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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ralph N. Martins, Professor and Chair in Ageing and Alzheimer’s Disease, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock A new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease was last week given accelerated approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration. The drug is called aducanumab, commercially known as Aduhelm, and was ... <a title="‘A slow and painful journey’: why did it take over 20 years to approve the new Alzheimer’s drug?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/a-slow-and-painful-journey-why-did-it-take-over-20-years-to-approve-the-new-alzheimers-drug-162603/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A slow and painful journey’: why did it take over 20 years to approve the new Alzheimer’s drug?">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Michelle Grattan discusses the week in politics with University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher. This week the pair discuss the outcomes of Scott Morrison’s attendance at the G7 summit in Cornwall, including a face-to-face meeting with US President Joe ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Scott Morrison’s return to Australia and a change in vaccine advice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/video-michelle-grattan-on-scott-morrisons-return-to-australia-and-a-change-in-vaccine-advice-163007/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Scott Morrison’s return to Australia and a change in vaccine advice">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thalia Anthony, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney Alan Lambert, CC BY-SA This article contains names and images of people who have passed. On August 23 1966, Vincent Lingiari and his fellow Aboriginal stock workers walked off the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory. ... <a title="Stolen wages: Northern Territory class action will hold the Commonwealth to account" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/stolen-wages-northern-territory-class-action-will-hold-the-commonwealth-to-account-149155/" aria-label="Read more about Stolen wages: Northern Territory class action will hold the Commonwealth to account">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Vice-chancellor’s fellow, La Trobe University The Israel-Palestine conflict has experienced its first violent spasm in the term of a new Israeli government. However, hostilities have since been contained, for the time being. Provocative demonstrations this week in Arab East Jerusalem involving Israeli proto-nationalists chanting “death ... <a title="The latest ‘spasm’ of violence in Gaza is unlikely to be the last" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/the-latest-spasm-of-violence-in-gaza-is-unlikely-to-be-the-last-162925/" aria-label="Read more about The latest ‘spasm’ of violence in Gaza is unlikely to be the last">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University Shutterstock The end of the financial year is near. So all of us — especially those scrambling at the last minute to get their receipts in order — should keep an eye out for the accompanying onslaught ... <a title="‘We have filed a case under your name’: beware of tax scams — they’ll be everywhere this EOFY" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/we-have-filed-a-case-under-your-name-beware-of-tax-scams-theyll-be-everywhere-this-eofy-162171/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We have filed a case under your name’: beware of tax scams — they’ll be everywhere this EOFY">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Ernest McClelland, Distinguised Professor and Director Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics, Australian National University Caltech / MIT / LIGO Lab, Author provided The LIGO gravitational wave observatory in the United States is so sensitive to vibrations it can detect the tiny ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. ... <a title="Approaching zero: super-chilled mirrors edge towards the borders of gravity and quantum physics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/approaching-zero-super-chilled-mirrors-edge-towards-the-borders-of-gravity-and-quantum-physics-162785/" aria-label="Read more about Approaching zero: super-chilled mirrors edge towards the borders of gravity and quantum physics">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis Altman, Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University After the brutal conflict in Gaza flared yet again in the past month, and the end of Benyamin Netanyahu’s 12 years as prime minister of Israel, attention is again focused on the apparently intractable conflict between Israel ... <a title="The Labor Party has long struggled over a position on Israel and Palestine. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/the-labor-party-has-long-struggled-over-a-position-on-israel-and-palestine-heres-why-162611/" aria-label="Read more about The Labor Party has long struggled over a position on Israel and Palestine. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jay Marlowe, Associate Professor, Co-Director Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies, University of Auckland Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern marks World Refugee Day 2020 at the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre in Auckland. GettyImages When COVID-19 forced New Zealand to shut its borders, it left refugees we had committed ... <a title="New Zealand has one of the lowest numbers of refugees per capita in the world — there is room for many more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/new-zealand-has-one-of-the-lowest-numbers-of-refugees-per-capita-in-the-world-there-is-room-for-many-more-162663/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand has one of the lowest numbers of refugees per capita in the world — there is room for many more">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Bartlett, Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle Jessica Hill/AP/AAP Bookings for the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine have been halted in Victoria this week, amid shortages of the vaccine. Some Victorians who’ve had their first Pfizer dose already will need ... <a title="What if I can’t get in for my second Pfizer dose and the gap is longer than 3 weeks?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/what-if-i-cant-get-in-for-my-second-pfizer-dose-and-the-gap-is-longer-than-3-weeks-162857/" aria-label="Read more about What if I can’t get in for my second Pfizer dose and the gap is longer than 3 weeks?">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University The wild storms that recently raged across eastern Victoria caused major property and environmental damage, and loss of lives. They’ve also triggered serious water contamination incidents. Yarra Valley Water issued an urgent health warning to not to ... <a title="Victoria’s wild storms show how easily disasters can threaten our water supply" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/victorias-wild-storms-show-how-easily-disasters-can-threaten-our-water-supply-162846/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s wild storms show how easily disasters can threaten our water supply">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lynn Bosetti, Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of British Columbia Shutterstock Incivility is on the rise in university culture. If you are an academic you’ve likely seen or experienced instances of bullying, incivility or mobbing in department meetings, in hallways and in seminars. For ... <a title="Why universities must act on the rise of a new kind of bullying: incivility" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/why-universities-must-act-on-the-rise-of-a-new-kind-of-bullying-incivility-160870/" aria-label="Read more about Why universities must act on the rise of a new kind of bullying: incivility">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Salman Shooshtarian, Research Fellow, RMIT University Shutterstock Strong community opposition to a proposed waste facility in regional New South Wales made headlines earlier this year. The A$3.9 million facility would occupy 2.7 hectares of Gunnedah’s industrial estate. It’s intended to process up to 250,000 tonnes a year ... <a title="Australia needs construction waste recycling plants — but locals first need to be won over" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/australia-needs-construction-waste-recycling-plants-but-locals-first-need-to-be-won-over-161888/" aria-label="Read more about Australia needs construction waste recycling plants — but locals first need to be won over">Read more</a>
