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December 21, 2020
By Jordan Bond, RNZ News reporter Million-dollar houses are now being sold in one of Auckland’s lowest-income suburbs and a local politician says New Zealand government failure is allowing the market to drive further inequality and hopelessness. Last month an unremarkable 1960s weatherboard house on less than a quarter acre section in Ōtara in South ... <a title="Pacific residents express ‘hopelessness’ as Ōtara house sales hit $1m" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/pacific-residents-express-hopelessness-as-otara-house-sales-hit-1m/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific residents express ‘hopelessness’ as Ōtara house sales hit $1m">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mirko Bagaric, Professor of Law, Swinburne University of Technology The final report of the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry, issued by former judge Jennifer Coate, outlines monumental errors made by the Victorian government and its public servants. Despite this, the governmental failings that led to a second wave ... <a title="Hotel quarantine report blasts government failures, but political fallout is likely to be minimal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/hotel-quarantine-report-blasts-government-failures-but-political-fallout-is-likely-to-be-minimal-152175/" aria-label="Read more about Hotel quarantine report blasts government failures, but political fallout is likely to be minimal">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris James, Lecturer, Centre for Hypersonics, The University of Queensland There are many things humanity must overcome before any return journey to Mars is launched. The two major players are NASA and SpaceX, which work together intimately on missions to the International Space Station but have competing ... <a title="How to get people from Earth to Mars and safely back again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/how-to-get-people-from-earth-to-mars-and-safely-back-again-150167/" aria-label="Read more about How to get people from Earth to Mars and safely back again">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Conley Tyler, Research Fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne Most of us can’t wait to see the back of 2020, a year that has been memorable for all the wrong reasons. While 2020 provided the ultimate stress test for countries to discover their vulnerabilities, we can ... <a title="Coronavirus, China and climate: where Australia’s foreign relations attention will be in 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/coronavirus-china-and-climate-where-australias-foreign-relations-attention-will-be-in-2021-150158/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus, China and climate: where Australia’s foreign relations attention will be in 2021">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claus T. Christophersen, Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University It’s that time of year again, with Christmas parties, end-of-year get-togethers and holiday catch-ups on the horizon for many of us — all COVID-safe, of course. All that party food and takeaway, however, can have consequences for your gut ... <a title="How to prepare and protect your gut health over Christmas and the silly season" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/how-to-prepare-and-protect-your-gut-health-over-christmas-and-the-silly-season-151673/" aria-label="Read more about How to prepare and protect your gut health over Christmas and the silly season">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, University of Melbourne Last month I came across a heartbreaking sight: a group of people standing around a young female kangaroo with horrific injuries. She appeared to have been hit by a ... <a title="10 million animals are hit on our roads each year. Here’s how you can help them (and steer clear of them) these holidays" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/10-million-animals-are-hit-on-our-roads-each-year-heres-how-you-can-help-them-and-steer-clear-of-them-these-holidays-149733/" aria-label="Read more about 10 million animals are hit on our roads each year. Here’s how you can help them (and steer clear of them) these holidays">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Professor of Popular Culture, Auckland University of Technology Not long to go now before many of us get to spread some good tidings and joy as we celebrate Christmas. The main ways we understand and mark the occasion seem to be rather similar across the ... <a title="The borrowed customs and traditions of Christmas celebrations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/the-borrowed-customs-and-traditions-of-christmas-celebrations-149527/" aria-label="Read more about The borrowed customs and traditions of Christmas celebrations">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University An end-of-year political poll appeared recently and virtually no one paid it any attention. After a year of high-stakes health, economic and electoral events, it was a sign New Zealanders are on the other side of something. It was a ... <a title="2020 hindsight: can New Zealand apply the political lessons of COVID-19 in the year ahead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/2020-hindsight-can-new-zealand-apply-the-political-lessons-of-covid-19-in-the-year-ahead-151830/" aria-label="Read more about 2020 hindsight: can New Zealand apply the political lessons of COVID-19 in the year ahead?">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Parliament, and end of year reviews Claire Robinson (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern should make Speaker Trevor Mallard pay the price for his costly ‘mistake’ Tova O’Brien (Guardian): It’s been an ugly year for New Zealand politics but ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 21 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-21-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 21 2020">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
