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Month: September 2021

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Research reveals why pet owners keep their cats indoors – and it’s not to protect wildlife

September 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lily van Eeden, Postdoctoral research fellow, Monash University Shutterstock Cat owners are urged to keep their pet indoors for a variety of reasons, including protecting wildlife and preventing the spread of disease. But our research has found an entirely different motivator for containing cats. Concern for their ... <a title="Research reveals why pet owners keep their cats indoors – and it’s not to protect wildlife" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/research-reveals-why-pet-owners-keep-their-cats-indoors-and-its-not-to-protect-wildlife-166263/" aria-label="Read more about Research reveals why pet owners keep their cats indoors – and it’s not to protect wildlife">Read more</a>

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New analysis shows Morrison government funding won’t cover any extra uni student places for years

September 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Warburton, Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock The federal government’s promise to deliver more student places through its Job-ready Graduates Package was hollow rhetoric, as research released today demonstrates. From university funding agreements, we now know the ... <a title="New analysis shows Morrison government funding won’t cover any extra uni student places for years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/new-analysis-shows-morrison-government-funding-wont-cover-any-extra-uni-student-places-for-years-167542/" aria-label="Read more about New analysis shows Morrison government funding won’t cover any extra uni student places for years">Read more</a>

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Why can’t Australia make mRNA vaccines? Because we don’t make enough ‘deep technology’ companies

September 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Waters-Lynch, Lecturer Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Organisational Design, RMIT University Pfizer/AP Caught out by its strategy to bet on COVID-19 vaccines that could be made in Australia, the federal government is now scrambling oto manufacture mRNA vaccines locally. Its “approach to market” strategy has effectively asked companies ... <a title="Why can’t Australia make mRNA vaccines? Because we don’t make enough ‘deep technology’ companies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/why-cant-australia-make-mrna-vaccines-because-we-dont-make-enough-deep-technology-companies-166013/" aria-label="Read more about Why can’t Australia make mRNA vaccines? Because we don’t make enough ‘deep technology’ companies">Read more</a>

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Saving these family-focused lizards may mean moving them to new homes. But that’s not as simple as it sounds

September 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Bradley, PhD candidate, Curtin University Holly Bradley, Author provided Am I not pretty enough? This article is part of The Conversation’s series introducing you to unloved Australian animals that need our help. Spiny-tailed skinks (Egernia stokesii badia), known as meelyu in the local Badimia language in ... <a title="Saving these family-focused lizards may mean moving them to new homes. But that’s not as simple as it sounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/saving-these-family-focused-lizards-may-mean-moving-them-to-new-homes-but-thats-not-as-simple-as-it-sounds-162998/" aria-label="Read more about Saving these family-focused lizards may mean moving them to new homes. But that’s not as simple as it sounds">Read more</a>

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Criminal lawyers are regularly exposed to trauma — how can NZ’s justice system look after them better?

September 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yvette Tinsley, Professor of Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty As many court visitors or news consumers will know, criminal law can be a mix of often horrific detail and seemingly dry procedure. Our current system, based in large part on the English ... <a title="Criminal lawyers are regularly exposed to trauma — how can NZ’s justice system look after them better?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/criminal-lawyers-are-regularly-exposed-to-trauma-how-can-nzs-justice-system-look-after-them-better-167625/" aria-label="Read more about Criminal lawyers are regularly exposed to trauma — how can NZ’s justice system look after them better?">Read more</a>

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View from The Hill: Kristina Keneally’s house switch stops one row, starts another

September 12, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When Tanya Plibersek – who many believe would give Labor its best chance if she were leader now – was asked about the party parachuting Kristina Keneally into the safe seat of Fowler, she slid all around the place to ... <a title="View from The Hill: Kristina Keneally’s house switch stops one row, starts another" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/12/view-from-the-hill-kristina-keneallys-house-switch-stops-one-row-starts-another-167772/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Kristina Keneally’s house switch stops one row, starts another">Read more</a>

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Indonesian military, police continue Papua crackdown over soldier deaths

September 12, 2021

By Rahmad Nasution in Jayapura More than a week after four Indonesian soldiers were killed by pro-independence fighters in an attack on a military post in Kisor village, South Aifat sub-district, Maybrat district, West Papua, police have arrested two suspects and launched a manhunt for 17 others. Also, a joint team of personnel from the ... <a title="Indonesian military, police continue Papua crackdown over soldier deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/12/indonesian-military-police-continue-papua-crackdown-over-soldier-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military, police continue Papua crackdown over soldier deaths">Read more</a>

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9/11 killed it, but 20 years on global justice movement is poised for revival

September 12, 2021

ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney Since the attacks on the United States by 15 Saudi Arabian Islamic fanatics on 11 September  2001 — now known as 9/11 —  the world has been divided by a “war on terror” with any protest group defined as “terrorists”. New anti-terror laws have been introduced both in the ... <a title="9/11 killed it, but 20 years on global justice movement is poised for revival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/12/9-11-killed-it-but-20-years-on-global-justice-movement-is-poised-for-revival/" aria-label="Read more about 9/11 killed it, but 20 years on global justice movement is poised for revival">Read more</a>

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Hate crimes are not always terrorism.

September 12, 2021

Headline: Hate crimes are not always terrorism. – 36th Parallel Assessments A screen grab shows police officers working outside a shopping mall following a knife attack in Auckland, New Zealand September 3, 2021. TVNZ via Reuters TV Director Paul G. Buchanan has researched and written for over thirty years about terrorism and irregular warfare. He ... <a title="Hate crimes are not always terrorism." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/12/hate-crimes-are-not-always-terrorism/" aria-label="Read more about Hate crimes are not always terrorism.">Read more</a>

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‘Fortress USA’: How 9/11 produced a military industrial juggernaut

September 11, 2021

ANALYSIS: By Clare Corbould, Deakin University Since the September 11 terror attacks, there has been no hiding from the increased militarisation of the United States. Everyday life is suffused with policing and surveillance. This ranges from the inconvenient, such as removing shoes at the airport, to the dystopian, such as local police departments equipped with ... <a title="‘Fortress USA’: How 9/11 produced a military industrial juggernaut" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/11/fortress-usa-how-9-11-produced-a-military-industrial-juggernaut/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Fortress USA’: How 9/11 produced a military industrial juggernaut">Read more</a>

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Top global accolades for USP, the ‘captain’ and Pacific regionalism

September 11, 2021

OPEN LETTER: By Elizabeth Reade Fong A ranking of an institution of higher education by Times Higher Education (THE) is the ultimate recognition of excellence that an institution can aim for. The University of the South Pacific (USP) has achieved two accolades by being ranked for 2022 and secondly being the only institution of higher ... <a title="Top global accolades for USP, the ‘captain’ and Pacific regionalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/11/top-global-accolades-for-usp-the-captain-and-pacific-regionalism/" aria-label="Read more about Top global accolades for USP, the ‘captain’ and Pacific regionalism">Read more</a>

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New Caledonia reports first covid death – 117 cases in four days

September 11, 2021

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has recorded its first death of the Covid-19 pandemic. The fatality was announced by territorial President Louis Mapou today in a televised address. He said the victim was an elderly person — aged 75 — who had died in hospital. The fatality comes four days after the first three cases of ... <a title="New Caledonia reports first covid death – 117 cases in four days" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/11/new-caledonia-reports-first-covid-death-117-cases-in-four-days/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia reports first covid death – 117 cases in four days">Read more</a>