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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Whittaker, Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and/or images of deceased people. Five Aboriginal people have died in custody in the last month in Australia. It’s been 30 years since the 1991 Royal Commission ... <a title="Indigenous deaths in custody: inquests can be sites of justice or administrative violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/indigenous-deaths-in-custody-inquests-can-be-sites-of-justice-or-administrative-violence-158126/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous deaths in custody: inquests can be sites of justice or administrative violence">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Archa Fox, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Western Australia The world’s first mRNA vaccines — the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna — have made it in record time from the laboratory, through successful clinical trials, regulatory approval and into people’s arms. The high ... <a title="3 mRNA vaccines researchers are working on (that aren’t COVID)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/3-mrna-vaccines-researchers-are-working-on-that-arent-covid-157858/" aria-label="Read more about 3 mRNA vaccines researchers are working on (that aren’t COVID)">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Will Steffen, Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University In May 2011, almost precisely a decade ago, the government-appointed Climate Commission released its inaugural report. Titled The Critical Decade, the report’s final section warned that to keep global temperature rises to 2℃ this ... <a title="‘Failure is not an option’: after a lost decade on climate action, the 2020s offer one last chance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/failure-is-not-an-option-after-a-lost-decade-on-climate-action-the-2020s-offer-one-last-chance-158913/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Failure is not an option’: after a lost decade on climate action, the 2020s offer one last chance">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Hubble, Associate Professor, University of Sydney Last month’s flood in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River region of western Sydney peaked at a staggering 12.9 metres, with water engulfing road signs and reaching the tops of many houses. There hasn’t been a major flood on the Hawkesbury-Nepean for more ... <a title="Sydney’s disastrous flood wasn’t unprecedented, and we can expect more major floods in just 10 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/sydneys-disastrous-flood-wasnt-unprecedented-and-we-can-expect-more-major-floods-in-just-10-years-158427/" aria-label="Read more about Sydney’s disastrous flood wasn’t unprecedented, and we can expect more major floods in just 10 years">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Ziguras, Professor of Global Studies, RMIT University Victorian universities recently re-proposed a previously conceived plan to get international students back under a similar model used to fly in tennis players for the Australian Open. Under the proposal, universities would help pay for around 1,000 foreign students ... <a title="The government keeps shelving plans to bring international students back to Australia. It owes them an explanation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/the-government-keeps-shelving-plans-to-bring-international-students-back-to-australia-it-owes-them-an-explanation-158778/" aria-label="Read more about The government keeps shelving plans to bring international students back to Australia. It owes them an explanation">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology When Marilyn Monroe was asked, “What do you wear to bed?”, she famously replied, “Just a few drops of No. 5″. Monroe was perhaps the most famous fan of the French perfume celebrating its 100th ... <a title="‘Smell like a woman, not a rose’: Chanel No. 5 100 years on, an iconic fragrance born from an orphanage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/smell-like-a-woman-not-a-rose-chanel-no-5-100-years-on-an-iconic-fragrance-born-from-an-orphanage-158870/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Smell like a woman, not a rose’: Chanel No. 5 100 years on, an iconic fragrance born from an orphanage">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has defended his intemperate language in parliament against Christine Holgate last year, saying he had to protect taxpayers’ money and Labor was calling for her resignation. Pressed to respond to the former Australia Post CEO’s accusations of bullying, ... <a title="Scott Morrison won’t say ‘sorry’ to Holgate but ‘regrets’ the hurt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/14/scott-morrison-wont-say-sorry-to-holgate-but-regrets-the-hurt-158989/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison won’t say ‘sorry’ to Holgate but ‘regrets’ the hurt">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2021
A View from Afar: Midday Thursday (NZST, Wednesday 7pm US EDST) – Join this LIVE recording of this week’s podcast where Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan will debate: Why regional powers including Russia, Israel, Iran are willing to provoke flash-points that risk triggering a wider war. In recent weeks, Israel is suspected of espionage destroying an ... <a title="Video: Buchanan and Manning on Why Regional Powers are Provoking Flash-Points to War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/14/scheduled-video-buchanan-and-manning-on-why-regional-powers-are-provoking-flash-points-to-war/" aria-label="Read more about Video: Buchanan and Manning on Why Regional Powers are Provoking Flash-Points to War">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna M. Kotarba-Morley, Lecturer, Archaeology, Flinders University An almost 3,400-year-old industrial, royal metropolis, “the Dazzling Aten”, has been found on the west bank of the Nile near the modern day city of Luxor. Announced last week by the famed Egyptian archaeologist Dr Zahi Hawass, the find has ... <a title="The discovery of the lost city of ‘the Dazzling Aten’ will offer vital clues about domestic and urban life in Ancient Egypt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/14/the-discovery-of-the-lost-city-of-the-dazzling-aten-will-offer-vital-clues-about-domestic-and-urban-life-in-ancient-egypt-158874/" aria-label="Read more about The discovery of the lost city of ‘the Dazzling Aten’ will offer vital clues about domestic and urban life in Ancient Egypt">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Quinn, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University This week, US health authorities recommended pausing the rollout of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine while investigations into exceptionally rare blood clots take place. Six women suffered blood clots out of nearly ... <a title="Is it the adenovirus vaccine technology, used by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, causing blood clots? There’s no evidence yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/14/is-it-the-adenovirus-vaccine-technology-used-by-astrazeneca-and-johnson-and-johnson-causing-blood-clots-theres-no-evidence-yet-158944/" aria-label="Read more about Is it the adenovirus vaccine technology, used by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, causing blood clots? There’s no evidence yet">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sujeet Kumar, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University India is witnessing a sharp spike in COVID-19 cases after months of declining numbers had given the country hope it had made it through the worst of the pandemic relatively unscathed. ... <a title="As India’s COVID crisis worsens, leaders play the blame game while the poor suffer once again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/14/as-indias-covid-crisis-worsens-leaders-play-the-blame-game-while-the-poor-suffer-once-again-158531/" aria-label="Read more about As India’s COVID crisis worsens, leaders play the blame game while the poor suffer once again">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University Some weeks ago, a nine-year-old macaque monkey called Pager successfully played a game of Pong with its mind. While it may sound like science fiction, the demonstration by Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company Neuralink is an example ... <a title="Neuralink’s monkey can play Pong with its mind. Imagine what humans could do with the same technology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/14/neuralinks-monkey-can-play-pong-with-its-mind-imagine-what-humans-could-do-with-the-same-technology-158787/" aria-label="Read more about Neuralink’s monkey can play Pong with its mind. Imagine what humans could do with the same technology">Read more</a>
