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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Thiele, Adjunct Assoc. Professor, The University of Western Australia John Tann/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA “What’s in a name?”, asked Juliet of Romeo. “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But, as with the Montagues and Capulets, names mean a ... <a title="Hibbert’s flowers and Hitler’s beetle – what do we do when species are named after history’s monsters?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/hibberts-flowers-and-hitlers-beetle-what-do-we-do-when-species-are-named-after-historys-monsters-172602/" aria-label="Read more about Hibbert’s flowers and Hitler’s beetle – what do we do when species are named after history’s monsters?">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Hensher, Associate Professor of Health Systems Financing & Organisation, Deakin University Shutterstock Over the past two years, we’ve learned COVID-19 survivors can develop a range of longer-term symptoms we now call “long COVID”. This includes people who did not have severe illness initially. Such longer-term symptoms ... <a title="We calculated the impact of ‘long COVID’ as Australia opens up. Even without Omicron, we’re worried" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/we-calculated-the-impact-of-long-covid-as-australia-opens-up-even-without-omicron-were-worried-168662/" aria-label="Read more about We calculated the impact of ‘long COVID’ as Australia opens up. Even without Omicron, we’re worried">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Smith, Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University The current string of COVID-19 outbreaks in Aboriginal communities in remote areas of the Northern Territory will only get worse if the NT government opens its borders on December 20, as planned. The ... <a title="‘They should have a roadblock’: why the NT must delay opening its border to protect First Nations people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/they-should-have-a-roadblock-why-the-nt-must-delay-opening-its-border-to-protect-first-nations-people-171734/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They should have a roadblock’: why the NT must delay opening its border to protect First Nations people">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Smith, Adjunct Associate Professor, James Cook University Shutterstock Shark bite incidents are rare but traumatic. They’re usually followed by calls for mitigation strategies, some of which are dangerous or lethal to sharks – despite the fact most sharks are timid and actively avoid people. The “SharkSmart” ... <a title="Shark bites are rare. Here are 8 things to avoid to make them even rarer." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/shark-bites-are-rare-here-are-8-things-to-avoid-to-make-them-even-rarer-173746/" aria-label="Read more about Shark bites are rare. Here are 8 things to avoid to make them even rarer.">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Merlin Crossley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Shutterstock Academics around the world have experimented with technology as the COVID-driven need to teach remotely accelerates the shift to digitally supported education. Part of the challenge has been to match their approaches to individual teaching ... <a title="Top teaching tips in 2 minutes – how videos can spread better practices through our unis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/top-teaching-tips-in-2-minutes-how-videos-can-spread-better-practices-through-our-unis-172855/" aria-label="Read more about Top teaching tips in 2 minutes – how videos can spread better practices through our unis">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland IMDB The dark side of films has always had a strong relationship with the light side. Mixing comedy with horror often ensured a hit even in the early days of cinema –comedian Harold Lloyd was ... <a title="30 years since The Addams Family hit the big screen, it is still the perfect blend of horror and comedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/30-years-since-the-addams-family-hit-the-big-screen-it-is-still-the-perfect-blend-of-horror-and-comedy-172042/" aria-label="Read more about 30 years since The Addams Family hit the big screen, it is still the perfect blend of horror and comedy">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The French government’s decision to press ahead with the third and final referendum vote for self-determination in Kanaky New Caledonia was “unjust and unfair” for the Indigenous Kanak people, says a coalition of nine pan-Pacific civil society groups. The groups have also accused the French state of “colonial manoeuvring in the ... <a title="Pacific civil society groups slam New Caledonia ballot as ‘unjust … unfair’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/pacific-civil-society-groups-slam-new-caledonia-ballot-as-unjust-unfair/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific civil society groups slam New Caledonia ballot as ‘unjust … unfair’">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Thursday’s budget update will forecast one million jobs will be created over the next four years and unemployment will fall to 4.25% by June 2023. In an upbeat economic assessment, the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook will estimate that more ... <a title="Budget update forecasts unemployment falling to 4.25% by mid-2023" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/budget-update-forecasts-unemployment-falling-to-4-25-by-mid-2023-173851/" aria-label="Read more about Budget update forecasts unemployment falling to 4.25% by mid-2023">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Kaniva News Tonga’s Parliament has elected a new prime minister to replace Dr Pōhiva Tu’i’onetoa. Siaosi Sovaleni, 51, the current Minister of Education, has won convincingly with 16 votes, against former Minister of Finance and MP Dr ‘Aisake Eke, who got 10 votes. The Interim Speaker, Lord Tangi, announced the results this afternoon after he ... <a title="Education minister Sovaleni elected as Tonga’s new prime minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/education-minister-sovaleni-elected-as-tongas-new-prime-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Education minister Sovaleni elected as Tonga’s new prime minister">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
RNZ Pacific A leftwing candidate in the French presidential race, Jean-Luc Melenchon, says the outcome of New Caledonia’s independence referendum is a catastrophe. He held a news conference after several leading French politicians welcomed Sunday’s overwhelming rejection of independence, with just 3.5 percent voting for it. Melenchon, leader of the France Unbowed (La France Insoumise) ... <a title="France’s New Caledonia policy labelled a ‘catastrophe’ by left leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/frances-new-caledonia-policy-labelled-a-catastrophe-by-left-leader/" aria-label="Read more about France’s New Caledonia policy labelled a ‘catastrophe’ by left leader">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
RNZ News Aucklanders are travelling out of New Zealand’s largest city today as the border around Tāmaki Makaurau opens for the first time in 120 days. Police said traffic was flowing freely early this morning. Waka Kotahi and the police removed checkpoints to the north and south of the region since the midnight change in ... <a title="Auckland lockdown boundary lifts as thousands make exodus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/auckland-lockdown-boundary-lifts-as-thousands-make-exodus/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland lockdown boundary lifts as thousands make exodus">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby Hundreds of settlers from the controversial Garden Hills settlement along Waigani Drive in Papua New Guinea’s National Capital District (NCD) have been thrown out of their homes after a court order enforced by police. Their homes on church-owned land were razed by bulldozers yesterday. Policemen deployed at the eviction ... <a title="Garden Hills squatters evicted in Port Moresby crackdown on church land" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/garden-hills-squatters-evicted-in-port-moresby-crackdown-on-church-land/" aria-label="Read more about Garden Hills squatters evicted in Port Moresby crackdown on church land">Read more</a>
