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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Long, Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University The giant prehistoric Carcharocles megalodon (or Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark to ever swim in Earth’s seas. Scientific evidence points to megalodon having lived between 16 million and 2.6 million years ago, going extinct ... <a title="Making a megalodon: the evolving science behind estimating the size of the largest ever killer shark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/making-a-megalodon-the-evolving-science-behind-estimating-the-size-of-the-largest-ever-killer-shark-155475/" aria-label="Read more about Making a megalodon: the evolving science behind estimating the size of the largest ever killer shark">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia Myanmar’s military appears to be testing out a range of vicious tactics in the hope something will stem the protest movements that have embroiled the country since the coup in early February. The military crossed a grim threshold last ... <a title="As killings, beatings and disappearances escalate, what’s the end game in Myanmar?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/as-killings-beatings-and-disappearances-escalate-whats-the-end-game-in-myanmar-156752/" aria-label="Read more about As killings, beatings and disappearances escalate, what’s the end game in Myanmar?">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Professor of International Health, Burnet Institute One year ago today, the World Health Organization (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 ... <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-156380/" 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>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Culum Brown, Professor, Macquarie University Michael, aged 14, asks: If the faster part of human evolution is over, and squids and octopuses continue to evolve, could there be an apocalypse where the cephalopods take over the world? If they continue to get smarter, octopuses would be much ... <a title="Curious Kids: could octopuses evolve until they take over the world and travel to space?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/curious-kids-could-octopuses-evolve-until-they-take-over-the-world-and-travel-to-space-156493/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: could octopuses evolve until they take over the world and travel to space?">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Banks, Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Animals, including humans, depend on accurate information to navigate the world. But we can easily succumb to deliberate misinformation or “fake news”, fooling us into making a poor choice. The concept of ... <a title="Scientists used ‘fake news’ to stop predators killing endangered birds — and the result was remarkable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/scientists-used-fake-news-to-stop-predators-killing-endangered-birds-and-the-result-was-remarkable-152320/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists used ‘fake news’ to stop predators killing endangered birds — and the result was remarkable">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Tregear, Principal Fellow, The University of Melbourne Academic freedom has become a common topic of Australian public debate. Yet the concept is rarely examined or critiqued in detail. That has not stopped it becoming a totemic issue for many on the political right. They consider Australian ... <a title="Book review: Open Minds explores how academic freedom and the public university are at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/book-review-open-minds-explores-how-academic-freedom-and-the-public-university-are-at-risk-156213/" aria-label="Read more about Book review: Open Minds explores how academic freedom and the public university are at risk">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan Nethercote, ARC DECRA Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Australia’s emerging build-to-rent sector is growing — “booming” by some accounts with a 70% jump in value in the past year. Under this model, institutional investors develop purpose-built rental apartments to retain and operate ... <a title="Build-to-rent surge will change apartment living for Australians, but for better or worse?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/build-to-rent-surge-will-change-apartment-living-for-australians-but-for-better-or-worse-154839/" aria-label="Read more about Build-to-rent surge will change apartment living for Australians, but for better or worse?">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Davis, Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne The vast arsenal of fiscal, monetary and legal measures used by Australian governments to offset the COVID-induced economic crisis have worked well. They did not prevent a recession (defined technically as two quarters of negative GDP growth) ... <a title="Hard bump ahead? Decline in insolvencies and bankruptcies is a ticking time bomb" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/hard-bump-ahead-decline-in-insolvencies-and-bankruptcies-is-a-ticking-time-bomb-155744/" aria-label="Read more about Hard bump ahead? Decline in insolvencies and bankruptcies is a ticking time bomb">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Limb, Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning, Queensland University of Technology Among the many explanations put forward for soaring home prices, one we hear repeatedly is zoning — the regulations that govern the purposes for which land can be used, including how densely people can be ... <a title="Zoning isn’t to blame for Australia’s soaring house prices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/zoning-isnt-to-blame-for-australias-soaring-house-prices-154482/" aria-label="Read more about Zoning isn’t to blame for Australia’s soaring house prices">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kwadwo Adusei-Asante, Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University Review: Black Brass, written and performed by Mararo Wangai; directed by Matt Edgerton. Performing Lines WA for Perth Festival. The scene opens into a messy music studio, used bottles and pizza boxes littered everywhere. A young man of sub-Saharan African ... <a title="‘Where are you really from?’ The harsh realities of Afro-Aussie life are brought to stage in Black Brass" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/where-are-you-really-from-the-harsh-realities-of-afro-aussie-life-are-brought-to-stage-in-black-brass-156110/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Where are you really from?’ The harsh realities of Afro-Aussie life are brought to stage in Black Brass">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
EDITORIAL: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report, the Auckland-based independent news and analysis website, has been increasingly targeted by Indonesian trolls over the past three months, involving a spate of “letters to the editor” and social media attacks. One of the most frequent letter writers, an “Abel Lekahena”, who claims ... <a title="Dear editor, we have you in our sights for reporting ‘the truth’ on Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/dear-editor-we-have-you-in-our-sights-for-reporting-the-truth-on-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Dear editor, we have you in our sights for reporting ‘the truth’ on Papua">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Nearly 800,000 half-price air tickets for travel to and from holiday areas will be provided under a $1.2 billion program to support aviation and tourism, to be announced by the Morrison government on Thursday. The measures are designed to assist ... <a title="Morrison government to subsidise holidaymakers in $1.2 billion tourism and aviation package" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/morrison-government-to-subsidise-holidaymakers-in-1-2-billion-tourism-and-aviation-package-156875/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison government to subsidise holidaymakers in $1.2 billion tourism and aviation package">Read more</a>
