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November 2, 2021
RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the New Zealand government wants to lift vaccination rates and wants to remove anything that is a barrier to getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible. Ardern and Māori-Crown Relations Minister Kelvin Davis, who is also the MP for Te Tai Tokerau, are in Northland viewing ... <a title="PM Jacinda Ardern moves covid media conference after conspiracy heckling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/pm-jacinda-ardern-moves-covid-media-conference-after-conspiracy-heckling/" aria-label="Read more about PM Jacinda Ardern moves covid media conference after conspiracy heckling">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News climate reporter A New Zealand Pasifika climate activist has told the UN climate meeting that young Pacific people are not victims of climate change but beacons of hope. The first day of the Leaders Summit is wrapping up at COP26 in Glasgow. Environmental advocate for Samoa Brianna Fruean said Pacific ... <a title="Pasifika climate activist’s cry to COP: ‘We’re not drowning, we’re fighting’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/pasifika-climate-activists-cry-to-cop-were-not-drowning-were-fighting/" aria-label="Read more about Pasifika climate activist’s cry to COP: ‘We’re not drowning, we’re fighting’">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
By Marysilla Kellerton in Port Moresby Demonstrators gathered in Port Moresby yesterday for a march to Parliament in protest over the covid-19 vaccines, which they claimed wrongly to be mandatory, a day after Papua New Guinean police warned such gatherings were illegal. The protest was a result of a post circulating on social media about ... <a title="PNG police block illegal anti-vaxxer rally in Port Moresby amid fake info" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/png-police-block-illegal-anti-vaxxer-rally-in-port-moresby-amid-fake-info/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police block illegal anti-vaxxer rally in Port Moresby amid fake info">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
By Lian Buan in Manila The Philippine Court of Appeals (CA) has finally granted overseas travel to Rappler CEO and Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa, who will be in the United States for the entire month of November to deliver a series of lectures at the Harvard Kennedy School in Boston. Ressa filed the request on ... <a title="After winning Nobel, Maria Ressa allowed to travel to US for lectures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/after-winning-nobel-maria-ressa-allowed-to-travel-to-us-for-lectures/" aria-label="Read more about After winning Nobel, Maria Ressa allowed to travel to US for lectures">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University Robb1037/Shutterstock The Reserve Bank of Australia had a Cup Day surprise in store for the country, announcing it was abandoning its policy of “yield curve control”, meaning it was no longer going to defend any particular interest rate for borrowing ... <a title="Australia’s Reserve Bank signals the end of ultra-cheap money. Here’s what it will mean" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/australias-reserve-bank-signals-the-end-of-ultra-cheap-money-heres-what-it-will-mean-170928/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s Reserve Bank signals the end of ultra-cheap money. Here’s what it will mean">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Threadgold, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Newcastle www.shutterstock.com Young people are often blamed for making irresponsible choices with money. But the real issue is not whether they eat too many expensive cafe breakfasts. Young Australians today face an uncertain job market, rising university fees and astronomical ... <a title="‘Similar to ordering a pizza’: how buy now, pay later apps influence young people’s spending" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/similar-to-ordering-a-pizza-how-buy-now-pay-later-apps-influence-young-peoples-spending-170024/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Similar to ordering a pizza’: how buy now, pay later apps influence young people’s spending">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Perutskyi Petro/Shutterstock Ten years ago, in the lead-up to Australia’s short-lived carbon price or “carbon tax” (either description is valid), the deepest fear on the part of businesses was that they would lose out to ... <a title="Australia is about to be hit by a carbon tax whether the prime minister likes it or not, except the proceeds will go overseas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/australia-is-about-to-be-hit-by-a-carbon-tax-whether-the-prime-minister-likes-it-or-not-except-the-proceeds-will-go-overseas-170959/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is about to be hit by a carbon tax whether the prime minister likes it or not, except the proceeds will go overseas">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Boulter, Associate professor of climate adaptation, University of Tasmania One of the four main goals of the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow is how the world adapts to protect communities and habitats. And in Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s policy hand luggage is a new adaptation plan ... <a title="Australia has taken a new climate adaptation blueprint to Glasgow. It’s a good start but we need money and detail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/australia-has-taken-a-new-climate-adaptation-blueprint-to-glasgow-its-a-good-start-but-we-need-money-and-detail-170879/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has taken a new climate adaptation blueprint to Glasgow. It’s a good start but we need money and detail">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick O’Leary, Professor, Co-Lead of the Disrupting Violence Beacon and Director of Violence Research and Prevention Program, Griffith Criminology Institute and School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Griffith University Felipe Dana/AP Months after the Taliban’s return in Afghanistan, there are grave concerns about the state of ... <a title="With catastrophe looming, the world cannot turn its back on Afghanistan’s children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/with-catastrophe-looming-the-world-cannot-turn-its-back-on-afghanistans-children-168377/" aria-label="Read more about With catastrophe looming, the world cannot turn its back on Afghanistan’s children">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
Influenza et.al.; charting normal to see Covid19 in context Analysis by Keith Rankin. So much of our analysis of the public health impact of Covid19 has been taken out of context. The officially reported case data are incomplete, and take little account of how these health impacts deviate from normal, or even what ‘normal’ is. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Influenza context for covid deaths in selected countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-influenza-context-for-covid-deaths-in-selected-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Influenza context for covid deaths in selected countries">Read more</a>
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November 2, 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 Covid management Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Auckland level 3, step 2 decision spells ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 02 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-02-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 02 2021">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Russell, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, CQUniversity Australia The Melbourne Cup is supposed to be the “race that stops a nation”. But among increasing community concern about gambling and animal welfare, does it stop us for the right reasons? As Cup Day dawns at Flemington, how is our ... <a title="Is the Melbourne Cup still the race that stops the nation – or are we saying #nuptothecup?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/is-the-melbourne-cup-still-the-race-that-stops-the-nation-or-are-we-saying-nuptothecup-170801/" aria-label="Read more about Is the Melbourne Cup still the race that stops the nation – or are we saying #nuptothecup?">Read more</a>