By Laurens Ikinia A journalist who sailed on board the bombed environmental ship Rainbow Warrior, was arrested at gunpoint in New Caledonia while investigating French military garrisons in pro-independence Kanak villages, and reported on social justice issues across the Pacific has stepped down as founding director of the Pacific Media Centre. Professor David Robie, 75, ... <a title="Pacific Media Centre founder takes on new social justice journalism role" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/pacific-media-centre-founder-takes-on-new-social-justice-journalism-role/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media Centre founder takes on new social justice journalism role">Read more</a>
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December 20, 2020
By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist Covid-19 vaccinations begin in the Northern Mariana Islands this weekend, but it is not yet clear when other Pacific countries will have access to a vaccine. The Northern Marianas, which is a US territory, was expecting 5,000 doses of the The Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to arrive during the ... <a title="Covid-19 vaccine roll out starts in parts of the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/20/covid-19-vaccine-roll-out-starts-in-parts-of-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 vaccine roll out starts in parts of the Pacific">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The most important changes in Scott Morrison’s limited reshuffle are centred on two vital and controversial issues – aged care and trade – that will severely test the government in coming months. Aged care has been elevated to cabinet and ... <a title="View from The Hill: aged care to cabinet, Tehan to trade in Morrison’s modest reshuffle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/view-from-the-hill-aged-care-to-cabinet-tehan-to-trade-in-morrisons-modest-reshuffle-152322/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: aged care to cabinet, Tehan to trade in Morrison’s modest reshuffle">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University It’s the last thing anyone wanted to hear, a week out from Christmas. But the growing cluster of COVID-19 cases linked to Sydney’s northern beaches has put Australia on alert. There are now 28 cases associated with the cluster, with ... <a title="Australia on alert as Sydney’s northern beaches COVID cluster grows, linked to US strain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/australia-on-alert-as-sydneys-northern-beaches-covid-cluster-grows-linked-to-us-strain-152310/" aria-label="Read more about Australia on alert as Sydney’s northern beaches COVID cluster grows, linked to US strain">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney Another day, another announcement about a COVID-19 vaccine. Whether that’s talk of results from clinical trials, emergency approval or plans for countries to prioritise certain groups for vaccination. But we still don’t know if current vaccines prevent disease ... <a title="A COVID-19 vaccine that prevents both the disease and viral transmission is the aim. Until then, here’s what we need to do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/a-covid-19-vaccine-that-prevents-both-the-disease-and-viral-transmission-is-the-aim-until-then-heres-what-we-need-to-do-151839/" aria-label="Read more about A COVID-19 vaccine that prevents both the disease and viral transmission is the aim. Until then, here’s what we need to do">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dianne Cook, Professor of Business Analytics, Monash University As last summer’s horrific bushfires raged, so too did debate about what caused them. Despite the prolonged drought and ever worsening climate change, some people sought to blame the fires largely on arson. Federal Coalition MPs were among those ... <a title="Open data shows lightning, not arson, was the likely cause of most Victorian bushfires last summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/open-data-shows-lightning-not-arson-was-the-likely-cause-of-most-victorian-bushfires-last-summer-151912/" aria-label="Read more about Open data shows lightning, not arson, was the likely cause of most Victorian bushfires last summer">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jorg Michael Hacker, Chief Scientist at Airborne Research Australia (ARA); and Professor, Flinders University Two days before Christmas last year, a fire reached our heritage-protected bush property in the Adelaide Hills, and destroyed our neighbour’s house. For the next two weeks we were on constant alert to ... <a title="Before and after: 4 new graphics show the recovery from last summer’s bushfire