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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia Myanmar is facing a catastrophic health crisis that could have ramifications not just for the country’s long-suffering people, but across the region as well. The country is experiencing a major spike in COVID cases — what one Doctors Without ... <a title="How a perfect storm of events is turning Myanmar into a ‘super-spreader’ COVID state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/how-a-perfect-storm-of-events-is-turning-myanmar-into-a-super-spreader-covid-state-165174/" aria-label="Read more about How a perfect storm of events is turning Myanmar into a ‘super-spreader’ COVID state">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Blair Williams, Research Fellow, Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL), Australian National University Lukas Coch/AAP Australia has been rocked by serious allegations of sexual assault and harassment that have poured out of parliament house this year. In February, former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins revealed a toxic workplace ... <a title="If Australia is serious about fixing the culture at parliament, this is the code of conduct we need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/if-australia-is-serious-about-fixing-the-culture-at-parliament-this-is-the-code-of-conduct-we-need-161884/" aria-label="Read more about If Australia is serious about fixing the culture at parliament, this is the code of conduct we need">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Earlier this month National Cabinet released a four-phase COVID response plan. It wasn’t so much a plan – it had no dates and no thresholds – but more a back-of-the-napkin thought bubble. It was sensible, but vague. National Cabinet ... <a title="Australia shouldn’t ‘open up’ before we vaccinate at least 80% of the population. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/australia-shouldnt-open-up-before-we-vaccinate-at-least-80-of-the-population-heres-why-165073/" aria-label="Read more about Australia shouldn’t ‘open up’ before we vaccinate at least 80% of the population. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University AAP Shamefully, Australia has one of the highest extinction rates in the world. And the number one threat to our ... <a title="Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year – and it will get worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/pest-plants-and-animals-cost-australia-around-25-billion-a-year-and-it-will-get-worse-164969/" aria-label="Read more about Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year – and it will get worse">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Seto, Research Fellow, University of Wollongong Small Pacific Island states depend on their commercial fisheries for food supplies and economic health. But our new research shows climate change will dramatically alter tuna stocks in the tropical Pacific, with potentially severe consequences for the people who depend ... <a title="Climate change is causing tuna to migrate, which could spell catastrophe for the small islands that depend on them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/climate-change-is-causing-tuna-to-migrate-which-could-spell-catastrophe-for-the-small-islands-that-depend-on-them-164000/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change is causing tuna to migrate, which could spell catastrophe for the small islands that depend on them">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Gelber, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, The University of Queensland The University of Melbourne will open the Robert Menzies Institute, in honour of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister, in September this year. The presence of board members with close ties to the Liberal Party and the ... <a title="Should the University of Melbourne host the Menzies Institute? The answer hinges on academic freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/should-the-university-of-melbourne-host-the-menzies-institute-the-answer-hinges-on-academic-freedom-165072/" aria-label="Read more about Should the University of Melbourne host the Menzies Institute? The answer hinges on academic freedom">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Flavio Romero Macau, Associate dean, Edith Cowan University Claudio Divizia/Shutterstock If a “ring of steel” was actually placed around Sydney, as suggested by Victorian premier Daniel Andrews, the rest of Australia would suffer in ways that aren’t immediately apparent. Completely sealing a city or a region is ... <a title="A COVID ‘ring of steel’ around Sydney would play havoc with Australia’s supply chains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/a-covid-ring-of-steel-around-sydney-would-play-havoc-with-australias-supply-chains-165313/" aria-label="Read more about A COVID ‘ring of steel’ around Sydney would play havoc with Australia’s supply chains">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Bonyhady, Emeritus professor, Australian National University Masking Afghan coats for sale in Herat, 1974. Shutterstock The London launch of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in May 1967 was a musical and fashion landmark. While the clothes worn by all four Beatles startled the journalists and ... <a title="Friday essay: how ‘Afghan’ coats left Kabul for the fashion world and became a hippie must-have" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/friday-essay-how-afghan-coats-left-kabul-for-the-fashion-world-and-became-a-hippie-must-have-165007/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: how ‘Afghan’ coats left Kabul for the fashion world and became a hippie must-have">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese this week sent a clear message – he intends to use John Howard’s 1996 model as his strategic guide to the election. With this in mind, it was predictable the opposition leader would embrace the government’s stage three ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese lightens his boat, ahead of the battle of the ‘grey men’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/grattan-on-friday-albanese-lightens-his-boat-ahead-of-the-battle-of-the-grey-men-165331/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese lightens his boat, ahead of the battle of the ‘grey men’">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University Shutterstock Having a baby brings enough stress and uncertainty without having to deal with a pandemic. Added to that is the difficult decision to have a recently developed vaccine or not. ... <a title="Should pregnant women have a COVID vaccine? The evidence says it’s safe and effective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/should-pregnant-women-have-a-covid-vaccine-the-evidence-says-its-safe-and-effective-165192/" aria-label="Read more about Should pregnant women have a COVID vaccine? The evidence says it’s safe and effective">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Norris, Professor, School of Science, Western Sydney University ESO Can we find alien technology? That is the ambitious goal of the Galileo Project, launched this week by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb with substantial private financial backing. The project is far from the first attempt to detect ... <a title="Is the truth out there? How the Harvard-based Galileo Project will search the skies for alien technology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/is-the-truth-out-there-how-the-harvard-based-galileo-project-will-search-the-skies-for-alien-technology-165237/" aria-label="Read more about Is the truth out there? How the Harvard-based Galileo Project will search the skies for alien technology">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University GettyImages The arrest of nine Fijian opposition politicians, including party leaders and two former prime ministers, once again exposes Fijian democracy’s fragility. The intimidation doesn’t ... <a title="Fiji’s other crisis: away from the COVID emergency, political dissent can still get you arrested" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/fijis-other-crisis-away-from-the-covid-emergency-political-dissent-can-still-get-you-arrested-165238/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s other crisis: away from the COVID emergency, political dissent can still get you arrested">Read more</a>
