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August 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Hoadley, Associate Professor, University of Auckland The question of whether New Zealand accepts some moral responsibility to help Afghans who worked with its armed forces has now been answered. But another question remains: will high ideals be brought to earth by political and practical obstacles? To ... <a title="As New Zealand mobilises to help in Afghanistan, its rescue response faces serious challenges" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/18/as-new-zealand-mobilises-to-help-in-afghanistan-its-rescue-response-faces-serious-challenges-166179/" aria-label="Read more about As New Zealand mobilises to help in Afghanistan, its rescue response faces serious challenges">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Urgent medical resources are being dispatched to western NSW in a vaccination and support drive after the alarming spread of COVID into Aboriginal communities there. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the first of five Australian Defence Force vaccination teams will ... <a title="Medical dash as COVID spreads among Indigenous people in western NSW" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/18/medical-dash-as-covid-spreads-among-indigenous-people-in-western-nsw-166279/" aria-label="Read more about Medical dash as COVID spreads among Indigenous people in western NSW">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stuart Ralph, Associate Professor and malaria researcher, The University of Melbourne Daniel Pockett/AAP Governments around the world have enacted unprecedented responses to minimise the spread of COVID to preserve both individual health and health systems. In enacting these responses, governments have repeatedly used rhetoric invoking notions of ... <a title="Using military language and presence might not be the best approach to COVID and public health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/17/using-military-language-and-presence-might-not-be-the-best-approach-to-covid-and-public-health-166019/" aria-label="Read more about Using military language and presence might not be the best approach to COVID and public health">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Graphic pictures of mayhem confront the world as desperate Afghans attempt to flee their country, after the Taliban’s seizure of Kabul. Australia’s moral responsibly to evacuate people who assisted the Australian Defence Force, and may now face Taliban retribution, has ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Anthony Albanese says Afghans in Australia should be given permanent residency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/17/politics-with-michelle-grattan-anthony-albanese-says-afghans-in-australia-should-be-given-permanent-residency-166280/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Anthony Albanese says Afghans in Australia should be given permanent residency">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Plank, Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announcing New Zealand’s nationwide level 4 lockdown on Tuesday evening. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images New Zealanders are back in their bubbles after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a three day alert level 4 lockdown for ... <a title="After its first suspected Delta variant community case, New Zealand goes into short, sharp nationwide lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/17/after-its-first-suspected-delta-variant-community-case-new-zealand-goes-into-short-sharp-nationwide-lockdown-166276/" aria-label="Read more about After its first suspected Delta variant community case, New Zealand goes into short, sharp nationwide lockdown">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nematullah Bizhan, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Development Policy Centre, Australian National University, and Senior Research Associate with the Global Economic Governance Program, Oxford University, Australian National University Two days ago, a close friend in Afghanistan told me Kabul seems like a graveyard. Silenced. Helpless. And ... <a title="‘I feel suffocated’: Afghans are feeling hopeless, but there’s still a chance to preserve some rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/17/i-feel-suffocated-afghans-are-feeling-hopeless-but-theres-still-a-chance-to-preserve-some-rights-166171/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I feel suffocated’: Afghans are feeling hopeless, but there’s still a chance to preserve some rights">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Crosby, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University Shutterstock With the launch of the Paramount+, Australian consumers of video streaming are arguably drowning in choice. We now have more than a dozen “subscription video on demand” services to choose from, with many dozens more options available worldwide ... <a title="The more video streaming services we get, the more we’ll turn to piracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/17/the-more-video-streaming-services-we-get-the-more-well-turn-to-piracy-166090/" aria-label="Read more about The more video streaming services we get, the more we’ll turn to piracy">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thalia Anthony, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney The 17 socioeconomic targets in the Closing the Gap report intend to reduce the incarceration rate of First Nations people. Despite this, according to the recent Productivity Commission update on the Closing the Gap targets, First Nations incarceration ... <a title="The role of ‘re-storying’ in addressing over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/17/the-role-of-re-storying-in-addressing-over-incarceration-of-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-peoples-163577/" aria-label="Read more about The role of ‘re-storying’ in addressing over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Reid, Professor Emeritus of Education, University of South Australia Shutterstock The education debate in Australia has, for some time now, been marred by the presence of a simple binary: explicit teaching, or direct instruction, versus inquiry-based learning. Simply put, explicit teaching is a structured sequence of ... <a title="Teachers use many teaching approaches to impart knowledge. Pitting one against another harms education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/17/teachers-use-many-teaching-approaches-to-impart-knowledge-pitting-one-against-another-harms-education-166178/" aria-label="Read more about Teachers use many teaching approaches to impart knowledge. Pitting one against another harms education">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Howard, Deputy Section Editor: Arts + Culture Mario Perez/HBO Freud and Nietzsche may not be what you have in mind when thinking of pool-side reads, but they are among the books flipped through in The White Lotus — the tense, new TV drama about the lives ... <a title="Freud, Nietzsche, Paglia, Fanon: our expert guide to the books of The White Lotus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/17/freud-nietzsche-paglia-fanon-our-expert-guide-to-the-books-of-the-white-lotus-166187/" aria-label="Read more about Freud, Nietzsche, Paglia, Fanon: our expert guide to the books of The White Lotus">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Higgins, Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Just hours after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Australia joined the international community in calling for the “safe and orderly departure of foreign nationals and Afghans who wish to leave the country”. The scenes at ... <a title="Afghan refugees can no longer wait — Australia must offer permanent protection now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/17/afghan-refugees-can-no-longer-wait-australia-must-offer-permanent-protection-now-166180/" aria-label="Read more about Afghan refugees can no longer wait — Australia must offer permanent protection now">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University JoeLogan/Shutterstock Buried within the prime minister’s response to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is just about everything we’re at risk of getting wrong at the Glasgow climate talks in October. ... <a title="Australia is at risk of taking the wrong tack at the Glasgow climate talks, and slamming China is only part of it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/17/australia-is-at-risk-of-taking-the-wrong-tack-at-the-glasgow-climate-talks-and-slamming-china-is-only-part-of-it-166154/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is at risk of taking the wrong tack at the Glasgow climate talks, and slamming China is only part of it">Read more</a>
