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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Perkins, Director, Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health and Professor of Rural Health Research, University of Newcastle Among the Bushfire Royal Commission’s 80 recommendations, released last week, was a call to prioritise mental health support during and after natural disasters. The Australian Medical Association this ... <a title="Bushfires, drought, COVID: why rural Australians’ mental health is taking a battering" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/bushfires-drought-covid-why-rural-australians-mental-health-is-taking-a-battering-148724/" aria-label="Read more about Bushfires, drought, COVID: why rural Australians’ mental health is taking a battering">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Downie, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, Australian National University When the US formally left the Paris climate agreement, Joe Biden tweeted that “in exactly 77 days, a Biden Administration will rejoin it”. The US announced its intention to withdraw from the agreement back in 2017. But ... <a title="Biden says the US will rejoin the Paris climate agreement in 77 days. Then Australia will really feel the heat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/biden-says-the-us-will-rejoin-the-paris-climate-agreement-in-77-days-then-australia-will-really-feel-the-heat-149533/" aria-label="Read more about Biden says the US will rejoin the Paris climate agreement in 77 days. Then Australia will really feel the heat">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics. This week the pair discuss the outcome of the Queensland election, the likely outcome and repercussions of the US election, ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Queensland election, the US election, and the reserve bank" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/video-michelle-grattan-on-the-queensland-election-the-us-election-and-the-reserve-bank-149625/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Queensland election, the US election, and the reserve bank">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By DB Subedi, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of New England Over 37 million Myanmar citizens, including 5 million first-time voters, will go to the polls on November 8. The election represents a litmus test for the popularity of National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi, ... <a title="Why Myanmar’s election is unlikely to herald major political reform or support transition to democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/why-myanmars-election-is-unlikely-to-herald-major-political-reform-or-support-transition-to-democracy-146021/" aria-label="Read more about Why Myanmar’s election is unlikely to herald major political reform or support transition to democracy">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Two former New Zealand prime ministers have called for an end to polarisation and the need for “healing” as the US presidential election remains in limbo. Both former Labour PM Helen Clark and ex-National PM Sir John Key talked up the “television spectacle” in newspaper columns today with Key admitting that ... <a title="Two former NZ prime ministers call for US to restore global ‘leadership’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/two-former-nz-prime-ministers-call-for-us-to-restore-global-leadership/" aria-label="Read more about Two former NZ prime ministers call for US to restore global ‘leadership’">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Sarah John, Flinders University Facing the gradual erosion of early leads in several battleground states — and increasingly likely defeat in the presidential election — the Trump campaign is launching a well-planned legal assault to challenge the validity of ballots and the process of vote-counting itself. The Biden campaign is responding with an ... <a title="With re-election hopes fading, Trump tries for an election win in the courts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/with-re-election-hopes-fading-trump-tries-for-an-election-win-in-the-courts/" aria-label="Read more about With re-election hopes fading, Trump tries for an election win in the courts">Read more</a>
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November 6, 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 New Government Colin James (Democracy Project): ‘Beyond Jacinda’ Max Rashbrooke (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern must use her mandate to tackle child poverty in New Zealand Matthew Hooton (Herald): Jacinda Ardern reaches out to business (paywalled) Richard Harman: Ardern turns to business Jo ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 06 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-06-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 06 2020">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joseph Bevitt, Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Albanerpetontids, or “albies” for short, are the cute little salamander-like amphibians you’ve likely never heard of. Now extinct, Albies had a dream run. They’d been around since the Middle Jurassic around 165 million years ago, and ... <a title="This tiny amphibian that outlived the dinosaurs provides the earliest example of a rapid-fire tongue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/this-tiny-amphibian-that-outlived-the-dinosaurs-provides-the-earliest-example-of-a-rapid-fire-tongue-149445/" aria-label="Read more about This tiny amphibian that outlived the dinosaurs provides the earliest example of a rapid-fire tongue">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Munro, Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University How can we concentrate on a particular thing (like studies) without getting distracted? Melvina, aged 14 Thanks for this great question Melvina! Many students are probably wondering the same thing as end-of-year assessments approach. To concentrate ... <a title="Curious Kids: how can we concentrate on study without getting distracted?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/curious-kids-how-can-we-concentrate-on-study-without-getting-distracted-146572/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how can we concentrate on study without getting distracted?">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriel da Silva, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne As fires ravaged large sections of the Australian bush last summer, cities and towns all along the coast were blanketed in toxic smoke. Air pollutants were measured at unheard of levels across the country. Hazardous air ... <a title="Frequent extreme bushfires are our new reality. We need to learn how to live with smoke-filled air" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/frequent-extreme-bushfires-are-our-new-reality-we-need-to-learn-how-to-live-with-smoke-filled-air-149427/" aria-label="Read more about Frequent extreme bushfires are our new reality. We need to learn how to live with smoke-filled air">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Cole-Hunter, Research fellow, Queensland University of Technology When it comes to handling the waste crisis in Australia, options are limited: we either export our waste or bury it. But to achieve current national targets, policy-makers are increasingly asking if we can instead safely burn waste as ... <a title="Can we safely burn waste to make fuel like they do in Denmark? Well, it’s complicated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/can-we-safely-burn-waste-to-make-fuel-like-they-do-in-denmark-well-its-complicated-148250/" aria-label="Read more about Can we safely burn waste to make fuel like they do in Denmark? Well, it’s complicated">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olivia Karaolis, PhD Student, University of Sydney Children come into the world ready to communicate. A baby cries and coos to express their feelings and respond to sounds. The ability to communicate develops quickly but uniquely in every child. By the age of three, most children are ... <a title="Talking through play: 3 ways puppets can help your child open up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/talking-through-play-3-ways-puppets-can-help-your-child-open-up-132353/" aria-label="Read more about Talking through play: 3 ways puppets can help your child open up">Read more</a>
