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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Zic, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University, CSIRO If you look up in the southern sky you can see the “pointer” stars, pointing towards the Southern Cross. One of these pointers is Alpha Centauri, which is actually a pair of Sun-like stars that are too close ... <a title="Bad space weather may make life impossible near Proxima Centauri" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/bad-space-weather-may-make-life-impossible-near-proxima-centauri-150979/" aria-label="Read more about Bad space weather may make life impossible near Proxima Centauri">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
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 Chinese authorities have already approved multiple COVID vaccines for emergency use in the country, and nearly a million Chinese have already been vaccinated with one candidate. Several local governments ... <a title="China’s COVID vaccines are already being distributed. But how do they work, and where are they up to in trials?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/chinas-covid-vaccines-are-already-being-distributed-but-how-do-they-work-and-where-are-they-up-to-in-trials-151589/" aria-label="Read more about China’s COVID vaccines are already being distributed. But how do they work, and where are they up to in trials?">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Twenty years ago, UNESCO inscribed the greater Blue Mountains area on the World Heritage List for having “outstanding universal value”. If you’ve travelled to the Blue Mountains, with its rugged sandstone cliff faces, hidden waterfalls and rich ... <a title="The Blue Mountains World Heritage site has been downgraded, but it’s not too late to save it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/the-blue-mountains-world-heritage-site-has-been-downgraded-but-its-not-too-late-to-save-it-150954/" aria-label="Read more about The Blue Mountains World Heritage site has been downgraded, but it’s not too late to save it">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Siew Fang Law, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School Of Education, University of Melbourne Australian universities are diverse places. They are a mix of students, staff and communities from different demographic backgrounds. This is not true of the people who run universities. Higher education leaders tend to have ... <a title="Most of Australia’s uni leaders are white, male and grey. This lack of diversity could be a handicap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/most-of-australias-uni-leaders-are-white-male-and-grey-this-lack-of-diversity-could-be-a-handicap-150952/" aria-label="Read more about Most of Australia’s uni leaders are white, male and grey. This lack of diversity could be a handicap">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Gallagher, PhD Candidate, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland Urban consolidation policies to contain development within existing urban areas are creating poor development outcomes in Australian cities. In Brisbane, our newly published research shows this means the low-density housing character of the ... <a title="Why city policy to ‘protect the Brisbane backyard’ is failing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/why-city-policy-to-protect-the-brisbane-backyard-is-failing-150173/" aria-label="Read more about Why city policy to ‘protect the Brisbane backyard’ is failing">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University It has been more than 20 years in the making, but there is now a new order in Australia’s grandest (and most problematic) example of cooperative federalism: the National Electricity Market. Not completely national (it excludes Western Australia ... <a title="After two decades, the national electricity market is on its way out, and that’s alright" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/after-two-decades-the-national-electricity-market-is-on-its-way-out-and-thats-alright-151018/" aria-label="Read more about After two decades, the national electricity market is on its way out, and that’s alright">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ann Vickery, Associate Professor in Writing and Literature, Deakin University Growing up in Australia in the 1970s, I much preferred the hijinks of Han Solo and Chewie to Princess Leia’s sexualised damsel in distress. My sister and I spent an entire summer pigging out on Choc Wedges ... <a title="Guide to the classics: My Brilliant Career and its uncompromising message for girls today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/guide-to-the-classics-my-brilliant-career-and-its-uncompromising-message-for-girls-today-145452/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the classics: My Brilliant Career and its uncompromising message for girls today">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist Like so much of what I have done as Australia’s Chief Scientist, the electricity market review of 2017 was unexpected. I was driving home after delivering a speech late one night in October 2016 when then federal ... <a title="Alan Finkel: how a late-night phonecall in 2016 triggered ‘incredible progress’ on clean energy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/alan-finkel-how-a-late-night-phonecall-in-2016-triggered-incredible-progress-on-clean-energy-151588/" aria-label="Read more about Alan Finkel: how a late-night phonecall in 2016 triggered ‘incredible progress’ on clean energy">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australia is on track to meet its 2030 Paris climate targets without resorting to carryover credits and could exceed them with the aid of the recently-announced technology roadmap, according to projections to be released on Thursday. Australia has pledged to ... <a title="Emissions projections indicate Australia won’t need carryover credits to meet Paris targets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/emissions-projections-indicate-australia-wont-need-carryover-credits-to-meet-paris-targets-151782/" aria-label="Read more about Emissions projections indicate Australia won’t need carryover credits to meet Paris targets">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deanna Kemp, Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland On the eve of Reconciliation Week this year, news broke that Rio Tinto had destroyed ancient rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia to expand one of its 16 iron ore ... <a title="Juukan Gorge inquiry puts Rio Tinto on notice, but without drastic reforms, it could happen again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/09/juukan-gorge-inquiry-puts-rio-tinto-on-notice-but-without-drastic-reforms-it-could-happen-again-151377/" aria-label="Read more about Juukan Gorge inquiry puts Rio Tinto on notice, but without drastic reforms, it could happen again">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This month Alan Finkel ends his term as Australia’s Chief Scientist. An entrepreneur, engineer, neuroscientist, and educator in his former life, Finkel describes the role he’s held since 2016 as consisting of two activities. There’s “reviewing” – briefing government on ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Chief Scientist Alan Finkel on climate, energy and emissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/09/politics-with-michelle-grattan-chief-scientist-alan-finkel-on-climate-energy-and-emissions-151770/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Chief Scientist Alan Finkel on climate, energy and emissions">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jim Stanford, Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute; Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney “We are all in this together,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison solemnly intoned in April – and for a brief few months, in the face of the economic crisis ... <a title="So much for consensus: Morrison government’s industrial relations bill is a business wish list" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/09/so-much-for-consensus-morrison-governments-industrial-relations-bill-is-a-business-wish-list-151668/" aria-label="Read more about So much for consensus: Morrison government’s industrial relations bill is a business wish list">Read more</a>
