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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>
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March 3, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss the ongoing Russian attacks against Ukraine, including: Whether the Russian Federation’s president Vladimir Putin has lost the support of significant leaders of allied nations, and if so what does this mean for Russia as a global power?
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marianne Hanson, Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland Russian forces in Ukraine may have used thermobaric weapons and cluster bombs, according to reports from the Ukraine government and human rights groups. If true, this represents an escalation in brutality that should alarm us all. ... <a title="What are thermobaric weapons? And why should they be banned?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/what-are-thermobaric-weapons-and-why-should-they-be-banned-178289/" aria-label="Read more about What are thermobaric weapons? And why should they be banned?">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Wilson, Associate Professor in Education, University of Sydney You may think “not another article on school funding”. But this important story has to be told and the book, Waiting For Gonski: how Australia failed its schools, should be read by every parent, economist and Australian committed ... <a title="Still ‘Waiting for Gonski’ – a great book about the sorry tale of school funding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/still-waiting-for-gonski-a-great-book-about-the-sorry-tale-of-school-funding-178016/" aria-label="Read more about Still ‘Waiting for Gonski’ – a great book about the sorry tale of school funding">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philippa Higgins, PhD candidate, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock The Northern Territory has some of the most pristine rivers in the world. But amid the big push to develop northern Australia, industries are lining up to take water from these wild waterways. The agriculture industry – and in particular, ... <a title="As industry lines up to take water from a wild Top End river, trees tell the story of a much drier past" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/as-industry-lines-up-to-take-water-from-a-wild-top-end-river-trees-tell-the-story-of-a-much-drier-past-177221/" aria-label="Read more about As industry lines up to take water from a wild Top End river, trees tell the story of a much drier past">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sean Phelan, Associate Professor of Communication, Massey University GettyImages One striking feature of the “freedom convoy” protests in Ottawa, Wellington and elsewhere has been the intense antagonism towards “mainstream media” (MSM). These antagonisms are expressed not only in now familiar descriptions of MSM journalists as sinister agents ... <a title="Why legitimate criticism of the ‘mainstream’ media is in danger of being hijacked by anti-vax and ‘freedom’ movements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/why-legitimate-criticism-of-the-mainstream-media-is-in-danger-of-being-hijacked-by-anti-vax-and-freedom-movements-178166/" aria-label="Read more about Why legitimate criticism of the ‘mainstream’ media is in danger of being hijacked by anti-vax and ‘freedom’ movements">Read more</a>
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March 3, 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 Vaccine mandates, Wellington anti-mandate protest Luke Malpass (Stuff): The protesters who set fire to ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 03 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-03-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 03 2022">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marianne Hanson, Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland Russian forces in Ukraine may have used thermobaric weapons and cluster bombs, according to reports from the Ukraine government and human rights groups. If true, this represents an escalation in brutality that should alarm us all. ... <a title="What are thermobaric bombs? And why should they be banned?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/what-are-thermobaric-bombs-and-why-should-they-be-banned-178289/" aria-label="Read more about What are thermobaric bombs? And why should they be banned?">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephan Rachel, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Melbourne IBM You probably know what a crystal is. We’ve all seen one, held one in our hands, and even tasted one on our tongue (for instance sodium chloride crystals, also known as “salt”). But what ... <a title="‘An ever-ticking clock’: we made a ‘time crystal’ inside a quantum computer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/an-ever-ticking-clock-we-made-a-time-crystal-inside-a-quantum-computer-178164/" aria-label="Read more about ‘An ever-ticking clock’: we made a ‘time crystal’ inside a quantum computer">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Fitzpatrick, Professor in International History, Flinders University Both sides in this war have plundered history. Vladimir Putin claims to be replaying the second world war by “denazifying” Ukraine, while his forces desecrate the Holocaust site of Babyn Yar. Putin’s opponents have their own analogies. Putin is ... <a title="Remembering the past, looking to the future: how the war in Ukraine is changing Europe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/remembering-the-past-looking-to-the-future-how-the-war-in-ukraine-is-changing-europe-178151/" aria-label="Read more about Remembering the past, looking to the future: how the war in Ukraine is changing Europe">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Seale, Associate professor, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Claims you can “devaccinate” yourself have been circulating on social media, another example of extreme and dangerous misinformation about COVID vaccines. Methods said to remove COVID vaccines from the body include using snake venom extractors or a type of traditional ... <a title="No, you cannot ‘devaccinate’ yourself with snake venom kits, bleach or cupping" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/no-you-cannot-devaccinate-yourself-with-snake-venom-kits-bleach-or-cupping-177439/" aria-label="Read more about No, you cannot ‘devaccinate’ yourself with snake venom kits, bleach or cupping">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura