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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Aulich, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, University of Canberra In recent days, the issue of government accountability was brought into sharp focus — again — when NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian admitted that community grants awarded primarily to councils in Coalition seats ahead of the ... <a title="Why can politicians so easily dodge accountability for their mistakes? The troubling answer: because they can" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/why-can-politicians-so-easily-dodge-accountability-for-their-mistakes-the-troubling-answer-because-they-can-150839/" aria-label="Read more about Why can politicians so easily dodge accountability for their mistakes? The troubling answer: because they can">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Mosler, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University Have you been hitting the gym again with COVID restrictions easing? Or getting back into running, cycling, or playing team sports? As many of you might’ve experienced, the inevitable muscle soreness that comes ... <a title="Feeling sore after exercise? Here’s what science suggests helps (and what doesn’t)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/feeling-sore-after-exercise-heres-what-science-suggests-helps-and-what-doesnt-150277/" aria-label="Read more about Feeling sore after exercise? Here’s what science suggests helps (and what doesn’t)">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angela Spinney, Lecturer/Research Fellow in Housing and Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology The stereotype of a homeless person – those living in tents or sleeping in parks or doorways – is just the visible tip of the much larger crisis of homelessness in Australia. For every ... <a title="Eliminating most homelessness is achievable. It starts with prevention and ‘housing first’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/eliminating-most-homelessness-is-achievable-it-starts-with-prevention-and-housing-first-151182/" aria-label="Read more about Eliminating most homelessness is achievable. It starts with prevention and ‘housing first’">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Paterson, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of New England Deep sea animals can be the stuff of nightmares. Many inhabit the ocean’s twilight zone (down to 1,000 metres depth), where sunlight has virtually disappeared, and have adapted their vision to this dark alien world. Evolution gave ... <a title="Freaky ‘frankenprawns’: ancient deep sea monsters called radiodonts had incredible vision that likely drove an evolutionary arms race" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/freaky-frankenprawns-ancient-deep-sea-monsters-called-radiodonts-had-incredible-vision-that-likely-drove-an-evolutionary-arms-race-146104/" aria-label="Read more about Freaky ‘frankenprawns’: ancient deep sea monsters called radiodonts had incredible vision that likely drove an evolutionary arms race">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fabio A Capitanio, Lecturer in Geophysics, Monash University Our planet is unique in the Solar system. It’s the only one with active plate tectonics, ocean basins, continents and, as far as we know, life. But Earth in its current form is 4.5 billion years in the making; ... <a title="The floor is lava: after 1.5 billion years in flux, here’s how a new, stronger crust set the stage for life on Earth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/the-floor-is-lava-after-1-5-billion-years-in-flux-heres-how-a-new-stronger-crust-set-the-stage-for-life-on-earth-151276/" aria-label="Read more about The floor is lava: after 1.5 billion years in flux, here’s how a new, stronger crust set the stage for life on Earth">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peta-Anne Zimmerman, Senior Lecturer/Program Advisor Griffith Graduate Infection Prevention and Control Program, Griffith University On Monday the Victorian government announced an overhaul of the state’s hotel quarantine program. The government has introduced a new oversight agency, COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria, and crafted a “reset” of rules and regulations ... <a title="Victoria’s hotel quarantine overhaul is a step in the right direction, but issues remain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/victorias-hotel-quarantine-overhaul-is-a-step-in-the-right-direction-but-issues-remain-151101/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s hotel quarantine overhaul is a step in the right direction, but issues remain">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon C. Day, PSM, Post-career PhD candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University The Great Barrier Reef is now in “critical” condition and the health of four other Australian World Heritage properties has worsened, according to a sobering report just released by ... <a title="‘Severely threatened and deteriorating’: global authority on nature lists the Great Barrier Reef as critical" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/severely-threatened-and-deteriorating-global-authority-on-nature-lists-the-great-barrier-reef-as-critical-151275/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Severely threatened and deteriorating’: global authority on nature lists the Great Barrier Reef as critical">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Baxter, Fellow – Melbourne Law School; Senior Researcher – Climate Council; Associate – Australian-German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne Australia’s latest emissions data, released this week, contained one particularly startling, and unjustifiable, fact. Against all odds, in a year when emissions fell in almost ... <a title="‘Unjustifiable’: new report shows how the nation’s gas expansion puts Australians in harm’s way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/unjustifiable-new-report-shows-how-the-nations-gas-expansion-puts-australians-in-harms-way-151199/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Unjustifiable’: new report shows how the nation’s gas expansion puts Australians in harm’s way">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Ziguras, Professor of Global Studies, RMIT University The arrival at Darwin airport on Monday of 63 students from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia on a charter flight from Singapore ended an eight-month hiatus in international student arrivals in Australia. They are now in the ... <a title="How unis can use student housing to solve international student quarantine issues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/how-unis-can-use-student-housing-to-solve-international-student-quarantine-issues-150180/" aria-label="Read more about How unis can use student housing to solve international student quarantine issues">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Clements, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Sydney Many Australian cities have fallen back on offering free car parking to attract visitors back to the CBD after the pandemic. In contrast, cities around the world are basing their recovery strategies on ... <a title="Why Australian cities need post-COVID vision, not free parking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/why-australian-cities-need-post-covid-vision-not-free-parking-150380/" aria-label="Read more about Why Australian cities need post-COVID vision, not free parking">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica White, UQ Amplify Associate Lecturer, The University of Queensland Fiction and non-fiction works about disability and Deafness are often hampered by stereotypical representations. A disability is frequently presented as something to “overcome”, or used to characterise someone (ever notice all those evil characters portrayed as disfigured?). ... <a title="In our own voices: 5 Australian books about living with disability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/in-our-own-voices-5-australian-books-about-living-with-disability-150543/" aria-label="Read more about In our own voices: 5 Australian books about living with disability">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Chinese official Lijian Zhao’s tweeting an image depicting an Australian soldier holding a knife against a child’s throat and the subsequent angry exchanges is the latest incident in an exceptionally poor year for Australian-Chinese relations. Tensions deepened after Australia’s call ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Asia-Pacific expert Bates Gill on China’s endgame" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/politics-with-michelle-grattan-asia-pacific-expert-bates-gill-on-chinas-endgame-151292/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Asia-Pacific expert Bates Gill on China’s endgame">Read more</a>
