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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rosemary Kennedy, Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Queensland University of Technology Shutterstock The stark difference between an aged care “home” and a real home has been laid bare by the COVID pandemic. Residential aged care buildings are often institutionally designed, even if they have the ... <a title="How good design can make aged care facilities feel more like home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/how-good-design-can-make-aged-care-facilities-feel-more-like-home-176465/" aria-label="Read more about How good design can make aged care facilities feel more like home">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Davina Porock, Professor of Nursing, Director of Centre for Research in Aged Care, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Bill? Why isn’t he home from work? I have to go and look for him. He’s never late – something’s happened. My chest is getting tight and tears start on ... <a title="Today’s aged care falls well short of how we’d like to be treated – but there is another way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/todays-aged-care-falls-well-short-of-how-wed-like-to-be-treated-but-there-is-another-way-177067/" aria-label="Read more about Today’s aged care falls well short of how we’d like to be treated – but there is another way">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominique Potvin, Senior Lecturer in Animal Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast Shutterstock When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds. Our goal was to learn ... <a title="Altruism in birds? Magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/altruism-in-birds-magpies-have-outwitted-scientists-by-helping-each-other-remove-tracking-devices-175246/" aria-label="Read more about Altruism in birds? Magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deanna Grant-Smith, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology Shutterstock Multi-level marketing (MLM) is a business model that relies on direct selling and consultants recruiting friends and relatives to also become consultants, salespeople or distributors. MLM salespeople sell products – such as beauty products, kitchenwares, essential oils or ... <a title="Thinking of joining a multi-level marketing scheme or MLM as your side hustle? Read this first" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/thinking-of-joining-a-multi-level-marketing-scheme-or-mlm-as-your-side-hustle-read-this-first-175052/" aria-label="Read more about Thinking of joining a multi-level marketing scheme or MLM as your side hustle? Read this first">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clifford Lewis, Senior lecturer, Charles Sturt University Dan Himbrechts/ AAP In 1985, calls for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade to be cancelled in response to concerns about HIV/AIDS were successfully countered by the organisers. The parade is now recognised as an important way of ... <a title="Homage, pilgrimage and protest: why Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade should go back to the streets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/homage-pilgrimage-and-protest-why-sydneys-mardi-gras-parade-should-go-back-to-the-streets-171820/" aria-label="Read more about Homage, pilgrimage and protest: why Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade should go back to the streets">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison on Tuesday will announce $804.4 million over a decade to strengthen Australia’s strategic and scientific capabilities in the Antarctic. The funding, including for drones, helicopters and vehicles, will enable Australia’s to penetrate inland areas of its claimed territory ... <a title="Scott Morrison commits $804 million over a decade for the Antarctic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/scott-morrison-commits-804-million-over-a-decade-for-the-antarctic-177548/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison commits $804 million over a decade for the Antarctic">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University shutterstock Two events in the past week mark a watershed for Australia’s electricity industry. The first, on Thursday, was Origin Energy’s surprise announcement that it intends to close the mammoth Eraring power station in the NSW Hunter region ... <a title="The battle for AGL heralds a new dawn for Australian electricity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/the-battle-for-agl-heralds-a-new-dawn-for-australian-electricity-177530/" aria-label="Read more about The battle for AGL heralds a new dawn for Australian electricity">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Eltham, Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University Shutterstock Canberra thinktank A New Approach put out an interesting paper last week on the state of public funding for Australian arts and culture. The report made some bold statements about the level of support given ... <a title="No, the federal government didn’t spend $4 billion on COVID support for culture and the arts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/no-the-federal-government-didnt-spend-4-billion-on-covid-support-for-culture-and-the-arts-177443/" aria-label="Read more about No, the federal government didn’t spend $4 billion on COVID support for culture and the arts">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris James, ARC DECRA Fellow, Centre for Hypersonics, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland SpaceX The giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – are some of the most awe-inspiring in our Solar System, and have great importance for space research and ... <a title="Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune: why our next visit to the giant planets will be so important (and just as difficult)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/jupiter-saturn-uranus-neptune-why-our-next-visit-to-the-giant-planets-will-be-so-important-and-just-as-difficult-175918/" aria-label="Read more about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune: why our next visit to the giant planets will be so important (and just as difficult)">Read more</a>
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February 21, 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 Parliamentary Grounds occupation Curia Market Research (The Platform): Parliamentary Protest Poll Results February 2022 Liam Hehir ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 21 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-21-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 21 2022">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aidan Carter, Head Tutor in Political Science; Tutor in Italian studies and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Social media are becoming an increasingly integral part of our everyday lives. We’re spending more time on our phones, but this is mostly on unproductive activities, which can take ... <a title="Want to learn a language? Try TikTok" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/want-to-learn-a-language-try-tiktok-174702/" aria-label="Read more about Want to learn a language? Try TikTok">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark O. Cuthbert, Principal Research Fellow & Reader, Cardiff University Shutterstock Urban greening is often touted as a way to tackle both heatwaves and floods in cities. This includes through green roofs, living walls, vegetated urban spaces, private and community gardens, habitat corridors, bushland and parks. But ... <a title="Why urban greening isn’t a panacea for extreme weather under climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/why-urban-greening-isnt-a-panacea-for-extreme-weather-under-climate-change-176556/" aria-label="Read more about Why urban greening isn’t a panacea for extreme weather under climate change">Read more</a>
