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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Pike, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, The Open University In 2020, World Rugby undertook a painstaking policy process to address the issue of transwomen in rugby. This led to guidelines that exclude transwomen from competing in women’s rugby at the World Cup level — the first international ... <a title="Why the World Rugby guidelines banning trans athletes from the women’s game are reasonable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/why-the-world-rugby-guidelines-banning-trans-athletes-from-the-womens-game-are-reasonable-152178/" aria-label="Read more about Why the World Rugby guidelines banning trans athletes from the women’s game are reasonable">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chandra Salgado Kent, Associate Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University Review: Whale Fall, written by Ian Sinclair and directed by Melissa Cantwell for The Kabuki Drop. Commissioned by PICA and co-presented with Perth Festival. Whale Fall follows the emotional journey of a 12-year-old boy, Caleb (Ashton ... <a title="Perth Festival review: Whale Fall is a powerful story about a trans boy, and the life of a whale" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/perth-festival-review-whale-fall-is-a-powerful-story-about-a-trans-boy-and-the-life-of-a-whale-155733/" aria-label="Read more about Perth Festival review: Whale Fall is a powerful story about a trans boy, and the life of a whale">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University What’s the difference between Google and Facebook? One difference is that in the past week Google has more-or-less agreed to pay Australian news outlets for their content faced with the threat of government action to ... <a title="One of these things is not like the others: why Facebook is beyond our control" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others-why-facebook-is-beyond-our-control-155748/" aria-label="Read more about One of these things is not like the others: why Facebook is beyond our control">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damien Finch, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Melbourne In Western Australia’s northeast Kimberley region, on Balanggarra Country, a two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo spans the sloping ceiling of a rock shelter above the Drysdale River. In a paper published today in Nature Human Behaviour, we date the artwork ... <a title="This 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia’s oldest Aboriginal rock painting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/this-17-500-year-old-kangaroo-in-the-kimberley-is-australias-oldest-aboriginal-rock-painting-154181/" aria-label="Read more about This 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia’s oldest Aboriginal rock painting">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Hendriks, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Curtin University A recent petition circulated by Sydney school girl Chanel Contos called for schools to provide better education on consent, and to do so much earlier. In the petition, which since Thursday has been signed by more than 5,000 people, ... <a title="Not as simple as ‘no means no’: what young people need to know about consent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/not-as-simple-as-no-means-no-what-young-people-need-to-know-about-consent-155736/" aria-label="Read more about Not as simple as ‘no means no’: what young people need to know about consent">Read more</a>
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February 23, 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 Covid: General Tim Watkin (Pundit): The Law Of Diminishing Covid Returns: The Government’s Mood Management Task Liam Dann (Herald): Riding Dr Ashley Bloomfield’s Covid roller coaster (paywalled) Jamie Morton (Herald): Auckland lockdown was ‘frustrating’ but justified, says expert Josephine ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 23 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-23-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 23 2021">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Wilkie, Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics; Head of Monash Business School, Monash University When I was the chief economist at the US Federal Communications Commission, we oversaw was the acquisition of DirecTV, the satellite pay-TV platform, by News Corp in 2003. Prior to the merger, ... <a title="The news media bargaining code could backfire if small media outlets aren’t protected: an economist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/the-news-media-bargaining-code-could-backfire-if-small-media-outlets-arent-protected-an-economist-explains-155745/" aria-label="Read more about The news media bargaining code could backfire if small media outlets aren’t protected: an economist explains">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, La Trobe University A lot has happened over the past year, so you can be forgiven for not having a clear memory of what some of the major concerns were at the beginning of the pandemic. However, if you think back to the ... <a title="Catching COVID from surfaces is very unlikely. So perhaps we can ease up on the disinfecting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/catching-covid-from-surfaces-is-very-unlikely-so-perhaps-we-can-ease-up-on-the-disinfecting-155359/" aria-label="Read more about Catching COVID from surfaces is very unlikely. So perhaps we can ease up on the disinfecting">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bob Pressey, Professor, Conservation Planning, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Last week Australia joined a new alliance of 40 countries pledging to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 from pollution, overfishing, climate change and other environmental threats. Australia already ... <a title="Australia’s marine (un)protected areas: government zoning bias has left marine life in peril since 2012" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/australias-marine-un-protected-areas-government-zoning-bias-has-left-marine-life-in-peril-since-2012-153795/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s marine (un)protected areas: government zoning bias has left marine life in peril since 2012">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary John Brierley, Professor, Chair of Physical Geography, University of Auckland When two West Coast rivers flooded on the same day in 2019, the Waiho tore down a bridge and cut off local communities for 18 days, and the Fox eroded a landfill, exposing 135 tonnes of ... <a title="Why we should release New Zealand’s strangled rivers to lessen the impact of future floods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/why-we-should-release-new-zealands-strangled-rivers-to-lessen-the-impact-of-future-floods-153077/" aria-label="Read more about Why we should release New Zealand’s strangled rivers to lessen the impact of future floods">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Baré, Honorary Fellow, LH Martin Institute, The University of Melbourne Australian universities roughly doubled the number of casual staff employed to 23,000 (in full-time equivalents) from 2001 to 2019 (the latest year for which figures are available). The greatest increase in casual staff has been in ... <a title="COVID hit casual academics hard. Here are 5 ways to produce a better deal for unis and staff" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/covid-hit-casual-academics-hard-here-are-5-ways-to-produce-a-better-deal-for-unis-and-staff-155357/" aria-label="Read more about COVID hit casual academics hard. Here are 5 ways to produce a better deal for unis and staff">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Stone, Professor of Housing & Social Policy, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology Barriers to housing for people with pets around Australia are the focus of newly released national research by an interdisciplinary team. Why? Because laws are changing nationally but are highly inconsistent. ... <a title="Can I have a pet and be housed, too? It all depends…" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/can-i-have-a-pet-and-be-housed-too-it-all-depends-155202/" aria-label="Read more about Can I have a pet and be housed, too? It all depends…">Read more</a>
