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January 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Giuffre, Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney AAP Renée Geyer’s name is often in histories of Australian music. A pioneering artist, her iconic soul sound opened up the local conversation about what “sounding Australian” meant. Go-Betweens icon and industry legend Lindy Morrison simply said: ... <a title="‘A voice like cigarettes rolled in honey’: celebrating Renée Geyer, Australia’s queen of soul" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/18/a-voice-like-cigarettes-rolled-in-honey-celebrating-renee-geyer-australias-queen-of-soul-197991/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A voice like cigarettes rolled in honey’: celebrating Renée Geyer, Australia’s queen of soul">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Di Winkler, Adjunct Associate Professor, La Trobe University Unsplash/Jon Tyson, CC BY The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was designed to be a market-based system that would shift power from government and providers to consumers. The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission’s Own Motion Inquiry report demonstrates that ... <a title="People with disabilities in group homes are suffering shocking abuse. New housing models could prevent harm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/18/people-with-disabilities-in-group-homes-are-suffering-shocking-abuse-new-housing-models-could-prevent-harm-197989/" aria-label="Read more about People with disabilities in group homes are suffering shocking abuse. New housing models could prevent harm">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute Over the weekend, Peking University released a study that estimated 900 million Chinese had been infected with COVID up until January 11, representing 64% of the population. This compares with 43% of Australians testing positive, although antibody studies indicate ... <a title="China’s COVID cases may have hit 900 million. What’s headed our way?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/18/chinas-covid-cases-may-have-hit-900-million-whats-headed-our-way-197896/" aria-label="Read more about China’s COVID cases may have hit 900 million. What’s headed our way?">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Gissing, CEO, Natural Hazards Research Australia, Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University It has been 20 years to the day since bushfires burst out of the Brindabella Ranges and into the suburbs of our nation’s bush capital. Four lives were lost, many people were injured and more than ... <a title="20 years ago, vast bushfires razed Canberra’s suburbs – and bushfire science was never the same" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/18/20-years-ago-vast-bushfires-razed-canberras-suburbs-and-bushfire-science-was-never-the-same-197899/" aria-label="Read more about 20 years ago, vast bushfires razed Canberra’s suburbs – and bushfire science was never the same">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dale Boccabella, Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Australia’s “tax gap” – the gap between what is collected and what would be collected if the law was applied properly – amounts to A$33 billion per year according to Tax Office calculations, which is 7% of ... <a title="9 in 10 landlord tax returns are wrong. Does this make landlords champion tax dodgers?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/18/9-in-10-landlord-tax-returns-are-wrong-does-this-make-landlords-champion-tax-dodgers-195914/" aria-label="Read more about 9 in 10 landlord tax returns are wrong. Does this make landlords champion tax dodgers?">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney Where there’s water, you’ll find mosquitoes – including some that transmit viruses that can make us seriously ill. Authorities have been on alert after an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis last summer which resulted in 45 ... <a title="Murray Valley encephalitis has been detected in mozzies in NSW and Victoria. Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/17/murray-valley-encephalitis-has-been-detected-in-mozzies-in-nsw-and-victoria-heres-what-you-need-to-know-197894/" aria-label="Read more about Murray Valley encephalitis has been detected in mozzies in NSW and Victoria. Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thami Croeser, Research Officer, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Climate change is going just as badly for cities as we have been warned it would. Extreme weather is increasingly common and severe globally. Australian cities have endured a number of recent disastrous events. It’ll get worse, ... <a title="As heatwaves and floods hit cities worldwide, these places are pioneering solutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/17/as-heatwaves-and-floods-hit-cities-worldwide-these-places-are-pioneering-solutions-196389/" aria-label="Read more about As heatwaves and floods hit cities worldwide, these places are pioneering solutions">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Burgess, Associate Lecturer in International Business, University of the Sunshine Coast HBO Even if you’re not a video game player, you might have heard about the just released and highly anticipated television series based on beloved and acclaimed video game The Last of Us. However, to ... <a title="Can The Last of Us TV series finally break the bad video game adaptation curse?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/17/can-the-last-of-us-tv-series-finally-break-the-bad-video-game-adaptation-curse-197898/" aria-label="Read more about Can The Last of Us TV series finally break the bad video game adaptation curse?">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorcan Conlon, PhD student, Quantum Science & Technology, Australian National University Shutterstock Almost a century ago, German physicist Werner Heisenberg realised the laws of quantum mechanics placed some fundamental limits on how accurately we can measure certain properties of microscopic objects. However, the laws of quantum mechanics ... <a title="Physicists have used entanglement to ‘stretch’ the uncertainty principle, improving quantum measurements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/17/physicists-have-used-entanglement-to-stretch-the-uncertainty-principle-improving-quantum-measurements-197712/" aria-label="Read more about Physicists have used entanglement to ‘stretch’ the uncertainty principle, improving quantum measurements">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Good, Professor and NHMRC Investigator Fellow, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University Shutterstock Group A streptococci, also known as “strep A”, were the first organisms ever identified to be the cause of a disease. In the mid-1800s, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis first noted the link between a ... <a title="Strep A cases are rising. We must remember our earliest hygiene lessons as vaccine trials continue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/17/strep-a-cases-are-rising-we-must-remember-our-earliest-hygiene-lessons-as-vaccine-trials-continue-197617/" aria-label="Read more about Strep A cases are rising. We must remember our earliest hygiene lessons as vaccine trials continue">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Hopkins, Professor of Astronomy, Macquarie University Combined images from the ASKAP and Parkes radio telescopes. R. Kothes (NRC) and the PEGASUS team, Author provided Two major astronomy research programs, called EMU and PEGASUS, have joined forces to resolve one of the mysteries of our Milky Way: ... <a title="Astronomers reveal the most detailed radio image yet of the Milky Way’s galactic plane" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/17/astronomers-reveal-the-most-detailed-radio-image-yet-of-the-milky-ways-galactic-plane-197905/" aria-label="Read more about Astronomers reveal the most detailed radio image yet of the Milky Way’s galactic plane">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland Prime Minister’s Office/PR Handout Image Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to Papua New Guinea last week put the media spotlight on one of Australia’s most important international relationships. Much of the coverage focused ... <a title="Where does Australia’s relationship with PNG go next? Less talk about China, more about our neighbour’s own merits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/17/where-does-australias-relationship-with-png-go-next-less-talk-about-china-more-about-our-neighbours-own-merits-197891/" aria-label="Read more about Where does Australia’s relationship with PNG go next? Less talk about China, more about our neighbour’s own merits">Read more</a>
