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June 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Georgina Arnott, Postdoctoral Research Associate in History, The University of Melbourne A statue of James Stirling in Perth. Wikimedia Commons Today, councillors in Perth’s City of Stirling will vote to decide whether to change their city’s name. This follows a residents’ motion arguing a new name would ... <a title="WA’s first governor James Stirling had links to slavery, as well as directing a massacre. Should he be honoured?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/08/was-first-governor-james-stirling-had-links-to-slavery-as-well-as-directing-a-massacre-should-he-be-honoured-162078/" aria-label="Read more about WA’s first governor James Stirling had links to slavery, as well as directing a massacre. Should he be honoured?">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Hocknull, Senior Curator of Geosciences, Queensland Museum, and Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Vlad Konstantinov, Scott Hocknull, Eromanga Natural History Museum, Author provided Today, a new Aussie dinosaur is being welcomed into the fold. Our study published in the journal PeerJ documents Australotitan cooperensis ... <a title="Introducing Australotitan: Australia’s largest dinosaur yet spanned the length of 2 buses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/07/introducing-australotitan-australias-largest-dinosaur-yet-spanned-the-length-of-2-buses-162177/" aria-label="Read more about Introducing Australotitan: Australia’s largest dinosaur yet spanned the length of 2 buses">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Livingstone, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Deakin University Thomas Kelley/Unsplash Australian adults get around one-third of their energy intake from junk foods. Also known as discretionary foods, these include foods such as biscuits, cakes, sausages, sugar-sweetened ... <a title="Personalised nutrition is trendy, but can it help us eat less junk food?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/07/personalised-nutrition-is-trendy-but-can-it-help-us-eat-less-junk-food-161191/" aria-label="Read more about Personalised nutrition is trendy, but can it help us eat less junk food?">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Dean Lewins/AAP This week’s Newspoll had Labor and the Coalition tied at 50-50 on a two-party-preferred basis. This is a one point gain for the Coalition since the last Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary ... <a title="Morrison slumps in Newspoll but Coalition gains, as lockdown shows vaccination is essential" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/07/morrison-slumps-in-newspoll-but-coalition-gains-as-lockdown-shows-vaccination-is-essential-162166/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison slumps in Newspoll but Coalition gains, as lockdown shows vaccination is essential">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Tiernan, Professor of Politics. Griffith Business School, Griffith University Dean Lewins/AAP Last Friday afternoon, as parliament rose after a bruising sitting fortnight, the Morrison government released a “consultation copy” of the Foster review. This is one of five reviews or inquiries Scott Morrison initiated in the ... <a title="After Brittany Higgins: will the Foster review prevent another ‘serious incident’ at parliament?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/07/after-brittany-higgins-will-the-foster-review-prevent-another-serious-incident-at-parliament-162182/" aria-label="Read more about After Brittany Higgins: will the Foster review prevent another ‘serious incident’ at parliament?">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kirsty Short, Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Victoria’s current COVID outbreak took another turn last week when a new variant was discovered by health authorities. It’s not clear whether this new “Delta” variant emerged from Victoria, New South Wales or elsewhere, and it hasn’t yet ... <a title="What’s the Delta COVID variant found in Melbourne? Is it more infectious and does it spread more in kids? A virologist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/07/whats-the-delta-covid-variant-found-in-melbourne-is-it-more-infectious-and-does-it-spread-more-in-kids-a-virologist-explains-162170/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the Delta COVID variant found in Melbourne? Is it more infectious and does it spread more in kids? A virologist explains">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenna Crowe-Riddell, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Michigan Claire Goiran, Author provided Although sea snakes aren’t usually associated with intimate interactions, our new research is revealing their “sensitive” side. In a study published today in the Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, my colleagues and I detail ... <a title="The sex life aquatic: how moving from land to water led to the surprisingly touchy courtship of sea snakes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/07/the-sex-life-aquatic-how-moving-from-land-to-water-led-to-the-surprisingly-touchy-courtship-of-sea-snakes-159431/" aria-label="Read more about The sex life aquatic: how moving from land to water led to the surprisingly touchy courtship of sea snakes">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University AAP Image/LUKAS COCH News the army’s Lieutenant General John “JJ” Frewen has been picked to lead a new COVID-19 vaccination task force has prompted fresh discussion of the defence force’s role in Australia. Frewen, already the ... <a title="Calling in the army for the vaccine rollout and every other emergency shows how ill-prepared we are" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/07/calling-in-the-army-for-the-vaccine-rollout-and-every-other-emergency-shows-how-ill-prepared-we-are-162247/" aria-label="Read more about Calling in the army for the vaccine rollout and every other emergency shows how ill-prepared we are">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Clement, Research Associate in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University Biodiversity Heritage Library/ Harvard University Archives Modern palaeontology dates back to the 19th century. But from time to time, entirely new branches of enquiry are developed. This year marks 100 years since the birth ... <a title="Remembering Tilly Edinger, the pioneering ‘brainy’ woman who fled Nazi Germany and founded palaeoneurology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/07/remembering-tilly-edinger-the-pioneering-brainy-woman-who-fled-nazi-germany-and-founded-palaeoneurology-160194/" aria-label="Read more about Remembering Tilly Edinger, the pioneering ‘brainy’ woman who fled Nazi Germany and founded palaeoneurology">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University AAP/James Ross For many years, surveys indicated declining Australian trust in government. Not anymore. On the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer, which measures average trust in NGOs, business, government and the media, trust ... <a title="How the pandemic has brought out the worst — and the best — in Australians and their governments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/07/how-the-pandemic-has-brought-out-the-worst-and-the-best-in-australians-and-their-governments-161745/" aria-label="Read more about How the pandemic has brought out the worst — and the best — in Australians and their governments">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Bryant, Laboratory Head, Immunology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Shutterstock Most people who get COVID suffer the common symptoms of fever, cough and breathing problems, and recover in a week or two. But some people, estimated to be roughly 10-30% of people who get COVID, ... <a title="The mystery of ‘long COVID’: up to 1 in 3 people who catch the virus suffer for months. Here’s what we know so far" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/07/the-mystery-of-long-covid-up-to-1-in-3-people-who-catch-the-virus-suffer-for-months-heres-what-we-know-so-far-161174/" aria-label="Read more about The mystery of ‘long COVID’: up to 1 in 3 people who catch the virus suffer for months. Here’s what we know so far">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Ullman, Associate Professor in Adolescent Development, Behaviour and Wellbeing, Western Sydney University Shutterstock Bills in the federal and New South Wales parliaments have sought to stop teachers talking about gender and sexuality diversity in the name of either religious freedom or parents’ rights. If passed in ... <a title="9 in 10 LGBTQ+ students say they hear homophobic language at school, and 1 in 3 hear it almost every day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/07/9-in-10-lgbtq-students-say-they-hear-homophobic-language-at-school-and-1-in-3-hear-it-almost-every-day-160356/" aria-label="Read more about 9 in 10 LGBTQ+ students say they hear homophobic language at school, and 1 in 3 hear it almost every day">Read more</a>
