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February 24, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Child poverty report and inequality Janet McAllister (Spinoff): What the new child poverty stats tells us – and what they don’t Claire Trevett (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s do-or-die child poverty promise (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Poverty figures ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 24 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-24-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 24 2021">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Niamh Kinchin, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Wollongong Developments in global border control technologies are providing innovative ways to address issues relating to migration, asylum-seeking and the introduction of illegal goods into countries. But while governments and national security can benefit from this, advanced surveillance ... <a title="AI facial analysis is scientifically questionable. Should we be using it for border control?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/ai-facial-analysis-is-scientifically-questionable-should-we-be-using-it-for-border-control-155474/" aria-label="Read more about AI facial analysis is scientifically questionable. Should we be using it for border control?">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Tiernan, Professor of Politics. Dean (Engagement) Griffith Business School, Griffith University Since news broke last week of Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape in a ministerial office in 2019, three other women have come forward, alleging sexual assault by the same Morrison government ministerial staffer. Higgins is expected ... <a title="Yes, the culture in Parliament House is appalling. But there are systemic problems that also need urgent reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/yes-the-culture-in-parliament-house-is-appalling-but-there-are-systemic-problems-that-also-need-urgent-reform-155755/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, the culture in Parliament House is appalling. But there are systemic problems that also need urgent reform">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Carlson, Post Doctoral Research Officer, Telethon Kids Institute As Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout begins this week, many people still have questions about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, both in the short and long term. As vaccine experts, we hear these concerns all the time, and it’s ... <a title="How do we know the COVID vaccine won’t have long-term side-effects?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/how-do-we-know-the-covid-vaccine-wont-have-long-term-side-effects-155714/" aria-label="Read more about How do we know the COVID vaccine won’t have long-term side-effects?">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian G. Fisher, Lecturer in Remote Sensing, UNSW As one of the longest structures in the world, the dingo fence is an icon of Australia. It stretches more than 5,600 kilometres across three states, including 150 kilometres that traverses the red sand dunes of the Strzelecki Desert. ... <a title="The dingo fence from space: satellite images show how these top predators alter the desert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/the-dingo-fence-from-space-satellite-images-show-how-these-top-predators-alter-the-desert-155642/" aria-label="Read more about The dingo fence from space: satellite images show how these top predators alter the desert">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Spyros Schismenos, PhD Fellow / Research Assistant, Western Sydney University In March 2019, a powerful storm hit southern Nepal. Residents in the Bara and Parsa districts had little warning. They sheltered in huts made from mud and brick which collapsed in the wind and rain. At least ... <a title="It’s 2am, you’re sleeping, and a flash flood hits your home. Without a warning system, what do you do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/its-2am-youre-sleeping-and-a-flash-flood-hits-your-home-without-a-warning-system-what-do-you-do-154805/" aria-label="Read more about It’s 2am, you’re sleeping, and a flash flood hits your home. Without a warning system, what do you do?">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Wilson, Associate Professor in Education, University of Sydney One of the boldest recommendations in the review of the New South Wales curriculum was to introduce “untimed syllabuses”. According to the review’s report – delivered in June 2020 — these do not specify when every student must ... <a title="A school system tailored to individual ability rather than age sounds good, but there’s no evidence it works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/a-school-system-tailored-to-individual-ability-rather-than-age-sounds-good-but-theres-no-evidence-it-works-155358/" aria-label="Read more about A school system tailored to individual ability rather than age sounds good, but there’s no evidence it works">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barbara Norman, Chair of Urban & Regional Planning and Director of Canberra Urban & Regional Futures, University of Canberra As we were still recovering from last summer’s fires in southeast Australia, the southwest fires brought in 2021. Both were far more intense fires than seen before, driven ... <a title="Fires bring home climate-driven urgency of rethinking where we live – and how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/fires-bring-home-climate-driven-urgency-of-rethinking-where-we-live-and-how-155044/" aria-label="Read more about Fires bring home climate-driven urgency of rethinking where we live – and how">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cecily Niumeitolu, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Book review: The Performance by Claire Thomas. Theatre and its constant recreation, allows for the possibility of the political. Sometimes this is manufactured by directors as they place a loaded question on stage. Sometimes it occurs as an unexpected interruption ... <a title="Book review: Claire Thomas’s The Performance triggers burning questions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/book-review-claire-thomass-the-performance-triggers-burning-questions-155043/" aria-label="Read more about Book review: Claire Thomas’s The Performance triggers burning questions">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
By a special Asia Pacific Report correspondent in Jakarta It was September 2019, and exiled Indonesian human rights lawyer Veronica Koman was enjoying her final days in Australia. Her studies at the Australian National University in Canberra were almost over and all that was left was to wait for graduation day. One afternoon, Koman’s mobile ... <a title="Democratic struggle won’t end with ITE law revision, says Koman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/democratic-struggle-wont-end-with-ite-law-revision-says-koman/" aria-label="Read more about Democratic struggle won’t end with ITE law revision, says Koman">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Craig Kelly’s jump to the crossbench leaves Scott Morrison’s government looking like the man who suddenly finds his jacket feels a little thin in the wind. It still has a majority, but not a comfortable one. The Coalition’s block of ... <a title="View from The Hill: Craig Kelly’s defection leaves government with razor thin majority" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/view-from-the-hill-craig-kellys-defection-leaves-government-with-razor-thin-majority-155897/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Craig Kelly’s defection leaves government with razor thin majority">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University The Victorian government has announced a Royal Commission into Crown Melbourne, following the damning findings of the Bergin inquiry into Crown’s Sydney casino licence earlier this month. The inquiry found Crown Sydney Gaming was ... <a title="Melbourne finally has a Crown royal commission — is this going to stop crime and gambling harm?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/melbourne-finally-has-a-crown-royal-commission-is-this-going-to-stop-crime-and-gambling-harm-155759/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne finally has a Crown royal commission — is this going to stop crime and gambling harm?">Read more</a>
