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November 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By D. Rex Mitchell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Flinders University Marcus Byrne/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Each year, thousands of wild animals across the world are rescued. They can include young animals saved from abandonment, injury, disease or the death of their parents. Animal carers around the world work tirelessly to help ... <a title="Harder foods make for stronger skulls, giving hand-reared animals the best chance of survival in the wild" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/harder-foods-make-for-stronger-skulls-giving-hand-reared-animals-the-best-chance-of-survival-in-the-wild-172144/" aria-label="Read more about Harder foods make for stronger skulls, giving hand-reared animals the best chance of survival in the wild">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toni Moate, Chair, National Marine Science Committee and Director, CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure, CSIRO Australia is a marine nation. First Nations people have deep and unbroken connections to sea, 85% of us live within 50km of the coast, and our ocean territory is twice that ... <a title="Australia’s marine industries deliver $80b a year. But without more scientists, the ‘blue economy’ is at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/australias-marine-industries-deliver-80b-a-year-but-without-more-scientists-the-blue-economy-is-at-risk-170113/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s marine industries deliver $80b a year. But without more scientists, the ‘blue economy’ is at risk">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Wynn, Lead Economist, CSIRO Futures, CSIRO CSIRO Each dollar invested in research and development (R&D) would earn an average of A$3.50 in economy-wide benefits for Australia, according to evidence compiled in a new report from CSIRO. Many Australians know research and development drives economic growth and ... <a title="Every dollar invested in research and development creates $3.50 in benefits for Australia, says new CSIRO analysis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/every-dollar-invested-in-research-and-development-creates-3-50-in-benefits-for-australia-says-new-csiro-analysis-172300/" aria-label="Read more about Every dollar invested in research and development creates $3.50 in benefits for Australia, says new CSIRO analysis">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Taucher, PhD Candidate in History, Murdoch University The Australian government established the Office of the Special Investigator last year to investigate allegations made in the Brereton Report that Australian soldiers had committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Recently, the director-general of the office, Chris Moraitis, told a ... <a title="Why investigating potential war crimes in Afghanistan just became much harder – and could take years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/why-investigating-potential-war-crimes-in-afghanistan-just-became-much-harder-and-could-take-years-171412/" aria-label="Read more about Why investigating potential war crimes in Afghanistan just became much harder – and could take years">Read more</a>
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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>
