Independent Analysis and Reportage
Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss whether sanctions will be effective in deterring Russian president Vladimir Putin from a full invasion of Ukraine and indeed cause Russian military to return to the Russian side of the Ukraine border.
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Alexei Nikolsky/AP There is no shortage of speculation about what Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to do with the vast Russian military force now virtually encircling Ukraine, and why he has amassed it. Its sheer size ... <a title="Putin is on a personal mission to rewrite Cold War history, making the risks in Ukraine far graver" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/putin-is-on-a-personal-mission-to-rewrite-cold-war-history-making-the-risks-in-ukraine-far-graver-177730/" aria-label="Read more about Putin is on a personal mission to rewrite Cold War history, making the risks in Ukraine far graver">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute SHVETS/Pexels, CC BY Many older Australian women face insecure futures. Those who are single, divorced or widowed are much more likely to suffer poverty, housing stress and homelessness. Our new Grattan Institute proposal for a national shared equity scheme ... <a title="Older women often rent in poverty – shared home equity could help some escape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/older-women-often-rent-in-poverty-shared-home-equity-could-help-some-escape-177452/" aria-label="Read more about Older women often rent in poverty – shared home equity could help some escape">Read more</a>
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the threats and violence against news media by protesters during the 16-day anti-covid-19 vaccine mandates occupation of Parliament grounds, and called for prosecutions of those responsible. The media are among favourite targets of some of the 500 or so protesters still camped in front of ... <a title="RSF condemns threats, violence against media from NZ’s ‘freedom convoy’ protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/rsf-condemns-threats-violence-against-media-from-nzs-freedom-convoy-protest/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns threats, violence against media from NZ’s ‘freedom convoy’ protest">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Kvalsvig, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Otago Pixabay/pedro_wroclaw , CC BY-ND As New Zealand’s Omicron outbreak accelerates, with new community infections doubling every few days, the rising number of child cases is a reminder of the challenge to protect the health and ... <a title="To protect children during Aotearoa’s Omicron outbreak, we need to consider their families, not just schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/to-protect-children-during-aotearoas-omicron-outbreak-we-need-to-consider-their-families-not-just-schools-176458/" aria-label="Read more about To protect children during Aotearoa’s Omicron outbreak, we need to consider their families, not just schools">Read more</a>
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mia Martin Hobbs, Research Fellow, Deakin University The Morrison government has clearly signalled its intention to make “national security” a key issue in this year’s federal election. It has repeatedly attacked the Labor opposition on issues including foreign interference, asylum seekers and defence spending. It places all ... <a title="‘National security’ once meant more than just conjuring up threats beyond our borders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/national-security-once-meant-more-than-just-conjuring-up-threats-beyond-our-borders-177632/" aria-label="Read more about ‘National security’ once meant more than just conjuring up threats beyond our borders">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Kavanagh, Professor of Disability and Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock People with disability bear a disproportionate burden of COVID infections, serious disease and death. Every time a support worker enters their home, people with disability risk COVID exposure. ... <a title="Masks, RATs and clean air – how people with disability can protect themselves from COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/masks-rats-and-clean-air-how-people-with-disability-can-protect-themselves-from-covid-176789/" aria-label="Read more about Masks, RATs and clean air – how people with disability can protect themselves from COVID">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Taimoor Sohail, Postdoctoral research associate, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Fresh water cycles from ocean to air to clouds to rivers and back to the oceans. This constant shuttling can give us the illusion of certainty. Fresh water will always come from the tap. Won’t it? Unfortunately, that’s not ... <a title="Climate change is warping our fresh water cycle – and much faster than we thought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/climate-change-is-warping-our-fresh-water-cycle-and-much-faster-than-we-thought-177453/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change is warping our fresh water cycle – and much faster than we thought">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natalie Galea, Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Construction is one of Australia’s fastest growing industries. It employs around 1,143,600 people, which accounts for 8.7% of the total workforce. Over the past five years, employment in the industry has increased 7.3%. The median weekly earnings for ... <a title="‘I would not be respected’: senior school girls told us why they weren’t interested in a construction career" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/i-would-not-be-respected-senior-school-girls-told-us-why-they-werent-interested-in-a-construction-career-173910/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I would not be respected’: senior school girls told us why they weren’t interested in a construction career">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vlado Vivoda, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies (Australian War College), Deakin University Petrol prices Wednesday morning. Ellen Duffy/The Conversation, CC BY Global crude oil prices have already reached their highest levels since 2014 in response to Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine. With Russia being the world’s second-largest ... <a title="What Russia’s war means for Australian petrol prices: $2.10 a litre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/what-russias-war-means-for-australian-petrol-prices-2-10-a-litre-177719/" aria-label="Read more about What Russia’s war means for Australian petrol prices: $2.10 a litre">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Abul Rizvi, PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne shutterstock As a senior official in Australia’s Immigration Department in the late 1990s, I frequently met counterparts in Europe and North America who were exasperated by their inability to make headway against the exploitation and abuse of hundreds of ... <a title="Australia is creating an underclass of exploited farm workers, unable to speak up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/australia-is-creating-an-underclass-of-exploited-farm-workers-unable-to-speak-up-177063/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is creating an underclass of exploited farm workers, unable to speak up">Read more</a>