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Month: October 2020

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Climate explained: did atomic bomb tests damage our upper atmosphere?

October 27, 2020

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brett Carter, Senior lecturer, RMIT University CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz ... <a title="Climate explained: did atomic bomb tests damage our upper atmosphere?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/climate-explained-did-atomic-bomb-tests-damage-our-upper-atmosphere-146760/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: did atomic bomb tests damage our upper atmosphere?">Read more</a>

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Review: Louise Milligan’s Witness is a devastating critique of the criminal trial process

October 27, 2020

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Mathews, Professor, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology Book review: Witness, by Louise Milligan (Hachette). Louise Milligan’s new book, Witness, is an excoriating critique of the failures of the criminal justice system in sexual assault trials. Informed by Milligan’s two decades of experience as an ... <a title="Review: Louise Milligan’s Witness is a devastating critique of the criminal trial process" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/review-louise-milligans-witness-is-a-devastating-critique-of-the-criminal-trial-process-148334/" aria-label="Read more about Review: Louise Milligan’s Witness is a devastating critique of the criminal trial process">Read more</a>

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Super-charged: Australia’s biggest renewables project will change the energy game

October 27, 2020

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Mathews, Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University Australia doesn’t yet export renewable energy. But the writing is on the wall: demand for Australia’s fossil fuel exports is likely to dwindle soon, and we must replace it at massive scale. The proposed Asian Australian Renewable Energy ... <a title="Super-charged: Australia’s biggest renewables project will change the energy game" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/super-charged-australias-biggest-renewables-project-will-change-the-energy-game-148348/" aria-label="Read more about Super-charged: Australia’s biggest renewables project will change the energy game">Read more</a>

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Dear Australia, your sympathy helps, but you can’t quite understand Melbourne’s lockdown experience

October 27, 2020

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Brady, Research Fellow – Community Resilience, University of Melbourne The joy Melburnians feel about coming out of lockdown is palpable, but another thread is also emerging: if you don’t live in Melbourne and haven’t experienced what we’ve experienced, you can’t actually understand what we’ve been through. ... <a title="Dear Australia, your sympathy helps, but you can’t quite understand Melbourne’s lockdown experience" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/dear-australia-your-sympathy-helps-but-you-cant-quite-understand-melbournes-lockdown-experience-148900/" aria-label="Read more about Dear Australia, your sympathy helps, but you can’t quite understand Melbourne’s lockdown experience">Read more</a>

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Stay out of cabinet – be independent, former MP tells Greens

October 27, 2020

By RNZ News Former Green Party MP Keith Locke says his contemporaries should stay out of the New Zealand cabinet in order to remain critical of Labour while also working constructively with it. Any cabinet positions offered to the Greens by Labour would be a favour, not a necessity, and likely require the smaller party ... <a title="Stay out of cabinet – be independent, former MP tells Greens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/stay-out-of-cabinet-be-independent-former-mp-tells-greens/" aria-label="Read more about Stay out of cabinet – be independent, former MP tells Greens">Read more</a>

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Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 27 2020

October 27, 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 Labour Party and new Labour Government Andrea Vance (Stuff): ‘Labour Connect’ the data analysis tool that boosted Jacinda Ardern’s campaign Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Time for Govt to take some risks (paywalled) Audrey Young (Herald): Prime Minister ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 27 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-27-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 27 2020">Read more</a>

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Op-Ed: The United Nations, 75 years young – Engaging youth social entrepreneurs to accelerate the SDGs

October 27, 2020

Opinion by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana. This year, the United Nations is marking its 75th anniversary – a milestone of extraordinary economic and social progress in Asia and the Pacific. While the Organization enjoys a lifespan almost equal to the world’s improved average life expectancy, the future lies with those who have recently embarked on theirs: ... <a title="Op-Ed: The United Nations, 75 years young – Engaging youth social entrepreneurs to accelerate the SDGs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/op-ed-the-united-nations-75-years-young-engaging-youth-social-entrepreneurs-to-accelerate-the-sdgs/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: The United Nations, 75 years young – Engaging youth social entrepreneurs to accelerate the SDGs">Read more</a>

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What would a Biden presidency mean for Australia?

October 27, 2020

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University American presidential elections do not, as a rule, change the calculus much for Australian foreign policy. Elections come and go, American presidents complete their terms and business continues more or less as normal. Even Richard Nixon’s resignation ... <a title="What would a Biden presidency mean for Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/what-would-a-biden-presidency-mean-for-australia-148516/" aria-label="Read more about What would a Biden presidency mean for Australia?">Read more</a>

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Our minds may be wandering more during the pandemic — and this can be a good thing

October 27, 2020

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Windt, Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Many feel the coronavirus pandemic has changed not just our everyday lives, but also our inner mental lives. There has been talk of a mental health pandemic, but also of lockdown brain fog when we are awake, as well as ... <a title="Our minds may be wandering more during the pandemic — and this can be a good thing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/our-minds-may-be-wandering-more-during-the-pandemic-and-this-can-be-a-good-thing-145764/" aria-label="Read more about Our minds may be wandering more during the pandemic — and this can be a good thing">Read more</a>

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Cool discovery: new studies confirm Moon has icy poles

October 27, 2020

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Dempster, Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Water is more abundant on the Moon than we might have suspected, according to two papers published today in Nature Astronomy that confirm the presence of ice on and near ... <a title="Cool discovery: new studies confirm Moon has icy poles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/cool-discovery-new-studies-confirm-moon-has-icy-poles-148639/" aria-label="Read more about Cool discovery: new studies confirm Moon has icy poles">Read more</a>

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Reimagining the laser: new ideas from quantum theory could herald a revolution

October 27, 2020

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Howard Wiseman, Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University Lasers were created 60 years ago this year, when three different laser devices were unveiled by independent laboratories in the United States. A few years later, one of these inventors called the unusual light sources “a solution seeking ... <a title="Reimagining the laser: new ideas from quantum theory could herald a revolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/reimagining-the-laser-new-ideas-from-quantum-theory-could-herald-a-revolution-147436/" aria-label="Read more about Reimagining the laser: new ideas from quantum theory could herald a revolution">Read more</a>

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Wage theft and casual work are built into university business models

October 27, 2020

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damien Cahill, Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney The COVID crisis has exposed the destructive consequences of an over-reliance on casual labour across the economy. Australian universities provide one of the clearest examples of this. For the past two decades, universities have leaned into ... <a title="Wage theft and casual work are built into university business models" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/wage-theft-and-casual-work-are-built-into-university-business-models-147555/" aria-label="Read more about Wage theft and casual work are built into university business models">Read more</a>