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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra If Scott Morrison had contracted COVID two months ago, it would have been a big story. Instead, when the PM fell victim this week, it was also-ran news. We are finally starting to “live with COVID”, as Morrison has insisted ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Morrison’s COVID bout a reminder the virus could disrupt election campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/grattan-on-friday-morrisons-covid-bout-a-reminder-the-virus-could-disrupt-election-campaign-178427/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Morrison’s COVID bout a reminder the virus could disrupt election campaign">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sabrina Pit, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Honorary Adjunct Research Fellow, Western Sydney University I’m writing this from the flooded far north coast of New South Wales, where all around me people are contending with the awful and unexpected consequences of a catastrophic ... <a title="Getting urgent medicines in a flood zone can be a life or death challenge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/getting-urgent-medicines-in-a-flood-zone-can-be-a-life-or-death-challenge-178300/" aria-label="Read more about Getting urgent medicines in a flood zone can be a life or death challenge">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
RNZ News Police have begun a “significant investigation” into yesterday’s events at the Parliament protest and say they will hold people accountable for any criminal behaviour. Police Assistant Commissioner Richard Chambers has held a media conference to provide the latest information on the aftermath of the anti-covid public health measures protest. Chambers said police made ... <a title="Parliament protest aftermath – NZ police enter ‘significant investigation phase’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/parliament-protest-aftermath-nz-police-enter-significant-investigation-phase/" aria-label="Read more about Parliament protest aftermath – NZ police enter ‘significant investigation phase’">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
RNZ News Police are out in force in New Zealand’s capital Wellington after yesterday’s massive operation to clear the illegal anti-covid public health measures occupation of Parliament grounds. There were chaotic scenes as protesters scrambled to save what gear they could and some were pepper-sprayed. People set fire to trees and tents and loud bangs ... <a title="Police out in force after chaotic scenes end anti-mandate protest at NZ’s Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/police-out-in-force-after-chaotic-scenes-end-anti-mandate-protest-at-nzs-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about Police out in force after chaotic scenes end anti-mandate protest at NZ’s Parliament">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia Climate change – fuelled by increasing greenhouse gases – is causing more extreme weather events worldwide. Many of these events, such as the “rain bomb” inundating Australia’s east coast and the recent heatwave in Western Australia, are associated ... <a title="Stalled weather: how stuck air pressure systems drive floods and heatwaves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/stalled-weather-how-stuck-air-pressure-systems-drive-floods-and-heatwaves-178157/" aria-label="Read more about Stalled weather: how stuck air pressure systems drive floods and heatwaves">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alasdair Macintyre, Associate lecturer visual arts, artist, PhD candidate, Australian Catholic University IMDB “Nice outfit” said an approving Jack Nicholson to the caped crusader in Tim Burton’s 1989 movie version of Batman, resplendent in menacing black rubber with bulging pecs, a six pack and very pointy ears. ... <a title="From dark knight to bat-nipples: the evolution of the Batman costume" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/from-dark-knight-to-bat-nipples-the-evolution-of-the-batman-costume-177827/" aria-label="Read more about From dark knight to bat-nipples: the evolution of the Batman costume">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney Cameron Webb/NSW Health Pathology, Author provided The extreme weather and flooding in recent days is likely to boost mosquito numbers, even as we say goodbye to summer. Like all insects, mosquitoes thrive in warm conditions. ... <a title="How to mozzie-proof your property after a flood and cut your risk of mosquito-borne disease" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/how-to-mozzie-proof-your-property-after-a-flood-and-cut-your-risk-of-mosquito-borne-disease-178299/" aria-label="Read more about How to mozzie-proof your property after a flood and cut your risk of mosquito-borne disease">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Cook, Lecturer in History, University of the Sunshine Coast As the floodwaters rose in Southeast Queensland last week, my phone buzzed with texts from friends. We compared this event with the last catastrophic flood of 2011 and tried to calculate whether our homes would be affected ... <a title="Why water inundates a home during one flood but spares it the next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/why-water-inundates-a-home-during-one-flood-but-spares-it-the-next-178163/" aria-label="Read more about Why water inundates a home during one flood but spares it the next">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Cook, Lecturer in History, University of the Sunshine Coast As the floodwaters rose in Southeast Queensland last week, my phone buzzed with texts from friends. We compared this event with the last catastrophic flood of 2011 and tried to calculate whether our homes would be affected ... <a title="Why water submerges a home during one flood but spares it the next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/why-water-submerges-a-home-during-one-flood-but-spares-it-the-next-178163/" aria-label="Read more about Why water submerges a home during one flood but spares it the next">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Layton, Visiting Fellow Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University There’s a problem with Australia’s brand new fighter jet – it’s just not that reliable. As a result, it flies about 25% less than it should. Less flying means fewer well-trained pilots, but it also hints at other ... <a title="Australia spent billions on jet fighters off the plan. Now, we’re having trouble even flying them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/australia-spent-billions-on-jet-fighters-off-the-plan-now-were-having-trouble-even-flying-them-177156/" aria-label="Read more about Australia spent billions on jet fighters off the plan. Now, we’re having trouble even flying them">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Hamilton, Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University It was only on Sunday that I wrote about the radical escalation in the economic and financial side of the war between Russia and Ukraine. That was before the financial ... <a title="Russian sanctions are biting harder than it could have imagined, and it’ll get worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/russian-sanctions-are-biting-harder-than-it-could-have-imagined-and-itll-get-worse-178322/" aria-label="Read more about Russian sanctions are biting harder than it could have imagined, and it’ll get worse">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s COVID diagnosis has barely registered a blip in the media. Although admittedly there is a lot in the news – with war in Ukraine and major floods on Australia’s eastern seaboard – the lack of newsworthiness ... <a title="Scott Morrison has COVID. It’s a big deal but not how you think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/scott-morrison-has-covid-its-a-big-deal-but-not-how-you-think-178298/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison has COVID. It’s a big deal but not how you think">Read more</a>
