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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thea van de Mortel, Professor, Nursing and Deputy Head (Learning & Teaching), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University Shutterstock Although mask mandates are lifting in some states, many people will continue to wear masks to protect themselves and others from the more transmissible Omicron variant. For ... <a title="How to get the most out of your N95 mask or other respirator" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-n95-mask-or-other-respirator-177229/" aria-label="Read more about How to get the most out of your N95 mask or other respirator">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pat Taggart, Adjunct Fellow, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Rabbits are an enormous problem for Australian ecosystems – they’re a major threat to 322 species of plants and animals already at risk of extinction. This is more than double the number of species threatened by cats and foxes. To ... <a title="Releasing a virus against rabbits is effective, but can make them immune if let loose at the wrong time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/releasing-a-virus-against-rabbits-is-effective-but-can-make-them-immune-if-let-loose-at-the-wrong-time-176028/" aria-label="Read more about Releasing a virus against rabbits is effective, but can make them immune if let loose at the wrong time">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Alexei Nikolsky/AP There is no shortage of speculation about what Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to do with the vast Russian military force now virtually encircling Ukraine, and why he has amassed it. Its sheer size ... <a title="Putin is on a personal mission to rewrite Cold War history, making the risks in Ukraine far graver" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/putin-is-on-a-personal-mission-to-rewrite-cold-war-history-making-the-risks-in-ukraine-far-graver-177730/" aria-label="Read more about Putin is on a personal mission to rewrite Cold War history, making the risks in Ukraine far graver">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute SHVETS/Pexels, CC BY Many older Australian women face insecure futures. Those who are single, divorced or widowed are much more likely to suffer poverty, housing stress and homelessness. Our new Grattan Institute proposal for a national shared equity scheme ... <a title="Older women often rent in poverty – shared home equity could help some escape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/older-women-often-rent-in-poverty-shared-home-equity-could-help-some-escape-177452/" aria-label="Read more about Older women often rent in poverty – shared home equity could help some escape">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Kvalsvig, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Otago Pixabay/pedro_wroclaw , CC BY-ND As New Zealand’s Omicron outbreak accelerates, with new community infections doubling every few days, the rising number of child cases is a reminder of the challenge to protect the health and ... <a title="To protect children during Aotearoa’s Omicron outbreak, we need to consider their families, not just schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/to-protect-children-during-aotearoas-omicron-outbreak-we-need-to-consider-their-families-not-just-schools-176458/" aria-label="Read more about To protect children during Aotearoa’s Omicron outbreak, we need to consider their families, not just schools">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mia Martin Hobbs, Research Fellow, Deakin University The Morrison government has clearly signalled its intention to make “national security” a key issue in this year’s federal election. It has repeatedly attacked the Labor opposition on issues including foreign interference, asylum seekers and defence spending. It places all ... <a title="‘National security’ once meant more than just conjuring up threats beyond our borders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/national-security-once-meant-more-than-just-conjuring-up-threats-beyond-our-borders-177632/" aria-label="Read more about ‘National security’ once meant more than just conjuring up threats beyond our borders">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Kavanagh, Professor of Disability and Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock People with disability bear a disproportionate burden of COVID infections, serious disease and death. Every time a support worker enters their home, people with disability risk COVID exposure. ... <a title="Masks, RATs and clean air – how people with disability can protect themselves from COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/masks-rats-and-clean-air-how-people-with-disability-can-protect-themselves-from-covid-176789/" aria-label="Read more about Masks, RATs and clean air – how people with disability can protect themselves from COVID">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Taimoor Sohail, Postdoctoral research associate, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Fresh water cycles from ocean to air to clouds to rivers and back to the oceans. This constant shuttling can give us the illusion of certainty. Fresh water will always come from the tap. Won’t it? Unfortunately, that’s not ... <a title="Climate change is warping our fresh water cycle – and much faster than we thought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/climate-change-is-warping-our-fresh-water-cycle-and-much-faster-than-we-thought-177453/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change is warping our fresh water cycle – and much faster than we thought">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natalie Galea, Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Construction is one of Australia’s fastest growing industries. It employs around 1,143,600 people, which accounts for 8.7% of the total workforce. Over the past five years, employment in the industry has increased 7.3%. The median weekly earnings for ... <a title="‘I would not be respected’: senior school girls told us why they weren’t interested in a construction career" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/i-would-not-be-respected-senior-school-girls-told-us-why-they-werent-interested-in-a-construction-career-173910/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I would not be respected’: senior school girls told us why they weren’t interested in a construction career">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vlado Vivoda, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies (Australian War College), Deakin University Petrol prices Wednesday morning. Ellen Duffy/The Conversation, CC BY Global crude oil prices have already reached their highest levels since 2014 in response to Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine. With Russia being the world’s second-largest ... <a title="What Russia’s war means for Australian petrol prices: $2.10 a litre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/what-russias-war-means-for-australian-petrol-prices-2-10-a-litre-177719/" aria-label="Read more about What Russia’s war means for Australian petrol prices: $2.10 a litre">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Abul Rizvi, PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne shutterstock As a senior official in Australia’s Immigration Department in the late 1990s, I frequently met counterparts in Europe and North America who were exasperated by their inability to make headway against the exploitation and abuse of hundreds of ... <a title="Australia is creating an underclass of exploited farm workers, unable to speak up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/australia-is-creating-an-underclass-of-exploited-farm-workers-unable-to-speak-up-177063/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is creating an underclass of exploited farm workers, unable to speak up">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Shiels, Lecturer – School of Art, RMIT University Sidney Nolan Kelly and Horse 1946. Enamel paint on composition board 92.1 x 122.4 cm. Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra © Canberra Museum and Gallery Review: Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise, Heide Museum of Modern Art The Sidney ... <a title="On Sidney Nolan, the painter who re-envisaged the Australian landscape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/on-sidney-nolan-the-painter-who-re-envisaged-the-australian-landscape-175909/" aria-label="Read more about On Sidney Nolan, the painter who re-envisaged the Australian landscape">Read more</a>
