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August 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Seale, Senior Lecturer, UNSW When we hear of people who have allegedly escaped from mandatory quarantine — whether that’s from hotels in Perth, Toowoomba, Sydney or Auckland — it’s easy to ask: “What were they thinking? Why didn’t they just follow the rules?”. But our recent ... <a title="7 ways to better design quarantine, based on what we know about human behaviour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/7-ways-to-better-design-quarantine-based-on-what-we-know-about-human-behaviour-144791/" aria-label="Read more about 7 ways to better design quarantine, based on what we know about human behaviour">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Heap, Adjunct professor, Australian Catholic University There has been little comfort for AMP’s female employees in the corporate heavyweight’s bid to put its sexual harassment scandal to bed. Nor, for that matter, women in any workplace. The resignations of AMP’s chairman David Murray and board member ... <a title="Sexual harassment at work isn’t just discrimination. It needs to be treated as a health and safety issue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/sexual-harassment-at-work-isnt-just-discrimination-it-needs-to-be-treated-as-a-health-and-safety-issue-144940/" aria-label="Read more about Sexual harassment at work isn’t just discrimination. It needs to be treated as a health and safety issue">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2020
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinean and Australian police have linked the “black ship” intercepted by the PNG Navy north of Kavieng, New Ireland, last Saturday to a drug haul valued at K1.47 billion (NZ$626 million) in Australian waters, a senior officer said. Deputy Commissioner of Police Operations Donald Yamasombi told The ... <a title="PNG arrested ‘black ship’ believed to be linked to K1.47bn cocaine haul" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/png-arrested-black-ship-believed-to-be-linked-to-k1-47bn-cocaine-haul/" aria-label="Read more about PNG arrested ‘black ship’ believed to be linked to K1.47bn cocaine haul">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Keith Rathbone, Lecturer, Modern European History and Sports History, Macquarie University This week, the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court in protest over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin, Jacob Blake, who remains paralysed in hospital. The players’ boycott immediately threatened the ... <a title="Athletes won’t stay silent on politics anymore. But will leagues support their protests if it costs them real money?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/athletes-wont-stay-silent-on-politics-anymore-but-will-leagues-support-their-protests-if-it-costs-them-real-money-145238/" aria-label="Read more about Athletes won’t stay silent on politics anymore. But will leagues support their protests if it costs them real money?">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathleen McPhillips, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle Investigative journalist Suzie Smith’s new book The Altar Boys is a searing read that raises new questions about the suicides of three former victims of Catholic clergy child sexual abuse. Smith, a former award-winning ... <a title="The Altar Boys: new questions about suicides of clergy abuse survivors should spark another inquiry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/the-altar-boys-new-questions-about-suicides-of-clergy-abuse-survivors-should-spark-another-inquiry-144962/" aria-label="Read more about The Altar Boys: new questions about suicides of clergy abuse survivors should spark another inquiry">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Harris Rimmer, Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University Australia is a nation of enthusiastic travellers, it is one of our defining national characteristics. At any given time, around a million of us are living and working overseas. In 2019, ... <a title="Australians don’t have a ‘right’ to travel. Does COVID mean our days of carefree overseas trips are over?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/australians-dont-have-a-right-to-travel-does-covid-mean-our-days-of-carefree-overseas-trips-are-over-144862/" aria-label="Read more about Australians don’t have a ‘right’ to travel. Does COVID mean our days of carefree overseas trips are over?">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cheryl Brown, Associate Professor of e-Learning, University of Canterbury Walking into my building just prior to New Zealand’s most recent heightened alert levels, I found students and staff alike were cramming in a last bit of social contact before the one metre rule came into effect. I ... <a title="What do students need in the age of lockdown learning? Early lessons from New Zealand’s online frontline" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/what-do-students-need-in-the-age-of-lockdown-learning-early-lessons-from-new-zealands-online-frontline-144406/" aria-label="Read more about What do students need in the age of lockdown learning? Early lessons from New Zealand’s online frontline">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Annette Gough, Professor Emerita of Science and Environmental Education, RMIT University Young people are increasingly frightened by the spectre of natural hazards and disasters, but they see schools as failing to equip them with the skills they need for these events. That’s according to the recent Our ... <a title="More bushfires, less volcanoes: young Australians need to learn about more relevant disasters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/more-bushfires-less-volcanoes-young-australians-need-to-learn-about-more-relevant-disasters-145163/" aria-label="Read more about More bushfires, less volcanoes: young Australians need to learn about more relevant disasters">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2020
Warning: This story discusses details of the 15 March 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre. A man who confronted a terrorist on the day of the New Zealand killings and again during his sentencing in the High Court says the perpetrator has got “what he deserved”. After a four-day sentencing hearing in the High Court in Christchurch, ... <a title="NZ mosque terrorism hero: ‘We achieved what we wanted’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/nz-mosque-terrorism-hero-we-achieved-what-we-wanted/" aria-label="Read more about NZ mosque terrorism hero: ‘We achieved what we wanted’">Read more</a>
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August 28, 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 Brenton Tarrant sentenced to life without parole Tim Brown (RNZ): Terrorist sentenced to life in jail without parole Kurt Bayer and Anna Leask (Herald): Brenton Tarrant will never be released from jail Newshub: Terrorist ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 28 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-28-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 28 2020">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Meese, Research fellow, RMIT University Given the recent commentary about the reforms proposed for the news media sector, you would be forgiven for thinking Google and Facebook are the only game in town. The planned reforms arose from last year’s Digital Platforms Inquiry by the Australian ... <a title="Facebook and Google used to be the future of news. But now media companies need more strings to their bow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/facebook-and-google-used-to-be-the-future-of-news-but-now-media-companies-need-more-strings-to-their-bow-145024/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook and Google used to be the future of news. But now media companies need more strings to their bow">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis Altman, Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University On November 3, Americans will vote not only for president, but for all members of the House of Representatives, a third of the Senate and a long list of state and local positions. While the names of ... <a title="Winning the presidency won’t be enough: Biden needs the Senate too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/winning-the-presidency-wont-be-enough-biden-needs-the-senate-too-145034/" aria-label="Read more about Winning the presidency won’t be enough: Biden needs the Senate too">Read more</a>
