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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trevor Kilpatrick, Professor, Neurologist and Clinical Director, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health Shutterstock Scientists are becoming more and more concerned with the emergence of a syndrome termed “long COVID”, where a significant percentage of sufferers of COVID-19 experience long-lasting symptoms. Studies suggest symptoms remain for ... <a title="How does COVID affect the brain? Two neuroscientists explain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/how-does-covid-affect-the-brain-two-neuroscientists-explain-164857/" aria-label="Read more about How does COVID affect the brain? Two neuroscientists explain">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Harvey, Curator of Arachnology at the Western Australian Museum, Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia A female _Euoplos variabilis_ from Mount Tamborine Jeremy Wilson After a century of scientific confusion, we can now officially add five new species to Australia’s long list of trapdoor spiders ... <a title="Here are 5 new species of Australian trapdoor spider. It took scientists a century to tell them apart" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/here-are-5-new-species-of-australian-trapdoor-spider-it-took-scientists-a-century-to-tell-them-apart-165327/" aria-label="Read more about Here are 5 new species of Australian trapdoor spider. It took scientists a century to tell them apart">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brett Healey, PhD Student, School of Education, Curtin University Shutterstock Fiction authors are pretty good at writing sentences with striking images, worded just the right way. We might suppose the images are striking because the author has a striking imagination. But the words seem just right because ... <a title="5 ways to teach the link between grammar and imagination for better creative writing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/5-ways-to-teach-the-link-between-grammar-and-imagination-for-better-creative-writing-165310/" aria-label="Read more about 5 ways to teach the link between grammar and imagination for better creative writing">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University GLENN HUNT/AAP Casino operator Crown Resorts must be desperate or think we’re dumb. Last week, before the royal commission into its right to hold a casino licence in Victoria, Crown resorted to one of the ... <a title="Casino operator Crown plays an old business trick: using workers as human shields" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/casino-operator-crown-plays-an-old-business-trick-using-workers-as-human-shields-165815/" aria-label="Read more about Casino operator Crown plays an old business trick: using workers as human shields">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shannon Sandford, PhD Candidate, Flinders University Julia Wertz’ The Infinite Wait and Other Stories looks at the author’s diagnosis with lupus. © Julia Wertz Images have acted as crucial diagnostic tools since the late 20th century. Sophisticated technologies, such as X-Rays and MRIs, offer doctors a precise ... <a title="‘Graphic medicine’: how autobiographical comics artists are changing our understanding of illness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/graphic-medicine-how-autobiographical-comics-artists-are-changing-our-understanding-of-illness-164789/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Graphic medicine’: how autobiographical comics artists are changing our understanding of illness">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Lawyer and human rights activist Veronica Koman has spoken out about the worsening health of Papuan activist Victor Yeimo who has been detained at the Mobile Brigade command headquarters detention centre (Rutan Mako Brimob) for the last three months, reports Suara Papua. “Victor Yeimo will not be safe if he remains ... <a title="Lawyer Veronica Koman joins calls to free Papuan activist Victor Yeimo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/lawyer-veronica-koman-joins-calls-to-free-papuan-activist-victor-yeimo/" aria-label="Read more about Lawyer Veronica Koman joins calls to free Papuan activist Victor Yeimo">Read more</a>
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August 10, 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: A reprimand for Christensen and Morrison on climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/podcast-with-michelle-grattan-a-reprimand-for-christensen-and-morrison-on-climate-165904/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast with Michelle Grattan: A reprimand for Christensen and Morrison on climate">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has dissociated himself from the views of his maverick backbencher George Christensen, who on Tuesday flatly rejected measures to contain COVID and played down the seriousness of the disease. “I don’t agree with him,” Joyce said. ... <a title="View from The Hill: Barnaby Joyce repudiates Christensen’s COVID misinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/view-from-the-hill-barnaby-joyce-repudiates-christensens-covid-misinformation-165889/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Barnaby Joyce repudiates Christensen’s COVID misinformation">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Lukas Coch/AAP I remember the acute frustration of watching one of the US news feeds on September 11, 2001 — 20 years ago next month. With the stricken twin towers smoking away in the background, the news anchors ... <a title="With the release of a terrifying IPCC report, Australia must face its wilful political blindness on climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/with-the-release-of-a-terrifying-ipcc-report-australia-must-face-its-wilful-political-blindness-on-climate-165868/" aria-label="Read more about With the release of a terrifying IPCC report, Australia must face its wilful political blindness on climate">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. Today’s New Zealand Herald cartoon shows a titanic-style National Party sinking beneath the waters while the captain orders “Full steam ahead!”. Cartoonist Daron Parton nicely sums up the general media perception about the state of the party after its annual conference at the weekend. While the party leadership are keen to ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Divisions threaten to sink National" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-divisions-threaten-to-sink-national/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Divisions threaten to sink National">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Archa Fox, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia Australia’s medical regulator has provisionally approved another COVID-19 vaccine, Moderna, for use in Australia. One million doses of Moderna are due in the second half of September and three million doses a month will ... <a title="What do I need to know about the Moderna vaccine? And how does it compare with Pfizer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/what-do-i-need-to-know-about-the-moderna-vaccine-and-how-does-it-compare-with-pfizer-165537/" aria-label="Read more about What do I need to know about the Moderna vaccine? And how does it compare with Pfizer?">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Environment, climate change, conservation Jamie Morton (Herald): Major climate change report’s stark outlook: Window to prevent worst impacts closing ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 10 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-10-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 10 2021">Read more</a>
