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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Despite appearances – especially in the United States – the era of high inflation isn’t set for a comeback in the view of Australia’s leading economists, and most see no need for the Reserve Bank ... <a title="Top economists see no prolonged high inflation, no rate hike next year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/top-economists-see-no-prolonged-high-inflation-no-rate-hike-next-year-171731/" aria-label="Read more about Top economists see no prolonged high inflation, no rate hike next year">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Sydney Film Festival Review: ShoPaapaa, written and directed by Molly Reynolds and Shekhar Bassi The COVID-19 pandemic threw the world into disarray, forcing many to reinvent processes, reimagine what it means to live in modernity. ... <a title="ShoPaapaa, a film about COVID lockdowns, is long and excruciatingly dull – but weren’t lockdowns, too?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/shopaapaa-a-film-about-covid-lockdowns-is-long-and-excruciatingly-dull-but-werent-lockdowns-too-171604/" aria-label="Read more about ShoPaapaa, a film about COVID lockdowns, is long and excruciatingly dull – but weren’t lockdowns, too?">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabrielle Appleby, Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW Victoria’s Pandemic Management Bill, designed to replace the current state of emergency powers in pandemic emergencies, has swiftly become one of the state’s most polarising pieces of legislation. Amid the politics, public fear-mongering and death threats, there appears to be ... <a title="Victoria’s controversial pandemic bill: 6 ways for the government to show it is serious about scrutiny" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/victorias-controversial-pandemic-bill-6-ways-for-the-government-to-show-it-is-serious-about-scrutiny-171600/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s controversial pandemic bill: 6 ways for the government to show it is serious about scrutiny">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne AAP/Dean Lewins This week’s Newspoll, conducted November 10-13 from a sample of 1,524, gave Labor a 53-47 lead, a one point gain for the Coalition since the last Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes ... <a title="Coalition improves but Morrison’s slide continues in Newspoll; Liberals in danger in Kooyong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/coalition-improves-but-morrisons-slide-continues-in-newspoll-liberals-in-danger-in-kooyong-171593/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition improves but Morrison’s slide continues in Newspoll; Liberals in danger in Kooyong">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pok Man Leung, PhD candidate in Microbiology, Monash University Ian Hogg, Author provided Humans have only recently begun to think about using hydrogen as a source of energy, but bacteria in Antarctica have been doing it for a billion years. We studied 451 different kinds of bacteria ... <a title="Antarctic bacteria live on air and make their own water using hydrogen as fuel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/antarctic-bacteria-live-on-air-and-make-their-own-water-using-hydrogen-as-fuel-171808/" aria-label="Read more about Antarctic bacteria live on air and make their own water using hydrogen as fuel">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Jotzo, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University COP26 president Alok Sharma has described the pivotal United Nations talks, which concluded over the weekend, as only a “fragile win” for ambition on climate ... <a title="COP26: the Glasgow climate summit demonstrates an appetite for change Australia simply can’t ignore" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/cop26-the-glasgow-climate-summit-demonstrates-an-appetite-for-change-australia-simply-cant-ignore-171810/" aria-label="Read more about COP26: the Glasgow climate summit demonstrates an appetite for change Australia simply can’t ignore">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University It is not entirely irrational to fear needles (or to suffer from trypanophobia for those who prefer the Greek term). Likewise, feeling anxious about injecting a foreign substance into the bloodstream ... <a title="Anger, grievance, resentment: we need to understand how anti-vaxxers feel to make sense of their actions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/anger-grievance-resentment-we-need-to-understand-how-anti-vaxxers-feel-to-make-sense-of-their-actions-169829/" aria-label="Read more about Anger, grievance, resentment: we need to understand how anti-vaxxers feel to make sense of their actions">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Conley Tyler, Honorary Fellow, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne Prime Minister’s Office We are seeing an unusual level of discussion about Australian diplomacy. There’s been harsh criticism – and some degree of embarrassment – surrounding what has been described been as a “diplomacy fail” in ... <a title="Australia has not just had a ‘diplomacy fail’ – it has been devaluing the profession for decades" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/australia-has-not-just-had-a-diplomacy-fail-it-has-been-devaluing-the-profession-for-decades-171498/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has not just had a ‘diplomacy fail’ – it has been devaluing the profession for decades">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bill Hare, Director, Climate Analytics, Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University (Perth), Visiting scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research AP As the United Nations climate summit opened in Glasgow, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a surprise positive announcement: a big net-zero target. The world cheered at the ... <a title="Are you kidding, India? Your last-minute Glasgow intervention won’t relieve pressure to ditch coal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/are-you-kidding-india-your-last-minute-glasgow-intervention-wont-relieve-pressure-to-ditch-coal-171809/" aria-label="Read more about Are you kidding, India? Your last-minute Glasgow intervention won’t relieve pressure to ditch coal">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Wiseman, Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne Marc Pell/Unsplash, CC BY The COP26 climate conference in Glasgow is over. Despite some progress, deep concerns remain about the outcomes. The final pact at least mentions the importance of exiting coal and the door remains open to ratcheting ... <a title="Where to find courage and defiant hope when our fragile, dewdrop world seems beyond saving" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/where-to-find-courage-and-defiant-hope-when-our-fragile-dewdrop-world-seems-beyond-saving-171299/" aria-label="Read more about Where to find courage and defiant hope when our fragile, dewdrop world seems beyond saving">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra de Gendre, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Economics, University of Sydney Shutterstock Who you go to school with matters. Almost all of us, as children or parents of children, have felt the influence of good, and bad, classmates at school. There is a large body of research ... <a title="Being in a class with high achievers improves students’ test scores. We tried to find out why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/being-in-a-class-with-high-achievers-improves-students-test-scores-we-tried-to-find-out-why-171400/" aria-label="Read more about Being in a class with high achievers improves students’ test scores. We tried to find out why">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Adams, Professor at the Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University The Conversation On Friday November 12, after a wait of a fortnight, the government released a 100-page summary of the modelling and analysis behind its claim that an emissions target of net-zero by 2050 would leave ... <a title="The government’s net-zero modelling shows winners, we’ve found losers as well" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/the-governments-net-zero-modelling-shows-winners-weve-found-losers-as-well-171502/" aria-label="Read more about The government’s net-zero modelling shows winners, we’ve found losers as well">Read more</a>
