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August 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist), The Conversation Shawn Thew/EPA/AP On June 24, the US Supreme Court denied a constitutional right to an abortion, overturning its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. I covered this and two other late June right-wing decisions by the court in an early ... <a title="US Democrats gain ground before midterm elections as Kansas voters reject attempt to ban abortion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/11/us-democrats-gain-ground-before-midterm-elections-as-kansas-voters-reject-attempt-to-ban-abortion-187994/" aria-label="Read more about US Democrats gain ground before midterm elections as Kansas voters reject attempt to ban abortion">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven W. Salisbury, PhD; Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland Herschel Hoffmeyer/Shutterstock For the first time, we have shown that a soft heel pad was crucial to how sauropod dinosaurs supported their immense weight, according to a new digital reconstruction of their feet. ... <a title="A key feature contributed to sauropods getting so enormous, new dino foot study reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/11/a-key-feature-contributed-to-sauropods-getting-so-enormous-new-dino-foot-study-reveals-188462/" aria-label="Read more about A key feature contributed to sauropods getting so enormous, new dino foot study reveals">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Apisalome Movono, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Massey University Getty Images With Samoa fully reopening its borders on August 1, another Pacific country moved tentatively forwards after two years of border closures and little or no international tourism. But opening up is not as simple as flipping ... <a title="Pacific aviation is struggling to take off after the pandemic – how can the ‘blue continent’ stay connected?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/11/pacific-aviation-is-struggling-to-take-off-after-the-pandemic-how-can-the-blue-continent-stay-connected-187522/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific aviation is struggling to take off after the pandemic – how can the ‘blue continent’ stay connected?">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Johnson, Associate Professor, Curtin University Solarseven / Shutterstock Earth is the only planet we know of with continents, the giant landmasses that provide homes to humankind and most of Earth’s biomass. However, we still don’t have firm answers to some basic questions about continents: how did ... <a title="What created the continents? New evidence points to giant asteroids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/11/what-created-the-continents-new-evidence-points-to-giant-asteroids-185606/" aria-label="Read more about What created the continents? New evidence points to giant asteroids">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Piero Moraro, Lecturer in Criminology, Edith Cowan University The recent transfer of a “difficult cohort” of teenagers to a maximum-security adult prison in Western Australia raises familiar questions about Australia’s prison system. The 17 young detainees have “significant offending histories” and had for months been destroying infrastructure, ... <a title="Sending teens to maximum security prisons shows Australia needs to raise the age of criminal responsibility" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/11/sending-teens-to-maximum-security-prisons-shows-australia-needs-to-raise-the-age-of-criminal-responsibility-187768/" aria-label="Read more about Sending teens to maximum security prisons shows Australia needs to raise the age of criminal responsibility">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Power, Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University The recent global outbreak of monkeypox largely among men who have sex with men has raised concerns homophobia will undermine effective prevention efforts. There are also ... <a title="We need to talk about monkeypox without shame and blame" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/11/we-need-to-talk-about-monkeypox-without-shame-and-blame-188295/" aria-label="Read more about We need to talk about monkeypox without shame and blame">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Reem Abbas, Research Fellow, Auckland University of Technology Shutterstock/Joseph Sorrentino New Zealand’s healthcare policies for migrants rate among the top five countries globally. Yet research shows persistent health inequities among women and children with migrant and refugee backgrounds. The current health system reforms create opportunities to improve ... <a title="Why migrant and refugee women and children remain in the shadows of health reforms in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/11/why-migrant-and-refugee-women-and-children-remain-in-the-shadows-of-health-reforms-in-new-zealand-186902/" aria-label="Read more about Why migrant and refugee women and children remain in the shadows of health reforms in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Woessner, Lecturer in Clinical Exercise and Research Fellow, Institute for Health and Sport (iHeS), Victoria University, Victoria University Lars Bo Nielsen/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Every week millions of Australian children play community sport. Participating in community sport can improve children’s mental, physical and social wellbeing, but only ... <a title="More than 80% of people we asked said they’ve experienced violence in junior sport – and women and gender-diverse people cop it most" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/11/more-than-80-of-people-we-asked-said-theyve-experienced-violence-in-junior-sport-and-women-and-gender-diverse-people-cop-it-most-188430/" aria-label="Read more about More than 80% of people we asked said they’ve experienced violence in junior sport – and women and gender-diverse people cop it most">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Downie, Associate Professor, Australian National University Getty If politics moves slowly, climate politics often feels like it doesn’t move at all. Yet at the weekend, US senators worked through the night to accomplish something they have failed to do since NASA scientist James Hansen first warned ... <a title="The US has finally passed a huge climate bill. Australia needs to keep up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/11/the-us-has-finally-passed-a-huge-climate-bill-australia-needs-to-keep-up-188525/" aria-label="Read more about The US has finally passed a huge climate bill. Australia needs to keep up">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Fraser, Senior Researcher in Antarctic Remote Sensing, University of Tasmania Esmee van Wijk, Author provided As Antarctica’s slow rivers of ice hit the sea, they float, forming ice shelves. These shelves extend the glaciers into the ocean until they calve into icebergs. But they also play ... <a title="Ice shelves hold back Antarctica’s glaciers from adding to sea levels – but they’re crumbling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/11/ice-shelves-hold-back-antarcticas-glaciers-from-adding-to-sea-levels-but-theyre-crumbling-185509/" aria-label="Read more about Ice shelves hold back Antarctica’s glaciers from adding to sea levels – but they’re crumbling">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Burton, Lecturer, Theatre, University of Southern Queensland Jason LaVeris/ Getty If you felt the world stop turning for a moment in July, it’s because Beyoncé dropped her new album, Renaissance. Rolling Stone has described her as the world’s “greatest living entertainer”, with a stardom that intersects ... <a title="Disco ain’t dead: how Beyoncé resurrected dance music and its queer history for Renaissance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/11/disco-aint-dead-how-beyonce-resurrected-dance-music-and-its-queer-history-for-renaissance-188431/" aria-label="Read more about Disco ain’t dead: how Beyoncé resurrected dance music and its queer history for Renaissance">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Amnesty International and Civicus have called on the Fiji government to drop contempt of court charges against a lawyer in Fiji for exercising his right to freedom of expression. On 27 June 2022, Fiji’s Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum filed charges for contempt of court against senior lawyer and former journalist Richard Naidu ... <a title="Amnesty, Civicus condemn Fiji spelling mistake contempt lawsuit as ‘violation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/10/amnesty-civicus-condemn-fiji-spelling-mistake-contempt-lawsuit-as-violation/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty, Civicus condemn Fiji spelling mistake contempt lawsuit as ‘violation’">Read more</a>
