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February 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian David Longley, Principal Air Quality Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Shutterstock/Annette Shaff Our complacency about indoor air contributed to our vulnerability to COVID-19, and we’ll continue to be vulnerable to COVID and other emerging threats until we re-think how we share our air. ... <a title="Air hygiene: how re-thinking air quality will help protect us from this and the next pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/air-hygiene-how-re-thinking-air-quality-will-help-protect-us-from-this-and-the-next-pandemic-177131/" aria-label="Read more about Air hygiene: how re-thinking air quality will help protect us from this and the next pandemic">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vaughan Cruickshank, Program Director – Health and Physical Education, Maths/Science, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania woodleywonderworks/Flickr, CC BY-NC Most Australians have followed health advice to wear face masks and have COVID-19 vaccinations. Actions like these that benefit others are known in psychology as prosocial behaviours. In ... <a title="How sport can help young people to become better citizens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/how-sport-can-help-young-people-to-become-better-citizens-173733/" aria-label="Read more about How sport can help young people to become better citizens">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alessandro Antonello, Senior Research Fellow in History, Flinders University Shutterstock The federal government’s major package of new funding for Australia’s Antarctic program, announced on Tuesday, promises an additional A$804.4 million over the next decade. The government has also released an update to its 2016 Australian Antarctic Strategy ... <a title="A krill aquarium, climate research, and geopolitics: how Australia’s $800 million Antarctic funding will be spent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/a-krill-aquarium-climate-research-and-geopolitics-how-australias-800-million-antarctic-funding-will-be-spent-177609/" aria-label="Read more about A krill aquarium, climate research, and geopolitics: how Australia’s $800 million Antarctic funding will be spent">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan, Charles Sturt University The early morning action on Monday to cordon off the occupation of Parliament grounds and prevent it growing might go some way to restoring public confidence in the police, which has appeared to be eroding since the protests began a fortnight ago. So far, police have pursued a ... <a title="The NZ Parliament protest is testing police independence and public tolerance – are there lessons from Canada’s crackdown?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/the-nz-parliament-protest-is-testing-police-independence-and-public-tolerance-are-there-lessons-from-canadas-crackdown/" aria-label="Read more about The NZ Parliament protest is testing police independence and public tolerance – are there lessons from Canada’s crackdown?">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rowan Nicholson, Lecturer in Law, Flinders University Vadim Ghirda/AP Before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, it “recognised” two parts of eastern Ukraine as sovereign states: the so-called people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. That recognition is now central to what both Russia and the West are ... <a title="How Russia’s recognition of breakaway parts of Ukraine breached international law – and set the stage for invasion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/how-russias-recognition-of-breakaway-parts-of-ukraine-breached-international-law-and-set-the-stage-for-invasion-177623/" aria-label="Read more about How Russia’s recognition of breakaway parts of Ukraine breached international law – and set the stage for invasion">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will discuss whether sanctions will be effective in deterring Russian president Vladimir Putin from a full invasion of Ukraine and indeed cause Russian military to return to the Russian side of the Ukraine border.
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February 23, 2022
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Parliamentary Grounds occupation and mandates: Analysis Toby Manhire (The Spinoff): Divided? Splintered? What the ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 23 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-23-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 23 2022">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Kendall, PhD Candidate in Law, The University of Queensland James Ross/AAP ASIO chief Mike Burgess recently revealed the security agency had detected and disrupted a foreign interference plot in the lead-up to an Australian election. He warned Australia was seeing foreign interference attempts “at all levels ... <a title="Why Australia’s tough national security laws cannot stop foreign interference in our elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/why-australias-tough-national-security-laws-cannot-stop-foreign-interference-in-our-elections-177451/" aria-label="Read more about Why Australia’s tough national security laws cannot stop foreign interference in our elections">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madeline Sprajcer, Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia Shutterstock A new survey of Australian adults has found your relationship status can impact how well you sleep. We know based on previous research that sleeping next to someone can help you sleep better – but this is the first ... <a title="New survey shows your relationship status tallies with how well you sleep" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/new-survey-shows-your-relationship-status-tallies-with-how-well-you-sleep-176977/" aria-label="Read more about New survey shows your relationship status tallies with how well you sleep">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joseph Crawford, Lecturer in Learning and Teaching, Academic Division, University of Tasmania Shutterstock Imagine some of the key evidence for promotions at work being anonymous responses from coworkers who just received a bad performance evaluation from you. Something similar happens in higher education, with teachers rated by ... <a title="Yes, uni students say some awful things in teaching surveys, so how can we use them to improve?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/yes-uni-students-say-some-awful-things-in-teaching-surveys-so-how-can-we-use-them-to-improve-177155/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, uni students say some awful things in teaching surveys, so how can we use them to improve?">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University Whether or not recent (if limited) polling accurately reflects sympathy for the protest, the current spectacle in parliament’s grounds will be worrying Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her government – not least for its suggestion the “team of five million” ... <a title="Mid-term pressures test Jacinda Ardern’s Labour government, but National must still find the new political centre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/mid-term-pressures-test-jacinda-arderns-labour-government-but-national-must-still-find-the-new-political-centre-177057/" aria-label="Read more about Mid-term pressures test Jacinda Ardern’s Labour government, but National must still find the new political centre">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Welch, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland Shutterstock/ktsdesign Genomic sequencing has been a key tool throughout Aotearoa’s COVID-19 pandemic, with data generated here now part of the 8.5 million genomes shared globally. It has helped us understand how cases arrived here and the extent of community outbreaks. ... <a title="As New Zealand’s Omicron infections rise rapidly, genome surveillance is shifting gears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/as-new-zealands-omicron-infections-rise-rapidly-genome-surveillance-is-shifting-gears-177441/" aria-label="Read more about As New Zealand’s Omicron infections rise rapidly, genome surveillance is shifting gears">Read more</a>
