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December 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Pickles, Professor of History, University of Canterbury Shutterstock New Zealand has historically been a suburban land. Famously characterised as a “quarter-acre pavlova paradise”, the domestic ideal has long been a single dwelling on a full section. But that is changing fast. With soaring house prices and ... <a title="Up on a roof: why New Zealand’s move towards greater urban density should see a rooftop revolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/30/up-on-a-roof-why-new-zealands-move-towards-greater-urban-density-should-see-a-rooftop-revolution-172226/" aria-label="Read more about Up on a roof: why New Zealand’s move towards greater urban density should see a rooftop revolution">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Beirman, Senior Lecturer, Tourism, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock After its worst two years since the second world war, 2022 is looking brighter for the global airline industry. For passengers, though, the chance to travel at low cost again may prove short-lived. In 2020 international passenger ... <a title="Why COVID-19 means the era of ever cheaper air travel could be over" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/30/why-covid-19-means-the-era-of-ever-cheaper-air-travel-could-be-over-172149/" aria-label="Read more about Why COVID-19 means the era of ever cheaper air travel could be over">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Camp, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland 20th Century Studios The second half of 2021 is proving to be a peak time for movie musical-goers, with the release of critically acclaimed In the Heights, disastrously received Dear Evan Hansen, and Steven Spielberg’s hotly anticipated West Side Story. ... <a title="From Chicago to West Side Story, how to successfully adapt a musical from stage to screen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/30/from-chicago-to-west-side-story-how-to-successfully-adapt-a-musical-from-stage-to-screen-169946/" aria-label="Read more about From Chicago to West Side Story, how to successfully adapt a musical from stage to screen">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2021
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 Government, Parliament, 2021 in review Jason Walls (Newstalk ZB): Revealed: The ‘eye-watering’ amount the ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 29 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/29/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-29-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 29 2021">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hugh Breakey, Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law. President, Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics., Griffith University Over the past two years, our lives have changed in unprecedented ways. In the face of the pandemic, we have been required to obey demanding new rules ... <a title="Has the pandemic fundamentally changed our ethics?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/29/has-the-pandemic-fundamentally-changed-our-ethics-171304/" aria-label="Read more about Has the pandemic fundamentally changed our ethics?">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natasha Yates, Assistant Professor, General Practice, Bond University www.shutterstock.com I waited for hours in emergency last night with this dreadful headache, but eventually gave up and left. Should I have kept waiting at the hospital? This is a surprisingly common scenario I encounter as a general practitioner. ... <a title="When should you go to hospital for a headache? A doctor explains how to tell if it’s an emergency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/29/when-should-you-go-to-hospital-for-a-headache-a-doctor-explains-how-to-tell-if-its-an-emergency-161276/" aria-label="Read more about When should you go to hospital for a headache? A doctor explains how to tell if it’s an emergency">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Finch, Lecturer in Structural Geology and Metamorphism, Monash University Steven Wei Ima/Unsplash, CC BY Part of the magic of Uluru is the way it tricks your senses. Deep orange by day, at sunrise and sunset it appears to change colour, becoming a more vibrant shade of ... <a title="The epic, 550-million-year story of Uluṟu, and the spectacular forces that led to its formation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/29/the-epic-550-million-year-story-of-ulu-u-and-the-spectacular-forces-that-led-to-its-formation-167040/" aria-label="Read more about The epic, 550-million-year story of Uluṟu, and the spectacular forces that led to its formation">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judy Friedlander, Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Photo: Judy Friedlander, Author provided This article is part of a series explaining how readers can learn the skills to take part in activities that academics love doing as part of their work. Taxonomy was ... <a title="Take a closer look: how more and more students are catching the citizen science bug" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/29/take-a-closer-look-how-more-and-more-students-are-catching-the-citizen-science-bug-171746/" aria-label="Read more about Take a closer look: how more and more students are catching the citizen science bug">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Limin Fu, Lecturer in Management, University of Newcastle Shutterstock With the world facing an ever-growing number of environmental and social challenges, investors are increasingly expecting corporations to “do the right thing” and contribute positively to the community. This is known as corporate social responsibility or CSR. Investors ... <a title="Explainer: what is corporate social responsibility or CSR – and what do investors need to know?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/29/explainer-what-is-corporate-social-responsibility-or-csr-and-what-do-investors-need-to-know-169256/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is corporate social responsibility or CSR – and what do investors need to know?">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Siobhan McHugh, Honorary Associate Professor, Journalism, University of Wollongong The podcast Guardians of the River traverses the Okavango River from its source in Angola to its discharge into the Botswana Delta 1500 kilometres later Photo: Shutterstock It has been another huge year for podcasts, with a rise ... <a title="River stories, culture wars, share house sagas: 5 of the best podcasts of 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/29/river-stories-culture-wars-share-house-sagas-5-of-the-best-podcasts-of-2021-170781/" aria-label="Read more about River stories, culture wars, share house sagas: 5 of the best podcasts of 2021">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Y.J. Hsu, Research fellow, UNSW Protesters rally against the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Los Angeles in December. Damian Dovarganes/AP The Beijing Winter Olympics are only weeks away and China has been forced on the defensive by a diplomatic boycott called by the US, UK, ... <a title="Can China win back global opinion before the Winter Olympics? Does it even want to?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/28/can-china-win-back-global-opinion-before-the-winter-olympics-does-it-even-want-to-173145/" aria-label="Read more about Can China win back global opinion before the Winter Olympics? Does it even want to?">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University After all the bad press tech companies have received, would anyone still be surprised to learn the outwardly smiling face of social media conceals a sophisticated data-collection industry? This year’s headlines delivered news of an array ... <a title="How 2021 was the year governments really started to wise up against big tech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/28/how-2021-was-the-year-governments-really-started-to-wise-up-against-big-tech-172871/" aria-label="Read more about How 2021 was the year governments really started to wise up against big tech">Read more</a>
