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March 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Norton, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Auckland Getty Images With the effective end of New Zealand’s managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) system this week, the outcome of the court battle over the government’s border restrictions may have become moot. But the principles at stake are ... <a title="How will history – and the law – judge New Zealand’s mothballed MIQ system?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/04/how-will-history-and-the-law-judge-new-zealands-mothballed-miq-system-177436/" aria-label="Read more about How will history – and the law – judge New Zealand’s mothballed MIQ system?">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University Shutterstock With a federal election expected in May, at a time of great upheaval at home and around the world, the need for trusted media to accurately inform voters’ choices and debunk myths will ... <a title="Fact-checking can actually harm trust in media: new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/04/fact-checking-can-actually-harm-trust-in-media-new-research-176032/" aria-label="Read more about Fact-checking can actually harm trust in media: new research">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karen McLean, Paediatrician, Royal Children’s Hospital; Research officer, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Unsplash/Caleb Woods, CC BY More than 10,000 Victorian children and young people live with a foster or kinship (relative) carer. They enter such care because of court orders aiming to protect them from abuse or ... <a title="We checked the records of 6,000 kids entering care. Only a fraction received recommended health checks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/04/we-checked-the-records-of-6-000-kids-entering-care-only-a-fraction-received-recommended-health-checks-177634/" aria-label="Read more about We checked the records of 6,000 kids entering care. Only a fraction received recommended health checks">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anita Wreford, Professor, Lincoln University, New Zealand Phil Walter/Getty Images This week’s major report on climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability highlights the challenges a shifting climate presents for food- and fibre-producing regions, including Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. A chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... <a title="New Zealand farmers and growers are already adapting to changing climate conditions – just not enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/04/new-zealand-farmers-and-growers-are-already-adapting-to-changing-climate-conditions-just-not-enough-178161/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand farmers and growers are already adapting to changing climate conditions – just not enough">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Carey, Senior Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Australia is facing yet another “unprecedented” weather event as extreme flooding across Queensland and New South Wales submerges entire towns. In the immediate aftermath, there’s a new challenge for many Australians in these flood-ravaged areas. ... <a title="We can’t keep relying on charities and the food industry to supply food after disasters – the government must lead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/04/we-cant-keep-relying-on-charities-and-the-food-industry-to-supply-food-after-disasters-the-government-must-lead-178215/" aria-label="Read more about We can’t keep relying on charities and the food industry to supply food after disasters – the government must lead">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chie Adachi, Associate Professor and Director, Digital Learning, Deakin University Shutterstock Universities are welcoming international students back to campuses now Australia’s borders are open. So, with these students back in person, is this the end of digital learning at universities? It shouldn’t be. Continuing multimodal study will ... <a title="International students are back on campus, but does that spell the end of digital learning? Here’s why it shouldn’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/04/international-students-are-back-on-campus-but-does-that-spell-the-end-of-digital-learning-heres-why-it-shouldnt-177545/" aria-label="Read more about International students are back on campus, but does that spell the end of digital learning? Here’s why it shouldn’t">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paula Jarzabkowski, Professor in Strategic Management, The University of Queensland As South-East Queensland and New South Wales wade through the devastation of storms and flooding that now threatens the greater Sydney region, residents and businesses will be turning to insurance as their only hope of recovery. More ... <a title="Victims of NSW and Queensland floods have lodged 60,000 claims, but too many are underinsured. Here’s a better way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/04/victims-of-nsw-and-queensland-floods-have-lodged-60-000-claims-but-too-many-are-underinsured-heres-a-better-way-178294/" aria-label="Read more about Victims of NSW and Queensland floods have lodged 60,000 claims, but too many are underinsured. Here’s a better way">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney shutterstock “It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future,” American baseball legend Yogi Berra once quipped. When it comes to predicting where the Australian economy is heading the task is made even trickier in the face of war in ... <a title="Vital Signs: Australia’s hairdressing-based economic recovery can’t last" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/04/vital-signs-australias-hairdressing-based-economic-recovery-cant-last-178327/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Australia’s hairdressing-based economic recovery can’t last">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sheila Fitzpatrick, Professor of History at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University In this 1919 caricature, Ukrainians are surrounded by a Bolshevik (to the north, man with hat and red star), a Russian White Army soldier (to the east, with Russian eagle flag ... <a title="Ukraine as a ‘borderland’: a brief history of Ukraine’s place between Europe and Russia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/04/ukraine-as-a-borderland-a-brief-history-of-ukraines-place-between-europe-and-russia-178168/" aria-label="Read more about Ukraine as a ‘borderland’: a brief history of Ukraine’s place between Europe and Russia">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra If Scott Morrison had contracted COVID two months ago, it would have been a big story. Instead, when the PM fell victim this week, it was also-ran news. We are finally starting to “live with COVID”, as Morrison has insisted ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Morrison’s COVID bout a reminder the virus could disrupt election campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/grattan-on-friday-morrisons-covid-bout-a-reminder-the-virus-could-disrupt-election-campaign-178427/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Morrison’s COVID bout a reminder the virus could disrupt election campaign">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sabrina Pit, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Honorary Adjunct Research Fellow, Western Sydney University I’m writing this from the flooded far north coast of New South Wales, where all around me people are contending with the awful and unexpected consequences of a catastrophic ... <a title="Getting urgent medicines in a flood zone can be a life or death challenge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/getting-urgent-medicines-in-a-flood-zone-can-be-a-life-or-death-challenge-178300/" aria-label="Read more about Getting urgent medicines in a flood zone can be a life or death challenge">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia Climate change – fuelled by increasing greenhouse gases – is causing more extreme weather events worldwide. Many of these events, such as the “rain bomb” inundating Australia’s east coast and the recent heatwave in Western Australia, are associated ... <a title="Stalled weather: how stuck air pressure systems drive floods and heatwaves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/03/stalled-weather-how-stuck-air-pressure-systems-drive-floods-and-heatwaves-178157/" aria-label="Read more about Stalled weather: how stuck air pressure systems drive floods and heatwaves">Read more</a>