devastation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/before-and-after-4-new-graphics-show-the-recovery-from-last-summers-bushfire-devastation-149073/" aria-label="Read more about Before and after: 4 new graphics show the recovery from last summer’s bushfire devastation">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jorg Michael Hacker, Chief Scientist at Airborne Research Australia (ARA); and Professor, Flinders University Two days before Christmas last year, a fire reached our heritage-protected bush property in the Adelaide Hills, and destroyed our neighbour’s house. For the next two weeks we were on constant alert to ... <a title="Before and after: these 4 graphics show the recovery of last summer’s bushfire devastation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/before-and-after-these-4-graphics-show-the-recovery-of-last-summers-bushfire-devastation-149073/" aria-label="Read more about Before and after: these 4 graphics show the recovery of last summer’s bushfire devastation">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Ihumātao deal RNZ: Ihumātao: SOUL marks the beginning of the end 1News: Ihumātao protest leader celebrates land deal with Government, but not sold on housing proposals Justin Latif (Spinoff): The story behind the fight to save Ihumātao ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 18 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-18-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 18 2020">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Many houses in Fiji’s Vanua Levu have been destroyed, some families sheltered under beds and tables in their houses and others in cane plantations, as Cyclone Yasa wreaked havoc in many parts of the Northern Division, Fiji Village reports. Buildings and crops were been destroyed in Fiji’s second largest island and there’s ... <a title="Fiji declares state of disaster as TC Yasa wreaks havoc in Vanua Levu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/fiji-declares-state-of-disaster-as-tc-yasa-wreaks-havoc-in-vanua-levu/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji declares state of disaster as TC Yasa wreaks havoc in Vanua Levu">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Farkhondeh Hassandoust, Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology This week’s announcement of two new COVID-19 vaccine pre-purchase deals is encouraging, but doesn’t mean New Zealanders should become complacent about using the NZ COVID Tracer app during the summer holidays. The immunisation rollout won’t start until the second quarter ... <a title="Not just complacency: why people are reluctant to use COVID-19 contact-tracing apps" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/not-just-complacency-why-people-are-reluctant-to-use-covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-152085/" aria-label="Read more about Not just complacency: why people are reluctant to use COVID-19 contact-tracing apps">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Norris, Professor, School of Science, Western Sydney University At the very largest scale, the Universe consists of a “cosmic web” made of enormous, tenuous filaments of gas stretching between gigantic clumps of matter. Or that’s what our best models suggest. All we have seen so far ... <a title="A thread of the cosmic web: astronomers spot a 50 million light-year galactic filament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/a-thread-of-the-cosmic-web-astronomers-spot-a-50-million-light-year-galactic-filament-151569/" aria-label="Read more about A thread of the cosmic web: astronomers spot a 50 million light-year galactic filament">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Vice-chancellor’s fellow, La Trobe University Canberra policymakers will be conducting a root-and-branch reassessment of Australia’s foreign policy following Donald Trump’s defeat in the US presidential election and ahead of an incoming Democrat administration. Top of the list of items for review will be a leaden-footed ... <a title="Joe Biden’s approach to the Middle East will be very different from Trump’s, especially on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/joe-bidens-approach-to-the-middle-east-will-be-very-different-from-trumps-especially-on-iran-151987/" aria-label="Read more about Joe Biden’s approach to the Middle East will be very different from Trump’s, especially on Iran">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University Having a baby at Christmas can be both a joyous time and a cause for anxiety. This Christmas, with a pandemic sweeping the world, there may also be some unique considerations ... <a title="Christmas is a special time on the maternity ward. But it’s not all tinsel and mince pies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/christmas-is-a-special-time-on-the-maternity-ward-but-its-not-all-tinsel-and-mince-pies-150063/" aria-label="Read more about Christmas is a special time on the maternity ward. But it’s not all tinsel and mince pies">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Dart, Lecturer in Learning & Teaching Development, Impact and Recognition, Queensland University of Technology The use of educational videos in schools and universities was on the rise before COVID-19. Now, with continuing disruption by the pandemic, more educators are developing educational videos to support student learning. ... <a title="It’s not production quality that counts in educational videos – here’s