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March 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn Newitt, Lecturer, Criminology, Western Sydney University In the lead-up to the 30th anniversary of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody report, there have been four Indigenous deaths in custody in three weeks. The royal commission report presented 339 recommendations to ensure the safety of ... <a title="Four Aboriginal deaths in custody in three weeks: is defunding police the answer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/four-aboriginal-deaths-in-custody-in-three-weeks-is-defunding-police-the-answer-157879/" aria-label="Read more about Four Aboriginal deaths in custody in three weeks: is defunding police the answer?">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Danny Shaw From New York Like Palestinians in Israel and Latino, Asian and Muslim immigrants in the U.S., Haitians in the Dominican Republic are demeaned, harassed, and victimized in both extraordinary and mundane ways. Pushed out of their homeland by centuries of neo-colonialism and exploitation, officially 751,080 ... <a title="Dominican Wall of Anti-Haitianism Keeps Neocolonial Inequity Alive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/dominican-wall-of-anti-haitianism-keeps-neocolonial-inequity-alive/" aria-label="Read more about Dominican Wall of Anti-Haitianism Keeps Neocolonial Inequity Alive">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Housing: Crisis and government announcements Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Pride and Property, an Austentatious tale Sasha Borissenko (Herald): What property does the PM ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 30 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-30-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 30 2021">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Baron, Associate professor, Australian Catholic University Last week, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland announced they might have discovered a brand new force of nature. Or, to be precise, they unveiled “new results which, if confirmed, would suggest hints of a violation of the ... <a title="New physics at the Large Hadron Collider? Scientists are excited, but it’s too soon to be sure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/new-physics-at-the-large-hadron-collider-scientists-are-excited-but-its-too-soon-to-be-sure-157871/" aria-label="Read more about New physics at the Large Hadron Collider? Scientists are excited, but it’s too soon to be sure">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Barton, Senior lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University Why are some kids left-handed and others are right-handed? — Sofia, aged 8 Hi Sofia, thanks for your great question! For a lot of human history, lefties have been seen as a little odd, and unfortunately ... <a title="Curious Kids: why are some kids left-handed and others are right-handed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/curious-kids-why-are-some-kids-left-handed-and-others-are-right-handed-155548/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why are some kids left-handed and others are right-handed?">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ross Bradstock, Emeritus professor, University of Wollongong In the aftermath of Australia’s devastating Black Summer fires, research has begun to clarify the role of climate change. We already know climate change contributed to the record-breaking drought and fire weather conditions, leading to the bushfires’ unprecedented range across ... <a title="A staggering 1.8 million hectares burned in ‘high-severity’ fires during Australia’s Black Summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/a-staggering-1-8-million-hectares-burned-in-high-severity-fires-during-australias-black-summer-157883/" aria-label="Read more about A staggering 1.8 million hectares burned in ‘high-severity’ fires during Australia’s Black Summer">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Gibbs, Academic, Population Health, The University of Melbourne Ten years on from the 2009 Victorian Black Saturday fires, in which 173 people died, 3,500 buildings were destroyed and entire townships were wiped out, about two thirds of people from highly impacted communities reported they felt “mostly” ... <a title="More than a decade after the Black Saturday fires, it’s time we got serious about long-term disaster recovery planning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/more-than-a-decade-after-the-black-saturday-fires-its-time-we-got-serious-about-long-term-disaster-recovery-planning-158078/" aria-label="Read more about More than a decade after the Black Saturday fires, it’s time we got serious about long-term disaster recovery planning">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Longden, Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University There’s great excitement about Australia potentially producing hydrogen as a clean fuel at large scale, for export to countries such as Germany, Japan and South Korea. Hydrogen (H₂) is a useful energy carrier, and doesn’t release ... <a title="Australia is at a crossroads in the global hydrogen race – and one path looks risky" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/australia-is-at-a-crossroads-in-the-global-hydrogen-race-and-one-path-looks-risky-157864/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is at a crossroads in the global hydrogen race – and one path looks risky">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Durbach, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW Allegations of sexual assault and harassment in the nation’s corridors of power once again reveal two consistent features of this conduct: a culture that enables such behaviour, and a high degree of impunity that invites its recurrence. University campus ... <a title="Politicians need expert help to change culture of sexual violence and impunity. We don’t need yet another review to tell us that" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/politicians-need-expert-help-to-change-culture-of-sexual-violence-and-impunity-we-dont-need-yet-another-review-to-tell-us-that-157429/" aria-label="Read more about Politicians need expert help to change culture of sexual violence and impunity. We don’t need yet another review to tell us that">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Breen, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing, Griffith University In this series, writers pay tribute to fictional detectives on the page and on screen. Frannie Thorstin, the narrator of Susanna Moore’s neo-noir novel In The Cut (1995) is a collector of urban slang. A divorced English ... <a title="My favourite detective: In the Cut’s Frannie Thorstin and her fatal attractions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/my-favourite-detective-in-the-cuts-frannie-thorstin-and-her-fatal-attractions-151371/" aria-label="Read more about My favourite detective: In the Cut’s Frannie Thorstin and her fatal attractions">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Op-Ed by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana. The world is emerging from the biggest social and economic shock in living memory, but it will be a long time before the deep scars of the COVID-19 pandemic on human well-being fully heal. In the Asia-Pacific region, where 60 per cent of the world lives, the pandemic revealed chronic development ... <a title="Op-Ed: COVID19 a wake-up call to address development fault lines in Asia and the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/op-ed-covid19-a-wake-up-call-to-address-development-fault-lines-in-asia-and-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: COVID19 a wake-up call to address development fault lines in Asia and the Pacific">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A Labor government would set up a $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund to promote manufacturing in Australia’s post pandemic economy. The fund, to be announced on Tuesday as Labor begins its national conference, would partner with private investors and superannuation ... <a title="Labor’s plan for $15 billion ‘reconstruction fund’ to promote post pandemic manufacturing economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/labors-plan-for-15-billion-reconstruction-fund-to-promote-post-pandemic-manufacturing-economy-158085/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s plan for $15 billion ‘reconstruction fund’ to promote post pandemic manufacturing economy">Read more</a>
