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May 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Anne Kenny, Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University The long-running case of the “Biloela family” has ended after the new Labor government confirmed they would be allowed to return home to Queensland. Interim home affairs minister Jim Chalmers said on Friday the Murugappan family (also ... <a title="The ‘Biloela family’ are going home – but what will Labor do with thousands of other asylum seekers in limbo in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/the-biloela-family-are-going-home-but-what-will-labor-do-with-thousands-of-other-asylum-seekers-in-limbo-in-australia-183621/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘Biloela family’ are going home – but what will Labor do with thousands of other asylum seekers in limbo in Australia?">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne Hall, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Cybersecurity, RMIT University Shutterstock We use internet-connected devices to access our bank accounts, keep our transport systems moving, communicate with our colleagues, listen to music, undertake commercially sensitive tasks – and order pizza. Digital security is integral to our lives, ... <a title="There are systems ‘guarding’ your data in cyberspace – but who is guarding the guards?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/there-are-systems-guarding-your-data-in-cyberspace-but-who-is-guarding-the-guards-183041/" aria-label="Read more about There are systems ‘guarding’ your data in cyberspace – but who is guarding the guards?">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. Problems make the world go round. Many of us – maybe the majority of workers, and certainly the majority of well-paid workers – earn our living addressing problems. A problem-free world would represent a major crisis for modern social-capitalism. (Yet standard economic theory continues to present the productive economy as a ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Narrow Vision: Subsidised Cars and Street Immunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/keith-rankin-essay-narrow-vision-subsidised-cars-and-street-immunity/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Narrow Vision: Subsidised Cars and Street Immunity">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Morgan, Professor of general practice, Bond University Shutterstock The COVID medication Paxlovid has been available in Australia on the Pharmaceuticals Benefits Scheme (PBS) since the start of May, with eligible patients directed to talk to their GP for a prescription. Paxlovid is an oral treatment for ... <a title="I have mild COVID – should I take the antiviral Paxlovid?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/i-have-mild-covid-should-i-take-the-antiviral-paxlovid-183913/" aria-label="Read more about I have mild COVID – should I take the antiviral Paxlovid?">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and Emma Larouche, from the University of Canberra’s Media and Communications team, look at the first week of an Albanese government. They discuss Prime Minister Albanese’s trip to the Quad meeting, Foreign Minister ... <a title="VIDEO: Victors and feather dusters as election changes the guard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/video-victors-and-feather-dusters-as-election-changes-the-guard-183971/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Victors and feather dusters as election changes the guard">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Wright, Associate Professor of Medical Imaging, Monash University Unsplash/Lux Graves, CC BY Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is the most common form of motor neuron disease. People with ALS progressively lose the ability to initiate and control muscle movements, including the ... <a title="On your back? Side? Face-down? Mice show how we sleep may trigger or protect our brain from diseases like ALS" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/on-your-back-side-face-down-mice-show-how-we-sleep-may-trigger-or-protect-our-brain-from-diseases-like-als-181954/" aria-label="Read more about On your back? Side? Face-down? Mice show how we sleep may trigger or protect our brain from diseases like ALS">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Burrowes, Senior Researcher, University of Auckland Shutterstock Like in many aspects of life, there remains an undercurrent of sex bias against women in the STEM fields. And this bias has a negative impact on not only women, but men too – and those who don’t fit ... <a title="Small step for Nature, giant leap across the gender gap: leading journal will make sex and gender reporting mandatory in research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/small-step-for-nature-giant-leap-across-the-gender-gap-leading-journal-will-make-sex-and-gender-reporting-mandatory-in-research-183631/" aria-label="Read more about Small step for Nature, giant leap across the gender gap: leading journal will make sex and gender reporting mandatory in research">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney Supporters of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament have celebrated the commitment of the new Albanese government to put the issue to a referendum. But is government support enough? It’s a start, but the road to referendum success is ... <a title="Changing the Australian Constitution is not easy. But we need to stop thinking it’s impossible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/changing-the-australian-constitution-is-not-easy-but-we-need-to-stop-thinking-its-impossible-183626/" aria-label="Read more about Changing the Australian Constitution is not easy. But we need to stop thinking it’s impossible">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne Wallis, Professor of International Security, University of Adelaide Xinhua via AP Yet more proposed Chinese “security agreements” in the Pacific Islands have been leaked. The drafts have been described by critics as revealing “the ambitious scope of Beijing’s strategic intent in the Pacific” and its “coherent ... <a title="Amplifying narratives about the ‘China threat’ in the Pacific may help China achieve its broader aims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/amplifying-narratives-about-the-china-threat-in-the-pacific-may-help-china-achieve-its-broader-aims-183917/" aria-label="Read more about Amplifying narratives about the ‘China threat’ in the Pacific may help China achieve its broader aims">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
RNZ Pacific The President of the Federated States of Micronesia says he has serious concerns about the details of two leaked Chinese government documents to be tabled at a meeting next week. President David Panuelo warns the sovereignty of the Pacific Island countries is at stake, and that the outcome of one of the documents ... <a title="China documents threaten Pacific sovereignty, warns FSM president" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/china-documents-threaten-pacific-sovereignty-warns-fsm-president/" aria-label="Read more about China documents threaten Pacific sovereignty, warns FSM president">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has delivered the highly regarded Harvard Commencement address, calling out social media as a threat to modern day democracy. She was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the university. The Commencement is steeped in history with Ardern’s predecessors including Winston Churchill, JFK, Angela Merkel — and topically ... <a title="‘Democracy can be fragile’: Ardern uses Harvard speech to call out tech companies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/democracy-can-be-fragile-ardern-uses-harvard-speech-to-call-out-tech-companies/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Democracy can be fragile’: Ardern uses Harvard speech to call out tech companies">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ann Borda, Associate Professor, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock When a new coronavirus emerged from nature in 2019, it changed the world. But COVID-19 won’t be the last disease to jump across from the shrinking wild. Just this weekend, it was announced that Australia, ... <a title="AI could help us spot viruses like monkeypox before they cross over – and help conserve nature" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/ai-could-help-us-spot-viruses-like-monkeypox-before-they-cross-over-and-help-conserve-nature-182515/" aria-label="Read more about AI could help us spot viruses like monkeypox before they cross over – and help conserve nature">Read more</a>