what students value most" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/its-not-production-quality-that-counts-in-educational-videos-heres-what-students-value-most-151573/" aria-label="Read more about It’s not production quality that counts in educational videos – here’s what students value most">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW 2020 began simply, if dramatically enough in some sense. We spent the first months preoccupied with bushfires that blackened both our natural environment and our international reputation for taking climate change seriously. Who would have thought that would have been the ... <a title="Vital Signs: 4 things Australia’s COVID response got right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/vital-signs-4-things-australias-covid-response-got-right-152172/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: 4 things Australia’s COVID response got right">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Spencer M. Ross, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Massachusetts Lowell Collectors for the Paralympic Games carried donation buckets ahead of the recent Santa parade in Auckland, asking for gold coin donations. Onlookers shrugged them off: “Sorry, no cash on me!” To the rescue, a charity volunteer ... <a title="No spare change: how charities, buskers and beggars aren’t feeling so festive in our cashless society" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/no-spare-change-how-charities-buskers-and-beggars-arent-feeling-so-festive-in-our-cashless-society-151024/" aria-label="Read more about No spare change: how charities, buskers and beggars aren’t feeling so festive in our cashless society">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grace Karskens, Emeritus Professor of History, UNSW In 2017, I came across an extraordinary document in Sydney’s Mitchell Library: a handwritten list of 178 Aboriginal place names for Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River, compiled in 1829 by a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend John McGarvie. I was stunned. I ... <a title="Friday essay: how a long-lost list is helping us remap Darug place names and culture on Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/friday-essay-how-a-long-lost-list-is-helping-us-remap-darug-place-names-and-culture-on-dyarubbin-the-hawkesbury-river-148004/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: how a long-lost list is helping us remap Darug place names and culture on Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When he ended 2019 amid literal and political smoke, it would have seemed inconceivable Scott Morrison could finish 2020 on a high. Or that he’d have reached there on the back of Australia’s worst downturn since the Depression. Morrison learned ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Six issues on Scott Morrison’s mind over summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/grattan-on-friday-six-issues-on-scott-morrisons-mind-over-summer-152181/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Six issues on Scott Morrison’s mind over summer">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This week’s update shows an improvement on the numbers in the budget that was delivered only 10 weeks ago. The prospects for growth and employment have been revised upwards. While the forecast for the deficit remains massive, at nearly $200 ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on promising budget figures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/politics-with-michelle-grattan-treasurer-josh-frydenberg-on-promising-budget-figures-152243/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on promising budget figures">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Outside of Victoria the number of hours worked has almost returned to where it was – nowhere near where it would have been, but almost where it was. Employment figures released as Treasurer Josh Frydenberg ... <a title="So far so good: MYEFO budget update shows recovery gathering pace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/so-far-so-good-myefo-budget-update-shows-recovery-gathering-pace-152227/" aria-label="Read more about So far so good: MYEFO budget update shows recovery gathering pace">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Weihuan Zhou, Senior Lecturer and member of Herbert Smith Freehills CIBEL Centre, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Australia is reportedly ready to initiate its first litigation against China at the World Trade Organisation. China has this year taken punitive action against imports of Australian coal, wine, ... <a title="Taking China to the World Trade Organisation plants a seed. It won’t be a quick or easy win" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/taking-china-to-the-world-trade-organisation-plants-a-seed-it-wont-be-a-quick-or-easy-win-152173/" aria-label="Read more about Taking China to the World Trade Organisation plants a seed. It won’t be a quick or easy win">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne The arts sector has been through a trial by fire this year. Most activities planned from March had to be cancelled, or modified to such an extent they were no longer ... <a title="The year everything got cancelled: how the arts in Australia suffered (but survived) in 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/the-year-everything-got-cancelled-how-the-arts-in-australia-suffered-but-survived-in-2020-152180/" aria-label="Read