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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aidan Carter, Head Tutor in Political Science; Tutor in Italian studies and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Social media are becoming an increasingly integral part of our everyday lives. We’re spending more time on our phones, but this is mostly on unproductive activities, which can take ... <a title="Want to learn a language? Try TikTok" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/want-to-learn-a-language-try-tiktok-174702/" aria-label="Read more about Want to learn a language? Try TikTok">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark O. Cuthbert, Principal Research Fellow & Reader, Cardiff University Shutterstock Urban greening is often touted as a way to tackle both heatwaves and floods in cities. This includes through green roofs, living walls, vegetated urban spaces, private and community gardens, habitat corridors, bushland and parks. But ... <a title="Why urban greening isn’t a panacea for extreme weather under climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/why-urban-greening-isnt-a-panacea-for-extreme-weather-under-climate-change-176556/" aria-label="Read more about Why urban greening isn’t a panacea for extreme weather under climate change">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Today’s action to cordon off the occupation of parliament grounds and prevent it growing might go some way to restoring public confidence in the police, ... <a title="The Wellington protest is testing police independence and public tolerance – are there lessons from Canada’s crackdown?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/the-wellington-protest-is-testing-police-independence-and-public-tolerance-are-there-lessons-from-canadas-crackdown-177523/" aria-label="Read more about The Wellington protest is testing police independence and public tolerance – are there lessons from Canada’s crackdown?">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucas Walsh, Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University A young woman in Melbourne in December 2021. Con Chronis/AAP Young people today are coming of age in the middle of a global pandemic, soaring house prices, an unpromising job market ... <a title="‘We get the raw deal out of almost everything’: a quarter of young Australians are pessimistic about having kids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/we-get-the-raw-deal-out-of-almost-everything-a-quarter-of-young-australians-are-pessimistic-about-having-kids-173751/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We get the raw deal out of almost everything’: a quarter of young Australians are pessimistic about having kids">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lawrence English, Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University Shutterstock At vaccine mandate protests in Canberra last week, police used powerful loud-hailing devices called Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) to address protesters. While some protesters claimed they were injured by the “sonic weapon”, those reports are inconsistent with what an ... <a title="What’s an LRAD? Explaining the ‘sonic weapons’ police use for crowd control and communication" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/whats-an-lrad-explaining-the-sonic-weapons-police-use-for-crowd-control-and-communication-177442/" aria-label="Read more about What’s an LRAD? Explaining the ‘sonic weapons’ police use for crowd control and communication">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine (Kate) Power, Lecturer in Management, School of Business, The University of Queensland Mick Tsikas/AAP Since former Australian of the Year Grace Tame declined to smile in a photo opportunity with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, debate has raged about what counts as politeness and impoliteness in Australian ... <a title="Please excuse me, is there a place for politeness in Australian politics?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/please-excuse-me-is-there-a-place-for-politeness-in-australian-politics-177437/" aria-label="Read more about Please excuse me, is there a place for politeness in Australian politics?">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Wark, Conjoint Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle Shutterstock GPs can now prescribe antiviral pills for some of their vulnerable COVID-19 patients to take at home. More patients are expected to have access in coming weeks and months. These drugs are given ... <a title="Taking COVID pills at home sounds great. But we need to use them wisely or risk drug resistance and new variants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/taking-covid-pills-at-home-sounds-great-but-we-need-to-use-them-wisely-or-risk-drug-resistance-and-new-variants-176235/" aria-label="Read more about Taking COVID pills at home sounds great. But we need to use them wisely or risk drug resistance and new variants">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Finch, Lecturer in Structural Geology and Metamorphism, James Cook University Shutterstock Two recent announcements hint at a seismic shift about to hit Australia’s coal industry. Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and Canada’s Brookfield put forward an extraordinary joint bid to takeover AGL Energy, Australia’s biggest emitting ... <a title="How Australia’s geology gave us an abundance of coal – and a wealth of greentech minerals to switch to" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/how-australias-geology-gave-us-an-abundance-of-coal-and-a-wealth-of-greentech-minerals-to-switch-to-173988/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia’s geology gave us an abundance of coal – and a wealth of greentech minerals to switch to">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Larsen, PhD candidate, Education & Psychology, University of New England Shutterstock In Australia, around 30% of primary and 40% of secondary school children attend a private, or independent, school. School fees vary widely, depending on the type of private school and the different sectors that govern ... <a title="Going to private school won’t make a difference to your kid’s academic scores" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/going-to-private-school-wont-make-a-difference-to-your-kids-academic-scores-175638/" aria-label="Read more about Going to private school won’t make a difference to your kid’s academic scores">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Bendall, Research Fellow, Gender and Women’s History Research Centre, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University Attributed to Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck, Kitchen interior with the parable of the rich man and the poor Lazarus, c. 1620-20. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam In this new series, Remaking ... <a title="Remaking history: in hand-making 400-year-old corset designs, I was able to really understand how they impacted women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/remaking-history-in-hand-making-400-year-old-corset-designs-i-was-able-to-really-understand-how-they-impacted-women-175055/" aria-label="Read more about Remaking history: in hand-making 400-year-old corset designs, I was able to really understand how they impacted women">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Tensions between Australia and China have increased further, after the Chinese shone a laser at a RAAF surveillance aircraft that was observing Chinese naval activity in Australia’s exclusive economic zone. The incident comes as the government is set on ramping ... <a title="Chinese laser incident feeds into national security debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/20/chinese-laser-incident-feeds-into-national-security-debate-177526/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese laser incident feeds into national security debate">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University A Chinese PLA-N guided missile frigate prepares to dock in Manila in 2019. AAP/AP/Bullit Marquez Just after midnight last Thursday, a transiting Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA-N) vessel shone a military-grade laser at an Australian ... <a title="Explainer: what was the Chinese laser attack about and why does it matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/20/explainer-what-was-the-chinese-laser-attack-about-and-why-does-it-matter-177524/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what was the Chinese laser attack about and why does it matter?">Read more</a>
