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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as Michelle Grattan’s usual interviews with experts and politicians about the news of the day, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where all things political will be discussed with members of The Conversation’s politics ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Scott Morrison’s (thin) climate plan for Glasgow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/politics-with-michelle-grattan-scott-morrisons-thin-climate-plan-for-glasgow-170652/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Scott Morrison’s (thin) climate plan for Glasgow">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as Michelle Grattan’s usual interviews with experts and politicians about the news of the day, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where all things political will be discussed with members of The Conversation’s politics ... <a title="Word from The Hill: Scott Morrison’s (thin) climate plan for Glasgow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/word-from-the-hill-scott-morrisons-thin-climate-plan-for-glasgow-170652/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: Scott Morrison’s (thin) climate plan for Glasgow">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Shutterstock The report of Victoria’s Royal Commission into Melbourne’s casino has been made public. It has found the behaviour of the casino’s operator, Crown Resorts to be “disgraceful”, with practices that have been “variously ... <a title="‘Illegal, dishonest, unethical and exploitative’ – but Crown Resorts keeps its Melbourne casino licence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/illegal-dishonest-unethical-and-exploitative-but-crown-resorts-keeps-its-melbourne-casino-licence-170625/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Illegal, dishonest, unethical and exploitative’ – but Crown Resorts keeps its Melbourne casino licence">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Masmikha/Shutterstock The most striking feature of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s long-term emissions reduction plan outlined on Tuesday is not the long-telegraphed commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050, or the promise of a A$20 billion clean energy program ... <a title="Between the lines, Morrison’s plan has coal on the way out, with the future bright" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/between-the-lines-morrisons-plan-has-coal-on-the-way-out-with-the-future-bright-170643/" aria-label="Read more about Between the lines, Morrison’s plan has coal on the way out, with the future bright">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelsie Nabben, Researcher / PhD Candidate, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub / Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University Rodion Kutsaev/Unsplash, CC BY-SA The federal government has been asking the public for feedback on proposed legislation to create a “trusted digital identity” system. The aim is for Australians to ... <a title="The government wants to expand the ‘digital identity’ system that lets Australians access services. There are many potential pitfalls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/the-government-wants-to-expand-the-digital-identity-system-that-lets-australians-access-services-there-are-many-potential-pitfalls-170550/" aria-label="Read more about The government wants to expand the ‘digital identity’ system that lets Australians access services. There are many potential pitfalls">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Partlett, Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne The Victorian government is introducing a pandemic management bill that will structure its ongoing and future response to pandemics. According to a draft dated October 23, the bill gives the executive wide powers in the time of a pandemic, ... <a title="Victoria’s draft pandemic law misses one critical element – stronger oversight of the government’s decisions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/victorias-draft-pandemic-law-misses-one-critical-element-stronger-oversight-of-the-governments-decisions-170623/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s draft pandemic law misses one critical element – stronger oversight of the government’s decisions">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The above chart of New Zealand weekly deaths since 2015 clearly shows the impact of winter influenzas and pneumonias on the mortality landscape of New Zealand. 2017 was a particularly bad year, with a substantially increased mortality in July of that year. 2016 was a particularly good year for mortality in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 and its impact so far on New Zealand Mortality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-and-its-impact-so-far-on-new-zealand-mortality/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 and its impact so far on New Zealand Mortality">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Spanish authors (from left), Agustin Martinez, Jorge Diaz and Antonio Mercero, who have been writing bestsellers as Carmen Mola. Quique Garcia/EPA Literary hoaxes thrive on exposure. At best, they are politically transgressive. They strip away anything ... <a title="What makes a good literary hoax? A political point, for starters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/what-makes-a-good-literary-hoax-a-political-point-for-starters-170538/" aria-label="Read more about What makes a good literary hoax? A political point, for starters">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alistair Hobday, Senior Principal Research Scientist – Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO Shutterstock Marine heatwaves are catastrophic impacts of climate change many of us are already familiar with. But how much do they cost society? During marine heatwaves, ocean temperatures can become so high that many species become ... <a title="How much do marine heatwaves cost? The economic losses amount to billions and billions of dollars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/how-much-do-marine-heatwaves-cost-the-economic-losses-amount-to-billions-and-billions-of-dollars-170008/" aria-label="Read more about How much do marine heatwaves cost? The economic losses amount to billions and billions of dollars">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University NSW is doing what Labor’s Bill Shorten could not – explaining why Australia’s capital gains tax concession is knocking first home buyers out of homes. Shorten went to the 2016 and 2019 elections with a ... <a title="Now it’s Liberals telling us we are going to have to cut the capital gains tax concession if we want to get Australians into homes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/now-its-liberals-telling-us-we-are-going-to-have-to-cut-the-capital-gains-tax-concession-if-we-want-to-get-australians-into-homes-170555/" aria-label="Read more about Now it’s Liberals telling us we are going to have to cut the capital gains tax concession if we want to get Australians into homes">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
By Jeffrey Enapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s ruling Pangu Pati is entangled in another internal dispute just six months before the issue of writs for the 2022 general election. This time, the former president of the party, Patrick Pundao, has gone to the National Court to dispute the recent election of the first ... <a title="PNG’s Pangu Pati entangled in new legal row over female president" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/pngs-pangu-pati-entangled-in-new-legal-row-over-female-president/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Pangu Pati entangled in new legal row over female president">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
RNZ News New Zealand has reported 79 new community cases of covid-19 today. Of the new cases, 75 are in Auckland and four are in Waikato. Forty six of these cases are linked, including 24 household contacts, and 33 remain unlinked. There is also one new case at the border. There was no 1pm conference ... <a title="79 new community covid cases in NZ – 75 in Auckland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/79-new-community-covid-cases-in-nz-75-in-auckland/" aria-label="Read more about 79 new community covid cases in NZ – 75 in Auckland">Read more</a>
