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January 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, University of Melbourne Australia is sweltering through another heatwave, and there will be more in the near future as climate change brings hotter, drier weather. In some parts of Australia, the number of days above 40℃ will double by 2090, and with ... <a title="An unexpected consequence of climate change: heatwaves kill plant pests and save our favourite giant trees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/26/an-unexpected-consequence-of-climate-change-heatwaves-kill-plant-pests-and-save-our-favourite-giant-trees-148919/" aria-label="Read more about An unexpected consequence of climate change: heatwaves kill plant pests and save our favourite giant trees">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Véronique Duché, A.R. Chisholm Professor of French, University of Melbourne In this series, writers pay tribute to fictional detectives on the page and on screen. When I first heard that Rowan Atkinson was to put on Maigret’s velvet-collared overcoat, I wondered if it was une farce. Johnny ... <a title="My favourite detective: Jules Maigret, the Paris detective with a pipe but no pretense" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/26/my-favourite-detective-jules-maigret-the-paris-detective-with-a-pipe-but-no-pretense-150747/" aria-label="Read more about My favourite detective: Jules Maigret, the Paris detective with a pipe but no pretense">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2021
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 Covid Harry Lock (RNZ): Covid community case: Infection at MIQ facility ‘most likely scenario’ Jamie Morton (Herald): Time to ‘turn down tap’ on travel from risky countries, experts say Kate Green and Jackson Thomas (Stuff): Covid-19 response, experts ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 25 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/25/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-january-25-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 25 2021">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tauel Harper, Lecturer, Media and Communication, UWA, University of Western Australia With a vaccine rollout impending, key groups have backed calls for the Australian government to force social media platforms to share details about popular coronavirus misinformation. An open letter was put forth by independent group Reset ... <a title="Laws making social media firms expose major COVID myths could help Australia’s vaccine rollout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/25/laws-making-social-media-firms-expose-major-covid-myths-could-help-australias-vaccine-rollout-153887/" aria-label="Read more about Laws making social media firms expose major COVID myths could help Australia’s vaccine rollout">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Archa Fox, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Western Australia The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has today provisionally approved Australia’s first COVID vaccine, the Pfizer vaccine, paving the way for its rollout to begin in mid-to-late February among high-risk groups. Two doses will be required, ... <a title="Not sure about the Pfizer vaccine, now it’s been approved in Australia? You can scratch these 4 concerns straight off your list" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/25/not-sure-about-the-pfizer-vaccine-now-its-been-approved-in-australia-you-can-scratch-these-4-concerns-straight-off-your-list-153719/" aria-label="Read more about Not sure about the Pfizer vaccine, now it’s been approved in Australia? You can scratch these 4 concerns straight off your list">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Kirkness, Postdoctoral research fellow, Macquarie University As government COVID updates have become a daily part of our lives over the past 12 months, so too has the sight of sign language interpreters on our screens. This has understandably had a huge impact on the lives of ... <a title="COVID has brought Auslan into the spotlight, but it would be wrong to treat the language as a hobby or fad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/25/covid-has-brought-auslan-into-the-spotlight-but-it-would-be-wrong-to-treat-the-language-as-a-hobby-or-fad-151667/" aria-label="Read more about COVID has brought Auslan into the spotlight, but it would be wrong to treat the language as a hobby or fad">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Dwyer, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney Executives from Google and Facebook have told a Senate committee they are prepared to take drastic action if Australia’s news media bargaining code, which would force the internet giants to pay news publishers for linking ... <a title="Is news worth a lot or a little? Google and Facebook want to have it both ways" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/25/is-news-worth-a-lot-or-a-little-google-and-facebook-want-to-have-it-both-ways-153787/" aria-label="Read more about Is news worth a lot or a little? Google and Facebook want to have it both ways">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Morag Kobez, Associate lecturer, Queensland University of Technology In this series, our writers explore how food shaped Australian history – and who we are today. The history of cheese in Australia has, until recent decades, been a rather tasteless affair. Not so long ago our choice was ... <a title="It gets better with age: a brie(f) history of cheese in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/25/it-gets-better-with-age-a-brie-f-history-of-cheese-in-australia-153377/" aria-label="Read more about It gets better with age: a brie(f) history of cheese in Australia">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Longden, Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Heat is more dangerous than the cold in most Australian regions. About 2% of deaths in Australia between 2006 and 2017 were associated with the heat, and the estimate increases to more than 4% in the ... <a title="As heatwaves become more extreme, which jobs are riskiest?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/25/as-heatwaves-become-more-extreme-which-jobs-are-riskiest-151841/" aria-label="Read more about As heatwaves become more extreme, which jobs are riskiest?">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Dyer, Associate Professor, RMIT University At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in an answer of “blue”. Why is it that humans are so fond of blue? And why does it seem to be so rare in the ... <a title="The mystery of the blue flower: nature’s rare colour owes its existence to bee vision" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/25/the-mystery-of-the-blue-flower-natures-rare-colour-owes-its-existence-to-bee-vision-153646/" aria-label="Read more about The mystery of the blue flower: nature’s rare colour owes its existence to bee vision">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan Davis, Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous UNSW and Professor of Law, UNSW We are on the eve of the nation’s annual ritual of celebrating the arrivals, while not formally recognising the ancient peoples who were dispossessed. Each year the tensions spill over, rendering Australia Day/Invasion Day/Survival Day a ... <a title="Toxicity swirls around January 26, but we can change the nation with a Voice to parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/25/toxicity-swirls-around-january-26-but-we-can-change-the-nation-with-a-voice-to-parliament-153623/" aria-label="Read more about Toxicity swirls around January 26, but we can change the nation with a Voice to parliament">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bright, Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University While the public focus remains on COVID vaccines, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) continues to evaluate a range of proposals around the provision of medical treatments in Australia. The regulatory body is currently considering whether psychiatrists should be ... <a title="Will Australia legalise ecstasy and magic mushrooms to treat mental illness? Here’s why it’s still too soon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/25/will-australia-legalise-ecstasy-and-magic-mushrooms-to-treat-mental-illness-heres-why-its-still-too-soon-150448/" aria-label="Read more about Will Australia legalise ecstasy and magic mushrooms to treat mental illness? Here’s why it’s still too soon">Read more</a>
