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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Seares, Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia Unsplash/The Conversation Every election, state and federal, we can expect to see plenty of politicians wearing sporting scarves, attending footy games and posing with elite athletes. But why don’t we tend to see ... <a title="Sports policy focuses on the grassroots – is this missing from arts policies?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/sports-policy-focuses-on-the-grassroots-is-this-missing-from-arts-policies-230293/" aria-label="Read more about Sports policy focuses on the grassroots – is this missing from arts policies?">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Greenland, Professor in Marketing, Charles Darwin University The cost of hosting Paris 2024, the 33rd Olympics, is predicted to be more than A$14 billion. So what’s in it for the French? Will this oldest of sporting events shine for them, or as has happened with some ... <a title="Brand Olympics: do the famous rings deliver value to host countries?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/brand-olympics-do-the-famous-rings-deliver-value-to-host-countries-228497/" aria-label="Read more about Brand Olympics: do the famous rings deliver value to host countries?">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoe Goodall, Research Associate, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology fizkes/Shutterstock Anyone who’s lived in a sharehouse knows it only takes one person to send the household off the rails. Everyone’s life is affected when one housemate leaves out food, plays loud music all night ... <a title="Sharehousing can be fun, but fraught with risk – and the law offers little protection. These 3 changes could help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/sharehousing-can-be-fun-but-fraught-with-risk-and-the-law-offers-little-protection-these-3-changes-could-help-234482/" aria-label="Read more about Sharehousing can be fun, but fraught with risk – and the law offers little protection. These 3 changes could help">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shayne Vial, Lecturer in Biomechanics, Edith Cowan University Every four years, the best athletes from around the globe converge to battle it out for top honours at the Olympic Games. Athletes go through the rigours of qualification, competing through injury and travel fatigue, with a wide variety ... <a title="Are running shoes getting too good? Why ‘technological doping’ is a growing concern for professional sports" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/are-running-shoes-getting-too-good-why-technological-doping-is-a-growing-concern-for-professional-sports-232905/" aria-label="Read more about Are running shoes getting too good? Why ‘technological doping’ is a growing concern for professional sports">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Power, Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University JLco Julia Amaral/Shutterstock Sexual consent is about good communication between sexual partners before and during sex. Far from being a simple act of saying “yes” or “no” prior ... <a title="What is sexual ‘aftercare’ and what does it mean for consent education?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/what-is-sexual-aftercare-and-what-does-it-mean-for-consent-education-233241/" aria-label="Read more about What is sexual ‘aftercare’ and what does it mean for consent education?">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University The cracks beneath US President Joe Biden’s feet continue to widen. While the shock of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump seemed like it might relieve some of the pressure on ... <a title="Two-thirds of Democrats want Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. It’s time he listened" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/two-thirds-of-democrats-want-joe-biden-to-drop-out-of-the-presidential-race-its-time-he-listened-234483/" aria-label="Read more about Two-thirds of Democrats want Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. It’s time he listened">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sita Venkateswar, Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University Getty Images The government’s changes to the Ka Ora, Ka Ako-Healthy School Lunches Programme – designed to save NZ$107 million a year – have understandably aroused passions in those closest to the issue. Associate Education ... <a title="Food for thought: how NZ’s school lunch programme can add learning and local economies to the menu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/food-for-thought-how-nzs-school-lunch-programme-can-add-learning-and-local-economies-to-the-menu-233228/" aria-label="Read more about Food for thought: how NZ’s school lunch programme can add learning and local economies to the menu">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hugh Stanford, Researcher Associate, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University doublelee/Shutterstock Access to nature is essential for our health and wellbeing. However, as our cities become increasingly crowded, it becomes more and more challenging to find ways to connect with nature in urban spaces. We know urban ... <a title="Our cities’ secret gardens: we connect with nature in neglected green spaces just as much as in parks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/our-cities-secret-gardens-we-connect-with-nature-in-neglected-green-spaces-just-as-much-as-in-parks-233351/" aria-label="Read more about Our cities’ secret gardens: we connect with nature in neglected green spaces just as much as in parks">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark De Vitis, Lecturer in Art History , University of Sydney Pass-Room Bridewell, from Ackermann’s Repository, 1808 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, CC BY Though the Bureau of Meteorology originally predicted temperatures would be higher than the average this winter, those living on Australia’s east coast may ... <a title="Trying to stay warm in bed this winter? In pre-industrial Europe they did it with ten in the bed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/trying-to-stay-warm-in-bed-this-winter-in-pre-industrial-europe-they-did-it-with-ten-in-the-bed-233558/" aria-label="Read more about Trying to stay warm in bed this winter? In pre-industrial Europe they did it with ten in the bed">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tian Du, PhD candidate in venom genomics, University of Sydney Kurit Afshen / Shutterstock About 1.8 million people worldwide are bitten by snakes each year. Of those, up to 138,000 die and another 400,000 end up with permanent scarring and disability. Many cobras have tissue-damaging venoms that ... <a title="How a century-old drug could revolutionise cobra bite treatment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/how-a-century-old-drug-could-revolutionise-cobra-bite-treatment-234277/" aria-label="Read more about How a century-old drug could revolutionise cobra bite treatment">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natalie Galea, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne The Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) is in crisis. Amid the headlines and allegations of standover tactics, thuggery and kickbacks, the construction division of the union has been placed in administration. The peak body for unions, ... <a title="The CFMEU overhaul won’t do much to end the blokey culture that dominates Australian job sites" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/the-cfmeu-overhaul-wont-do-much-to-end-the-blokey-culture-that-dominates-australian-job-sites-234910/" aria-label="Read more about The CFMEU overhaul won’t do much to end the blokey culture that dominates Australian job sites">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Swerissen, Emeritus Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University Butsaya/Shutterstock In a country like Australia, we all expect that when we get old, we’ll be able to rely on a robust aged care system. But aged care providers can’t find staff and a crisis is brewing. ... <a title="We have too few aged care workers to care for older Australians. Why? And what can we do about it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/we-have-too-few-aged-care-workers-to-care-for-older-australians-why-and-what-can-we-do-about-it-232707/" aria-label="Read more about We have too few aged care workers to care for older Australians. Why? And what can we do about it?">Read more</a>
