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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allan Saul, Senior Principal Research Fellow (Honorary), Burnet Institute In a pandemic, you expect that as new public health measures are introduced, there’s an observable impact on the spread of the disease. But while that might have been the case in Melbourne’s second wave last year, the ... <a title="Flattening the COVID curve: 3 weeks of tougher lockdowns in Sydney’s hotspots halved expected case numbers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/flattening-the-covid-curve-3-weeks-of-tougher-lockdowns-in-sydneys-hotspots-halved-expected-case-numbers-167778/" aria-label="Read more about Flattening the COVID curve: 3 weeks of tougher lockdowns in Sydney’s hotspots halved expected case numbers">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma F. Jackson, PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University Shutterstock A newly released report by a NSW parliamentary inquiry ignores scientific research in supporting changes to the Education Act. These changes are likely to add to the risks of harm that transgender and gender-diverse young people ... <a title="NSW inquiry rejects expert advice on Parental Rights Bill, and it will cause students to suffer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/nsw-inquiry-rejects-expert-advice-on-parental-rights-bill-and-it-will-cause-students-to-suffer-167539/" aria-label="Read more about NSW inquiry rejects expert advice on Parental Rights Bill, and it will cause students to suffer">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Luskin, Lecturer in Conservation Science, The University of Queensland Monika Gregussova/Shutterstock For more than 40,000 years, Indigenous communities in Borneo have hunted and eaten bearded pigs – huge, nomadic animals that roam the island in Southeast Asia. These 100kg creatures are central to the livelihood and ... <a title="‘The pigs can smell man’: how decimation of Borneo’s ancient rainforests threatens hunters and the hunted" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/the-pigs-can-smell-man-how-decimation-of-borneos-ancient-rainforests-threatens-hunters-and-the-hunted-166895/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The pigs can smell man’: how decimation of Borneo’s ancient rainforests threatens hunters and the hunted">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hugh Breakey, President, Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics. Senior Research Fellow, Moral philosophy, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Law Futures Centre., Griffith University COVID lockdown rules have thrust “dobbing” into the spotlight, with some asking whether Australia is a nation of dobbers. But when ... <a title="5 questions to ask yourself before you dob — advice for adults and kids, from an ethicist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/5-questions-to-ask-yourself-before-you-dob-advice-for-adults-and-kids-from-an-ethicist-167789/" aria-label="Read more about 5 questions to ask yourself before you dob — advice for adults and kids, from an ethicist">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kewei Lyu, Postdoctoral Researcher in Ocean and Climate, CSIRO Jakob Weis, University of Tasmania, Author provided Knowing how much sea levels are likely to rise during this century is vital to our understanding of future climate change, but previous estimates have generated wide ranges of uncertainty. In ... <a title="How much will our oceans warm and cause sea levels to rise this century? We’ve just improved our estimate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/how-much-will-our-oceans-warm-and-cause-sea-levels-to-rise-this-century-weve-just-improved-our-estimate-166417/" aria-label="Read more about How much will our oceans warm and cause sea levels to rise this century? We’ve just improved our estimate">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Douglas Elliffe, Professor of Psychology, University of Auckland, University of Auckland Shutterstock Can we toilet train cattle? Would we want to? The answer to both of these questions is yes — and doing so could help us address issues of water contamination and climate change. Cattle urine ... <a title="We managed to toilet train cows (and they learned faster than a toddler). It could help combat climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/we-managed-to-toilet-train-cows-and-they-learned-faster-than-a-toddler-it-could-help-combat-climate-change-167785/" aria-label="Read more about We managed to toilet train cows (and they learned faster than a toddler). It could help combat climate change">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wes Mountain, Multimedia Editor Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND COVID-19 has seen the world embrace sanitisers and formal hand washing procedures in our private lives like never before. But even as we’ve thought more and more about surfaces and the hands that touch them as vectors for ... <a title="WATCH: Our mobile phones are covered in bacteria and viruses… and we never wash them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/watch-our-mobile-phones-are-covered-in-bacteria-and-viruses-and-we-never-wash-them-167784/" aria-label="Read more about WATCH: Our mobile phones are covered in bacteria and viruses… and we never wash them">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Wark, Conjoint Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle The latest figures available show there are 1,189 people admitted with COVID-19 to hospitals in New South Wales, with 222 of them in intensive care units (ICU), 94 needing ventilation. This week there were ... <a title="We’re two frontline COVID doctors. Here’s what we see as case numbers rise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/were-two-frontline-covid-doctors-heres-what-we-see-as-case-numbers-rise-167195/" aria-label="Read more about We’re two frontline COVID doctors. Here’s what we see as case numbers rise">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucas Walsh, Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University Australian Education Minister Alan Tudge says he does not want students to leave school with “a hatred” of their country because the history curriculum for years 7 to 10 “paints an ... <a title="Teaching a ‘hatred’ of Australia? No, minister, here’s why a democracy has critical curriculum content" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/teaching-a-hatred-of-australia-no-minister-heres-why-a-democracy-has-critical-curriculum-content-167697/" aria-label="Read more about Teaching a ‘hatred’ of Australia? No, minister, here’s why a democracy has critical curriculum content">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Gleeson, Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University covaxx Dimitris Barletis/Shutterstock After months of holding out, Australia has at last joined other members of the World Trade Organisation in backing a waiver of patents and other intellectual property rights on vaccines, treatments, diagnostic tests and ... <a title="Australia has finally backed a plan to let developing countries make cheap COVID-19 vaccines — what matters is what it does next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/australia-has-finally-backed-a-plan-to-let-developing-countries-make-cheap-covid-19-vaccines-what-matters-is-what-it-does-next-167630/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has finally backed a plan to let developing countries make cheap COVID-19 vaccines — what matters is what it does next">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeremy Martens, Senior Lecturer, History, The University of Western Australia Portrait of Sir James Stirling, ca. 1833. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales ML 15 Ref: 897230’ In June, councillors in Perth’s City of Stirling decided not to change the name of their municipality, despite ... <a title="New research shows WA’s first governor condoned killing of Noongar people despite proclaiming all equal under law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/new-research-shows-was-first-governor-condoned-killing-of-noongar-people-despite-proclaiming-all-equal-under-law-165871/" aria-label="Read more about New research shows WA’s first governor condoned killing of Noongar people despite proclaiming all equal under law">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Blair Williams, Research Fellow, Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL), Australian National University Mick Tsikas/AAP This week, a new Australian political biography will appear on bookshelves. This is The Accidental Prime Minister, an examination of Scott Morrison by journalist Annika Smethurst. While a prime minister makes for ... <a title="I studied 31 Australian political biographies published in the past decade — only 4 were about women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/i-studied-31-australian-political-biographies-published-in-the-past-decade-only-4-were-about-women-167448/" aria-label="Read more about I studied 31 Australian political biographies published in the past decade — only 4 were about women">Read more</a>
