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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shelley Marshall, Associate Professor and Director of the RMIT Business and Human Rights Centre, RMIT University For over six weeks, Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners have been performing continuous cultural ceremony at the edge of Adani’s Carmichael mine in central Queensland. Leah Light Photography In a shift ... <a title="When native title fails: First Nations people are turning to human rights law to keep access to cultural sites" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/when-native-title-fails-first-nations-people-are-turning-to-human-rights-law-to-keep-access-to-cultural-sites-169634/" aria-label="Read more about When native title fails: First Nations people are turning to human rights law to keep access to cultural sites">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
By Gill Bonnett, RNZ News immigration reporter Pacific leaders say offering “visas for vaccinations’ would be the ultimate incentive for New Zealand overstayers to get the covid-19 jab, as Auckland struggles to stop delta variant infections spreading through the community. It comes as epidemiologists say the government needs to pull out all the stops to ... <a title="Vax for visas: ‘Overstayers would come out of woodwork’, say Pacific leaders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/vax-for-visas-overstayers-would-come-out-of-woodwork-say-pacific-leaders/" aria-label="Read more about Vax for visas: ‘Overstayers would come out of woodwork’, say Pacific leaders">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
RNZ Pacific A Pacific public health expert says a premature transition of covid-19 restrictions in New Zealand could be lethal for Māori and Pasifika communities. The government is under increasing pressure to ease restrictions in Auckland with National saying it would set a six-week deadline for ending lockdowns and that a target of 85-90 percent ... <a title="Early easing of covid restrictions ‘could be lethal for Māori/Pasifika’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/early-easing-of-covid-restrictions-could-be-lethal-for-maori-pasifika/" aria-label="Read more about Early easing of covid restrictions ‘could be lethal for Māori/Pasifika’">Read more</a>
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October 22, 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 Trade Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): Geopolitics behind NZ-UK free trade deal Liam Dann: ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 22 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-22-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 22 2021">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven W. Salisbury, PhD; Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland Anthony Romilio, Author provided Ipswich, about 40 kilometres west of Brisbane, seems an unlikely place to find dinosaur fossils. Yet the area has produced the oldest evidence of dinosaurs in Australia. A fresh ... <a title="Australia’s oldest dinosaur was a peaceful vegetarian, not a fierce predator" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/australias-oldest-dinosaur-was-a-peaceful-vegetarian-not-a-fierce-predator-170275/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s oldest dinosaur was a peaceful vegetarian, not a fierce predator">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naama Carlin, Lecturer, UNSW Shutterstock Mateship is an intrinsic part of Australian society, routinely discussed as an important national value. In 1999, Prime Minister John Howard even attempted to include mateship in the constitutional preamble. But despite its ubiquity in Australian culture, what does mateship mean to ... <a title="Mateship might sound blokey, but our research shows women value it more highly than men" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/mateship-might-sound-blokey-but-our-research-shows-women-value-it-more-highly-than-men-169154/" aria-label="Read more about Mateship might sound blokey, but our research shows women value it more highly than men">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute This morning, Melburnians are waking up to the end of the city’s sixth lockdown. Since March 2020, Melbourne has spent more time in lockdown than any other city in the world. It’s been a long and arduous journey for ... <a title="As Melbourne cautiously opens up today, what lies ahead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/as-melbourne-cautiously-opens-up-today-what-lies-ahead-170206/" aria-label="Read more about As Melbourne cautiously opens up today, what lies ahead?">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Lee, Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University Shutterstock Cancelled dance parties, festivals and other events have shaped how Australians use alcohol and other drugs during the pandemic. Now restrictions are easing, some people who have not used alcohol or other drugs recently ... <a title="Forgotten how to party? Safety tips from a drug and alcohol expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/forgotten-how-to-party-safety-tips-from-a-drug-and-alcohol-expert-170007/" aria-label="Read more about Forgotten how to party? Safety tips from a drug and alcohol expert">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wesley Morgan, Researcher, Climate Council, and Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University The Pacific Islands are at the frontline of climate change. But as rising seas threaten their very existence, these tiny nation states will not be submerged without a fight. For decades this group has ... <a title="Glasgow showdown: Pacific Islands demand global leaders bring action, not excuses, to UN summit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/glasgow-showdown-pacific-islands-demand-global-leaders-bring-action-not-excuses-to-un-summit-169649/" aria-label="Read more about Glasgow showdown: Pacific Islands demand global leaders bring action, not excuses, to UN summit">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janet Dutton, Senior Lecturer, Secondary English, Macquarie University Shutterstock Generations of students sitting exams would know what Australian poet Joanne Burns means when she writes of the fear of failure when expressing ideas. they don’t come out of your mouth in smooth formation very often […] you ... <a title="Write what you know: the COVID experience is a rich resource for year 12 English exams" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/write-what-you-know-the-covid-experience-is-a-rich-resource-for-year-12-english-exams-170264/" aria-label="Read more about Write what you know: the COVID experience is a rich resource for year 12 English exams">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Andy Wong/AP China’s economic momentum is slowing. Official figures published this week show GDP growth in the last quarter came in at annual rate of “just” 4.9%. This compares with 7.9% annualised GDP growth for the previous quarter. I say “just” ... <a title="Vital Signs: slower Chinese economic growth inevitable without internal reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/vital-signs-slower-chinese-economic-growth-inevitable-without-internal-reform-170277/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: slower Chinese economic growth inevitable without internal reform">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janet McCalman AC, Emeritus Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, The University of Melbourne John Skinner Prout’s 1849 painting of the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart, Van Dieman’s Land, where Alexandrina bore an illegitimate child. Wikimedia Commons In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. “A ... <a title="Hidden women of history: how ‘lady swindler’ Alexandrina Askew triumphed over the convict stain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/hidden-women-of-history-how-lady-swindler-alexandrina-askew-triumphed-over-the-convict-stain-169023/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: how ‘lady swindler’ Alexandrina Askew triumphed over the convict stain">Read more</a>
