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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Poropat, Adjunct Researcher, Swinburne University of Technology Fossilised bones belonging to enormous long-necked sauropod dinosaurs have been known from western Queensland since the 1930s, when Austrosaurus mckillopi was discovered on Clutha Station near Maxwelton. Since then, western Queensland has yielded many more sauropod bones and skeletons, ... <a title="We moved hundreds of tonnes of rock to preserve the dinosaur footprints of the Snake Creek Tracksite" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/we-moved-hundreds-of-tonnes-of-rock-to-preserve-the-dinosaur-footprints-of-the-snake-creek-tracksite-161039/" aria-label="Read more about We moved hundreds of tonnes of rock to preserve the dinosaur footprints of the Snake Creek Tracksite">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne AAP/Luis Ascui A Victorian Resolve poll for The Age gave Labor 37% of the primary vote (42.9% at the 2018 election), the Coalition 36% (35.2%), the Greens 9% (10.7%) and independents 12% (6.1%). This ... <a title="Victorian Labor holds comfortable lead; flawed climate change question in federal Resolve poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/victorian-labor-holds-comfortable-lead-flawed-climate-change-question-in-federal-resolve-poll-162923/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian Labor holds comfortable lead; flawed climate change question in federal Resolve poll">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Buchanan, Professor, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney Australia has a serious wage problem. Over the past decade wages for all but the top 20% of income earners have flat-lined. This is part of the longer-term problem concerning productivity ... <a title="Australia’s 2.5% minimum wage rise: there’s something in it for you, and the economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/australias-2-5-minimum-wage-rise-theres-something-in-it-for-you-and-the-economy-162862/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s 2.5% minimum wage rise: there’s something in it for you, and the economy">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hall, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images With its emissions budgets, the Climate Change Commission’s final advice to the government charts a course towards a low-emissions economy. But its comprehensive policy package is arguably the more decisive ... <a title="Why a carbon price alone won’t be enough to drive down New Zealand’s emissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/why-a-carbon-price-alone-wont-be-enough-to-drive-down-new-zealands-emissions-162657/" aria-label="Read more about Why a carbon price alone won’t be enough to drive down New Zealand’s emissions">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Shutterstock Almost a year ago, in July 2020, our calls for the government to urgently upgrade the guidelines to protect health workers from airborne SARS-CoV-2 fell on deaf ears. The ... <a title="At last, health, aged care and quarantine workers get the right masks to protect against airborne coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/at-last-health-aged-care-and-quarantine-workers-get-the-right-masks-to-protect-against-airborne-coronavirus-162601/" aria-label="Read more about At last, health, aged care and quarantine workers get the right masks to protect against airborne coronavirus">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Basil Sharp, Professor of Energy Economics, University of Auckland www.shutterstock.com New Zealand faces two enormous challenges if it is to meet its international climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement: biogenic methane emissions from agriculture, and carbon emissions from industry and transport. For now, there seems little ... <a title="NZ’s clean car discount is a turn in the right direction, but how much will it drive consumer demand?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/nzs-clean-car-discount-is-a-turn-in-the-right-direction-but-how-much-will-it-drive-consumer-demand-162751/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s clean car discount is a turn in the right direction, but how much will it drive consumer demand?">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim O’Hara, Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria C. Harding/Museums Victoria, Author provided Let me introduce you to Ophiojura, a bizarre deep-sea animal found in 2011 by scientists from the French Natural History Museum, while trawling the summit of a secluded seamount called Banc Durand, 500 ... <a title="This deep-sea creature is long-armed, bristling with teeth, and the sole survivor of 180 million years of evolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/this-deep-sea-creature-is-long-armed-bristling-with-teeth-and-the-sole-survivor-of-180-million-years-of-evolution-162842/" aria-label="Read more about This deep-sea creature is long-armed, bristling with teeth, and the sole survivor of 180 million years of evolution">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Higgins, Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW The federal government has scrambled in recent days to minimise the political fallout from its treatment of the Tamil family from Biloela. After almost two years stuck on Christmas Island, the Murugappans are now being ... <a title="Resettling refugees in other countries is not working, nor is it fair. So, why is Australia doing it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/resettling-refugees-in-other-countries-is-not-working-nor-is-it-fair-so-why-is-australia-doing-it-162505/" aria-label="Read more about Resettling refugees in other countries is not working, nor is it fair. So, why is Australia doing it?">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wen Shi Lee, Postdoctoral researcher, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity from www.shutterstock.com With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines accelerating, people are increasingly asking which vaccine is best? According to Google Trends, more and more people want to know. Even if we tried to answer ... <a title="Which COVID vaccine is best? Here’s why that’s really hard to answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/which-covid-vaccine-is-best-heres-why-thats-really-hard-to-answer-161185/" aria-label="Read more about Which COVID vaccine is best? Here’s why that’s really hard to answer">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tahlia Pollock, PhD candidate, Monash University Zoos Victoria, Author provided Tasmanian devils are expert scavengers, with strong jaws and robust teeth that give them the notorious ability to eat almost all of a carcass — bones and all. Scientists have even found echidna spikes in their poo. ... <a title="Bones and all: see how the diets of Tasmanian devils can wear down their sharp teeth to blunt nubbins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/bones-and-all-see-how-the-diets-of-tasmanian-devils-can-wear-down-their-sharp-teeth-to-blunt-nubbins-162422/" aria-label="Read more about Bones and all: see how the diets of Tasmanian devils can wear down their sharp teeth to blunt nubbins">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Tham, Research officer at the Centre for International Research on Education Systems, Victoria University Shutterstock Thousands of primary and secondary students in Sydney and Melbourne are preparing for selective entrance exams. If successful, students will gain entry into a selective secondary school, with other high-achievers, or ... <a title="More stress, unclear gains: are selective schools really worth it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/more-stress-unclear-gains-are-selective-schools-really-worth-it-160762/" aria-label="Read more about More stress, unclear gains: are selective schools really worth it?">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Johnston, Associate Professor of English Literature, The University of Queensland Portrait of Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (no date), colour photograph of oil painting Wollombi Endeavour Museum In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. Eliza Hamilton Dunlop’s poem The Aboriginal Mother was published in ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop — the Irish Australian poet who shone a light on colonial violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/hidden-women-of-history-eliza-hamilton-dunlop-the-irish-australian-poet-who-shone-a-light-on-colonial-violence-161592/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop — the Irish Australian poet who shone a light on colonial violence">Read more</a>
