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June 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heather Handley, Honorary Associate Professor in Volcanology and Geochemistry, Macquarie University This isn’t a painting or a stained-glass window — it’s a microscope image of light shining through the Earth’s mantle. Heather Handley, Author provided Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely ... <a title="Photos from the field: the stunning crystals revealing deep secrets about Australian volcanoes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/photos-from-the-field-the-stunning-crystals-revealing-deep-secrets-about-australian-volcanoes-161176/" aria-label="Read more about Photos from the field: the stunning crystals revealing deep secrets about Australian volcanoes">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristen Lyons, Professor Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Academic freedom is widely championed as the foundation of a good university. It is seen as vital in speaking “truth to power” – to borrow from influential political philosopher Hannah Arendt – and in ensuring ... <a title="Universities’ relevance hinges on academic freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/universities-relevance-hinges-on-academic-freedom-160346/" aria-label="Read more about Universities’ relevance hinges on academic freedom">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andreas Chai, Associate Professor, Griffith University Australia doesn’t expect to reopen its international borders until well into 2022. The border has been closed since March 2020. That decision has been instrumental in the nation containing COVID-19, but there are big social and economic costs. The social costs ... <a title="Australia’s closed border is costing the economy $36.5 million a day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/australias-closed-border-is-costing-the-economy-36-5-million-a-day-160873/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s closed border is costing the economy $36.5 million a day">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Byron, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Sydney Vladimir: Well? Shall we go? Estragon: Yes, let’s go. [They do not move.] Samuel Beckett originally subtitled his 1953 play Waiting for Godot “a tragicomedy in two acts”. Vivian Mercier, the critic for the Irish Times, dubbed ... <a title="Guide to the Classics: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a tragicomedy for our times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/guide-to-the-classics-samuel-becketts-waiting-for-godot-a-tragicomedy-for-our-times-157962/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the Classics: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a tragicomedy for our times">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Despite this week’s strong economic figures, the pandemic is not as distant in the rearview mirror as many had hoped it would be by now. In Victoria, cluster outbreaks have forced the state into a new lockdown. With cases amongst ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Mark Butler on the vaccine rollout and democracy in the Labor Party" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/politics-with-michelle-grattan-mark-butler-on-the-vaccine-rollout-and-democracy-in-the-labor-party-161993/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Mark Butler on the vaccine rollout and democracy in the Labor Party">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University Victoria’s lockdown is to be extended for another week to get on top of the growing number of community cases, which now stands at 60. But questions remain about what’s behind some of these cases. Victoria’s COVID-19 testing commander Jeroen ... <a title="We’re seeing more casual COVID transmission. But is that because of the variant or better case tracking?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/were-seeing-more-casual-covid-transmission-but-is-that-because-of-the-variant-or-better-case-tracking-161979/" aria-label="Read more about We’re seeing more casual COVID transmission. But is that because of the variant or better case tracking?">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Back in the first three months of this year when we had JobKeeper, enhanced unemployment benefits and no lockdowns, Australia roared out of recession. The GDP figures released on Wednesday tell us that in the ... <a title="The four GDP graphs that show us roaring out of recession pre-lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/the-four-gdp-graphs-that-show-us-roaring-out-of-recession-pre-lockdown-161981/" aria-label="Read more about The four GDP graphs that show us roaring out of recession pre-lockdown">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Driss Ait Ouakrim, Research Fellow, Population Interventions Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne With Melbourne under lockdown for another seven days, the consequences of Australia’s inefficient and dangerous quarantine system continue. This outbreak started with just ... <a title="Hotel quarantine causes 1 outbreak for every 204 infected travellers. It’s far from ‘fit for purpose’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/hotel-quarantine-causes-1-outbreak-for-every-204-infected-travellers-its-far-from-fit-for-purpose-161815/" aria-label="Read more about Hotel quarantine causes 1 outbreak for every 204 infected travellers. It’s far from ‘fit for purpose’">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Allen, Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, University of Newcastle Shutterstock Steel is a major building block of our modern world, used to make everything from cutlery to bridges and wind turbines. But the way it’s made – using coal – is making climate change worse. On ... <a title="‘Green steel’ is hailed as the next big thing in Australian industry. Here’s what the hype is all about" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/green-steel-is-hailed-as-the-next-big-thing-in-australian-industry-heres-what-the-hype-is-all-about-160282/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Green steel’ is hailed as the next big thing in Australian industry. Here’s what the hype is all about">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dallas Rogers, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney Crown Towers Sydney, at 75 storeys, is now the city’s tallest building. It should not exist, and certainly not where it is – in prime location on Sydney’s famous harbour. The redevelopment of the 22-hectare Barangaroo ... <a title="How Sydney’s Barangaroo tower paved the way for a culture of closed-door deals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/how-sydneys-barangaroo-tower-paved-the-way-for-a-culture-of-closed-door-deals-161816/" aria-label="Read more about How Sydney’s Barangaroo tower paved the way for a culture of closed-door deals">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn Williams, Professor in environmental psychology, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Unsplash/Pat Whelan, CC BY When I tell people I’m an environmental psychologist, they often assume that means I am a “tree hugger” and they are not entirely wrong. But it really ... <a title="Growing up with trees: new books use story and science to connect kids with nature" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/growing-up-with-trees-new-books-use-story-and-science-to-connect-kids-with-nature-159705/" aria-label="Read more about Growing up with trees: new books use story and science to connect kids with nature">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Gaston, Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images New Zealand’s government has been praised for listening to scientists as it continues to pursue its COVID-19 elimination strategy. But it’s difficult to find any signs ... <a title="New Zealand relies on scientific research for good policy. It’s a pity the budget didn’t reflect this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/new-zealand-relies-on-scientific-research-for-good-policy-its-a-pity-the-budget-didnt-reflect-this-161340/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand relies on scientific research for good policy. It’s a pity the budget didn’t reflect this">Read more</a>
