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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Whyte, Deputy Director, Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology, Queensland University of Technology As behavioural scientists, we have a keen interest in how people make decisions, and particularly how these decisions incorporate a range of emotional, cognitive and psychological factors. Choosing a life partner is ... <a title="Men are from Mars, women are from… Mars? How people choose partners is surprisingly similar (but depends on age)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/men-are-from-mars-women-are-from-mars-how-people-choose-partners-is-surprisingly-similar-but-depends-on-age-161081/" aria-label="Read more about Men are from Mars, women are from… Mars? How people choose partners is surprisingly similar (but depends on age)">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Annabelle Lukin, Associate Professor in Linguistics, Macquarie University As lethal violence kills ordinary people in Gaza and Israel, news outlets across the globe are constructing versions of events that will keep eyeballs on their content. After all, war is the most compelling news story of all. And ... <a title="When it comes to media reporting on Israel-Palestine, there is nowhere to hide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/when-it-comes-to-media-reporting-on-israel-palestine-there-is-nowhere-to-hide-160992/" aria-label="Read more about When it comes to media reporting on Israel-Palestine, there is nowhere to hide">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Breen, Professor of Law, University of Waikato It has been a confusing couple of weeks for public sector employees. They started with the government announcing what looked like a three-year pay freeze for public servants but ended up with a “lift/adjust/hold” approach to public sector pay. ... <a title="Wage restraint aims to lift the lowest-earning public servants, but it won’t fix stubborn gender and ethnic pay gaps" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/wage-restraint-aims-to-lift-the-lowest-earning-public-servants-but-it-wont-fix-stubborn-gender-and-ethnic-pay-gaps-160763/" aria-label="Read more about Wage restraint aims to lift the lowest-earning public servants, but it won’t fix stubborn gender and ethnic pay gaps">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Kaufman, Research Fellow, Vaccine Uptake Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Yesterday, we heard from a nurse at one of Victoria’s mass vaccination clinics who said she’d administered just one vaccine in an eight-hour shift. She said vaccine hesitancy was a factor in people not turning up ... <a title="From faith leaders to office workers: 5 ways we can all be COVID vaccine champions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/from-faith-leaders-to-office-workers-5-ways-we-can-all-be-covid-vaccine-champions-160454/" aria-label="Read more about From faith leaders to office workers: 5 ways we can all be COVID vaccine champions">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Minglu Chen, Senior Lecturer, Government and International Relations, University of Sydney I was making small talk with a medical technician during a health check a few months ago. After hearing I was a senior lecturer teaching Chinese politics at the University of Sydney, she commented: “It must ... <a title="Teaching Chinese politics in Australia: polarised views leave academics between a rock and a hard place" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/teaching-chinese-politics-in-australia-polarised-views-leave-academics-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-157886/" aria-label="Read more about Teaching Chinese politics in Australia: polarised views leave academics between a rock and a hard place">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Mclaughlin, PhD Candidate, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle Five Australian states and territories are trialling or planning 30km/h speed limits and zones. However, some people question if 30km/h speed limits are actually urgent and necessary, or are instead a so-called “nanny state” ... <a title="Busted: 5 myths about 30km/h speed limits in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/busted-5-myths-about-30km-h-speed-limits-in-australia-160547/" aria-label="Read more about Busted: 5 myths about 30km/h speed limits in Australia">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Malcolm Whyte, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Science, Australian National University Success in the Olympic Games is usually focused on medals, especially gold ones, and countries are usually ranked in terms of the number of medals won, and sometimes as medals per million of population or gross domestic ... <a title="Dollar for dollar, the winning nations at the Olympic Games seem to be the poorest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/dollar-for-dollar-the-winning-nations-at-the-olympic-games-seem-to-be-the-poorest-158760/" aria-label="Read more about Dollar for dollar, the winning nations at the Olympic Games seem to be the poorest">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute Since 2015, the share of younger people (aged 20 to 39) with private health insurance has dropped from 24% to 22%. People in this age group contribute more in insurance premiums than they claim in pay-outs. So this decline ends ... <a title="4 ways to fix private health insurance so it can sustain a growing, ageing population" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/4-ways-to-fix-private-health-insurance-so-it-can-sustain-a-growing-ageing-population-161171/" aria-label="Read more about 4 ways to fix private health insurance so it can sustain a growing, ageing population">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arjuna Dibley, Visiting Researcher, Climate and Energy College, The University of Melbourne The Morrison government today announced it’s building a new gas power plant in the Hunter Valley, committing up to A$600 million for the government-owned corporation Snowy Hydro to construct the project. Critics argue the plant ... <a title="Government-owned firms like Snowy Hydro can do better than building $600 million gas plants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/government-owned-firms-like-snowy-hydro-can-do-better-than-building-600-million-gas-plants-161180/" aria-label="Read more about Government-owned firms like Snowy Hydro can do better than building $600 million gas plants">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Even if every country meets its current climate targets, Earth’s temperature will still rise by a dangerous 2.1℃ this century, according to sobering findings from a new International Energy Agency ... <a title="New International Energy Agency report reprimands any new fossil fuel development. Guess what Australia did next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/new-international-energy-agency-report-reprimands-any-new-fossil-fuel-development-guess-what-australia-did-next-161178/" aria-label="Read more about New International Energy Agency report reprimands any new fossil fuel development. Guess what Australia did next?">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In last week’s budget, $17.7 billion was allocated to the aged care sector, in response to the damning findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality & Safety. The commission’s final report painted a grim picture of a sector ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Richard Colbeck on aged care and the Olympics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/politics-with-michelle-grattan-richard-colbeck-on-aged-care-and-the-olympics-161192/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Richard Colbeck on aged care and the Olympics">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW The small archipelago nation of Seychelles, northeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, has emerged as the world’s most vaccinated country for COVID-19. Around 71% of people have had at ... <a title="COVID is surging in the world’s most vaccinated country. Why?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/covid-is-surging-in-the-worlds-most-vaccinated-country-why-160869/" aria-label="Read more about COVID is surging in the world’s most vaccinated country. Why?">Read more</a>
