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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Miles Pattenden, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry/Gender and Women’s History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University If Pope Joan — the infamous female pope of the 9th century – didn’t exist, you can see why someone would have had to invent her. For the ... <a title="‘A promiscuous she-pope with a dilated cervix’: the legend of Pope Joan, who gave birth on a horse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/a-promiscuous-she-pope-with-a-dilated-cervix-the-legend-of-pope-joan-who-gave-birth-on-a-horse-155378/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A promiscuous she-pope with a dilated cervix’: the legend of Pope Joan, who gave birth on a horse">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emil Temnyalov, Senior Lecturer, Economics, University of Technology Sydney Digital platforms like Facebook and Google give us easy access to media and information. But our collective dependence on these tech giants could in the long run reduce the quality of journalism, making us all worse off. The ... <a title="Getting news from Facebook and Google is convenient — but it comes at great collective cost" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/getting-news-from-facebook-and-google-is-convenient-but-it-comes-at-great-collective-cost-155720/" aria-label="Read more about Getting news from Facebook and Google is convenient — but it comes at great collective cost">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Franks, Conjoint Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle Book review: The Husband Poisoner, by Tanya Bretherton (Hachette). Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), introduces her iconic Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and features her famous quip: “poison is a ... <a title="Book review: The Husband Poisoner is about lethal ladies and dangerously tasty recipes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/book-review-the-husband-poisoner-is-about-lethal-ladies-and-dangerously-tasty-recipes-154267/" aria-label="Read more about Book review: The Husband Poisoner is about lethal ladies and dangerously tasty recipes">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic Dwyer, Director of Public Health Pathology, NSW Health Pathology, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, University of Sydney As I write, I am in hotel quarantine in Sydney, after returning from Wuhan, China. There, I was the Australian representative on the international World Health Organization’s (WHO) ... <a title="I was the Australian doctor on the WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China. Here’s what we found about the origins of the coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/i-was-the-australian-doctor-on-the-whos-covid-19-mission-to-china-heres-what-we-found-about-the-origins-of-the-coronavirus-155554/" aria-label="Read more about I was the Australian doctor on the WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China. Here’s what we found about the origins of the coronavirus">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne With less than three weeks left until the March 13 Western Australian election, the latest Newspoll gives Labor a 68-32 lead, two-party-preferred. If replicated on election day, this would be a 12.5% swing to Labor ... <a title="Whopping lead for Labor ahead of WA election, but federal Newspoll deadlocked at 50-50" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/whopping-lead-for-labor-ahead-of-wa-election-but-federal-newspoll-deadlocked-at-50-50-155735/" aria-label="Read more about Whopping lead for Labor ahead of WA election, but federal Newspoll deadlocked at 50-50">Read more</a>
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February 22, 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 Housing Damien Grant (Stuff): Who’s to blame for housing unaffordability? Bernard Hickey (Stuff): Should Reserve Bank overheat economy to blast free of low interest rate trap? Gareth Vaughan (Interest): You can’t lose with property mate Zane Small (Newshub): Housing Minister ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 22 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-22-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 22 2021">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Essay by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP. The past year is one that few of us will forget. While the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have played out unevenly across Asia and the Pacific, the region has been spared many of the worst effects seen in other ... <a title="Essay: Sustainable energy key to COVID-19 recovery in Asia and the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/essay-sustainable-energy-key-to-covid-19-recovery-in-asia-and-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Essay: Sustainable energy key to COVID-19 recovery in Asia and the Pacific">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Lueck, Professor of Tourism, Auckland University of Technology Freedom camping has a long tradition in New Zealand. Using your own vehicle as accommodation and parking in public spaces is seen as something of a birth right. But when international tourists cottoned on to this cheap and ... <a title="Freedom camping needs new regulations and foreign tourists aren’t the only villains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/freedom-camping-needs-new-regulations-and-foreign-tourists-arent-the-only-villains-155621/" aria-label="Read more about Freedom camping needs new regulations and foreign tourists aren’t the only villains">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natasha Kassam, Fellow, ANU National Security College’s Futures Council, Australian National University This is an edited extract of an essay in the latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs, The March of Autocracy, published today. It is the year 2049. China is celebrating having reached its second centenary ... <a title="How China is remaking the world in its vision" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/how-china-is-remaking-the-world-in-its-vision-155377/" aria-label="Read more about How China is remaking the world in its vision">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne In his submission to the current Senate inquiry into media diversity in Australia, former prime minister Kevin Rudd warns that Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News Australia is following the template laid down by Murdoch’s Fox News ... <a title="Is Sky News shifting Australian politics to the right? Not yet, but there is cause for alarm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/is-sky-news-shifting-australian-politics-to-the-right-not-yet-but-there-is-cause-for-alarm-155356/" aria-label="Read more about Is Sky News shifting Australian politics to the right? Not yet, but there is cause for alarm">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marc Pellegrini, Researcher, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Australia’s keenly awaited COVID vaccine rollout begins today, with the ultimate goal of vaccinating all Australians by October. Here are the answers to some key questions. Can I choose which vaccine I get? No, there won’t be a choice ... <a title="Can I choose what vaccine I get? What if I have allergies or side-effects? Key COVID vaccine rollout questions answered" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/can-i-choose-what-vaccine-i-get-what-if-i-have-allergies-or-side-effects-key-covid-vaccine-rollout-questions-answered-155649/" aria-label="Read more about Can I choose what vaccine I get? What if I have allergies or side-effects? Key COVID vaccine rollout questions answered">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Narissa Bax, Marine Biologist, University of Tasmania The military takeover in Myanmar this month is a serious setback for democratic reform. But the coup also threatens to permanently damage the Southeast Asian nation’s precious environment, and harm the people who rely on it. Myanmar is renowned as ... <a title="Before the coup, Myanmar’s stunning biodiversity had a chance. Now it is not so certain." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/before-the-coup-myanmars-stunning-biodiversity-had-a-chance-now-it-is-not-so-certain-155209/" aria-label="Read more about Before the coup, Myanmar’s stunning biodiversity had a chance. Now it is not so certain.">Read more</a>
