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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Irene Gallego Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Genetics, The University of Melbourne Derek R. Audette/Shutterstock An encounter with a mysterious and extinct human relative – the Denisovans – has left a mark on the immune traits of modern Papuans, in particular those living on New Guinea Island. ... <a title="DNA from elusive human relatives the Denisovans has left a curious mark on modern people in New Guinea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/dna-from-elusive-human-relatives-the-denisovans-has-left-a-curious-mark-on-modern-people-in-new-guinea-196113/" aria-label="Read more about DNA from elusive human relatives the Denisovans has left a curious mark on modern people in New Guinea">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Orsola De Marco, Professor of Astrophysics, Macquarie University NASA When the first five images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were unveiled, one of them stared at me with two eyes. It was an image of the Southern Ring Nebula, NGC3132, and smack in the middle ... <a title="‘Extreme stripping action’ led to the messy birth of the Southern Ring Nebula, Webb image reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/extreme-stripping-action-led-to-the-messy-birth-of-the-southern-ring-nebula-webb-image-reveals-196052/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Extreme stripping action’ led to the messy birth of the Southern Ring Nebula, Webb image reveals">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yen Ying Lim, Associate Professor, Monash University robina weermeijer/unsplash, CC BY-SA We often hear about “dementia breakthroughs” in the news – new genes being discovered, new blood tests being developed, new drugs being tested. However, there remains no effective or accessible cure for dementia. This is of ... <a title="Lots of ‘breakthroughs’, still no cure. Do the new dementia drugs bring us any closer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/lots-of-breakthroughs-still-no-cure-do-the-new-dementia-drugs-bring-us-any-closer-195095/" aria-label="Read more about Lots of ‘breakthroughs’, still no cure. Do the new dementia drugs bring us any closer?">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Picture this. You’re in government for the first time in more than a decade. And within six months, you’re facing a diabolical problem: skyrocketing energy prices. To your constituents, it doesn’t matter that the root cause is a war ... <a title="Surging energy prices are really going to hurt. What can the government actually do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/surging-energy-prices-are-really-going-to-hurt-what-can-the-government-actually-do-196206/" aria-label="Read more about Surging energy prices are really going to hurt. What can the government actually do?">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marnee Shay, Senior Research Fellow, School of Education, The University of Queensland Nathan Cowley/Pexels Flexi schools cater to young people who have been pushed out of mainstream schools. Some students may have been expelled or struggled to fit in. Some may have been bullied or have learning ... <a title="‘I would like to go to university’: flexi school students share their goals in Australia-first survey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/i-would-like-to-go-to-university-flexi-school-students-share-their-goals-in-australia-first-survey-193396/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I would like to go to university’: flexi school students share their goals in Australia-first survey">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia Ranald, Honorary research associate, University of Sydney Shutterstock Australia is about to play host to negotiators from 14 countries involved in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) over six days in Brisbane from Saturday. They include the United States, Australia, Brunei, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, ... <a title="What is the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, about to be negotiated in Brisbane?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/what-is-the-indo-pacific-economic-framework-about-to-be-negotiated-in-brisbane-196122/" aria-label="Read more about What is the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, about to be negotiated in Brisbane?">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherine Fahd, Associate Professor of Visual Communication in the School of Design, University of Technology Sydney The author and her family with Santa in 1980. Author provided In April 1995, my uncle secured a lucrative job in Saudi Arabia. He and my aunt left their home in ... <a title="Tantrums to tinsel: why I love the curious and festive tradition of the Santa photo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/tantrums-to-tinsel-why-i-love-the-curious-and-festive-tradition-of-the-santa-photo-195293/" aria-label="Read more about Tantrums to tinsel: why I love the curious and festive tradition of the Santa photo">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Mick Tsikas/AAP Anthony Albanese heads towards Christmas with inflation, interest rates and power prices all high. But, comfortingly for Labor, his own popularity is up there too. The objective circumstances in which the government finds itself sit somewhere between challenging ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Australians are starting to feel the economic pain, but they are not taking it out on Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/grattan-on-friday-australians-are-starting-to-feel-the-economic-pain-but-they-are-not-taking-it-out-on-albanese-196221/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Australians are starting to feel the economic pain, but they are not taking it out on Albanese">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Wintle, Professor in Conservation Science, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock The Albanese government has just released its long-awaited response to a scathing independent review of Australia’s environment protection law. The 2020 review ultimately found the laws were flawed, outdated and, ... <a title="Our laws fail nature. The government’s plan to overhaul them looks good, but crucial detail is yet to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/our-laws-fail-nature-the-governments-plan-to-overhaul-them-looks-good-but-crucial-detail-is-yet-to-come-196126/" aria-label="Read more about Our laws fail nature. The government’s plan to overhaul them looks good, but crucial detail is yet to come">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
In this, the 24th episode of A View from Afar for 2022 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning examine whether there is, in reality, such a thing as foreign policy independence in today's world.
Specifically, Paul and Selwyn examine the following questions:
What does it mean to be foreign policy independent, and what would independence look like?
How is foreign policy independence different from foreign policy autonomy and flexibility?
What factors inhibit or constrain foreign policy independence (domestic and international)?
In an interdependent world can FP independence be a realistic objective?
And finally: is FP independence possible for a small state in this era, if it ever was, and conversely, do great powers really exercise independence in their foreign affairs?
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December 8, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Labour needs Mahutu to go, but she’s too powerful The pressure on Jacinda Ardern to sack Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta is building. But Mahuta is too powerful within the Labour Party to get rid of easily. The Three Waters reforms have become one of the Labour Government’s greatest ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour needs Mahutu to go, but she’s too powerful" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-labour-needs-mahutu-to-go-but-shes-too-powerful/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour needs Mahutu to go, but she’s too powerful">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock After a wet and unusually cool spring for much of Australia, the start of meteorological summer is bringing a heatwave to the north of the continent. Even in our La Niña summer we can expect ... <a title="Extreme heat in the midst of the Big Wet for northern Australia – what’s going on with the weather?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/extreme-heat-in-the-midst-of-the-big-wet-for-northern-australia-whats-going-on-with-the-weather-196124/" aria-label="Read more about Extreme heat in the midst of the Big Wet for northern Australia – what’s going on with the weather?">Read more</a>
