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November 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ellie Martus, Lecturer in Public Policy, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University Former US president Barack Obama took specific aim at Russia at the Glasgow COP26 climate talks this week. According to Obama, the fact Russian President Vladimir Putin (as well as Chinese President Xi ... <a title="Can climate laggards change? Russia, like Australia, first needs to overcome significant domestic resistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/10/can-climate-laggards-change-russia-like-australia-first-needs-to-overcome-significant-domestic-resistance-170461/" aria-label="Read more about Can climate laggards change? Russia, like Australia, first needs to overcome significant domestic resistance">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Coghlan, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne Tumisu/Pixabay Universities are increasingly using computer programs to supervise university students sitting their exams. Is this the future of testing? Due to the ... <a title="Unis are using artificial intelligence to keep students sitting exams honest. But this creates its own problems" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/10/unis-are-using-artificial-intelligence-to-keep-students-sitting-exams-honest-but-this-creates-its-own-problems-170708/" aria-label="Read more about Unis are using artificial intelligence to keep students sitting exams honest. But this creates its own problems">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Stead, Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Shutterstock I met Elisabeth the day she learned she was being sent back to Vanuatu. She had arrived in Shepparton, in north-central Victoria, two months earlier. She was meant to stay for six ... <a title="Australia needs better working conditions, not shaming, for Pacific Islander farm workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/10/australia-needs-better-working-conditions-not-shaming-for-pacific-islander-farm-workers-171404/" aria-label="Read more about Australia needs better working conditions, not shaming, for Pacific Islander farm workers">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University ABC TV Review: Preppers, created by Nakkiah Lui and Gabriel Dowrick, ABC TV A sophisticated multi-layered critique of colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy with an all-star Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cast ... <a title="Preppers is a deep reading of colonial violence – and a hilarious, must-watch Aussie TV comedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/10/preppers-is-a-deep-reading-of-colonial-violence-and-a-hilarious-must-watch-aussie-tv-comedy-170100/" aria-label="Read more about Preppers is a deep reading of colonial violence – and a hilarious, must-watch Aussie TV comedy">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Heyward, Head of Initial Teacher Education, University of Auckland Shutterstock The news that all staff members at a small King Country school were still unvaccinated a week out from the government’s November 15 mandatory deadline underlines how challenging the weeks ahead might be. Next Monday marks ... <a title="How do NZ’s vaccinated teachers have those hard conversations with their anti-vax colleagues?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/10/how-do-nzs-vaccinated-teachers-have-those-hard-conversations-with-their-anti-vax-colleagues-171474/" aria-label="Read more about How do NZ’s vaccinated teachers have those hard conversations with their anti-vax colleagues?">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk As world leaders meet in Glasgow for the UN Climate Summit (COP26), peaceful environmental activists are being threatened, silenced and criminalised around the world. The host nation Scotland for this year’s meeting is one of many countries where activists are regularly facing rights violations. New research from the CIVICUS Monitor looks ... <a title="Crackdown on environmental activism as climate crisis worsens, says report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/10/crackdown-on-environmental-activism-as-climate-crisis-worsens-says-report/" aria-label="Read more about Crackdown on environmental activism as climate crisis worsens, says report">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2021
RNZ News Thousands of protesters turned up at New Zealand’s Parliament today, demanding an end to covid restrictions, while another group blocked Auckland’s northern boundary this morning. Meanwhile, 125 new cases were reported and experts commented on the traffic light system. Here is a summary of today’s covid-19 developments. Protesters were out in force today ... <a title="NZ anti-vax protests, firefighters given vaccine mandate – 125 new cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/10/nz-anti-vax-protests-firefighters-given-vaccine-mandate-125-new-cases/" aria-label="Read more about NZ anti-vax protests, firefighters given vaccine mandate – 125 new cases">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra AAP Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Wednesday announce $500 million towards a new $1 billion fund to promote investment in Australian companies to develop low-emissions technologies. But the government will use the legislation for the fund to try to ... <a title="Morrison to link $500 million for new technologies to easing way for carbon capture and storage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/10/morrison-to-link-500-million-for-new-technologies-to-easing-way-for-carbon-capture-and-storage-171528/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison to link $500 million for new technologies to easing way for carbon capture and storage">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Lee, Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University Shutterstock As part of a Halloween-inspired campaign, the Australian Federal Police has released a series of ill-advised memes attempting to highlight the “lesser-known impacts” of illicit drug use. The campaign demonstrates a skewed and overly ... <a title="The police’s new scare campaign won’t stop people from using drugs. But it will increase stigma" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/09/the-polices-new-scare-campaign-wont-stop-people-from-using-drugs-but-it-will-increase-stigma-171303/" aria-label="Read more about The police’s new scare campaign won’t stop people from using drugs. But it will increase stigma">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND, CC BY At the risk of being political – and politics is important, it will determine how we are governed for the next three years – economic conditions could scarcely ... <a title="Economically, 2022 looks like an ideal time for a government to land re-election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/09/economically-2022-looks-like-an-ideal-time-for-a-government-to-land-re-election-171406/" aria-label="Read more about Economically, 2022 looks like an ideal time for a government to land re-election">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. WITH versus OF versus FROM Last year the Government was careful to count anybody who died with a Covid19-positive status as a Covid19 death. Now we keep hearing about such deaths which the government is saying will need to be referred to the coroner before we can establish what they died ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Covid19 Death Semantics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/09/keith-rankin-essay-covid19-death-semantics/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Covid19 Death Semantics">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as Michelle Grattan’s usual interviews with experts and politicians about the news of the day, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where all things political will be discussed with members of The Conversation’s politics ... <a title="Word from The Hill: Scott Morrison has decided electric cars won’t threaten Aussie weekends" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/09/word-from-the-hill-scott-morrison-has-decided-electric-cars-wont-threaten-aussie-weekends-171493/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: Scott Morrison has decided electric cars won’t threaten Aussie weekends">Read more</a>
