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August 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As the nation proceeds – but still at an agonisingly slow pace – towards the targets of having 70% and 80% of those 16 and over fully vaccinated, the next big debate is about making the jab compulsory in workplaces. ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Vaccine passports are a better tool than mandating jabs for all jobs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/13/grattan-on-friday-vaccine-passports-are-a-better-tool-than-mandating-jabs-for-all-jobs-166045/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Vaccine passports are a better tool than mandating jabs for all jobs">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shayne McGregor, Associate professor, Monash University Shutterstock The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is confronting. It finds global mean sea levels rose by about 20 centimetres between 1901 and 2018. In fact, sea levels have risen faster over the last hundred ... <a title="‘How high above sea level am I?’ If you’ve googled this, you’re likely asking the wrong question — an expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/how-high-above-sea-level-am-i-if-youve-googled-this-youre-likely-asking-the-wrong-question-an-expert-explains-165882/" aria-label="Read more about ‘How high above sea level am I?’ If you’ve googled this, you’re likely asking the wrong question — an expert explains">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Therese O’Sullivan, Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University from www.shutterstock.com We’ve been urged to get COVID tested even if we have mild symptoms. Or perhaps we don’t have symptoms but are a close or casual contact of a known case. This includes children. So what can you do ... <a title="How to prepare your child for a COVID test" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/how-to-prepare-your-child-for-a-covid-test-165248/" aria-label="Read more about How to prepare your child for a COVID test">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Crook, Honorary Associate, School of Physics, University of Sydney Shutterstock “Your teacher was wrong!” It’s a phrase many a high school or university student has heard. As practising and former science teachers, we have been challenged with this accusation before. Whereas those with advanced science understanding ... <a title="Einstein was ‘wrong’, not your science teacher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/einstein-was-wrong-not-your-science-teacher-165532/" aria-label="Read more about Einstein was ‘wrong’, not your science teacher">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
A VIEW FROM AFAR: Dr Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning are joined by Melanesian and Pacific affairs expert, Dr David Robie, to discuss how Covid-19 has become a trigger of instability in the wider Pacific Region. In this, the first of a two-part SPECIAL, we deep dive into the complexities of Melanesian west Pacific affairs.
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August 12, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Energy Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Take back your power! What a real Labour-Green Government might do to combat climate ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 12 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-12-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 12 2021">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW The STM Kargu attack drone. STM Last year, according to a United Nations report published in March, Libyan government forces hunted down rebel forces using “lethal autonomous weapons systems” that were “programmed to attack targets without ... <a title="Lethal autonomous weapons and World War III: it’s not too late to stop the rise of ‘killer robots’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/lethal-autonomous-weapons-and-world-war-iii-its-not-too-late-to-stop-the-rise-of-killer-robots-165822/" aria-label="Read more about Lethal autonomous weapons and World War III: it’s not too late to stop the rise of ‘killer robots’">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madeline Gleeson, Senior Research Fellow, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW This week marks nine years since Australia re-introduced a policy of offshore processing for asylum seekers arriving by boat. Nine long years of a cruel, costly and ineffective policy sustained by successive ... <a title="Cruel, costly and ineffective: Australia’s offshore processing asylum seeker policy turns 9" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/cruel-costly-and-ineffective-australias-offshore-processing-asylum-seeker-policy-turns-9-166014/" aria-label="Read more about Cruel, costly and ineffective: Australia’s offshore processing asylum seeker policy turns 9">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Torok, Honorary Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first instalment of their sixth assessment report. As expected, the report makes for bleak reading. It found all regions of the world are already ... <a title="Communicating climate change has never been so important, and this IPCC report pulls no punches" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/communicating-climate-change-has-never-been-so-important-and-this-ipcc-report-pulls-no-punches-165252/" aria-label="Read more about Communicating climate change has never been so important, and this IPCC report pulls no punches">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Plank, Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury Shutterstock/53NT Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has released a “roadmap” for a phased process of border reopenings that could begin during the first quarter of next year — as long as New Zealand completes its vaccination rollout by the ... <a title="Phased border reopening, faster vaccination, be ready for Delta: Jacinda Ardern lays out NZ’s COVID roadmap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/phased-border-reopening-faster-vaccination-be-ready-for-delta-jacinda-ardern-lays-out-nzs-covid-roadmap-165957/" aria-label="Read more about Phased border reopening, faster vaccination, be ready for Delta: Jacinda Ardern lays out NZ’s COVID roadmap">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
LIVE PODCAST: In this episode of A View from Afar Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning are joined by Dr David Robie to discuss how Covid-19 has become a trigger of instability in the wider Pacific Region. Dr David Robie is editor of AsiaPacificReport.nz and a renowned expert on Melanesian and Pacific affairs. In this, the ... <a title="LIVE@MIDDAY: Covid-19 & Melanesian Instability with Buchanan + Manning + Dr David Robie" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/livemidday-covid-19-melanesian-instability-with-buchanan-manning-dr-david-robie/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE@MIDDAY: Covid-19 & Melanesian Instability with Buchanan + Manning + Dr David Robie">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Wenn, Tutor in Production (Technical), The University of Melbourne Shutterstock How does music get onto a cassette tape? — Paul, age 9, Adelaide Hi Paul! That’s a great question. To answer it very briefly, music is recorded onto a cassette tape using electricity and a magnetic ... <a title="Curious Kids: how does music get onto a cassette tape?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/curious-kids-how-does-music-get-onto-a-cassette-tape-165759/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how does music get onto a cassette tape?">Read more</a>
