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August 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Read, Professor of History, Australian National University This article contains mentions of the Stolen Generations, and policies using outdated and potentially offensive terminology when referring to First Nations people. Earlier this month, the Commonwealth government announced a reparations scheme for Stolen Generations survivors in the Northern ... <a title="The government’s Stolen Generations redress scheme is piecemeal and unrealistic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/30/the-governments-stolen-generations-redress-scheme-is-piecemeal-and-unrealistic-165878/" aria-label="Read more about The government’s Stolen Generations redress scheme is piecemeal and unrealistic">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sabine Matook, Associate Professor in Information Systems, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Australian universities invest heavily in the employability of their graduates. The Australian government supports this goal with annual funding to increase to A$20 billion by 2024. This includes $900 million in grants through the National ... <a title="How work-integrated learning helps to make billions in uni funding worth it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/30/how-work-integrated-learning-helps-to-make-billions-in-uni-funding-worth-it-166017/" aria-label="Read more about How work-integrated learning helps to make billions in uni funding worth it">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Latoya Aroha Rule, PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney This article contains information on deaths in custody and the violence experienced by First Nations people in our encounters with the Australian carceral system. It also contains references to and the names of people who are now deceased. ... <a title="Incarceration Nation exposes the racist foundations of policing and imprisonment in Australia, but at what cost?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/30/incarceration-nation-exposes-the-racist-foundations-of-policing-and-imprisonment-in-australia-but-at-what-cost-165951/" aria-label="Read more about Incarceration Nation exposes the racist foundations of policing and imprisonment in Australia, but at what cost?">Read more</a>
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August 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. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Government management of outbreak Andrea Vance (Stuff): If the Government is making the right decisions on Covid-19, it will ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 30 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/30/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-30-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 30 2021">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Higgins, Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Jose Luis Magana/AP US President Joe Biden’s deadline of August 31 to complete US evacuation efforts from Afghanistan is fast approaching. And after last week’s bombing at the Kabul airport, the security situation for Afghans ... <a title="There’s a way to get refugees out of Afghanistan after this week’s deadline — if the Taliban agrees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/30/theres-a-way-to-get-refugees-out-of-afghanistan-after-this-weeks-deadline-if-the-taliban-agrees-166739/" aria-label="Read more about There’s a way to get refugees out of Afghanistan after this week’s deadline — if the Taliban agrees">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Hurley, Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Shutterstock With a 6% drop in revenue, 2020 was a year Australian universities would prefer to forget, a report released today by the Mitchell Institute shows. Mitchell Institute report into investment in higher education. The report, Australian investment in ... <a title="Universities lost 6% of their revenue in 2020 — and the next 2 years are looking worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/30/universities-lost-6-of-their-revenue-in-2020-and-the-next-2-years-are-looking-worse-166749/" aria-label="Read more about Universities lost 6% of their revenue in 2020 — and the next 2 years are looking worse">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brigid Magner, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, RMIT University Shutterstock Audiobook listening has been called a “silent revolution” in the publishing industry over the last decade. The US audiobook market is estimated to be worth US$1.1 billion annually and is growing at a rate of more than ... <a title="Yes, audiobooks count as ‘real reading’. Here are 3 top titles to get you started" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/30/yes-audiobooks-count-as-real-reading-here-are-3-top-titles-to-get-you-started-166097/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, audiobooks count as ‘real reading’. Here are 3 top titles to get you started">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney To cover up the humiliating defeat for the United States and its allies in Afghanistan, the Anglo-American media is spinning tales of a great “humanitarian” airlift to save Afghani women from assumed brutality when the Taliban consolidate their power across Afghanistan. But, at the United Nations Human Rights Council ... <a title="West spins ‘humanitarian’ tale over Afghanistan, China talks up war crimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/30/west-spins-humanitarian-tale-over-afghanistan-china-talks-up-war-crimes/" aria-label="Read more about West spins ‘humanitarian’ tale over Afghanistan, China talks up war crimes">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Megan Darby A suicide bombing near Kabul airport on Thursday added another dimension to the chaos in Afghanistan as Western forces rush to complete their evacuation. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the blasts that killed at least 175 people, including 13 US soldiers, challenging the Taliban’s hold on the capital. Either group is ... <a title="Who speaks for Afghans? Climate realities with the Taliban takeover" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/29/who-speaks-for-afghans-climate-realities-with-the-taliban-takeover/" aria-label="Read more about Who speaks for Afghans? Climate realities with the Taliban takeover">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health and Aged Care Program, Grattan Institute National Cabinet met on Friday after a week of intensifying debate about the vaccination thresholds in the national plan for reopening the nation. While expectations for the meeting were high, there was no showdown — at least ... <a title="National Cabinet leaves us in the dark about reopening the nation, so we’re left joining the dots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/28/national-cabinet-leaves-us-in-the-dark-about-reopening-the-nation-so-were-left-joining-the-dots-166887/" aria-label="Read more about National Cabinet leaves us in the dark about reopening the nation, so we’re left joining the dots">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Schuijers, Research Fellow in Environmental Law, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock This week was another big one in the land of climate litigation. On Thursday, a New South Wales court compelled the state Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to take stronger action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ... <a title="Bushfire survivors just won a crucial case against the NSW environmental watchdog, putting other states on notice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/27/bushfire-survivors-just-won-a-crucial-case-against-the-nsw-environmental-watchdog-putting-other-states-on-notice-166820/" aria-label="Read more about Bushfire survivors just won a crucial case against the NSW environmental watchdog, putting other states on notice">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Michelle Grattan discusses the week in politics with University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher. This week the pair discuss the terror attack in Kabul as Australia wraps up it’s Afghanistan evacuation efforts, as well as Craig Kelly’s candidacy with ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Kabul, Craig Kelly, and vaccination rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/27/video-michelle-grattan-on-kabul-craig-kelly-and-vaccination-rates-166885/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Kabul, Craig Kelly, and vaccination rates">Read more</a>
