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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By AJ Mitchell, Research fellow, Australian National University US Navy/Wikimedia Commons The Australian government has just declared an historic defence agreement with the United States and United Kingdom that will see a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines patrol our shores and surrounding waters. Research into nuclear-based propulsion of ... <a title="How do nuclear-powered submarines work? A nuclear scientist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/how-do-nuclear-powered-submarines-work-a-nuclear-scientist-explains-168067/" aria-label="Read more about How do nuclear-powered submarines work? A nuclear scientist explains">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Hannah, Lecturer in Public Policy, The University of Western Australia On Friday, US President Joe Biden announced a sweeping new vaccine mandate for employers covering around 100 million adults. Given the urgent need to increase Australia’s vaccination rate, it may be tempting to think we need ... <a title="Biden announces COVID vaccine mandate for 100 million Americans. Australia shouldn’t follow just yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/biden-announces-covid-vaccine-mandate-for-100-million-americans-australia-shouldnt-follow-just-yet-168066/" aria-label="Read more about Biden announces COVID vaccine mandate for 100 million Americans. Australia shouldn’t follow just yet">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia A. O’Brien, Visiting Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University, and Adjunct Professor, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University Today it was announced the US, Australia and the UK are forming a new security partnership to be known as AUKUS. This alliance, announced by the leaders ... <a title="The AUKUS pact, born in secrecy, will have huge implications for Australia and the region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/the-aukus-pact-born-in-secrecy-will-have-huge-implications-for-australia-and-the-region-168065/" aria-label="Read more about The AUKUS pact, born in secrecy, will have huge implications for Australia and the region">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Narelle Lemon, Associate Professor in Education, Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock School holidays are upon us again. In pre-pandemic days, many parents and carers would be busily planning holidays interstate or overseas, booking in play dates, organising day trips or tee-ing up visits to family and friends. ... <a title="Wondering what to do with kids in lockdown school holidays? Ideas from a happiness expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/wondering-what-to-do-with-kids-in-lockdown-school-holidays-ideas-from-a-happiness-expert-167798/" aria-label="Read more about Wondering what to do with kids in lockdown school holidays? Ideas from a happiness expert">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Ravenswood, Associate Professor in Employment Relations, Auckland University of Technology Shutterstock As Auckland enters it’s fifth week in level 4 lockdown and the rest of New Zealand stays at level 2, spare a thought for the nation’s invisible network of essential community support workers. They are ... <a title="Overlooked and undervalued, New Zealand’s community caregivers have become the ‘invisible’ essential workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/overlooked-and-undervalued-new-zealands-community-caregivers-have-become-the-invisible-essential-workers-167632/" aria-label="Read more about Overlooked and undervalued, New Zealand’s community caregivers have become the ‘invisible’ essential workers">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Suzanne Dudley, Postdoctoral Fellow, Macquarie University Shutterstock Supplying oxygen to their growing offspring and removing carbon dioxide is a major challenge for every pregnant animal. Humans deal with this problem by developing a placenta, but in seahorses — where the male, not the female, gestates and ... <a title="Pregnant male seahorses support up to 1,000 growing babies by forming a placenta" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/pregnant-male-seahorses-support-up-to-1-000-growing-babies-by-forming-a-placenta-167534/" aria-label="Read more about Pregnant male seahorses support up to 1,000 growing babies by forming a placenta">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University The Morrison government has decided it’s best for Australia to accelerate the production of a more capable, integrated, nuclear-powered submarine platform with the US and the UK. This will more tightly enmesh Australia into the US ... <a title="Why nuclear submarines are a smart military move for Australia — and could deter China further" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/why-nuclear-submarines-are-a-smart-military-move-for-australia-and-could-deter-china-further-168064/" aria-label="Read more about Why nuclear submarines are a smart military move for Australia — and could deter China further">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Komesaroff, Professor of Medicine, Monash University While some Australians are awaiting the nation reopening after lockdowns with hope and optimism, others are approaching it with dread. This is because a blanket lifting of restrictions when the vaccination rate reaches 70% will have devastating effects on Indigenous ... <a title="Vaccinations need to reach 90% of First Nations adults and teens to protect vulnerable communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/vaccinations-need-to-reach-90-of-first-nations-adults-and-teens-to-protect-vulnerable-communities-167800/" aria-label="Read more about Vaccinations need to reach 90% of First Nations adults and teens to protect vulnerable communities">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monica Thielking, Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock If you’re a parent feeling a modicum of dread about the upcoming school holidays, you’re not alone. Many parents will be working from home over the school holidays and wondering, “how ... <a title="Parents, take the school holidays pressure off yourself. Let the kids embrace the boredom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/parents-take-the-school-holidays-pressure-off-yourself-let-the-kids-embrace-the-boredom-167797/" aria-label="Read more about Parents, take the school holidays pressure off yourself. Let the kids embrace the boredom">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Teresa Ubide, Senior Lecturer in Igneous Petrology/Volcanology, The University of Queensland Laura Becerril, Author provided The volcanoes we see on Earth’s surface are just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface, they are fed by a complex network of conduits and reservoirs that bring molten rock, ... <a title="There she blows: the internal ‘magma filter’ that prompts ocean island volcanoes to erupt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/there-she-blows-the-internal-magma-filter-that-prompts-ocean-island-volcanoes-to-erupt-167358/" aria-label="Read more about There she blows: the internal ‘magma filter’ that prompts ocean island volcanoes to erupt">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Savulescu, Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford The main way to control the pandemic, as we have all painfully found out, has been to restrict the movement ... <a title="Vaccine passports are coming. But are they ethical?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/vaccine-passports-are-coming-but-are-they-ethical-167693/" aria-label="Read more about Vaccine passports are coming. But are they ethical?">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gail Matthews, Professor and Program Head, Therapeutic Vaccine and Research Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates as quickly as possible is currently a major focus for Australia. Doing so has clear benefits in reducing new infections and preventing severe disease, hospitalisation and death. One question ... <a title="You’re much less likely to get long COVID if you’ve been vaccinated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/youre-much-less-likely-to-get-long-covid-if-youve-been-vaccinated-167189/" aria-label="Read more about You’re much less likely to get long COVID if you’ve been vaccinated">Read more</a>
