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November 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW AP Photo/Lisa Leutner Europe is facing a fourth wave of COVID. As we watch on, it is reasonable to ask whether Australia will be confronted with the same fate. Several ... <a title="Will Australia follow Europe into a fourth COVID wave? Boosters, vaccinating kids, ventilation and masks may help us avoid it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/will-australia-follow-europe-into-a-fourth-covid-wave-boosters-vaccinating-kids-ventilation-and-masks-may-help-us-avoid-it-172296/" aria-label="Read more about Will Australia follow Europe into a fourth COVID wave? Boosters, vaccinating kids, ventilation and masks may help us avoid it">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Akka Rimon, PhD Student, Australian National University Getty Images Our atoll nation is barely two metres above sea level, and the waters are coming for us. Despite the progress and momentum of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, we are still not moving fast enough to avoid ... <a title="The seas are coming for us in Kiribati. Will Australia rehome us?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/the-seas-are-coming-for-us-in-kiribati-will-australia-rehome-us-172137/" aria-label="Read more about The seas are coming for us in Kiribati. Will Australia rehome us?">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sebastian Leuzinger, Professor, Auckland University of Technology Shutterstock/rfranca The loss of biodiversity is one of the most catastrophic developments of our time. The impacts will possibly outpace those of global warming. New Zealand’s pīwakawaka: conservation often focuses on saving native species. Shutterstock/Imogen Warren Growing evidence that humans ... <a title="Why it’s time to reconsider the ecological contribution of introduced species — even in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/why-its-time-to-reconsider-the-ecological-contribution-of-introduced-species-even-in-new-zealand-171195/" aria-label="Read more about Why it’s time to reconsider the ecological contribution of introduced species — even in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Literature, Deakin University Shutterstock When students in China returned to classrooms in September 2021, they were provided with a new series of textbooks outlining China’s president Xi Jinping, or “Grandpa Xi’s”, political philosophy. Each textbook on “Xi Jinping Thought ... <a title="Little red children and ‘Grandpa Xi’: China’s school textbooks reflect the rise of Xi Jinping’s personality cult" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/little-red-children-and-grandpa-xi-chinas-school-textbooks-reflect-the-rise-of-xi-jinpings-personality-cult-168482/" aria-label="Read more about Little red children and ‘Grandpa Xi’: China’s school textbooks reflect the rise of Xi Jinping’s personality cult">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matheson Russell, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland Shutterstock The news last week that University of Auckland public health researcher Simon Thornley was retracting a co-authored paper about supposed vaccination risks during pregnancy raised deeper questions about the limits of academic freedom. Thornley’s own head of ... <a title="Are New Zealand’s universities doing enough to define the limits of academic freedom?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/are-new-zealands-universities-doing-enough-to-define-the-limits-of-academic-freedom-172297/" aria-label="Read more about Are New Zealand’s universities doing enough to define the limits of academic freedom?">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Harriette Richards, Research Associate, Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne United Workers Union, CC BY-SA Amid the catwalk shows and millinery workshops, a key theme of this year’s Melbourne Fashion Week was sustainablity, “offering designers with strong ethical foundations an opportunity to join our runways, or opening ... <a title="Like most of the fashion industry, there’s a blind spot in Country Road’s ethical focus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/like-most-of-the-fashion-industry-theres-a-blind-spot-in-country-roads-ethical-focus-172295/" aria-label="Read more about Like most of the fashion industry, there’s a blind spot in Country Road’s ethical focus">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne Henri Matisse, Still life with green marble table (Nature morte à la table de marbre vert) 1941. Oil on canvas, 46 ... <a title="Henri Matisse was an artist of colour and sensuous line; an unerring eye until the end" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/henri-matisse-was-an-artist-of-colour-and-sensuous-line-an-unerring-eye-until-the-end-171817/" aria-label="Read more about Henri Matisse was an artist of colour and sensuous line; an unerring eye until the end">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With the opposition and other critics homing in on the issues of his character and integrity, Scott Morrison on Monday played right into their hands. It was question time on the first day of parliament’s final sitting fortnight for the ... <a title="View from The Hill: Scott Morrison trips on a truth test" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/22/view-from-the-hill-scott-morrison-trips-on-a-truth-test-172316/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Scott Morrison trips on a truth test">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Huw Griffiths, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Sydney Julius Caesar STC credit Daniel Boud 262 Geraldine Hakewill and Ewen Leslie in Sydney Theatre Company’s Julius Caesar, 2021. Photo: Daniel Boud Review: Julius Caesar directed by Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company The Roman emperor Julius Caesar ... <a title="Sydney Theatre Company’s Julius Caesar is a clear-eyed look at the consequences of failed politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/22/sydney-theatre-companys-julius-caesar-is-a-clear-eyed-look-at-the-consequences-of-failed-politics-172038/" aria-label="Read more about Sydney Theatre Company’s Julius Caesar is a clear-eyed look at the consequences of failed politics">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madi Day, Lecturer, Department of Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University Thousands took to streets across Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane on Saturday November 20 to protest COVID-19 lockdown measures and vaccine mandates. The rallies occurred after weeks of protests in Melbourne against the Public Health and Wellbeing (Pandemic ... <a title="White supremacist and far right ideology underpin anti-vax movements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/22/white-supremacist-and-far-right-ideology-underpin-anti-vax-movements-172289/" aria-label="Read more about White supremacist and far right ideology underpin anti-vax movements">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bernadette McCabe, Professor and Principal Scientist, University of Southern Queensland Shutterstock Using organic waste to make energy – think sewage, animal and crop residues, and leftover wood – has finally been put under the spotlight with last week’s release of Australia’s first Bioenergy Roadmap. Bioenergy is a ... <a title="At long last, Australia has a bioenergy roadmap – and its findings are startling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/22/at-long-last-australia-has-a-bioenergy-roadmap-and-its-findings-are-startling-172235/" aria-label="Read more about At long last, Australia has a bioenergy roadmap – and its findings are startling">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Baron, Associate professor, Australian Catholic University Geralt / Pixabay Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may describe real things in the world, but it doesn’t “exist” outside the minds of the people ... <a title="Pythagoras’ revenge: humans didn’t invent mathematics, it’s what the world is made of" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/22/pythagoras-revenge-humans-didnt-invent-mathematics-its-what-the-world-is-made-of-172034/" aria-label="Read more about Pythagoras’ revenge: humans didn’t invent mathematics, it’s what the world is made of">Read more</a>
