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August 11, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Lawyer and human rights activist Veronica Koman has spoken out about the worsening health of Papuan activist Victor Yeimo who has been detained at the Mobile Brigade command headquarters detention centre (Rutan Mako Brimob) for the last three months, reports Suara Papua. “Victor Yeimo will not be safe if he remains ... <a title="Lawyer Veronica Koman joins calls to free Papuan activist Victor Yeimo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/lawyer-veronica-koman-joins-calls-to-free-papuan-activist-victor-yeimo/" aria-label="Read more about Lawyer Veronica Koman joins calls to free Papuan activist Victor Yeimo">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this episode, politics + society editor Amanda Dunn ... <a title="Podcast with Michelle Grattan: A reprimand for Christensen and Morrison on climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/podcast-with-michelle-grattan-a-reprimand-for-christensen-and-morrison-on-climate-165904/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast with Michelle Grattan: A reprimand for Christensen and Morrison on climate">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has dissociated himself from the views of his maverick backbencher George Christensen, who on Tuesday flatly rejected measures to contain COVID and played down the seriousness of the disease. “I don’t agree with him,” Joyce said. ... <a title="View from The Hill: Barnaby Joyce repudiates Christensen’s COVID misinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/view-from-the-hill-barnaby-joyce-repudiates-christensens-covid-misinformation-165889/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Barnaby Joyce repudiates Christensen’s COVID misinformation">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Lukas Coch/AAP I remember the acute frustration of watching one of the US news feeds on September 11, 2001 — 20 years ago next month. With the stricken twin towers smoking away in the background, the news anchors ... <a title="With the release of a terrifying IPCC report, Australia must face its wilful political blindness on climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/with-the-release-of-a-terrifying-ipcc-report-australia-must-face-its-wilful-political-blindness-on-climate-165868/" aria-label="Read more about With the release of a terrifying IPCC report, Australia must face its wilful political blindness on climate">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Archa Fox, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia Australia’s medical regulator has provisionally approved another COVID-19 vaccine, Moderna, for use in Australia. One million doses of Moderna are due in the second half of September and three million doses a month will ... <a title="What do I need to know about the Moderna vaccine? And how does it compare with Pfizer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/what-do-i-need-to-know-about-the-moderna-vaccine-and-how-does-it-compare-with-pfizer-165537/" aria-label="Read more about What do I need to know about the Moderna vaccine? And how does it compare with Pfizer?">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John P. de New, Professorial Fellow (Professor of Economics), The University of Melbourne The COVID-19 Delta variant has changed the vaccination game in Australia. With outbreaks resulting in a prolonged lockdown for Sydney as well as shorter periods for other states, the proportion of Australians vaccinated has ... <a title="Our survey results show incentives aren’t enough to reach a 80% vaccination rate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/our-survey-results-show-incentives-arent-enough-to-reach-a-80-vaccination-rate-165728/" aria-label="Read more about Our survey results show incentives aren’t enough to reach a 80% vaccination rate">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
RNZ News The climate is changing, faster than we thought – and humans have caused it. Last night, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the most comprehensive report on climate change ever – with hundreds of scientists taking part. It says human activity is “unequivocally” driving the warming of atmosphere, ocean and ... <a title="IPCC report: ‘Last gasp’ warning on climate response for NZ, the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/ipcc-report-last-gasp-warning-on-climate-response-for-nz-the-world/" aria-label="Read more about IPCC report: ‘Last gasp’ warning on climate response for NZ, the world">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Michael Grose, CSIRO; Joelle Gergis, Australian National University; Pep Canadell, CSIRO, and Roshanka Ranasinghe Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen for thousands of years and may warm by 4℃ or more this century, according to the highly anticipated report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The assessment, released ... <a title="Climate change has already hit. Unless we act now, a hotter, drier and more dangerous future awaits, IPCC warns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/climate-change-has-already-hit-unless-we-act-now-a-hotter-drier-and-more-dangerous-future-awaits-ipcc-warns/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change has already hit. Unless we act now, a hotter, drier and more dangerous future awaits, IPCC warns">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Steven Ratuva The frequent detention and questioning of some of Fiji’s political leaders by the police late last month for merely engaging in public debate on the contentious iTaukei Land Trust Bill No. 17 has raised questions about Fiji’s claim to be a champion of human rights. All this has happened when the ... <a title="Steven Ratuva: Repression not the answer to Fiji’s political dilemma" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/steven-ratuva-repression-not-the-answer-to-fijis-political-dilemma/" aria-label="Read more about Steven Ratuva: Repression not the answer to Fiji’s political dilemma">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Thomson, Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research Shutterstock One-on-one online tutoring for disadvantaged students has proved highly effective in helping them overcome their struggles with literacy and numeracy. The Smith Family, the national children’s education charity, recently completed a small pilot of the program, ... <a title="‘I was astonished at how quickly they made gains’: online tutoring helps struggling students catch up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/i-was-astonished-at-how-quickly-they-made-gains-online-tutoring-helps-struggling-students-catch-up-165821/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I was astonished at how quickly they made gains’: online tutoring helps struggling students catch up">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University Kaitlyn Baker/Unsplash, CC BY-SA As the appointed hour for tonight’s census approaches, the question on many lips is: will it go smoothly, or will it be a repeat of the infamous 2016 #Censusfail? Australians may remember ... <a title="Why it’s unlikely there will be another #Censusfail tonight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/why-its-unlikely-there-will-be-another-censusfail-tonight-165806/" aria-label="Read more about Why it’s unlikely there will be another #Censusfail tonight">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Stephenson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith University “Do you know how many LGBTIQ+ folks live in Australia? It turns out no one does, and we’re not about to find out in the upcoming census.” Courtney Act, an Australian drag queen and television ... <a title="LGBTIQ+ people are being ignored in the census again. Not only is this discriminatory, it’s bad public policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/lgbtiq-people-are-being-ignored-in-the-census-again-not-only-is-this-discriminatory-its-bad-public-policy-165800/" aria-label="Read more about LGBTIQ+ people are being ignored in the census again. Not only is this discriminatory, it’s bad public policy">Read more</a>
