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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Giles, Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Melbourne MilanMarkovic78/Shutterstock Last week, South Australia announced it would offer pregnant women a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) from next year for free. It’s the first Australian state or territory to do so. RSV can be ... <a title="South Australia plans to offer pregnant women an RSV vaccine next year. Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/south-australia-plans-to-offer-pregnant-women-an-rsv-vaccine-next-year-heres-what-you-need-to-know-236333/" aria-label="Read more about South Australia plans to offer pregnant women an RSV vaccine next year. Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide Gena Rowlands, who has died at the age of 94, was a highly respected actor, with a fierce, edgy, often emotionally unstable on screen presence. She often played traumatised mothers or mother figures and her characters were ... <a title="Farewell Gena Rowlands, the formidable actress whose characters always seemed to be tipping into madness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/farewell-gena-rowlands-the-formidable-actress-whose-characters-always-seemed-to-be-tipping-into-madness-227369/" aria-label="Read more about Farewell Gena Rowlands, the formidable actress whose characters always seemed to be tipping into madness">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharolyn Anderson, Research scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of South Australia The Backyard Universe In a world increasingly illuminated by artificial light, the beautiful night skies of a small coastal town in South Australia have attracted international recognition. Carrickalinga on the Fleurieu Peninsula is Australia’s first ... <a title="The making of Australia’s first Dark Sky Community at Carrickalinga" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/the-making-of-australias-first-dark-sky-community-at-carrickalinga-228002/" aria-label="Read more about The making of Australia’s first Dark Sky Community at Carrickalinga">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick Finnerty, Postdoctoral research fellow in conservation, University of Sydney New South Wales has dozens of mesas, including Byangee Walls in Morton National Park ambo kangaro/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-ND Species are disappearing at an alarming rate around the world. But Australia’s extinction crisis is especially severe – since ... <a title="Islands in the sky: could steep-sided hilltops offer safe haven to our threatened species?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/islands-in-the-sky-could-steep-sided-hilltops-offer-safe-haven-to-our-threatened-species-234925/" aria-label="Read more about Islands in the sky: could steep-sided hilltops offer safe haven to our threatened species?">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Bonsai Films For a documentary to be successful, it needs to be proficiently made and, more importantly, focus on a subject of interest to the viewer. Let’s face it: a story about a blind big ... <a title="Following a vision-impaired surfer, The Blind Sea is far from a hero portrait. This is what makes it interesting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/following-a-vision-impaired-surfer-the-blind-sea-is-far-from-a-hero-portrait-this-is-what-makes-it-interesting-235104/" aria-label="Read more about Following a vision-impaired surfer, The Blind Sea is far from a hero portrait. This is what makes it interesting">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Saikal, Emeritus professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Australian National University This week marks the third year since America’s retreat from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s return to power. The United States had intervened in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 2001 terror attacks ... <a title="3 years after the Taliban’s return, Afghanistan is a broken country swarming with terrorists again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/3-years-after-the-talibans-return-afghanistan-is-a-broken-country-swarming-with-terrorists-again-236860/" aria-label="Read more about 3 years after the Taliban’s return, Afghanistan is a broken country swarming with terrorists again">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alberto Filgueiras, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia The year was 1920. It was George “Babe” Ruth’s first season playing for the New York Yankees. During that season, he scored an amazing 54 home runs. He alone scored more home runs than any team. However, “The Bambino,” ... <a title="Elite athletes are generally smarter than us – cognitive sciences can explain why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/elite-athletes-are-generally-smarter-than-us-cognitive-sciences-can-explain-why-234665/" aria-label="Read more about Elite athletes are generally smarter than us – cognitive sciences can explain why">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University The race is on to transition to clean energy. Solar and wind farm developers are inundating regional communities in the hope they will host generation and transmission infrastructure. This extra capacity is needed to ... <a title="If we want more solar and wind farms, we need to get locals on board by ensuring they all benefit too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/if-we-want-more-solar-and-wind-farms-we-need-to-get-locals-on-board-by-ensuring-they-all-benefit-too-236226/" aria-label="Read more about If we want more solar and wind farms, we need to get locals on board by ensuring they all benefit too">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joellen Riley Munton, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney Kmpzzz/Shutterstock You are working long hours, being repeatedly rostered to work weekends and are increasingly anxious and unhappy in your job. Enough’s enough, you decide to quit, but your boss won’t let you. The ABC’s Four Corners ... <a title="“They won’t let me go”. Can your boss stop you from resigning?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/they-wont-let-me-go-can-your-boss-stop-you-from-resigning-236783/" aria-label="Read more about “They won’t let me go”. Can your boss stop you from resigning?">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naomi Smith, Lecturer in Sociology, University of the Sunshine Coast Paris 2024 might go down in history as the most meme-d sporting event ever. Traditionally, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has focused on broadcast media such as free-to-air television as its primary medium, with rights holders paying ... <a title="How Paris 2024 became the most meme-d Olympics ever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/how-paris-2024-became-the-most-meme-d-olympics-ever-236684/" aria-label="Read more about How Paris 2024 became the most meme-d Olympics ever">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Clarke, PhD Student in Applied Geology, Curtin University Alzay/Shutterstock During the solstices, thousands gather at Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in England to celebrate the monument’s astronomical alignment. The focal point of these festivities is the Altar Stone – the six-tonne sandstone slab that lies flat ... <a title="The Altar Stone of Stonehenge came from an unexpectedly distant place, new study reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/the-altar-stone-of-stonehenge-came-from-an-unexpectedly-distant-place-new-study-reveals-232391/" aria-label="Read more about The Altar Stone of Stonehenge came from an unexpectedly distant place, new study reveals">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Diane Kraal, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Business Law and Taxation Dept, Monash Business School, Monash University KDS Photographics/Shutterstock Speaking on ABC’s Q&A on Monday night, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz claimed Australia was “giving away its natural resources”, something he found “mind boggling”. He said that if ... <a title="Is Australia ‘giving away’ its natural resources?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/is-australia-giving-away-its-natural-resources-236784/" aria-label="Read more about Is Australia ‘giving away’ its natural resources?">Read more</a>
