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February 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia Richard Wainwright/AAP Last night, Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes program revisited the harrowing tale of the abduction of four-year-old Cleo Smith from a campsite near the Western Australian town of Carnarvon last October. As the ... <a title="Cleo Smith interview: does Channel Nine run the risk of being in contempt of court?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/cleo-smith-interview-does-channel-nine-run-the-risk-of-being-in-contempt-of-court-176459/" aria-label="Read more about Cleo Smith interview: does Channel Nine run the risk of being in contempt of court?">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philippa Burne, Lecturer, BFA Screenwriting, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne Could the screen door really have slammed shut for the last time on Ramsay Street? Channel 5, who took over from the BBC in broadcasting the show in the UK ... <a title="I easily clocked 10,000 hours working on Neighbours. Its loss will leave a huge hole in Australian TV – and UK hearts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/i-easily-clocked-10-000-hours-working-on-neighbours-its-loss-will-leave-a-huge-hole-in-australian-tv-and-uk-hearts-176529/" aria-label="Read more about I easily clocked 10,000 hours working on Neighbours. Its loss will leave a huge hole in Australian TV – and UK hearts">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Bradley, Professor Emeritus (Psychology), Charles Sturt University The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals / Wikimedia Was Charles Darwin a one-hit wonder? According to scientists who take a gene’s-eye view of evolution, the 19th-century English naturalist contributed one crucial idea to understanding how species ... <a title="150 years ago, Charles Darwin wrote about how expressions evolved – pre-empting modern psychology by a century" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/150-years-ago-charles-darwin-wrote-about-how-expressions-evolved-pre-empting-modern-psychology-by-a-century-170880/" aria-label="Read more about 150 years ago, Charles Darwin wrote about how expressions evolved – pre-empting modern psychology by a century">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Menzel, Assistant Professor – First Nations Health, Bond University Over the past few weeks we have seen First Nations people protesting alongside alt-right “freedom” protesters at Old Parliament House in Canberra. With this we saw a classic example of the alt-right trying to recruit disaffected marginalised ... <a title="Whose sovereignty is really being fought for? What happens when First Nations People are dragged into extremist protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/whose-sovereignty-is-really-being-fought-for-what-happens-when-first-nations-people-are-dragged-into-extremist-protests-168368/" aria-label="Read more about Whose sovereignty is really being fought for? What happens when First Nations People are dragged into extremist protests">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aphrodite Vlahos, Adjunct Lecturer, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock A woman walks into a plastic surgeon’s office with an image she has found online. She wants her body to look like the same, and thinks she knows how to get it. She tells the consulting surgeon exactly ... <a title="Dissatisfied plastic surgery clients show the downsides of online research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/dissatisfied-plastic-surgery-clients-show-the-downsides-of-online-research-175060/" aria-label="Read more about Dissatisfied plastic surgery clients show the downsides of online research">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Beck, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University www.shutterstock.com The religious discrimination bill is due to be debated in parliament this week. This has been a long time coming – Prime Minister Scott Morrison first promised a religious discrimination bill before the last federal election, more ... <a title="As parliament returns for 2022, the religious discrimination bill is still an unholy mess" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/as-parliament-returns-for-2022-the-religious-discrimination-bill-is-still-an-unholy-mess-176362/" aria-label="Read more about As parliament returns for 2022, the religious discrimination bill is still an unholy mess">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Ward, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland The critically endangered regent honeyeater. Friends of Chiltern, Author provided In the 250 years since Europeans colonised Australia, native birdlife has disappeared across the continent. Our new research has, for the first time, registered just how much Australia has ... <a title="Native birds have vanished across the continent since colonisation. Now we know just how much we’ve lost" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/native-birds-have-vanished-across-the-continent-since-colonisation-now-we-know-just-how-much-weve-lost-176239/" aria-label="Read more about Native birds have vanished across the continent since colonisation. Now we know just how much we’ve lost">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brooke Williams, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Queensland Leonardo Felippi Only about 16% of the world’s coastal regions are in relatively good condition, according to our world-first research released today, and many are so degraded they can’t be restored to their original state. Places where the ... <a title="Just 16% of the world’s coastlines are in good shape – and many are so bad they can never fully recover" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/just-16-of-the-worlds-coastlines-are-in-good-shape-and-many-are-so-bad-they-can-never-fully-recover-176445/" aria-label="Read more about Just 16% of the world’s coastlines are in good shape – and many are so bad they can never fully recover">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christina N. Zdenek, Lab Manager/Post-doc at the Venom Evolution Lab, The University of Queensland A dugite (P. Affinis) Chris Hay, Author provided Australia has a global reputation as a land full of danger, where seemingly everything is out to kill you. Crocodiles lurk in estuaries, large spiders ... <a title="7 reasons Australia is the lucky country when it comes to snakes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/7-reasons-australia-is-the-lucky-country-when-it-comes-to-snakes-175188/" aria-label="Read more about 7 reasons Australia is the lucky country when it comes to snakes">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Saul Karnovsky, Lecturer & Bachelor of Education (Secondary) Course Coordinator, Curtin University Shutterstock As children return to schools across the country, the outlook for teachers is bleak. The spread of Omicron will make chronic staff shortages worse and has added to teachers’ responsibilities. They must now be ... <a title="Teachers can’t keep pretending everything is OK – toxic positivity will only make them sick" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/teachers-cant-keep-pretending-everything-is-ok-toxic-positivity-will-only-make-them-sick-175431/" aria-label="Read more about Teachers can’t keep pretending everything is OK – toxic positivity will only make them sick">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government will ensure COVID tests are tax deductible for workers and exempt from fringe benefits tax for businesses when purchased for work-related purposes. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will announce on Monday that the government will remove uncertainty around the ... <a title="Australia is seeing a ‘great reshuffle’ not a ‘great resignation’ in workforce: Frydenberg" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/07/australia-is-seeing-a-great-reshuffle-not-a-great-resignation-in-workforce-frydenberg-176516/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is seeing a ‘great reshuffle’ not a ‘great resignation’ in workforce: Frydenberg">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Florian Vogt, Senior Research Fellow, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Shutterstock Early in the pandemic, the COVIDSafe app was designed as a tool to improve contact tracing. And a multimedia campaign promoted it as helping to find more COVID contacts faster. Now, almost two years after its launch ... <a title="The COVIDSafe app was designed to help contact tracers. We crunched the numbers to see what really happened" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/05/the-covidsafe-app-was-designed-to-help-contact-tracers-we-crunched-the-numbers-to-see-what-really-happened-172242/" aria-label="Read more about The COVIDSafe app was designed to help contact tracers. We crunched the numbers to see what really happened">Read more</a>
