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March 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Greste, Professor of Journalism and Communications, The University of Queensland Like dogs and cats, snakes and rats, journalists and the government are not supposed to be friends. It is always going to be a fractious, difficult relationship. We, the voters and taxpayers, grant politicians enormous power ... <a title="Journalists and security agencies don’t need to be friends. But can they at least talk to each other?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/journalists-and-security-agencies-dont-need-to-be-friends-but-can-they-at-least-talk-to-each-other-156751/" aria-label="Read more about Journalists and security agencies don’t need to be friends. But can they at least talk to each other?">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government is gifting 8,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Papua New Guinea, and demanding AstraZeneca and European authorities urgently provide one million doses of Australia’s contracted supplies to help the country deal with its escalating pandemic crisis. In ... <a title="Australia sends 8,000 vaccine doses to help Papua New Guinea’s pandemic crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/australia-sends-8-000-vaccine-doses-to-help-papua-new-guineas-pandemic-crisis-157310/" aria-label="Read more about Australia sends 8,000 vaccine doses to help Papua New Guinea’s pandemic crisis">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Blundell-Wignall, Adjunct Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney Australia’s longest-serving finance minister Mathias Cormann has been appointed Secretary General of the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Australian Adrian Blundell-Wignall is a former senior official of the OECD, serving for nine years as deputy ... <a title="Six questions about Mathias Cormann, newly appointed Secretary General of the OECD" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/six-questions-about-mathias-cormann-newly-appointed-secretary-general-of-the-oecd-157305/" aria-label="Read more about Six questions about Mathias Cormann, newly appointed Secretary General of the OECD">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katrina Lee-Koo, Associate professor of International Relations, Monash University In response to reports of surging COVID cases in Papua New Guinea, the Australian government will provide greater emergency support to deliver vaccines, increased testing capacity and clinical advice to our near neighbours. This is part of a ... <a title="COVID is forcing millions of girls out of school in South-east Asia and the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/covid-is-forcing-millions-of-girls-out-of-school-in-south-east-asia-and-the-pacific-157230/" aria-label="Read more about COVID is forcing millions of girls out of school in South-east Asia and the Pacific">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Lueck, Professor of Tourism, Auckland University of Technology International tourism has clearly been hit hard by COVID-19. But despite the desperation of the travel and airline industries, people are already questioning whether it should ever return to pre-pandemic levels. One who thinks not is Air New ... <a title="A green tax on long-haul flights favours rich tourists. NZ needs a fairer strategy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/a-green-tax-on-long-haul-flights-favours-rich-tourists-nz-needs-a-fairer-strategy-156847/" aria-label="Read more about A green tax on long-haul flights favours rich tourists. NZ needs a fairer strategy">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Housing Keith Lynch (Stuff): What happened after Jacinda Ardern said house prices can’t keep skyrocketing Henry Cooke (Stuff): Housing crisis: Greens ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 17 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-17-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 17 2021">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Berg, Principal Research Fellow and Co-Director, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University Over the past few months, Twitter took down the account of the then-President of the United States and Facebook temporarily stopped users from sharing Australian media content. This begs the question: do social media ... <a title="Social media has huge problems with free speech and moderation. Could decentralised platforms fix this?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/social-media-has-huge-problems-with-free-speech-and-moderation-could-decentralised-platforms-fix-this-157053/" aria-label="Read more about Social media has huge problems with free speech and moderation. Could decentralised platforms fix this?">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Wallace, Associate Professor, 50/50 By 2030 Foundation, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra This week’s March 4 Justice protests saw tens of thousands of people take to the streets. It gave Australians – outraged by gendered violence connected to Parliament House and beyond ... <a title="The women’s march was a huge success. Now comes the hard part: how to actually get something done" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/the-womens-march-was-a-huge-success-now-comes-the-hard-part-how-to-actually-get-something-done-157225/" aria-label="Read more about The women’s march was a huge success. Now comes the hard part: how to actually get something done">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Quinn, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University The COVID vaccine rollout is now underway in Australia and around the world. It’s incredible we’ve been able to develop and produce safe and effective vaccines so quickly — but the current crop of ... <a title="Why do we need booster shots, and could we mix and match different COVID vaccines?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/why-do-we-need-booster-shots-and-could-we-mix-and-match-different-covid-vaccines-155951/" aria-label="Read more about Why do we need booster shots, and could we mix and match different COVID vaccines?">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lesley Hughes, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University There is much at stake at the highly anticipated United Nations climate summit in Glasgow this November. There, almost 200 nations signed up to the Paris Agreement will make emissions reduction pledges as part of the international effort ... <a title="Wake up, Mr Morrison: Australia’s slack climate effort leaves our children 10 times more work to do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/wake-up-mr-morrison-australias-slack-climate-effort-leaves-our-children-10-times-more-work-to-do-157136/" aria-label="Read more about Wake up, Mr Morrison: Australia’s slack climate effort leaves our children 10 times more work to do">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ross Crates, Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University Just as humans learn languages, animals learn behaviours crucial for survival and reproduction from older, experienced individuals of the same species. In this way, important “cultures” such as bird songs are passed from one generation to the next. But global ... <a title="Only the lonely: an endangered bird is forgetting its song as the species dies out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/only-the-lonely-an-endangered-bird-is-forgetting-its-song-as-the-species-dies-out-156950/" aria-label="Read more about Only the lonely: an endangered bird is forgetting its song as the species dies out">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luci Pangrazio, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University Children, like adults, are spending more time online. At home and school pre-schoolers now use an array of apps and platforms to learn, play and be entertained. While there are reported benefits, including learning through exploration, many parents are still ... <a title="Apps that help parents protect kids from cybercrime may be unsafe too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/apps-that-help-parents-protect-kids-from-cybercrime-may-be-unsafe-too-156583/" aria-label="Read more about Apps that help parents protect kids from cybercrime may be unsafe too">Read more</a>
