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September 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Smith, Associate Professor in Disaster and Emergency Response, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University Many of us will be exposed to a disaster in our lifetime. In the past two years alone, Australians have lived through bushfires, floods, cyclones, and the ongoing COVID-19 ... <a title="From bushfires, to floods, to COVID-19: how cumulative disasters can harm our health and erode our resilience" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/15/from-bushfires-to-floods-to-covid-19-how-cumulative-disasters-can-harm-our-health-and-erode-our-resilience-160534/" aria-label="Read more about From bushfires, to floods, to COVID-19: how cumulative disasters can harm our health and erode our resilience">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Linda J. Graham, Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology Shutterstock Increasing numbers of students are being excluded from Australian schools. This is done both temporarily, through informal and formal suspensions, and permanently, through expelling them and cancelling their enrolments. We ... <a title="Suspensions and expulsions could set our most vulnerable kids on a path to school drop-out, drug use and crime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/15/suspensions-and-expulsions-could-set-our-most-vulnerable-kids-on-a-path-to-school-drop-out-drug-use-and-crime-166827/" aria-label="Read more about Suspensions and expulsions could set our most vulnerable kids on a path to school drop-out, drug use and crime">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University shutter_o/Shutterstock Last year COVID-19 seemed simple. It was horrific, but the arguments about what to do were fairly straightforward. On one side were people rightly horrified by its rapid spread who wanted us to stay ... <a title="Delta is tempting us to trade lives for freedoms — a choice it had looked like we wouldn’t have to make" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/15/delta-is-tempting-us-to-trade-lives-for-freedoms-a-choice-it-had-looked-like-we-wouldnt-have-to-make-167762/" aria-label="Read more about Delta is tempting us to trade lives for freedoms — a choice it had looked like we wouldn’t have to make">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Droogan, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University The Tailban destroyed this Buddha statue dating to the 6th century AD in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, in March 2001. The photo on the left was taken in 1977. AP Photo/Etsuro Kondo, (left photo) and Osamu Semba, both Asahi Despite cliched talk of ... <a title="The Taliban’s rule threatens what’s left of Afghanistan’s dazzlingly diverse cultural history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/15/the-talibans-rule-threatens-whats-left-of-afghanistans-dazzlingly-diverse-cultural-history-167780/" aria-label="Read more about The Taliban’s rule threatens what’s left of Afghanistan’s dazzlingly diverse cultural history">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Dare, Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland Shutterstock With COVID-19 causing extraordinarily intrusive and expensive lockdowns, vaccine “passports” or certificates are increasingly seen as key to getting out of them. Decision-makers and gatekeepers – from border guards to maître d’s – will have a means of ... <a title="Why a domestic NZ COVID ‘passport’ raises hard questions about discrimination, inequality and coercion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/15/why-a-domestic-nz-covid-passport-raises-hard-questions-about-discrimination-inequality-and-coercion-167703/" aria-label="Read more about Why a domestic NZ COVID ‘passport’ raises hard questions about discrimination, inequality and coercion">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Multiple doctors’ organisations, led by the Australian Medical Association, and a major farm lobby have called on the federal government to boost Australia’s climate change ambition, as pressure mounts on Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce to finalise a deal ahead ... <a title="Doctors and farmers turn up heat on Morrison ahead of Glasgow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/15/doctors-and-farmers-turn-up-heat-on-morrison-ahead-of-glasgow-167891/" aria-label="Read more about Doctors and farmers turn up heat on Morrison ahead of Glasgow">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this episode, politics + society editor Amanda Dunn ... <a title="Podcast with Michelle Grattan: Christian Porter’s anonymous money pot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/podcast-with-michelle-grattan-christian-porters-anonymous-money-pot-167907/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast with Michelle Grattan: Christian Porter’s anonymous money pot">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
RNZ Pacific Five months after Samoa’s April 9 general election the FAST party government finally began its first parliamentary session today. But it was without the members of the opposition HRPP party, who were shut out by the Speaker, Papalii Lio Masipau. Papali’i announced a ban yesterday, saying the HRPP was still failing to acknowledge ... <a title="Samoan parliament sits but opposition MPs banned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/samoan-parliament-sits-but-opposition-mps-banned/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan parliament sits but opposition MPs banned">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A mural on the eastern side of the Wirobrajan intersection in Central Java city of Yogyakarta was covered over with black paint before President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s weekend visit. But officials have denied that it was censorship, reports CNN Indonesia. It was known that President Widodo would be passing through this ... <a title="Yogyakarta officials ‘black out’ critical street art before Jokowi’s visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/yogyakarta-officials-black-out-critical-street-art-before-jokowis-visit/" aria-label="Read more about Yogyakarta officials ‘black out’ critical street art before Jokowi’s visit">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk French High Commissioner Patrice Faure in New Caledonia has declared an eight hour curfew for 15 days from tonight as health authorities reported 256 new cases yesterday in the covid delta variant outbreak. The curfew will run from 9pm to 5am Government spokesman Yannick Slamet and Health Director Dr Mabon de ... <a title="New Caledonia imposes curfew as delta outbreak new cases hit 256" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/new-caledonia-imposes-curfew-as-delta-outbreak-new-cases-hit-256/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia imposes curfew as delta outbreak new cases hit 256">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Shailendra Singh in Suva Do the Fiji news media represent a wide range of political perspectives?Fiji’s national media, like media elsewhere, would cover a wider berth collectively, rather than as individual media organisations, because individual media have obvious leanings and priorities. But do the media, even as whole, provide a wide enough perspective?Not ... <a title="Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/slippery-slope-for-fijis-media-in-politically-charged-climate/" aria-label="Read more about Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Novitz, Lecturer, Writing, School of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology EPA/HAYOUNG JEON Email newsletters might be associated with the ghost towns of old personal email addresses for many: relentlessly accumulating unopened updates from organisations, stores and services signed up to and forgotten in the ... <a title="Is Salman Rushdie’s decision to publish on Substack the death of the novel?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/is-salman-rushdies-decision-to-publish-on-substack-the-death-of-the-novel-167530/" aria-label="Read more about Is Salman Rushdie’s decision to publish on Substack the death of the novel?">Read more</a>