de Zwaan, Lecturer, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University Shutterstock How we can improve the teaching of financial literacy in high school? And why is it important? Financial Basics Foundation People need a basic understanding of financial concepts to make good financial decisions. Our ... <a title="Many students don’t know how to manage their money. Here are 6 ways to improve financial literacy education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/many-students-dont-know-how-to-manage-their-money-here-are-6-ways-to-improve-financial-literacy-education-177918/" aria-label="Read more about Many students don’t know how to manage their money. Here are 6 ways to improve financial literacy education">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Antonia Settle, Academic (McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow), The University of Melbourne The floods affecting Australia’s eastern seaboard are a “1 in 1,000-year event”, according to New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet. But that’s not what science, or the insurance industry, suggests. Throughout Australia in areas prone to ... <a title="After the floods comes the disaster of underinsurance: we need a better plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/after-the-floods-comes-the-disaster-of-underinsurance-we-need-a-better-plan-178143/" aria-label="Read more about After the floods comes the disaster of underinsurance: we need a better plan">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lynette Russell, ARC Laureate Fellow, Monash University, and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Monash University State Library New South Wales Every year, tens of thousands of New South Wales State Library patrons walk past a stunning mosaic replica of ... <a title="A tale of subterfuge, rivalry, Napoleon and snakes: how the NSW State Library came to own the map of Abel Tasman’s voyages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/a-tale-of-subterfuge-rivalry-napoleon-and-snakes-how-the-nsw-state-library-came-to-own-the-map-of-abel-tasmans-voyages-177069/" aria-label="Read more about A tale of subterfuge, rivalry, Napoleon and snakes: how the NSW State Library came to own the map of Abel Tasman’s voyages">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
RNZ News The area around New Zealand’s Parliament has today been the scene of a full-day ordeal of violence as police removed protesters whose behaviour prompted the Prime Minister to say there were “words I cannot use in this environment for what I saw”. Early this morning, police launched an operation at Parliament and the ... <a title="NZ Parliament grounds ‘reclaimed’: Police operation ends 23-day protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/nz-parliament-grounds-reclaimed-police-operation-ends-23-day-protest/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Parliament grounds ‘reclaimed’: Police operation ends 23-day protest">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she is saddened and angered by protesters’ actions today, and that the New Zealand Parliament’s grounds have been “desecrated”. Ardern addressed media after an afternoon that saw fires lit, explosions and objects thrown at police as an anti-covid public health protest sparked violent scenes. There have been multiple ... <a title="PM Ardern denounces violence, ‘desecration’ outside Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/pm-ardern-denounces-violence-desecration-outside-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about PM Ardern denounces violence, ‘desecration’ outside Parliament">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will discuss the ongoing Russian attacks against Ukraine, including: Whether the Russian Federation’s president Vladimir Putin has lost the support of significant leaders of allied nations, and if so what does this mean for Russia as a global power? We ... <a title="LIVE Thurs@Midday: Buchanan + Manning on why Putin has exhausted the support of his natural allies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/live-thursmidday-buchanan-manning-on-why-putin-has-exhausted-the-support-of-his-natural-allies/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE Thurs@Midday: Buchanan + Manning on why Putin has exhausted the support of his natural allies">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society and NATSEM, University of Canberra Australia’s economy bounced back a welcome 3.4% in the December quarter of 2021, more than reversing the 1.9% lockdown-related decline in the September quarter. It was the sixth-biggest increase in the ... <a title="Wednesday’s GDP numbers are impressive, but they are for the December quarter, when we were bouncing back from Delta" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/wednesdays-gdp-numbers-are-impressive-but-they-are-for-the-december-quarter-when-we-were-bouncing-back-from-delta-177821/" aria-label="Read more about Wednesday’s GDP numbers are impressive, but they are for the December quarter, when we were bouncing back from Delta">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Cook, Lecturer in History, University of the Sunshine Coast As a historian, I spend many hours at the State Library of Queensland looking out the large glass panels gazing at the Brisbane River. Its tranquil brown water quietly meanders past, offering an ideal place to watch ... <a title="Brisbane floods: pondering the wisdom of placing our major galleries, libraries and theatres on the banks of a flood-prone river" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/brisbane-floods-pondering-the-wisdom-of-placing-our-major-galleries-libraries-and-theatres-on-the-banks-of-a-flood-prone-river-178156/" aria-label="Read more about Brisbane floods: pondering the wisdom of placing our major galleries, libraries and theatres on the banks of a flood-prone river">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Deputy Dean Research at Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Tasmanians yesterday suffered a six-hour digital blackout, with phone and internet services down across the state. Some radio and television broadcasts were ... <a title="How Tasmania’s major digital blackout was fixed, and how another could be avoided – an electrical engineer explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/how-tasmanias-major-digital-blackout-was-fixed-and-how-another-could-be-avoided-an-electrical-engineer-explains-178169/" aria-label="Read more about How Tasmania’s major digital blackout was