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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allan Saul, Senior Principal Research Fellow (Honorary), Burnet Institute Residents in Sydney, the NSW Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Wollongong today received confirmation their lockdown would be extended to at least 30 July. But our modelling suggests it may take until the end of the year to ... <a title="A tougher 4-week lockdown could save Sydney months of stay-at-home orders, our modelling shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/a-tougher-4-week-lockdown-could-save-sydney-months-of-stay-at-home-orders-our-modelling-shows-164483/" aria-label="Read more about A tougher 4-week lockdown could save Sydney months of stay-at-home orders, our modelling shows">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barney Tan, Associate Professor, Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Mark Schiefelbein/AP Over the past few weeks, the Chinese government’s crackdown on big tech companies has intensified. The giants have all felt the brunt of heightened regulatory scrutiny. At the end of last year, Ant Group (which ... <a title="Facial recognition for gamers, app store bans for Didi: what’s behind China’s recent crackdown on big tech?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/facial-recognition-for-gamers-app-store-bans-for-didi-whats-behind-chinas-recent-crackdown-on-big-tech-164395/" aria-label="Read more about Facial recognition for gamers, app store bans for Didi: what’s behind China’s recent crackdown on big tech?">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily Finch, Beamline Scientist at ANSTO, and Research Affiliate, Monash University Shutterstock Road tripping with a geologist is a little different. While you’re probably reading road signs and dodging roadkill, we’re reading road cuttings and deciphering the history of the area over the previous millions — or ... <a title="5 rocks any great Australian rock collection should have, and where to find them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/5-rocks-any-great-australian-rock-collection-should-have-and-where-to-find-them-163578/" aria-label="Read more about 5 rocks any great Australian rock collection should have, and where to find them">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University Massimo Botturi/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Australian organisations are a soft target for ransomware attacks, say experts who yesterday issued a fresh warning that the government needs to do more to stop agencies and businesses falling prey to cyber-crime. ... <a title="Is Australia a sitting duck for ransomware attacks? Yes, and the danger has been growing for 30 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/is-australia-a-sitting-duck-for-ransomware-attacks-yes-and-the-danger-has-been-growing-for-30-years-161818/" aria-label="Read more about Is Australia a sitting duck for ransomware attacks? Yes, and the danger has been growing for 30 years">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Afghan men bury a victim of deadly bombings near a girls’ school in May. Mariam Zuhaib/AP The imminent fall of Afghanistan is more than a national disaster. It is not just ... <a title="As the Taliban surges across Afghanistan, al-Qaeda is poised for a swift return" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/as-the-taliban-surges-across-afghanistan-al-qaeda-is-poised-for-a-swift-return-164314/" aria-label="Read more about As the Taliban surges across Afghanistan, al-Qaeda is poised for a swift return">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nial Wheate, Associate Professor of the Sydney Pharmacy School, University of Sydney from www.shutterstock.com When was the last time you swallowed a pill, be it a tablet or capsule? This morning or sometime in the past week? Now, can you remember the very first time you had ... <a title="How do you teach a child to swallow a pill? Hint: use lollies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/how-do-you-teach-a-child-to-swallow-a-pill-hint-use-lollies-154552/" aria-label="Read more about How do you teach a child to swallow a pill? Hint: use lollies">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathy Ann Townsend, Senior Lecturer in Animal Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast This, if you can believe it, is part of a magpie nest. Kathy Townsend, Author provided Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited ... <a title="Headphones, saw blades, coat hangers: how human trash in Australian bird nests changed over 195 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/headphones-saw-blades-coat-hangers-how-human-trash-in-australian-bird-nests-changed-over-195-years-164316/" aria-label="Read more about Headphones, saw blades, coat hangers: how human trash in Australian bird nests changed over 195 years">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Johnson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education, Deakin University Shutterstock Social distancing and lockdowns have disrupted university study for the past 18 months. Students are understandably stressed as shown by a dramatic drop in student satisfaction across Australia reported in the annual Student Experience Survey. Federal Education Minister Alan ... <a title="Digital learning is real-world learning. That’s why blended on-campus and online study is best" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/digital-learning-is-real-world-learning-thats-why-blended-on-campus-and-online-study-is-best-163002/" aria-label="Read more about Digital learning is real-world learning. That’s why blended on-campus and online study is best">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Veal, Adjunct Professor, Business School, University of Technology Sydney It almost seems too good to be true: a major trial in Iceland shows that cutting the standard five-day week to four days for the same pay needn’t cost employers a cent (or, to be accurate, a ... <a title="The success of Iceland’s ‘four-day week’ trial has been greatly overstated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/the-success-of-icelands-four-day-week-trial-has-been-greatly-overstated-164083/" aria-label="Read more about The success of Iceland’s ‘four-day week’ trial has been greatly overstated">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kenta McGrath, Sessional Academic in Screen Arts, Curtin University Tokyo Olympiad/IMDB Of the countless documentaries about the Olympic Games, two have long held their place on the podium. The first is Olympia (1938), Leni Riefenstahl’s landmark two-part film about the controversial 1936 Berlin Games. Funded by the ... <a title="Tokyo Olympiad, Kon Ichikawa’s documentary of the 1964 Games, is still a masterpiece" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/tokyo-olympiad-kon-ichikawas-documentary-of-the-1964-games-is-still-a-masterpiece-163800/" aria-label="Read more about Tokyo Olympiad, Kon Ichikawa’s documentary of the 1964 Games, is still a masterpiece">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eddie Clark, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington www.shutterstock.com Hate speech regulation is hard to get right. As media law specialist Steven Price has pointed out, the challenge for a democratic society lies in targeting the harm hate speech is ... <a title="Why ‘inciting violence’ should not be the only threshold for defining hate speech in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/why-inciting-violence-should-not-be-the-only-threshold-for-defining-hate-speech-in-new-zealand-164153/" aria-label="Read more about Why ‘inciting violence’ should not be the only threshold for defining hate speech in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jagadish Thaker, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University Associate health minister Ayesha Verrall receives the Pfizer vaccine. Lynn Grieveson – Newsroom/Newsroom via Getty Images New Zealanders’ intention to get a COVID-19 vaccine is at its highest since last year, at 81% of the ... <a title="Four in five New Zealanders plan to get vaccinated, but many people want more information about vaccine safety" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/four-in-five-new-zealanders-plan-to-get-vaccinated-but-many-people-want-more-information-about-vaccine-safety-164322/" aria-label="Read more about Four in five New Zealanders plan to get vaccinated, but many people want more information about vaccine safety">Read more</a>
