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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris James, ARC DECRA Fellow, Centre for Hypersonics, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland SpaceX The giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – are some of the most awe-inspiring in our Solar System, and have great importance for space research and ... <a title="Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune: why our next visit to the giant planets will be so important (and just as difficult)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/jupiter-saturn-uranus-neptune-why-our-next-visit-to-the-giant-planets-will-be-so-important-and-just-as-difficult-175918/" aria-label="Read more about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune: why our next visit to the giant planets will be so important (and just as difficult)">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Parliamentary Grounds occupation Curia Market Research (The Platform): Parliamentary Protest Poll Results February 2022 Liam Hehir ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 21 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-21-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 21 2022">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aidan Carter, Head Tutor in Political Science; Tutor in Italian studies and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Social media are becoming an increasingly integral part of our everyday lives. We’re spending more time on our phones, but this is mostly on unproductive activities, which can take ... <a title="Want to learn a language? Try TikTok" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/want-to-learn-a-language-try-tiktok-174702/" aria-label="Read more about Want to learn a language? Try TikTok">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark O. Cuthbert, Principal Research Fellow & Reader, Cardiff University Shutterstock Urban greening is often touted as a way to tackle both heatwaves and floods in cities. This includes through green roofs, living walls, vegetated urban spaces, private and community gardens, habitat corridors, bushland and parks. But ... <a title="Why urban greening isn’t a panacea for extreme weather under climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/why-urban-greening-isnt-a-panacea-for-extreme-weather-under-climate-change-176556/" aria-label="Read more about Why urban greening isn’t a panacea for extreme weather under climate change">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Today’s action to cordon off the occupation of parliament grounds and prevent it growing might go some way to restoring public confidence in the police, ... <a title="The Wellington protest is testing police independence and public tolerance – are there lessons from Canada’s crackdown?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/the-wellington-protest-is-testing-police-independence-and-public-tolerance-are-there-lessons-from-canadas-crackdown-177523/" aria-label="Read more about The Wellington protest is testing police independence and public tolerance – are there lessons from Canada’s crackdown?">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucas Walsh, Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University A young woman in Melbourne in December 2021. Con Chronis/AAP Young people today are coming of age in the middle of a global pandemic, soaring house prices, an unpromising job market ... <a title="‘We get the raw deal out of almost everything’: a quarter of young Australians are pessimistic about having kids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/we-get-the-raw-deal-out-of-almost-everything-a-quarter-of-young-australians-are-pessimistic-about-having-kids-173751/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We get the raw deal out of almost everything’: a quarter of young Australians are pessimistic about having kids">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lawrence English, Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University Shutterstock At vaccine mandate protests in Canberra last week, police used powerful loud-hailing devices called Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) to address protesters. While some protesters claimed they were injured by the “sonic weapon”, those reports are inconsistent with what an ... <a title="What’s an LRAD? Explaining the ‘sonic weapons’ police use for crowd control and communication" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/whats-an-lrad-explaining-the-sonic-weapons-police-use-for-crowd-control-and-communication-177442/" aria-label="Read more about What’s an LRAD? Explaining the ‘sonic weapons’ police use for crowd control and communication">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine (Kate) Power, Lecturer in Management, School of Business, The University of Queensland Mick Tsikas/AAP Since former Australian of the Year Grace Tame declined to smile in a photo opportunity with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, debate has raged about what counts as politeness and impoliteness in Australian ... <a title="Please excuse me, is there a place for politeness in Australian politics?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/please-excuse-me-is-there-a-place-for-politeness-in-australian-politics-177437/" aria-label="Read more about Please excuse me, is there a place for politeness in Australian politics?">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Wark, Conjoint Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle Shutterstock GPs can now prescribe antiviral pills for some of their vulnerable COVID-19 patients to take at home. More patients are expected to have access in coming weeks and months. These drugs are given ... <a title="Taking COVID pills at home sounds great. But we need to use them wisely or risk drug resistance and new variants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/taking-covid-pills-at-home-sounds-great-but-we-need-to-use-them-wisely-or-risk-drug-resistance-and-new-variants-176235/" aria-label="Read more about Taking COVID pills at home sounds great. But we need to use them wisely or risk drug resistance and new variants">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Finch, Lecturer in Structural Geology and Metamorphism, James Cook University Shutterstock Two recent announcements hint at a seismic shift about to hit Australia’s coal industry. Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and Canada’s Brookfield put forward an extraordinary joint bid to takeover AGL Energy, Australia’s biggest emitting ... <a title="How Australia’s geology gave us an abundance of coal – and a wealth of greentech minerals to switch to" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/how-australias-geology-gave-us-an-abundance-of-coal-and-a-wealth-of-greentech-minerals-to-switch-to-173988/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia’s geology gave us an abundance of coal – and a wealth of greentech minerals to switch to">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Larsen, PhD candidate, Education & Psychology, University of New England Shutterstock In Australia, around 30% of primary and 40% of secondary school children attend a private, or independent, school. School fees vary widely, depending on the type of private school and the different sectors that govern ... <a title="Going to private school won’t make a difference to your kid’s academic scores" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/going-to-private-school-wont-make-a-difference-to-your-kids-academic-scores-175638/" aria-label="Read more about Going to private school won’t make a difference to your kid’s academic scores">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Bendall, Research Fellow, Gender and Women’s History Research Centre, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University Attributed to Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck, Kitchen interior with the parable of the rich man and the poor Lazarus, c. 1620-20. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam In this new series, Remaking ... <a title="Remaking history: in hand-making 400-year-old corset designs, I was able to really understand how they impacted women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/remaking-history-in-hand-making-400-year-old-corset-designs-i-was-able-to-really-understand-how-they-impacted-women-175055/" aria-label="Read more about Remaking history: in hand-making 400-year-old corset designs, I was able to really understand how they impacted women">Read more</a>
