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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
ANALYSIS: By Suzanne Wilkinson, Mohamed Elkharboutly and Regan Potangaroa, Massey University While news from Tonga is still disrupted following the massive undersea eruption and tsunami on January 15, it’s clear the island nation has suffered significant damage to housing stock and infrastructure. Once initial clean-up work is done, the focus then turns to rebuilding — ... <a title="Rebuilding post-eruption Tonga: 4 key lessons from Fiji after Cyclone Winston" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/05/rebuilding-post-eruption-tonga-4-key-lessons-from-fiji-after-cyclone-winston/" aria-label="Read more about Rebuilding post-eruption Tonga: 4 key lessons from Fiji after Cyclone Winston">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>
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February 5, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne; Alexandra Wake, RMIT University, and Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University News Corp Australia and Google have announced the creation of the Digital News Academy in partnership with the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne. It will provide digital skills training for News Corp journalists and other ... <a title="Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business School" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/05/journalism-academics-question-news-corps-deal-with-google-and-melbourne-business-school/" aria-label="Read more about Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business School">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Peter Davis With the arrival of the omicron variant on our shores, it is hard to believe, judging by the media coverage — particularly on MIQ, that the Aotearoa New Zealand government has got anything right in its pandemic response. One important feature that has been missed in the debate on New Zealand’s ... <a title="NZ deserves far more respect for keeping covid deaths so low" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/05/nz-deserves-far-more-respect-for-keeping-covid-deaths-so-low/" aria-label="Read more about NZ deserves far more respect for keeping covid deaths so low">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Richard Colbeck had to face the music this week over attending the fifth test in his home state of Tasmania when he’d told the Senate COVID committee he was too busy working on the Omicron wave spreading through aged care ... <a title="View From The Hill: Aged care residents are paying for lessons not learned fast enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/04/view-from-the-hill-aged-care-residents-are-paying-for-lessons-not-learned-fast-enough-176472/" aria-label="Read more about View From The Hill: Aged care residents are paying for lessons not learned fast enough">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Dodd, Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock News Corp Australia and Google have announced the creation of the Digital News Academy in partnership with the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne. It will provide digital skills training for ... <a title="News Corp’s deal with Google and the Melbourne Business School questioned by journalism academics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/04/news-corps-deal-with-google-and-the-melbourne-business-school-questioned-by-journalism-academics-176462/" aria-label="Read more about News Corp’s deal with Google and the Melbourne Business School questioned by journalism academics">Read more</a>
