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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Norris, Professor, School of Science, Western Sydney University In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she’d found while browsing our new radio astronomical data. She had started noticing very weird shapes she couldn’t fit easily to any known type of ... <a title="‘WTF?’: newly discovered ghostly circles in the sky can’t be explained by current theories, and astronomers are excited" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/wtf-newly-discovered-ghostly-circles-in-the-sky-cant-be-explained-by-current-theories-and-astronomers-are-excited-142812/" aria-label="Read more about ‘WTF?’: newly discovered ghostly circles in the sky can’t be explained by current theories, and astronomers are excited">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland What was filmmaker John Hughes thinking when he made Home Alone? His previous films were either about awkward teens finding their way in the world (The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off etc), or awkward ... <a title="Home Alone at 30: how one case of parental neglect led to (hilariously) painful outcomes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/home-alone-at-30-how-one-case-of-parental-neglect-led-to-hilariously-painful-outcomes-150534/" aria-label="Read more about Home Alone at 30: how one case of parental neglect led to (hilariously) painful outcomes">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Villeneuve, Associate Professor, University of Sydney Australians with disability are disproportionately affected by disasters such as fire, floods, cyclones and heatwaves. Yet we rarely hear their perspectives and insights on what’s needed to ensure they’re not left stranded when disaster strikes. So in 2019 we hosted ... <a title="‘Nobody checked on us’: what people with disability told us about their experiences of disasters and emergencies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/nobody-checked-on-us-what-people-with-disability-told-us-about-their-experiences-of-disasters-and-emergencies-151198/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Nobody checked on us’: what people with disability told us about their experiences of disasters and emergencies">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janine Dixon, Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University Our economy has grown in the September quarter (the three months to September) after two quarters of going backwards. Using the literal meaning of recession, we are no longer in one – economic output (the things we ... <a title="6 things to watch for as Australia crawls out of recession" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/6-things-to-watch-for-as-australia-crawls-out-of-recession-148797/" aria-label="Read more about 6 things to watch for as Australia crawls out of recession">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato With tension escalating between China and members of the Five Eyes security alliance, most recently over a Chinese tweet that used a doctored image to attack Australia, New Zealand is arguably in a prime position to broker a kind ... <a title="Why New Zealand is ideally placed to broker a truce between China and the Five Eyes alliance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/why-new-zealand-is-ideally-placed-to-broker-a-truce-between-china-and-the-five-eyes-alliance-151195/" aria-label="Read more about Why New Zealand is ideally placed to broker a truce between China and the Five Eyes alliance">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gina Ravenscroft, Research Fellow, University of Western Australia While COVID-19 has highlighted the value of medical research, it has unfortunately also seriously disrupted it. Lack of funding is driving members of Australia’s once-vibrant virology research community out of the sector, and forcing early-career researchers to turn to ... <a title="COVID has left Australia’s biomedical research sector gasping for air" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/covid-has-left-australias-biomedical-research-sector-gasping-for-air-145022/" aria-label="Read more about COVID has left Australia’s biomedical research sector gasping for air">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allen Cheng, Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Monash University The Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca/University of Oxford groups have all recently announced their COVID vaccine candidates have demonstrated high levels of efficacy in phase 3 trials. These developments have focused attention on how a COVID vaccine might be ... <a title="What will Australia’s COVID vaccination program look like? 4 key questions answered" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/what-will-australias-covid-vaccination-program-look-like-4-key-questions-answered-150748/" aria-label="Read more about What will Australia’s COVID vaccination program look like? 4 key questions answered">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, University of Melbourne Every spring, streets across Australia turn purple with the delicate, falling flowers of jacarandas. This year, they’ll likely be flowering over Christmas. The colour of the flowers is often debated – is it indigo, blue or purple? Well, it’s ... <a title="Why there’s a lot more to love about jacarandas than just their purple flowers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/why-theres-a-lot-more-to-love-about-jacarandas-than-just-their-purple-flowers-150851/" aria-label="Read more about Why there’s a lot more to love about jacarandas than just their purple flowers">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh, Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University This has been a year of schools closing and a rapid switch to online learning. It’s also been a year with no NAPLAN. The cancellation of the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy due to COVID marked the ... <a title="A year without NAPLAN has given us a chance to re-evaluate how we gauge school quality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/a-year-without-naplan-has-given-us-a-chance-to-re-evaluate-how-we-gauge-school-quality-138603/" aria-label="Read more about A year without NAPLAN has given us a chance to re-evaluate how we gauge school quality">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Rowlands, Associate Professor in Education Leadership, Deakin University Australia and the UK experience regular annual outrage over vice-chancellors’ pay. This is unsurprising – in Australia their average pay at the 37 public universities topped A$1 million in 2019. Those at prestigious Group of Eight universities were ... <a title="How Australian vice-chancellors’ pay came to average $1 million and why it’s a problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/how-australian-vice-chancellors-pay-came-to-average-1-million-and-why-its-a-problem-150829/" aria-label="Read more about How Australian vice-chancellors’ pay came to average $1 million and why it’s a problem">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caitlin Buckle, Research Associate in Housing Studies, University of Sydney COVID-related travel restrictions and the sudden drop in tourism provided an ideal natural experiment to examine the impact of shifts in the supply of short-term rental accommodation. Our research, released today, found even modest reductions in Airbnb ... <a title="What did COVID do to rental markets? Rents fell as owners switched from Airbnb" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/what-did-covid-do-to-rental-markets-rents-fell-as-owners-switched-from-airbnb-151095/" aria-label="Read more about What did COVID do to rental markets? Rents fell as owners switched from Airbnb">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Smith, Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University The devastation wrought by last summer’s unprecedented bushfires created blackened landscapes across Australia. New life is sprouting, but with fires burning again in New South Wales and Queensland we have once more seen ... <a title="Not all blackened landscapes are bad. We must learn to love the right kind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/not-all-blackened-landscapes-are-bad-we-must-learn-to-love-the-right-kind-129547/" aria-label="Read more about Not all blackened landscapes are bad. We must learn to love the right kind">Read more</a>
