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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graeme Orr, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland In case you missed it, election season is upon us again. Like the elongated summers caused by climate change, campaigning is intensifying and being spread over longer periods every election. Although polling day is not due until May, ... <a title="Stronger laws on ‘foreign’ election influence were rushed through this week – limiting speech but ignoring our billionaire problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/stronger-laws-on-foreign-election-influence-were-rushed-through-this-week-limiting-speech-but-ignoring-our-billionaire-problem-177147/" aria-label="Read more about Stronger laws on ‘foreign’ election influence were rushed through this week – limiting speech but ignoring our billionaire problem">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma Carey, Professor, UNSW Sydney Newly released Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data show people living in poverty or disadvantage are three times more likely to die from COVID than the wealthy. This statistic is alarming, but it gets worse when we begin to look more closely ... <a title="Australia is failing marginalised people, and it shows in COVID death rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/australia-is-failing-marginalised-people-and-it-shows-in-covid-death-rates-177224/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is failing marginalised people, and it shows in COVID death rates">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By K M Shahunja, PhD candidate, The University of Queensland Shutterstock One in every nine people in Australia has asthma. It is a health burden for many children, and expensive for families because of medication, hospital and out-of-hospital expenses. The pandemic has added further stress and extra testing ... <a title="Passive smoking, synthetic bedding and gas heating in homes show the strongest links to asthma" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/passive-smoking-synthetic-bedding-and-gas-heating-in-homes-show-the-strongest-links-to-asthma-176677/" aria-label="Read more about Passive smoking, synthetic bedding and gas heating in homes show the strongest links to asthma">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Starling, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sydney Shutterstock The recent ABC TV series Muster Dogs has brought into sharp focus the incredible skills of our working stock dogs. It’s not just their sensitivity to livestock movement that makes them so good at what they do. They are ... <a title="A strong-eyed style: what makes Australian muster dogs unique" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/a-strong-eyed-style-what-makes-australian-muster-dogs-unique-177143/" aria-label="Read more about A strong-eyed style: what makes Australian muster dogs unique">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Wardlaw, Research Associate, University of Tasmania Author provided Southern Tasmania’s tall eucalyptus forests are exceptionally good at taking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converting it into wood. For many years, we have believed these forests had a reasonable buffer of safety from climate change, due ... <a title="In heatwave conditions, Tasmania’s tall eucalypt forests no longer absorb carbon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/in-heatwave-conditions-tasmanias-tall-eucalypt-forests-no-longer-absorb-carbon-176979/" aria-label="Read more about In heatwave conditions, Tasmania’s tall eucalypt forests no longer absorb carbon">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
By Tim Brown, RNZ News reporter The anti-mandate protests in New Zealand’s capital Wellington and around the country have also contained a strong anti-media sentiment with reporters abused and threatened. But one far-right activist has gone a step further and as part of a targeted attack on the media has published a graphic image of ... <a title="Anti-media sentiment among NZ protesters big concern, say experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/anti-media-sentiment-among-nz-protesters-big-concern-say-experts/" aria-label="Read more about Anti-media sentiment among NZ protesters big concern, say experts">Read more</a>
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February 18, 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 Luke Malpass (Stuff): New poll shows 30 per cent of Kiwis ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 18 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-18-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 18 2022">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brock Bastian, Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Have you looked at the international rankings of the world’s happiest countries lately? Measuring a country’s subjective levels of happiness has become something of an international sport. People look with interest (and a little ... <a title="Research finds countries that focus the most on happiness can end up making people feel worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/research-finds-countries-that-focus-the-most-on-happiness-can-end-up-making-people-feel-worse-177323/" aria-label="Read more about Research finds countries that focus the most on happiness can end up making people feel worse">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Alidoust, Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland www.shutterstock.com The severe lack of affordable housing is hurting Australians right across the community – from young renters, to families seeking to buy and older people needing a stable home. The number of Australians over 55 who are ... <a title="‘Where would we live otherwise?’: the rise of house-sitting among older Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/where-would-we-live-otherwise-the-rise-of-house-sitting-among-older-australians-173984/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Where would we live otherwise?’: the rise of house-sitting among older Australians">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie Wong, Lecturer/Research Fellow in Psychology, Flinders University Eduardo Barrios/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Many of us will have experienced some unexpected honesty from the older people in our lives. Whether it’s grandma telling you your outfit is unflattering or grandpa saying he doesn’t like the meal you’ve prepared, ... <a title="Do we really ‘lose our filter’ as we age?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/do-we-really-lose-our-filter-as-we-age-176248/" aria-label="Read more about Do we really ‘lose our filter’ as we age?">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Baak, Senior Lecturer, UniSA Education Futures, University of South Australia Shutterstock After August 2012, the Australian government introduced “deterrence policies” for asylum seekers who arrive here by boat. Part of this is keeping them on temporary visas and giving them almost no feasible pathway to permanent ... <a title="Education is a human right, but for most asylum seekers in Australia, university is an impossible dream" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/education-is-a-human-right-but-for-most-asylum-seekers-in-australia-university-is-an-impossible-dream-174881/" aria-label="Read more about Education is a human right, but for most asylum seekers in Australia, university is an impossible dream">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney ABS/Shutterstock Thursday brought news that Australia’s official unemployment rate in January remained at a historically low 4.2%. In parliament, Prime Minister Scott Morrision boasted of the nation being on track to achieve a rate “with a 3 in front of ... <a title="Vital Signs: Unemployment steady at 4.2%, but it will need to go lower still to lift wages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/vital-signs-unemployment-steady-at-4-2-but-it-will-need-to-go-lower-still-to-lift-wages-177218/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Unemployment steady at 4.2%, but it will need to go lower still to lift wages">Read more</a>
