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July 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Logan, Lecturer of Civil Systems Engineering, University of Canterbury GettyImages The major storm surge and coastal flooding in Wellington earlier this month was another reminder that the sea is now lapping close to a lot of New Zealand’s front doors. The ominous question is: who will ... <a title="With seas rising and storms surging, who will pay for New Zealand’s most vulnerable coastal properties?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/with-seas-rising-and-storms-surging-who-will-pay-for-new-zealands-most-vulnerable-coastal-properties-163807/" aria-label="Read more about With seas rising and storms surging, who will pay for New Zealand’s most vulnerable coastal properties?">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Shelling, Professor and Associate Dean (Research), University of Auckland Shutterstock Research Checks interrogate newly published studies and how they’re reported in the media. The analysis is undertaken by one or more academics not involved with the study, and reviewed by another, to make sure it’s accurate. ... <a title="Is when you lose your virginity and have your first kid really written in your genes? Not quite" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/is-when-you-lose-your-virginity-and-have-your-first-kid-really-written-in-your-genes-not-quite-163895/" aria-label="Read more about Is when you lose your virginity and have your first kid really written in your genes? Not quite">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claudio Bozzi, Lecturer in Law, Deakin University Hundreds of dead turtles continue to wash ashore in Sri Lanka, almost two months after a newly built container ship caught fire while anchored off Colombo’s port. The X-Press Pearl was carrying 1,486 containers and burned for two weeks. It ... <a title="Could Sri Lanka’s ship fire have been avoided? Here’s what we can learn from the shocking environmental disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/could-sri-lankas-ship-fire-have-been-avoided-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-the-shocking-environmental-disaster-162770/" aria-label="Read more about Could Sri Lanka’s ship fire have been avoided? Here’s what we can learn from the shocking environmental disaster">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris James, ARC DECRA Fellow, Centre for Hypersonics, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland Blue Origin Over the next fortnight, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson will take off into space, because they can, on spaceships designed by ... <a title="Branson vs Bezos: as the billionaires get ready to blast into space, who’s got the better plan?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/branson-vs-bezos-as-the-billionaires-get-ready-to-blast-into-space-whos-got-the-better-plan-163898/" aria-label="Read more about Branson vs Bezos: as the billionaires get ready to blast into space, who’s got the better plan?">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Conley Tyler, Research Associate, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne Ritchie B Togo/EPA/AAP I have been in Taiwan since April as a visiting fellow. During this time, there are two questions I’ve been consistently asked. What’s happened to Australia’s relationship with China? And what does it ... <a title="Can Taiwan rely on Australia when it comes to China? New poll shows most Australians don’t want to send the ADF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/can-taiwan-rely-on-australia-when-it-comes-to-china-new-poll-shows-most-australians-dont-want-to-send-the-adf-164092/" aria-label="Read more about Can Taiwan rely on Australia when it comes to China? New poll shows most Australians don’t want to send the ADF">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Glen Hosking, Senior Lecturer in Psychology. Clinical Psychologist, Victoria University Mike Labrum/Unsplash COVID-19 has affected many facets of our lives. Public health measures to stop the spread of the virus have impacted the way we work, connect with others and socialise. The pandemic has changed the way ... <a title="Loss in the pandemic: when a loved one dies, being cut off from the grieving process can make things harder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/loss-in-the-pandemic-when-a-loved-one-dies-being-cut-off-from-the-grieving-process-can-make-things-harder-163975/" aria-label="Read more about Loss in the pandemic: when a loved one dies, being cut off from the grieving process can make things harder">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob N. Williams, Archaeologist & PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Shutterstock Trees have always been a point of conflict between colonisers and Indigenous people. At the very beginning of European-Indigenous interactions, skirmishes broke out because colonisers were ignorant of protocols and the desecration of important Indigenous sites ... <a title="Will your grandchildren have the chance to visit Australia’s sacred trees? Only if our sick indifference to Aboriginal heritage is cured" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/will-your-grandchildren-have-the-chance-to-visit-australias-sacred-trees-only-if-our-sick-indifference-to-aboriginal-heritage-is-cured-163581/" aria-label="Read more about Will your grandchildren have the chance to visit Australia’s sacred trees? Only if our sick indifference to Aboriginal heritage is cured">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Forsyth, Senior Lecturer in History, Australian Catholic University Robert Menzies established a ‘buffer body’ between government and universities. Shutterstock Universities struggle to understand why the government doesn’t love them. Since COVID, universities have lost billions of dollars and shed over 17,000 staff. The government excluded them ... <a title="Don’t just blame the Libs for treating universities harshly. Labor’s 1980s policies ushered in government interference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/dont-just-blame-the-libs-for-treating-universities-harshly-labors-1980s-policies-ushered-in-government-interference-163880/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t just blame the Libs for treating universities harshly. Labor’s 1980s policies ushered in government interference">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW There’s an idea in economics that policy makers need at least one tool for each target at which they are aiming. Fewer tools than targets will mean not achieving all goals. This is known as the Tinbergen Rule (named for the ... <a title="Vital Signs: RBA governor Philip Lowe’s dangerous game on interest rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/vital-signs-rba-governor-philip-lowes-dangerous-game-on-interest-rates-164064/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: RBA governor Philip Lowe’s dangerous game on interest rates">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Lydon, Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, The University of Western Australia St Kitts-born Archibald Burt pictured beside sugar cane growing in his Perth garden in 1862. Burt, a former slave owner, became chief justice of Western Australia. State Library of Western Australia 6923B/182 As countries around ... <a title="Friday essay: beyond ‘statue shaming’ — grappling with Australia’s legacies of slavery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/friday-essay-beyond-statue-shaming-grappling-with-australias-legacies-of-slavery-162934/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: beyond ‘statue shaming’ — grappling with Australia’s legacies of slavery">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has elected its first pro-independence Kanak president. Louis Mapou was elected today in Noumea after months of negotiations between the two main pro-independence Kanak political groupings UNI and UC FLNKS. Australian journalist Nic Maclellan, a longtime writer on New Caledonian politics, says it is a significant victory for the Kanak people. ... <a title="New Caledonia elects first pro-independence Kanak president" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/new-caledonia-elects-first-pro-independence-kanak-president/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia elects first pro-independence Kanak president">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
By Lian Buan in Manila Veteran journalist and former chairman of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) Jose Jaime “Nonoy” Espina has died after battling liver cancer, his family has confirmed. Espina was 59 years old, and died yesterday at their home in Bacolod. “Nonoy passed on peacefully, quietly surrounded by family ... <a title="Veteran Filipino journalist and media rights advocate Nonoy Espina, 59, dies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/veteran-filipino-journalist-and-media-rights-advocate-nonoy-espina-59-dies/" aria-label="Read more about Veteran Filipino journalist and media rights advocate Nonoy Espina, 59, dies">Read more</a>
