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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Smith, Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney In the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, seven out of 50 Republican senators voted to convict the former president of inciting insurrection. This has raised more questions than it has ... <a title="After Trump, what is the future of the Republican Party?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/after-trump-what-is-the-future-of-the-republican-party-154726/" aria-label="Read more about After Trump, what is the future of the Republican Party?">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato The revelation that Air New Zealand had been silently contracting services to the Saudi Arabian navy was apparently not the only instance of New Zealand’s connection to the murderous war in Yemen. A week after Air New Zealand apologised ... <a title="The crisis in Yemen demands an independent review of NZ’s military links with Saudi Arabia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/the-crisis-in-yemen-demands-an-independent-review-of-nzs-military-links-with-saudi-arabia-155301/" aria-label="Read more about The crisis in Yemen demands an independent review of NZ’s military links with Saudi Arabia">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Xavier Symons, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University The much anticipated rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will begin in Australia on Monday. The first groups to receive the jab will be quarantine and border workers, frontline health-care workers, aged-care and disability-care workers, and aged-care and disability-care ... <a title="COVID vaccine consent for aged-care residents: it’s ethically tricky, but there are ways to get it right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/covid-vaccine-consent-for-aged-care-residents-its-ethically-tricky-but-there-are-ways-to-get-it-right-155380/" aria-label="Read more about COVID vaccine consent for aged-care residents: it’s ethically tricky, but there are ways to get it right">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Markwell, Adjunct Professor, Southern Cross University The koala is a much-loved species and lucrative tourism drawcard. Yet, for all its popularity, koalas are forecast to be extinct in NSW within 30 years. Understanding the koala-human relationship might go some way to saving the species. My research ... <a title="Why do we love koalas so much? Because they look like human babies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/why-do-we-love-koalas-so-much-because-they-look-like-human-babies-153619/" aria-label="Read more about Why do we love koalas so much? Because they look like human babies">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Donna Pendergast, Dean, School of Educational and Professional Studies, Griffith University “At the end of the war men returned from the battlefield grown silent — not richer, but poorer in communicable experience”, wrote Walter Benjamin after the first world war. So too, school students may reflect on ... <a title="Fears loom for teens undergoing vital brain development during COVID. Telling stories might help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/fears-loom-for-teens-undergoing-vital-brain-development-during-covid-telling-stories-might-help-155295/" aria-label="Read more about Fears loom for teens undergoing vital brain development during COVID. Telling stories might help">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Donnelly, Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney Australia urgently needs housing types that meet the needs of older women facing homelessness. One such model is Chinese siheyuan courtyard housing, which provides safe, affordable and private living spaces while maintaining a sense of community. It ... <a title="How Chinese courtyard housing can help older Australian women avoid homelessness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/how-chinese-courtyard-housing-can-help-older-australian-women-avoid-homelessness-151378/" aria-label="Read more about How Chinese courtyard housing can help older Australian women avoid homelessness">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Fujak, Lecturer in Sport Management, Deakin University Netball Australia has signed a five-year deal it describes as “ground-breaking”. Every game of every round of each year’s Super Netball competition will be broadcast live and ad-free on Foxtel platforms including its sports streaming app Kayo Sports. For ... <a title="Regardless of the rules, sport is fleeing free TV for pay, and it might be an avalanche" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/regardless-of-the-rules-sport-is-fleeing-free-tv-for-pay-and-it-might-be-an-avalanche-154640/" aria-label="Read more about Regardless of the rules, sport is fleeing free TV for pay, and it might be an avalanche">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Henry Reynolds, Honorary Research Professor, Aboriginal Studies Global Cultures & Languages, University of Tasmania Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images of deceased people. Historical research of the last 20 years has confirmed the central importance of the killing times. They lasted ... <a title="Friday essay: it’s time for a new museum dedicated to the fighters of the frontier wars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/friday-essay-its-time-for-a-new-museum-dedicated-to-the-fighters-of-the-frontier-wars-155299/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: it’s time for a new museum dedicated to the fighters of the frontier wars">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has been wounded by the public revelation this week of an alleged rape in Parliament House. But the fear must be that along the way Brittany Higgins, the young woman whose story shocked the country, has become a ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison dealt poorly with a young woman’s shocking story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/grattan-on-friday-scott-morrison-dealt-poorly-with-a-young-womans-shocking-story-155570/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison dealt poorly with a young woman’s shocking story">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Groom, Laboratory Head, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A new Australian study, published overnight in Nature Communications, gives an insight into how kids’ immune systems respond to infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It’s the first study, to my knowledge, that directly compares children ... <a title="Why do kids tend to have milder COVID? This new study gives us a clue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/why-do-kids-tend-to-have-milder-covid-this-new-study-gives-us-a-clue-155555/" aria-label="Read more about Why do kids tend to have milder COVID? This new study gives us a clue">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University In denying news content to its Australian users, Facebook is arguably overplaying its hand, behaving as a big company that thinks it can intimidate governments. If it keeps doing this, it will ultimately lose customers, and ... <a title="Feel like breaking up with Facebook? Maybe it’s time for a social media spring clean" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/feel-like-breaking-up-with-facebook-maybe-its-time-for-a-social-media-spring-clean-155559/" aria-label="Read more about Feel like breaking up with Facebook? Maybe it’s time for a social media spring clean">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caroline Fisher, Co-author of the Digital News Report: Australia 2020, Deputy Director of the News and Media Research Centre, and Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Canberra Facebook’s decision to remove Australian news from its platform is the latest gambit in a running stoush with the federal ... <a title="As Facebook ups the ante on news, regional and elderly Australians will be hardest hit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/as-facebook-ups-the-ante-on-news-regional-and-elderly-australians-will-be-hardest-hit-155557/" aria-label="Read more about As Facebook ups the ante on news, regional and elderly Australians will be hardest hit">Read more</a>
