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February 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denise Thwaites, Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities , University of Canberra Since May 2007, US-based digital artist Mike Winkelmann (who goes by the name Beeple) has posted a new artwork online every day. He posted the 5,000th one in January, and has now packaged them ... <a title="A token sale: Christie’s to auction its first blockchain-backed digital-only artwork" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/25/a-token-sale-christies-to-auction-its-first-blockchain-backed-digital-only-artwork-155738/" aria-label="Read more about A token sale: Christie’s to auction its first blockchain-backed digital-only artwork">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Holcombe, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Just as the parliamentary inquiry into Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelters was reconvening in Canberra, another culturally significant site was damaged at one of BHP’s iron ore mines in the Pilbara. This latest rock ... <a title="‘Destruction by a thousand cuts’: the relentless threat mining poses to the Pilbara cultural landscape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/25/destruction-by-a-thousand-cuts-the-relentless-threat-mining-poses-to-the-pilbara-cultural-landscape-155941/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Destruction by a thousand cuts’: the relentless threat mining poses to the Pilbara cultural landscape">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Farr-Wharton, Associate Professor in Management, Edith Cowan University The aged care royal commission is due to hand down its final report on February 26, and it will be tabled in parliament in the days after that. The long-term sustainability of the aged-care workforce and the financial ... <a title="Paid on par with cleaners: the broader issue affecting the quality of aged care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/25/paid-on-par-with-cleaners-the-broader-issue-affecting-the-quality-of-aged-care-155753/" aria-label="Read more about Paid on par with cleaners: the broader issue affecting the quality of aged care">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Nelson, Associate Professor of Economics, Griffith University The US state of Texas has this month experienced some of its coldest weather on record. Houston recorded a temperature of -10.6℃, which is around 20℃ below average. And Dallas-Fort Worth recorded its lowest-ever temperature of -18.9℃. It appears ... <a title="The Texas deep freeze left the state in crisis. Here are 3 lessons for Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/25/the-texas-deep-freeze-left-the-state-in-crisis-here-are-3-lessons-for-australia-155760/" aria-label="Read more about The Texas deep freeze left the state in crisis. Here are 3 lessons for Australia">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shasha Wang, Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology The ACT Legislative Assembly recently passed a motion to ban banking programs, like Commonwealth Bank’s Dollarmites, from schools later this year. The move comes a few months after Victoria announced it would also ban such programs in state schools. The ... <a title="School banking programs target ‘vulnerable consumers’. But research shows kids are smarter than you think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/25/school-banking-programs-target-vulnerable-consumers-but-research-shows-kids-are-smarter-than-you-think-155360/" aria-label="Read more about School banking programs target ‘vulnerable consumers’. But research shows kids are smarter than you think">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mengbi Li, Lecturer in Built Environment (Architecture), First Year College and Research Fellow, ISILC, Victoria University The coronavirus has been escaping with distressing frequency from quarantine hotels, threatening serious outbreaks. To make things worse, multiple variants of the virus, possibly more infectious and deadly, have recently been ... <a title="I teach architecture and have been in quarantine a lot lately. Here are ways design can protect us against COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/25/i-teach-architecture-and-have-been-in-quarantine-a-lot-lately-here-are-ways-design-can-protect-us-against-covid-19-154840/" aria-label="Read more about I teach architecture and have been in quarantine a lot lately. Here are ways design can protect us against COVID-19">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland The fight between Facebook and the Morrison government is over almost before it began. Having drastically overplayed its hand by banning a vast range of content, Facebook has been forced to settle for what appear to be ... <a title="Facebook versus News: Advertising is the real problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/25/facebook-versus-news-advertising-is-the-real-problem-155639/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook versus News: Advertising is the real problem">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hesketh, ARC Future Fellow and Association Professor, The University of Queensland When Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was first published in On the Origin of Species in 1859, the book was conspicuously silent about how his theory applied to humans. Darwin believed the subject of human ... <a title="Guide to the classics: Darwin’s The Descent of Man 150 years on — sex, race and our ‘lowly’ ape ancestry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/25/guide-to-the-classics-darwins-the-descent-of-man-150-years-on-sex-race-and-our-lowly-ape-ancestry-155305/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the classics: Darwin’s The Descent of Man 150 years on — sex, race and our ‘lowly’ ape ancestry">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2021
Report by, and courtesy of, Café Pacific. [embedded content] The Pacific Media Centre on 18 December 2020 … everything removed in early February 2021 without consultation with the stakeholders – VIDEO: Cafe Pacific. PACIFIC journalists, media researchers, students and other stakeholders have expressed concern about the future of New Zealand’s Pacific Media Centre after more ... <a title="Concern grows over PMC after shock office ‘closure’ and no director" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/25/concern-grows-over-pmc-after-shock-office-closure-and-no-director/" aria-label="Read more about Concern grows over PMC after shock office ‘closure’ and no director">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
A View from Afar: Thursday March 4 @ midday (NZDST / Wednesday, 6pm USEST) Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will conduct a deep dive into the largely covert role of private enterprise in the intelligence, conflict, and war markets. Most recently, New Zealanders discovered that its national airline had been in business with the ... <a title="SCHEDULED LIVE: Buchanan + Manning on private enterprise and the conflict market" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/live-video-buchanan-manning-on-private-enterprise-and-the-conflict-market/" aria-label="Read more about SCHEDULED LIVE: Buchanan + Manning on private enterprise and the conflict market">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Asia Pacific Report The Indonesian state is causing a renewed humanitarian crisis in West Papua. Three young West Papuan men have been murdered by the Indonesian military in Intan Jaya Regency, and hundreds of residents have now fled the area in fear. Indonesia must urgently allow the International Committee of the Red Cross and the ... <a title="West Papua needs urgent Red Cross intervention over crisis, says Wenda" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/west-papua-needs-urgent-red-cross-intervention-over-crisis-says-wenda/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua needs urgent Red Cross intervention over crisis, says Wenda">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Asia Pacific Report The federal government must act urgently to support small Australian news outlets that could be shut out of commercial deals with Facebook and Google under its News Media Bargaining Code, says the union for Australia’s journalists. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) said in a statement that it welcomed Facebook’s decision ... <a title="Facebook and Google deals may leave small publishers out in the cold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/facebook-and-google-deals-may-leave-small-publishers-out-in-the-cold/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook and Google deals may leave small publishers out in the cold">Read more</a>
