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September 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia As world leaders have gathered for the UN General Assembly in New York this week, there has been uncertainty over who should be representing Myanmar. Since a coup on February 1, Myanmar’s military has argued it is the legitimate ... <a title="Two governments claim to run Myanmar. So, who gets the country’s seat at the UN?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/two-governments-claim-to-run-myanmar-so-who-gets-the-countrys-seat-at-the-un-167885/" aria-label="Read more about Two governments claim to run Myanmar. So, who gets the country’s seat at the UN?">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Devaki Monani, Lecturer, Social Work, Charles Darwin University Shutterstock During COVID-19 we’ve seen racism and discrimination against migrant and refugee communities erode trust between them and authorities. So as the Delta variant spreads, we must find ways to build that trust. With greater trust, we can improve ... <a title="Building trust with migrant and refugee communities is crucial for public health measures to work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/building-trust-with-migrant-and-refugee-communities-is-crucial-for-public-health-measures-to-work-167180/" aria-label="Read more about Building trust with migrant and refugee communities is crucial for public health measures to work">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Data and Analysis by Keith Rankin. The table below uses raw-death data published downloaded from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-death-count to predict what death numbers would have occurred in 2020 and 2021 had there been no Covid19 pandemic. The actual death numbers are compared with the predicted (counterfactual) numbers to calculated excess deaths. These countries are sorted from the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Data Analysis – Table of Excess Deaths from Covid19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/keith-rankin-data-analysis-table-of-excess-deaths-from-covid19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Data Analysis – Table of Excess Deaths from Covid19">Read more</a>
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September 24, 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 Modelling dispute, Govt Covid strategy RNZ: Modeller stands by government’s Covid-19 data release ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 24 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-24-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 24 2021">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Johnston, Professor and Dean of Science, UNSW For 16 years, German chancellor Angela Merkel has guided her country through wave after wave of uncertainty, from the 2008 global financial crisis to Brexit, the imperative to drop fossil fuels, and of course the COVID pandemic. Her leadership ... <a title="Angela Merkel’s career shows why we need more scientists in politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/angela-merkels-career-shows-why-we-need-more-scientists-in-politics-168365/" aria-label="Read more about Angela Merkel’s career shows why we need more scientists in politics">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Klugman, Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University On the last Saturday of September every year many of the inhabitants of Melbourne, and indeed of the whole of ... <a title="On the eve of an AFLM grand final like no other, can the shadow of the pandemic make us strive for something better?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/on-the-eve-of-an-aflm-grand-final-like-no-other-can-the-shadow-of-the-pandemic-make-us-strive-for-something-better-167792/" aria-label="Read more about On the eve of an AFLM grand final like no other, can the shadow of the pandemic make us strive for something better?">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jess Coyle, Lecturer, Sports Management, Western Sydney University This article discusses colonial violence against First Nations peoples. There is reference to people who are now deceased. There has been a new revelation by researcher Gary Fearon that cricketer and founding father of Australian (Rules) Football Tom Wills ... <a title="Tom Wills’ story is the AFL’s opportunity for truth telling about its ugly history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/tom-wills-story-is-the-afls-opportunity-for-truth-telling-about-its-ugly-history-168381/" aria-label="Read more about Tom Wills’ story is the AFL’s opportunity for truth telling about its ugly history">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mathew Doidge, Senior Research Fellow, University of Canterbury Shutterstock From a distance, the big news about Germany’s coming election on September 26 is the end of Angela Merkel’s reign after 16 years of leadership in Germany and Europe. Closer up, with no clear front-runner to take Merkel’s ... <a title="German election: the race to replace Angela Merkel and why it matters to New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/german-election-the-race-to-replace-angela-merkel-and-why-it-matters-to-new-zealand-168379/" aria-label="Read more about German election: the race to replace Angela Merkel and why it matters to New Zealand">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hamish McCallum, Director, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been hotly debated. This debate has caused substantial difficulties in the Australia-China relationship, with a call by Foreign Minister Marise Payne for ... <a title="New preliminary evidence suggests coronavirus jumped from animals to humans multiple times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/new-preliminary-evidence-suggests-coronavirus-jumped-from-animals-to-humans-multiple-times-168473/" aria-label="Read more about New preliminary evidence suggests coronavirus jumped from animals to humans multiple times">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy N. W. Jackson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Venom Research Unit, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock It’s early spring in southern Australia and the sun is, gloriously, out. You decide to head to your local patch of greenery – by the creek, lake, or foreshore – with ... <a title="The sun’s shining and snakes are emerging, but they’re not out to get you. Here’s what they’re really up to" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/the-suns-shining-and-snakes-are-emerging-but-theyre-not-out-to-get-you-heres-what-theyre-really-up-to-168089/" aria-label="Read more about The sun’s shining and snakes are emerging, but they’re not out to get you. Here’s what they’re really up to">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Shutterstock World leaders and about 30,000 others from assorted interest groups will converge on Glasgow in November for the United Nations’ 26th annual climate summit, COP26 (“Conference of the Parties”). It will be five years (allowing for a one-year Tokyo 2020-style ... <a title="Vital Signs: a simple way to cut carbon emissions — don’t let polluters hide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/vital-signs-a-simple-way-to-cut-carbon-emissions-dont-let-polluters-hide-168560/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: a simple way to cut carbon emissions — don’t let polluters hide">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bishop, Postdoctoral Fellow, Macquarie University Missionary Annie Lock with Enbarda (Betsy) left, and Dolly Cumming, both children from the Alice Springs area in Central Australia. Photo taken in Darwin. National Archives of Australia Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander readers are advised this story contains images of ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Annie Lock was a bolshie, outspoken Australian missionary, full of contradictions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/hidden-women-of-history-annie-lock-was-a-bolshie-outspoken-australian-missionary-full-of-contradictions-167781/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Annie Lock was a bolshie, outspoken Australian missionary, full of contradictions">Read more</a>
