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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mandie Shean, Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University As COVID-19 lockdown measures are lifted, some children may experience social anxiety about the prospect of returning to school. People with social anxiety may fear embarrassment or the expectation to perform in social situations, or worry exceedingly about ... <a title="7 tips to help kids feeling anxious about going back to school" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/7-tips-to-help-kids-feeling-anxious-about-going-back-to-school-139207/" aria-label="Read more about 7 tips to help kids feeling anxious about going back to school">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Libby Porter, Professor of Urban Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University The need for public housing is greater than ever before – Australia has a shortfall of at least 433,000 dwellings. Using public land for public housing is a no-brainer. But, at the time of writing, ... <a title="Public land is being sold exactly where thousands on the waiting list need housing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/public-land-is-being-sold-exactly-where-thousands-on-the-waiting-list-need-housing-139118/" aria-label="Read more about Public land is being sold exactly where thousands on the waiting list need housing">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brigit Busicchia, PhD, Political Economy, Macquarie University Extreme shortages of toilet paper, pasta and other pantry products defined the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic for many shoppers around the world. Availability of most these goods has returned to normal. But not for baking goods – flour ... <a title="Why flour is still missing from supermarket shelves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/why-flour-is-still-missing-from-supermarket-shelves-137263/" aria-label="Read more about Why flour is still missing from supermarket shelves">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Toffoletti, Associate Professor of Sociology, Deakin University Digital fitness is enjoying a COVID-19 boom. Online fitness technology provider Virtuagym reports a 400% increase in engagement and a 300% increase in the use of online workouts. Gyms, barre instructors, and yoga studios have been on a steep ... <a title="Working out at home works for women – so well they might not go back to gyms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/working-out-at-home-works-for-women-so-well-they-might-not-go-back-to-gyms-138111/" aria-label="Read more about Working out at home works for women – so well they might not go back to gyms">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has indeed taken to heart that adage about not wasting a crisis. He insists he is going to put to advantage the opportunity brought by these most unfortunate circumstances. His plan for a government-employer-union-community effort to reform this ... <a title="View from The Hill: Can Scott Morrison achieve industrial relations disarmament?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/view-from-the-hill-can-scott-morrison-achieve-industrial-relations-disarmament-139408/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Can Scott Morrison achieve industrial relations disarmament?">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Krystian Seibert, Industry Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology Comedian Celeste Barber’s whopping $51 million bushfire fundraiser showed us just how generous people can be in times of trouble. But the need to seek the NSW Supreme Court’s advice about how to spend the ... <a title="Celeste Barber’s story shows us the power of celebrity fundraising … and the importance of reading the fine print" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/26/celeste-barbers-story-shows-us-the-power-of-celebrity-fundraising-and-the-importance-of-reading-the-fine-print-139379/" aria-label="Read more about Celeste Barber’s story shows us the power of celebrity fundraising … and the importance of reading the fine print">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Adair, Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne People living in socially disadvantaged areas and outside major cities are much more likely to die prematurely, our new research shows. The study, published in the journal Australian Population Studies, reveals this ... <a title="The poorest Australians are twice as likely to die before age 75 as the richest, and the gap is widening" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/26/the-poorest-australians-are-twice-as-likely-to-die-before-age-75-as-the-richest-and-the-gap-is-widening-139201/" aria-label="Read more about The poorest Australians are twice as likely to die before age 75 as the richest, and the gap is widening">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrei Alexander Lux, Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour, Edith Cowan University The qualities that have made Jacinda Ardern New Zealand’s most popular prime minister in a century were on display this week as she took an earthquake in her stride during a live television interview. “We’re ... <a title="Open, honest and effective: what makes Jacinda Ardern an authentic leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/26/open-honest-and-effective-what-makes-jacinda-ardern-an-authentic-leader-132513/" aria-label="Read more about Open, honest and effective: what makes Jacinda Ardern an authentic leader">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Guy Morrow, Lecturer in Arts & Cultural Management, University of Melbourne This week, Australia’s finance minister Mathias Cormann told ABC radio he didn’t “accept [the] proposition” workers in the arts and entertainment industry were missing out on wage subsidies through the government’s Jobkeeper program. If they’re not ... <a title="The government says artists should be able to access JobKeeper payments. It’s not that simple" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/26/the-government-says-artists-should-be-able-to-access-jobkeeper-payments-its-not-that-simple-138530/" aria-label="Read more about The government says artists should be able to access JobKeeper payments. It’s not that simple">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eryn Newman, Lecturer, Australian National University As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the world, politicians, medical experts and epidemiologists have taught us about flattening curves, contact tracing, R0 and growth factors. At the same time, we are facing an “infodemic” – an overload of information, in which ... <a title="Seeing is believing: how media mythbusting can actually make false beliefs stronger" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/26/seeing-is-believing-how-media-mythbusting-can-actually-make-false-beliefs-stronger-138515/" aria-label="Read more about Seeing is believing: how media mythbusting can actually make false beliefs stronger">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Keating, Visiting Fellow, College of Business & Economics, Australian National University In the early 1970s, when rising inflation and unemployment tore through the economy, someone coined the aphorism “one man’s wage increase is another man’s job” (unfortunately, most of the talk was about men in those ... <a title="Why the coronavirus shouldn’t stand in the way of the next wage increase" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/26/why-the-coronavirus-shouldnt-stand-in-the-way-of-the-next-wage-increase-139277/" aria-label="Read more about Why the coronavirus shouldn’t stand in the way of the next wage increase">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University It looked just like any posed political picture. The politician, in this case the National Party’s newly elected leader, Todd Muller, standing by a ... <a title="Why Trump’s Make America Great Again hat makes a dangerous souvenir for foreign politicians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/26/why-trumps-make-america-great-again-hat-makes-a-dangerous-souvenir-for-foreign-politicians-139296/" aria-label="Read more about Why Trump’s Make America Great Again hat makes a dangerous souvenir for foreign politicians">Read more</a>
