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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dianne Cook, Professor of Business Analytics, Monash University As last summer’s horrific bushfires raged, so too did debate about what caused them. Despite the prolonged drought and ever worsening climate change, some people sought to blame the fires largely on arson. Federal Coalition MPs were among those ... <a title="Open data shows lightning, not arson, was the likely cause of most Victorian bushfires last summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/open-data-shows-lightning-not-arson-was-the-likely-cause-of-most-victorian-bushfires-last-summer-151912/" aria-label="Read more about Open data shows lightning, not arson, was the likely cause of most Victorian bushfires last summer">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jorg Michael Hacker, Chief Scientist at Airborne Research Australia (ARA); and Professor, Flinders University Two days before Christmas last year, a fire reached our heritage-protected bush property in the Adelaide Hills, and destroyed our neighbour’s house. For the next two weeks we were on constant alert to ... <a title="Before and after: 4 new graphics show the recovery from last summer’s bushfire devastation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/before-and-after-4-new-graphics-show-the-recovery-from-last-summers-bushfire-devastation-149073/" aria-label="Read more about Before and after: 4 new graphics show the recovery from last summer’s bushfire devastation">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jorg Michael Hacker, Chief Scientist at Airborne Research Australia (ARA); and Professor, Flinders University Two days before Christmas last year, a fire reached our heritage-protected bush property in the Adelaide Hills, and destroyed our neighbour’s house. For the next two weeks we were on constant alert to ... <a title="Before and after: these 4 graphics show the recovery of last summer’s bushfire devastation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/before-and-after-these-4-graphics-show-the-recovery-of-last-summers-bushfire-devastation-149073/" aria-label="Read more about Before and after: these 4 graphics show the recovery of last summer’s bushfire devastation">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Many houses in Fiji’s Vanua Levu have been destroyed, some families sheltered under beds and tables in their houses and others in cane plantations, as Cyclone Yasa wreaked havoc in many parts of the Northern Division, Fiji Village reports. Buildings and crops were been destroyed in Fiji’s second largest island and there’s ... <a title="Fiji declares state of disaster as TC Yasa wreaks havoc in Vanua Levu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/fiji-declares-state-of-disaster-as-tc-yasa-wreaks-havoc-in-vanua-levu/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji declares state of disaster as TC Yasa wreaks havoc in Vanua Levu">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Farkhondeh Hassandoust, Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology This week’s announcement of two new COVID-19 vaccine pre-purchase deals is encouraging, but doesn’t mean New Zealanders should become complacent about using the NZ COVID Tracer app during the summer holidays. The immunisation rollout won’t start until the second quarter ... <a title="Not just complacency: why people are reluctant to use COVID-19 contact-tracing apps" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/not-just-complacency-why-people-are-reluctant-to-use-covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-152085/" aria-label="Read more about Not just complacency: why people are reluctant to use COVID-19 contact-tracing apps">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Norris, Professor, School of Science, Western Sydney University At the very largest scale, the Universe consists of a “cosmic web” made of enormous, tenuous filaments of gas stretching between gigantic clumps of matter. Or that’s what our best models suggest. All we have seen so far ... <a title="A thread of the cosmic web: astronomers spot a 50 million light-year galactic filament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/a-thread-of-the-cosmic-web-astronomers-spot-a-50-million-light-year-galactic-filament-151569/" aria-label="Read more about A thread of the cosmic web: astronomers spot a 50 million light-year galactic filament">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Vice-chancellor’s fellow, La Trobe University Canberra policymakers will be conducting a root-and-branch reassessment of Australia’s foreign policy following Donald Trump’s defeat in the US presidential election and ahead of an incoming Democrat administration. Top of the list of items for review will be a leaden-footed ... <a title="Joe Biden’s approach to the Middle East will be very different from Trump’s, especially on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/joe-bidens-approach-to-the-middle-east-will-be-very-different-from-trumps-especially-on-iran-151987/" aria-label="Read more about Joe Biden’s approach to the Middle East will be very different from Trump’s, especially on Iran">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University Having a baby at Christmas can be both a joyous time and a cause for anxiety. This Christmas, with a pandemic sweeping the world, there may also be some unique considerations ... <a title="Christmas is a special time on the maternity ward. But it’s not all tinsel and mince pies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/christmas-is-a-special-time-on-the-maternity-ward-but-its-not-all-tinsel-and-mince-pies-150063/" aria-label="Read more about Christmas is a special time on the maternity ward. But it’s not all tinsel and mince pies">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Dart, Lecturer in Learning & Teaching Development, Impact and Recognition, Queensland University of Technology The use of educational videos in schools and universities was on the rise before COVID-19. Now, with continuing disruption by the pandemic, more educators are developing educational videos to support student learning. ... <a title="It’s not production quality that counts in educational videos – here’s what students value most" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/its-not-production-quality-that-counts-in-educational-videos-heres-what-students-value-most-151573/" aria-label="Read more about It’s not production quality that counts in educational videos – here’s what students value most">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW 2020 began simply, if dramatically enough in some sense. We spent the first months preoccupied with bushfires that blackened both our natural environment and our international reputation for taking climate change seriously. Who would have thought that would have been the ... <a title="Vital Signs: 4 things Australia’s COVID response got right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/vital-signs-4-things-australias-covid-response-got-right-152172/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: 4 things Australia’s COVID response got right">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Spencer M. Ross, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Massachusetts Lowell Collectors for the Paralympic Games carried donation buckets ahead of the recent Santa parade in Auckland, asking for gold coin donations. Onlookers shrugged them off: “Sorry, no cash on me!” To the rescue, a charity volunteer ... <a title="No spare change: how charities, buskers and beggars aren’t feeling so festive in our cashless society" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/no-spare-change-how-charities-buskers-and-beggars-arent-feeling-so-festive-in-our-cashless-society-151024/" aria-label="Read more about No spare change: how charities, buskers and beggars aren’t feeling so festive in our cashless society">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grace Karskens, Emeritus Professor of History, UNSW In 2017, I came across an extraordinary document in Sydney’s Mitchell Library: a handwritten list of 178 Aboriginal place names for Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River, compiled in 1829 by a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend John McGarvie. I was stunned. I ... <a title="Friday essay: how a long-lost list is helping us remap Darug place names and culture on Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/friday-essay-how-a-long-lost-list-is-helping-us-remap-darug-place-names-and-culture-on-dyarubbin-the-hawkesbury-river-148004/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: how a long-lost list is helping us remap Darug place names and culture on Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River">Read more</a>
