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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Fujak, Lecturer in Sport Management, Deakin University Netball Australia has signed a five-year deal it describes as “ground-breaking”. Every game of every round of each year’s Super Netball competition will be broadcast live and ad-free on Foxtel platforms including its sports streaming app Kayo Sports. For ... <a title="Regardless of the rules, sport is fleeing free TV for pay, and it might be an avalanche" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/regardless-of-the-rules-sport-is-fleeing-free-tv-for-pay-and-it-might-be-an-avalanche-154640/" aria-label="Read more about Regardless of the rules, sport is fleeing free TV for pay, and it might be an avalanche">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Henry Reynolds, Honorary Research Professor, Aboriginal Studies Global Cultures & Languages, University of Tasmania Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images of deceased people. Historical research of the last 20 years has confirmed the central importance of the killing times. They lasted ... <a title="Friday essay: it’s time for a new museum dedicated to the fighters of the frontier wars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/friday-essay-its-time-for-a-new-museum-dedicated-to-the-fighters-of-the-frontier-wars-155299/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: it’s time for a new museum dedicated to the fighters of the frontier wars">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has been wounded by the public revelation this week of an alleged rape in Parliament House. But the fear must be that along the way Brittany Higgins, the young woman whose story shocked the country, has become a ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison dealt poorly with a young woman’s shocking story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/grattan-on-friday-scott-morrison-dealt-poorly-with-a-young-womans-shocking-story-155570/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison dealt poorly with a young woman’s shocking story">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Groom, Laboratory Head, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A new Australian study, published overnight in Nature Communications, gives an insight into how kids’ immune systems respond to infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It’s the first study, to my knowledge, that directly compares children ... <a title="Why do kids tend to have milder COVID? This new study gives us a clue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/why-do-kids-tend-to-have-milder-covid-this-new-study-gives-us-a-clue-155555/" aria-label="Read more about Why do kids tend to have milder COVID? This new study gives us a clue">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University In denying news content to its Australian users, Facebook is arguably overplaying its hand, behaving as a big company that thinks it can intimidate governments. If it keeps doing this, it will ultimately lose customers, and ... <a title="Feel like breaking up with Facebook? Maybe it’s time for a social media spring clean" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/feel-like-breaking-up-with-facebook-maybe-its-time-for-a-social-media-spring-clean-155559/" aria-label="Read more about Feel like breaking up with Facebook? Maybe it’s time for a social media spring clean">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caroline Fisher, Co-author of the Digital News Report: Australia 2020, Deputy Director of the News and Media Research Centre, and Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Canberra Facebook’s decision to remove Australian news from its platform is the latest gambit in a running stoush with the federal ... <a title="As Facebook ups the ante on news, regional and elderly Australians will be hardest hit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/as-facebook-ups-the-ante-on-news-regional-and-elderly-australians-will-be-hardest-hit-155557/" aria-label="Read more about As Facebook ups the ante on news, regional and elderly Australians will be hardest hit">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Dean, Research and Development, Swinburne University of Technology Information is everywhere, right? Well, here in Australia, we now have one less source of news information at our fingertips. Today, Facebook banned Australian users from posting news links, and sharing or viewing Australian and international ... <a title="Facebook’s news is gone. Here’s where to turn for trusted information" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/facebooks-news-is-gone-heres-where-to-turn-for-trusted-information-155558/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook’s news is gone. Here’s where to turn for trusted information">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Chappell, Scientia Professor, UNSW As the government looks for ways to address the toxicity of Australia’s parliament for the women who work there, it’s important to consider the underlying issue that pervades Australian politics: male privilege. In making public allegations of rape by a colleague, former ... <a title="To fix the culture in Canberra, we need to take a sledgehammer to male privilege" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/to-fix-the-culture-in-canberra-we-need-to-take-a-sledgehammer-to-male-privilege-155553/" aria-label="Read more about To fix the culture in Canberra, we need to take a sledgehammer to male privilege">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claudia Santori, PhD candidate, University of Sydney Citizen science is ripe with benefits. Programs can involve hundreds, sometimes thousands, of volunteers who collect reliable, long-term and geographically widespread data. These people donate their time for a cause (or just for fun). For biodiversity conservation, these kinds of ... <a title="Our turtle program shows citizen science isn’t just great for data, it makes science feel personal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/our-turtle-program-shows-citizen-science-isnt-just-great-for-data-it-makes-science-feel-personal-155142/" aria-label="Read more about Our turtle program shows citizen science isn’t just great for data, it makes science feel personal">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Masters, CEO, Australian Council for Educational Research I handed down the final report of a two-year review of the New South Wales school curriculum in June 2020. One of the review’s key recommendations was to introduce what I called “untimed syllabuses”. This is where students who ... <a title="Why the curriculum should be based on students’ readiness, not their age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/why-the-curriculum-should-be-based-on-students-readiness-not-their-age-155549/" aria-label="Read more about Why the curriculum should be based on students’ readiness, not their age">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Wood, Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney From Monday, people at high risk of COVID-19 will be lining up to receive the Pfizer vaccine, marking the start of Australia’s long-awaited COVID vaccination program. We’ve heard about the need to store the ... <a title="How the Pfizer COVID vaccine gets from the freezer into your arm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/how-the-pfizer-covid-vaccine-gets-from-the-freezer-into-your-arm-155453/" aria-label="Read more about How the Pfizer COVID vaccine gets from the freezer into your arm">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maryke Steffens, Research Affiliate, University of Sydney; Research Fellow, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance; PhD Candidate, Macquarie University, University of Sydney Facebook’s decision to ban media organisations from posting links to news articles on the social media giant’s platform comes less than a week before ... <a title="Banning news links just days before Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout? Facebook, that’s just dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/banning-news-links-just-days-before-australias-covid-vaccine-rollout-facebook-thats-just-dangerous-155550/" aria-label="Read more about Banning news links just days before Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout? Facebook, that’s just dangerous">Read more</a>
