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December 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Pappalardo, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology In August, the communications minister announced a series of changes to copyright laws to “better support the needs of Australians and public institutions to access material in an increasingly digital environment”. These changes are long overdue. ... <a title="Researchers, librarians, filmmakers and teachers are eager for the copyright reforms the government has promised" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/researchers-librarians-filmmakers-and-teachers-are-eager-for-the-copyright-reforms-the-government-has-promised-150141/" aria-label="Read more about Researchers, librarians, filmmakers and teachers are eager for the copyright reforms the government has promised">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics, Monash University Symptom, virus, epidemic, quarantine. We’ve become used to these terms in 2020. But the “COVID-19 vocabulary” might have been very different had it not been for a few twists and turns in English history. If history had gone differently, for ... <a title="From ‘arse-ropes’ to ‘flying venom’, a history of how we have come to talk about viruses and medicine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/from-arse-ropes-to-flying-venom-a-history-of-how-we-have-come-to-talk-about-viruses-and-medicine-147441/" aria-label="Read more about From ‘arse-ropes’ to ‘flying venom’, a history of how we have come to talk about viruses and medicine">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In the moment, Scott Morrison’s angry denunciation of the offensive Chinese tweet about alleged Australian war crimes seemed a reasonable response. In retrospect, it was probably ill-judged. This is so even though the response had bipartisan support. The Chinese immediately ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: China plays reverse ‘poke the bear’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/grattan-on-friday-china-plays-reverse-poke-the-bear-151390/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: China plays reverse ‘poke the bear’">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joel Lexchin, Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Emergency Physician at University Health Network, Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto The news that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has gained emergency approval in the United Kingdom and may be distributed to selected ... <a title="Should Australians be worried about waiting for a COVID vaccine when the UK has just approved Pfizer’s?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/should-australians-be-worried-about-waiting-for-a-covid-vaccine-when-the-uk-has-just-approved-pfizers-151287/" aria-label="Read more about Should Australians be worried about waiting for a COVID vaccine when the UK has just approved Pfizer’s?">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Celia McMichael, Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Melbourne Climate change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening health impacts, and no country is immune, a major new report from more than 120 researchers has declared. This year’s annual report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and ... <a title="Climate change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening health impacts, over 120 researchers say" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/climate-change-is-resulting-in-profound-immediate-and-worsening-health-impacts-over-120-researchers-say-151027/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening health impacts, over 120 researchers say">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher L. Diamond, Lecturer in Hindi, Australian National University La Trobe University is in talks to discontinue its Hindi program, along with Greek and Indonesian. In the mid-1990s, six Australian universities taught Hindi. If La Trobe ends its program, Australia will be left with just one university ... <a title="6 unis had Hindi programs. Soon there could be only 1, and that’s not in Australia’s best interests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/6-unis-had-hindi-programs-soon-there-could-be-only-1-and-thats-not-in-australias-best-interests-151096/" aria-label="Read more about 6 unis had Hindi programs. Soon there could be only 1, and that’s not in Australia’s best interests">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amie O’Shea, Lecturer, Disability & Inclusion, Deakin University Review: Thomas Banks’ Quest for Love, directed by Pip Kelly In Thomas Banks’ Quest for Love, Banks — a writer and comedian with cerebral palsy — addresses the additional taboos experienced by people with disability with diverse sexual identities. ... <a title="Film review: Thomas Banks’ Quest for Love tackles life as a gay man with disability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/film-review-thomas-banks-quest-for-love-tackles-life-as-a-gay-man-with-disability-150060/" aria-label="Read more about Film review: Thomas Banks’ Quest for Love tackles life as a gay man with disability">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Aulich, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, University of Canberra In recent days, the issue of government accountability was brought into sharp focus — again — when NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian admitted that community grants awarded primarily to councils in Coalition seats ahead of the ... <a title="Why can politicians so easily dodge accountability for their mistakes? The troubling answer: because they can" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/why-can-politicians-so-easily-dodge-accountability-for-their-mistakes-the-troubling-answer-because-they-can-150839/" aria-label="Read more about Why can politicians so easily dodge accountability for their mistakes? The troubling answer: because they can">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Mosler, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University Have you been hitting the gym again with COVID restrictions easing? Or getting back into running, cycling, or playing team sports? As many of you might’ve experienced, the inevitable muscle soreness that comes ... <a title="Feeling sore after exercise? Here’s what science suggests helps (and what doesn’t)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/feeling-sore-after-exercise-heres-what-science-suggests-helps-and-what-doesnt-150277/" aria-label="Read more about Feeling sore after exercise? Here’s what science suggests helps (and what doesn’t)">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angela Spinney, Lecturer/Research Fellow in Housing and Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology The stereotype of a homeless person – those living in tents or sleeping in parks or doorways – is just the visible tip of the much larger crisis of homelessness in Australia. For every ... <a title="Eliminating most homelessness is achievable. It starts with prevention and ‘housing first’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/eliminating-most-homelessness-is-achievable-it-starts-with-prevention-and-housing-first-151182/" aria-label="Read more about Eliminating most homelessness is achievable. It starts with prevention and ‘housing first’">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Paterson, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of New England Deep sea animals can be the stuff of nightmares. Many inhabit the ocean’s twilight zone (down to 1,000 metres depth), where sunlight has virtually disappeared, and have adapted their vision to this dark alien world. Evolution gave ... <a title="Freaky ‘frankenprawns’: ancient deep sea monsters called radiodonts had incredible vision that likely drove an evolutionary arms race" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/freaky-frankenprawns-ancient-deep-sea-monsters-called-radiodonts-had-incredible-vision-that-likely-drove-an-evolutionary-arms-race-146104/" aria-label="Read more about Freaky ‘frankenprawns’: ancient deep sea monsters called radiodonts had incredible vision that likely drove an evolutionary arms race">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fabio A Capitanio, Lecturer in Geophysics, Monash University Our planet is unique in the Solar system. It’s the only one with active plate tectonics, ocean basins, continents and, as far as we know, life. But Earth in its current form is 4.5 billion years in the making; ... <a title="The floor is lava: after 1.5 billion years in flux, here’s how a new, stronger crust set the stage for life on Earth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/the-floor-is-lava-after-1-5-billion-years-in-flux-heres-how-a-new-stronger-crust-set-the-stage-for-life-on-earth-151276/" aria-label="Read more about The floor is lava: after 1.5 billion years in flux, here’s how a new, stronger crust set the stage for life on Earth">Read more</a>
