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June 2, 2021
A View from Afar: Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan present this week’s podcast, where they analyse the Australia-China-New Zealand relationship. Has this reached a tipping-point? Also, Israel. How stable will this cobbled together coalition of anti-Netanyahu parties be? What are the main take-away points from the New Zealand-Australia leaders bilateral meeting this week? AU PM Scott ... <a title="ER LIVE: Manning and Buchanan on Australia-NZ-China Is This the Tipping-Point?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/scheduled-live-manning-and-buchanan-on-australia-nz-china-is-this-the-tipping-point/" aria-label="Read more about ER LIVE: Manning and Buchanan on Australia-NZ-China Is This the Tipping-Point?">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Back in the first three months of this year when we had JobKeeper, enhanced unemployment benefits and no lockdowns, Australia roared out of recession. The GDP figures released on Wednesday tell us that in the ... <a title="The four GDP graphs that show us roaring out of recession pre-lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/the-four-gdp-graphs-that-show-us-roaring-out-of-recession-pre-lockdown-161981/" aria-label="Read more about The four GDP graphs that show us roaring out of recession pre-lockdown">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Driss Ait Ouakrim, Research Fellow, Population Interventions Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne With Melbourne under lockdown for another seven days, the consequences of Australia’s inefficient and dangerous quarantine system continue. This outbreak started with just ... <a title="Hotel quarantine causes 1 outbreak for every 204 infected travellers. It’s far from ‘fit for purpose’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/hotel-quarantine-causes-1-outbreak-for-every-204-infected-travellers-its-far-from-fit-for-purpose-161815/" aria-label="Read more about Hotel quarantine causes 1 outbreak for every 204 infected travellers. It’s far from ‘fit for purpose’">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Allen, Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, University of Newcastle Shutterstock Steel is a major building block of our modern world, used to make everything from cutlery to bridges and wind turbines. But the way it’s made – using coal – is making climate change worse. On ... <a title="‘Green steel’ is hailed as the next big thing in Australian industry. Here’s what the hype is all about" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/green-steel-is-hailed-as-the-next-big-thing-in-australian-industry-heres-what-the-hype-is-all-about-160282/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Green steel’ is hailed as the next big thing in Australian industry. Here’s what the hype is all about">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dallas Rogers, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney Crown Towers Sydney, at 75 storeys, is now the city’s tallest building. It should not exist, and certainly not where it is – in prime location on Sydney’s famous harbour. The redevelopment of the 22-hectare Barangaroo ... <a title="How Sydney’s Barangaroo tower paved the way for a culture of closed-door deals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/how-sydneys-barangaroo-tower-paved-the-way-for-a-culture-of-closed-door-deals-161816/" aria-label="Read more about How Sydney’s Barangaroo tower paved the way for a culture of closed-door deals">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn Williams, Professor in environmental psychology, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Unsplash/Pat Whelan, CC BY When I tell people I’m an environmental psychologist, they often assume that means I am a “tree hugger” and they are not entirely wrong. But it really ... <a title="Growing up with trees: new books use story and science to connect kids with nature" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/growing-up-with-trees-new-books-use-story-and-science-to-connect-kids-with-nature-159705/" aria-label="Read more about Growing up with trees: new books use story and science to connect kids with nature">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Gaston, Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images New Zealand’s government has been praised for listening to scientists as it continues to pursue its COVID-19 elimination strategy. But it’s difficult to find any signs ... <a title="New Zealand relies on scientific research for good policy. It’s a pity the budget didn’t reflect this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/new-zealand-relies-on-scientific-research-for-good-policy-its-a-pity-the-budget-didnt-reflect-this-161340/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand relies on scientific research for good policy. It’s a pity the budget didn’t reflect this">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John L Hopkins, Innovation Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology Raimond Spekking/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The manufacturing world is facing one of its greatest challenges in years — a global shortage of semiconductors — and there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight any time soon. According ... <a title="Yes, the global microchip shortage is COVID’s fault. No, it won’t end any time soon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/yes-the-global-microchip-shortage-is-covids-fault-no-it-wont-end-any-time-soon-161903/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, the global microchip shortage is COVID’s fault. No, it won’t end any time soon">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. There has been a lot of western angst shown towards China this year, only a miniscule amount of which can be attributed to geopolitical threats coming from China. Leading the charge of the anti-China brigade is Australia. I commented about a month ago on this matter, noting the tendency amongst many ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – China, the Coronavirus, Australia, and a yearning for World War 3" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/keith-rankin-analysis-china-the-coronavirus-australia-and-a-yearning-for-world-war-3/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – China, the Coronavirus, Australia, and a yearning for World War 3">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. The level of orchestration and political acting was turned up a notch this week in Queenstown by prime ministers Jacinda Ardern and Scott Morrison, who went to great pains to put on a highly contrived united front about their different orientations towards China. Clearly, both leaders were highly sensitive to the ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: NZ and Australia play “happy families” in Queenstown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nz-and-australia-play-happy-families-in-queenstown/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: NZ and Australia play “happy families” in Queenstown">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Professor Steven Larkin, Chief Executive Officer, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education Research undertaken by The Healing Foundation has revealed that public health restrictions introduced to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia have had a significant impact on some Stolen Generations survivors, retriggering trauma among already vulnerable ... <a title="COVID-19 restrictions have left many Stolen Generations survivors more isolated without adequate support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/covid-19-restrictions-have-left-many-stolen-generations-survivors-more-isolated-without-adequate-support-160168/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 restrictions have left many Stolen Generations survivors more isolated without adequate support">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Melville, Senior Curator, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Museums Victoria E Vanderduys, Fourni par l’auteur Most of the incredible diversity of life on Earth is yet to be discovered and documented. In some groups of organisms – terrestrial arthropods such as spiders and scorpions, marine invertebrates such as sponges ... <a title="Hundreds of Australian lizard species are barely known to science. Many may face extinction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/02/hundreds-of-australian-lizard-species-are-barely-known-to-science-many-may-face-extinction-161572/" aria-label="Read more about Hundreds of Australian lizard species are barely known to science. Many may face extinction">Read more</a>