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October 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jesse Whitehead, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Waikato Jacinda Ardern and partner Clarke Gayford visit a pop-up vaccination clinic on ‘Super Saturday’. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images New Zealand’s mass vaccination event last Saturday, when more than 130,000 people turned up to get their first or second dose, surpassed Prime ... <a title="New Zealand’s mass vaccination event lifts uptake but highlights dangerous inequities as the country prepares to open up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/21/new-zealands-mass-vaccination-event-lifts-uptake-but-highlights-dangerous-inequities-as-the-country-prepares-to-open-up-169717/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s mass vaccination event lifts uptake but highlights dangerous inequities as the country prepares to open up">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giacomo Bianchino, Ph.d Candidate, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Lehman College, CUNY F Armstrong Photography/Shutterstock Unions have been quick to condemn Australia’s new Agricultural Visa, which will give approved employers access to “skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled” workers from ASEAN nations and the UK from late this year. ACTU president ... <a title="Why Australian unions should welcome the new Agricultural Visa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/21/why-australian-unions-should-welcome-the-new-agricultural-visa-169837/" aria-label="Read more about Why Australian unions should welcome the new Agricultural Visa">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jumana Abu-Khalaf, Research Fellow in Computing and Security, Edith Cowan University Facebook Facebook has announced a research project that aims to push the “frontier of first-person perception”, and in the process help you remember where your left your keys. The Ego4D project provides a huge collection of ... <a title="Facebook wants AI to find your keys and understand your conversations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/21/facebook-wants-ai-to-find-your-keys-and-understand-your-conversations-170092/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook wants AI to find your keys and understand your conversations">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Baron, Associate professor, Australian Catholic University Sam Baron, Author provided US-based military robot manufacturer Ghost Robotics has strapped a sniper rifle to a robotic dog, in the latest step towards autonomous weaponry. Some people have reacted with moral outrage at the prospect of making a killer ... <a title="Gun-toting robo-dogs look like a dystopian nightmare. That’s why they offer a powerful moral lesson" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/21/gun-toting-robo-dogs-look-like-a-dystopian-nightmare-thats-why-they-offer-a-powerful-moral-lesson-170267/" aria-label="Read more about Gun-toting robo-dogs look like a dystopian nightmare. That’s why they offer a powerful moral lesson">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ross G. Menzies, Professor, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney Vaccines save lives, and have been doing so since the development of the smallpox vaccine more than 200 years ago. However, for vaccines to keep entire communities safe they need to be taken up by ... <a title="Why do some people delay getting vaccinated or pretend COVID doesn’t exist? Paradoxically, denial of death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/21/why-do-some-people-delay-getting-vaccinated-or-pretend-covid-doesnt-exist-paradoxically-denial-of-death-168485/" aria-label="Read more about Why do some people delay getting vaccinated or pretend COVID doesn’t exist? Paradoxically, denial of death">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Christoff, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne Prime Minister Scott Morrison is poised to take a 2050 net-zero emissions target to Glasgow. While this may seem like a milestone, Australia is still failing to abide by one of ... <a title="Australia is undermining the Paris Agreement, no matter what Morrison says – we need new laws to stop this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/21/australia-is-undermining-the-paris-agreement-no-matter-what-morrison-says-we-need-new-laws-to-stop-this-170198/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is undermining the Paris Agreement, no matter what Morrison says – we need new laws to stop this">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuck, PhD Student, Monash University Shutterstock Before COVID, university and vocational education students were at high risk of developing mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety. This is because they already experience much higher levels of psychological distress than the general population. But since COVID, this ... <a title="COVID has increased anxiety and depression rates among university students. And they were already higher than average" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/21/covid-has-increased-anxiety-and-depression-rates-among-university-students-and-they-were-already-higher-than-average-167787/" aria-label="Read more about COVID has increased anxiety and depression rates among university students. And they were already higher than average">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Graycar, Visiting Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University branislavpudar/Shutterstock Australia has been built on immigration. In recent years it has been skilled migration, and that will continue to be important to us, especially as we recover from the COVID economic malaise. Skilled migrants ... <a title="A global battle for low-skilled workers looms after COVID. Australia needs to be part of it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/21/a-global-battle-for-low-skilled-workers-looms-after-covid-australia-needs-to-be-part-of-it-168296/" aria-label="Read more about A global battle for low-skilled workers looms after COVID. Australia needs to be part of it">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Webb, Dean, Graduate Research, University of Canberra Berthold Woltze/Wikimedia Commons Review: Devotion by Hannah Kent, Picador I came across Hannah Kent some years ago, hearing from colleagues at another university that she was a particularly impressive student, and I should stay alert for what she might ... <a title="With Devotion, Hannah Kent gives us empathically drafted portraits of love in all its forms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/21/with-devotion-hannah-kent-gives-us-empathically-drafted-portraits-of-love-in-all-its-forms-168945/" aria-label="Read more about With Devotion, Hannah Kent gives us empathically drafted portraits of love in all its forms">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Revell, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Physics, University of Canterbury Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Microplastics are found in the most remote places on land and in the ocean as well as in our food. Now several studies around the world have confirmed they are ... <a title="Microplastics are in the air we breathe and in Earth’s atmosphere, and they affect the climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/21/microplastics-are-in-the-air-we-breathe-and-in-earths-atmosphere-and-they-affect-the-climate-170093/" aria-label="Read more about Microplastics are in the air we breathe and in Earth’s atmosphere, and they affect the climate">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government has blocked an inquiry into whether Christian Porter breached parliamentary privilege in refusing to reveal who donated to his legal costs. This was despite Speaker Tony Smith giving the Labor motion for the reference precedence to be debated, ... <a title="Government shuts down move to refer Christian Porter’s secret funds to privileges inquiry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/21/government-shuts-down-move-to-refer-christian-porters-secret-funds-to-privileges-inquiry-170300/" aria-label="Read more about Government shuts down move to refer Christian Porter’s secret funds to privileges inquiry">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andy Marks, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Strategy, Government and Alliances, Western Sydney University AAP/Dan Himbrechts A few days into the current Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) proceedings in NSW, and it appears two relatively popular former NSW premiers and Cabinet colleagues – Gladys Berejiklian and Mike Baird – might ... <a title="After a bombshell day at ICAC, questions must be asked about integrity in Australian politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/after-a-bombshell-day-at-icac-questions-must-be-asked-about-integrity-in-australian-politics-170102/" aria-label="Read more about After a bombshell day at ICAC, questions must be asked about integrity in Australian politics">Read more</a>