fixed, and how another could be avoided – an electrical engineer explains">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As the West watches appalled at Russia’s brutal attack on Ukraine, attention is increasingly turning to the question of Vladimir Putin’s longer term ambition, and the potential for this conflagration to turn into a wider war. Matthew Sussex, associate professor ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Russia specialist Matthew Sussex on Putin’s potential to start wider war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/politics-with-michelle-grattan-russia-specialist-matthew-sussex-on-putins-potential-to-start-wider-war-178306/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Russia specialist Matthew Sussex on Putin’s potential to start wider war">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As the West watches appalled at Russia’s brutal attack on Ukraine, attention is increasingly turning to the question of Vladimir Putin’s longer term ambition, and the potential for this conflagration to turn into a wider war. Matthew Sussex, associate professor ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Russian specialist Matthew Sussex on Putin’s potential to start wider war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/politics-with-michelle-grattan-russian-specialist-matthew-sussex-on-putins-potential-to-start-wider-war-178306/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Russian specialist Matthew Sussex on Putin’s potential to start wider war">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Mask mandates in most indoor settings have been dropped in New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT, with Queensland to follow later this week. Without a mandate, mask ... <a title="COVID mask mandates might be largely gone but here are 5 reasons to keep wearing yours" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/covid-mask-mandates-might-be-largely-gone-but-here-are-5-reasons-to-keep-wearing-yours-177824/" aria-label="Read more about COVID mask mandates might be largely gone but here are 5 reasons to keep wearing yours">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne The deluge dumped on southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales this week has been catastrophic. Floodwaters peaked at around 14.4 metres high in Lismore – two metres higher than the city’s previous record. So how ... <a title="‘One of the most extreme disasters in colonial Australian history’: climate scientists on the floods and our future risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/one-of-the-most-extreme-disasters-in-colonial-australian-history-climate-scientists-on-the-floods-and-our-future-risk-178153/" aria-label="Read more about ‘One of the most extreme disasters in colonial Australian history’: climate scientists on the floods and our future risk">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Saul, Professor of International Law, Sydney Centre for International Law, University of Sydney Oleksandr Ratushniak/AP The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, is opening an investigation into whether war crimes may have been committed in Ukraine. He is urgently seeking to preserve evidence as ... <a title="Civilians are being killed in Ukraine. So, why is investigating war crimes so difficult?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/civilians-are-being-killed-in-ukraine-so-why-is-investigating-war-crimes-so-difficult-178155/" aria-label="Read more about Civilians are being killed in Ukraine. So, why is investigating war crimes so difficult?">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Bentley, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Principal Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy Housing in Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Recent torrential rain along the east coast of Australia has sparked ... <a title="Sudden mould outbreak after all this rain? You’re not alone – but you are at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/sudden-mould-outbreak-after-all-this-rain-youre-not-alone-but-you-are-at-risk-177820/" aria-label="Read more about Sudden mould outbreak after all this rain? You’re not alone – but you are at risk">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
RNZ News Police have made 60 arrests today as part of a pre-planned operation to remove anti-covid public health protesters from New Zealand’s Parliament grounds. Police have been descending on Parliament from early this morning on day 23 of the occupation and have also begun towing larger vehicles, including campervans and trucks. They say they ... <a title="60 arrests made as NZ police say some Parliament protesters have weapons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/60-arrests-made-as-nz-police-say-some-parliament-protesters-have-weapons/" aria-label="Read more about 60 arrests made as NZ police say some Parliament protesters have weapons">Read more</a>
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March 2, 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 Vaccine mandates, Wellington anti-mandate protest Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): Giving a voice to Voices for ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 02 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-02-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 02 2022">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasiya Byesyedina, PhD Candidate in the Department of Government and International Relations, Sessional Teacher and Student Writing Fellow, University of Sydney Brendon Thorne/AAP Last Friday afternoon, I received a phone call from my mother in Ukraine. It was 5am Kyiv time and I heard her voice tremble ... <a title="‘We are in dark times’: what is it like for Ukrainians in Australia watching their country at war?