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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Harvey, Curator of Arachnology at the Western Australian Museum, Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia A female _Euoplos variabilis_ from Mount Tamborine Jeremy Wilson After a century of scientific confusion, we can now officially add five new species to Australia’s long list of trapdoor spiders ... <a title="Here are 5 new species of Australian trapdoor spider. It took scientists a century to tell them apart" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/here-are-5-new-species-of-australian-trapdoor-spider-it-took-scientists-a-century-to-tell-them-apart-165327/" aria-label="Read more about Here are 5 new species of Australian trapdoor spider. It took scientists a century to tell them apart">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brett Healey, PhD Student, School of Education, Curtin University Shutterstock Fiction authors are pretty good at writing sentences with striking images, worded just the right way. We might suppose the images are striking because the author has a striking imagination. But the words seem just right because ... <a title="5 ways to teach the link between grammar and imagination for better creative writing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/5-ways-to-teach-the-link-between-grammar-and-imagination-for-better-creative-writing-165310/" aria-label="Read more about 5 ways to teach the link between grammar and imagination for better creative writing">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University GLENN HUNT/AAP Casino operator Crown Resorts must be desperate or think we’re dumb. Last week, before the royal commission into its right to hold a casino licence in Victoria, Crown resorted to one of the ... <a title="Casino operator Crown plays an old business trick: using workers as human shields" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/casino-operator-crown-plays-an-old-business-trick-using-workers-as-human-shields-165815/" aria-label="Read more about Casino operator Crown plays an old business trick: using workers as human shields">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shannon Sandford, PhD Candidate, Flinders University Julia Wertz’ The Infinite Wait and Other Stories looks at the author’s diagnosis with lupus. © Julia Wertz Images have acted as crucial diagnostic tools since the late 20th century. Sophisticated technologies, such as X-Rays and MRIs, offer doctors a precise ... <a title="‘Graphic medicine’: how autobiographical comics artists are changing our understanding of illness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/graphic-medicine-how-autobiographical-comics-artists-are-changing-our-understanding-of-illness-164789/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Graphic medicine’: how autobiographical comics artists are changing our understanding of illness">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this episode, politics + society editor Amanda Dunn ... <a title="Podcast with Michelle Grattan: A reprimand for Christensen and Morrison on climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/podcast-with-michelle-grattan-a-reprimand-for-christensen-and-morrison-on-climate-165904/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast with Michelle Grattan: A reprimand for Christensen and Morrison on climate">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has dissociated himself from the views of his maverick backbencher George Christensen, who on Tuesday flatly rejected measures to contain COVID and played down the seriousness of the disease. “I don’t agree with him,” Joyce said. ... <a title="View from The Hill: Barnaby Joyce repudiates Christensen’s COVID misinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/view-from-the-hill-barnaby-joyce-repudiates-christensens-covid-misinformation-165889/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Barnaby Joyce repudiates Christensen’s COVID misinformation">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Lukas Coch/AAP I remember the acute frustration of watching one of the US news feeds on September 11, 2001 — 20 years ago next month. With the stricken twin towers smoking away in the background, the news anchors ... <a title="With the release of a terrifying IPCC report, Australia must face its wilful political blindness on climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/with-the-release-of-a-terrifying-ipcc-report-australia-must-face-its-wilful-political-blindness-on-climate-165868/" aria-label="Read more about With the release of a terrifying IPCC report, Australia must face its wilful political blindness on climate">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Archa Fox, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia Australia’s medical regulator has provisionally approved another COVID-19 vaccine, Moderna, for use in Australia. One million doses of Moderna are due in the second half of September and three million doses a month will ... <a title="What do I need to know about the Moderna vaccine? And how does it compare with Pfizer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/what-do-i-need-to-know-about-the-moderna-vaccine-and-how-does-it-compare-with-pfizer-165537/" aria-label="Read more about What do I need to know about the Moderna vaccine? And how does it compare with Pfizer?">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John P. de New, Professorial Fellow (Professor of Economics), The University of Melbourne The COVID-19 Delta variant has changed the vaccination game in Australia. With outbreaks resulting in a prolonged lockdown for Sydney as well as shorter periods for other states, the proportion of Australians vaccinated has ... <a title="Our survey results show incentives aren’t enough to reach a 80% vaccination rate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/our-survey-results-show-incentives-arent-enough-to-reach-a-80-vaccination-rate-165728/" aria-label="Read more about Our survey results show incentives aren’t enough to reach a 80% vaccination rate">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Thomson, Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research Shutterstock One-on-one online tutoring for disadvantaged students has proved highly effective in helping them overcome their struggles with literacy and numeracy. The Smith Family, the national children’s education charity, recently completed a small pilot of the program, ... <a title="‘I was astonished at how quickly they made gains’: online tutoring helps struggling students catch up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/i-was-astonished-at-how-quickly-they-made-gains-online-tutoring-helps-struggling-students-catch-up-165821/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I was astonished at how quickly they made gains’: online tutoring helps struggling students catch up">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University Kaitlyn Baker/Unsplash, CC BY-SA As the appointed hour for tonight’s census approaches, the question on many lips is: will it go smoothly, or will it be a repeat of the infamous 2016 #Censusfail? Australians may remember ... <a title="Why it’s unlikely there will be another #Censusfail tonight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/why-its-unlikely-there-will-be-another-censusfail-tonight-165806/" aria-label="Read more about Why it’s unlikely there will be another #Censusfail tonight">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Stephenson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith University “Do you know how many LGBTIQ+ folks live in Australia? It turns out no one does, and we’re not about to find out in the upcoming census.” Courtney Act, an Australian drag queen and television ... <a title="LGBTIQ+ people are being ignored in the census again. Not only is this discriminatory, it’s bad public policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/lgbtiq-people-are-being-ignored-in-the-census-again-not-only-is-this-discriminatory-its-bad-public-policy-165800/" aria-label="Read more about LGBTIQ+ people are being ignored in the census again. Not only is this discriminatory, it’s bad public policy">Read more</a>
