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February 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thea van de Mortel, Professor, Nursing and Deputy Head (Learning & Teaching), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University Shutterstock With the surge in Omicron cases, doctors are finding presentations of croup in children seeking hospital care for COVID in Australia and internationally. In some cases, children ... <a title="My child has croup. Could it be COVID? What do I need to know?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/my-child-has-croup-could-it-be-covid-what-do-i-need-to-know-176141/" aria-label="Read more about My child has croup. Could it be COVID? What do I need to know?">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe has painted an optimistic view of where the Australian economy is heading after a turbulent 2021. Just how crazy last year was is highlighted by the differences between the bank’s forecasts at the start of ... <a title="Building back better: how RBA Governor Philip Lowe sees the year ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/building-back-better-how-rba-governor-philip-lowe-sees-the-year-ahead-176006/" aria-label="Read more about Building back better: how RBA Governor Philip Lowe sees the year ahead">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Shutterstock Is it possible to have your cake and eat it too? Federal Labor is certainly giving it a go by supporting government plans for a fossil gas/diesel peaking plant in the Hunter Valley currently under construction – ... <a title="Labor’s plan to green the Kurri Kurri gas power plant makes no sense" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/labors-plan-to-green-the-kurri-kurri-gas-power-plant-makes-no-sense-176157/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s plan to green the Kurri Kurri gas power plant makes no sense">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Giuffre, Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney Joe Rogan Experience/YouTube Joe Rogan is described on his website as “stand up comic, mixed martial arts fanatic, psychedelic adventurer, host of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.” It’s the last of these that has really made his ... <a title="Who is Joe Rogan, and why does Spotify love him so much?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/who-is-joe-rogan-and-why-does-spotify-love-him-so-much-176014/" aria-label="Read more about Who is Joe Rogan, and why does Spotify love him so much?">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Thorpe, Professor in Sociology of Sport and Physical Culture, University of Waikato GettyImages The mass appeal of creative, youth-oriented events such as snowboarding and freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics is a virtual case study of how the once radical can go mainstream. And while audiences ... <a title="How snowboarding became a marquee event at the Winter Olympics – but lost some of its cool factor in the process" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/how-snowboarding-became-a-marquee-event-at-the-winter-olympics-but-lost-some-of-its-cool-factor-in-the-process-175053/" aria-label="Read more about How snowboarding became a marquee event at the Winter Olympics – but lost some of its cool factor in the process">Read more</a>
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February 2, 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 Border, MIQ, Charlotte Bellis RNZ: Cabinet ministers to finalise dates for reopening borders ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 2 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-2-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 2 2022">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University Pixabay, CC BY-SA Audio streaming giant Spotify is getting a crash course in the tension between free speech and the need to protect the public from harmful misinformation. The Swedish-founded platform, which has 400 million active ... <a title="Spotify’s response to Rogan-gate falls short of its ethical and editorial obligations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/spotifys-response-to-rogan-gate-falls-short-of-its-ethical-and-editorial-obligations-176022/" aria-label="Read more about Spotify’s response to Rogan-gate falls short of its ethical and editorial obligations">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yan Bennett, Assistant Director for the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University Zhang Ling/Xinhua/AP Aside from fake snow and COVID-19, the Beijing Winter Games are controversial for many reasons. They are a potent political symbol of the Chinese state’s ambitions and authority. Held ... <a title="Why the Winter Olympics are so vital to the Chinese Communist Party’s legitimacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/why-the-winter-olympics-are-so-vital-to-the-chinese-communist-partys-legitimacy-176130/" aria-label="Read more about Why the Winter Olympics are so vital to the Chinese Communist Party’s legitimacy">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David S G Goodman, Director, China Studies Centre, Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Sydney David J. Phillip/AP The Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics start on Friday – the first time in history the same city has hosted both the summer and winter games. Compared to ... <a title="How will China handle the dual threats of COVID and political protests at the Winter Olympics?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/how-will-china-handle-the-dual-threats-of-covid-and-political-protests-at-the-winter-olympics-175637/" aria-label="Read more about How will China handle the dual threats of COVID and political protests at the Winter Olympics?">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sophie Yates, Research Fellow, UNSW Shutterstock Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provides individualised funding to nearly 500,000 Australians with disability. Despite an even male-female split among under-65s with a disability (49% female), only 37% of NDIS participants are women and girls. To better understand what’s behind ... <a title="Women make up half the disability population but just over a third of NDIS recipients" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/women-make-up-half-the-disability-population-but-just-over-a-third-of-ndis-recipients-173747/" aria-label="Read more about Women make up half the disability population but just over a third of NDIS recipients">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Louise Nelson, Associate Professor in Law, The University of Melbourne Tarcutta Hills Reserve Bush Heritage Australia, Author provided Australia has the world’s largest network of privately owned conservation areas that protect a range of rare wildlife, from bilbies to endangered fish. There are some 6,000 non-government ... <a title="Queensland has an important network of private conservation areas, but they’re dangerously exposed to mining" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/queensland-has-an-important-network-of-private-conservation-areas-but-theyre-dangerously-exposed-to-mining-175519/" aria-label="Read more about Queensland has an important network of private conservation areas, but they’re dangerously exposed to mining">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Francis, Professor of Mathematics, Western Sydney University Shutterstock On Christmas Eve 2021, the pub-test folly struck again. The two of us found ourselves, angry and heartsore, resigning from the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) highly respected College of Experts in protest at the minister’s rejection of grant ... <a title="Why we resigned from the ARC College of Experts after minister vetoed research grants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/why-we-resigned-from-the-arc-college-of-experts-after-minister-vetoed-research-grants-175925/" aria-label="Read more about Why we resigned from the ARC College of Experts after minister vetoed research grants">Read more</a>
