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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
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 Govt Covid response Michael Morrah (Newshub): Auckland’s outbreak not under control after more ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 30 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-30-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 30 2021">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>
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September 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With the 2022 election looming, local activists are mobilising in many government seats to sponsor independent candidates. The push – stronger and more organised since the 2019 election – is driven especially by concerns about climate change and integrity issues, ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: The push to run independents on issues of climate and integrity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/29/politics-with-michelle-grattan-the-push-to-run-independents-on-issues-of-climate-and-integrity-168950/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: The push to run independents on issues of climate and integrity">Read more</a>
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September 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Mark, Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Kyoritsu Women’s University Fumiko Kishida will become the next prime minister of Japan after winning a dramatic runoff in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership vote today. He will be Japan’s third prime minister in just over a year, ... <a title="Who is Fumio Kishida, Japan’s new prime minister?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/29/who-is-fumio-kishida-japans-new-prime-minister-168472/" aria-label="Read more about Who is Fumio Kishida, Japan’s new prime minister?">Read more</a>
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September 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Dan Himbrechts/AAP The latest New South Wales roadmap to recovery outlines a range of freedoms for fully vaccinated people in the state when 80% of those aged 16 and over ... <a title="Relying only on vaccination in NSW from December 1 isn’t enough – here’s what we need for sustained freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/29/relying-only-on-vaccination-in-nsw-from-december-1-isnt-enough-heres-what-we-need-for-sustained-freedom-168833/" aria-label="Read more about Relying only on vaccination in NSW from December 1 isn’t enough – here’s what we need for sustained freedom">Read more</a>
