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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pep Canadell, Chief research scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Earth has warmed 1.09℃ since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet ... <a title="This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/this-is-the-most-sobering-report-card-yet-on-climate-change-and-earths-future-heres-what-you-need-to-know-165395/" aria-label="Read more about This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Schubert, Pharmacist and PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Shutterstock Australia currently has drugs that treat the symptoms of COVID, and drugs which have been repurposed from other diseases. Now the government has placed an early order for a new drug, sotrovimab, which works on COVID-19 virus ... <a title="What is sotrovimab, the COVID drug the government has bought before being approved for use in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/what-is-sotrovimab-the-covid-drug-the-government-has-bought-before-being-approved-for-use-in-australia-165802/" aria-label="Read more about What is sotrovimab, the COVID drug the government has bought before being approved for use in Australia?">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Haswell, Professor of Practice in Environmental Wellbeing, Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services), University of Sydney Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been repeatedly harmed by policies and decisions that drive systematic dispossession, disempowerment, overincarceration and poverty. Janine Mohamad and Zoe ... <a title="The Beetaloo drilling program brings potential health and social issues for Aboriginal communities in remote NT" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/the-beetaloo-drilling-program-brings-potential-health-and-social-issues-for-aboriginal-communities-in-remote-nt-165392/" aria-label="Read more about The Beetaloo drilling program brings potential health and social issues for Aboriginal communities in remote NT">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Hicks, PhD / Dr. iur. candidate, The University of Melbourne Mick Tsikas/AAP The COVID-19 pandemic has meant huge restrictions on Australians’ ability to travel both within Australia and overseas. But until now, Australian citizens ordinarily resident in other countries have been able to return to Australia ... <a title="The federal government just made it even harder for Australians overseas to come home. Is this legal? Or reasonable?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/the-federal-government-just-made-it-even-harder-for-australians-overseas-to-come-home-is-this-legal-or-reasonable-165744/" aria-label="Read more about The federal government just made it even harder for Australians overseas to come home. Is this legal? Or reasonable?">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Russell, Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice & Legal Studies, La Trobe University Over the past 12 months, up to 1,200 people spent time in Victoria’s maximum-security women’s prison without being convicted and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. They were on remand: waiting in custody for ... <a title="Number of women on remand in Victoria soars due to outdated bail laws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/number-of-women-on-remand-in-victoria-soars-due-to-outdated-bail-laws-165301/" aria-label="Read more about Number of women on remand in Victoria soars due to outdated bail laws">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jathan Sadowski, Research Fellow, Emerging Technologies Research Lab and CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Monash University Poster showing ‘The Leader of the Luddites’ (1812) Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA I’m a Luddite. This is not a hesitant confession, but a proud proclamation. I’m also a social scientist ... <a title="I’m a Luddite. You should be one too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/im-a-luddite-you-should-be-one-too-163172/" aria-label="Read more about I’m a Luddite. You should be one too">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shelley Hannigan, Senior Lecturer in Art Education, Deakin University Shutterstock This article is part of a series providing school students with evidence-based advice for choosing subjects in their senior years. If you’re thinking of taking a performing or visual arts subject in years 11 and 12, you ... <a title="Art, drama and music lower stress. Here’s what you need to know if you’re thinking of taking arts in years 11 and 12" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/art-drama-and-music-lower-stress-heres-what-you-need-to-know-if-youre-thinking-of-taking-arts-in-years-11-and-12-164713/" aria-label="Read more about Art, drama and music lower stress. Here’s what you need to know if you’re thinking of taking arts in years 11 and 12">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne AAP/Lukas Coch This week’s Newspoll, conducted August 4-7 from a sample of 1,527, gave Labor a 53-47 lead, unchanged from three weeks ago. Primary votes were 39% Coalition (steady), 39% Labor (steady), 11% Greens ... <a title="First negative Newspoll rating for Morrison since start of pandemic; 47% of unvaccinated would take Pfizer but not AstraZeneca" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/first-negative-newspoll-rating-for-morrison-since-start-of-pandemic-47-of-unvaccinated-would-take-pfizer-but-not-astrazeneca-165665/" aria-label="Read more about First negative Newspoll rating for Morrison since start of pandemic; 47% of unvaccinated would take Pfizer but not AstraZeneca">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
By Jordan Bond , RNZ News reporter A New Zealand public health expert says the highly transmissible delta variant of covid-19 could prompt a local lockdown with even one community case in the country. Otago University professor Nick Wilson said of the the 25 covid-19 cases currently in managed isolation and quarantine, “most” are likely ... <a title="Just one delta covid-19 case could prompt NZ lockdown, says expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/just-one-delta-covid-19-case-could-prompt-nz-lockdown-says-expert/" aria-label="Read more about Just one delta covid-19 case could prompt NZ lockdown, says expert">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Journalists already under threat of military arrest, jail and torture in Myanmar are now fronting a covid-19 national crisis as the virus rips through a country stripped bare, writes Phil Thornton. SPECIAL REPORT: By Phil Thornton of the International Federation of Journalists It is six months since Myanmar’s military began dismantling the institutional framework supporting ... <a title="Myanmar: A nation in crisis as the covid pandemic takes hold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/myanmar-a-nation-in-crisis-as-the-covid-pandemic-takes-hold/" aria-label="Read more about Myanmar: A nation in crisis as the covid pandemic takes hold">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phil Bellinger, Lecturer in exercise science, Griffith University The Tokyo Olympic Games have seen incredible performances in the short-distance track events. We have seen two major world records fall: the men’s and women’s 400-metre hurdles – and numerous personal best times. In the women’s 400-metre hurdles, five ... <a title="What’s behind the spate of super-fast sprints at the Tokyo Olympics? Technology plays a role, but the real answer is training" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/whats-behind-the-spate-of-super-fast-sprints-at-the-tokyo-olympics-technology-plays-a-role-but-the-real-answer-is-training-165737/" aria-label="Read more about What’s behind the spate of super-fast sprints at the Tokyo Olympics? Technology plays a role, but the real answer is training">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Klugman, Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Murmurs regarding the decline of the Olympics appear to have been premature. Despite the well-founded critiques, doubts, concerns, and ambivalence before the Tokyo games began, they have ... <a title="The Olympics still have the power to inspire — and reveal our nastier impulses and hypocrisies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/the-olympics-still-have-the-power-to-inspire-and-reveal-our-nastier-impulses-and-hypocrisies-165602/" aria-label="Read more about The Olympics still have the power to inspire — and reveal our nastier impulses and hypocrisies">Read more</a>
