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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sung-ae Lee, Lecturer, Asian Studies, Macquarie University YOUNGKYU PARK/ Netflix Squid Game, an original Netflix drama produced in South Korea, is a streaming phenomenon. Released on 17 September, within two weeks the series has become the most watched Netflix title in 76 countries, including the US, Australia ... <a title="Social inequality and hyper violence: why the bleak world of Netflix’s Squid Game is a streaming phenomenon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/social-inequality-and-hyper-violence-why-the-bleak-world-of-netflixs-squid-game-is-a-streaming-phenomenon-168934/" aria-label="Read more about Social inequality and hyper violence: why the bleak world of Netflix’s Squid Game is a streaming phenomenon">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University Gerd Altmann/Pixabay In the pre-digital world, advertising was largely carried by print media, radio and television. Today, digital advertising has surpassed those channels, pervading our desktops and laptops, smartphones, tablets and a variety of other internet-connected ... <a title="Australia’s competition watchdog says Google has a monopoly on online advertising — but how does it work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/australias-competition-watchdog-says-google-has-a-monopoly-on-online-advertising-but-how-does-it-work-168939/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s competition watchdog says Google has a monopoly on online advertising — but how does it work?">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristin Carson-Chahhoud, Associate Research Professor, University of South Australia Shutterstock Cigarettes are the only legal consumer product that kill up to half of their users when consumed exactly as the manufacturer intended. The diseases they cause cost Australia’s health system A$136.9 billion a year. Philip Morris International ... <a title="After buying health company Vectura, tobacco giant Philip Morris will profit from treating the illnesses its products create" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/after-buying-health-company-vectura-tobacco-giant-philip-morris-will-profit-from-treating-the-illnesses-its-products-create-168564/" aria-label="Read more about After buying health company Vectura, tobacco giant Philip Morris will profit from treating the illnesses its products create">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Mills, Hon Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney Shutterstock Former Liberal backbencher Craig Kelly recently spammed large numbers of Australian voters by sending bulk text messages to their mobile phone numbers. The spam texts, one of which promoted Kelly’s anti-vax views, ... <a title="How did politicians and political parties get my mobile number? And how is that legal?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/how-did-politicians-and-political-parties-get-my-mobile-number-and-how-is-that-legal-168750/" aria-label="Read more about How did politicians and political parties get my mobile number? And how is that legal?">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Collie, Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Monash University Victoria’s occupational health and safety regulator, Worksafe, has charged the state’s health department with 58 breaches for failing to provide hotel quarantine staff with a safe workplace. The breaches occurred between March and July 2020, and at up ... <a title="Worksafe’s hotel quarantine breach penalties are a warning for other employers to keep workers safe from COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/worksafes-hotel-quarantine-breach-penalties-are-a-warning-for-other-employers-to-keep-workers-safe-from-covid-168968/" aria-label="Read more about Worksafe’s hotel quarantine breach penalties are a warning for other employers to keep workers safe from COVID">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kado Muir, Chair of National Native Title Council and Ngalia Cultural Leader, Indigenous Knowledge In May 2020, Rio Tinto blasted two rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara as part of its operations to feed an insatiable global appetite for iron ore. Some 46,000 years of ... <a title="Juukan Gorge inquiry: a critical turning point in First Nations authority over land management" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/juukan-gorge-inquiry-a-critical-turning-point-in-first-nations-authority-over-land-management-167039/" aria-label="Read more about Juukan Gorge inquiry: a critical turning point in First Nations authority over land management">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland Shutterstock When I first moved to New Zealand – even after living in some of the highest-priced US property markets – I was taken aback by house prices. My shock was reinforced by the condition of the ... <a title="Using valuable inner-city land for car parking? In a housing crisis, that just doesn’t add up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/using-valuable-inner-city-land-for-car-parking-in-a-housing-crisis-that-just-doesnt-add-up-168745/" aria-label="Read more about Using valuable inner-city land for car parking? In a housing crisis, that just doesn’t add up">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Shutterstock This week the Disability Royal Commission highlighted several failings in ensuring people with disability – a priority group in the rollout – could access vaccinations. Children and adolescents don’t feature strongly in this report as they only became eligible ... <a title="Children with disability are prioritised in the vaccine rollout, but many struggle to get an appointment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/children-with-disability-are-prioritised-in-the-vaccine-rollout-but-many-struggle-to-get-an-appointment-168755/" aria-label="Read more about Children with disability are prioritised in the vaccine rollout, but many struggle to get an appointment">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Morphett, Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland Shutterstock From October 1, Australians who use e-cigarettes and other vaping products containing nicotine will need a doctor’s prescription to buy them from a local pharmacy or to order them from overseas. But there’s another ... <a title="The missing ingredient Australia needs to kick its smoking addiction for good" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/the-missing-ingredient-australia-needs-to-kick-its-smoking-addiction-for-good-167973/" aria-label="Read more about The missing ingredient Australia needs to kick its smoking addiction for good">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Shutterstock The federal government has proposed replacing almost 200 recovery plans to improve the plight of threatened species and habitat with “conservation advice”, which has less legal clout. While critics have lamented the move, in reality ... <a title="Australia’s threatened species protections are being rewritten. But what’s really needed is money and legal teeth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/australias-threatened-species-protections-are-being-rewritten-but-whats-really-needed-is-money-and-legal-teeth-168262/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s threatened species protections are being rewritten. But what’s really needed is money and legal teeth">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Tingay, John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy), Curtin University Ilgari Inyayimaha (Shared Sky), painted by artists Margaret Whitehurst, Jenny Green, Barbara Merritt, Charmaine Green, Kevin Merritt, Sherryl Green, Tracey Green, Wendy Jackamarra, Susan Merry, Johnaya Jones, Gemma Merritt, Craig ‘Chook’ Pickett, and Nerolie Blurton. Yamaji Art. ... <a title="How making a film exploring Indigenous stories of the night sky enriched my perspective as a scientist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/how-making-a-film-exploring-indigenous-stories-of-the-night-sky-enriched-my-perspective-as-a-scientist-167529/" aria-label="Read more about How making a film exploring Indigenous stories of the night sky enriched my perspective as a scientist">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Malcolm Turnbull has accused Scott Morrison of trashing Australia’s reputation for trustworthiness and putting national security at risk, in a swingeing attack on the Prime Minister’s handling of the cancellation of the French submarine contract. Turnbull also revealed that since ... <a title="Turnbull slams ‘deceitful’ Morrison for giving Australia a reputation as untrustworthy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/turnbull-slams-deceitful-morrison-for-giving-australia-a-reputation-as-untrustworthy-168961/" aria-label="Read more about Turnbull slams ‘deceitful’ Morrison for giving Australia a reputation as untrustworthy">Read more</a>
