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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Schmulow, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong Shutterstock The implosion of Australia’s corporate watchdog, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, under the federal government’s new directions, has gone from tragedy to farce. ASIC was described as “weak, hesitant and timid” in a 2014 Senate ... <a title="ASIC, now less a corporate watchdog, more a lapdog" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/asic-now-less-a-corporate-watchdog-more-a-lapdog-167532/" aria-label="Read more about ASIC, now less a corporate watchdog, more a lapdog">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW New South Wales plans to relax restrictions when vaccination targets of 70% and 80% of those aged 16 years and over are met. The national plan was based on the ... <a title="NSW risks a second larger COVID peak by Christmas if it eases restrictions too quickly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/nsw-risks-a-second-larger-covid-peak-by-christmas-if-it-eases-restrictions-too-quickly-167877/" aria-label="Read more about NSW risks a second larger COVID peak by Christmas if it eases restrictions too quickly">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University Shutterstock/Tsetso Photo CC BY-ND Climate explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please ... <a title="Climate explained: how much of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels and could we replace it all with renewables?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/climate-explained-how-much-of-the-worlds-energy-comes-from-fossil-fuels-and-could-we-replace-it-all-with-renewables-167190/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: how much of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels and could we replace it all with renewables?">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University Last week’s National Summit on Women’s Safety was intended to gather input from stakeholders as the government finalises the next National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children in 2022. A series of invite-only virtual roundtables was also ... <a title="We need a national plan to address family violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/we-need-a-national-plan-to-address-family-violence-against-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-people-167640/" aria-label="Read more about We need a national plan to address family violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allan Saul, Senior Principal Research Fellow (Honorary), Burnet Institute In a pandemic, you expect that as new public health measures are introduced, there’s an observable impact on the spread of the disease. But while that might have been the case in Melbourne’s second wave last year, the ... <a title="Flattening the COVID curve: 3 weeks of tougher lockdowns in Sydney’s hotspots halved expected case numbers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/flattening-the-covid-curve-3-weeks-of-tougher-lockdowns-in-sydneys-hotspots-halved-expected-case-numbers-167778/" aria-label="Read more about Flattening the COVID curve: 3 weeks of tougher lockdowns in Sydney’s hotspots halved expected case numbers">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma F. Jackson, PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University Shutterstock A newly released report by a NSW parliamentary inquiry ignores scientific research in supporting changes to the Education Act. These changes are likely to add to the risks of harm that transgender and gender-diverse young people ... <a title="NSW inquiry rejects expert advice on Parental Rights Bill, and it will cause students to suffer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/nsw-inquiry-rejects-expert-advice-on-parental-rights-bill-and-it-will-cause-students-to-suffer-167539/" aria-label="Read more about NSW inquiry rejects expert advice on Parental Rights Bill, and it will cause students to suffer">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Luskin, Lecturer in Conservation Science, The University of Queensland Monika Gregussova/Shutterstock For more than 40,000 years, Indigenous communities in Borneo have hunted and eaten bearded pigs – huge, nomadic animals that roam the island in Southeast Asia. These 100kg creatures are central to the livelihood and ... <a title="‘The pigs can smell man’: how decimation of Borneo’s ancient rainforests threatens hunters and the hunted" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/the-pigs-can-smell-man-how-decimation-of-borneos-ancient-rainforests-threatens-hunters-and-the-hunted-166895/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The pigs can smell man’: how decimation of Borneo’s ancient rainforests threatens hunters and the hunted">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hugh Breakey, President, Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics. Senior Research Fellow, Moral philosophy, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Law Futures Centre., Griffith University COVID lockdown rules have thrust “dobbing” into the spotlight, with some asking whether Australia is a nation of dobbers. But when ... <a title="5 questions to ask yourself before you dob — advice for adults and kids, from an ethicist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/5-questions-to-ask-yourself-before-you-dob-advice-for-adults-and-kids-from-an-ethicist-167789/" aria-label="Read more about 5 questions to ask yourself before you dob — advice for adults and kids, from an ethicist">Read more</a>
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September 14, 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 Government management of outbreak, expert advice Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Government under pressure to ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 14 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-14-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 14 2021">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kewei Lyu, Postdoctoral Researcher in Ocean and Climate, CSIRO Jakob Weis, University of Tasmania, Author provided Knowing how much sea levels are likely to rise during this century is vital to our understanding of future climate change, but previous estimates have generated wide ranges of uncertainty. In ... <a title="How much will our oceans warm and cause sea levels to rise this century? We’ve just improved our estimate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/how-much-will-our-oceans-warm-and-cause-sea-levels-to-rise-this-century-weve-just-improved-our-estimate-166417/" aria-label="Read more about How much will our oceans warm and cause sea levels to rise this century? We’ve just improved our estimate">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Douglas Elliffe, Professor of Psychology, University of Auckland, University of Auckland Shutterstock Can we toilet train cattle? Would we want to? The answer to both of these questions is yes — and doing so could help us address issues of water contamination and climate change. Cattle urine ... <a title="We managed to toilet train cows (and they learned faster than a toddler). It could help combat climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/we-managed-to-toilet-train-cows-and-they-learned-faster-than-a-toddler-it-could-help-combat-climate-change-167785/" aria-label="Read more about We managed to toilet train cows (and they learned faster than a toddler). It could help combat climate change">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wes Mountain, Multimedia Editor Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND COVID-19 has seen the world embrace sanitisers and formal hand washing procedures in our private lives like never before. But even as we’ve thought more and more about surfaces and the hands that touch them as vectors for ... <a title="WATCH: Our mobile phones are covered in bacteria and viruses… and we never wash them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/watch-our-mobile-phones-are-covered-in-bacteria-and-viruses-and-we-never-wash-them-167784/" aria-label="Read more about WATCH: Our mobile phones are covered in bacteria and viruses… and we never wash them">Read more</a>
