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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Partlett, Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne People rest in the Kyiv subway, using it as a bomb shelter. AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti With an all-out war on Ukraine underway, a key question has emerged: what can the West do to help Ukraine? Sanctions and limited military ... <a title="What can the West do to help Ukraine? It can start by countering Putin’s information strategy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/what-can-the-west-do-to-help-ukraine-it-can-start-by-countering-putins-information-strategy-177912/" aria-label="Read more about What can the West do to help Ukraine? It can start by countering Putin’s information strategy">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Change Governance Dr Lain Dare discuss the week in politics. They talk about the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, the immense uncertainty this has ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on a week that shook the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/video-michelle-grattan-on-a-week-that-shook-the-world-177908/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on a week that shook the world">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arosha Weerakoon, Lecturer, General Dentist & PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Most of us brush our teeth on autopilot. So let’s stop and ask: are you doing it properly? For a full two minutes? Do you use the correct type of brush and toothpaste? Did ... <a title="How to brush your teeth properly, according to a dentist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/how-to-brush-your-teeth-properly-according-to-a-dentist-177219/" aria-label="Read more about How to brush your teeth properly, according to a dentist">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suzanne Wilkinson, Professor of Construction Management, Massey University Shutterstock The pandemic has had a considerable impact on all businesses, but New Zealand’s construction sector appears particularly hard hit and is struggling to cope. Firms have failed, prices have gone up, and labour and materials are in short ... <a title="Shortages, price increases, delays and company collapses: why NZ needs a more resilient construction industry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/shortages-price-increases-delays-and-company-collapses-why-nz-needs-a-more-resilient-construction-industry-177052/" aria-label="Read more about Shortages, price increases, delays and company collapses: why NZ needs a more resilient construction industry">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leah Mercer, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University Perth Festival/Bew Yew Review: The Smallest Stage, by Kim Crotty for Perth Festival A small, white rectangle taped onto the wide, open expanse of the Studio Underground playing space is a literal representation of one of the small ... <a title="The Smallest Stage is an intricately crafted play for families about incarceration – and the power of stories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/the-smallest-stage-is-an-intricately-crafted-play-for-families-about-incarceration-and-the-power-of-stories-176802/" aria-label="Read more about The Smallest Stage is an intricately crafted play for families about incarceration – and the power of stories">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lawrence English, Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University Lawrence English, Author provided Vision is often regarded as first among the human senses, as our eyes are the way most of us come to know the world. However, vision has its limits. Even now, as you use your eyes ... <a title="Listening to everything: how sound reveals an unseen world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/listening-to-everything-how-sound-reveals-an-unseen-world-177806/" aria-label="Read more about Listening to everything: how sound reveals an unseen world">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Piccini, Lecturer in History, Australian Catholic University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND The Reds are back. Scott Morrison’s Liberal-National government has recently launched an offensive of “red-baiting”, a practice long thought consigned to the history books, in preparation for an anticipated May 2022 election. Last November, ... <a title="Still under the bed? Red-baiting’s long history in Australian politics – and why it’s unlikely to succeed now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/still-under-the-bed-red-baitings-long-history-in-australian-politics-and-why-its-unlikely-to-succeed-now-177543/" aria-label="Read more about Still under the bed? Red-baiting’s long history in Australian politics – and why it’s unlikely to succeed now">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giacomo Lichtner, Associate Professor of History, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington GettyImages During the anti-lockdown protests at parliament last year, I was told about a 15-year-old who stopped to ask someone why they were crying. The person replied they were Jewish and had been ... <a title="The NZ anti-vax movement’s exploitation of Holocaust imagery is part of a long and sorry history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/the-nz-anti-vax-movements-exploitation-of-holocaust-imagery-is-part-of-a-long-and-sorry-history-177710/" aria-label="Read more about The NZ anti-vax movement’s exploitation of Holocaust imagery is part of a long and sorry history">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hamish McCallum, Director, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University Shutterstock About two years into the pandemic, we’re still trying to find where and how it all started. Only last week, we heard bats in Laos may hold a clue about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, ... <a title="We want to know where COVID came from. But it’s too soon to expect miracles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/we-want-to-know-where-covid-came-from-but-its-too-soon-to-expect-miracles-172155/" aria-label="Read more about We want to know where COVID came from. But it’s too soon to expect miracles">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Science, Griffith University EUROfusion I first heard the standard joke about fusion as an undergraduate physics student in the 1960s: Fusion power is fifty years away – and probably always will be. More than fifty years later, we still don’t have ... <a title="Limitless power arriving too late: why fusion won’t help us decarbonise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/limitless-power-arriving-too-late-why-fusion-wont-help-us-decarbonise-176974/" aria-label="Read more about Limitless power arriving too late: why fusion won’t help us decarbonise">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard F. Heller, Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle Shutterstock Universities face many threats to their future. The traditional universities have become over-managed business enterprises, which may not reflect societal, national or global educational needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many of these issues into focus. In a ... <a title="Higher education must reinvent itself to meet the needs of the world today. Enter the distributed university" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/higher-education-must-reinvent-itself-to-meet-the-needs-of-the-world-today-enter-the-distributed-university-175927/" aria-label="Read more about Higher education must reinvent itself to meet the needs of the world today. Enter the distributed university">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney shutterstock A curious feature of the Australian tax system is “bracket creep”. Taxpayers whose income climbs by no more than prices (inflation) get no increase in their living standards. Instead, they see more and more of their income pushed into ... <a title="Vital Signs: stealth tax rises are eating into your income – but we know the solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/25/vital-signs-stealth-tax-rises-are-eating-into-your-income-but-we-know-the-solution-177630/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: stealth tax rises are eating into your income – but we know the solution">Read more</a>
