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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University The wild storms that recently raged across eastern Victoria caused major property and environmental damage, and loss of lives. They’ve also triggered serious water contamination incidents. Yarra Valley Water issued an urgent health warning to not to ... <a title="Victoria’s wild storms show how easily disasters can threaten our water supply" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/victorias-wild-storms-show-how-easily-disasters-can-threaten-our-water-supply-162846/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s wild storms show how easily disasters can threaten our water supply">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lynn Bosetti, Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of British Columbia Shutterstock Incivility is on the rise in university culture. If you are an academic you’ve likely seen or experienced instances of bullying, incivility or mobbing in department meetings, in hallways and in seminars. For ... <a title="Why universities must act on the rise of a new kind of bullying: incivility" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/why-universities-must-act-on-the-rise-of-a-new-kind-of-bullying-incivility-160870/" aria-label="Read more about Why universities must act on the rise of a new kind of bullying: incivility">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Salman Shooshtarian, Research Fellow, RMIT University Shutterstock Strong community opposition to a proposed waste facility in regional New South Wales made headlines earlier this year. The A$3.9 million facility would occupy 2.7 hectares of Gunnedah’s industrial estate. It’s intended to process up to 250,000 tonnes a year ... <a title="Australia needs construction waste recycling plants — but locals first need to be won over" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/australia-needs-construction-waste-recycling-plants-but-locals-first-need-to-be-won-over-161888/" aria-label="Read more about Australia needs construction waste recycling plants — but locals first need to be won over">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Even before COVID-19 hit, Australia was experiencing slow growth in GDP per capita and real wages. There has been a distinctly lower rate of both economic and real wages growth since the financial crisis of 2008-09. Advanced economies around the world ... <a title="Vital Signs: Why has growth slowed globally? It has something to do with technology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/vital-signs-why-has-growth-slowed-globally-it-has-something-to-do-with-technology-162848/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Why has growth slowed globally? It has something to do with technology">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Westaway, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland An aerial view of an Aboriginal stone arrangement in the Channel Country of Central Australia. Such arrangements may be associated with initiation ceremonies and exchange of marriage partners, as well as ... <a title="Friday essay: how our new archaeological research investigates Dark Emu’s idea of Aboriginal ‘agriculture’ and villages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/friday-essay-how-our-new-archaeological-research-investigates-dark-emus-idea-of-aboriginal-agriculture-and-villages-146754/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: how our new archaeological research investigates Dark Emu’s idea of Aboriginal ‘agriculture’ and villages">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Many observers have been assuming Scott Morrison’s strategy is to creep towards endorsing the 2050 target of net zero emissions, finally embracing it before the Glasgow climate conference in November. But this week’s developments suggest the prime minister might have ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Will bolshie Nationals or Joe Biden have more sway with Morrison on 2050 target?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/grattan-on-friday-will-bolshie-nationals-or-joe-biden-have-more-sway-with-morrison-on-2050-target-162941/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Will bolshie Nationals or Joe Biden have more sway with Morrison on 2050 target?">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Griffin, Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The University of Queensland Australians aged under 60 will no longer receive first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine due to the rare risk of a serious blood clotting disorder among people aged 50 to 59. The government has accepted ... <a title="Australians under 60 will no longer receive the AstraZeneca vaccine. So what’s changed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/australians-under-60-will-no-longer-receive-the-astrazeneca-vaccine-so-whats-changed-162930/" aria-label="Read more about Australians under 60 will no longer receive the AstraZeneca vaccine. So what’s changed?">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Associate Professor, National Security College, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Patrick Semansky/AP Much speculation surrounded the lead up to the just concluded summit in Geneva between US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Coming after a NATO meeting where ... <a title="The Biden-Putin summit: no magic reset of relations, but no hitting the snooze button, either" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/the-biden-putin-summit-no-magic-reset-of-relations-but-no-hitting-the-snooze-button-either-162931/" aria-label="Read more about The Biden-Putin summit: no magic reset of relations, but no hitting the snooze button, either">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Poropat, Adjunct Researcher, Swinburne University of Technology Fossilised bones belonging to enormous long-necked sauropod dinosaurs have been known from western Queensland since the 1930s, when Austrosaurus mckillopi was discovered on Clutha Station near Maxwelton. Since then, western Queensland has yielded many more sauropod bones and skeletons, ... <a title="The march of the titanosaurs: the Snake Creek Tracksite unveiled" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/the-march-of-the-titanosaurs-the-snake-creek-tracksite-unveiled-161039/" aria-label="Read more about The march of the titanosaurs: the Snake Creek Tracksite unveiled">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Poropat, Adjunct Researcher, Swinburne University of Technology Fossilised bones belonging to enormous long-necked sauropod dinosaurs have been known from western Queensland since the 1930s, when Austrosaurus mckillopi was discovered on Clutha Station near Maxwelton. Since then, western Queensland has yielded many more sauropod bones and skeletons, ... <a title="We moved hundreds of tonnes of rock to preserve the dinosaur footprints of the Snake Creek Tracksite" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/we-moved-hundreds-of-tonnes-of-rock-to-preserve-the-dinosaur-footprints-of-the-snake-creek-tracksite-161039/" aria-label="Read more about We moved hundreds of tonnes of rock to preserve the dinosaur footprints of the Snake Creek Tracksite">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne AAP/Luis Ascui A Victorian Resolve poll for The Age gave Labor 37% of the primary vote (42.9% at the 2018 election), the Coalition 36% (35.2%), the Greens 9% (10.7%) and independents 12% (6.1%). This ... <a title="Victorian Labor holds comfortable lead; flawed climate change question in federal Resolve poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/victorian-labor-holds-comfortable-lead-flawed-climate-change-question-in-federal-resolve-poll-162923/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian Labor holds comfortable lead; flawed climate change question in federal Resolve poll">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Buchanan, Professor, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney Australia has a serious wage problem. Over the past decade wages for all but the top 20% of income earners have flat-lined. This is part of the longer-term problem concerning productivity ... <a title="Australia’s 2.5% minimum wage rise: there’s something in it for you, and the economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/australias-2-5-minimum-wage-rise-theres-something-in-it-for-you-and-the-economy-162862/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s 2.5% minimum wage rise: there’s something in it for you, and the economy">Read more</a>
