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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sung-ae Lee, Lecturer, Asian Studies, Macquarie University YOUNGKYU PARK/ Netflix Squid Game, an original Netflix drama produced in South Korea, is a streaming phenomenon. Released on 17 September, within two weeks the series has become the most watched Netflix title in 76 countries, including the US, Australia ... <a title="Social inequality and hyper violence: why the bleak world of Netflix’s Squid Game is a streaming phenomenon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/social-inequality-and-hyper-violence-why-the-bleak-world-of-netflixs-squid-game-is-a-streaming-phenomenon-168934/" aria-label="Read more about Social inequality and hyper violence: why the bleak world of Netflix’s Squid Game is a streaming phenomenon">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning analyse the AUKUS Alliance and deep-dive into how the AUKUS Alliance has triggered a geopolitical realignment. Why has this Anglophone AUKUS alliance formed? And what's the fallout?
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University Gerd Altmann/Pixabay In the pre-digital world, advertising was largely carried by print media, radio and television. Today, digital advertising has surpassed those channels, pervading our desktops and laptops, smartphones, tablets and a variety of other internet-connected ... <a title="Australia’s competition watchdog says Google has a monopoly on online advertising — but how does it work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/australias-competition-watchdog-says-google-has-a-monopoly-on-online-advertising-but-how-does-it-work-168939/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s competition watchdog says Google has a monopoly on online advertising — but how does it work?">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Op-Ed by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana. The growing number and share of older persons in Asia and the Pacific represent success stories of declining fertility and increasing longevity; the result of advances in social and economic development. This demographic transition is taking place against the backdrop of the accelerating Fourth Industrial Revolution. But COVID-19, with its ... <a title="Op-ED – Digital equity for all ages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/op-ed-digital-equity-for-all-ages/" aria-label="Read more about Op-ED – Digital equity for all ages">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristin Carson-Chahhoud, Associate Research Professor, University of South Australia Shutterstock Cigarettes are the only legal consumer product that kill up to half of their users when consumed exactly as the manufacturer intended. The diseases they cause cost Australia’s health system A$136.9 billion a year. Philip Morris International ... <a title="After buying health company Vectura, tobacco giant Philip Morris will profit from treating the illnesses its products create" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/after-buying-health-company-vectura-tobacco-giant-philip-morris-will-profit-from-treating-the-illnesses-its-products-create-168564/" aria-label="Read more about After buying health company Vectura, tobacco giant Philip Morris will profit from treating the illnesses its products create">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Quiz Questions: Which foreign country or territory is closest to New Zealand by jetplane? Which foreign country or territory had the world’s highest per capita incidence of Covid19 last week? Before giving the answers, I would note that the worst-affected region of the world in September 2021 is the Caribbean, from ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid Immunity Calculus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/keith-rankin-analysis-covid-immunity-calculus/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid Immunity Calculus">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Mills, Hon Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney Shutterstock Former Liberal backbencher Craig Kelly recently spammed large numbers of Australian voters by sending bulk text messages to their mobile phone numbers. The spam texts, one of which promoted Kelly’s anti-vax views, ... <a title="How did politicians and political parties get my mobile number? And how is that legal?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/how-did-politicians-and-political-parties-get-my-mobile-number-and-how-is-that-legal-168750/" aria-label="Read more about How did politicians and political parties get my mobile number? And how is that legal?">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Collie, Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Monash University Victoria’s occupational health and safety regulator, Worksafe, has charged the state’s health department with 58 breaches for failing to provide hotel quarantine staff with a safe workplace. The breaches occurred between March and July 2020, and at up ... <a title="Worksafe’s hotel quarantine breach penalties are a warning for other employers to keep workers safe from COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/worksafes-hotel-quarantine-breach-penalties-are-a-warning-for-other-employers-to-keep-workers-safe-from-covid-168968/" aria-label="Read more about Worksafe’s hotel quarantine breach penalties are a warning for other employers to keep workers safe from COVID">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kado Muir, Chair of National Native Title Council and Ngalia Cultural Leader, Indigenous Knowledge In May 2020, Rio Tinto blasted two rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara as part of its operations to feed an insatiable global appetite for iron ore. Some 46,000 years of ... <a title="Juukan Gorge inquiry: a critical turning point in First Nations authority over land management" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/juukan-gorge-inquiry-a-critical-turning-point-in-first-nations-authority-over-land-management-167039/" aria-label="Read more about Juukan Gorge inquiry: a critical turning point in First Nations authority over land management">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland Shutterstock When I first moved to New Zealand – even after living in some of the highest-priced US property markets – I was taken aback by house prices. My shock was reinforced by the condition of the ... <a title="Using valuable inner-city land for car parking? In a housing crisis, that just doesn’t add up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/using-valuable-inner-city-land-for-car-parking-in-a-housing-crisis-that-just-doesnt-add-up-168745/" aria-label="Read more about Using valuable inner-city land for car parking? In a housing crisis, that just doesn’t add up">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Govt Covid response Michael Morrah (Newshub): Auckland’s outbreak not under control after more ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 30 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-30-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 30 2021">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Shutterstock This week the Disability Royal Commission highlighted several failings in ensuring people with disability – a priority group in the rollout – could access vaccinations. Children and adolescents don’t feature strongly in this report as they only became eligible ... <a title="Children with disability are prioritised in the vaccine rollout, but many struggle to get an appointment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/children-with-disability-are-prioritised-in-the-vaccine-rollout-but-many-struggle-to-get-an-appointment-168755/" aria-label="Read more about Children with disability are prioritised in the vaccine rollout, but many struggle to get an appointment">Read more</a>
