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October 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andreea Lachsz, PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney This week, a United Nations torture prevention subcommittee delegation suspended its visit to Australia. The delegation arrived on October 16 and was due to end its visit on October 27, but suspended the visit prematurely on Sunday October 23. ... <a title="Why has a UN torture prevention subcommittee suspended its visit to Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/why-has-a-un-torture-prevention-subcommittee-suspended-its-visit-to-australia-193295/" aria-label="Read more about Why has a UN torture prevention subcommittee suspended its visit to Australia?">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Pawson, Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Housing took centre stage in Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s first budget this week. Relatively modest but positive steps were made towards tackling Australia’s worsening shortage of affordable social housing, as well ... <a title="1 million homes target makes headlines, but can’t mask modest ambition of budget’s housing plans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/1-million-homes-target-makes-headlines-but-cant-mask-modest-ambition-of-budgets-housing-plans-193289/" aria-label="Read more about 1 million homes target makes headlines, but can’t mask modest ambition of budget’s housing plans">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcus Harmes, Professor in Pathways Education, University of Southern Queensland The announcement the BBC will move the global streaming of Doctor Who from free to air channels to Disney+ will change the viewing habits for millions of people internationally. In Australia, Doctor Who will be removed from ... <a title="Without free-to-air, we wouldn’t have Doctor Who in the archives. What will we lose when it moves to Disney?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/without-free-to-air-we-wouldnt-have-doctor-who-in-the-archives-what-will-we-lose-when-it-moves-to-disney-193310/" aria-label="Read more about Without free-to-air, we wouldn’t have Doctor Who in the archives. What will we lose when it moves to Disney?">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2022
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist A ni-Vanuatu and Melanesian advocate in New Zealand says the country’s Pacific ministry has overlooked Melanesian communities in its language strategy. In an opinion piece in E-Tagata, Leina Isno said from the consultation to the launch the 10-year Pacific Languages Strategy was a “major cultural blunder’. The government’s Pacific ... <a title="Melanesian advocate criticises Pacific languages strategy ‘blunder’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/melanesian-advocate-criticises-pacific-languages-strategy-blunder/" aria-label="Read more about Melanesian advocate criticises Pacific languages strategy ‘blunder’">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2022
RNZ News An academic says hostage diplomacy is a well-known tactic of the Iranian regime and New Zealanders should not go to the country. Topher Richwhite and Bridget Thackwray are understood to have been detained for months after entering Iran. The New Zealand government negotiated for the safe release of the pair but has remained ... <a title="Academic warns of more hostage crises as ‘revolution’ unfolds in Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/academic-warns-of-more-hostage-crises-as-revolution-unfolds-in-iran/" aria-label="Read more about Academic warns of more hostage crises as ‘revolution’ unfolds in Iran">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2022
The Era of Restive Politics - In this, the 20th episode of A View from Afar for 2022 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning analyse The Era of Restive Politics. In particular, Paul and Selwyn explore the political dynamics in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, the People’s Republic of China, Italy, and Brazil.
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October 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Roberts, Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology Wing In recent years, cafes, supermarkets and online shops have started to trial drone delivery in a handful of locations around the world. More than a dozen drone delivery companies are now running such trials. Just this week, ... <a title="Drone delivery is a thing now. But how feasible is having it everywhere, and would we even want it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/drone-delivery-is-a-thing-now-but-how-feasible-is-having-it-everywhere-and-would-we-even-want-it-193301/" aria-label="Read more about Drone delivery is a thing now. But how feasible is having it everywhere, and would we even want it?">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Breen, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Getty Images Recent news that thousands of charges have been filed in the Waikato and Auckland youth courts in the past nine months once again put a spotlight on youth crime and our responses to it. This comes not ... <a title="10 is too young to be in court – NZ should raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/10-is-too-young-to-be-in-court-nz-should-raise-the-minimum-age-of-criminal-responsibility-188969/" aria-label="Read more about 10 is too young to be in court – NZ should raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The jury in the Lehrmann trial has been discharged after it was discovered a juror had obtained information outside the evidence presented. ACT Chief Justice Lucy McCallum said it was unfortunate but indicated she had no option but to abort ... <a title="Lehrmann trial aborted after juror accessed own information" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/lehrmann-trial-aborted-after-juror-accessed-own-information-192396/" aria-label="Read more about Lehrmann trial aborted after juror accessed own information">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan C Evans, Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, UNSW Sydney Seiichiro/Unsplash This week’s federal budget reiterated the government’s plan to establish a new scheme for encouraging private investment in conservation, called a biodiversity market (now, rebranded to a “nature repair” market). A biodiversity market would see ... <a title="The government hopes private investors will help save nature. Here’s how its scheme could fail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/the-government-hopes-private-investors-will-help-save-nature-heres-how-its-scheme-could-fail-193010/" aria-label="Read more about The government hopes private investors will help save nature. Here’s how its scheme could fail">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laurie Buys, Professor of Healthy Ageing, Australian Catholic University SHVETS production/Pexels Why do people get old? – Emily, 8 years old, Victoria That’s a great question, Emily! Who do you think is old? Is it anyone older than you, like an annoying older brother or sister? Is ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do people get old?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/curious-kids-why-do-people-get-old-190142/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do people get old?">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shireen Morris, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Radical Centre Reform Lab, Macquarie University Law School, Macquarie University Australians will soon vote in a referendum on a First Nations Voice – a constitutionally guaranteed body empowering Indigenous communities to advise parliament and government on Indigenous affairs, as ... <a title="A constitutional Voice to Parliament: ensuring parliament is in charge, not the courts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/a-constitutional-voice-to-parliament-ensuring-parliament-is-in-charge-not-the-courts-193017/" aria-label="Read more about A constitutional Voice to Parliament: ensuring parliament is in charge, not the courts">Read more</a>
