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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute The Australian government’s offer of half-price airfares to encourage domestic tourism highlights another item of unfinished COVID policy business: when will Australia’s international borders be reopened? The border questions, such as when to remove exit controls and lift hotel quarantine ... <a title="As Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout splutters, we need transparency about when international borders might reopen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/as-australias-covid-vaccine-rollout-splutters-we-need-transparency-about-when-international-borders-might-reopen-157399/" aria-label="Read more about As Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout splutters, we need transparency about when international borders might reopen">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Erhart, Senior Lecturer, Department of Screen and Media, Flinders University, Flinders University This year, with the nomination of both Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell in the Academy Awards’ Best Director category — and their films in Best Picture — it seems at last the Oscars powerbrokers ... <a title="How the Oscars finally made it less lonely for women at the top of their game" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/how-the-oscars-finally-made-it-less-lonely-for-women-at-the-top-of-their-game-157240/" aria-label="Read more about How the Oscars finally made it less lonely for women at the top of their game">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya M. Smith, Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution & Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University Lead is a powerful toxin. It can affect almost every organ and system in the body, and babies are extremely vulnerable to its harmful effects. ... <a title="Teeth contain detailed records of lead contamination in humans and other primates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/teeth-contain-detailed-records-of-lead-contamination-in-humans-and-other-primates-156121/" aria-label="Read more about Teeth contain detailed records of lead contamination in humans and other primates">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Former Ambassador and Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland Until this week, it did not occur to most Australians to ask themselves how our nearest neighbours in Papua New Guinea were faring with coronavirus. Our minds and screens have ... <a title="‘A dam has been breached’: a COVID crisis on our doorstep shows how little we pay attention to PNG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/a-dam-has-been-breached-a-covid-crisis-on-our-doorstep-shows-how-little-we-pay-attention-to-png-157323/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A dam has been breached’: a COVID crisis on our doorstep shows how little we pay attention to PNG">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catriona Bradshaw, Professor, Head of Research Translation and Head of the Genital Mycoplasma and Microbiota Group, Monash University Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) with many of the hallmarks of its better-known counterpart, chlamydia. You can have MG without knowing it, or have symptoms; ... <a title="What is Mycoplasma genitalium, the common STI you’ve probably never heard of" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/what-is-mycoplasma-genitalium-the-common-sti-youve-probably-never-heard-of-157318/" aria-label="Read more about What is Mycoplasma genitalium, the common STI you’ve probably never heard of">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan Munsie, Deputy Director – Centre for Stem Cell Systems and Head of Engagements, Ethics & Policy Program, Stem Cells Australia, The University of Melbourne Researchers have successfully grown model versions of early human embryos by “reprogramming” cells from human skin. The breakthrough potentially opens up new ... <a title="Researchers have grown ‘human embryos’ from skin cells. What does that mean, and is it ethical?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/researchers-have-grown-human-embryos-from-skin-cells-what-does-that-mean-and-is-it-ethical-157228/" aria-label="Read more about Researchers have grown ‘human embryos’ from skin cells. What does that mean, and is it ethical?">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University You don’t hear much about snapback these days. Back in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, snapback was what passed for the Morrison government’s vision of where it wanted the country ... <a title="From ‘snapback’ to ‘comeback’: policy gridlock as Morrison government puts slogans over substance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/from-snapback-to-comeback-policy-gridlock-as-morrison-government-puts-slogans-over-substance-157049/" aria-label="Read more about From ‘snapback’ to ‘comeback’: policy gridlock as Morrison government puts slogans over substance">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sheena G. Sullivan, Epidemiologist, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza While the future of the pandemic remains uncertain, we’ll probably have to live with COVID-19 for some time. We face a range of possible scenarios. At the most optimistic end of the spectrum, new ... <a title="Flu vaccines are updated every year. We can learn from this process as we respond to COVID variants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/flu-vaccines-are-updated-every-year-we-can-learn-from-this-process-as-we-respond-to-covid-variants-156580/" aria-label="Read more about Flu vaccines are updated every year. We can learn from this process as we respond to COVID variants">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicolás Younes Cárdenas, Postdoctoral research fellow, James Cook University Australia is home to around 2% of the world’s mangrove forests and is the fifth most mangrove-forested country on Earth. Mangroves play a crucial role in the ecosystem thanks to the dizzying array of plants, animals and birds ... <a title="Mangroves from space: 30 years of satellite images are helping us understand how climate change threatens these valuable forests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/mangroves-from-space-30-years-of-satellite-images-are-helping-us-understand-how-climate-change-threatens-these-valuable-forests-156040/" aria-label="Read more about Mangroves from space: 30 years of satellite images are helping us understand how climate change threatens these valuable forests">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwilym Croucher, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne Australian universities, for better or worse, have embraced international rankings, especially those published each year such as the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020 (the ... <a title="Australian universities may be at a turning point in the rankings chase. So what next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/australian-universities-may-be-at-a-turning-point-in-the-rankings-chase-so-what-next-156282/" aria-label="Read more about Australian universities may be at a turning point in the rankings chase. So what next?">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Koh, Honorary Associate, Faculty of Business, School of Management, University of Technology Sydney It almost reads like a John Grisham novel. Self-employed woman contracts cancer. Claims under her income-protection insurance policy. Insurer cancels the policy after investigation reveals omission of unrelated health condition (depression) on her ... <a title="Federal Court rules insurance companies must behave decently. That’s a big deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/federal-court-rules-insurance-companies-must-behave-decently-thats-a-big-deal-157057/" aria-label="Read more about Federal Court rules insurance companies must behave decently. That’s a big deal">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christine Braid, Professional Learning and Development Facilitator in Literacy Education, Massey University The recently reported decline in student performance in international tests for literacy, science and maths confirmed a view in some quarters that New Zealand’s curriculum is in need of an overhaul. Notably, the New Zealand ... <a title="Has a gap in old-school handwriting and spelling tuition contributed to NZ’s declining literacy scores?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/has-a-gap-in-old-school-handwriting-and-spelling-tuition-contributed-to-nzs-declining-literacy-scores-155371/" aria-label="Read more about Has a gap in old-school handwriting and spelling tuition contributed to NZ’s declining literacy scores?">Read more</a>
