirus variant was first ... <a title="The Lambda variant: is it more infectious, and can it escape vaccines? A virologist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/the-lambda-variant-is-it-more-infectious-and-can-it-escape-vaccines-a-virologist-explains-164156/" aria-label="Read more about The Lambda variant: is it more infectious, and can it escape vaccines? A virologist explains">Read more</a>

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The benefits of a COVID vaccine far outweigh the small risk of treatable heart inflammation

July 21, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Noonan, Research Officer, Atherothrombosis and Vascular Biology Laboratory, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute Shutterstock Repeated COVID-19 outbreaks in Australia have once again highlighted the need for rapid and widespread vaccination. We are extremely fortunate the global scientific community has been able to develop a handful of ... <a title="The benefits of a COVID vaccine far outweigh the small risk of treatable heart inflammation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/the-benefits-of-a-covid-vaccine-far-outweigh-the-small-risk-of-treatable-heart-inflammation-163970/" aria-label="Read more about The benefits of a COVID vaccine far outweigh the small risk of treatable heart inflammation">Read more</a>

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Bob Brown on his latest environmental battle, and a critique of Labor

July 21, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Since his retirement from parliament in 2012, Bob Brown has remained an activist on environmental causes – from campaigning against the Adani coal mine to fighting the threat to Tasmania’s Tarkine forest. Brown was leader when after the 2010 election ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Bob Brown on his latest environmental battle, and a critique of Labor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/politics-with-michelle-grattan-bob-brown-on-his-latest-environmental-battle-and-a-critique-of-labor-164863/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Bob Brown on his latest environmental battle, and a critique of Labor">Read more</a>

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‘Die of cold or die of stress?’: Social housing is frequently colder than global health guidelines

July 21, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Daly, Research Fellow at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong Shutterstock As you huddle inside this winter – possibly as part of a pandemic lockdown – you might be noticing the “thermal performance” of your home. In other words, does your home maintain a ... <a title="‘Die of cold or die of stress?’: Social housing is frequently colder than global health guidelines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/die-of-cold-or-die-of-stress-social-housing-is-frequently-colder-than-global-health-guidelines-164598/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Die of cold or die of stress?’: Social housing is frequently colder than global health guidelines">Read more</a>

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Gender-specific health programs address important issues, but risk creating new biases

July 21, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Jenkins, Research Fellow, University of Otago Shutterstock/elenavolf Gone are the days when health programmes were designed to simply punish or reward people to encourage behaviour change. We now know lasting behaviour change is more complex and nuanced, and this has prompted a proliferation of programmes that ... <a title="Gender-specific health programs address important issues, but risk creating new biases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/gender-specific-health-programs-address-important-issues-but-risk-creating-new-biases-155840/" aria-label="Read more about Gender-specific health programs address important issues, but risk creating new biases">Read more</a>

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7 tips for making masks work in the classroom

July 21, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Roy, Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle Shutterstock With more infectious variants of the COVID-19 virus emerging, teachers and students have been required to wear masks in high school classrooms. It was mandatory in Greater Sydney and all of Victoria before the recent switch to remote ... <a title="7 tips for making masks work in the classroom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/7-tips-for-making-masks-work-in-the-classroom-164777/" aria-label="Read more about 7 tips for making masks work in the classroom">Read more</a>

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Gender-specific health programmes address important issues, but risk creating new biases

July 21, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Jenkins, Research Fellow, University of Otago Shutterstock/elenavolf Gone are the days when health programmes were designed to simply punish or reward people to encourage behaviour change. We now know lasting behaviour change is more complex and nuanced, and this has prompted a proliferation of programmes that ... <a title="Gender-specific health programmes address important issues, but risk creating new biases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/gender-specific-health-programmes-address-important-issues-but-risk-creating-new-biases-155840/" aria-label="Read more about Gender-specific health programmes address important issues, but risk creating new biases">Read more</a>

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How does the Pegasus spyware work, and is my phone at risk?

July 21, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University Shutterstock A major journalistic investigation has found evidence of malicious software being used by governments around the world, including allegations of spying on prominent individuals. From a list of more 50,000 phone numbers, journalists identified more than ... <a title="How does the Pegasus spyware work, and is my phone at risk?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/how-does-the-pegasus-spyware-work-and-is-my-phone-at-risk-164781/" aria-label="Read more about How does the Pegasus spyware work, and is my phone at risk?">Read more</a>

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Is the COVID vaccine rollout the greatest public policy failure in recent Australian history?

July 21, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn Holbrook, ARC DECRA Fellow at Deakin University, Deakin University Is the Morrison government’s COVID vaccination rollout program one of Australia’s biggest ever public policy failures? As COVID-19 infection numbers in locked-down Sydney show little sign of abating and Victoria extends its fifth lockdown, the prospect of ... <a title="Is the COVID vaccine rollout the greatest public policy failure in recent Australian history?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/is-the-covid-vaccine-rollout-the-greatest-public-policy-failure-in-recent-australian-history-164396/" aria-label="Read more about Is the COVID vaccine rollout the greatest public policy failure in recent Australian history?">Read more</a>

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Dr Norman Swan’s new book tests the evidence on diet, sex and the ‘bullshit’ wellness trend. Does he know what’s good for us?

July 21, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Moynihan, Assistant Professor, Bond University Shutterstock There’s a great moment in George Eliot’s 1861 classic Silas Marner, where a young woman bemoans how people with “neither ache nor pain” want to be “better than well”. Written more than a century before the rise of the “wellness ... <a title="Dr Norman Swan’s new book tests the evidence on diet, sex and the ‘bullshit’ wellness trend. Does he know what’s good for us?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/dr-norman-swans-new-book-tests-the-evidence-on-diet-sex-and-the-bullshit-wellness-trend-does-he-know-whats-good-for-us-164387/" aria-label="Read more about Dr Norman Swan’s new book tests the evidence on diet, sex and the ‘bullshit’ wellness trend. Does he know what’s good for us?">Read more</a>