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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jared Mondschein, Senior Research Fellow, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney US President Joe Biden has nominated Caroline Kennedy as the next US Ambassador to Australia. This follows months of speculation that Kennedy would be given a high-profile ambassadorial role, possibly to Australia. It also fills an ... <a title="Caroline Kennedy is an ideal US Ambassador and a huge compliment to Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/caroline-kennedy-is-an-ideal-us-ambassador-and-a-huge-compliment-to-australia-173906/" aria-label="Read more about Caroline Kennedy is an ideal US Ambassador and a huge compliment to Australia">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Caldwell, Clinical Psychologist and Researcher, The University of Queensland Shutterstock You walk into a room. You are going to play a game. Your competitors? Other parents. There will only be one winner. You aim is to survive. No, we’re not talking about Squid Game but Channel ... <a title="Your kid is having a meltdown in the supermarket. In tough parenting moments, here’s what you can do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/your-kid-is-having-a-meltdown-in-the-supermarket-in-tough-parenting-moments-heres-what-you-can-do-171935/" aria-label="Read more about Your kid is having a meltdown in the supermarket. In tough parenting moments, here’s what you can do">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Taylor Coyne, Doctoral Candidate, UNSW “We know we can do better than this, don’t we?” This line sits towards the concluding paragraphs of Country: Future Fire, Future Farming, by Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian activist and author Bruce Pascoe and non-Indigenous historian Bill Gammage. The book is part ... <a title="Book Review: Country is an urgent call to learn from Indigenous knowledges to care for the land" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/book-review-country-is-an-urgent-call-to-learn-from-indigenous-knowledges-to-care-for-the-land-172142/" aria-label="Read more about Book Review: Country is an urgent call to learn from Indigenous knowledges to care for the land">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government has given itself a massive “war chest” for spending in the run-up to next year’s election, the budget update released on Thursday reveals. The Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) shows $15.9 billion in expenditure “decisions taken ... <a title="Fydenberg’s MYEFO Budget update shows big election war chest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/fydenbergs-myefo-budget-update-shows-big-election-war-chest-173905/" aria-label="Read more about Fydenberg’s MYEFO Budget update shows big election war chest">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Savulescu, Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford Shutterstock Unvaccinated mother, 27, dies with coronavirus as her father calls for fines for people who refuse jab. This is ... <a title="Shaming unvaccinated people has to stop. We’ve turned into an angry mob and it’s getting ugly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/shaming-unvaccinated-people-has-to-stop-weve-turned-into-an-angry-mob-and-its-getting-ugly-173137/" aria-label="Read more about Shaming unvaccinated people has to stop. We’ve turned into an angry mob and it’s getting ugly">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Savulescu, Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford Shutterstock Unvaccinated mother, 27, dies with coronavirus as her father calls for fines for people who refuse jab. This is ... <a title="Shaming unvaccinated people has to stop. We’ve turned into a lynch mob and it’s getting ugly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/shaming-unvaccinated-people-has-to-stop-weve-turned-into-a-lynch-mob-and-its-getting-ugly-173137/" aria-label="Read more about Shaming unvaccinated people has to stop. We’ve turned into a lynch mob and it’s getting ugly">Read more</a>
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December 16, 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 finances, economy, govt subsidies Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Two political fault lines ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 16 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-16-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 16 2021">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shayne McGregor, Associate Professor, and Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Monash University Shutterstock Severe coastal flooding inundated islands and atolls across the western equatorial Pacific last week, with widespread damage to buildings and food crops in the Federated States of Micronesia, ... <a title="La Niña just raised sea levels in the western Pacific by up to 20cm. This height will be normal by 2050" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/la-nina-just-raised-sea-levels-in-the-western-pacific-by-up-to-20cm-this-height-will-be-normal-by-2050-173504/" aria-label="Read more about La Niña just raised sea levels in the western Pacific by up to 20cm. This height will be normal by 2050">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allan Fels, Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne Lukas Coch/AAP The proposed appointment of Gina Cass-Gottlieb as chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) next year is welcome, as is the appointment of Liza Carver as ACCC enforcement commissioner. If approved by a majority of ... <a title="Allan Fels: As ACCC chair, Gina Cass-Gottlieb will put the public interest first, despite years of fighting for business" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/allan-fels-as-accc-chair-gina-cass-gottlieb-will-put-the-public-interest-first-despite-years-of-fighting-for-business-173736/" aria-label="Read more about Allan Fels: As ACCC chair, Gina Cass-Gottlieb will put the public interest first, despite years of fighting for business">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Thiele, Adjunct Assoc. Professor, The University of Western Australia John Tann/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA “What’s in a name?”, asked Juliet of Romeo. “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But, as with the Montagues and Capulets, names mean a ... <a title="Hibbert’s flowers and Hitler’s beetle – what do we do when species are named after history’s monsters?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/hibberts-flowers-and-hitlers-beetle-what-do-we-do-when-species-are-named-after-historys-monsters-172602/" aria-label="Read more about Hibbert’s flowers and Hitler’s beetle – what do we do when species are named after history’s monsters?">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Hensher, Associate Professor of Health Systems Financing & Organisation, Deakin University Shutterstock Over the past two years, we’ve learned COVID-19 survivors can develop a range of longer-term symptoms we now call “long COVID”. This includes people who did not have severe illness initially. Such longer-term symptoms ... <a title="We calculated the impact of ‘long COVID’ as Australia opens up. Even without Omicron, we’re worried" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/we-calculated-the-impact-of-long-covid-as-australia-opens-up-even-without-omicron-were-worried-168662/" aria-label="Read more about We calculated the impact of ‘long COVID’ as Australia opens up. Even without Omicron, we’re worried">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Smith, Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University The current string of COVID-19 outbreaks in Aboriginal communities in remote areas of the Northern Territory will only get worse if the NT government opens its borders on December 20, as planned. The ... <a title="‘They should have a roadblock’: why the NT must delay opening its border to protect First Nations people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/they-should-have-a-roadblock-why-the-nt-must-delay-opening-its-border-to-protect-first-nations-people-171734/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They should have a roadblock’: why the NT must delay opening its border to protect First Nations people">Read more</a>
