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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick van Esch, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, AUT Business School, Auckland University of Technology The latest poll shows a drop in support by New Zealanders for the recreational use of cannabis ahead of next month’s referendum on the issue. The 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton Poll found only ... <a title="Undecided on the cannabis referendum: 10 pros and cons of legalising the drug" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/undecided-on-the-cannabis-referendum-10-pros-and-cons-of-legalising-the-drug-146399/" aria-label="Read more about Undecided on the cannabis referendum: 10 pros and cons of legalising the drug">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre; Associate Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Arts, Monash University There are increasing calls to making coercive control a criminal offence across Australia. The NSW Labor opposition has proposed a bill to criminalise coercive control, with a ten ... <a title="Australia is not ready to criminalise coercive control — here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/australia-is-not-ready-to-criminalise-coercive-control-heres-why-146929/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is not ready to criminalise coercive control — here’s why">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tess Newton Cain, Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University On October 4, the people of New Caledonia will go to the polls. For the second time in the past two years, they will be asked if they wish to remain a part of France or ... <a title="New Caledonians will vote again on independence. Will the answer this time be ‘Oui’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/new-caledonians-will-vote-again-on-independence-will-the-answer-this-time-be-oui-146101/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonians will vote again on independence. Will the answer this time be ‘Oui’?">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graziella Caprarelli, Adjunct Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland In 2018 a team of Italian scientists announced to the world that there was a lake on Mars. Using satellite radar data, the team detected a very bright area approximately 20 kilometres across located about 1.5 kilometres deep ... <a title="Buried lakes of salty water on Mars may provide conditions for life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/buried-lakes-of-salty-water-on-mars-may-provide-conditions-for-life-146928/" aria-label="Read more about Buried lakes of salty water on Mars may provide conditions for life">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Strangio, Associate Professor of Politics, Monash University We have long been accustomed in Australia to the Commonwealth’s pre-eminence over the states and prime ministers dwarfing premiers. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has given us a practical reminder of the extensive day-to-day powers that still sit with state ... <a title="Andrews under fire: why an activist premier’s greatest challenges may yet lie ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/andrews-under-fire-why-an-activist-premiers-greatest-challenges-may-yet-lie-ahead-146838/" aria-label="Read more about Andrews under fire: why an activist premier’s greatest challenges may yet lie ahead">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vasso Apostolopoulos, Professor of Immunology and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research Partnerships, Victoria University Vaccines are traditionally administered with a needle, but this isn’t the only way. For example, certain vaccines can be delivered orally, as a drop on the tongue, or via a jet-like device. Vaccines that appear ... <a title="A COVID-19 vaccine may come without a needle, the latest vaccine to protect without jabbing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/a-covid-19-vaccine-may-come-without-a-needle-the-latest-vaccine-to-protect-without-jabbing-146564/" aria-label="Read more about A COVID-19 vaccine may come without a needle, the latest vaccine to protect without jabbing">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew G. Allen, Professor of Development Studies, The University of the South Pacific This week, 156 people from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, an island in Papua New Guinea, petitioned the Australian government to investigate Rio Tinto over a copper mine that devastated their homeland. In 1988, ... <a title="A brutal war and rivers poisoned with every rainfall: how one mine destroyed an island" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/a-brutal-war-and-rivers-poisoned-with-every-rainfall-how-one-mine-destroyed-an-island-147092/" aria-label="Read more about A brutal war and rivers poisoned with every rainfall: how one mine destroyed an island">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Kidson, Lecturer in Educational Leadership, University of Wollongong Some Australian private schools have reported lower interest from prospective parents due to the financial pressures of COVID-19. A number of Victorian school principals have also called on the state government to re-open borders to international students. They ... <a title="Some private schools need to change their models — they were losing students even before COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/some-private-schools-need-to-change-their-models-they-were-losing-students-even-before-covid-146745/" aria-label="Read more about Some private schools need to change their models — they were losing students even before COVID">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland The economic crises that have punctuated the 21st century, most notably the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 crisis, have led to a growing realisation that alternatives to our present system are possible and perhaps inevitable. In ... <a title="Meet the Liveable Income Guarantee: a budget-ready proposal that would prevent unemployment benefits falling off a cliff" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/meet-the-liveable-income-guarantee-a-budget-ready-proposal-that-would-prevent-unemployment-benefits-falling-off-a-cliff-146990/" aria-label="Read more about Meet the Liveable Income Guarantee: a budget-ready proposal that would prevent unemployment benefits falling off a cliff">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul S.C.Taçon, Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, has a remarkable range and number of rock art sites, rivalling that of Europe, southern Africa and various parts of Asia. ... <a title="Introducing the Maliwawa Figures: a previously undescribed rock art style found in Western Arnhem Land" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/introducing-the-maliwawa-figures-a-previously-undescribed-rock-art-style-found-in-western-arnhem-land-145535/" aria-label="Read more about Introducing the Maliwawa Figures: a previously undescribed rock art style found in Western Arnhem Land">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sommer Kapitan, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Auckland University of Technology If social media engagement rates determined which parties form the next government, New Zealand’s parliament would soon look a lot different. With its daily social media interactions commanding an average 7.7% engagement rate, Advance NZ (incorporating the ... <a title="Click, like, share, vote: who’s spending and who’s winning on social media ahead of New Zealand’s election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/click-like-share-vote-whos-spending-and-whos-winning-on-social-media-ahead-of-new-zealands-election-144486/" aria-label="Read more about Click, like, share, vote: who’s spending and who’s winning on social media ahead of New Zealand’s election">Read more</a>
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October 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University New Zealanders are polarised on climate change policy, according to a recent Stuff/Massey University survey of 55,000 readers. This puts the two major political parties in a difficult position as they seek options that are credible yet appealing to ... <a title="NZ election 2020: survey shows voters are divided on climate policy and urgency of action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/01/nz-election-2020-survey-shows-voters-are-divided-on-climate-policy-and-urgency-of-action-146569/" aria-label="Read more about NZ election 2020: survey shows voters are divided on climate policy and urgency of action">Read more</a>
