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March 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabrielle Appleby, Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney The Senate’s education and employment legislation committee is discussing a Greens bill designed to shore up the independence of the Australian Research Council (ARC). The inquiry has revealed important questions about research independence, ministerial responsibility for grant programs, and ... <a title="As the Senate discusses research and ministerial vetoes, here’s one idea for an independent, accountable grant scheme" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/as-the-senate-discusses-research-and-ministerial-vetoes-heres-one-idea-for-an-independent-accountable-grant-scheme-179078/" aria-label="Read more about As the Senate discusses research and ministerial vetoes, here’s one idea for an independent, accountable grant scheme">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Thompson, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Shutterstock The announcement of the government’s decision to merge RNZ and TVNZ into a non-profit “public media entity” was long anticipated but, coming in the second year of Labour’s second term, underwhelming ... <a title="Merging commercial TVNZ and non-commercial RNZ won’t be easy – and time is running out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/merging-commercial-tvnz-and-non-commercial-rnz-wont-be-easy-and-time-is-running-out-179077/" aria-label="Read more about Merging commercial TVNZ and non-commercial RNZ won’t be easy – and time is running out">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2022
Editor’s Note: Here below is Dr Bryce Edwards’ New Zealand Political Roundup – which analyses one prominent topic being debated in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Political Roundup for free here. Political Roundup Autumn of discontent reflected in 1News earthquake poll Suddenly the prospect of Labour being ... <a title="Newsletter – Political Roundup Autumn of discontent reflected in 1News earthquake poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/newsletter-political-roundup-autumn-of-discontent-reflected-in-1news-earthquake-poll/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter – Political Roundup Autumn of discontent reflected in 1News earthquake poll">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Woodcock, Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Throughout the 2021 National Rugby League (NRL) season, commentators bemoaned the number of “blowout” results with a wide margin of victory between the sides. The average margin of victory during the season was 17.89 points, higher ... <a title="Have the NRL’s rule changes made boring blowouts the norm? The stats say no" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/have-the-nrls-rule-changes-made-boring-blowouts-the-norm-the-stats-say-no-178992/" aria-label="Read more about Have the NRL’s rule changes made boring blowouts the norm? The stats say no">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Scores of Papuan activists have held a protest in front of the Army Strategic Reserves Command (Green Berets) headquarters in Central Jakarta, demanding that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo withdraw military troops from Papua, reports CNN Indonesia. The protesters, who came from the Pro-Democracy Alliance and the Greater Jakarta Papua Student Alliance ... <a title="Papuan activists protest in Jakarta, demand Jokowi pull troops in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/papuan-activists-protest-in-jakarta-demand-jokowi-pull-troops-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan activists protest in Jakarta, demand Jokowi pull troops in Papua">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin O’Brien, Associate Professor, Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology Scott Eisen/AP/AAP Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has drawn swift condemnation from the United Nations, world leaders and protesters. But the outrage doesn’t stop there. McDonald’s has just temporarily closed 850 restaurants across Russia, while Starbucks says ... <a title="Can a martini stop Putin? How consumers and investors are imposing DIY sanctions on Russia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/can-a-martini-stop-putin-how-consumers-and-investors-are-imposing-diy-sanctions-on-russia-178643/" aria-label="Read more about Can a martini stop Putin? How consumers and investors are imposing DIY sanctions on Russia">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia Exactly two years ago, on March 11 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This was two months after there were reports of a mystery virus infecting people in Wuhan, the most ... <a title="COVID pandemic 2nd anniversary: 3 things we got wrong, and 3 things to watch out for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/covid-pandemic-2nd-anniversary-3-things-we-got-wrong-and-3-things-to-watch-out-for-177618/" aria-label="Read more about COVID pandemic 2nd anniversary: 3 things we got wrong, and 3 things to watch out for">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Haslam, Professor of Psychology and ARC Laureate Fellow, The University of Queensland Dave Hunt/AAP As French statesman Charles de Gaulle once said, faced with crisis a man of character “falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it ... <a title="Scott Morrison’s tone-deaf leadership is the last thing traumatised flood victims need. Here are two ways he can do better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/scott-morrisons-tone-deaf-leadership-is-the-last-thing-traumatised-flood-victims-need-here-are-two-ways-he-can-do-better-178984/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison’s tone-deaf leadership is the last thing traumatised flood victims need. Here are two ways he can do better">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Llewelyn Hughes, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Getty Offshore wind is playing an important role in Europe’s shift to renewables. Australia’s excellent offshore resources now look like they are going to contribute to our own energy transition. Last week, ... <a title="Offshore wind will come to Australian waters – as long as we pave the way for this new industry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/offshore-wind-will-come-to-australian-waters-as-long-as-we-pave-the-way-for-this-new-industry-178629/" aria-label="Read more about Offshore wind will come to Australian waters – as long as we pave the way for this new industry">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sergio E. Morales, Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology, University of Otago Shutterstock/Dale Lorna Jacobsen Antarctica represents one of the last frontiers for discoveries on Earth. Our focus is on what lies beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica’s massive wedge of floating ice that shelters the southern-most extension ... <a title="In the dark, freezing ocean under Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, we discovered a thriving microbial jungle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/in-the-dark-freezing-ocean-under-antarcticas-largest-ice-shelf-we-discovered-a-thriving-microbial-jungle-175735/" aria-label="Read more about In the dark, freezing ocean under Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, we discovered a thriving microbial jungle">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Peetz, Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University Shutterstock If one possibly positive thing came out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the impetus it gave to letting people work from home. Many see working from home as benefiting women workers. The logic is they can ... <a title="Many of us welcome working from home, but universities show its dangers for women’s careers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/many-of-us-welcome-working-from-home-but-universities-show-its-dangers-for-womens-careers-178142/" aria-label="Read more about Many of us welcome working from home, but universities show its dangers for women’s careers">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock It is fashionable these days to dunk on markets. Show me something bad in the world and I’ll show you someone blaming it on “neoliberalism”. Our collective failure to tackle climate change – that’s the fault of “neoliberalism”. Poverty, ... <a title="Vital Signs: what the neoliberalism-hating left should love about markets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/vital-signs-what-the-neoliberalism-hating-left-should-love-about-markets-178777/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: what the neoliberalism-hating left should love about markets">Read more</a>
