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February 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Linlin Ge, Professor, UNSW Many parts of Queensland have been declared disaster zones and thousands of residents evacuated due to a 1-in-100-year flood. Townsville is at the epicentre of the “unprecedented” monsoonal downpour that brought more than a year’s worth of rain in just a few days, ... <a title="Queensland’s floods are so huge the only way to track them is from space" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/queenslands-floods-are-so-huge-the-only-way-to-track-them-is-from-space-111083/" aria-label="Read more about Queensland’s floods are so huge the only way to track them is from space">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mehmet Ozalp, Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University December 2018 marked a significant shift in the Syrian conflict. The end-of-year events put the country on a new trajectory, ... <a title="The Syrian war is not over, it’s just on a new trajectory: here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/the-syrian-war-is-not-over-its-just-on-a-new-trajectory-heres-what-you-need-to-know-110292/" aria-label="Read more about The Syrian war is not over, it’s just on a new trajectory: here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Dyer, Associate Professor, RMIT University Walking through our gardens in Australia, we may not realise that buzzing around us is one of our greatest natural resources. Bees are responsible for pollinating about a third of food for human consumption, and data on crop production suggests that ... <a title="Our ‘bee-eye camera’ helps us support bees, grow food and protect the environment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/our-bee-eye-camera-helps-us-support-bees-grow-food-and-protect-the-environment-110022/" aria-label="Read more about Our ‘bee-eye camera’ helps us support bees, grow food and protect the environment">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Argus, Lecturer, Marketing & Design Thinking, RMIT University A fire at the Neo 200 apartment building in Spencer Street, Melbourne, on Monday highlighted the risk to human safety from flammable cladding and other non-conforming building products. Building quality and safety are compromised when there is no ... <a title="Cladding fires expose gaps in building material safety checks. Here’s a solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/cladding-fires-expose-gaps-in-building-material-safety-checks-heres-a-solution-111073/" aria-label="Read more about Cladding fires expose gaps in building material safety checks. Here’s a solution">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Sutherland, Doctor of Creative Arts; Writer and researcher, Western Sydney University Review: The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion Genetics Professor Don Tillman is having flashbacks. He’s remembering the time he spent in the principal’s office as a kid in Shepparton, Victoria. The time he spent learning ... <a title="Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Result puts autism front and centre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/graeme-simsions-the-rosie-result-puts-autism-front-and-centre-110032/" aria-label="Read more about Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Result puts autism front and centre">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Barratt, Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney We’ve had it drummed into us over decades that early detection is key to treating diseases early, before they have a chance to turn into something really nasty. But we’ve since learnt the flip-side of this is overdiagnosis, ... <a title="Five warning signs of overdiagnosis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/five-warning-signs-of-overdiagnosis-110895/" aria-label="Read more about Five warning signs of overdiagnosis">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Bunn, Senior Lecturer, Curtin Law School, Curtin University Australians tend to accept government surveillance, particularly if they think it necessary or trust the government, according to a recent study. But they’re only lukewarm about it. So if such surveillance continues to increase, people might reach a ... <a title="Australians accept government surveillance, for now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/australians-accept-government-surveillance-for-now-110789/" aria-label="Read more about Australians accept government surveillance, for now">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Moynihan, Senior Research Fellow, Bond University In September, the New York Times revealed that one of the world’s top cancer specialists had quietly received millions of dollars from drug and other companies. And what’s more, he’d failed to disclose the payments in many of his high-profile ... <a title="Influential doctors aren’t disclosing their drug company ties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/influential-doctors-arent-disclosing-their-drug-company-ties-110888/" aria-label="Read more about Influential doctors aren’t disclosing their drug company ties">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture, Univeristy of NSW, UNSW The failure of the Opal Tower building in Sydney has highlighted the poor quality of speculatively built multi-unit housing in Australia. The tower’s 392 apartments were evacuated on Christmas Eve when residents heard loud cracks and defects ... <a title="Beyond Opal: a 10-point plan to fix the residential building industry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/beyond-opal-a-10-point-plan-to-fix-the-residential-building-industry-110975/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond Opal: a 10-point plan to fix the residential building industry">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Linden, Sessional Lecturer, PhD (Management) Candidate, School of Management, RMIT University Every 10 to 15 years it’s the same. Ever since financial deregulation in the 1980s we’ve had a finance industry scandal followed by an inquiry, a quick fix, and a declaration that it shouldn’t happen ... <a title="Hayne’s failure to tackle bank structure means that in a decade or so another treasurer will have to call another royal commission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/haynes-failure-to-tackle-bank-structure-means-that-in-a-decade-or-so-another-treasurer-will-have-to-call-another-royal-commission-110437/" aria-label="Read more about Hayne’s failure to tackle bank structure means that in a decade or so another treasurer will have to call another royal commission">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kym Sheehan, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney Justice Hayne says in almost every case of appalling misconduct examined by his commission, what happened was “driven not only by the relevant entity’s pursuit of profit, but also by individuals’ pursuit of gain”. He is fingering greed: ... <a title="Banking Royal Commission: the real problem is how we value executives and workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/banking-royal-commission-the-real-problem-is-how-we-value-executives-and-workers-111094/" aria-label="Read more about Banking Royal Commission: the real problem is how we value executives and workers">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard de Grijs, Associate Dean (Global Engagement) and Professor of Astrophysics, Macquarie University From a great distance, our Milky Way would look like a thin disc of stars that rotates once every few hundred million years around its central region. Hundreds of billions of stars provide the ... <a title="We discovered a warped and twisted disc of young, massive stars at the edge of our Milky Way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/05/we-discovered-a-warped-and-twisted-disc-of-young-massive-stars-at-the-edge-of-our-milky-way-110985/" aria-label="Read more about We discovered a warped and twisted disc of young, massive stars at the edge of our Milky Way">Read more</a>
