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November 15, 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 Vaccine Mandates and Certificates Philip Matthews (Stuff): Choice or coercion? The arguments over ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 15 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-15-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 15 2021">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>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katrina Dernelley, PhD Candidate in History, La Trobe University Panorama of the gold mining town, Graytown, Victoria, approx. 1861 National Library of Australia This article contains graphic depictions of historic domestic violence. For many women in colonial Victoria, home was not a place of security and comfort. ... <a title="Mrs Morland and Isabella Murrell: the brutal murder of a domestic angel on the diggings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/mrs-morland-and-isabella-murrell-the-brutal-murder-of-a-domestic-angel-on-the-diggings-169839/" aria-label="Read more about Mrs Morland and Isabella Murrell: the brutal murder of a domestic angel on the diggings">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hales, Director Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Griffith University AP After two hard-fought weeks of negotiations, the Glasgow climate change summit is, at last, over. All 197 participating countries adopted the so-called Glasgow Climate Pact, despite an 11th hour intervention by India in which the final agreement ... <a title="The ultimate guide to why the COP26 summit ended in failure and disappointment (despite a few bright spots)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/the-ultimate-guide-to-why-the-cop26-summit-ended-in-failure-and-disappointment-despite-a-few-bright-spots-171723/" aria-label="Read more about The ultimate guide to why the COP26 summit ended in failure and disappointment (despite a few bright spots)">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Perutskyi Petro/Shutterstock The government’s decision to target net-zero emissions by 2050 will leave each Australian nearly A$2,000 better off by then compared to no Australian action. That’s what we were told in a six-point summary ... <a title="How government modelling found net-zero would leave us better off" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/14/how-government-modelling-found-net-zero-would-leave-us-better-off-171743/" aria-label="Read more about How government modelling found net-zero would leave us better off">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland AAP The response to Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement of an electric vehicle policy has focused on its inconsistency with his derisive statements in 2019 that the technology would “end the weekend”. What’s more important, however, is ... <a title="Government assumes 90% of Australia’s new car sales will be electric by 2050. But its a destination without a route" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/14/government-assumes-90-of-australias-new-car-sales-will-be-electric-by-2050-but-its-a-destination-without-a-route-171741/" aria-label="Read more about Government assumes 90% of Australia’s new car sales will be electric by 2050. But its a destination without a route">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It’s not often that leaders get the blunt question 3AW’s Neil Mitchell threw at the prime minister on Friday. “You ever told a lie in public life?” What could Morrison say? “Yes” – the frank answer, and the discussion would ... <a title="View from The Hill: Scott Morrison caught in catch-22 over the issue of his integrity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/view-from-the-hill-scott-morrison-caught-in-catch-22-over-the-issue-of-his-integrity-171750/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Scott Morrison caught in catch-22 over the issue of his integrity">Read more</a>
