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February 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barbara Norman, Chair of Urban & Regional Planning and Director of Canberra Urban & Regional Futures, University of Canberra As we were still recovering from last summer’s fires in southeast Australia, the southwest fires brought in 2021. Both were far more intense fires than seen before, driven ... <a title="Fires bring home climate-driven urgency of rethinking where we live – and how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/fires-bring-home-climate-driven-urgency-of-rethinking-where-we-live-and-how-155044/" aria-label="Read more about Fires bring home climate-driven urgency of rethinking where we live – and how">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cecily Niumeitolu, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Book review: The Performance by Claire Thomas. Theatre and its constant recreation, allows for the possibility of the political. Sometimes this is manufactured by directors as they place a loaded question on stage. Sometimes it occurs as an unexpected interruption ... <a title="Book review: Claire Thomas’s The Performance triggers burning questions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/book-review-claire-thomass-the-performance-triggers-burning-questions-155043/" aria-label="Read more about Book review: Claire Thomas’s The Performance triggers burning questions">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Craig Kelly’s jump to the crossbench leaves Scott Morrison’s government looking like the man who suddenly finds his jacket feels a little thin in the wind. It still has a majority, but not a comfortable one. The Coalition’s block of ... <a title="View from The Hill: Craig Kelly’s defection leaves government with razor thin majority" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/view-from-the-hill-craig-kellys-defection-leaves-government-with-razor-thin-majority-155897/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Craig Kelly’s defection leaves government with razor thin majority">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University The Victorian government has announced a Royal Commission into Crown Melbourne, following the damning findings of the Bergin inquiry into Crown’s Sydney casino licence earlier this month. The inquiry found Crown Sydney Gaming was ... <a title="Melbourne finally has a Crown royal commission — is this going to stop crime and gambling harm?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/melbourne-finally-has-a-crown-royal-commission-is-this-going-to-stop-crime-and-gambling-harm-155759/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne finally has a Crown royal commission — is this going to stop crime and gambling harm?">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nenad Naumovski, Associate Professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Canberra Sleep is essential for good health. Poor sleep quality, or not enough sleep, can negatively affect our mood, cognitive function, and immune system. Stress can impact our sleep, and stress and anxiety associated with ... <a title="Having trouble sleeping? Here’s the science on 3 traditional bedtime remedies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/having-trouble-sleeping-heres-the-science-on-3-traditional-bedtime-remedies-150360/" aria-label="Read more about Having trouble sleeping? Here’s the science on 3 traditional bedtime remedies">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The base level of JobSeeker and related payments will increase by $50 a fortnight from April 1 under changes that will also toughen the obligations on people seeking work. The boost will take the payment to $307 a week. It ... <a title="$50 a fortnight rise in JobSeeker comes with tougher job search requirements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/50-a-fortnight-rise-in-jobseeker-comes-with-tougher-job-search-requirements-155858/" aria-label="Read more about $50 a fortnight rise in JobSeeker comes with tougher job search requirements">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caroline Shaw, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of Otago New Zealand has the highest per capita car ownership in the OECD, and reducing emissions from the transport sector is seen as a wicked problem. As part of its recently released advice for the government’s first emissions ... <a title="NZ’s smoking rates dropped dramatically thanks to a hard-hitting campaign. Could we do the same to bring emissions down?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/nzs-smoking-rates-dropped-dramatically-thanks-to-a-hard-hitting-campaign-could-we-do-the-same-to-bring-emissions-down-153081/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s smoking rates dropped dramatically thanks to a hard-hitting campaign. Could we do the same to bring emissions down?">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Liberal maverick Craig Kelly has defected to the crossbench, giving Prime Minister Scott Morrison no warning before his surprise announcement to Tuesday’s Coalition parties meeting. Kelly, who strongly promotes alternative, unproven treatments for COVID said: “If I’m to speak out ... <a title="Maverick Liberal Craig Kelly defects to crossbench, vowing to continue to ‘use my voice’ on controversial COVID treatments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/maverick-liberal-craig-kelly-defects-to-crossbench-vowing-to-continue-to-use-my-voice-on-controversial-covid-treatments-155857/" aria-label="Read more about Maverick Liberal Craig Kelly defects to crossbench, vowing to continue to ‘use my voice’ on controversial COVID treatments">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Greenberg, Dean of Arts, University of Auckland The world was excited by the news last week that NASA’s Perseverance rover had successfully landed in a Martian crater. The rover will now set about collecting samples from what scientists say was an ancient lake fed by a ... <a title="How did NASA’s Martian rover come to land in a crater named after a tiny Balkan village?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/how-did-nasas-martian-rover-come-to-land-in-a-crater-named-after-a-tiny-balkan-village-155740/" aria-label="Read more about How did NASA’s Martian rover come to land in a crater named after a tiny Balkan village?">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Pike, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, The Open University In 2020, World Rugby undertook a painstaking policy process to address the issue of transwomen in rugby. This led to guidelines that exclude transwomen from competing in women’s rugby at the World Cup level — the first international ... <a title="Why the World Rugby guidelines banning trans athletes from the women’s game are reasonable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/why-the-world-rugby-guidelines-banning-trans-athletes-from-the-womens-game-are-reasonable-152178/" aria-label="Read more about Why the World Rugby guidelines banning trans athletes from the women’s game are reasonable">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chandra Salgado Kent, Associate Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University Review: Whale Fall, written by Ian Sinclair and directed by Melissa Cantwell for The Kabuki Drop. Commissioned by PICA and co-presented with Perth Festival. Whale Fall follows the emotional journey of a 12-year-old boy, Caleb (Ashton ... <a title="Perth Festival review: Whale Fall is a powerful story about a trans boy, and the life of a whale" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/perth-festival-review-whale-fall-is-a-powerful-story-about-a-trans-boy-and-the-life-of-a-whale-155733/" aria-label="Read more about Perth Festival review: Whale Fall is a powerful story about a trans boy, and the life of a whale">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University What’s the difference between Google and Facebook? One difference is that in the past week Google has more-or-less agreed to pay Australian news outlets for their content faced with the threat of government action to ... <a title="One of these things is not like the others: why Facebook is beyond our control" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others-why-facebook-is-beyond-our-control-155748/" aria-label="Read more about One of these things is not like the others: why Facebook is beyond our control">Read more</a>
