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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University In the expansion of its iron ore mine in Western Pilbara, Rio Tinto blasted the Juukan Gorge 1 and 2 – Aboriginal rock shelters dating back 46,000 years. These sites ... <a title="Rio Tinto just blasted away an ancient Aboriginal site. Here’s why that was allowed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/rio-tinto-just-blasted-away-an-ancient-aboriginal-site-heres-why-that-was-allowed-139466/" aria-label="Read more about Rio Tinto just blasted away an ancient Aboriginal site. Here’s why that was allowed">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Climie, Exercise Physiologist and Research Fellow, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute In Australia, more than 1.1 million people currently have type 2 diabetes. A host of potential complications associated with the disease mean a 45-year-old diagnosed with type 2 diabetes will live on average six years ... <a title="A disease that breeds disease: why is type 2 diabetes linked to increased risk of cancer and dementia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/a-disease-that-breeds-disease-why-is-type-2-diabetes-linked-to-increased-risk-of-cancer-and-dementia-139298/" aria-label="Read more about A disease that breeds disease: why is type 2 diabetes linked to increased risk of cancer and dementia?">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Adams, Postdoctoral Biomedical Engineering Researcher, Deakin University During the frenzy of the past few months to secure resources for the fight against COVID-19, the demand for technologies that promise to detect symptomatic individuals has been sky-high. However, not all proposed solutions work as advertised. Thermal cameras ... <a title="Are thermal cameras a magic bullet for COVID-19 fever detection? There’s not enough evidence to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/are-thermal-cameras-a-magic-bullet-for-covid-19-fever-detection-theres-not-enough-evidence-to-know-139377/" aria-label="Read more about Are thermal cameras a magic bullet for COVID-19 fever detection? There’s not enough evidence to know">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brooke Collins-Gearing, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle Review: The Beach, created and directed by Warwick Thornton Watching Warwick Thornton’s The Beach is a journey into place and self. It made me want to breathe deeper and smell the salty air. It made me want to walk barefoot ... <a title="Review: Warwick Thornton’s The Beach is a delicate conversation with Country" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/review-warwick-thorntons-the-beach-is-a-delicate-conversation-with-country-139464/" aria-label="Read more about Review: Warwick Thornton’s The Beach is a delicate conversation with Country">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Quinn, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University A new trial has begun in Victoria this week to evaluate a potential vaccine against COVID-19. The vaccine is called NVX-CoV2373 and is from a US biotech company, Novavax. The trial will be carried ... <a title="The vaccine we’re testing in Australia is based on a flu shot. Here’s how it could work against coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/the-vaccine-were-testing-in-australia-is-based-on-a-flu-shot-heres-how-it-could-work-against-coronavirus-139380/" aria-label="Read more about The vaccine we’re testing in Australia is based on a flu shot. Here’s how it could work against coronavirus">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Maguire, Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle The Jerusalem District Court has ruled that Malka Leifer is fit to stand trial on charges of child sexual abuse. This is a significant ruling in a very long process seeking Leifer’s extradition to ... <a title="Malka Leifer has been ruled fit to stand trial. Will extradition to Australia follow?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/malka-leifer-has-been-ruled-fit-to-stand-trial-will-extradition-to-australia-follow-139463/" aria-label="Read more about Malka Leifer has been ruled fit to stand trial. Will extradition to Australia follow?">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elspeth Tilley, Associate Professor of English (Expressive Arts), Massey University You’re walking on a public footpath when a jogger overtakes you from behind, well inside the recommended two-metre physical distance. What to do? By the time you’ve reacted it’s too late. Just another random encounter in the ... <a title="Don’t stand so close to me – understanding consent can help with those tricky social distancing moments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/dont-stand-so-close-to-me-understanding-consent-can-help-with-those-tricky-social-distancing-moments-139293/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t stand so close to me – understanding consent can help with those tricky social distancing moments">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorana Bartels, Professor and Program Leader of Criminology, Australian National University Yesterday was National Sorry Day in Australia. It marks the anniversary of the tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, which chronicles decades of removals of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Sorry ... <a title="For First Nations people, coronavirus has meant fewer services, separated families and over-policing: new report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/for-first-nations-people-coronavirus-has-meant-fewer-services-separated-families-and-over-policing-new-report-139460/" aria-label="Read more about For First Nations people, coronavirus has meant fewer services, separated families and over-policing: new report">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sian Tomkinson, Media and Communication Scholar, University of Western Australia Last week, a 17-year-old boy in Toronto was charged with an act of terrorism in the alleged killing of a woman with a machete – the first time such a charge has been brought in a case ... <a title="‘Incel’ violence is a form of extremism. It’s time we treated it as a security threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/incel-violence-is-a-form-of-extremism-its-time-we-treated-it-as-a-security-threat-138536/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Incel’ violence is a form of extremism. It’s time we treated it as a security threat">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Rosenbaum, Associate professor & Scientia Fellow, UNSW Amid the coronavirus pandemic we are being warned of a “second wave” of mental health problems that threatens to overrun an already weakened mental health service. As we emerge from this crisis, while some people may need specialist help ... <a title="What are the characteristics of strong mental health?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/what-are-the-characteristics-of-strong-mental-health-139032/" aria-label="Read more about What are the characteristics of strong mental health?">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bill Hare, Director, Climate Analytics, Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University (Perth), Visiting scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Every few years, the idea that gas will help Australia transition to a zero-emissions economy seems to re-emerge, as if no one had thought of it before. Federal energy ... <a title="A single mega-project exposes the Morrison government’s gas plan as staggering folly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/a-single-mega-project-exposes-the-morrison-governments-gas-plan-as-staggering-folly-133435/" aria-label="Read more about A single mega-project exposes the Morrison government’s gas plan as staggering folly">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah McLaren, Professor of Life Cycle Management, Massey University CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send ... <a title="Climate explained: why countries don’t count emissions from goods they import" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/climate-explained-why-countries-dont-count-emissions-from-goods-they-import-138604/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: why countries don’t count emissions from goods they import">Read more</a>
