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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Gaston, Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images New Zealand’s government has been praised for listening to scientists as it continues to pursue its COVID-19 elimination strategy. But it’s difficult to find any signs ... <a title="New Zealand relies on scientific research for good policy. It’s a pity the budget didn’t reflect this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/new-zealand-relies-on-scientific-research-for-good-policy-its-a-pity-the-budget-didnt-reflect-this-161340/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand relies on scientific research for good policy. It’s a pity the budget didn’t reflect this">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John L Hopkins, Innovation Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology Raimond Spekking/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The manufacturing world is facing one of its greatest challenges in years — a global shortage of semiconductors — and there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight any time soon. According ... <a title="Yes, the global microchip shortage is COVID’s fault. No, it won’t end any time soon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/yes-the-global-microchip-shortage-is-covids-fault-no-it-wont-end-any-time-soon-161903/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, the global microchip shortage is COVID’s fault. No, it won’t end any time soon">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. There has been a lot of western angst shown towards China this year, only a miniscule amount of which can be attributed to geopolitical threats coming from China. Leading the charge of the anti-China brigade is Australia. I commented about a month ago on this matter, noting the tendency amongst many ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – China, the Coronavirus, Australia, and a yearning for World War 3" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/keith-rankin-analysis-china-the-coronavirus-australia-and-a-yearning-for-world-war-3/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – China, the Coronavirus, Australia, and a yearning for World War 3">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. The level of orchestration and political acting was turned up a notch this week in Queenstown by prime ministers Jacinda Ardern and Scott Morrison, who went to great pains to put on a highly contrived united front about their different orientations towards China. Clearly, both leaders were highly sensitive to the ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: NZ and Australia play “happy families” in Queenstown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nz-and-australia-play-happy-families-in-queenstown/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: NZ and Australia play “happy families” in Queenstown">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Professor Steven Larkin, Chief Executive Officer, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education Research undertaken by The Healing Foundation has revealed that public health restrictions introduced to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia have had a significant impact on some Stolen Generations survivors, retriggering trauma among already vulnerable ... <a title="COVID-19 restrictions have left many Stolen Generations survivors more isolated without adequate support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/covid-19-restrictions-have-left-many-stolen-generations-survivors-more-isolated-without-adequate-support-160168/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 restrictions have left many Stolen Generations survivors more isolated without adequate support">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Melville, Senior Curator, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Museums Victoria E Vanderduys, Fourni par l’auteur Most of the incredible diversity of life on Earth is yet to be discovered and documented. In some groups of organisms – terrestrial arthropods such as spiders and scorpions, marine invertebrates such as sponges ... <a title="Hundreds of Australian lizard species are barely known to science. Many may face extinction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/hundreds-of-australian-lizard-species-are-barely-known-to-science-many-may-face-extinction-161572/" aria-label="Read more about Hundreds of Australian lizard species are barely known to science. Many may face extinction">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Conley Tyler, Research Associate, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2017. Shepherd House/EPA/AAP Does it matter where the virus that causes COVID-19 came from? In terms of frontline medicine, perhaps not — patients still need to be treated ... <a title="Biden’s new Wuhan lab leak investigation ramps up US-China blame game" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/bidens-new-wuhan-lab-leak-investigation-ramps-up-us-china-blame-game-161885/" aria-label="Read more about Biden’s new Wuhan lab leak investigation ramps up US-China blame game">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Thiele, Adjunct Assoc. Professor, The University of Western Australia Wikimedia Here are two quiz questions for you. How many species of animals, plants, fungi, fish, insects and other organisms live in Australia? And how many of these have been discovered and named? To the first, the ... <a title="About 500,000 Australian species are undiscovered – and scientists are on a 25-year mission to finish the job" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/about-500-000-australian-species-are-undiscovered-and-scientists-are-on-a-25-year-mission-to-finish-the-job-161793/" aria-label="Read more about About 500,000 Australian species are undiscovered – and scientists are on a 25-year mission to finish the job">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcia Devlin, Adjunct Professor, Victoria University Across the world, women do not have the same opportunities as men. The 2020 Global Gender Gap Report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) revealed Australia came in at 44th in the Global Gender Gap Index 2020 rankings, slipping five places ... <a title="Time to gender parity has blown out to 135 years. Here’s what women can do to close the gap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/time-to-gender-parity-has-blown-out-to-135-years-heres-what-women-can-do-to-close-the-gap-160253/" aria-label="Read more about Time to gender parity has blown out to 135 years. Here’s what women can do to close the gap">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne Winner: Archibald Prize 1972: Clifton Pugh. ‘The Hon EG Whitlam’ 1972. Oil on composition board, 113.5 x 141.5 cm © Estate ... <a title="‘I think Archie would be pleased’: 100 years of our most famous portrait prize and my almost 50 years watching it evolve" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/i-think-archie-would-be-pleased-100-years-of-our-most-famous-portrait-prize-and-my-almost-50-years-watching-it-evolve-161575/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I think Archie would be pleased’: 100 years of our most famous portrait prize and my almost 50 years watching it evolve">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jesse Whitehead, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Waikato GettyImages Reports of potentially higher rates of vaccine hesitancy among Māori and Pacific populations have seen the government target COVID-19 vaccine and information campaigns at those communities. And there are excellent reasons for such a targeted approach, designed and delivered ... <a title="The real challenge to COVID-19 vaccination rates isn’t hesitancy — it’s equal access for Māori and Pacific people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/the-real-challenge-to-covid-19-vaccination-rates-isnt-hesitancy-its-equal-access-for-maori-and-pacific-people-161676/" aria-label="Read more about The real challenge to COVID-19 vaccination rates isn’t hesitancy — it’s equal access for Māori and Pacific people">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The expert advice changes, not infrequently, during this pandemic. And that applies even when that “advice” comes in the form of a one-liner. As criticism mounted over the slowness of the vaccine rollout, Scott Morrison and his ministers have been ... <a title="View from The Hill: New ‘expert’ advice is in – don’t say ‘it’s not a race’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/view-from-the-hill-new-expert-advice-is-in-dont-say-its-not-a-race-161935/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: New ‘expert’ advice is in – don’t say ‘it’s not a race’">Read more</a>
