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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hamish McCallum, Director, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University Shutterstock About two years into the pandemic, we’re still trying to find where and how it all started. Only last week, we heard bats in Laos may hold a clue about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, ... <a title="We want to know where COVID came from. But it’s too soon to expect miracles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/we-want-to-know-where-covid-came-from-but-its-too-soon-to-expect-miracles-172155/" aria-label="Read more about We want to know where COVID came from. But it’s too soon to expect miracles">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Science, Griffith University EUROfusion I first heard the standard joke about fusion as an undergraduate physics student in the 1960s: Fusion power is fifty years away – and probably always will be. More than fifty years later, we still don’t have ... <a title="Limitless power arriving too late: why fusion won’t help us decarbonise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/limitless-power-arriving-too-late-why-fusion-wont-help-us-decarbonise-176974/" aria-label="Read more about Limitless power arriving too late: why fusion won’t help us decarbonise">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard F. Heller, Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle Shutterstock Universities face many threats to their future. The traditional universities have become over-managed business enterprises, which may not reflect societal, national or global educational needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many of these issues into focus. In a ... <a title="Higher education must reinvent itself to meet the needs of the world today. Enter the distributed university" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/higher-education-must-reinvent-itself-to-meet-the-needs-of-the-world-today-enter-the-distributed-university-175927/" aria-label="Read more about Higher education must reinvent itself to meet the needs of the world today. Enter the distributed university">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney shutterstock A curious feature of the Australian tax system is “bracket creep”. Taxpayers whose income climbs by no more than prices (inflation) get no increase in their living standards. Instead, they see more and more of their income pushed into ... <a title="Vital Signs: stealth tax rises are eating into your income – but we know the solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/vital-signs-stealth-tax-rises-are-eating-into-your-income-but-we-know-the-solution-177630/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: stealth tax rises are eating into your income – but we know the solution">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meg Elkins, Senior Lecturer with School of Economics, Finance and Marketing and Behavioural Business Lab Member, RMIT University Netflix Two of Netflix’s top trending series, Inventing Anna and The Tinder Swindler retell the true stories of convicted con artists, who fleeced their victims through the well-established ruse ... <a title="We’re obsessed with shows about con artists like Inventing Anna: the fascination lies in how easily these people can dupe us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/were-obsessed-with-shows-about-con-artists-like-inventing-anna-the-fascination-lies-in-how-easily-these-people-can-dupe-us-177535/" aria-label="Read more about We’re obsessed with shows about con artists like Inventing Anna: the fascination lies in how easily these people can dupe us">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As Russia’s attack on Ukraine unfolds dramatically, Australia is in the choir stalls, not centre stage, when it comes to the West’s response. But Scott Morrison is determined its voice be loud. His denunciation of the Russian “thugs” and “bullies” ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Faraway conflict feeds into Morrison’s national security pitch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/grattan-on-friday-faraway-conflict-feeds-into-morrisons-national-security-pitch-177833/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Faraway conflict feeds into Morrison’s national security pitch">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mamoun Alazab, Associate Professor, Charles Darwin University Getty Images As Ukrainian cities come under air attack from Russian forces, the country has also suffered the latest blows in an ongoing campaign of cyber attacks. Several of Ukraine’s bank and government department websites crashed on Wednesday, the BBC ... <a title="Russia is using an onslaught of cyber attacks to undermine Ukraine’s defence capabilities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/russia-is-using-an-onslaught-of-cyber-attacks-to-undermine-ukraines-defence-capabilities-177638/" aria-label="Read more about Russia is using an onslaught of cyber attacks to undermine Ukraine’s defence capabilities">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The mainstream political narrative that emerged in late March 2020 was a ‘narrative of fear’ which set up the Covid19 coronavirus as a ‘tricky’ enemy that was out to get us by finding ways through our defences; and that we had to build collective barrier defences; defences such as lockdowns, border ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Omicron Covid and Political Narrative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/keith-rankin-analysis-omicron-covid-and-political-narrative/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Omicron Covid and Political Narrative">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
RNZ News New Zealand will move to phase 3 of the omicron response at 11.59pm tonight, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has confirmed. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Hipkins laid out what phase 3 includes. While the ministry’s daily update of case numbers will come out later this afternoon, Hipkins confirmed today’s cases ... <a title="Covid-19 omicron outbreak: NZ moves to phase 3 of response to soaring cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-nz-moves-to-phase-3-of-response-to-soaring-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 omicron outbreak: NZ moves to phase 3 of response to soaring cases">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
National Māori Authority chair Matthew Tukaki has seen plenty of protests and received his fair share of abuse, but what’s been happening in Wellington this week is like nothing he has encountered before. Justin Latif reports for Local Democracy Reporting. If there’s one thing Matthew Tukaki thought he and the protesters at Parliament might agree ... <a title="Facing up to anti-mandate protesters at Parliament – the brutal reality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/facing-up-to-anti-mandate-protesters-at-parliament-the-brutal-reality/" aria-label="Read more about Facing up to anti-mandate protesters at Parliament – the brutal reality">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby The People’s Party has made an unprecedented announcement to endorse four women candidates for all four National Capital District (NCD) seats in the Papua New Guinea national election this year. Making the announcement at Parliament House, People’s Party founder and Enga Governor, Sir Peter Ipatas introduced the four candidates ... <a title="People’s Party back all-women team for PNG capital hot seats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/peoples-party-back-all-women-team-for-png-capital-hot-seats/" aria-label="Read more about People’s Party back all-women team for PNG capital hot seats">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
By Jake McKee, RNZ News reporter Misinformation researchers are concerned the protest at New Zealand’ s Parliament is becoming a “free-for-all” as the idea of any leadership within the blockade area slips away. In recent days, the messaging among the occupation has noticeably fractured and with a number of people joining in, including influential personalities ... <a title="Fears that NZ Parliament protest turning into political ‘free-for-all’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/fears-that-nz-parliament-protest-turning-into-political-free-for-all/" aria-label="Read more about Fears that NZ Parliament protest turning into political ‘free-for-all’">Read more</a>
