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Year: 2022

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How women could be the answer to Australia’s international education crisis

March 1, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angela Lehmann, Honorary Lecturer, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University The future of Australia’s international education sector is on the drawing board. In the midst of Australia’s COVID-19 surge, the federal government released the Australian Strategy for International Education 2021-2030. It paints a future ... <a title="How women could be the answer to Australia’s international education crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/how-women-could-be-the-answer-to-australias-international-education-crisis-177740/" aria-label="Read more about How women could be the answer to Australia’s international education crisis">Read more</a>

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Saint Olga of Kyiv is Ukraine’s patron saint of both defiance and vengeance

March 1, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Miles Pattenden, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University St.Olga by Mikhail Nesterov. The past few days have seen a spate of videos showing Ukrainians and their president defying an onslaught of Russian aggression. Who could fail to be moved by the ... <a title="Saint Olga of Kyiv is Ukraine’s patron saint of both defiance and vengeance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/saint-olga-of-kyiv-is-ukraines-patron-saint-of-both-defiance-and-vengeance-178019/" aria-label="Read more about Saint Olga of Kyiv is Ukraine’s patron saint of both defiance and vengeance">Read more</a>

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Omar Sakr’s ‘epic, stunningly dirty’ debut novel challenges macho heterosexual myths of Arab-Australian culture

March 1, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherine Fahd, Associate Professor, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney Paramatta Road: Omar Sakr’s debut novel gives voice to Arab-Australian Western Sydney. Raph07/Flickr, CC BY-SA Son of Sin, the debut novel from writer and poet Omar Sakr, tells the tale of Jamal Smith, a young Arab-Australian ... <a title="Omar Sakr’s ‘epic, stunningly dirty’ debut novel challenges macho heterosexual myths of Arab-Australian culture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/omar-sakrs-epic-stunningly-dirty-debut-novel-challenges-macho-heterosexual-myths-of-arab-australian-culture-175640/" aria-label="Read more about Omar Sakr’s ‘epic, stunningly dirty’ debut novel challenges macho heterosexual myths of Arab-Australian culture">Read more</a>

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Don’t go wading in flood water if you can help it. It’s health a risk for humans – and dogs too

March 1, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Reid, Associate Professor, Communicable Disease Control, The University of Queensland Floods are devastating communities in southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales and have pushed emergency services to their limits. Flood waters in Northern NSW are already at “unprecedented” levels, and are expected to worsen in ... <a title="Don’t go wading in flood water if you can help it. It’s health a risk for humans – and dogs too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/dont-go-wading-in-flood-water-if-you-can-help-it-its-health-a-risk-for-humans-and-dogs-too-178027/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t go wading in flood water if you can help it. It’s health a risk for humans – and dogs too">Read more</a>

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Don’t go wading in flood water if you can help it. It’s a risk for humans – and dogs too

March 1, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Reid, Associate Professor, Communicable Disease Control, The University of Queensland Floods are devastating communities in southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales and have pushed emergency services to their limits. Flood waters in Northern NSW are already at “unprecedented” levels, and are expected to worsen in ... <a title="Don’t go wading in flood water if you can help it. It’s a risk for humans – and dogs too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/dont-go-wading-in-flood-water-if-you-can-help-it-its-a-risk-for-humans-and-dogs-too-178027/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t go wading in flood water if you can help it. It’s a risk for humans – and dogs too">Read more</a>

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New IPCC report shows Australia is at real risk from climate change, with impacts worsening, future risks high, and wide-ranging adaptation needed

March 1, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Mackey, Director of the Griffith Climate Change Response Program, Griffith University Getty Images Climatic trends, extreme conditions and sea level rise are already hitting many of Australia’s ecosystems, industries and cities hard. As climate change intensifies, we are now seeing cascading and compounding impacts and risks, ... <a title="New IPCC report shows Australia is at real risk from climate change, with impacts worsening, future risks high, and wide-ranging adaptation needed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/new-ipcc-report-shows-australia-is-at-real-risk-from-climate-change-with-impacts-worsening-future-risks-high-and-wide-ranging-adaptation-needed-176691/" aria-label="Read more about New IPCC report shows Australia is at real risk from climate change, with impacts worsening, future risks high, and wide-ranging adaptation needed">Read more</a>

