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February 13, 2022
RNZ News Police say misinformation and a “range of different causes and motivations” are making it difficult to resolve the situation with protesters at New Zealand’s Parliament. In a statement this afternoon, Wellington District Commander Superintendent Corrie Parnell said police were continuing to monitor the protest activity at Parliament grounds as new community cases of ... <a title="Covid-19 outbreak: Misinformation spreading among NZ’s parliament protesters, say police" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/13/covid-19-outbreak-misinformation-spreading-among-nzs-parliament-protesters-say-police/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 outbreak: Misinformation spreading among NZ’s parliament protesters, say police">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne AAP/Steven Saphore NSW state byelections occurred Saturday in the seats of Bega, Monaro, Strathfield and Willoughby. Labor gained Bega and held Strathfield, but the Nationals held Monaro. In Willoughby, the Liberals are likely to ... <a title="Mixed NSW byelection results do not imply voters in a “baseball bat” mood" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/13/mixed-nsw-byelection-results-do-not-imply-voters-in-a-baseball-bat-mood-176879/" aria-label="Read more about Mixed NSW byelection results do not imply voters in a “baseball bat” mood">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lavina Lee, Senior lecturer, Macquarie University The stakes were high when the foreign ministers of the Quad security group met in Melbourne this week. The US has warned a Russian invasion of Ukraine could be imminent. And Russian President Vladimir Putin had just met with his Chinese ... <a title="The Quad has a strategy to counter China and Russia: be a force for global good without ideological warfare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/12/the-quad-has-a-strategy-to-counter-china-and-russia-be-a-force-for-global-good-without-ideological-warfare-176555/" aria-label="Read more about The Quad has a strategy to counter China and Russia: be a force for global good without ideological warfare">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Power, Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University Unsplash/NeONBRAND A focus on pleasure in sexual health education can increase condom use and enhance positive attitudes toward safe sex, according to a new international study ... <a title="Sex ed needs to talk about pleasure and fun. Safe sex depends on it and condom use rises" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/12/sex-ed-needs-to-talk-about-pleasure-and-fun-safe-sex-depends-on-it-and-condom-use-rises-176572/" aria-label="Read more about Sex ed needs to talk about pleasure and fun. Safe sex depends on it and condom use rises">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It’s a bad sign when a government starts eating its own. The backbench Liberal revolt that pushed a protection for transgender kids through the House of Representatives, and thereby inadvertently doomed Scott Morrison’s religious discrimination legislation, has bitten deeply with ... <a title="View from The Hill: Peter Dutton accuses Liberal rebels of breaking undertakings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/11/view-from-the-hill-peter-dutton-accuses-liberal-rebels-of-breaking-undertakings-176989/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Peter Dutton accuses Liberal rebels of breaking undertakings">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Omicron Cases. These two charts show the recent upsurge in reported Covid19 cases in the two larger countries with the most cases. (See my recent January league charts for where these countries fit in relation to others.) Both Denmark and Israel recently peaked with over 7,500 daily cases per million people; ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid Omicron in Two High Immunity Countries: Denmark and Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/11/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-omicron-in-two-high-immunity-countries-denmark-and-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid Omicron in Two High Immunity Countries: Denmark and Israel">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jaya A R Dantas, Deputy Chair, Academic Board; Dean International, Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of International Health, Curtin University While Omicron continues to infect people across Australia and the world, many people who’ve already had COVID will likely be re-exposed to the virus. Depending on ... <a title="Why don’t most people with COVID need to test for another 30 days, even if they’re re-exposed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/11/why-dont-most-people-with-covid-need-to-test-for-another-30-days-even-if-theyre-re-exposed-176515/" aria-label="Read more about Why don’t most people with COVID need to test for another 30 days, even if they’re re-exposed?">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Cross, Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology shutterstock In the chart-topping Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, three women describe how they were defrauded by convicted conman Simon Leviev (who was born Shimon Hayut) after meeting ... <a title="First the ‘love-bomb’, then the ‘financial emergency’: 5 tactics of Tinder swindlers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/11/first-the-love-bomb-then-the-financial-emergency-5-tactics-of-tinder-swindlers-176807/" aria-label="Read more about First the ‘love-bomb’, then the ‘financial emergency’: 5 tactics of Tinder swindlers">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Yeates, Director of the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Author provided While relaxing at the coast this summer, you might have noticed a few fellow beach goers failing to socially distance. You might even have had the unpleasant experience of one biting you and drawing blood. ... <a title="March flies prowl Australia’s beaches looking for blood – but why?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/11/march-flies-prowl-australias-beaches-looking-for-blood-but-why-176469/" aria-label="Read more about March flies prowl Australia’s beaches looking for blood – but why?">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock Many universities, facing revenue losses due to COVID-19, announced major staff cuts over the past two years. Estimates of the job losses have ranged from 12,000 by October 2020 to as high as ... <a title="Universities had record job losses, but not as many as feared – and the worst may be over" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/11/universities-had-record-job-losses-but-not-as-many-as-feared-and-the-worst-may-be-over-176883/" aria-label="Read more about Universities had record job losses, but not as many as feared – and the worst may be over">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Thorpe, Professor in Sociology of Sport and Physical Culture, University of Waikato Veteran snowboarder Shaun White in action at the Beijing Winter Olympics. GettyImages The stereotype of action sports as the domain of the young and the cool is long out of date. The demographics of ... <a title="Old gold: how action sports athletes are challenging age stereotypes and redefining lifelong physical activity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/11/old-gold-how-action-sports-athletes-are-challenging-age-stereotypes-and-redefining-lifelong-physical-activity-176882/" aria-label="Read more about Old gold: how action sports athletes are challenging age stereotypes and redefining lifelong physical activity">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Beth Morrison, Doctoral Research Candidate, The University of Queensland Children at Syria’s al-Hol camp, which houses families of members of the Islamic State group. Baderkhan Ahmad/AP/AAP Islamic State recently staged their most sophisticated attack since 2019 – a prison break to release former IS fighters in an ... <a title="Children are being used as ‘human shields’ in Syria – what is the world doing about it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/11/children-are-being-used-as-human-shields-in-syria-what-is-the-world-doing-about-it-175655/" aria-label="Read more about Children are being used as ‘human shields’ in Syria – what is the world doing about it?">Read more</a>
