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October 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fergus Downey, PhD Student, Curtin University This weekend marked a milestone for Western Australia’s Binar Space Program as its first satellite Binar-1 lived up to its name. Binar is the word for “fireball” in the Noongar language spoken by the Aboriginal people of Perth. Binar-1 became a ... <a title="Australia’s first Binar spacecraft just came down to Earth as a fireball. Here’s what we learned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/03/australias-first-binar-spacecraft-just-came-down-to-earth-as-a-fireball-heres-what-we-learned-191677/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s first Binar spacecraft just came down to Earth as a fireball. Here’s what we learned">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Blunden, Professor and Head of Paediatric Sleep Research, CQUniversity Australia Image by Daniela Dimitrova from Pixabay , CC BY Sleep is important for psychological and physiological health, but many children have trouble getting to sleep, or getting back to sleep when they wake in the night. ... <a title="Many parents use melatonin gummies to help children sleep. So how do they work and what are the risks?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/03/many-parents-use-melatonin-gummies-to-help-children-sleep-so-how-do-they-work-and-what-are-the-risks-190129/" aria-label="Read more about Many parents use melatonin gummies to help children sleep. So how do they work and what are the risks?">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zareh Ghazarian, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University Victorians will be heading to the polls on November 26 to select their next state government. This will be the first election since Labor won national government in May, and it will also be the first election ... <a title="Will the teal independents be disruptors in Victorian politics?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/03/will-the-teal-independents-be-disruptors-in-victorian-politics-191072/" aria-label="Read more about Will the teal independents be disruptors in Victorian politics?">Read more</a>
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October 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Bianca De Marchi/AAP The government has stepped up pressure on Optus to immediately hand over the information it has on people whose data was breached by the hacking of the telecommunications giant. Optus has also been told bluntly that it ... <a title="Optus under fire from government over delaying information handover" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/02/optus-under-fire-from-government-over-delaying-information-handover-191746/" aria-label="Read more about Optus under fire from government over delaying information handover">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock COVID is an exceptional disease and was at its deadliest this year, causing more deaths in Australia between June and August 2022 than at any other time. There ... <a title="If you think scrapping COVID isolation periods will get us back to work and past the pandemic, think again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/30/if-you-think-scrapping-covid-isolation-periods-will-get-us-back-to-work-and-past-the-pandemic-think-again-191670/" aria-label="Read more about If you think scrapping COVID isolation periods will get us back to work and past the pandemic, think again">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Nelson, Associate Professor of Economics, Griffith University Shutterstock AGL Energy – Australia’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases – announced this week it will shut the Loy Yang A power station in Victoria’s LaTrobe Valley in 2035, a decade earlier than planned. This is significant for the ... <a title="So long, Loy Yang: shutting Australia’s dirtiest coal plant a decade early won’t jeopardise our electricity supply" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/30/so-long-loy-yang-shutting-australias-dirtiest-coal-plant-a-decade-early-wont-jeopardise-our-electricity-supply-191577/" aria-label="Read more about So long, Loy Yang: shutting Australia’s dirtiest coal plant a decade early won’t jeopardise our electricity supply">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Harcourt, Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney The Irawaddy, CC BY-SA Australian Sean Turnell, economic adviser to Myanmar’s democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has been in prison since the military coup of February 2021, awaiting trial for the supposed crime of ... <a title="A sham sentence after a secret trial for Aung San Suu Kyi’s Australian economic adviser" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/30/a-sham-sentence-after-a-secret-trial-for-aung-san-suu-kyis-australian-economic-adviser-191667/" aria-label="Read more about A sham sentence after a secret trial for Aung San Suu Kyi’s Australian economic adviser">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne The United States midterm elections will be held in six weeks, on November 8. All 435 House of Representatives seats are up for election, as well as ... <a title="US Democrats’ gains stall six weeks before midterm elections; UK Labour seizes huge lead after budget" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/30/us-democrats-gains-stall-six-weeks-before-midterm-elections-uk-labour-seizes-huge-lead-after-budget-191068/" aria-label="Read more about US Democrats’ gains stall six weeks before midterm elections; UK Labour seizes huge lead after budget">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra National cabinet has agreed to lift the five day mandatory isolation period for people contracting COVID, with the Commonwealth’s chief medical officer declaring “it is time to move away from COVID exceptionalism”. In a landmark step federal, state and territory ... <a title="View from The Hill: national cabinet drops mandatory isolation, dumping ‘COVID exceptionalism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/30/view-from-the-hill-national-cabinet-drops-mandatory-isolation-dumping-covid-exceptionalism-191669/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: national cabinet drops mandatory isolation, dumping ‘COVID exceptionalism’">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marc Trabsky, Senior research fellow, La Trobe University Queen Elizabeth’s newly released death certificate contains just two curious words under her cause of death – old age. We might talk about people dying of old age in everyday speech. But who actually dies of old age, medically ... <a title="The queen’s death certificate says she died of ‘old age’. But what does that really mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/30/the-queens-death-certificate-says-she-died-of-old-age-but-what-does-that-really-mean-191666/" aria-label="Read more about The queen’s death certificate says she died of ‘old age’. But what does that really mean?">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Walker-Munro, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Among the many questions raised by the Optus data leak – cybersecurity experts are confident it wasn’t a hack, but that may have to be decided by a court – is why the company was storing so much personal ... <a title="Optus says it needed to keep identity data for six years. But did it really?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/30/optus-says-it-needed-to-keep-identity-data-for-six-years-but-did-it-really-191498/" aria-label="Read more about Optus says it needed to keep identity data for six years. But did it really?">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at the School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology Viviana Rishe/Unsplash We live in deeply unequal societies where certain groups, such as racial and sexual minorities, continue to experience structural oppression. Humour targeted at these groups can cause individual harm ... <a title="Not just a joke: we scoured TikTok for anti-Asian humour during the pandemic, and found too many disappointing memes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/30/not-just-a-joke-we-scoured-tiktok-for-anti-asian-humour-during-the-pandemic-and-found-too-many-disappointing-memes-184166/" aria-label="Read more about Not just a joke: we scoured TikTok for anti-Asian humour during the pandemic, and found too many disappointing memes">Read more</a>
