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November 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Cowie, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Shutterstock Australia is experiencing the fourth wave of COVID for 2022, with the number of people hospitalised with COVID trending to levels seen in winter and ongoing high levels of ... <a title="Paxlovid is Australia’s first-line COVID antiviral but Lagevrio also prevents severe disease in over-70s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/29/paxlovid-is-australias-first-line-covid-antiviral-but-lagevrio-also-prevents-severe-disease-in-over-70s-195349/" aria-label="Read more about Paxlovid is Australia’s first-line COVID antiviral but Lagevrio also prevents severe disease in over-70s">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Smith, Research Fellow, UWA Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab, Law School, The University of Western Australia Shutterstock In early November, the Commonwealth Department of Infrastructure invited public comment on proposed Australia-wide “drone delivery guidelines” it has been quietly developing with industry stakeholders. A slick new website ... <a title="When it comes to delivery drones, the government is selling us a pipe dream. Experts explain the real costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/29/when-it-comes-to-delivery-drones-the-government-is-selling-us-a-pipe-dream-experts-explain-the-real-costs-195361/" aria-label="Read more about When it comes to delivery drones, the government is selling us a pipe dream. Experts explain the real costs">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tessa Hiscox, Microbiology PhD Candidate, University of Canterbury Getty Images The world is under growing pressure to find sustainable options to cut emissions or lessen the impacts of climate change. Technology entrepreneurs from around the globe claim to have the solutions – not just yet, but soon. ... <a title="Chasing future biotech solutions to climate change risks delaying action in the present – it may even make things worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/29/chasing-future-biotech-solutions-to-climate-change-risks-delaying-action-in-the-present-it-may-even-make-things-worse-194147/" aria-label="Read more about Chasing future biotech solutions to climate change risks delaying action in the present – it may even make things worse">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frederic Gachon, Associate Professor, Physiology of Circadian Rhythms, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland Laura James/Pexels Shift work means businesses and organisations can be productive for 24-hours a day. It was initially adopted to protect camps or cities against predators, enemies or disasters. Since the ... <a title="Why does night shift increase the risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease? Here’s what we know so far" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/29/why-does-night-shift-increase-the-risk-of-cancer-diabetes-and-heart-disease-heres-what-we-know-so-far-190652/" aria-label="Read more about Why does night shift increase the risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease? Here’s what we know so far">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Lake, Research Associate at the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, The University of Melbourne Sandy Huffaker/AP This year’s global climate negotiations at the COP27 in Egypt were disappointing. In particular, the international commitment to limit planetary warming to 1.5℃ remains on “life support”. But ... <a title="COP27 was disappointing, but 2022 remains an historic year for international climate policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/29/cop27-was-disappointing-but-2022-remains-an-historic-year-for-international-climate-policy-195288/" aria-label="Read more about COP27 was disappointing, but 2022 remains an historic year for international climate policy">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naja Later, Academic Tutor in Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology AMC There’s always been something queer about vampires. Vampire stories are traditionally rife with dark desires and invisible secrets from their early canonisation in popular culture. But what happens when the subtext becomes the text, ... <a title="Out of the coffin and the closet: gay vampires are no longer sub-text, they’re just text" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/29/out-of-the-coffin-and-the-closet-gay-vampires-are-no-longer-sub-text-theyre-just-text-195011/" aria-label="Read more about Out of the coffin and the closet: gay vampires are no longer sub-text, they’re just text">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Mole, Postdoctoral fellow, Earth Sciences, Laurentian University The amount of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere makes it a habitable planet. Twenty-one per cent of the atmosphere consists of this life-giving element. But in the deep past — as far back as the Neoarchean era 2.8 to ... <a title="Where did the Earth’s oxygen come from? New study hints at an unexpected source" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/29/where-did-the-earths-oxygen-come-from-new-study-hints-at-an-unexpected-source-191673/" aria-label="Read more about Where did the Earth’s oxygen come from? New study hints at an unexpected source">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David S G Goodman, Director, China Studies Centre, Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Sydney Public protests in China related to the government’s COVID-19 restrictions have hit the news worldwide over the weekend, following a fatal apartment fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang last week which killed ten people. ... <a title="Protests against strict COVID-zero policy are sweeping China. It’s anyone’s guess what happens now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/28/protests-against-strict-covid-zero-policy-are-sweeping-china-its-anyones-guess-what-happens-now-195442/" aria-label="Read more about Protests against strict COVID-zero policy are sweeping China. It’s anyone’s guess what happens now">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government’s bid to pass a referendum to enshrine an Indigenous Voice in the constitution has been dealt a blow, with the Nationals announcing they will oppose it. Nationals leader David Littleproud said the party didn’t believe the Voice would ... <a title="Nationals declare they will oppose the ‘Voice’ referendum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/28/nationals-declare-they-will-oppose-the-voice-referendum-195446/" aria-label="Read more about Nationals declare they will oppose the ‘Voice’ referendum">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ariel Liebman, Ariel Liebman Director, Monash Energy Institute and Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University The Andrews Labor government has been returned in Victoria. It must now reckon with two particularly crucial challenges: runaway climate change and wartime-scale energy costs. Victorians are ... <a title="Victoria faces a grave climate and energy crisis. The new government’s policies must be far bolder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/28/victoria-faces-a-grave-climate-and-energy-crisis-the-new-governments-policies-must-be-far-bolder-195096/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria faces a grave climate and energy crisis. The new government’s policies must be far bolder">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jakob Madsen, Professor of Economics, The University of Western Australia Shutterstock Inflation and sluggish wage growth have raised concerns that wages and salaries are becoming an increasing smaller share of national income. Australian Council of Trade Unions head Sally McManus has said labour’s share of income is ... <a title="Labour’s share of national income has been remarkably consistent since the 1860s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/28/labours-share-of-national-income-has-been-remarkably-consistent-since-the-1860s-195436/" aria-label="Read more about Labour’s share of national income has been remarkably consistent since the 1860s">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Carroll, Senior Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne Scotty So, Wearing a mask at the end of the Spanish flu, no. 1 2020 inkjet print 76.3 × 50.8 cm (image) 86.5 × 61.0 cm (sheet). National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, ... <a title="The Past is Present: reflecting on 150 years of Chinese art at the National Gallery of Victoria" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/28/the-past-is-present-reflecting-on-150-years-of-chinese-art-at-the-national-gallery-of-victoria-194734/" aria-label="Read more about The Past is Present: reflecting on 150 years of Chinese art at the National Gallery of Victoria">Read more</a>
