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November 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona McGaughey, Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights Law, University of Western Australia From “fast fashion” to tinned tuna to the components in your mobile phone, what guarantee do you have the goods you buy are slave-free? The Australian government has taken a step forward by just ... <a title="Australia’s world-first repository of ‘modern slavery statements’ a step in the right direction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/australias-world-first-repository-of-modern-slavery-statements-a-step-in-the-right-direction-151029/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s world-first repository of ‘modern slavery statements’ a step in the right direction">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olga Kokshagina, Researcher – Innovation & Entrepreneurship, RMIT University How well we distribute and administer a COVID-19 vaccine will have massive health, social and economic ramifications. So attention is turning to vaccine supply chains and logistics. Designing how best to vaccinate billions of people worldwide is complex. ... <a title="We modelled how a COVID vaccine roll-out would work. Here’s what we found" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/we-modelled-how-a-covid-vaccine-roll-out-would-work-heres-what-we-found-150544/" aria-label="Read more about We modelled how a COVID vaccine roll-out would work. Here’s what we found">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Huw Griffiths, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Sydney Review: Sydney Theatre Company’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, directed by Kip Williams Australian theatres are slowly coming back to life. And, with Kip Williams’ exuberantly inventive adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel, The Picture of Dorian ... <a title="The Picture of Dorian Grey review: Eryn Jean Norvill stuns in all 26 roles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/the-picture-of-dorian-grey-review-eryn-jean-norvill-stuns-in-all-26-roles-150165/" aria-label="Read more about The Picture of Dorian Grey review: Eryn Jean Norvill stuns in all 26 roles">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mubashar Hasan, Adjunct Research Fellow, Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative, Western Sydney University Australian academic Kylie-Moore Gilbert is finally free and back home. The Melbourne university academic was unjustly deprived of her liberties for 804 days for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She ... <a title="Kylie Moore-Gilbert is one of hundreds of victims of state attacks on academic freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/kylie-moore-gilbert-is-one-of-hundreds-of-victims-of-state-attacks-on-academic-freedom-151088/" aria-label="Read more about Kylie Moore-Gilbert is one of hundreds of victims of state attacks on academic freedom">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne This week’s Newspoll will presumably be the final one for 2020. It gives the Coalition a 51-49% two-party-preferred lead, unchanged from three weeks ago. Primary votes were 43% Coalition (steady), 36% Labor (up one), 11% ... <a title="Morrison remains very popular in Newspoll as the Coalition easily retains Groom in byelection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/morrison-remains-very-popular-in-newspoll-as-the-coalition-easily-retains-groom-in-byelection-151094/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison remains very popular in Newspoll as the Coalition easily retains Groom in byelection">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University The recurring metaphor of New Zealand as “experiment” or “social laboratory” might go back to the 1890s, but it continues to resonate in the 21st century. Australian political journalist Laura Tingle has revived the venerable ... <a title="What Australia can learn from New Zealand: a new perspective on that tricky trans-Tasman relationship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/what-australia-can-learn-from-new-zealand-a-new-perspective-on-that-tricky-trans-tasman-relationship-151017/" aria-label="Read more about What Australia can learn from New Zealand: a new perspective on that tricky trans-Tasman relationship">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2020
By Katarina Williams, a senior reporter of Stuff Stuff has introduced a new company charter with Te Tiriti o Waitangi at its core, after a major internal investigation uncovered evidence of racism and marginalisation against Māori. The media organisation issued an historic public apology today following the Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono investigation which saw ... <a title="Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: Stuff introduces new Treaty of Waitangi based charter following historic apology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/our-truth-ta-matou-pono-stuff-introduces-new-treaty-of-waitangi-based-charter-following-historic-apology/" aria-label="Read more about Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: Stuff introduces new Treaty of Waitangi based charter following historic apology">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Maguire, Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle Earlier in 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he expected the COVID-19 vaccine to be mandatory. He later backtracked, noting the government “can’t hold someone down and make them take it”. But should it ... <a title="Can governments mandate a COVID vaccination? Balancing public health with human rights – and what the law says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/can-governments-mandate-a-covid-vaccination-balancing-public-health-with-human-rights-and-what-the-law-says-150733/" aria-label="Read more about Can governments mandate a COVID vaccination? Balancing public health with human rights – and what the law says">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Troy McDonald, Chairman of Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge For the first time in Victoria’s history, the state government has handed back water to traditional owners, giving them rights to a river system they have managed sustainably for thousands of years. The two billion ... <a title="Victoria just gave 2 billion litres of water back to Indigenous people. Here’s what that means for the rest of Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/victoria-just-gave-2-billion-litres-of-water-back-to-indigenous-people-heres-what-that-means-for-the-rest-of-australia-150674/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria just gave 2 billion litres of water back to Indigenous people. Here’s what that means for the rest of Australia">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Gelber, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, The University of Queensland The federal government has been applying somewhat of a forensic lens to the question of free speech in Australian universities for several years. Most recently, as part of a package of deals cobbled together in ... <a title="University free speech bill a sop to Pauline Hanson and other critics, but what difference will it make?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/university-free-speech-bill-a-sop-to-pauline-hanson-and-other-critics-but-what-difference-will-it-make-150449/" aria-label="Read more about University free speech bill a sop to Pauline Hanson and other critics, but what difference will it make?">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne Incentives, the Freakonomics author Steven Levitt once quipped, are the “cornerstone of modern life”. To this I would add: only if the incentive is big enough. In Australia at present there is considerable support for increasing the JobSeeker unemployment ... <a title="New finding: boosting JobSeeker wouldn’t keep Australians away from paid work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/new-finding-boosting-jobseeker-wouldnt-keep-australians-away-from-paid-work-150454/" aria-label="Read more about New finding: boosting JobSeeker wouldn’t keep Australians away from paid work">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roland Sussex, Professor Emeritus, The University of Queensland Language is like archaeology. It lays down evidence for following generations to excavate and write PhD theses about. Layers of the stuff. And such has been the language of the year of COVID. Not surprisingly, COVID has spawned an ... <a title="‘Rona’, ‘iso’, ‘quazza’ — words of the year speak to our Australian take on COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/30/rona-iso-quazza-words-of-the-year-speak-to-our-australian-take-on-covid-150949/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Rona’, ‘iso’, ‘quazza’ — words of the year speak to our Australian take on COVID">Read more</a>