more about The year everything got cancelled: how the arts in Australia suffered (but survived) in 2020">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Plank, Professor in Mathematics, University of Canterbury Recent announcements on travel bubbles and quarantine-free travel between New Zealand and Australia from early next year will be welcome news for whānau and friends as well as businesses and the tourism industry. But as the prime minister made ... <a title="How to keep COVID-19 at bay during the summer holidays — and help make travel bubbles a reality in 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/how-to-keep-covid-19-at-bay-during-the-summer-holidays-and-help-make-travel-bubbles-a-reality-in-2021-152014/" aria-label="Read more about How to keep COVID-19 at bay during the summer holidays — and help make travel bubbles a reality in 2021">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Barton, Senior lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University Why are tears salty? — Aarna, aged 6 Hi Aarna, thanks for your great question! I’m going to start off by telling you a little bit of a story about sea turtles. That might seem strange, ... <a title="Curious Kids: why are our tears salty?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/curious-kids-why-are-our-tears-salty-151369/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why are our tears salty?">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Leif, Senior Lecturer, Educational Psychology & Inclusive Education, Monash University New South Wales recently introduced a draft Student Behaviour Strategy. This was released on the heels of a report suggesting Indigenous students and students with disabilities are more likely to experience exclusionary practices, such as suspension ... <a title="5 evidence-based ways teachers can help struggling students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/5-evidence-based-ways-teachers-can-help-struggling-students-151478/" aria-label="Read more about 5 evidence-based ways teachers can help struggling students">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Speaker Trevor Mallard’s rape allegations Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Trevor Mallard has made things worse Barry Soper (Herald): Trevor Mallard raises more questions than he answers Claire Trevett (Herald): National’s attacks water off a Mallard’s back (paywalled) Newstalk ZB: Barry Soper ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 17 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-17-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 17 2020">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Mather, Computational Geophysicist, University of Sydney The landscape of eastern Australia is dotted with hundreds of extinct volcanoes. They gave rise to an environment to which Aboriginal people have been connected for tens of thousands of years, and the rich soils upon which modern Australia has ... <a title="Eastern Australia has hundreds of enigmatic volcanoes. New research shows how they formed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/eastern-australia-has-hundreds-of-enigmatic-volcanoes-new-research-shows-how-they-formed-151578/" aria-label="Read more about Eastern Australia has hundreds of enigmatic volcanoes. New research shows how they formed">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide “You’re cooking with gas” is a familiar term associated with doing the right thing and doing it well. But is cooking with gas doing the wrong thing for our health? Increasing evidence suggests cooking with gas may make ... <a title="Gas cooking is associated with worsening asthma in kids. But proper ventilation helps" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/gas-cooking-is-associated-with-worsening-asthma-in-kids-but-proper-ventilation-helps-151591/" aria-label="Read more about Gas cooking is associated with worsening asthma in kids. But proper ventilation helps">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jamie Burton, PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne The 2020-21 fire season is well underway, and we’ve watched in horror as places like K’gari (Fraser Island) burn uncontrollably, threatening people and their homes and devastating the environment. Read more: The K’gari-Fraser Island bushfire is causing catastrophic damage. What ... <a title="How the size and shape of dried leaves can turn small flames into colossal bushfires" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/how-the-size-and-shape-of-dried-leaves-can-turn-small-flames-into-colossal-bushfires-150951/" aria-label="Read more about How the size and shape of dried leaves can turn small flames into colossal bushfires">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Harris Rimmer, Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University It’s a tough time to be a university student. Amid a global pandemic, overstretched mental health services and sweeping university staff cuts, students have had to attend classes and hand in ... <a title="Stressed out, dropping out: COVID has taken its toll on uni students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/stressed-out-dropping-out-covid-has-taken-its-toll-on-uni-students-152004/" aria-label="Read more about Stressed out, dropping out: COVID has taken its toll on uni students">Read more</a>
