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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bob Pressey, Professor, Conservation Planning, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Last week Australia joined a new alliance of 40 countries pledging to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 from pollution, overfishing, climate change and other environmental threats. Australia already ... <a title="Australia’s marine (un)protected areas: government zoning bias has left marine life in peril since 2012" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/australias-marine-un-protected-areas-government-zoning-bias-has-left-marine-life-in-peril-since-2012-153795/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s marine (un)protected areas: government zoning bias has left marine life in peril since 2012">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary John Brierley, Professor, Chair of Physical Geography, University of Auckland When two West Coast rivers flooded on the same day in 2019, the Waiho tore down a bridge and cut off local communities for 18 days, and the Fox eroded a landfill, exposing 135 tonnes of ... <a title="Why we should release New Zealand’s strangled rivers to lessen the impact of future floods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/why-we-should-release-new-zealands-strangled-rivers-to-lessen-the-impact-of-future-floods-153077/" aria-label="Read more about Why we should release New Zealand’s strangled rivers to lessen the impact of future floods">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Baré, Honorary Fellow, LH Martin Institute, The University of Melbourne Australian universities roughly doubled the number of casual staff employed to 23,000 (in full-time equivalents) from 2001 to 2019 (the latest year for which figures are available). The greatest increase in casual staff has been in ... <a title="COVID hit casual academics hard. Here are 5 ways to produce a better deal for unis and staff" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/covid-hit-casual-academics-hard-here-are-5-ways-to-produce-a-better-deal-for-unis-and-staff-155357/" aria-label="Read more about COVID hit casual academics hard. Here are 5 ways to produce a better deal for unis and staff">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Stone, Professor of Housing & Social Policy, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology Barriers to housing for people with pets around Australia are the focus of newly released national research by an interdisciplinary team. Why? Because laws are changing nationally but are highly inconsistent. ... <a title="Can I have a pet and be housed, too? It all depends…" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/can-i-have-a-pet-and-be-housed-too-it-all-depends-155202/" aria-label="Read more about Can I have a pet and be housed, too? It all depends…">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Miles Pattenden, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry/Gender and Women’s History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University If Pope Joan — the infamous female pope of the 9th century – didn’t exist, you can see why someone would have had to invent her. For the ... <a title="‘A promiscuous she-pope with a dilated cervix’: the legend of Pope Joan, who gave birth on a horse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/a-promiscuous-she-pope-with-a-dilated-cervix-the-legend-of-pope-joan-who-gave-birth-on-a-horse-155378/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A promiscuous she-pope with a dilated cervix’: the legend of Pope Joan, who gave birth on a horse">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emil Temnyalov, Senior Lecturer, Economics, University of Technology Sydney Digital platforms like Facebook and Google give us easy access to media and information. But our collective dependence on these tech giants could in the long run reduce the quality of journalism, making us all worse off. The ... <a title="Getting news from Facebook and Google is convenient — but it comes at great collective cost" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/getting-news-from-facebook-and-google-is-convenient-but-it-comes-at-great-collective-cost-155720/" aria-label="Read more about Getting news from Facebook and Google is convenient — but it comes at great collective cost">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Franks, Conjoint Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle Book review: The Husband Poisoner, by Tanya Bretherton (Hachette). Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), introduces her iconic Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and features her famous quip: “poison is a ... <a title="Book review: The Husband Poisoner is about lethal ladies and dangerously tasty recipes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/book-review-the-husband-poisoner-is-about-lethal-ladies-and-dangerously-tasty-recipes-154267/" aria-label="Read more about Book review: The Husband Poisoner is about lethal ladies and dangerously tasty recipes">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic Dwyer, Director of Public Health Pathology, NSW Health Pathology, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, University of Sydney As I write, I am in hotel quarantine in Sydney, after returning from Wuhan, China. There, I was the Australian representative on the international World Health Organization’s (WHO) ... <a title="I was the Australian doctor on the WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China. Here’s what we found about the origins of the coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/i-was-the-australian-doctor-on-the-whos-covid-19-mission-to-china-heres-what-we-found-about-the-origins-of-the-coronavirus-155554/" aria-label="Read more about I was the Australian doctor on the WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China. Here’s what we found about the origins of the coronavirus">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne With less than three weeks left until the March 13 Western Australian election, the latest Newspoll gives Labor a 68-32 lead, two-party-preferred. If replicated on election day, this would be a 12.5% swing to Labor ... <a title="Whopping lead for Labor ahead of WA election, but federal Newspoll deadlocked at 50-50" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/whopping-lead-for-labor-ahead-of-wa-election-but-federal-newspoll-deadlocked-at-50-50-155735/" aria-label="Read more about Whopping lead for Labor ahead of WA election, but federal Newspoll deadlocked at 50-50">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Lueck, Professor of Tourism, Auckland University of Technology Freedom camping has a long tradition in New Zealand. Using your own vehicle as accommodation and parking in public spaces is seen as something of a birth right. But when international tourists cottoned on to this cheap and ... <a title="Freedom camping needs new regulations and foreign tourists aren’t the only villains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/freedom-camping-needs-new-regulations-and-foreign-tourists-arent-the-only-villains-155621/" aria-label="Read more about Freedom camping needs new regulations and foreign tourists aren’t the only villains">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natasha Kassam, Fellow, ANU National Security College’s Futures Council, Australian National University This is an edited extract of an essay in the latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs, The March of Autocracy, published today. It is the year 2049. China is celebrating having reached its second centenary ... <a title="How China is remaking the world in its vision" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/how-china-is-remaking-the-world-in-its-vision-155377/" aria-label="Read more about How China is remaking the world in its vision">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne In his submission to the current Senate inquiry into media diversity in Australia, former prime minister Kevin Rudd warns that Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News Australia is following the template laid down by Murdoch’s Fox News ... <a title="Is Sky News shifting Australian politics to the right? Not yet, but there is cause for alarm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/is-sky-news-shifting-australian-politics-to-the-right-not-yet-but-there-is-cause-for-alarm-155356/" aria-label="Read more about Is Sky News shifting Australian politics to the right? Not yet, but there is cause for alarm">Read more</a>
