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December 11, 2020
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 Global emissions are expected to decline by about 7% in 2020 (or 2.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide) compared to 2019 — an unprecedented drop due to the ... <a title="Global emissions are down by an unprecedented 7% — but don’t start celebrating just yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/global-emissions-are-down-by-an-unprecedented-7-but-dont-start-celebrating-just-yet-151757/" aria-label="Read more about Global emissions are down by an unprecedented 7% — but don’t start celebrating just yet">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics. This week the pair discuss the international climate conference that Prime Minister Scott Morrison has not been invited to speak ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on national cabinet, media bargaining, and 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/video-michelle-grattan-on-national-cabinet-media-bargaining-and-2021-151916/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on national cabinet, media bargaining, and 2021">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Graham, Chief economist, CSIRO energy, CSIRO With the cost of energy generated from wind and solar now less than coal, the share of Australia’s electricity coming from renewables has reached 23%. The federal government projects the share will reach 50% by 2030. It is at this ... <a title="Up to 90% of electricity from solar and wind the cheapest option by 2030: CSIRO analysis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/up-to-90-of-electricity-from-solar-and-wind-the-cheapest-option-by-2030-csiro-analysis-151831/" aria-label="Read more about Up to 90% of electricity from solar and wind the cheapest option by 2030: CSIRO analysis">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Taylor, Early Career Research Leader, Emerging Viruses, Inflammation and Therapeutics Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University Australia’s hopes of producing a locally developed COVID-19 vaccine have been dashed with news today the University of Queensland/CSL vaccine would not proceed to further clinical trials. However, unlike ... <a title="How did the University of Queensland/CSL vaccine fail due to ‘false positive’ HIV tests? A vaccine expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/how-did-the-university-of-queensland-csl-vaccine-fail-due-to-false-positive-hiv-tests-a-vaccine-expert-explains-151911/" aria-label="Read more about How did the University of Queensland/CSL vaccine fail due to ‘false positive’ HIV tests? A vaccine expert explains">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kaz Ross, Lecturer in Humanities (Asian Studies), University of Tasmania The threat of far-right terrorism has loomed large in Australia this week. An 18-year-old from NSW has been arrested on charges of advocating terrorism and inciting others to violence. According to police, he had not only been ... <a title="Far-right groups have used COVID to expand their footprint in Australia. Here are the ones you need to know about" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/far-right-groups-have-used-covid-to-expand-their-footprint-in-australia-here-are-the-ones-you-need-to-know-about-151203/" aria-label="Read more about Far-right groups have used COVID to expand their footprint in Australia. Here are the ones you need to know about">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
BACKGROUNDER: By Michael Field Efforts by Brazilian miner Vale SA to extract itself from one of the world’s largest nickel and cobalt operations are creating deeping tensions and confusion in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. On Wednesday night Vale announced a vague deal, without disclosing full financials, but by Thursday there was uncertainty ... <a title="Tension rises in New Caledonia over Brazilian miner Vale’s bail out efforts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/tension-rises-in-new-caledonia-over-brazilian-miner-vales-bail-out-efforts/" aria-label="Read more about Tension rises in New Caledonia over Brazilian miner Vale’s bail out efforts">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Wood, Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney Two people in the United Kingdom have experienced an allergic reaction to the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. This led the UK medicines regulator to issue precautionary advice earlier this week that “people with a significant ... <a title="People with severe allergies warned off Pfizer COVID vaccine for now. But that may change as more details emerge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/people-with-severe-allergies-warned-off-pfizer-covid-vaccine-for-now-but-that-may-change-as-more-details-emerge-151837/" aria-label="Read more about People with severe allergies warned off Pfizer COVID vaccine for now. But that may change as more details emerge">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hamish McCallum, Professor, Griffith School of Environment and Science, Griffith University In the midst of a human pandemic, we have some good news about a wildlife one: our new research, published today in Science, shows Tasmanian devils are likely to survive despite the infectious cancer that has ... <a title="Tasmanian devils look set to conquer their own pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/tasmanian-devils-look-set-to-conquer-their-own-pandemic-151842/" aria-label="Read more about Tasmanian devils look set to conquer their own pandemic">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Rockett, Virologist, University of Sydney “Coronavirus” has already established itself as the scary new word of 2020. Add the word “mutant”, and you’ve got an even stronger candidate for the scary new phrase of 2021. One fear is that critical parts of the coronavirus genome will ... <a title="Yes, the coronavirus mutates. But that shouldn’t affect the current crop of vaccines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/yes-the-coronavirus-mutates-but-that-shouldnt-affect-the-current-crop-of-vaccines-150541/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, the coronavirus mutates. But that shouldn’t affect the current crop of vaccines">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Sharrock, Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for Vocational and Educational Policy, University of Melbourne The French Review didn’t confirm a “free speech crisis” in Australian universities. But nor did its report last year confirm free speech was “alive and well”, as Universities Australia would have it. In ... <a title="Feel free to disagree on campus … by learning to do it well" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/feel-free-to-disagree-on-campus-by-learning-to-do-it-well-151019/" aria-label="Read more about Feel free to disagree on campus … by learning to do it well">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Alexander, Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne Based in Melbourne, we set out to find new ways of seeing and understanding aspects of Australian urban life in the 21st century. We did this by walking the city without preconceptions, open and ready to ... <a title="Tramping the city to find enchantment in a disenchanting world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/tramping-the-city-to-find-enchantment-in-a-disenchanting-world-150938/" aria-label="Read more about Tramping the city to find enchantment in a disenchanting world">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Ralston, Professorial fellow, Monash University When the government’s retirement incomes review of which I was a part examined superannuation, the age pension and voluntary savings, home ownership had a surprisingly important role. The home is the largest form of voluntary saving and is far more entwined ... <a title="Home ownership and super are far more entwined than you might think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/home-ownership-and-super-are-far-more-entwined-than-you-might-think-151693/" aria-label="Read more about Home ownership and super are far more entwined than you might think">Read more</a>
