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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Russian President Vladimir Putin habitually rattles his nuclear sabres when things start looking grim for Moscow, and has done so long before his ill-advised invasion of Ukraine. In February 2008, he promised to target Ukraine with ... <a title="Are Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats a bluff? In a word – probably" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/are-vladimir-putins-nuclear-threats-a-bluff-in-a-word-probably-187689/" aria-label="Read more about Are Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats a bluff? In a word – probably">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Swerissen, Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University Shutterstock Around 3% (6,100) of the 200,000 residents in Australia’s aged care facilities had COVID, as of July 22, in addition to 3,400 staff. About 1,000 facilities – nearly 40% of the total – had an outbreak. Aged care residents ... <a title="4 in 10 nursing homes have a COVID outbreak and the death rate is high. What’s going wrong?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/4-in-10-nursing-homes-have-a-covid-outbreak-and-the-death-rate-is-high-whats-going-wrong-187775/" aria-label="Read more about 4 in 10 nursing homes have a COVID outbreak and the death rate is high. What’s going wrong?">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Cooke, Senior lecturer, RMIT University Getty You would have heard Australia’s environment isn’t doing well. A grim story of “crisis and decline” was how Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek described the situation when she launched the State of the Environment Report last week. Climate change, habitat destruction, ... <a title="Protecting 30% of Australia’s land and sea by 2030 sounds great – but it’s not what it seems" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/protecting-30-of-australias-land-and-sea-by-2030-sounds-great-but-its-not-what-it-seems-187435/" aria-label="Read more about Protecting 30% of Australia’s land and sea by 2030 sounds great – but it’s not what it seems">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Neil Saintilan, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Image: Pamela Marcum, GTM Research Reserve, Florida, Author provided It may not always be clear why global temperature rise must be kept below 1.5℃, compared to 2℃ or 3℃. Research published today in the journal Science shows this ... <a title="Not waving, drowning: why keeping warming under 1.5℃ is a life-or-death matter for tidal marshes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/not-waving-drowning-why-keeping-warming-under-1-5-is-a-life-or-death-matter-for-tidal-marshes-187540/" aria-label="Read more about Not waving, drowning: why keeping warming under 1.5℃ is a life-or-death matter for tidal marshes">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucas Walsh, Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University Darren England/AAP You might think that in 2022 it would be utterly uncontroversial for a footy club to have rainbow colours on a jersey to celebrate diversity. Unfortunately, the Manly Sea ... <a title="‘It’s kind of suffocating’: queer young Australians speak about how they feel at school and what they think of politicians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/its-kind-of-suffocating-queer-young-australians-speak-about-how-they-feel-at-school-and-what-they-think-of-politicians-187010/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It’s kind of suffocating’: queer young Australians speak about how they feel at school and what they think of politicians">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
RNZ Pacific The French nuclear compensation commission CIVEN says that last year it paid out US$16.6 million to victims of France’s nuclear weapons tests. France tested 193 atomic weapons in French Polynesia over three decades from 1966 to 1996 after abandoning its testing regime in Algeria. In its report for 2021, the commission said it ... <a title="France pays out US$16m on nearly 100 Tahiti nuclear compensation claims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/france-pays-out-us16m-on-nearly-100-tahiti-nuclear-compensation-claims/" aria-label="Read more about France pays out US$16m on nearly 100 Tahiti nuclear compensation claims">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Lukas Coch/AAP Jim Chalmers delivers bad economic news well, which is a good thing because there’s a great deal of it about, with a lot more to come. The treasurer – at this early stage shaping up as one of ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Jim Chalmers is a good performer, but can he hold the public’s trust through hard times?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/grattan-on-friday-jim-chalmers-is-a-good-performer-but-can-he-hold-the-publics-trust-through-hard-times-187872/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Jim Chalmers is a good performer, but can he hold the public’s trust through hard times?">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Sheriff Security at the Waigani Supreme and National Court have stepped up their surveillance of the court premises following this week’s lawlessness in the city. All court users including staff and visitors will be strictly monitored, says a statement. All hazardous and dangerous weapons like knives, pepper spray, mace, razor ... <a title="PNG court sheriffs clamp down on dangerous weapons, boost security" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/png-court-sheriffs-clamp-down-on-dangerous-weapons-boost-security/" aria-label="Read more about PNG court sheriffs clamp down on dangerous weapons, boost security">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Saul Eslake, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania As he had promised to do almost since the day he became treasurer, Jim Chalmers has presented a gloomy set of forecasts for the Australian economy in his first formal economic statement to the new parliament on Thursday. Inflation is ... <a title="The Chalmers graphs: 7.75% inflation, plunging real wages, weak growth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/the-chalmers-graphs-7-75-inflation-plunging-real-wages-weak-growth-187851/" aria-label="Read more about The Chalmers graphs: 7.75% inflation, plunging real wages, weak growth">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Coles, Senior Lecturer, Employment Relations, Department of Management, Deakin University, Deakin University Shutterstock It has been a fantastic year for Australian cinematographers in Hollywood. Australian directors of photography represented two of the five nominees for best cinematography at the 2022 Oscars. Greig Fraser won the Oscar ... <a title="Precarious employment, hiring discrimination and a toxic workplace: what work looks like for Australian cinematographers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/precarious-employment-hiring-discrimination-and-a-toxic-workplace-what-work-looks-like-for-australian-cinematographers-187080/" aria-label="Read more about Precarious employment, hiring discrimination and a toxic workplace: what work looks like for Australian cinematographers">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. I try to write about general issues of importance, in a general – indeed global – context. This time I will write just about me. I am the same age as Phil Goff, Mayor of Auckland. And I want to be appropriately protected from Covid19. I have had three shots of ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Answers please? Tribulations of getting a Covid19 Vaccine ‘2nd Booster’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/keith-rankin-essay-answers-please-tribulations-of-getting-a-covid19-vaccine-2nd-booster/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Answers please? Tribulations of getting a Covid19 Vaccine ‘2nd Booster’">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Therésa Jones, Associate Professor in Evolution and Behaviour, The University of Melbourne shutterstock As the Moon rises on a warm evening in early summer, thousands of baby turtles emerge and begin their precarious journey towards the ocean, while millions of moths and fireflies take to the air ... <a title="Artificial light at night can change the behaviour of all animals, not just humans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/artificial-light-at-night-can-change-the-behaviour-of-all-animals-not-just-humans-183028/" aria-label="Read more about Artificial light at night can change the behaviour of all animals, not just humans">Read more</a>
