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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Basil Sharp, Professor of Energy Economics, University of Auckland www.shutterstock.com New Zealand faces two enormous challenges if it is to meet its international climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement: biogenic methane emissions from agriculture, and carbon emissions from industry and transport. For now, there seems little ... <a title="NZ’s clean car discount is a turn in the right direction, but how much will it drive consumer demand?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/nzs-clean-car-discount-is-a-turn-in-the-right-direction-but-how-much-will-it-drive-consumer-demand-162751/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s clean car discount is a turn in the right direction, but how much will it drive consumer demand?">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
A View from Afar: Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan present this week’s podcast, A View from Afar, where they analyse how leaders of the G7, NATO and EU juxtapositioned behind the United States to form a consensus-pact immediately prior to the Biden-Putin Summit. United States President Joe Biden spoke of this in an impromptu media ... <a title="VIDEO: Buchanan and Manning on G7 NATO EU Get Behind US for the Biden-Putin Summit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/scheduled-live-buchanan-and-manning-on-g7-nato-eu-get-behind-us-for-the-biden-putin-summit/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Buchanan and Manning on G7 NATO EU Get Behind US for the Biden-Putin Summit">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim O’Hara, Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria C. Harding/Museums Victoria, Author provided Let me introduce you to Ophiojura, a bizarre deep-sea animal found in 2011 by scientists from the French Natural History Museum, while trawling the summit of a secluded seamount called Banc Durand, 500 ... <a title="This deep-sea creature is long-armed, bristling with teeth, and the sole survivor of 180 million years of evolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/this-deep-sea-creature-is-long-armed-bristling-with-teeth-and-the-sole-survivor-of-180-million-years-of-evolution-162842/" aria-label="Read more about This deep-sea creature is long-armed, bristling with teeth, and the sole survivor of 180 million years of evolution">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Higgins, Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW The federal government has scrambled in recent days to minimise the political fallout from its treatment of the Tamil family from Biloela. After almost two years stuck on Christmas Island, the Murugappans are now being ... <a title="Resettling refugees in other countries is not working, nor is it fair. So, why is Australia doing it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/resettling-refugees-in-other-countries-is-not-working-nor-is-it-fair-so-why-is-australia-doing-it-162505/" aria-label="Read more about Resettling refugees in other countries is not working, nor is it fair. So, why is Australia doing it?">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wen Shi Lee, Postdoctoral researcher, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity from www.shutterstock.com With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines accelerating, people are increasingly asking which vaccine is best? According to Google Trends, more and more people want to know. Even if we tried to answer ... <a title="Which COVID vaccine is best? Here’s why that’s really hard to answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/which-covid-vaccine-is-best-heres-why-thats-really-hard-to-answer-161185/" aria-label="Read more about Which COVID vaccine is best? Here’s why that’s really hard to answer">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tahlia Pollock, PhD candidate, Monash University Zoos Victoria, Author provided Tasmanian devils are expert scavengers, with strong jaws and robust teeth that give them the notorious ability to eat almost all of a carcass — bones and all. Scientists have even found echidna spikes in their poo. ... <a title="Bones and all: see how the diets of Tasmanian devils can wear down their sharp teeth to blunt nubbins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/bones-and-all-see-how-the-diets-of-tasmanian-devils-can-wear-down-their-sharp-teeth-to-blunt-nubbins-162422/" aria-label="Read more about Bones and all: see how the diets of Tasmanian devils can wear down their sharp teeth to blunt nubbins">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Tham, Research officer at the Centre for International Research on Education Systems, Victoria University Shutterstock Thousands of primary and secondary students in Sydney and Melbourne are preparing for selective entrance exams. If successful, students will gain entry into a selective secondary school, with other high-achievers, or ... <a title="More stress, unclear gains: are selective schools really worth it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/more-stress-unclear-gains-are-selective-schools-really-worth-it-160762/" aria-label="Read more about More stress, unclear gains: are selective schools really worth it?">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Johnston, Associate Professor of English Literature, The University of Queensland Portrait of Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (no date), colour photograph of oil painting Wollombi Endeavour Museum In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. Eliza Hamilton Dunlop’s poem The Aboriginal Mother was published in ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop — the Irish Australian poet who shone a light on colonial violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/hidden-women-of-history-eliza-hamilton-dunlop-the-irish-australian-poet-who-shone-a-light-on-colonial-violence-161592/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop — the Irish Australian poet who shone a light on colonial violence">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alastair Blanshard, Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History, The University of Queensland Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) Italy 1571–1610 The Musicians 1597 Oil on canvas 92.1 x 118.4cm Rogers Fund, 1952 / 52.81 Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New ... <a title="European Masterpieces from the Met demonstrates art’s power to speak to the human condition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/16/european-masterpieces-from-the-met-demonstrates-arts-power-to-speak-to-the-human-condition-160462/" aria-label="Read more about European Masterpieces from the Met demonstrates art’s power to speak to the human condition">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With Scott Morrison overseas, Nationals leader Michael McCormack has been Acting Prime Minister this week. In this podcast, he speaks about the free trade agreement with the UK, climate change, coal, the Nationals, and China. With speculation about whether Morrison ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Acting PM Michael McCormack on net zero 2050 and prospects for a new coal-fired power station" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/16/politics-with-michelle-grattan-acting-pm-michael-mccormack-on-net-zero-2050-and-prospects-for-a-new-coal-fired-power-station-162853/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Acting PM Michael McCormack on net zero 2050 and prospects for a new coal-fired power station">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rocio Camacho Morales, Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University Artist’s impression of the view through future night-vision glasses. Lei Xu / NTU, Author provided It’s a familiar vision to anyone who has watched a lot of action movies or played Call of Duty: a ghostly green image that ... <a title="Seeing the invisible: tiny crystal films could make night vision an everyday reality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/16/seeing-the-invisible-tiny-crystal-films-could-make-night-vision-an-everyday-reality-162615/" aria-label="Read more about Seeing the invisible: tiny crystal films could make night vision an everyday reality">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tama Leaver, Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University QR code contact-tracing apps are a crucial part of our defence against COVID-19. But their value depends on being widely used, which in turn means people using these apps need to be confident their data won’t be misused. That’s ... <a title="Police debacle leaves the McGowan government battling to rebuild public trust in the SafeWA app" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/16/police-debacle-leaves-the-mcgowan-government-battling-to-rebuild-public-trust-in-the-safewa-app-162850/" aria-label="Read more about Police debacle leaves the McGowan government battling to rebuild public trust in the SafeWA app">Read more</a>
