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October 26, 2021
RNZ Pacific The Vanuatu covid task force has confirmed that two arrivals from New Caleldonia have covid-19. But the organisation says Vanuatu remains free of any community transmission of the virus. Health officials are endeavouring to trace contacts from the airport to the Ramada Hotel where the two positive ni-Vanuatu nationals are now currently being ... <a title="Two covid cases arrive from New Caledonia at border in Vanuatu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/two-covid-cases-arrive-from-new-caledonia-at-border-in-vanuatu/" aria-label="Read more about Two covid cases arrive from New Caledonia at border in Vanuatu">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government claims Australians would be nearly $2000 better off on average under its plan to reach net zero by 2050 compared with taking no action. According to the modelling – which the government has yet to release – gross ... <a title="Morrison’s climate plan has 35% 2030 emissions reduction ‘projection’ but modelling underpinning 2050 target yet to be released" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/morrisons-climate-plan-has-35-2030-emissions-reduction-projection-but-modelling-underpinning-2050-target-yet-to-be-released-170635/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison’s climate plan has 35% 2030 emissions reduction ‘projection’ but modelling underpinning 2050 target yet to be released">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ellen Reeves, Postdoctoral fellow, Monash University Police responses to family violence have long been the subject of scrutiny. Effective policing can play a key role in protecting victim-survivors and holding perpetrators accountable. Most recently across Australia, there has been heated debate about the criminalisation of coercive control. ... <a title="Victoria Police may soon be able to issue final intervention orders on the spot, but will this help victim-survivors?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/victoria-police-may-soon-be-able-to-issue-final-intervention-orders-on-the-spot-but-will-this-help-victim-survivors-170359/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria Police may soon be able to issue final intervention orders on the spot, but will this help victim-survivors?">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dion O’Neale, Lecturer – Department of Physics, University of Auckland; Principal Investigator – Te Pūnaha Matatini, University of Auckland Hannah Peters/Getty Images As Aotearoa New Zealand moves from elimination to suppression, we need to understand how this could change the nature of transmission from Auckland’s Delta outbreak ... <a title="New Zealanders are super-connected. When restrictions lift in Auckland, it won’t take much to amplify Delta’s spread" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/new-zealanders-are-super-connected-when-restrictions-lift-in-auckland-it-wont-take-much-to-amplify-deltas-spread-170542/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealanders are super-connected. When restrictions lift in Auckland, it won’t take much to amplify Delta’s spread">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Clark, Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Public History, University of Technology Sydney The federal Education Minister, Alan Tudge, has announced a major edit of the draft history curriculum by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) as part of an effort to lift educational ... <a title="10 things every politician should know about history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/10-things-every-politician-should-know-about-history-170626/" aria-label="Read more about 10 things every politician should know about history">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Danny ShawFrom NY On October 25th, 1983, 7,300 U.S. troops, accompanied by U.S.-trained soldiers of CARICOM countries calling themselves “The Caribbean Peace Force,” invaded the tiny island of Grenada. This October marks the 38th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of the land of Julien Fedon, Jacqueline Creft, ... <a title="Grenada: 38 Years after a Triple Assassination, the Short-Lived Revolution still Inspires" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/grenada-38-years-after-a-triple-assassination-the-short-lived-revolution-still-inspires/" aria-label="Read more about Grenada: 38 Years after a Triple Assassination, the Short-Lived Revolution still Inspires">Read more</a>
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October 26, 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 Māori vaccination Derek Cheng (Herald): PM Jacinda Ardern rejected science and health experts’ ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 26 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-26-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 26 2021">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Breen, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Shutterstock Until very recently, people with intersex variations have often been unseen, stigmatised and routinely discriminated against. Intersex Awareness Day today (October 26) is therefore an opportunity to examine how much progress has been made and how far we ... <a title="Intersex children in New Zealand are routinely undergoing unnecessary surgery – that needs to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/intersex-children-in-new-zealand-are-routinely-undergoing-unnecessary-surgery-that-needs-to-change-168936/" aria-label="Read more about Intersex children in New Zealand are routinely undergoing unnecessary surgery – that needs to change">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danny C Price, Senior research fellow, Curtin University CSIRO, Author provided In December last year, the media reported an intriguing signal we at the Breakthrough Listen project found in our radio telescope data. Dubbed BLC1, the signal didn’t appear to be the result of any recognisable astrophysical ... <a title="A mysterious signal looked like a sign of alien technology — but it turned out to be radio interference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/a-mysterious-signal-looked-like-a-sign-of-alien-technology-but-it-turned-out-to-be-radio-interference-170548/" aria-label="Read more about A mysterious signal looked like a sign of alien technology — but it turned out to be radio interference">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ausma Bernot, PhD Candidate, Griffith University Ng Han Guan/AP China’s 5G technology has now been banned in many countries, including Australia, New Zealand, the US and many in the European Union. In 2019, a NATO Cyber Defence Centre report identified Huawei’s 5G technology as a security risk. ... <a title="China is accused of exporting authoritarian technology. But the west has done so, too, more covertly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/china-is-accused-of-exporting-authoritarian-technology-but-the-west-has-done-so-too-more-covertly-168190/" aria-label="Read more about China is accused of exporting authoritarian technology. But the west has done so, too, more covertly">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theresa Larkin, Senior Lecturer Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong Shutterstock Scientists are learning more and more about human biological variation, including of sex characteristics. But images of the human body in anatomy remain mostly muscular, white, and male with limited diversity, including of sex. Intersex people represent ... <a title="Anatomy texts should show sex as a spectrum to include intersex people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/anatomy-texts-should-show-sex-as-a-spectrum-to-include-intersex-people-170205/" aria-label="Read more about Anatomy texts should show sex as a spectrum to include intersex people">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Hurley, Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Shutterstock A series of recent announcements about Australia’s borders reopening mean there is hope of an end to the crisis in our international education sector. But there is still a long way to go. Over 145,000 international student visa ... <a title="Why the international education crisis will linger long after students return to Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/why-the-international-education-crisis-will-linger-long-after-students-return-to-australia-170360/" aria-label="Read more about Why the international education crisis will linger long after students return to Australia">Read more</a>