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August 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW The testimony from Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe to the House of Representatives’ Standing Committee on Economics last week seemed familiar. The committee’s deputy chair, the Labor Party’s Andrew Leigh, asked Lowe a series of pointed but important questions. ... <a title="The RBA is not a law unto itself — an external review would be good for it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/13/the-rba-is-not-a-law-unto-itself-an-external-review-would-be-good-for-it-165816/" aria-label="Read more about The RBA is not a law unto itself — an external review would be good for it">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garry Jennings, Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney Shutterstock As the pandemic has progressed, researchers have begun to understand how COVID-19 impacts our bodies. Early in the pandemic, risk factors such as heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes were quickly associated with an increased risk of ... <a title="How COVID affects the heart, according to a cardiologist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/13/how-covid-affects-the-heart-according-to-a-cardiologist-165446/" aria-label="Read more about How COVID affects the heart, according to a cardiologist">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Schuijers, Research Fellow in Environmental Law, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its long-awaited report on the physical impacts of climate change. It painted a terrifying picture of a warming planet increasingly subject to extreme weather events. ... <a title="Climate science is now more certain than ever. Here’s how it can make a difference in Australian court cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/13/climate-science-is-now-more-certain-than-ever-heres-how-it-can-make-a-difference-in-australian-court-cases-165874/" aria-label="Read more about Climate science is now more certain than ever. Here’s how it can make a difference in Australian court cases">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh, Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University Shutterstock Year 12 students in Sydney who live or go to school in an area affected by stage 4 lockdowns will be able to apply for special consideration if their oral or performance exam, or major project, was impacted ... <a title="‘How outrageous and impossible is that?’: factoring in how year 12 students coped in lockdown is a grading nightmare for teachers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/13/how-outrageous-and-impossible-is-that-factoring-in-how-year-12-students-coped-in-lockdown-is-a-grading-nightmare-for-teachers-162851/" aria-label="Read more about ‘How outrageous and impossible is that?’: factoring in how year 12 students coped in lockdown is a grading nightmare for teachers">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julianne Schultz AM, FAHA, Professor of Media and Culture, Griffith University, Griffith University A slide by Gordon H. Woodhouse to accompany a 1901 lecture by his father Clarence entitled ‘exploration and development of Australia’. State Library of Victoria Roman Quaedvlieg standing tall in his smart black suit ... <a title="Friday essay: Our utopia … careful what you wish for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/13/friday-essay-our-utopia-careful-what-you-wish-for-165314/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: Our utopia … careful what you wish for">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As the nation proceeds – but still at an agonisingly slow pace – towards the targets of having 70% and 80% of those 16 and over fully vaccinated, the next big debate is about making the jab compulsory in workplaces. ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Vaccine passports are a better tool than mandating jabs for all jobs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/13/grattan-on-friday-vaccine-passports-are-a-better-tool-than-mandating-jabs-for-all-jobs-166045/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Vaccine passports are a better tool than mandating jabs for all jobs">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shayne McGregor, Associate professor, Monash University Shutterstock The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is confronting. It finds global mean sea levels rose by about 20 centimetres between 1901 and 2018. In fact, sea levels have risen faster over the last hundred ... <a title="‘How high above sea level am I?’ If you’ve googled this, you’re likely asking the wrong question — an expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/how-high-above-sea-level-am-i-if-youve-googled-this-youre-likely-asking-the-wrong-question-an-expert-explains-165882/" aria-label="Read more about ‘How high above sea level am I?’ If you’ve googled this, you’re likely asking the wrong question — an expert explains">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Therese O’Sullivan, Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University from www.shutterstock.com We’ve been urged to get COVID tested even if we have mild symptoms. Or perhaps we don’t have symptoms but are a close or casual contact of a known case. This includes children. So what can you do ... <a title="How to prepare your child for a COVID test" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/how-to-prepare-your-child-for-a-covid-test-165248/" aria-label="Read more about How to prepare your child for a COVID test">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Crook, Honorary Associate, School of Physics, University of Sydney Shutterstock “Your teacher was wrong!” It’s a phrase many a high school or university student has heard. As practising and former science teachers, we have been challenged with this accusation before. Whereas those with advanced science understanding ... <a title="Einstein was ‘wrong’, not your science teacher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/einstein-was-wrong-not-your-science-teacher-165532/" aria-label="Read more about Einstein was ‘wrong’, not your science teacher">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW The STM Kargu attack drone. STM Last year, according to a United Nations report published in March, Libyan government forces hunted down rebel forces using “lethal autonomous weapons systems” that were “programmed to attack targets without ... <a title="Lethal autonomous weapons and World War III: it’s not too late to stop the rise of ‘killer robots’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/lethal-autonomous-weapons-and-world-war-iii-its-not-too-late-to-stop-the-rise-of-killer-robots-165822/" aria-label="Read more about Lethal autonomous weapons and World War III: it’s not too late to stop the rise of ‘killer robots’">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madeline Gleeson, Senior Research Fellow, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW This week marks nine years since Australia re-introduced a policy of offshore processing for asylum seekers arriving by boat. Nine long years of a cruel, costly and ineffective policy sustained by successive ... <a title="Cruel, costly and ineffective: Australia’s offshore processing asylum seeker policy turns 9" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/cruel-costly-and-ineffective-australias-offshore-processing-asylum-seeker-policy-turns-9-166014/" aria-label="Read more about Cruel, costly and ineffective: Australia’s offshore processing asylum seeker policy turns 9">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Torok, Honorary Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first instalment of their sixth assessment report. As expected, the report makes for bleak reading. It found all regions of the world are already ... <a title="Communicating climate change has never been so important, and this IPCC report pulls no punches" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/communicating-climate-change-has-never-been-so-important-and-this-ipcc-report-pulls-no-punches-165252/" aria-label="Read more about Communicating climate change has never been so important, and this IPCC report pulls no punches">Read more</a>
