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June 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Braden Hill, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Edith Cowan University A new Western Australian study, one of the first of its kind, reveals the complex experiences of those living at the intersection of being both Indigenous and part of the LGBTIQ+ community. Two reports produced as part of this Healthway-funded ... <a title="New research shows how Indigenous LGBTIQ+ people don’t feel fully accepted by either community" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/25/new-research-shows-how-indigenous-lgbtiq-people-dont-feel-fully-accepted-by-either-community-161096/" aria-label="Read more about New research shows how Indigenous LGBTIQ+ people don’t feel fully accepted by either community">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2021
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva The Fiji government and other health experts must give the country a covid-19 crisis timeline, says prominent lawyer Richard Naidu. He said they must provide some indication of how bad the pandemic would get and when they believed things would improve. Naidu said this was imperative because the future of ... <a title="Fiji government must give ‘critical’ covid-19 crisis timeline, says lawyer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/25/fiji-government-must-give-critical-covid-19-crisis-timeline-says-lawyer/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji government must give ‘critical’ covid-19 crisis timeline, says lawyer">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. Could a backlash to “woke politics” be the basis for the revival and return of New Zealand First? The Winston Peters-led party held its first post-defeat conference in the weekend, in which the main theme was NZ First’s very clear focus on culture wars issues as a way to rebuild popular ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Winston’s anti-woke path back to power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/25/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-winstons-anti-woke-path-back-to-power/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Winston’s anti-woke path back to power">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Langley, Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University Yossi Zaidner An international group of archaeologists have discovered a missing piece in the story of human evolution. Excavations at the Israeli site of Nesher Ramla have recovered a skull that may represent a late-surviving example of a distinct Homo ... <a title="_Homo_ who? A new mystery human species has been discovered in Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/25/homo-who-a-new-mystery-human-species-has-been-discovered-in-israel-163084/" aria-label="Read more about _Homo_ who? A new mystery human species has been discovered in Israel">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yassine Souilmi, Visiting Investigator, Australian National University NIAID-RML, CC BY-SA A coronavirus may have swept across East Asia more than 20,000 years ago, leaving traces in the DNA of people in modern China, Japan and Vietnam. Our research, published in Current Biology, found evidence of genetic adaptation ... <a title="We found traces of humanity’s age-old arms race with coronaviruses written in our DNA" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/25/we-found-traces-of-humanitys-age-old-arms-race-with-coronaviruses-written-in-our-dna-163254/" aria-label="Read more about We found traces of humanity’s age-old arms race with coronaviruses written in our DNA">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Hugenholtz, Professor of Microbiology, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Research published today in Nature Microbiology has identified 54,118 species of virus living in the human gut — 92% of which were previously unknown. But as we and our colleagues from ... <a title="We found more than 54,000 viruses in people’s poo — and 92% were previously unknown to science" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/25/we-found-more-than-54-000-viruses-in-peoples-poo-and-92-were-previously-unknown-to-science-163258/" aria-label="Read more about We found more than 54,000 viruses in people’s poo — and 92% were previously unknown to science">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Mehigan, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury www.shutterstock.com The imminent sentencing of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd will be closely watched around the world. While the crime happened in the United States, its resonance in the Black ... <a title="The sentencing of George Floyd’s killer has lessons for policing in Australia and New Zealand too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/25/the-sentencing-of-george-floyds-killer-has-lessons-for-policing-in-australia-and-new-zealand-too-162164/" aria-label="Read more about The sentencing of George Floyd’s killer has lessons for policing in Australia and New Zealand too">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Communication, Deakin University Lukas Coch/AAP In the 2000s, the internet shredded the media’s business model. The media’s influence fragmented and many employees paid the price. Between 2012 and 2016, thousands of Australian journalists lost their jobs in large redundancy rounds as the industry ... <a title="Australia’s media industry shed 5,000 journalists to survive – what does this mean for those who left, and those left behind?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/25/australias-media-industry-shed-5-000-journalists-to-survive-what-does-this-mean-for-those-who-left-and-those-left-behind-162937/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s media industry shed 5,000 journalists to survive – what does this mean for those who left, and those left behind?">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Berry, Professor of Viral Immunology, Murdoch University Novavax recently released excellent results from phase 3 clinical trials, finding its COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated 90.4% efficacy overall after two doses given three weeks apart. The results, from close to 30,000 people in the United States and Mexico, found ... <a title="Novavax is absent from Australia’s 2021 vaccination schedule. But it could be a useful booster later on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/25/novavax-is-absent-from-australias-2021-vaccination-schedule-but-it-could-be-a-useful-booster-later-on-163014/" aria-label="Read more about Novavax is absent from Australia’s 2021 vaccination schedule. But it could be a useful booster later on">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron Simmons, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, University of New England Shutterstock Soil carbon is in the spotlight in Australia. A key plank in the Morrison government’s technology-led emissions reduction policy, it involves changing farming techniques so soils store more carbon from the atmosphere. Farmers can encourage and ... <a title="US scheme used by Australian farmers reveals the dangers of trading soil carbon to tackle climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/25/us-scheme-used-by-australian-farmers-reveals-the-dangers-of-trading-soil-carbon-to-tackle-climate-change-161358/" aria-label="Read more about US scheme used by Australian farmers reveals the dangers of trading soil carbon to tackle climate change">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mim Fox, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Wollongong Shutterstock Podcasting is helping to revolutionise tertiary education. Universities have found themselves caught between shrinking budgets and an official insistence that they make graduates job-ready. Academics have had to be creative and flexible about how they engage ... <a title="Podcasting overcomes hurdles facing unis to immerse students in the world of workers’ experiences" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/25/podcasting-overcomes-hurdles-facing-unis-to-immerse-students-in-the-world-of-workers-experiences-161274/" aria-label="Read more about Podcasting overcomes hurdles facing unis to immerse students in the world of workers’ experiences">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Byrne, Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania Blaine O’Neill/Flickr, CC BY-NC Since the 1950s, the world has experienced a sixfold increase in the number of people living in cities. City dwellers now outnumber rural residents globally and in many individual countries. But the ... <a title="COVID has disrupted our big cities, and regional planning has to catch up fast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/25/covid-has-disrupted-our-big-cities-and-regional-planning-has-to-catch-up-fast-139969/" aria-label="Read more about COVID has disrupted our big cities, and regional planning has to catch up fast">Read more</a>
