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October 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Breen, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Getty Images The New Zealand Police were recently found to have been routinely and illegally photographing young people and adults in public. Many might have expected this to see an end to the practice – but apparently not. Despite ... <a title="NZ police need better training in privacy and human rights law – here is what should happen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/06/nz-police-need-better-training-in-privacy-and-human-rights-law-here-is-what-should-happen-190346/" aria-label="Read more about NZ police need better training in privacy and human rights law – here is what should happen">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn Allen, ARC Future Fellow, University of Tasmania Most Australians have known drought in their lifetimes, and have memories of cracked earth and empty streams, paddocks of dust and stories of city reservoirs with only a few weeks’ storage. But our new research finds over the last ... <a title="Megadroughts helped topple ancient empires. We’ve found their traces in Australia’s past, and expect more to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/06/megadroughts-helped-topple-ancient-empires-weve-found-their-traces-in-australias-past-and-expect-more-to-come-191770/" aria-label="Read more about Megadroughts helped topple ancient empires. We’ve found their traces in Australia’s past, and expect more to come">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Shiels, Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH, installation view, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Photograph: Andrew Curtis Artist Paul Yore works with found and discarded materials, including other people’s abandoned craft projects. Embroidery threads, braid, cross stitch samplers and quilt pieces ... <a title="Paul Yore: the uncompromising Australian artist riotously tackling queer culture, corporate greed and hyperconsumption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/06/paul-yore-the-uncompromising-australian-artist-riotously-tackling-queer-culture-corporate-greed-and-hyperconsumption-191427/" aria-label="Read more about Paul Yore: the uncompromising Australian artist riotously tackling queer culture, corporate greed and hyperconsumption">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: No confidence in dire local govt elections The “No Confidence” vote in local body elections could be as high as 60 per cent by the end of this week. That’s essentially what it is when only 40 per cent of the public choose to vote, which is what ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: No confidence in dire local govt elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/05/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-no-confidence-in-dire-local-govt-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: No confidence in dire local govt elections">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In many ways the world has moved on from the Covid19 pandemic. And excess mortality from Covid19 mingles with excess mortality from other causes, from heatwaves to other diseases. The summer is useful because it is generally the low season for infectious respiratory illnesses. Covid19 is a disease that is spread ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Travel Warning: Excess Summer Deaths in Europe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/05/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-travel-warning-excess-summer-deaths-in-europe/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Travel Warning: Excess Summer Deaths in Europe">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yee-Fui Ng, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University Mick Tsikas/AAP Last week, the government introduced into parliament the bill establishing the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). This honours the government’s election commitment to introduce a “powerful, transparent and independent” federal anti-corruption commission by the end of the ... <a title="Will the National Anti-Corruption Commission actually stamp out corruption in government?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/05/will-the-national-anti-corruption-commission-actually-stamp-out-corruption-in-government-191759/" aria-label="Read more about Will the National Anti-Corruption Commission actually stamp out corruption in government?">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Australia’s dire and shameful conservation record is well established. The world’s highest number of recent mammal extinctions – 39 since colonisation. Ecosystems collapsing from the north to ... <a title="Labor’s plan to save threatened species is an improvement – but it’s still well short of what we need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/05/labors-plan-to-save-threatened-species-is-an-improvement-but-its-still-well-short-of-what-we-need-191845/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s plan to save threatened species is an improvement – but it’s still well short of what we need">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Dean, Lead Lecturer Practitioner, Nursing, Faculty of Health., Southern Cross University Shutterstock The toll of COVID on our health-care workers has been brutal, with many saying they want to quit their jobs. The World Health Organization says burnout, coupled with an ageing workforce, is a “ticking ... <a title="Health worker burnout and ‘compassion fatigue’ put patients at risk. How can we help them help us?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/05/health-worker-burnout-and-compassion-fatigue-put-patients-at-risk-how-can-we-help-them-help-us-191429/" aria-label="Read more about Health worker burnout and ‘compassion fatigue’ put patients at risk. How can we help them help us?">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meredith Primrose Jones, Researcher – Oceania Cyber Security Centre; Researcher – Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, RMIT University It’s not yet clear who carried out the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea last week, although many Western nations are suspicious ... <a title="‘Hybrid warfare’: Nord Stream attacks show how war is evolving" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/05/hybrid-warfare-nord-stream-attacks-show-how-war-is-evolving-191764/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Hybrid warfare’: Nord Stream attacks show how war is evolving">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Wilkins, Associate Professor of illegal drug research, Massey University Getty Images New Zealand is generally proud of being a world leader, but there’s one claim that might not be universally admired: being home to the longest running English-language market for illegal drugs on the so-called “darknet”. ... <a title="The dark web down under: what’s driving the rise and rise of NZ’s ‘Tor Market’ for illegal drugs?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/05/the-dark-web-down-under-whats-driving-the-rise-and-rise-of-nzs-tor-market-for-illegal-drugs-191658/" aria-label="Read more about The dark web down under: what’s driving the rise and rise of NZ’s ‘Tor Market’ for illegal drugs?">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jongkil Jay Jeong, CyberCRC Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CSRI), Deakin University tsingha25/Shutterstock Data breaches are becoming commonplace in both small and big tech companies. The most recent victim was Australian telecommunications company Optus, resulting in unauthorised access to the identity data ... <a title="What is multi-factor authentication, and how should I be using it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/05/what-is-multi-factor-authentication-and-how-should-i-be-using-it-191591/" aria-label="Read more about What is multi-factor authentication, and how should I be using it?">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Coghill, Financial Markets Foundation Chair of Developmental Mental Health, The University of Melbourne shutterstock A recent detailed analysis of prescribing trends for ADHD medications in Australia found prescriptions for ADHD medications doubled from 2013 to 2020. While this is clearly an important finding, it needs to ... <a title="ADHD medications have doubled in the last decade – but other treatments can help too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/05/adhd-medications-have-doubled-in-the-last-decade-but-other-treatments-can-help-too-191574/" aria-label="Read more about ADHD medications have doubled in the last decade – but other treatments can help too">Read more</a>
