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November 4, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By John PerryFrom Masaya, Nicaragua A few days before the Nicaraguan presidential elections on November 7, Facebook and other social media companies began closing down many of the pages used by Sandinista supporters in their campaign to re-elect President Daniel Ortega. This blatant censorship move was said to ... <a title="Facebook Does the U.S. government’s Censorship Work in Nicaraguan Elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/facebook-does-the-u-s-governments-censorship-work-in-nicaraguan-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook Does the U.S. government’s Censorship Work in Nicaraguan Elections">Read more</a>
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November 4, 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 Auckland, Govt management of Delta outbreak Richard Harman (Politik): Hipkins “detached from reality” (paywalled) ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 04 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-04-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 04 2021">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joshua Chou, Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney ispace Last month the Australian Space Agency announced plans to send an Australian-made rover to the Moon by as early as 2026, under a deal with NASA. The rover will collect lunar soil containing oxygen, which could eventually be ... <a title="Australia is putting a rover on the Moon in 2024 to search for water" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/australia-is-putting-a-rover-on-the-moon-in-2024-to-search-for-water-170097/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is putting a rover on the Moon in 2024 to search for water">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judith Brett, Emeritus Professor of Politics, La Trobe University Remember Scott Morrison’s promise in May 2019: “You vote for me, you’ll get me. You vote for Bill Shorten and you’ll get Bill Shorten.” As well as attacking Shorten, Morrison was also signalling that the rules around the ... <a title="It’s time for Anthony Albanese to get angry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/its-time-for-anthony-albanese-to-get-angry-170771/" aria-label="Read more about It’s time for Anthony Albanese to get angry">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graeme Orr, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland The Morrison government is pushing legislation to mandate voter ID at polling places. Contrary to some critics, what it proposes will not create US-style “voter suppression”. But it is still an unnecessary idea at an inappropriate time. Countries ... <a title="Voter ID is a bad idea. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/voter-id-is-a-bad-idea-heres-why-170777/" aria-label="Read more about Voter ID is a bad idea. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Armstrong, Executive Director, Climate and Health Alliance; Honorary Associate, Department of Public Health, La Trobe University Shutterstock Australia finally has a net zero plan at the Commonwealth level. But so far, health hasn’t been factored into Australia’s national climate response. The federal government has yet to ... <a title="Health care contributes 7% to Australia’s carbon emissions – but health is missing from our COP26 plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/health-care-contributes-7-to-australias-carbon-emissions-but-health-is-missing-from-our-cop26-plan-170624/" aria-label="Read more about Health care contributes 7% to Australia’s carbon emissions – but health is missing from our COP26 plan">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hales, Director Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Griffith University EPA In the first major deal of the Glasgow climate summit, more than 100 nations have pledged to end, and reverse, deforestation by 2030. As the declaration states, forests store vast amounts of carbon dioxide and are essential ... <a title="Land, culture, livelihood: what Indigenous people stand to lose from climate ‘solutions’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/land-culture-livelihood-what-indigenous-people-stand-to-lose-from-climate-solutions-170083/" aria-label="Read more about Land, culture, livelihood: what Indigenous people stand to lose from climate ‘solutions’">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Teresa Senserrick, Professor, Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q), Queensland University of Technology Shutterstock Human behaviour is complex. And yet approaches to road safety education are commonly far too simple, especially for young drivers. They are not only inexperienced but also biologically wired ... <a title="‘Just say no’ doesn’t work for teen sex and drug use, so why rely on it for young driver education?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/just-say-no-doesnt-work-for-teen-sex-and-drug-use-so-why-rely-on-it-for-young-driver-education-169371/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Just say no’ doesn’t work for teen sex and drug use, so why rely on it for young driver education?">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christiaan De Beukelaer, Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne At COP26 in Glasgow, a public artwork intervention stands at Govan Graving Docks, directly opposite the main delegate zone. Still/Moving’s unmissable NO NEW WORLDS is a text and light-based piece that alternates between nine iterations of the three ... <a title="Artists are not at the negotiating table at COP26 but art is everywhere. What can they accomplish through their work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/artists-are-not-at-the-negotiating-table-at-cop26-but-art-is-everywhere-what-can-they-accomplish-through-their-work-170786/" aria-label="Read more about Artists are not at the negotiating table at COP26 but art is everywhere. What can they accomplish through their work?">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Having endured a shocking shellacking over the last few days, Scott Morrison declared at a news conference en route for home that “it’s important now that we all just move on”. Easier said than done, when the French have just ... <a title="View from The Hill: A battered Scott Morrison proclaims it’s time to ‘move on’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/view-from-the-hill-a-battered-scott-morrison-proclaims-its-time-to-move-on-171127/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: A battered Scott Morrison proclaims it’s time to ‘move on’">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as Michelle Grattan’s usual interviews with experts and politicians about the news of the day, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where all things political will be discussed with members of The Conversation’s politics ... <a title="Word from The Hill: Scott Morrison’s trip blown up by French grenade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/word-from-the-hill-scott-morrisons-trip-blown-up-by-french-grenade-171121/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: Scott Morrison’s trip blown up by French grenade">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did not turn up to a planned New Zealand media event at a vaccination clinic in Whanganui today where a group of anti-vaccination protesters gathered. Ardern was visiting a vaccination bus in the city and changed the time of the stand-up to just after 1.20pm at a new venue. ... <a title="NZ anti-vaxxers foil PM Ardern’s planned clinic media briefing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/nz-anti-vaxxers-foil-pm-arderns-planned-clinic-media-briefing/" aria-label="Read more about NZ anti-vaxxers foil PM Ardern’s planned clinic media briefing">Read more</a>
