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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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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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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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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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July 21, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A pro-independence movement in West Papua has appealed to several Western countries — including New Zealand — to provide urgent humanitarian help by supplying covid vaccines directly to the Papuans to cope with the “double crisis” in the Indonesian-ruled region. Benny Wenda, interim president of the Provisional Government of West Papua, ... <a title="Wenda appeals to NZ, West to supply covid vaccines direct to Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/wenda-appeals-to-nz-west-to-supply-covid-vaccines-direct-to-papuans/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda appeals to NZ, West to supply covid vaccines direct to Papuans">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the editorial board of The Jakarta Post The unanimous House of Representatives decision in Indonesia last week to endorse the revised Papuan Special Autonomy Law shows, yet again, the propensity of the Jakarta elite to dictate the future of the territory, despite persistent calls to honor local demands. This “new deal” is not ... <a title="The Jakarta Post: New deal, old approach over West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/the-jakarta-post-new-deal-old-approach-over-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about The Jakarta Post: New deal, old approach over West Papua">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Patrick Angrai Jerolyn Arimbandai was the only woman teacher of a newly established Catholic-run high school in the Middle Ramu district of Papua New Guinea’s Madang province. She was married to Steven Arimbandai, a local from Josephstaal, also a teacher at Josephstaal High School. They had a child and were expecting their ... <a title="Pregnant PNG teacher Jerolyn walks 25km for her unborn baby – but dies tragically" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/pregnant-png-teacher-jerolyn-walks-25km-for-her-unborn-baby-but-dies-tragically/" aria-label="Read more about Pregnant PNG teacher Jerolyn walks 25km for her unborn baby – but dies tragically">Read more</a>
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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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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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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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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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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>
