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April 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Reid, DECRA Research Fellow, Macquarie University Army ants (Eciton burchellii) are known for their vast foraging raids. Hundreds of thousands of ants flow like a river from their nest site, scouring the jungle as they prey on anything unable to escape the swarm. These raids are ... <a title="Bridges, highways, scaffolds: how the amazing engineering of army ants can make us smarter creators" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/20/bridges-highways-scaffolds-how-the-amazing-engineering-of-army-ants-can-make-us-smarter-creators-158326/" aria-label="Read more about Bridges, highways, scaffolds: how the amazing engineering of army ants can make us smarter creators">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Kewley, Director, ARC Centre for Excellence in All-Sky Astrophysics in 3D, Australian National University It will take until at least 2080 before women make up just one-third of Australia’s professional astronomers, unless there is a significant boost to how we nurture female researchers’ careers. Over the ... <a title="Looking at the stars, or falling by the wayside? How astronomy is failing female scientists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/20/looking-at-the-stars-or-falling-by-the-wayside-how-astronomy-is-failing-female-scientists-159139/" aria-label="Read more about Looking at the stars, or falling by the wayside? How astronomy is failing female scientists">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Forget last week’s healthy 5.6% unemployment rate. It might be “comfortably below” the Coalition’s 6% threshold for commencing “fiscal repair” (another term for unpopular spending cuts), but the government is under unforeseen political pressure and is anything but ... <a title="Forget JobKeeper — what the government and the country need now is a JabMaker plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/20/forget-jobkeeper-what-the-government-and-the-country-need-now-is-a-jabmaker-plan-159209/" aria-label="Read more about Forget JobKeeper — what the government and the country need now is a JabMaker plan">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Bartlett, Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle Last week, the chief executive of Pfizer said anyone who receives its COVID-19 vaccine will probably need to have a third dose within 6-12 months after being fully immunised, and then likely one dose ... <a title="3 doses, then 1 each year: why Pfizer, not AstraZeneca, is the best bet for the long haul" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/20/3-doses-then-1-each-year-why-pfizer-not-astrazeneca-is-the-best-bet-for-the-long-haul-159137/" aria-label="Read more about 3 doses, then 1 each year: why Pfizer, not AstraZeneca, is the best bet for the long haul">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, The University of Melbourne Native deciduous trees are rare in Australia, which means many of the red, yellow and brown leaves we associate with autumn come from introduced species, such as maples, oaks and elms. One native tree, however, stands out for ... <a title="Rainforest giants with rare autumn displays: there’s a lot more to Australia’s red cedar than timber" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/20/rainforest-giants-with-rare-autumn-displays-theres-a-lot-more-to-australias-red-cedar-than-timber-154065/" aria-label="Read more about Rainforest giants with rare autumn displays: there’s a lot more to Australia’s red cedar than timber">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Keddie, Professor, Education, Deakin University Education academics, women’s rights campaigners and many in between have criticised some of the material in the government’s new respectful relationships resource for schools. Particularly controversial in the Good Society resource is a video of a girl asking a boy to ... <a title="Not only are some of the government’s consent videos bizarre and confusing, many reinforce harmful gender stereotypes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/20/not-only-are-some-of-the-governments-consent-videos-bizarre-and-confusing-many-reinforce-harmful-gender-stereotypes-159220/" aria-label="Read more about Not only are some of the government’s consent videos bizarre and confusing, many reinforce harmful gender stereotypes">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilan Noy, Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington What have we lost because of the pandemic? According to our calculations, a lot — and many of the worst hit countries and regions are far from world ... <a title="COVID-19 cost more in 2020 than the world’s combined natural disasters in any of the past 20 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/20/covid-19-cost-more-in-2020-than-the-worlds-combined-natural-disasters-in-any-of-the-past-20-years-156646/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 cost more in 2020 than the world’s combined natural disasters in any of the past 20 years">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Phillips, Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University The good news from new research conducted by the Australian National University for Social Ventures Australia and the Brotherhood of St Laurence is that fewer of us ... <a title="Financial stress in 3 graphs: there’s fewer of us in it, but for those who are, it’s worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/20/financial-stress-in-3-graphs-theres-fewer-of-us-in-it-but-for-those-who-are-its-worse-159218/" aria-label="Read more about Financial stress in 3 graphs: there’s fewer of us in it, but for those who are, it’s worse">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Webb, Dean, Graduate Research, University of Canberra In this series we pay tribute to the art we wish could visit — and hope to see once travel restrictions are lifted. She’s called Maman, and she emerged into the world in 1999, just in time to find ... <a title="If I could go anywhere: I’d revisit Maman, Louise Bourgeois’ 9-metre spider at London’s Tate Modern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/20/if-i-could-go-anywhere-id-revisit-maman-louise-bourgeois-9-metre-spider-at-londons-tate-modern-157859/" aria-label="Read more about If I could go anywhere: I’d revisit Maman, Louise Bourgeois’ 9-metre spider at London’s Tate Modern">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As Scott Morrison gradually pivots his climate policy towards embracing a target of net zero emissions by 2050, he is seeking to distinguish the government from “inner city” types and political opponents who’ve been marching down that road for a ... <a title="Net zero won’t be achieved in inner city wine bars: Morrison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/19/net-zero-wont-be-achieved-in-inner-city-wine-bars-morrison-159265/" aria-label="Read more about Net zero won’t be achieved in inner city wine bars: Morrison">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Peter Dutton has begun his tenure as defence minister by delivering a very public slap to his most senior military adviser, chief of the Australian Defence Force Angus Campbell. Dutton’s overriding of Campbell’s initial command decision to revoke a meritorious ... <a title="View from The Hill: Dutton humiliates defence force chief Angus Campbell over citation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/19/view-from-the-hill-dutton-humiliates-defence-force-chief-angus-campbell-over-citation-159243/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Dutton humiliates defence force chief Angus Campbell over citation">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Blakely, Professor of Epidemiology, Population Interventions Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Coinciding with the Trans-Tasman travel bubble starting today, over the past week there have been murmurings Australia could soon relax its borders further, ... <a title="What’s the risk if Australia opens its international borders? An epidemiologist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/19/whats-the-risk-if-australia-opens-its-international-borders-an-epidemiologist-explains-159208/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the risk if Australia opens its international borders? An epidemiologist explains">Read more</a>
