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December 2, 2021
RNZ Pacific Fiji is the latest regional country to announce it is sending security forces to Solomon Islands where major unrest rocked the capital. Days of rioting in Honiara by mobs who torched buildings and looted shops prompted the government to call for outside help. In what’s shaping up as a Pacific regional response, Fiji ... <a title="Pacific regional response to Solomons post-riots crisis takes shape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/pacific-regional-response-to-solomons-post-riots-crisis-takes-shape/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific regional response to Solomons post-riots crisis takes shape">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Chen, Research Fellow at Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, University of Auckland Hannah Peters/Getty Images When New Zealand switches to the COVID-19 Protection Framework tomorrow, people will have to present vaccine passes to access many public spaces and venues. At this point, more than ... <a title="Verification will be essential as New Zealanders start using vaccine passes — to stop fraud and the spread of COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/verification-will-be-essential-as-new-zealanders-start-using-vaccine-passes-to-stop-fraud-and-the-spread-of-covid-172940/" aria-label="Read more about Verification will be essential as New Zealanders start using vaccine passes — to stop fraud and the spread of COVID">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Westaway, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland Rio Tinto’s destruction of the 46,000 year old Juukan Gorge rock shelters has led to recommendations by the Parliamentary Inquiry on how Australia can better conserve Aboriginal heritage sites. Around the ... <a title="Australia has a heritage conservation problem. Can farming and Aboriginal heritage protection co-exist?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/australia-has-a-heritage-conservation-problem-can-farming-and-aboriginal-heritage-protection-co-exist-170956/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has a heritage conservation problem. Can farming and Aboriginal heritage protection co-exist?">Read more</a>
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December 2, 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 National Party, ACT Charlie Mitchell and Laura Walters (Stuff): Christopher Luxon’s property gains ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 02 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-02-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 02 2021">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geordie Williamson, Professor of Mathematics, University of Sydney shutterstock Research in mathematics is a deeply imaginative and intuitive process. This might come as a surprise for those who are still recovering from high-school algebra. What does the world look like at the quantum scale? What shape would ... <a title="Mathematical discoveries take intuition and creativity – and now a little help from AI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/mathematical-discoveries-take-intuition-and-creativity-and-now-a-little-help-from-ai-172900/" aria-label="Read more about Mathematical discoveries take intuition and creativity – and now a little help from AI">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria O’Sullivan, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, and Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University Shutterstock One major problem uncovered in “Set the Standard”, the landmark report on sexual harassment and bullying in the parliament workplace is that secrecy and silence conceal toxic workplace ... <a title="Buying silence: we can’t stop workplace sexual harassment without banning non-disclosure agreements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/buying-silence-we-cant-stop-workplace-sexual-harassment-without-banning-non-disclosure-agreements-172856/" aria-label="Read more about Buying silence: we can’t stop workplace sexual harassment without banning non-disclosure agreements">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Britton, Senior lecturer, Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney Very high vaccination rates in Australia are ensuring community COVID transmission is decreasing. Vaccines markedly reduce severe disease and death. Our health-care systems are more able to cope because fewer new cases are requiring admission to ... <a title="No, we shouldn’t worry too much about getting COVID from young kids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/no-we-shouldnt-worry-too-much-about-getting-covid-from-young-kids-172232/" aria-label="Read more about No, we shouldn’t worry too much about getting COVID from young kids">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chelsea Jarvis, Research fellow, University of Southern Queensland Shutterstock After years of punishing drought in some areas, many farmers in Australia’s east were hoping the newly declared La Niña event would bring them good rains. Many are now rejoicing, with the wettest November experienced in Australia for ... <a title="Do La Niña’s rains mean boom or bust for Australian farmers?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/do-la-ninas-rains-mean-boom-or-bust-for-australian-farmers-172511/" aria-label="Read more about Do La Niña’s rains mean boom or bust for Australian farmers?">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth Boyask, Lead Researcher, Children’s Reading for Pleasure Study, Auckland University of Technology Shutterstock Summer’s here and the school holidays are coming. For many parents, of course, it’s all a bit academic – pandemic lockdowns and other disruptions have blurred the line between home and school, with ... <a title="Kiwi kids who read for pleasure will do well in other ways – it’s everyone’s responsibility to encourage them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/kiwi-kids-who-read-for-pleasure-will-do-well-in-other-ways-its-everyones-responsibility-to-encourage-them-171947/" aria-label="Read more about Kiwi kids who read for pleasure will do well in other ways – it’s everyone’s responsibility to encourage them">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darryl Dymock, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Education, Griffith University Shutterstock Lorna Prendergast was 90 years old when she graduated with a master’s degree from the University of Melbourne in 2019. She said her message to others was, “You’re never too old to dream.” Nor, obviously, too ... <a title="You actually can teach an old dog new tricks, which is why many of us keep learning after retirement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/you-actually-can-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks-which-is-why-many-of-us-keep-learning-after-retirement-170379/" aria-label="Read more about You actually can teach an old dog new tricks, which is why many of us keep learning after retirement">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland The Morrison government has shelved its plan to make Australians produce identification before casting their vote. Yesterday it withdrew the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Voter Integrity) Bill 2021 it had hoped to pass in time for the 2022 ... <a title="Good riddance: the costs of Morrison’s voter ID plan outweighed any benefit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/good-riddance-the-costs-of-morrisons-voter-id-plan-outweighed-any-benefit-172874/" aria-label="Read more about Good riddance: the costs of Morrison’s voter ID plan outweighed any benefit">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria Nugent, Co-Director, Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Australian National University Shield, collected by Admiral John Elphinstone Erskine, c.1851. National Museums Scotland. Photo: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. Campaigns for the repatriation of certain objects in prominent museums dominate media reporting on the fraught legacies of historical collections. ... <a title="We identified 39,000 Indigenous Australian objects in UK museums. Repatriation is one option, but takes time to get right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/we-identified-39-000-indigenous-australian-objects-in-uk-museums-repatriation-is-one-option-but-takes-time-to-get-right-172302/" aria-label="Read more about We identified 39,000 Indigenous Australian objects in UK museums. Repatriation is one option, but takes time to get right">Read more</a>
