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August 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robin Smit, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney Dean Lewins/AAP Last week, federal Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen officially put fuel efficiency standards on the national agenda, saying the measure would reduce transport emissions and encourage electric vehicle uptake. Fuel efficiency standards are applied to ... <a title="The road to new fuel efficiency rules is filled with potholes. Here’s how Australia can avoid them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/the-road-to-new-fuel-efficiency-rules-is-filled-with-potholes-heres-how-australia-can-avoid-them-188814/" aria-label="Read more about The road to new fuel efficiency rules is filled with potholes. Here’s how Australia can avoid them">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giuseppe Carabetta, Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock While legal challenges against federal and state vaccine mandates have come to nothing, in recent months two Australian workers have won unfair dismissal cases after being sacked for not complying with their employer’s vaccination orders. These wins in ... <a title="Unfair dismissal rulings show personal circumstances matter in vaccine refusals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/unfair-dismissal-rulings-show-personal-circumstances-matter-in-vaccine-refusals-188987/" aria-label="Read more about Unfair dismissal rulings show personal circumstances matter in vaccine refusals">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn Ober, IRC Fellow, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education It’s essential for non-Aboriginal researchers to establish relationships with First Nations people when conducting research in their communities. Past research practices have left a legacy of mistrust towards non-Indigenous researchers among many First Nations people. This is ... <a title="‘You can’t just show up and start asking questions’: why researchers need to understand the importance of yarning for First Nations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/you-cant-just-show-up-and-start-asking-questions-why-researchers-need-to-understand-the-importance-of-yarning-for-first-nations-187920/" aria-label="Read more about ‘You can’t just show up and start asking questions’: why researchers need to understand the importance of yarning for First Nations">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
By Jeffrey Elapa of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby Madang MP Bryan Kramer, who held the police, justice and later immigration portfolios in the outgoing givernment, is no stranger to publicity stunts. Yesterday, he “ambushed” Chief Ombudsman Richard Pagen in the State Function Room of the National Parliament during the new MPs’ induction process. ... <a title="Kramer ‘ambushes’ PNG’s chief ombudsman, challenges integrity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/kramer-ambushes-pngs-chief-ombudsman-challenges-integrity/" aria-label="Read more about Kramer ‘ambushes’ PNG’s chief ombudsman, challenges integrity">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Covid Excess Deaths: East Asia in context – These charts show excess pandemic mortality so far for a wide range of countries, geographically themed. The charts are structured to emphasise deaths in 2022 and 2021, and to facilitate comparative analysis between regions. (General mortality data is lacking for Africa and South ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Comparative analysis of excess deaths between and within the world’s regions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-comparative-analysis-of-excess-deaths-between-and-within-the-worlds-regions/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Comparative analysis of excess deaths between and within the world’s regions">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jodie McVernon, Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Way before COVID, in 2005 the World of Warcraft game developers accidentally introduced an extremely virulent highly contagious disease into this game which then spread to infect the whole fantasy world and caused a ... <a title="Did an accidental ‘blood plague’ in World of Warcraft help scientists model COVID better? The results are in" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/did-an-accidental-blood-plague-in-world-of-warcraft-help-scientists-model-covid-better-the-results-are-in-188219/" aria-label="Read more about Did an accidental ‘blood plague’ in World of Warcraft help scientists model COVID better? The results are in">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Rosamilia, Adjunct associate professor and urogynaecology & pelvic reconstructive surgery, Head Pelvic Floor Unit at Monash Health, Monash University Shutterstock A vaginal pessary is a removable device inserted in the vagina to support its walls or uterus (support pessary) or for bladder leakage (continence pessary). Pessaries ... <a title="Pessaries are still a taboo topic – but these ancient devices help many women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/pessaries-are-still-a-taboo-topic-but-these-ancient-devices-help-many-women-187083/" aria-label="Read more about Pessaries are still a taboo topic – but these ancient devices help many women">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eva Francesca Martellotta, PhD candidate in Archaeology and Human Evolution, Griffith University Eva F. Martellotta, Author provided Alongside kangaroos and Akubra hats, boomerangs are one of the most iconic symbols of the Australian continent. They are also widely misrepresented. Apart from hunting and fighting, boomerangs have many ... <a title="Mysterious marks on boomerangs reveal a ‘forgotten’ use of this iconic Aboriginal multi-tool" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/mysterious-marks-on-boomerangs-reveal-a-forgotten-use-of-this-iconic-aboriginal-multi-tool-188835/" aria-label="Read more about Mysterious marks on boomerangs reveal a ‘forgotten’ use of this iconic Aboriginal multi-tool">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alistair Woodward, Professor, School of Population Health, University of Auckland Getty Images Introducing the New Zealand government’s first Emissions Reduction Plan in June, climate change minister James Shaw observed: The climate crisis is no longer something happening elsewhere, to someone else, in the future – it is ... <a title="In a climate crisis, how do we treat businesses that profit from carbon pollution?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/in-a-climate-crisis-how-do-we-treat-businesses-that-profit-from-carbon-pollution-188810/" aria-label="Read more about In a climate crisis, how do we treat businesses that profit from carbon pollution?">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist), The Conversation AAP/Mick Tsikas A federal Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted August 17-21 from a sample of 2,011, gave Labor 42% of the primary vote (32.6% at the May federal election), the Coalition 28% (35.7%), the Greens 12% (12.2%), One Nation ... <a title="First Resolve poll since election has huge Labor lead, and Labor also has massive lead in Victoria" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/first-resolve-poll-since-election-has-huge-labor-lead-and-labor-also-has-massive-lead-in-victoria-188587/" aria-label="Read more about First Resolve poll since election has huge Labor lead, and Labor also has massive lead in Victoria">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya M. Smith, Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution & Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University Fossilised jaws from the 17 million-year-old Kenyan ape _Afropithecus turkanensis_. Tanya M. Smith/National Museums of Kenya, Author provided The timing and intensity of the seasons ... <a title="Revelations from 17-million-year-old ape teeth could lead to new insights on early human evolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/revelations-from-17-million-year-old-ape-teeth-could-lead-to-new-insights-on-early-human-evolution-187996/" aria-label="Read more about Revelations from 17-million-year-old ape teeth could lead to new insights on early human evolution">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Hill, Professor of Politics, University of Adelaide United Australia Party, Liberal Party, Australian Labor Party, Advance Australia Party Our voting choices are only authentic if our decisions are informed by truthful information. That condition is now increasingly elusive. In Australia, over two-thirds of adult news consumers ... <a title="Australians are tired of lies in political advertising. Here’s how it can be fixed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/australians-are-tired-of-lies-in-political-advertising-heres-how-it-can-be-fixed-189043/" aria-label="Read more about Australians are tired of lies in political advertising. Here’s how it can be fixed">Read more</a>
