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November 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Moulds, Senior Lecturer of Law, University of South Australia Don’t want to take a COVID test, wear a mask or get vaccinated? It’s pretty easy to find advice telling you you’re legally entitled to say no. Unfortunately, this advice is very bad. The COVID-conspiracy ginger group ... <a title="No, that’s not the law: the danger of using pseudolegal arguments against COVID-19 rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/no-thats-not-the-law-the-danger-of-using-pseudolegal-arguments-against-covid-19-rules-170630/" aria-label="Read more about No, that’s not the law: the danger of using pseudolegal arguments against COVID-19 rules">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Blumhardt, Senior Associate at the Institute of Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Shutterstock/Brian Scantlebury The New Zealand government is currently developing plans to address two crises — climate change and waste — and to embrace a circular economy. But ... <a title="NZ’s government plans to switch to a circular economy to cut waste and emissions, but it’s going around in the wrong circles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/nzs-government-plans-to-switch-to-a-circular-economy-to-cut-waste-and-emissions-but-its-going-around-in-the-wrong-circles-170704/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s government plans to switch to a circular economy to cut waste and emissions, but it’s going around in the wrong circles">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Dooley, Research Fellow, Climate & Energy College, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock At the Glasgow COP26 climate talks overnight, Australia and 123 other countries signed an agreement promising to end deforestation by 2030. The declaration’s signatories, which include global deforestation hotspots such as Brazil, Indonesia and ... <a title="COP26: global deforestation deal will fail if countries like Australia don’t lift their game on land clearing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/cop26-global-deforestation-deal-will-fail-if-countries-like-australia-dont-lift-their-game-on-land-clearing-171108/" aria-label="Read more about COP26: global deforestation deal will fail if countries like Australia don’t lift their game on land clearing">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sophie H Li, Senior Clinical Research Manager and Clinical Psychologist, UNSW Shutterstock Daily updates of COVID case numbers have been part of our pandemic lives. These numbers are reported, analysed and widely shared. They’re conversation starters, and with good reason. Until recently, daily numbers had direct consequences. ... <a title="How to stop fixating on the daily COVID numbers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/how-to-stop-fixating-on-the-daily-covid-numbers-170279/" aria-label="Read more about How to stop fixating on the daily COVID numbers">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
A View from Afar - In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will discuss two issues: the evolution of new generation attack drones; and the COP26 meeting in Glasgow this week. Specifically, Buchanan and Manning will unpack: Whether Geopolitics has railroaded a broad-based consensus of climate interventionism. Why Russia and China abandoned the Cop26 multilateral forum?
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November 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Graves, Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University The genome of the spiny-tailed monitor is divided up into 8 big macochromosomes and 10 tiny microchromosomes huddled in the middle. Jason Dobry, Author provided If you look at cells from a human or ... <a title="Specks of dust on the microscope slide? No, we are looking at the building blocks of our genome" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/specks-of-dust-on-the-microscope-slide-no-we-are-looking-at-the-building-blocks-of-our-genome-168784/" aria-label="Read more about Specks of dust on the microscope slide? No, we are looking at the building blocks of our genome">Read more</a>
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November 3, 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 management of Delta outbreak Ian Powell (BusinessDesk): The politics of pandemic traffic ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 03 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-03-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 03 2021">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Coall, Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University www.shutterstock.com As border restrictions lift, family reunions are being planned around Australia. This is an exciting but also uncertain time, particularly for grandparents who have been separated from grandchildren. Over the past months (and in some cases, years), grandchildren will ... <a title="Should I take a gift? As borders open, how to prepare for reuniting with your grandkids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/should-i-take-a-gift-as-borders-open-how-to-prepare-for-reuniting-with-your-grandkids-169731/" aria-label="Read more about Should I take a gift? As borders open, how to prepare for reuniting with your grandkids">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Donald Angstetra, Adjunct Associate Professor, Bond University Shutterstock Doctors are under increased pressure today – with hospitals and health settings under strain, extra COVID safety protocols in place, and patients fraught with worry. Many doctors will be working long hours under stressful conditions, after years of gruelling ... <a title="True grit – we measured it and found it protected doctors from career burnout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/true-grit-we-measured-it-and-found-it-protected-doctors-from-career-burnout-170628/" aria-label="Read more about True grit – we measured it and found it protected doctors from career burnout">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cayne Layton, Postdoctoral fellow and lecturer, University of Tasmania Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, CC BY Australia’s vital kelp forests are disappearing in many areas as our waters warm and our climate changes. While we wait for rapid action to slash carbon emissions – including the ... <a title="Can selective breeding of ‘super kelp’ save our cold water reefs from hotter seas?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/can-selective-breeding-of-super-kelp-save-our-cold-water-reefs-from-hotter-seas-170271/" aria-label="Read more about Can selective breeding of ‘super kelp’ save our cold water reefs from hotter seas?">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dawn LaValle Norman, Research Fellow and ARC DECRA Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University Attributed to Onesimos (Greek (Attic), active 500 – 480 B.C.) Attic Red-Figure Kylix, about 490 B.C. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California As the philosopher and ... <a title="Philosophy and sex work: how courtesans in Ancient Greece crossed the mind/body divide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/philosophy-and-sex-work-how-courtesans-in-ancient-greece-crossed-the-mind-body-divide-168940/" aria-label="Read more about Philosophy and sex work: how courtesans in Ancient Greece crossed the mind/body divide">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Robert McLachlan, Massey University As the Glasgow climate summits gets underway, New Zealand’s government has announced a revised pledge, with a headline figure of a 50 percent reduction on gross 2005 emissions by the end of this decade. This looks good on the surface, but the substance of this new commitment, known as ... <a title="COP26: New Zealand’s new climate pledge is a step up, but not a ‘fair share’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/cop26-new-zealands-new-climate-pledge-is-a-step-up-but-not-a-fair-share/" aria-label="Read more about COP26: New Zealand’s new climate pledge is a step up, but not a ‘fair share’">Read more</a>
