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November 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne For good legal and ethical reasons, the media are generally wary of calling someone a liar. It is a serious slur on a person’s reputation, implying that he or she is untrustworthy, unreliable, duplicitous ... <a title="Is Morrison gaining a reputation for untrustworthiness? The answer could have serious implications for the election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/16/is-morrison-gaining-a-reputation-for-untrustworthiness-the-answer-could-have-serious-implications-for-the-election-171816/" aria-label="Read more about Is Morrison gaining a reputation for untrustworthiness? The answer could have serious implications for the election">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney Cameron Webb/NSW Health Pathology, Author provided Mosquitoes will be loving the wet weather that’s hit the east coast of Australia over the last week. Mosquito populations naturally increase in spring, especially when there is plenty ... <a title="How can the bite of a backyard mozzie in Australia make you sick?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/16/how-can-the-bite-of-a-backyard-mozzie-in-australia-make-you-sick-171601/" aria-label="Read more about How can the bite of a backyard mozzie in Australia make you sick?">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tess Lea, Professor, Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney Remote Indigenous communities in Australia will experience the impacts of climate change disproportionately to the rest of the country. Take the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in northwest South Australia, where maximum temperatures are increasing. The summer ... <a title="We need to design housing for Indigenous communities that can withstand the impacts of climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/16/we-need-to-design-housing-for-indigenous-communities-that-can-withstand-the-impacts-of-climate-change-171203/" aria-label="Read more about We need to design housing for Indigenous communities that can withstand the impacts of climate change">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Djoymi Baker, Lecturer in Cinema Studies, RMIT University IMDB Due to the COVID-19 extended lockdowns this year, as well as greater accessibility on streaming services, many adults have been returning to their childhoods via nostalgic kids’ TV viewing. As part of our research project, Australian Children’s Television ... <a title="Beyond Bluey: why adults love re-watching Australian kids’ TV from their childhoods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/16/beyond-bluey-why-adults-love-re-watching-australian-kids-tv-from-their-childhoods-169727/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond Bluey: why adults love re-watching Australian kids’ TV from their childhoods">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Britnell, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Auckland University of Technology Shutterstock While working as a nurse in a busy hospital I began to use a magnifying glass, as I could no longer read the small print on medication vials. I regarded this adaptation as a part of ... <a title="Good design lies at the heart of normalising disability – NZ’s new Ministry for Disabled People must make it a priority" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/16/good-design-lies-at-the-heart-of-normalising-disability-nzs-new-ministry-for-disabled-people-must-make-it-a-priority-171720/" aria-label="Read more about Good design lies at the heart of normalising disability – NZ’s new Ministry for Disabled People must make it a priority">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Simpson, School of Physics, Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Homing pigeons are known for their uncanny ability to find their way home – navigating complex and changing landscapes. In fact, they do this so well they were used as a source of secure communication ... <a title="How do pigeons find their way home? We looked in their ears with a diamond-based quantum microscope to find out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/16/how-do-pigeons-find-their-way-home-we-looked-in-their-ears-with-a-diamond-based-quantum-microscope-to-find-out-171738/" aria-label="Read more about How do pigeons find their way home? We looked in their ears with a diamond-based quantum microscope to find out">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Kelly, Senior lecturer, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Doctors and health experts have expressed shock on social media recently about the number of ICU patients on ECMO treatment, especially in Victoria. ECMO, which stands for extra corporeal membrane oxygenation, is the life support of last resort ... <a title="What is ECMO? Doctors are shocked so many ICU patients are on this advanced life support right now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/16/what-is-ecmo-doctors-are-shocked-so-many-icu-patients-are-on-this-advanced-life-support-right-now-171490/" aria-label="Read more about What is ECMO? Doctors are shocked so many ICU patients are on this advanced life support right now">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Thompson, Associate professor, The University of Western Australia Shutterstock Forests directly cool the planet, like natural evaporative air conditioners. So what happens when you cut them down? In tropical countries such as Indonesia, Brazil and the Congo, rapid deforestation may have accounted for up to 75% ... <a title="Deforestation can raise local temperatures by up to 4.5℃ – and heat untouched areas 6km away" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/16/deforestation-can-raise-local-temperatures-by-up-to-4-5-and-heat-untouched-areas-6km-away-163584/" aria-label="Read more about Deforestation can raise local temperatures by up to 4.5℃ – and heat untouched areas 6km away">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathy Bowrey, Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW Chief Scientist Cathy Foley is leading an open access strategy for Australia. Foley estimates the Australian government invests A$12 billion a year of public money in research and innovation only for most of the publications that eventuate to be locked ... <a title="Making Australian research free for everyone to read sounds ideal. But the Chief Scientist’s open-access plan isn’t risk-free" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/16/making-australian-research-free-for-everyone-to-read-sounds-ideal-but-the-chief-scientists-open-access-plan-isnt-risk-free-171389/" aria-label="Read more about Making Australian research free for everyone to read sounds ideal. But the Chief Scientist’s open-access plan isn’t risk-free">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David McCooey, Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University Paul McCartney photographed backstage at the television show ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’, Birmingham, England, 1963 © MPL Communications Ltd Review: Paul McCartney, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, ed. Paul Muldoon, Allen Lane, 2021. The Lyrics recounts Paul ... <a title="Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics: an extraordinary life in song" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/16/paul-mccartneys-the-lyrics-an-extraordinary-life-in-song-171603/" aria-label="Read more about Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics: an extraordinary life in song">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Breen, Professor of Law, University of Waikato GettyImages For workers in the health and disability and education sectors, midnight last night was the deadline to receive at least their first vaccine dose under a government mandate that now extends to about 40% of New Zealand’s workforce. ... <a title="Vaccine mandates for NZ’s health and education workers are now in force – but has the law got the balance right?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/16/vaccine-mandates-for-nzs-health-and-education-workers-are-now-in-force-but-has-the-law-got-the-balance-right-171392/" aria-label="Read more about Vaccine mandates for NZ’s health and education workers are now in force – but has the law got the balance right?">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Ita Buttrose was Scott Morrison’s “captain’s pick” for chair of the ABC. When he appointed her in 2019, he said “Australians trust Ita, I trust Ita and that’s why I have asked her to take on this role.” If he ... <a title="View from The Hill: Ita isn’t saluting the captain who picked her" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/view-from-the-hill-ita-isnt-saluting-the-captain-who-picked-her-171828/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Ita isn’t saluting the captain who picked her">Read more</a>
