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September 8, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. EDITOR’S NOTE: Please refer to an updated version of this article by clicking here. I have been investigating the epidemiology of the disease that arguably created the science of epidemiology; a blend of statistics, medical science, and demography. The cholera outbreak in London in 1854 is particularly well-known, because of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – The Signature of a Disease that scared the world: Cholera" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/08/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-the-signature-of-a-disease-that-scared-the-world-cholera/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – The Signature of a Disease that scared the world: Cholera">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Longden, Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The federal government’s climate change bill passed the Senate on Thursday. Among the mandates in the new Climate Change Act are assessments of the social, employment and economic benefits of climate change policies. These assessments will ... <a title="Australia finally has new climate laws. Now, let’s properly consider the astounding social cost of carbon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/08/australia-finally-has-new-climate-laws-now-lets-properly-consider-the-astounding-social-cost-of-carbon-190050/" aria-label="Read more about Australia finally has new climate laws. Now, let’s properly consider the astounding social cost of carbon">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Danks, Associate professor in Cinema and Media Studies, RMIT University MIFF After two years online, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) returned to its regular, outsized form spread across a range of inner-city, suburban and regional Victorian locations. It’s been many years since the experience of ... <a title="The best films at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/08/the-best-films-at-this-years-melbourne-international-film-festival-189530/" aria-label="Read more about The best films at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael O’Keefe, Director, Master of International Relations, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, right, poses for a photo with Samoa’s Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa AP Papua New Guinea (PNG) has announced it wants to establish a security agreement ... <a title="Penny Wong’s diplomacy efforts in the Pacific begin to bear fruit with PNG security pact" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/08/penny-wongs-diplomacy-efforts-in-the-pacific-begin-to-bear-fruit-with-png-security-pact-189710/" aria-label="Read more about Penny Wong’s diplomacy efforts in the Pacific begin to bear fruit with PNG security pact">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Pill, Research fellow, Australian National University A third of the country underwater. Crops washed away. Some 33 million people homeless. Billions of dollars of damage. A looming food crisis. And still the unprecedented rains come. Pakistan’s mega-monsoon dumped up to 700% of the usual August rainfall ... <a title="Pakistan floods: will rich nations ever pay for climate loss and damage?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/08/pakistan-floods-will-rich-nations-ever-pay-for-climate-loss-and-damage-190127/" aria-label="Read more about Pakistan floods: will rich nations ever pay for climate loss and damage?">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milo Barham, Senior Lecturer, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University Lipar et al., Author provided Environments across the planet are changing dramatically in response to human population growth and climate change. Some scientists even say human activity has pushed Earth into a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. ... <a title="A giant ‘bullseye’ on the Nullarbor Plain was created by ancient sea life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/08/a-giant-bullseye-on-the-nullarbor-plain-was-created-by-ancient-sea-life-189125/" aria-label="Read more about A giant ‘bullseye’ on the Nullarbor Plain was created by ancient sea life">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Young, Lecturer, Deakin University Ben Rothstein/ Prime Video Since Amazon announced actors of colour among the cast of its new series The Rings of Power in February this year, criticisms of their inclusion have gained media attention. The coverage typically positions criticisms of The Rings of ... <a title="The Rings of Power is suffering a racist backlash for casting actors of colour – but Tolkien’s work has always attracted white supremacists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/08/the-rings-of-power-is-suffering-a-racist-backlash-for-casting-actors-of-colour-but-tolkiens-work-has-always-attracted-white-supremacists-189963/" aria-label="Read more about The Rings of Power is suffering a racist backlash for casting actors of colour – but Tolkien’s work has always attracted white supremacists">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Brennan-Jones, Head of Ear Health, Telethon Kids Institute, Curtin University pixmike/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Why do seashells make a sound like the ocean when you put them to your ear? – Remy, age 9, Wangaratta, Victoria Thanks for the great question Remy! My kids and I have ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do seashells sound like the ocean when you put them to your ear?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/08/curious-kids-why-do-seashells-sound-like-the-ocean-when-you-put-them-to-your-ear-188650/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do seashells sound like the ocean when you put them to your ear?">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2022
By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva The University of the South Pacific’s Journalism Programme is open to strengthening engagement and partnership with the Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) following the recent visit of senior ABC executives to Fiji. Last week, ABC International Services head Claire Gorman, ABC International Development public affairs lead Jo Elsom, ABC Sport head ... <a title="ABC, USP Journalism keen to boost Pacific media partnerships" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/08/abc-usp-journalism-keen-to-boost-pacific-media-partnerships/" aria-label="Read more about ABC, USP Journalism keen to boost Pacific media partnerships">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake M Robinson, Ecologist and Researcher, Flinders University Shutterstock It’s been more than two years since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic. Each of us vividly recalls the first confirmed cases being reported in our home towns. COVID-19 spread across the planet at lightning speed, ... <a title="From microbes to forest bathing, here are 4 ways healing nature is vital to our recovery from COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/08/from-microbes-to-forest-bathing-here-are-4-ways-healing-nature-is-vital-to-our-recovery-from-covid-19-188458/" aria-label="Read more about From microbes to forest bathing, here are 4 ways healing nature is vital to our recovery from COVID-19">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Ryan Maloney, Research fellow, Griffith University Tim Maloney, Author provided Modern medicine seems to advance with time thanks to research breakthroughs. Hence it’s often thought that further into the past, only simpler medical practices existed. The medical expertise of foraging communities such as hunter-gatherers has been ... <a title="World’s earliest evidence of a successful surgical amputation found in 31,000-year-old grave in Borneo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/08/worlds-earliest-evidence-of-a-successful-surgical-amputation-found-in-31-000-year-old-grave-in-borneo-189683/" aria-label="Read more about World’s earliest evidence of a successful surgical amputation found in 31,000-year-old grave in Borneo">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND When the Liberal Party’s most senior right-wing figure, Peter Dutton, forced a leadership spill in 2018, ending Malcolm Turnbull’s premiership, even some moderates in the party room preferred him over the hyper-ambitious Scott ... <a title="Dutton’s high-wire act: holding the Coalition together while presenting as an alternative government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/08/duttons-high-wire-act-holding-the-coalition-together-while-presenting-as-an-alternative-government-189964/" aria-label="Read more about Dutton’s high-wire act: holding the Coalition together while presenting as an alternative government">Read more</a>
