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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claus T. Christophersen, Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University It’s that time of year again, with Christmas parties, end-of-year get-togethers and holiday catch-ups on the horizon for many of us — all COVID-safe, of course. All that party food and takeaway, however, can have consequences for your gut ... <a title="How to prepare and protect your gut health over Christmas and the silly season" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/how-to-prepare-and-protect-your-gut-health-over-christmas-and-the-silly-season-151673/" aria-label="Read more about How to prepare and protect your gut health over Christmas and the silly season">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, University of Melbourne Last month I came across a heartbreaking sight: a group of people standing around a young female kangaroo with horrific injuries. She appeared to have been hit by a ... <a title="10 million animals are hit on our roads each year. Here’s how you can help them (and steer clear of them) these holidays" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/10-million-animals-are-hit-on-our-roads-each-year-heres-how-you-can-help-them-and-steer-clear-of-them-these-holidays-149733/" aria-label="Read more about 10 million animals are hit on our roads each year. Here’s how you can help them (and steer clear of them) these holidays">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Professor of Popular Culture, Auckland University of Technology Not long to go now before many of us get to spread some good tidings and joy as we celebrate Christmas. The main ways we understand and mark the occasion seem to be rather similar across the ... <a title="The borrowed customs and traditions of Christmas celebrations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/the-borrowed-customs-and-traditions-of-christmas-celebrations-149527/" aria-label="Read more about The borrowed customs and traditions of Christmas celebrations">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University An end-of-year political poll appeared recently and virtually no one paid it any attention. After a year of high-stakes health, economic and electoral events, it was a sign New Zealanders are on the other side of something. It was a ... <a title="2020 hindsight: can New Zealand apply the political lessons of COVID-19 in the year ahead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/2020-hindsight-can-new-zealand-apply-the-political-lessons-of-covid-19-in-the-year-ahead-151830/" aria-label="Read more about 2020 hindsight: can New Zealand apply the political lessons of COVID-19 in the year ahead?">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The most important changes in Scott Morrison’s limited reshuffle are centred on two vital and controversial issues – aged care and trade – that will severely test the government in coming months. Aged care has been elevated to cabinet and ... <a title="View from The Hill: aged care to cabinet, Tehan to trade in Morrison’s modest reshuffle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/view-from-the-hill-aged-care-to-cabinet-tehan-to-trade-in-morrisons-modest-reshuffle-152322/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: aged care to cabinet, Tehan to trade in Morrison’s modest reshuffle">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University It’s the last thing anyone wanted to hear, a week out from Christmas. But the growing cluster of COVID-19 cases linked to Sydney’s northern beaches has put Australia on alert. There are now 28 cases associated with the cluster, with ... <a title="Australia on alert as Sydney’s northern beaches COVID cluster grows, linked to US strain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/australia-on-alert-as-sydneys-northern-beaches-covid-cluster-grows-linked-to-us-strain-152310/" aria-label="Read more about Australia on alert as Sydney’s northern beaches COVID cluster grows, linked to US strain">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney Another day, another announcement about a COVID-19 vaccine. Whether that’s talk of results from clinical trials, emergency approval or plans for countries to prioritise certain groups for vaccination. But we still don’t know if current vaccines prevent disease ... <a title="A COVID-19 vaccine that prevents both the disease and viral transmission is the aim. Until then, here’s what we need to do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/a-covid-19-vaccine-that-prevents-both-the-disease-and-viral-transmission-is-the-aim-until-then-heres-what-we-need-to-do-151839/" aria-label="Read more about A COVID-19 vaccine that prevents both the disease and viral transmission is the aim. Until then, here’s what we need to do">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dianne Cook, Professor of Business Analytics, Monash University As last summer’s horrific bushfires raged, so too did debate about what caused them. Despite the prolonged drought and ever worsening climate change, some people sought to blame the fires largely on arson. Federal Coalition MPs were among those ... <a title="Open data shows lightning, not arson, was the likely cause of most Victorian bushfires last summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/open-data-shows-lightning-not-arson-was-the-likely-cause-of-most-victorian-bushfires-last-summer-151912/" aria-label="Read more about Open data shows lightning, not arson, was the likely cause of most Victorian bushfires last summer">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jorg Michael Hacker, Chief Scientist at Airborne Research Australia (ARA); and Professor, Flinders University Two days before Christmas last year, a fire reached our heritage-protected bush property in the Adelaide Hills, and destroyed our neighbour’s house. For the next two weeks we were on constant alert to ... <a title="Before and after: 4 new graphics show the recovery from last summer’s bushfire devastation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/before-and-after-4-new-graphics-show-the-recovery-from-last-summers-bushfire-devastation-149073/" aria-label="Read more about Before and after: 4 new graphics show the recovery from last summer’s bushfire devastation">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jorg Michael Hacker, Chief Scientist at Airborne Research Australia (ARA); and Professor, Flinders University Two days before Christmas last year, a fire reached our heritage-protected bush property in the Adelaide Hills, and destroyed our neighbour’s house. For the next two weeks we were on constant alert to ... <a title="Before and after: these 4 graphics show the recovery of last summer’s bushfire devastation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/before-and-after-these-4-graphics-show-the-recovery-of-last-summers-bushfire-devastation-149073/" aria-label="Read more about Before and after: these 4 graphics show the recovery of last summer’s bushfire devastation">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Farkhondeh Hassandoust, Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology This week’s announcement of two new COVID-19 vaccine pre-purchase deals is encouraging, but doesn’t mean New Zealanders should become complacent about using the NZ COVID Tracer app during the summer holidays. The immunisation rollout won’t start until the second quarter ... <a title="Not just complacency: why people are reluctant to use COVID-19 contact-tracing apps" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/not-just-complacency-why-people-are-reluctant-to-use-covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-152085/" aria-label="Read more about Not just complacency: why people are reluctant to use COVID-19 contact-tracing apps">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Norris, Professor, School of Science, Western Sydney University At the very largest scale, the Universe consists of a “cosmic web” made of enormous, tenuous filaments of gas stretching between gigantic clumps of matter. Or that’s what our best models suggest. All we have seen so far ... <a title="A thread of the cosmic web: astronomers spot a 50 million light-year galactic filament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/a-thread-of-the-cosmic-web-astronomers-spot-a-50-million-light-year-galactic-filament-151569/" aria-label="Read more about A thread of the cosmic web: astronomers spot a 50 million light-year galactic filament">Read more</a>
