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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Chalmers, Senior Lecturer in Pain Sciences, University of South Australia Cardi B’s song WAP and the Netflix show Sex Education place female orgasms on centre stage in popular culture. But female orgasms are also the subject of serious academic research. Here’s a snapshot of what research ... <a title="4 things about female orgasms researchers actually study" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/4-things-about-female-orgasms-researchers-actually-study-151015/" aria-label="Read more about 4 things about female orgasms researchers actually study">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk West Papuan leaders have begun forming a “provisional government” in defiance of a crackdown by Indonesian security forces and have pledged that the Melanesian region will establish the world’s first “green state”. West Papuan civil society and political movements have opposed Indonesian colonisation of the region since 1962 and the announcement ... <a title="West Papuan leaders declare first steps for world’s first ‘green state’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/west-papuan-leaders-declare-first-steps-for-worlds-first-green-state/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan leaders declare first steps for world’s first ‘green state’">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chongyi Feng, Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology Sydney As the diplomatic fallout continues over the digitally altered war crimes tweet sent by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, earlier this week, it’s important to note this inflammatory and offensive post is not an isolated ... <a title="What’s behind China’s bullying of Australia? It sees a soft target — and an essential one" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/whats-behind-chinas-bullying-of-australia-it-sees-a-soft-target-and-an-essential-one-151273/" aria-label="Read more about What’s behind China’s bullying of Australia? It sees a soft target — and an essential one">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Bryant, Professor & Director of Traumatic Stress Clinic, UNSW A film being made about the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, which claimed 35 lives, has been criticised by Tasmanian politicians, survivors of the mass shooting, the local community and police. The film, to air next year on ... <a title="Is it wrong to make a film about the Port Arthur massacre? A trauma expert’s perspective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/is-it-wrong-to-make-a-film-about-the-port-arthur-massacre-a-trauma-experts-perspective-151277/" aria-label="Read more about Is it wrong to make a film about the Port Arthur massacre? A trauma expert’s perspective">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bernadette McSherry, Foundation Director, Melbourne Social Equity Institute and Professor of Law, University of Melbourne Louise Milligan’s new book, Witness, reports how traumatic the criminal justice system can be for victim-survivors of sexual assault. This is not the first time we have heard how official responses to ... <a title="‘What I had to say mattered’ — how can we provide justice for sexual assault victims beyond criminal trials?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/what-i-had-to-say-mattered-how-can-we-provide-justice-for-sexual-assault-victims-beyond-criminal-trials-150075/" aria-label="Read more about ‘What I had to say mattered’ — how can we provide justice for sexual assault victims beyond criminal trials?">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Norris, Professor, School of Science, Western Sydney University In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she’d found while browsing our new radio astronomical data. She had started noticing very weird shapes she couldn’t fit easily to any known type of ... <a title="‘WTF?’: newly discovered ghostly circles in the sky can’t be explained by current theories, and astronomers are excited" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/wtf-newly-discovered-ghostly-circles-in-the-sky-cant-be-explained-by-current-theories-and-astronomers-are-excited-142812/" aria-label="Read more about ‘WTF?’: newly discovered ghostly circles in the sky can’t be explained by current theories, and astronomers are excited">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s former Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill, has been committed to stand trial for charges of misappropriation and official corruption A Waigani Committal Court magistrate Tracey Ganaii yesterday found there was sufficient evidence on the two charges. They relate to the state purchase of two generators from Israel seven years ago ... <a title="Former PNG PM O’Neill to stand trial over Israeli generators purchase" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/former-png-pm-oneill-to-stand-trial-over-israeli-generators-purchase/" aria-label="Read more about Former PNG PM O’Neill to stand trial over Israeli generators purchase">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland What was filmmaker John Hughes thinking when he made Home Alone? His previous films were either about awkward teens finding their way in the world (The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off etc), or awkward ... <a title="Home Alone at 30: how one case of parental neglect led to (hilariously) painful outcomes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/home-alone-at-30-how-one-case-of-parental-neglect-led-to-hilariously-painful-outcomes-150534/" aria-label="Read more about Home Alone at 30: how one case of parental neglect led to (hilariously) painful outcomes">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Villeneuve, Associate Professor, University of Sydney Australians with disability are disproportionately affected by disasters such as fire, floods, cyclones and heatwaves. Yet we rarely hear their perspectives and insights on what’s needed to ensure they’re not left stranded when disaster strikes. So in 2019 we hosted ... <a title="‘Nobody checked on us’: what people with disability told us about their experiences of disasters and emergencies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/nobody-checked-on-us-what-people-with-disability-told-us-about-their-experiences-of-disasters-and-emergencies-151198/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Nobody checked on us’: what people with disability told us about their experiences of disasters and emergencies">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janine Dixon, Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University Our economy has grown in the September quarter (the three months to September) after two quarters of going backwards. Using the literal meaning of recession, we are no longer in one – economic output (the things we ... <a title="6 things to watch for as Australia crawls out of recession" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/6-things-to-watch-for-as-australia-crawls-out-of-recession-148797/" aria-label="Read more about 6 things to watch for as Australia crawls out of recession">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato With tension escalating between China and members of the Five Eyes security alliance, most recently over a Chinese tweet that used a doctored image to attack Australia, New Zealand is arguably in a prime position to broker a kind ... <a title="Why New Zealand is ideally placed to broker a truce between China and the Five Eyes alliance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/why-new-zealand-is-ideally-placed-to-broker-a-truce-between-china-and-the-five-eyes-alliance-151195/" aria-label="Read more about Why New Zealand is ideally placed to broker a truce between China and the Five Eyes alliance">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gina Ravenscroft, Research Fellow, University of Western Australia While COVID-19 has highlighted the value of medical research, it has unfortunately also seriously disrupted it. Lack of funding is driving members of Australia’s once-vibrant virology research community out of the sector, and forcing early-career researchers to turn to ... <a title="COVID has left Australia’s biomedical research sector gasping for air" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/covid-has-left-australias-biomedical-research-sector-gasping-for-air-145022/" aria-label="Read more about COVID has left Australia’s biomedical research sector gasping for air">Read more</a>
