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July 21, 2021
RNZ Pacific Several thousand people in French Polynesia have joined a march demanding France own up to the damage caused by its nuclear weapons tests. The rally yesterday was organised by nuclear veterans group and the pro-independence opposition to mark the day in 1974 when fallout from the Centaur atmospheric nuclear test covered all of ... <a title="Thousands rally in Tahiti in protest over nuclear weapons legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/thousands-rally-in-tahiti-in-protest-over-nuclear-weapons-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands rally in Tahiti in protest over nuclear weapons legacy">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversations’s politics team. In this episode, politics + society editor Amanda Dunn ... <a title="Podcast with Michelle Grattan: three states in lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/podcast-with-michelle-grattan-three-states-in-lockdown-164793/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast with Michelle Grattan: three states in lockdown">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Kang, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Sydney Shutterstock The Delta variant has taken hold in NSW and Victoria, which are both in lockdown, and now in South Australia too, which will enter a lockdown tonight. The World Health Organization has predicted Delta will become the dominant ... <a title="Teens should have a say in whether they get a COVID vaccine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/teens-should-have-a-say-in-whether-they-get-a-covid-vaccine-164388/" aria-label="Read more about Teens should have a say in whether they get a COVID vaccine">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Loosemore, Professor of Construction Management, University of Technology Sydney OlegDoroshin/Shutterstock The federal government has declared its “independent assessments” plan for the National Disability Insurance Scheme “dead”. But it has another plan to save money: get people with disabilities off welfare and into jobs. It is committing ... <a title="The problem with employment services: providers profit more than job seekers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/the-problem-with-employment-services-providers-profit-more-than-job-seekers-162421/" aria-label="Read more about The problem with employment services: providers profit more than job seekers">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yee-Fui Ng, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University Dean Lewins/AAP On Monday, a senate hearing produced yet more damning evidence about the “car park rorts” affair. The Australian National Audit Office told a parliamentary committee a list of the top 20 marginal electorates guided the distribution ... <a title="The ‘car park rorts’ story is scandalous. But it will keep happening unless we close grant loopholes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/the-car-park-rorts-story-is-scandalous-but-it-will-keep-happening-unless-we-close-grant-loopholes-164779/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘car park rorts’ story is scandalous. But it will keep happening unless we close grant loopholes">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australian Tax Office The biggest unstated message from the intergenerational report released during the lull between lockdowns is that we will need more tax. Not now. At the moment it’s a matter of throwing everything ... <a title="When COVID is behind us, Australians are going to have to pay more tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/when-covid-is-behind-us-australians-are-going-to-have-to-pay-more-tax-164707/" aria-label="Read more about When COVID is behind us, Australians are going to have to pay more tax">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phil Edwards, Program Director, Australia Telescope National Facility Science, CSIRO Event Horizon Telescope project/Nature Astronomy In 2019, when astronomers captured the first image of a black hole’s shadow — a bright orange doughnut-shaped halo created by the black hole’s intense gravity bending light around it — it ... <a title="A new image shows jets of plasma shooting out of a supermassive black hole" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/a-new-image-shows-jets-of-plasma-shooting-out-of-a-supermassive-black-hole-164709/" aria-label="Read more about A new image shows jets of plasma shooting out of a supermassive black hole">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rose Butler, DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Mick Tsikas/AAP People from different class backgrounds often fall in love in books and on screen — think Sally Rooney’s Normal People, Melina Marchetta’s Looking For Alibrandi, or Arundhati Roy’s The God ... <a title="How does class impact on Australians’ love lives? New research brings a complex issue into the open" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/how-does-class-impact-on-australians-love-lives-new-research-brings-a-complex-issue-into-the-open-163893/" aria-label="Read more about How does class impact on Australians’ love lives? New research brings a complex issue into the open">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato www.shutterstock.com Today’s multi-country condemnation of cyber-attacks by Chinese state-sponsored agencies was a sign of increasing frustration at recent behaviour. But it also masks the real problem — international law isn’t strong or coherent enough to deal with this growing ... <a title="Calling out China for cyberattacks is risky — but a lawless digital world is even riskier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/calling-out-china-for-cyberattacks-is-risky-but-a-lawless-digital-world-is-even-riskier-164771/" aria-label="Read more about Calling out China for cyberattacks is risky — but a lawless digital world is even riskier">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jim Underwood, Research Fellow and Indigenous Partnerships, Australian Institute of Marine Science Shutterstock Recent disasters such as the Black Summer bushfires and the Juukan Gorge destruction highlighted the need to put Indigenous people at the centre of decision-making about Australia’s natural places. But what’s the right way ... <a title="How traditional owners and officials came together to protect a stunning stretch of WA coast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/how-traditional-owners-and-officials-came-together-to-protect-a-stunning-stretch-of-wa-coast-163078/" aria-label="Read more about How traditional owners and officials came together to protect a stunning stretch of WA coast">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Behnam Akhavan, Senior Lecturer, ARC DECRA Fellow, School of Biomedical Engineering and School of Physics, University of Sydney Timothy Muza/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Have you ever imagined your smart phone or tablet without a touch screen? This could soon be the case if we run out of indium, ... <a title="The world might run out of a crucial ingredient of touch screens. But don’t worry, we’ve invented an alternative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/the-world-might-run-out-of-a-crucial-ingredient-of-touch-screens-but-dont-worry-weve-invented-an-alternative-164631/" aria-label="Read more about The world might run out of a crucial ingredient of touch screens. But don’t worry, we’ve invented an alternative">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Mazanov, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Business, UNSW-Canberra, UNSW Razvan Martin of Romania was stripped of his bronze medal after testing positive for drugs eight years after the 2012 London Olympics. Hassan Ammar/AP Another Olympics is upon us, inexorable even in the face of COVID. With ... <a title="Doping has become inevitable at the Olympics. And who wins gold in Tokyo might not be certain until 2031" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/doping-has-become-inevitable-at-the-olympics-and-who-wins-gold-in-tokyo-might-not-be-certain-until-2031-163881/" aria-label="Read more about Doping has become inevitable at the Olympics. And who wins gold in Tokyo might not be certain until 2031">Read more</a>
