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March 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marc Hockings, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland It’s one year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. While the human and economic toll have been enormous, new findings show the fallout from the virus also seriously damaged nature. Conservation is often funded by ... <a title="COVID-19 wasn’t just a disaster for humanity – new research shows nature suffered greatly too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/12/covid-19-wasnt-just-a-disaster-for-humanity-new-research-shows-nature-suffered-greatly-too-156838/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 wasn’t just a disaster for humanity – new research shows nature suffered greatly too">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW If you ever doubted the price of renewable energy was falling so rapidly it would eventually replace fossil fuels, the expedited closure of the Yallourn coal-fired power plant should change that. Energy Australia announced this week it would close the 47-year-old ... <a title="Vital Signs: timing of Yallourn’s closure shows it’s high time for a carbon price" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/12/vital-signs-timing-of-yallourns-closure-shows-its-high-time-for-a-carbon-price-156936/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: timing of Yallourn’s closure shows it’s high time for a carbon price">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Monash Intercultural Lab and National Convenor of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network, Monash University In 399 CE, Faxian — a monk in China’s Jin Dynasty — went on a pilgrimage to the Indian subcontinent to collect Buddhist scriptures. Returning after 13 years, he ... <a title="Friday essay: is this the end of translation?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/12/friday-essay-is-this-the-end-of-translation-156375/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: is this the end of translation?">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ritesh Chugh, Senior Lecturer – Information Systems and Analysis, CQUniversity Australia If Apple and other tech companies have their way, it will only become harder to have our phones and other devices repaired by third-party businesses. Smartphones and many other tech devices are increasingly being designed in ... <a title="Screwed over: how Apple and others are making it impossible to get a cheap and easy phone repair" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/12/screwed-over-how-apple-and-others-are-making-it-impossible-to-get-a-cheap-and-easy-phone-repair-156871/" aria-label="Read more about Screwed over: how Apple and others are making it impossible to get a cheap and easy phone repair">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ameena Leah Payne, eLearning Advisor, Swinburne University of Technology “I completed high school 20 years ago and wanted a ‘little break’ before furthering my study. That ‘little break’ was extended as my family grew. Life happened, and I never quite found the right time to keep my ... <a title="‘A lot of us can relate to struggling to keep on top of everything.’ This is what mature-age students need from online higher education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/12/a-lot-of-us-can-relate-to-struggling-to-keep-on-top-of-everything-this-is-what-mature-age-students-need-from-online-higher-education-155201/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A lot of us can relate to struggling to keep on top of everything.’ This is what mature-age students need from online higher education">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Best to avoid the media just now if you’re squeamish about seeing needles. Political and other notables are rushing to bare arms for the jab, encouraging confidence in the COVID vaccines. Commendable example-setting of course. But just now the issue ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Morrison grapples with slow vaccine rollout, end of JobKeeper and ministerial crises" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/12/grattan-on-friday-morrison-grapples-with-slow-vaccine-rollout-end-of-jobkeeper-and-ministerial-crises-156975/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Morrison grapples with slow vaccine rollout, end of JobKeeper and ministerial crises">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. The leaking has already begun from the National Party’s top-secret report on their disastrous 2020 election campaign. It’s a fraught issue, illustrating just how dysfunctional and divisive things still are inside National. Trust is low, and fingers ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s blame game, secrecy and dysfunction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nationals-blame-game-secrecy-and-dysfunction/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s blame game, secrecy and dysfunction">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eleanor Gordon, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University Resources critical to peacebuilding and to countries vulnerable to conflict have been significantly reduced as a result of COVID-19. In conflict zones from Ukraine to Syria, hundreds of thousands of people are “suffering in silence”. These ... <a title="As the world’s attention and money are absorbed by the COVID pandemic, peacebuilding suffers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/as-the-worlds-attention-and-money-are-absorbed-by-the-covid-pandemic-peacebuilding-suffers-156577/" aria-label="Read more about As the world’s attention and money are absorbed by the COVID pandemic, peacebuilding suffers">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shivanthan Shanthikumar, Respiratory Medicine Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute It’s time to leave the playground but your 12-month-old daughter doesn’t want to. She gets angry, cries out loudly, breathing all the way out and then holds her breath. She turns blue around the mouth and faints. This ... <a title="What are breath-holding spells, the common phenomenon that causes children to faint?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/what-are-breath-holding-spells-the-common-phenomenon-that-causes-children-to-faint-131677/" aria-label="Read more about What are breath-holding spells, the common phenomenon that causes children to faint?">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
A View from Afar: Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning discuss whether the Five Eyes spy agencies are adequately monitoring white supremacist activity, and, what can be done. Plus Ollie Neas joins the panel to discuss whether the New Zealand Government is aware of what Rocket Lab is sending into space?
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frederic Kiernan, Research fellow, The University of Melbourne Review: Max Richter’s Sleep, directed by Natalie Johns. Music does things. For German-born, English-raised composer Max Richter, music is a “vehicle for travelling through the world, for getting through life”. So he says in the film Max Richter’s Sleep, ... <a title="Max Richter’s Sleep, a filmed antidote to modern life with music to dream by" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/max-richters-sleep-a-filmed-antidote-to-modern-life-with-music-to-dream-by-156491/" aria-label="Read more about Max Richter’s Sleep, a filmed antidote to modern life with music to dream by">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Michael Toole, Burnet Institute One year ago today, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared covid-19 a pandemic, the first caused by a coronavirus. As we enter year two of the pandemic, let’s remind ourselves of some sobering statistics. So far, there have been more than 117.4 million confirmed cases of covid-19 around the ... <a title="After a year of pain, here’s how the covid-19 pandemic could play out in 2021 and beyond" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/after-a-year-of-pain-heres-how-the-covid-19-pandemic-could-play-out-in-2021-and-beyond/" aria-label="Read more about After a year of pain, here’s how the covid-19 pandemic could play out in 2021 and beyond">Read more</a>
