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February 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shane Keating, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Oceanography, UNSW Sydney Australia’s first ever Olympic curling team scored an historic win but missed the medal podium at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. It was a remarkable performance for a team lacking any dedicated curling facilities at ... <a title="The slippery science of Olympic curling: we still don’t know how it works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/15/the-slippery-science-of-olympic-curling-we-still-dont-know-how-it-works-176463/" aria-label="Read more about The slippery science of Olympic curling: we still don’t know how it works">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Josh Roose, Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University As the 2022 federal election draws nearer, there are many factors that may shape the outcome. This is not Australia’s first experience of a pandemic, nor the first time this has played a role in state divisions ... <a title="How ‘freedom rally’ protesters and populist right-wing politics may play a role in the federal election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/15/how-freedom-rally-protesters-and-populist-right-wing-politics-may-play-a-role-in-the-federal-election-176533/" aria-label="Read more about How ‘freedom rally’ protesters and populist right-wing politics may play a role in the federal election">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Niamh Troy, Researcher, Telethon Kids Institute Shutterstock Babies who get bad lung infections are at higher risk of developing asthma later on, a condition that affects 10% of Australian kids and costs Australia A$28 billion a year. Our new paper, published overnight in the Journal of Allergy ... <a title="We boosted babies’ immune systems and it protected them from serious lung infections: new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/15/we-boosted-babies-immune-systems-and-it-protected-them-from-serious-lung-infections-new-research-175338/" aria-label="Read more about We boosted babies’ immune systems and it protected them from serious lung infections: new research">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grace Wei, PhD Candidate, Brain and Mind Centre & School of Psychology, University of Sydney Shutterstock The COVID pandemic has had a huge impact on people living with dementia and their family carers around the world. Our study, published today, found people with dementia experienced worse symptoms ... <a title="Isolated, confused and depressed: the pandemic’s toll on people with dementia and their carers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/15/isolated-confused-and-depressed-the-pandemics-toll-on-people-with-dementia-and-their-carers-176970/" aria-label="Read more about Isolated, confused and depressed: the pandemic’s toll on people with dementia and their carers">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tania Ferfolja, Associate Professor, School of Education, Western Sydney University Shutterstock Debates about how schools acknowledge gender and sexuality diversity have been ongoing in Australia. It’s often claimed parents oppose the inclusion of gender and sexuality diversity content in the teaching of their children. But our research ... <a title="4 out of 5 parents support teaching gender and sexuality diversity in Australian schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/15/4-out-of-5-parents-support-teaching-gender-and-sexuality-diversity-in-australian-schools-176787/" aria-label="Read more about 4 out of 5 parents support teaching gender and sexuality diversity in Australian schools">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne Channel 9/60 Minutes Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes segment about the prime minister and his family, broadcast on February 13, was political confectionery so laden with sugar as to be a serious hazard to Scott ... <a title="Too much sugar, not enough spice: 60 Minutes’ Morrison interview was not journalism, it was confected pap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/14/too-much-sugar-not-enough-spice-60-minutes-morrison-interview-was-not-journalism-it-was-confected-pap-177058/" aria-label="Read more about Too much sugar, not enough spice: 60 Minutes’ Morrison interview was not journalism, it was confected pap">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. At the heart of the present geopolitical conflict centred on Ukraine is a divergent set of views as to what constitutes a ‘nation’. Rival Views of Nationality Firstly, ‘nation-states’ as we know them today arguably date to the 1645 Peace (or Treaties) of Westphalia, which negotiated the end of the bloody ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Nations, Territories, and Conflict" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/14/keith-rankin-analysis-nations-territories-and-conflict/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Nations, Territories, and Conflict">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Blackwell, Research Fellow (Indigenous Diplomacy), Australian National University It has been 14 years since then prime minister Kevin Rudd delivered his apology to the Stolen Generations from parliament house. Words which were so longed for from survivors and descendants of horrific government policies, and which echo ... <a title="Forgiveness requires more than just an apology. It requires action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/14/forgiveness-requires-more-than-just-an-apology-it-requires-action-177060/" aria-label="Read more about Forgiveness requires more than just an apology. It requires action">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arlie Loughnan, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Sydney Dave Hunt/AAP The royal commission into veteran suicide returned for its second session of hearings on Monday. With one veteran dying by suicide every two weeks in Australia and evidence veterans have poorer mental health than Australians overall, ... <a title="The royal commission must find ways to keep veterans out of jail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/14/the-royal-commission-must-find-ways-to-keep-veterans-out-of-jail-176880/" aria-label="Read more about The royal commission must find ways to keep veterans out of jail">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ross Hendy, Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University The continued occupation of parliament’s grounds by anti-vaccine mandate protesters (and others) provides a unique problem for police: how to lawfully and legitimately remove the occupiers without making the situation worse. The Speaker of Parliament has authorised police to clear ... <a title="The occupation of NZ’s parliament grounds is a tactical challenge for police, but mass arrests are not an option" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/14/the-occupation-of-nzs-parliament-grounds-is-a-tactical-challenge-for-police-but-mass-arrests-are-not-an-option-177054/" aria-label="Read more about The occupation of NZ’s parliament grounds is a tactical challenge for police, but mass arrests are not an option">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leah Mercer, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University Emma Fishwick/Perth Festival Review: And the Earth will Swallow Them Whole, choreographed by Rachel Arianne Ogle The first act of And the Earth will Swallow Them Whole, performed in Perth’s aptly-named Studio Underground, positions the audience around the ... <a title="The new dance work And the Earth will Swallow Them Whole is unsettling and deeply engaging" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/14/the-new-dance-work-and-the-earth-will-swallow-them-whole-is-unsettling-and-deeply-engaging-176801/" aria-label="Read more about The new dance work And the Earth will Swallow Them Whole is unsettling and deeply engaging">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharon Horwood, Senior lecturer in Psychology, Deakin University Shutterstock For more than a decade we’ve been deeply immersed in a love affair with social media. And the thought of ending things can be painful. But like any relationship, if social media is no longer making you happy ... <a title="Want to delete your social media, but can’t bring yourself to do it? Here are some ways to take that step" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/14/want-to-delete-your-social-media-but-cant-bring-yourself-to-do-it-here-are-some-ways-to-take-that-step-176149/" aria-label="Read more about Want to delete your social media, but can’t bring yourself to do it? Here are some ways to take that step">Read more</a>