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/we-are-in-dark-times-what-is-it-like-for-ukrainians-in-australia-watching-their-country-at-war-178029/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We are in dark times’: what is it like for Ukrainians in Australia watching their country at war?">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sanjaya Senanayake, Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Physician, Australian National University Shutterstock Since Omicron was detected in South Africa in late November, the SARS-CoV-2 variant has spread to more than 165 countries and is now the dominant strain. Omicron has more mutations than other strains: 72 ... <a title="How does Omicron compare with Delta? Here’s what we know about infectiousness, symptoms, severity and vaccine protection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/how-does-omicron-compare-with-delta-heres-what-we-know-about-infectiousness-symptoms-severity-and-vaccine-protection-172963/" aria-label="Read more about How does Omicron compare with Delta? Here’s what we know about infectiousness, symptoms, severity and vaccine protection">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca English, Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology Shutterstock Schools were thrown into a spin by the COVID-19 pandemic. When children were sent home to learn remotely, teaching methods remained largely the same. Many children, parents and teachers were frustrated by the difficulties they faced ... <a title="Traditional school doesn’t suit everyone. Australia needs more flexible options" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/traditional-school-doesnt-suit-everyone-australia-needs-more-flexible-options-177608/" aria-label="Read more about Traditional school doesn’t suit everyone. Australia needs more flexible options">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Iain Butterworth, Honorary Associate Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University The John Curtin Hotel in Carlton, another of Melbourne’s cultural landmarks, is set to close. Nearly 150 years old, the pub has long been a haunt of the union movement, Labor leaders, detectives, ... <a title="The psychology of a loss of place: when we demolish socially significant places, we demolish part of who we are" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/the-psychology-of-a-loss-of-place-when-we-demolish-socially-significant-places-we-demolish-part-of-who-we-are-177612/" aria-label="Read more about The psychology of a loss of place: when we demolish socially significant places, we demolish part of who we are">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Spoonley, Distinguished Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University GettyImages It has been interesting to watch media and public commentators come to the realisation – sometimes slowly – that the siege of parliament was not simply an anti-vaccine mandate “protest” but something with more ... <a title="The extremism visible at the parliament protest has been growing in NZ for years – is enough being done?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/the-extremism-visible-at-the-parliament-protest-has-been-growing-in-nz-for-years-is-enough-being-done-177831/" aria-label="Read more about The extremism visible at the parliament protest has been growing in NZ for years – is enough being done?">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. This week Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda ... <a title="Word from The Hill: Assistance for Ukraine and Peter Dutton’s fundraising" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/word-from-the-hill-assistance-for-ukraine-and-peter-duttons-fundraising-178173/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: Assistance for Ukraine and Peter Dutton’s fundraising">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vlado Vivoda, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies (Australian War College), Deakin University As economic sanctions on Russia escalate, there has been an attempt to isolate vital energy exports from the mix. This may be wishful thinking. US President Joe Biden last week said sanctions against Russia, including ... <a title="How disrupted Russian gas supplies will hit global and Australian prices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/how-disrupted-russian-gas-supplies-will-hit-global-and-australian-prices-178023/" aria-label="Read more about How disrupted Russian gas supplies will hit global and Australian prices">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Bianca de Marchi/AAP No one likes paying A$1.80 per litre for petrol. But amid forecasts of prices climbing to $2.10 as Russian’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, it’s possible some good could come of that ... <a title="As petrol prices rise, will carbon emissions come down?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/as-petrol-prices-rise-will-carbon-emissions-come-down-178024/" aria-label="Read more about As petrol prices rise, will carbon emissions come down?">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has announced A$105 million in a package of military and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine, and flagged he would support Russia being thrown out of the G20. The Prime Minister has also warned people not to go from Australia ... <a title="Morrison would favour expelling Russia from G20, as Australia provides $105 million for Ukraine assistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/morrison-would-favour-expelling-russia-from-g20-as-australia-provides-105-million-for-ukraine-assistance-178165/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison would favour expelling Russia from G20, as Australia provides $105 million for Ukraine assistance">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2022
RNZ News Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the national health system relies on New Zealanders’ continued cooperation as almost 20,000 cases are announced today. Dr Bloomfield is resuming his appearance at daily 1pm media briefings amid the omicron outbreak, with peak cases and hospitalisations expected in the next few weeks. He said today ... <a title="Bloomfield warns over ‘tough weeks ahead’ as NZ covid cases hit 20,000" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/bloomfield-warns-over-tough-weeks-ahead-as-nz-covid-cases-hit-20000/" aria-label="Read more about Bloomfield warns over ‘tough weeks ahead’ as NZ covid cases hit 20,000">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2022
By Vitorio Mantalean in Jakarta The Indonesian Independent Journalist Alliance (AJI) has condemned the hacking and disinformation attacks against the group’s general chairperson Sasmito Madrim as a serious threat to media freedom. In a written release, the AJI stated that the incident was a “serious threat to press freedom and the freedom of expression”. “This ... <a title="AJI slams hacking of group chief’s accounts as attack on press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/aji-slams-hacking-of-group-chiefs-accounts-as-attack-on-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about AJI slams hacking of group chief’s accounts as attack on press freedom">Read more</a>
