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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel J Cass, Research Affiliate, The University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney Prime Minister Scott Morrison has flatly opposed the bid led by tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes to buy Australia’s biggest energy company AGL and spend A$20 billion switching it to renewables. This includes closing ... <a title="Why the Australian government should welcome Mike Cannon-Brookes’ plan to takeover AGL" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/why-the-australian-government-should-welcome-mike-cannon-brookes-plan-to-takeover-agl-177720/" aria-label="Read more about Why the Australian government should welcome Mike Cannon-Brookes’ plan to takeover AGL">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Flynn, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Monash University Paul Miller/AAP In Australia, on any given day, about 43,000 children have a parent in prison. We have to use the word “about”, as there is no official process to identify this group of children. There is ... <a title="About 43,000 Australian kids have a parent in jail but there is no formal system to support them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/about-43-000-australian-kids-have-a-parent-in-jail-but-there-is-no-formal-system-to-support-them-176039/" aria-label="Read more about About 43,000 Australian kids have a parent in jail but there is no formal system to support them">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thea van de Mortel, Professor, Nursing and Deputy Head (Learning & Teaching), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University Shutterstock Although mask mandates are lifting in some states, many people will continue to wear masks to protect themselves and others from the more transmissible Omicron variant. For ... <a title="How to get the most out of your N95 mask or other respirator" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-n95-mask-or-other-respirator-177229/" aria-label="Read more about How to get the most out of your N95 mask or other respirator">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pat Taggart, Adjunct Fellow, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Rabbits are an enormous problem for Australian ecosystems – they’re a major threat to 322 species of plants and animals already at risk of extinction. This is more than double the number of species threatened by cats and foxes. To ... <a title="Releasing a virus against rabbits is effective, but can make them immune if let loose at the wrong time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/releasing-a-virus-against-rabbits-is-effective-but-can-make-them-immune-if-let-loose-at-the-wrong-time-176028/" aria-label="Read more about Releasing a virus against rabbits is effective, but can make them immune if let loose at the wrong time">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss whether sanctions will be effective in deterring Russian president Vladimir Putin from a full invasion of Ukraine and indeed cause Russian military to return to the Russian side of the Ukraine border.
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Alexei Nikolsky/AP There is no shortage of speculation about what Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to do with the vast Russian military force now virtually encircling Ukraine, and why he has amassed it. Its sheer size ... <a title="Putin is on a personal mission to rewrite Cold War history, making the risks in Ukraine far graver" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/putin-is-on-a-personal-mission-to-rewrite-cold-war-history-making-the-risks-in-ukraine-far-graver-177730/" aria-label="Read more about Putin is on a personal mission to rewrite Cold War history, making the risks in Ukraine far graver">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute SHVETS/Pexels, CC BY Many older Australian women face insecure futures. Those who are single, divorced or widowed are much more likely to suffer poverty, housing stress and homelessness. Our new Grattan Institute proposal for a national shared equity scheme ... <a title="Older women often rent in poverty – shared home equity could help some escape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/older-women-often-rent-in-poverty-shared-home-equity-could-help-some-escape-177452/" aria-label="Read more about Older women often rent in poverty – shared home equity could help some escape">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the threats and violence against news media by protesters during the 16-day anti-covid-19 vaccine mandates occupation of Parliament grounds, and called for prosecutions of those responsible. The media are among favourite targets of some of the 500 or so protesters still camped in front of ... <a title="RSF condemns threats, violence against media from NZ’s ‘freedom convoy’ protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/rsf-condemns-threats-violence-against-media-from-nzs-freedom-convoy-protest/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns threats, violence against media from NZ’s ‘freedom convoy’ protest">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Kvalsvig, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Otago Pixabay/pedro_wroclaw , CC BY-ND As New Zealand’s Omicron outbreak accelerates, with new community infections doubling every few days, the rising number of child cases is a reminder of the challenge to protect the health and ... <a title="To protect children during Aotearoa’s Omicron outbreak, we need to consider their families, not just schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/to-protect-children-during-aotearoas-omicron-outbreak-we-need-to-consider-their-families-not-just-schools-176458/" aria-label="Read more about To protect children during Aotearoa’s Omicron outbreak, we need to consider their families, not just schools">Read more</a>
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February 24, 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 and mandates: Analysis Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Why Parliament’s occupation doesn’t symbolise ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 24 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-24-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 24 2022">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mia Martin Hobbs, Research Fellow, Deakin University The Morrison government has clearly signalled its intention to make “national security” a key issue in this year’s federal election. It has repeatedly attacked the Labor opposition on issues including foreign interference, asylum seekers and defence spending. It places all ... <a title="‘National security’ once meant more than just conjuring up threats beyond our borders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/national-security-once-meant-more-than-just-conjuring-up-threats-beyond-our-borders-177632/" aria-label="Read more about ‘National security’ once meant more than just conjuring up threats beyond our borders">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Kavanagh, Professor of Disability and Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock People with disability bear a disproportionate burden of COVID infections, serious disease and death. Every time a support worker enters their home, people with disability risk COVID exposure. ... <a title="Masks, RATs and clean air – how people with disability can protect themselves from COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/masks-rats-and-clean-air-how-people-with-disability-can-protect-themselves-from-covid-176789/" aria-label="Read more about Masks, RATs and clean air – how people with disability can protect themselves from COVID">Read more</a>
