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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Grant, Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury Wikimedia Commons/Yourong F. Wang, CC BY-SA New Zealand’s space sector has been developing rapidly since the first rocket lifted off in 2017. It now contributes about NZ$1.7 billion in revenue, with plans to grow to $10 billion by 2030. ... <a title="Satellites are making the night sky brighter – as a launch site, NZ has a duty to combat light pollution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/satellites-are-making-the-night-sky-brighter-as-a-launch-site-nz-has-a-duty-to-combat-light-pollution-233784/" aria-label="Read more about Satellites are making the night sky brighter – as a launch site, NZ has a duty to combat light pollution">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Mazza, Director, SPHERE NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health in Primary Care and Professor and Head of the Department of General Practice, Monash University Donald Trump suggested he was open to revoking access to the abortion pill if he won the ... <a title="What is the abortion drug Donald Trump has been talking about? How is it used in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/what-is-the-abortion-drug-donald-trump-has-been-talking-about-how-is-it-used-in-australia-236594/" aria-label="Read more about What is the abortion drug Donald Trump has been talking about? How is it used in Australia?">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney Inkoly/Shutterstock The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern, after rising cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the potential ... <a title="WHO has declared mpox a global health emergency. What happens next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/who-has-declared-mpox-a-global-health-emergency-what-happens-next-236778/" aria-label="Read more about WHO has declared mpox a global health emergency. What happens next?">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Giles, Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Melbourne MilanMarkovic78/Shutterstock Last week, South Australia announced it would offer pregnant women a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) from next year for free. It’s the first Australian state or territory to do so. RSV can be ... <a title="South Australia plans to offer pregnant women an RSV vaccine next year. Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/south-australia-plans-to-offer-pregnant-women-an-rsv-vaccine-next-year-heres-what-you-need-to-know-236333/" aria-label="Read more about South Australia plans to offer pregnant women an RSV vaccine next year. Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide Gena Rowlands, who has died at the age of 94, was a highly respected actor, with a fierce, edgy, often emotionally unstable on screen presence. She often played traumatised mothers or mother figures and her characters were ... <a title="Farewell Gena Rowlands, the formidable actress whose characters always seemed to be tipping into madness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/farewell-gena-rowlands-the-formidable-actress-whose-characters-always-seemed-to-be-tipping-into-madness-227369/" aria-label="Read more about Farewell Gena Rowlands, the formidable actress whose characters always seemed to be tipping into madness">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharolyn Anderson, Research scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of South Australia The Backyard Universe In a world increasingly illuminated by artificial light, the beautiful night skies of a small coastal town in South Australia have attracted international recognition. Carrickalinga on the Fleurieu Peninsula is Australia’s first ... <a title="The making of Australia’s first Dark Sky Community at Carrickalinga" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/the-making-of-australias-first-dark-sky-community-at-carrickalinga-228002/" aria-label="Read more about The making of Australia’s first Dark Sky Community at Carrickalinga">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick Finnerty, Postdoctoral research fellow in conservation, University of Sydney New South Wales has dozens of mesas, including Byangee Walls in Morton National Park ambo kangaro/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-ND Species are disappearing at an alarming rate around the world. But Australia’s extinction crisis is especially severe – since ... <a title="Islands in the sky: could steep-sided hilltops offer safe haven to our threatened species?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/islands-in-the-sky-could-steep-sided-hilltops-offer-safe-haven-to-our-threatened-species-234925/" aria-label="Read more about Islands in the sky: could steep-sided hilltops offer safe haven to our threatened species?">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Bonsai Films For a documentary to be successful, it needs to be proficiently made and, more importantly, focus on a subject of interest to the viewer. Let’s face it: a story about a blind big ... <a title="Following a vision-impaired surfer, The Blind Sea is far from a hero portrait. This is what makes it interesting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/following-a-vision-impaired-surfer-the-blind-sea-is-far-from-a-hero-portrait-this-is-what-makes-it-interesting-235104/" aria-label="Read more about Following a vision-impaired surfer, The Blind Sea is far from a hero portrait. This is what makes it interesting">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Saikal, Emeritus professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Australian National University This week marks the third year since America’s retreat from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s return to power. The United States had intervened in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 2001 terror attacks ... <a title="3 years after the Taliban’s return, Afghanistan is a broken country swarming with terrorists again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/3-years-after-the-talibans-return-afghanistan-is-a-broken-country-swarming-with-terrorists-again-236860/" aria-label="Read more about 3 years after the Taliban’s return, Afghanistan is a broken country swarming with terrorists again">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alberto Filgueiras, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia The year was 1920. It was George “Babe” Ruth’s first season playing for the New York Yankees. During that season, he scored an amazing 54 home runs. He alone scored more home runs than any team. However, “The Bambino,” ... <a title="Elite athletes are generally smarter than us – cognitive sciences can explain why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/elite-athletes-are-generally-smarter-than-us-cognitive-sciences-can-explain-why-234665/" aria-label="Read more about Elite athletes are generally smarter than us – cognitive sciences can explain why">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
By Brooklyn Self, Queensland University of Technology Gendered online violence is silencing women journalists in Fiji, says Pacific media scholar Dr Shailendra Singh. The harmful trend involves unwanted private messages, hateful language and threats to reputation, often from anonymous sources. The visibility of women journalists has made them frequent targets, while perpetrators can harness popular ... <a title="Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/online-abusers-shaming-silencing-fiji-women-journalists-say-researchers/" aria-label="Read more about Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University The race is on to transition to clean energy. Solar and wind farm developers are inundating regional communities in the hope they will host generation and transmission infrastructure. This extra capacity is needed to ... <a title="If we want more solar and wind farms, we need to get locals on board by ensuring they all benefit too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/if-we-want-more-solar-and-wind-farms-we-need-to-get-locals-on-board-by-ensuring-they-all-benefit-too-236226/" aria-label="Read more about If we want more solar and wind farms, we need to get locals on board by ensuring they all benefit too">Read more</a>
