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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madeline Gleeson, Senior Research Fellow, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW This week marks nine years since Australia re-introduced a policy of offshore processing for asylum seekers arriving by boat. Nine long years of a cruel, costly and ineffective policy sustained by successive ... <a title="Cruel, costly and ineffective: Australia’s offshore processing asylum seeker policy turns 9" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/cruel-costly-and-ineffective-australias-offshore-processing-asylum-seeker-policy-turns-9-166014/" aria-label="Read more about Cruel, costly and ineffective: Australia’s offshore processing asylum seeker policy turns 9">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Torok, Honorary Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first instalment of their sixth assessment report. As expected, the report makes for bleak reading. It found all regions of the world are already ... <a title="Communicating climate change has never been so important, and this IPCC report pulls no punches" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/communicating-climate-change-has-never-been-so-important-and-this-ipcc-report-pulls-no-punches-165252/" aria-label="Read more about Communicating climate change has never been so important, and this IPCC report pulls no punches">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Plank, Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury Shutterstock/53NT Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has released a “roadmap” for a phased process of border reopenings that could begin during the first quarter of next year — as long as New Zealand completes its vaccination rollout by the ... <a title="Phased border reopening, faster vaccination, be ready for Delta: Jacinda Ardern lays out NZ’s COVID roadmap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/phased-border-reopening-faster-vaccination-be-ready-for-delta-jacinda-ardern-lays-out-nzs-covid-roadmap-165957/" aria-label="Read more about Phased border reopening, faster vaccination, be ready for Delta: Jacinda Ardern lays out NZ’s COVID roadmap">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Wenn, Tutor in Production (Technical), The University of Melbourne Shutterstock How does music get onto a cassette tape? — Paul, age 9, Adelaide Hi Paul! That’s a great question. To answer it very briefly, music is recorded onto a cassette tape using electricity and a magnetic ... <a title="Curious Kids: how does music get onto a cassette tape?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/curious-kids-how-does-music-get-onto-a-cassette-tape-165759/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how does music get onto a cassette tape?">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eddie Clark, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington www.shutterstock.com Given all parliamentary parties have said they oppose conversion practices being performed on LGBTQ+ people, you could be forgiven for wondering why the first reading of the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation ... <a title="Why New Zealand’s proposed law banning gay conversion practices is so unlikely to criminalise parents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/why-new-zealands-proposed-law-banning-gay-conversion-practices-is-so-unlikely-to-criminalise-parents-165740/" aria-label="Read more about Why New Zealand’s proposed law banning gay conversion practices is so unlikely to criminalise parents">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics, Monash University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Writer C.R Read cautioned in 1853 “that Englishmen going to the Australian digging should search their souls and ask themselves ‘if they can stand a little colonial slang’”. This slang – our Australian slang – ... <a title="Yeah, nah: Aussie slang hasn’t carked it, but we do want to know more about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/yeah-nah-aussie-slang-hasnt-carked-it-but-we-do-want-to-know-more-about-it-165746/" aria-label="Read more about Yeah, nah: Aussie slang hasn’t carked it, but we do want to know more about it">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute Shutterstock In the wake of the Tokyo Olympics, another international scorecard has been released, and Australia does well here too. The US-based Commonwealth Fund conducts regular surveys of health care in 11 countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New ... <a title="How does Australia’s health system rate internationally? This year it wins bronze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/how-does-australias-health-system-rate-internationally-this-year-it-wins-bronze-165805/" aria-label="Read more about How does Australia’s health system rate internationally? This year it wins bronze">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Downie, Associate professor, Australian National University Shutterstock This week’s landmark report on the state of the climate paints a sobering picture. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that, without deep and immediate cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, the world is very likely headed for ... <a title="Fossil fuel misinformation may sideline one of the most important climate change reports ever released" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/fossil-fuel-misinformation-may-sideline-one-of-the-most-important-climate-change-reports-ever-released-165887/" aria-label="Read more about Fossil fuel misinformation may sideline one of the most important climate change reports ever released">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharon Bessell, Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University www.shutterstock.com As the pandemic swept the globe in 2020, Australia stood out as a model for how to contain the virus and support its citizens. A year later, Australia is struggling with vaccination ... <a title="Australia was a model for protecting people from COVID-19 — and then we dumped half a million people back into poverty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/australia-was-a-model-for-protecting-people-from-covid-19-and-then-we-dumped-half-a-million-people-back-into-poverty-165813/" aria-label="Read more about Australia was a model for protecting people from COVID-19 — and then we dumped half a million people back into poverty">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katrina Dernelley, PhD Candidate in History, La Trobe University, La Trobe University S. T. Gill, 34. Iron Bark Eagle Hawk, in Original Sketches, 1844-1866. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. In February 1852, 46-year-old ... <a title="Hidden women of history: how mother of 8, Mary Anne Allen, made do on the goldfields amid gunshots, rain and sly grog" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/hidden-women-of-history-how-mother-of-8-mary-anne-allen-made-do-on-the-goldfields-amid-gunshots-rain-and-sly-grog-161354/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: how mother of 8, Mary Anne Allen, made do on the goldfields amid gunshots, rain and sly grog">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
By Trevor Wahune in Port Moresby A five-man Supreme Court bench has quashed by a majority decision National Court temporary orders that have stayed the death sentence of 14 prisoners on death row in Papua New Guinea. The court ruled that the lower court lacked jurisdiction at the time to commence the proceedings on its ... <a title="Court lifts temporary block to PNG executions after 70 years – 14 to die" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/court-lifts-temporary-block-to-png-executions-after-70-years-14-to-die/" aria-label="Read more about Court lifts temporary block to PNG executions after 70 years – 14 to die">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Speaker Job Pomat walked into an empty chamber of Papua New Guinea’s Parliament after the bell was rung about 2pm yesterday, declared a lack of quorum, and left — reportedly disappointed that MPs were late again. It is understood that government MPs were held up in a caucus meeting ... <a title="Parliamentarians ‘no show’ in PNG – session adjourned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/parliamentarians-no-show-in-png-session-adjourned/" aria-label="Read more about Parliamentarians ‘no show’ in PNG – session adjourned">Read more</a>