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IPCC report: this decade is critical for adapting to inevitable climate change impacts and rising costs

March 1, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judy Lawrence, Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Fiona Goodall/Getty Images Climate change impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand are real and future risks are high, according to the latest report released today by Intergovernmental Panel on ... <a title="IPCC report: this decade is critical for adapting to inevitable climate change impacts and rising costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/ipcc-report-this-decade-is-critical-for-adapting-to-inevitable-climate-change-impacts-and-rising-costs-177724/" aria-label="Read more about IPCC report: this decade is critical for adapting to inevitable climate change impacts and rising costs">Read more</a>

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Mass starvation, extinctions, disasters: the new IPCC report’s grim predictions, and why adaptation efforts are falling behind

March 1, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Howden, Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University Even if we manage to stop the planet warming beyond 1.5℃ this century, we will still see profound impacts to billions of people on every continent and in every sector, and the window ... <a title="Mass starvation, extinctions, disasters: the new IPCC report’s grim predictions, and why adaptation efforts are falling behind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/mass-starvation-extinctions-disasters-the-new-ipcc-reports-grim-predictions-and-why-adaptation-efforts-are-falling-behind-176693/" aria-label="Read more about Mass starvation, extinctions, disasters: the new IPCC report’s grim predictions, and why adaptation efforts are falling behind">Read more</a>

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Drinking water can be a dangerous cocktail for people in flood areas

February 28, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Parts of south east Queensland and northern NSW have been experiencing what has been called a “rain bomb”. Despite the heavy falls, south eastern Queenslanders in Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, Moreton Bay and the Lockyer Valley have been ... <a title="Drinking water can be a dangerous cocktail for people in flood areas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/28/drinking-water-can-be-a-dangerous-cocktail-for-people-in-flood-areas-178028/" aria-label="Read more about Drinking water can be a dangerous cocktail for people in flood areas">Read more</a>

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How the Russian military remade itself into a modern, efficient and deadly fighting machine

February 28, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexey D Muraviev, Associate Professor of National Security and Strategic Studies, Curtin University Russian President Vladimir Putin has described his country’s invasion of Ukraine as a “special military operation”. But from the start, this has not been a narrow, limited military campaign. The operation has been referred ... <a title="How the Russian military remade itself into a modern, efficient and deadly fighting machine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/28/how-the-russian-military-remade-itself-into-a-modern-efficient-and-deadly-fighting-machine-178014/" aria-label="Read more about How the Russian military remade itself into a modern, efficient and deadly fighting machine">Read more</a>

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What are the rights of children at the parliament protest – and who protects them?

February 28, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Breen, Professor of Law, University of Waikato GettyImages Children have participated in protests against nuclear weapons, wars, the loss of Māori land and customary rights, racism and child poverty. Young people themselves led the School Strike 4 Climate marches. But the continuing presence of children at ... <a title="What are the rights of children at the parliament protest – and who protects them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/28/what-are-the-rights-of-children-at-the-parliament-protest-and-who-protects-them-177356/" aria-label="Read more about What are the rights of children at the parliament protest – and who protects them?">Read more</a>

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Keith Rankin Essay – High Noon?

February 28, 2022

  Analysis by Keith Rankin. Yesterday I watched Kenneth Branagh’s recent movie, Belfast. A wonderful ‘biopic’ of that fraught city in 1969/70. It brought back memories of my own brief visit there in April 1976, when I rode into town on my trusty Honda – past Carrickfergus Castle. Then parked, and walked along Donegal Place, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – High Noon?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/28/keith-rankin-essay-high-noon/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – High Noon?">Read more</a>