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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andreas Kupz, Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University In July 1921, a French infant became the first person to receive an experimental vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), after the mother had died from the disease. The vaccine, known as Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), is the same one still used ... <a title="Tuberculosis kills as many people each year as COVID-19. It’s time we found a better vaccine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/tuberculosis-kills-as-many-people-each-year-as-covid-19-its-time-we-found-a-better-vaccine-151590/" aria-label="Read more about Tuberculosis kills as many people each year as COVID-19. It’s time we found a better vaccine">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Melleuish, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong What can we make of Clive Palmer? This week, he announced his United Australia Party (UAP) would not contest the upcoming West Australian state election on March 13. After a dismal showing in the October ... <a title="Is it curtains for Clive? What COVID means for populism in Australia " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/is-it-curtains-for-clive-what-covid-means-for-populism-in-australia-153101/" aria-label="Read more about Is it curtains for Clive? What COVID means for populism in Australia ">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gisela Kaplan, Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England Have you ever seen magpies play-fighting with one another, or rolling around in high spirits? Or an apostlebird running at full speed with a stick in its beak, chased by a troop of other apostlebirds? Well, ... <a title="Birds that play with others have the biggest brains – and the same may go for humans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/birds-that-play-with-others-have-the-biggest-brains-and-the-same-may-go-for-humans-151079/" aria-label="Read more about Birds that play with others have the biggest brains – and the same may go for humans">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Jackson, Program Director, Centre for Policy Development, and Associate Professor of Education, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Childcare centres across Australia are suffering staff shortages, which have been exacerbated by the COVID crisis. Many childcare workers across Australia left when parents started pulling their children out of ... <a title="Early childhood educators are leaving in droves. Here are 3 ways to keep them, and attract more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/early-childhood-educators-are-leaving-in-droves-here-are-3-ways-to-keep-them-and-attract-more-153187/" aria-label="Read more about Early childhood educators are leaving in droves. Here are 3 ways to keep them, and attract more">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Barrett, Senior Lecturer in Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Rhetoric plays an important role in tax debate and therefore tax policy. If your side manages to gain traction in the public imagination with labels such as “death tax” or “dementia tax”, you ... <a title="Government funds are not ‘taxpayer money’ — media and politicians should stop confusing the two" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/government-funds-are-not-taxpayer-money-media-and-politicians-should-stop-confusing-the-two-153195/" aria-label="Read more about Government funds are not ‘taxpayer money’ — media and politicians should stop confusing the two">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raquel Peel, Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland This story contains spoilers for Bridgerton The first season of Bridgerton, Netflix’s new hit show based on Julia Quinn’s novels, premiered on December 25 last year. The show is set in London, during the debutante season of 1813. It starts ... <a title="Bridgerton offers clever relationship advice — why friendship is the foundation of happy romantic partnerships" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/14/bridgerton-offers-clever-relationship-advice-why-friendship-is-the-foundation-of-happy-romantic-partnerships-152953/" aria-label="Read more about Bridgerton offers clever relationship advice — why friendship is the foundation of happy romantic partnerships">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bryan Cranston, Lead Academic Teacher – Politics & Social Science (Swinburne Online), Swinburne University of Technology In a historic vote today, Donald Trump became the only US president to be impeached twice. By a margin of 232–197, the Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives voted to charge Trump ... <a title="Trump is impeached again in historic vote. Now Republicans must decide the future of their party" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/14/trump-is-impeached-again-in-historic-vote-now-republicans-must-decide-the-future-of-their-party-153196/" aria-label="Read more about Trump is impeached again in historic vote. Now Republicans must decide the future of their party">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Brumm, Professor, Griffith University The dating of an exceptionally old cave painting of animals that was found recently on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is reported in our paper out today. The painting portrays images of the Sulawesi warty pig (Sus celebensis), which is a small ... <a title="We found the oldest known cave painting of animals in a secret Indonesian valley" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/14/we-found-the-oldest-known-cave-painting-of-animals-in-a-secret-indonesian-valley-153089/" aria-label="Read more about We found the oldest known cave painting of animals in a secret Indonesian valley">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Garrick, University Fellow in Law, Charles Darwin University Just over a year has gone by since the novel coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan and the world still has many questions about where and how it originated. The World Health Organisation is sending ... <a title="How China is controlling the COVID origins narrative — silencing critics and locking up dissenters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/14/how-china-is-controlling-the-covid-origins-narrative-silencing-critics-and-locking-up-dissenters-152751/" aria-label="Read more about How China is controlling the COVID origins narrative — silencing critics and locking up dissenters">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Hurley, Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University 2021 is shaping up as very difficult for universities, as well as the more than 130,000 people whose jobs rely on the international education sector. In October 2019 almost 51,000 new and returning international students arrived in Australia. In ... <a title="2021 is the year Australia’s international student crisis really bites" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/14/2021-is-the-year-australias-international-student-crisis-really-bites-153180/" aria-label="Read more about 2021 is the year Australia’s international student crisis really bites">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Young, Lecturer, Deakin University Medievalist references littered the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th. Rudy Giuliani called for a “trial by combat”; the “Q Shaman”, Jacob Chansley (also known as Jake Angeli), was covered in Norse tattoos; rioters brandished a flag with a Crusader ... <a title="Why the far-right and white supremecists have embraced the Middle Ages and their symbols" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/14/why-the-far-right-and-white-supremecists-have-embraced-the-middle-ages-and-their-symbols-152968/" aria-label="Read more about Why the far-right and white supremecists have embraced the Middle Ages and their symbols">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Quinn, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University On Sunday, federal Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly said most Australians will be offered a vaccine from Oxford-AstraZeneca. Australia currently has agreements in place to receive 53.8 million doses of the AstraZeneca shot, ... <a title="The Oxford vaccine has unique advantages, as does Pfizer’s. Using both is Australia’s best strategy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/13/the-oxford-vaccine-has-unique-advantages-as-does-pfizers-using-both-is-australias-best-strategy-152976/" aria-label="Read more about The Oxford vaccine has unique advantages, as does Pfizer’s. Using both is Australia’s best strategy">Read more</a>
