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January 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University AAP/Lukas Coch January 3 2022 was a day like most others in the roughly two years of the COVID-19 pandemic preceding it – except it wasn’t. Despite reassurances from a federal government desperate to consign the health emergency ... <a title="Morrison’s political judgement goes missing on rapid antigen test debacle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/morrisons-political-judgement-goes-missing-on-rapid-antigen-test-debacle-174324/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison’s political judgement goes missing on rapid antigen test debacle">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julieanne Lamond, Senior Lecturer in English, Australian National University Stuart Robert, who as acting Education Minister vetoed six ARC approved research projects. Lukas Coch/AAP On Christmas Eve, many researchers across the country received the news that their Australian Research Council (ARC) funding applications had failed. For most ... <a title="Ministerial interference is an attack on academic freedom and Australia’s literary culture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/ministerial-interference-is-an-attack-on-academic-freedom-and-australias-literary-culture-174329/" aria-label="Read more about Ministerial interference is an attack on academic freedom and Australia’s literary culture">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike W Morley, Associate Professor, Flinders University Micro-drilling sediment blocks to extract powder for genetic analysis Archaeological deposits typically consist of a mix of artefacts and the remains of plants and animals — including the occasional human fossil — all held in a matrix of dirt. But ... <a title="Digging deep: DNA molecules in ancient dirt offer a treasure trove of clues to our past" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/digging-deep-dna-molecules-in-ancient-dirt-offer-a-treasure-trove-of-clues-to-our-past-172489/" aria-label="Read more about Digging deep: DNA molecules in ancient dirt offer a treasure trove of clues to our past">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Batterbury, Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne James Batterbury Cycling reduces greenhouse gas emissions, brings myriad health benefits and reduces traffic. But urban planners and policymakers often struggle to get more people on bikes. To increase urban cycling, we need more than extra cycling infrastructure; we ... <a title="Bike kitchens: the community-run repair workshops that help build a culture of cycling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/bike-kitchens-the-community-run-repair-workshops-that-help-build-a-culture-of-cycling-169687/" aria-label="Read more about Bike kitchens: the community-run repair workshops that help build a culture of cycling">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Justice and peace advocates in New Zealand have strongly criticised Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “horrific crackdown” on community leaders, activists, and educators. They have condemned in a statement published in Manila yesterday the arrest last September of Filipina educator and poet Lorena Sigua on a “trumped-up murder charge”. The advocates of ... <a title="NZ protesters slam arrest of Lumad cultural speaker and other Filipino political prisoners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/nz-protesters-slam-arrest-of-lumad-cultural-speaker-and-other-filipino-political-prisoners/" aria-label="Read more about NZ protesters slam arrest of Lumad cultural speaker and other Filipino political prisoners">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji parents are advised not to send their children to school today if they are not feeling well as the country is rocked by a third wave of the covid-19 pandemic. That was the advice from the Ministry of Education as the last term for 2021 begins on January 4 ... <a title="Fiji parents warned about sick children in back-to-school catch-up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/fiji-parents-warned-about-sick-children-in-back-to-school-catch-up/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji parents warned about sick children in back-to-school catch-up">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Levo in Port Moresby In all of the meandering years in the life of Papua New Guinea, 2021, which ended on Friday has to be it. The colours were there, the love and laughter were there, the sadness, emotions, losses, highs and lows, the bleakness of our long-suffering population and blackness of ... <a title="The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea to the core" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/the-bleak-and-black-covid-year-that-shook-papua-new-guinea-to-the-core/" aria-label="Read more about The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea to the core">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Turnbull, Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNSW John Turnbull, Author provided Australia has one of the longest coastlines in the world. And it’s packed with life of all shapes and sizes – from lively dolphins leaping offshore, to tiny crabs scurrying into their holes. Here is just some ... <a title="Hitting the beach this summer? Here are some of our top animal picks to look out for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/hitting-the-beach-this-summer-here-are-some-of-our-top-animal-picks-to-look-out-for-171744/" aria-label="Read more about Hitting the beach this summer? Here are some of our top animal picks to look out for">Read more</a>
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January 4, 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 Shutterstock How exactly does a spaceship get into space? – Mathilde, age 5, Sydney Hello Mathilde, thanks for this great question! It isn’t easy to get to space, and ... <a title="Curious Kids: how exactly does a spaceship get into space?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/curious-kids-how-exactly-does-a-spaceship-get-into-space-172402/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how exactly does a spaceship get into space?">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Nash, Social Entrepreneur in Residence, Massey University Shutterstock The year is 2040 and Aotearoa New Zealand has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the commitment to keep global heating below 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures. The economy, society, local government, transport, housing and urban design, energy, ... <a title="Report from the future: Aotearoa New Zealand is looking good in 2040 – here’s how we did it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/report-from-the-future-aotearoa-new-zealand-is-looking-good-in-2040-heres-how-we-did-it-169461/" aria-label="Read more about Report from the future: Aotearoa New Zealand is looking good in 2040 – here’s how we did it">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leah Ruppanner, Associate Professor in Sociology and Co-Director of The Policy Lab, The University of Melbourne Rich Smith/Unsplash The COVID pandemic has made the very private issue of the domestic division of labour – the way housework and childcare are divided – a very public issue. During ... <a title="Planning, stress and worry put the mental load on mothers – will 2022 be the year they share the burden?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/planning-stress-and-worry-put-the-mental-load-on-mothers-will-2022-be-the-year-they-share-the-burden-172599/" aria-label="Read more about Planning, stress and worry put the mental load on mothers – will 2022 be the year they share the burden?">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ying Luo, PhD Candidate at the Research School of Biology, Australian National University Shutterstock Have you opened your post-lockdown wardrobe, only to discover some of your beautiful summer clothes have holes in them? You’re probably blaming clothes moths but the real culprits are the larvae (caterpillars). But ... <a title="Moths eating your clothes? It’s actually their hungry little caterpillars – here’s how to get rid of them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/moths-eating-your-clothes-its-actually-their-hungry-little-caterpillars-heres-how-to-get-rid-of-them-170553/" aria-label="Read more about Moths eating your clothes? It’s actually their hungry little caterpillars – here’s how to get rid of them">Read more</a>
