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October 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Beth Madsen, PhD Candidate (confirmed) and casual academic at the University of Queensland, The University of Queensland The recent federal budget included A$39.8 million to expand the Clontarf Foundation’s Academy program for 12,500 Indigenous boys and young men. The Clontarf Foundation aims to improve confidence in Indigenous ... <a title="The budget has more money for school programs for Indigenous boys than girls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/the-budget-has-more-money-for-school-programs-for-indigenous-boys-than-girls-147746/" aria-label="Read more about The budget has more money for school programs for Indigenous boys than girls">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Turney, Professor of Earth Science and Climate Change, Director of Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility, Director of PANGEA Research Centre, and UNSW Node Director of ARC Centre for Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the ... <a title="Climate explained: does a delay in COP26 climate talks hit our efforts to reduce carbon emissions?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/climate-explained-does-a-delay-in-cop26-climate-talks-hit-our-efforts-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-146762/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: does a delay in COP26 climate talks hit our efforts to reduce carbon emissions?">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Quinn, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University How are vaccines made to kill a virus? Layla, aged 7 Thanks Layla. This is a very important question, especially now, as scientists all around the world are working hard to develop a vaccine ... <a title="Curious Kids: how do vaccines kill viruses?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/curious-kids-how-do-vaccines-kill-viruses-147266/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how do vaccines kill viruses?">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kai He, Professor of International Relations, Griffith University As the increasingly virulent anti-China rhetoric has made clear in recent months, China has not been very popular in countries like the US and Australia for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But new research shows just how extensive ... <a title="China’s image problem is worsening globally. It’s time for Beijing to consider a diplomatic reset" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/chinas-image-problem-is-worsening-globally-its-time-for-beijing-to-consider-a-diplomatic-reset-147901/" aria-label="Read more about China’s image problem is worsening globally. It’s time for Beijing to consider a diplomatic reset">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Tuthill, Astrophysicist, University of Sydney An astronomical discovery is shedding new light on an exquisitely-formed star system in our own Milky Way galaxy, featuring two Wolf-Rayet stars. These stars are short-lived and consequently very rare, with only a few hundred confirmed among our galaxy’s one hundred ... <a title="This mysterious ‘exotic stellar peacock’ may open the door to a realm of physics only ever glimpsed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/this-mysterious-exotic-stellar-peacock-may-open-the-door-to-a-realm-of-physics-only-ever-glimpsed-147911/" aria-label="Read more about This mysterious ‘exotic stellar peacock’ may open the door to a realm of physics only ever glimpsed">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, University of Melbourne Review: Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. At a time when the rapidly heating earth seems ... <a title="Lindy Lee’s Moon in a Dew Drop: art driven by a sense of wonder, borne of hard struggle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/lindy-lees-moon-in-a-dew-drop-art-driven-by-a-sense-of-wonder-borne-of-hard-struggle-147185/" aria-label="Read more about Lindy Lee’s Moon in a Dew Drop: art driven by a sense of wonder, borne of hard struggle">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra More than ever before, auctions shape the economy. Sites such as eBay have made them an everyday transaction. The placement of every Google ad is priced by an instantaneous mini-auction. Governments use them ... <a title="Making auctions work: the winning ideas behind this year’s Nobel Prize in economics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/making-auctions-work-the-winning-ideas-behind-this-years-nobel-prize-in-economics-147981/" aria-label="Read more about Making auctions work: the winning ideas behind this year’s Nobel Prize in economics">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Graham Davis As the national flag – Fiji’s “noble banner blue” – flew over the celebrations at the weekend marking the 50th anniversary of Independence, it’s worth remembering just how close Voreqe Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum came five years ago to getting rid of it altogether. The display photo is of one of ... <a title="Graham Davis: It’s our flag, not theirs – defend it, Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/graham-davis-its-our-flag-not-theirs-defend-it-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: It’s our flag, not theirs – defend it, Fiji">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Election Graeme Edgeler (Democracy Project): How to vote, and how to think about voting John Armstrong (1News): Pressure on Collins to lift National votes, even in defeat Colin Gavaghan (Pundit): The Comforting Myth Of ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 13 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-13-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 13 2020">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Kesby, UQ Amplify Researcher, The University of Queensland To navigate our way through the world, we constantly make choices. While we’ve all made our fair share of regrettable ones, most of us eventually learn from these – and we generally take this ability for granted. For ... <a title="Why do some people struggle to make ‘healthy’ decisions, day after day?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/why-do-some-people-struggle-to-make-healthy-decisions-day-after-day-147666/" aria-label="Read more about Why do some people struggle to make ‘healthy’ decisions, day after day?">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Curtin, Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland I first met Judith Collins in a media green room somewhere in Auckland midway through 2015. She is renowned for her ambition and dogged determination. But meeting her in person, I found her engaging, funny and very ... <a title="NZ election 2020: as the ultimate political survivor, Judith Collins prepares for her ultimate test" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/nz-election-2020-as-the-ultimate-political-survivor-judith-collins-prepares-for-her-ultimate-test-144488/" aria-label="Read more about NZ election 2020: as the ultimate political survivor, Judith Collins prepares for her ultimate test">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Infectious Disease Ethics Fellow, Ethox & Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Univeristy of Oxford. Adjunct, Monash University Researchers are considering using “human challenge studies” to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine research and development. This would involve giving an experimental vaccine to healthy volunteers, then deliberately exposing ... <a title="Infecting volunteers with coronavirus may be one way to test potential vaccines. But there are risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/infecting-volunteers-with-coronavirus-may-be-one-way-to-test-potential-vaccines-but-there-are-risks-147349/" aria-label="Read more about Infecting volunteers with coronavirus may be one way to test potential vaccines. But there are risks">Read more</a>
