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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Higgins, Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Refugees and asylum seekers will take little comfort from the 2021–22 budget. Resettlement places remain capped, while spending on offshore processing, immigration detention and deterrence measures remains high. For those still held offshore in Papua ... <a title="With billions more allocated to immigration detention, another bleak year for refugees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/with-billions-more-allocated-to-immigration-detention-another-bleak-year-for-refugees-160783/" aria-label="Read more about With billions more allocated to immigration detention, another bleak year for refugees">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Larkins, Professor Emeritus and Former Deputy Vice Chancellor, The University of Melbourne The 2021 federal budget has largely ignored the plight of Australian universities. The forward estimates even point to an overall decline, once adjusted for inflation, in Commonwealth direct funding for higher education through to ... <a title="Big-spending ‘recovery budget’ leaves universities out in the cold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/big-spending-recovery-budget-leaves-universities-out-in-the-cold-160439/" aria-label="Read more about Big-spending ‘recovery budget’ leaves universities out in the cold">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University The federal government’s budget announcements this week included nothing new for universities — an industry hit particularly hard by the pandemic border closures and loss of international students. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday night ... <a title="The 2021-22 budget has added salt to universities’ COVID wounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/the-2021-22-budget-has-added-salt-to-universities-covid-wounds-160862/" aria-label="Read more about The 2021-22 budget has added salt to universities’ COVID wounds">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Taylor, Early Career Research Leader, Emerging Viruses, Inflammation and Therapeutics Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University Overnight, Boston-based pharmaceutical company Moderna announced a new supply agreement with Australia for 25 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine. The deal includes ten million doses against the original ... <a title="What is the Moderna COVID vaccine? Does it work, and is it safe?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/what-is-the-moderna-covid-vaccine-does-it-work-and-is-it-safe-160859/" aria-label="Read more about What is the Moderna COVID vaccine? Does it work, and is it safe?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Fitzgerald, Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University A line in this week’s federal budget allocating A$288.5 million to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) therapy might pass most people by. This is a brain stimulation technique that’s been used to treat conditions such as depression for almost ten ... <a title="What is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and how does it actually work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/what-is-repetitive-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation-and-how-does-it-actually-work-160771/" aria-label="Read more about What is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and how does it actually work?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Driss Ait Ouakrim, Research Fellow, Population Interventions Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne This week’s budget assumes Australians will be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of the year, despite Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying ... <a title="No vaccine ‘targets’, but Australians could still be vaccinated by end of year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/no-vaccine-targets-but-australians-could-still-be-vaccinated-by-end-of-year-160786/" aria-label="Read more about No vaccine ‘targets’, but Australians could still be vaccinated by end of year">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Looking at other nations around the world, the path to cutting greenhouse gas emissions seems clear. First, develop wind and solar energy and battery storage to replace coal- and gas-fired electricity. Then, replace petrol and diesel cars ... <a title="The budget should have been a road to Australia’s low-emissions future. Instead, it’s a flight of fancy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/the-budget-should-have-been-a-road-to-australias-low-emissions-future-instead-its-a-flight-of-fancy-160775/" aria-label="Read more about The budget should have been a road to Australia’s low-emissions future. Instead, it’s a flight of fancy">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decison-Making and Society, UNSW Robots have fascinated cinema-goers ever since Fritz Lang’s ... <a title="The Mitchells vs The Machines shows ‘smart’ tech might be less of a threat to family bonds than we fear" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/the-mitchells-vs-the-machines-shows-smart-tech-might-be-less-of-a-threat-to-family-bonds-than-we-fear-160442/" aria-label="Read more about The Mitchells vs The Machines shows ‘smart’ tech might be less of a threat to family bonds than we fear">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Shine, President, Australian Academy of Science; Laboratory Head, Garvan Institute The story of the past year has been the pandemic: from the first outbreaks in early 2020, the identification of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and methods to detect it, through to lockdown and quarantine measures, vaccine development, ... <a title="Money for telescopes and vaccines is great, but the budget’s lack of basic science funding risks leaving Australia behind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/money-for-telescopes-and-vaccines-is-great-but-the-budgets-lack-of-basic-science-funding-risks-leaving-australia-behind-160780/" aria-label="Read more about Money for telescopes and vaccines is great, but the budget’s lack of basic science funding risks leaving Australia behind">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Silke Cleuren, PhD candidate, Monash University Few structures in nature inspire more fear and fascination than the fangs of venomous snakes. These needle-like teeth are used by snakes to pierce their prey and inject deadly venom. With more than 3000 species of snake inhabiting our world, we ... <a title="How snake fangs evolved to perfectly fit their food" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/how-snake-fangs-evolved-to-perfectly-fit-their-food-159932/" aria-label="Read more about How snake fangs evolved to perfectly fit their food">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dileep Mavalankar, Vice President western region, Public Health Foundation of India India is in the grip of an unprecedented second wave of COVID-19. Official data suggests new cases have crossed 400,000 per day, and the daily death count is around 4,200. But the actual numbers may be ... <a title="How can the world help India — and where does that help need to go?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/how-can-the-world-help-india-and-where-does-that-help-need-to-go-160174/" aria-label="Read more about How can the world help India — and where does that help need to go?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Harvey, Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts, University of Auckland It seems unlikely the arts will be a priority in the government’s May 20 budget. With housing affordability, climate change and child poverty all urgent issues, arts funding might not be seen as equally important. I argue ... <a title="NZ Budget 2021: we need the arts to live, but artists need to earn a living" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/nz-budget-2021-we-need-the-arts-to-live-but-artists-need-to-earn-a-living-160761/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2021: we need the arts to live, but artists need to earn a living">Read more</a>
