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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Krystian Seibert, Industry Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology The final two sitting weeks of parliament this year have provided both good and bad news for Australian charities. Last week provided the good news, with new government regulations that would have curtailed the ability ... <a title="Are charities being silenced? Why a new law is alarming activists and could scuttle their election campaigns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/are-charities-being-silenced-why-a-new-law-is-alarming-activists-and-could-scuttle-their-election-campaigns-173056/" aria-label="Read more about Are charities being silenced? Why a new law is alarming activists and could scuttle their election campaigns">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Education minister Alan Tudge has stood aside from his portfolio while a claim by his former staffer Rachelle Miller that he abused her in their relationship, including kicking her out of bed, is investigated. Miller, who revealed her consensual affair ... <a title="Tudge stands aside while claim of kicking former staffer investigated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/tudge-stands-aside-while-claim-of-kicking-former-staffer-investigated-173064/" aria-label="Read more about Tudge stands aside while claim of kicking former staffer investigated">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Taylor, Early Career Research Leader, Emerging Viruses, Inflammation and Therapeutics Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University Shutterstock Researchers around the world are trying to work out whether existing COVID vaccines protect us from the latest variant, Omicron. The worst-case scenario is the virus has mutated ... <a title="Omg, Omicron! Why it’s too soon to panic about COVID vaccines and the new variant" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/omg-omicron-why-its-too-soon-to-panic-about-covid-vaccines-and-the-new-variant-172949/" aria-label="Read more about Omg, Omicron! Why it’s too soon to panic about COVID vaccines and the new variant">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kai Riemer, Professor of Information Technology and Organisation, University of Sydney “Tik-a-Tok-a-Who?”, was Adele’s response to her management’s suggestion to promote her music to younger audiences on Tiktok, the video-sharing platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance. “If everyone’s making music for the TikTok, who’s making music for ... <a title="Love it or hate it, TikTok is changing the music industry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/love-it-or-hate-it-tiktok-is-changing-the-music-industry-171482/" aria-label="Read more about Love it or hate it, TikTok is changing the music industry">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Smith, Associate Professor in Disaster and Emergency Response, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts As Australia braces for another bushfire season, new research from Edith Cowan University has revealed how our volunteer firefighters are still reeling from the effects of ... <a title="‘I was told if I couldn’t hack it, I should hand in my uniform.’ Volunteers share suicidal thoughts after fighting bushfires" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/i-was-told-if-i-couldnt-hack-it-i-should-hand-in-my-uniform-volunteers-share-suicidal-thoughts-after-fighting-bushfires-171486/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I was told if I couldn’t hack it, I should hand in my uniform.’ Volunteers share suicidal thoughts after fighting bushfires">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graeme Beardsmore, Senior Fellow in Crustal Heat Flow, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock About 650 metres beneath the Latrobe Valley, the heart of Victoria’s coal country, lies a little-known, naturally hot 65℃ pool of water in an enormous aquifer. This aquifer is a source of geothermal energy ... <a title="There’s an enormous geothermal pool under the Latrobe Valley that can give us cheap, clean energy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/theres-an-enormous-geothermal-pool-under-the-latrobe-valley-that-can-give-us-cheap-clean-energy-166829/" aria-label="Read more about There’s an enormous geothermal pool under the Latrobe Valley that can give us cheap, clean energy">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning consider and analyse the most significant global issues that define 2021. The topics include: - Leadership: Trump, Putin, Xi, Biden; - Pandemic: Impact of Covid-19 & variants on global security; - Security: Afghanistan, AUKUS, Autonomous Weapons, Cyber-Hackers/Attackers.
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Lukas Coch/AAP The final days of parliament for 2021 have been marked by a spate of floor crossings. This includes Tasmanian Liberal Bridget Archer who backed Independent Helen Haines’ integrity commission bill and conservative Coalition MPs ... <a title="A sign of healthy democracy or a ‘rudderless’ nation? How crossing the floor has changed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/a-sign-of-healthy-democracy-or-a-rudderless-nation-how-crossing-the-floor-has-changed-172849/" aria-label="Read more about A sign of healthy democracy or a ‘rudderless’ nation? How crossing the floor has changed">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Chen, Research Fellow at Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, University of Auckland Hannah Peters/Getty Images When New Zealand switches to the COVID-19 Protection Framework tomorrow, people will have to present vaccine passes to access many public spaces and venues. At this point, more than ... <a title="Verification will be essential as New Zealanders start using vaccine passes — to stop fraud and the spread of COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/verification-will-be-essential-as-new-zealanders-start-using-vaccine-passes-to-stop-fraud-and-the-spread-of-covid-172940/" aria-label="Read more about Verification will be essential as New Zealanders start using vaccine passes — to stop fraud and the spread of COVID">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Westaway, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland Rio Tinto’s destruction of the 46,000 year old Juukan Gorge rock shelters has led to recommendations by the Parliamentary Inquiry on how Australia can better conserve Aboriginal heritage sites. Around the ... <a title="Australia has a heritage conservation problem. Can farming and Aboriginal heritage protection co-exist?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/australia-has-a-heritage-conservation-problem-can-farming-and-aboriginal-heritage-protection-co-exist-170956/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has a heritage conservation problem. Can farming and Aboriginal heritage protection co-exist?">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content National Party, ACT Charlie Mitchell and Laura Walters (Stuff): Christopher Luxon’s property gains ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 02 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-02-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 02 2021">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geordie Williamson, Professor of Mathematics, University of Sydney shutterstock Research in mathematics is a deeply imaginative and intuitive process. This might come as a surprise for those who are still recovering from high-school algebra. What does the world look like at the quantum scale? What shape would ... <a title="Mathematical discoveries take intuition and creativity – and now a little help from AI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/02/mathematical-discoveries-take-intuition-and-creativity-and-now-a-little-help-from-ai-172900/" aria-label="Read more about Mathematical discoveries take intuition and creativity – and now a little help from AI">Read more</a>
