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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jodie Bailie, Research Fellow, The University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney Disasters like flooding can worsen social inequalities around health and housing. For people with disability, however, the effect can be especially profound. Research led by the University of Sydney’s University Centre for Rural Health ... <a title="Floods can worsen inequality. Here are 4 ways we can ensure people with disabilities aren’t left behind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/floods-can-worsen-inequality-here-are-4-ways-we-can-ensure-people-with-disabilities-arent-left-behind-157959/" aria-label="Read more about Floods can worsen inequality. Here are 4 ways we can ensure people with disabilities aren’t left behind">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joan Henderson, Senior Research Fellow (Hon). Editor, Health Information Management Journal (HIMJ), University of Sydney The Australian government has appointed the commercial company HealthEngine to establish a national booking system for COVID-19 vaccinations. Selected through a Department of Health limited select tender process, the platform is being ... <a title="How safe are your data when you book a COVID vaccine?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/how-safe-are-your-data-when-you-book-a-covid-vaccine-157869/" aria-label="Read more about How safe are your data when you book a COVID vaccine?">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marina Deller, PhD Candidate, Flinders University Brittany Higgins has signed a book deal with Penguin Random House Australia. Not just any book — a memoir. Higgins says her book will be a chance to tell “a firsthand account of what it was like surviving a media storm ... <a title="Brittany Higgins’ memoir will join a powerful Australian collection reclaiming women’s stories of trauma. Here are four" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/brittany-higgins-memoir-will-join-a-powerful-australian-collection-reclaiming-womens-stories-of-trauma-here-are-four-158960/" aria-label="Read more about Brittany Higgins’ memoir will join a powerful Australian collection reclaiming women’s stories of trauma. Here are four">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Barratt, Lecturer, Centre for Work + Wellbeing, Edith Cowan University Menulog, Australia’s second-largest food ordering and delivery platform, has declared it will break with the standard “gig platform” business model and engage some of its couriers as employees, not independent contractors. “We owe it to our ... <a title="Did somebody say workers’ rights? Three big questions about Menulog’s employment plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/did-somebody-say-workers-rights-three-big-questions-about-menulogs-employment-plan-158942/" aria-label="Read more about Did somebody say workers’ rights? Three big questions about Menulog’s employment plan">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nareen Young, Industry Professor, Jumbunna Institute of Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney The spotlight is once again on bullying and unfair treatment at work. Former Australia Post CEO, Christine Holgate, this week said she had been “bullied out of my job […] humiliated and driven ... <a title="If bullying can happen to Christine Holgate at the highest level, then what happens to other women at work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/if-bullying-can-happen-to-christine-holgate-at-the-highest-level-then-what-happens-to-other-women-at-work-158956/" aria-label="Read more about If bullying can happen to Christine Holgate at the highest level, then what happens to other women at work?">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By William Camacaro New York “There will be some who will remember Ramsey Clark as an outsider. There are many more who remember him as a friend of justice, the oppressed, the exploited, and the rule of law. Perhaps he himself would like to be remembered merely as ... <a title="Ramsey Clark: An Essential Voice of Dissidence from the Center of U.S. Power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/ramsey-clark-an-essential-voice-of-dissidence-from-the-center-of-u-s-power/" aria-label="Read more about Ramsey Clark: An Essential Voice of Dissidence from the Center of U.S. Power">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Freeland, Professorial Fellow, Bond University / Emeritus Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University, Western Sydney University Space is getting crowded. More than 100 million tiny pieces of debris are spinning in Earth orbit, along with tens of thousands of bigger chunks and around 3,300 functioning ... <a title="It’s not how big your laser is, it’s how you use it: space law is an important part of the fight against space debris" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/its-not-how-big-your-laser-is-its-how-you-use-it-space-law-is-an-important-part-of-the-fight-against-space-debris-158790/" aria-label="Read more about It’s not how big your laser is, it’s how you use it: space law is an important part of the fight against space debris">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Whittaker, Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and/or images of deceased people. Five Aboriginal people have died in custody in the last month in Australia. It’s been 30 years since the 1991 Royal Commission ... <a title="Indigenous deaths in custody: inquests can be sites of justice or administrative violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/indigenous-deaths-in-custody-inquests-can-be-sites-of-justice-or-administrative-violence-158126/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous deaths in custody: inquests can be sites of justice or administrative violence">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Archa Fox, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Western Australia The world’s first mRNA vaccines — the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna — have made it in record time from the laboratory, through successful clinical trials, regulatory approval and into people’s arms. The high ... <a title="3 mRNA vaccines researchers are working on (that aren’t COVID)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/3-mrna-vaccines-researchers-are-working-on-that-arent-covid-157858/" aria-label="Read more about 3 mRNA vaccines researchers are working on (that aren’t COVID)">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Will Steffen, Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University In May 2011, almost precisely a decade ago, the government-appointed Climate Commission released its inaugural report. Titled The Critical Decade, the report’s final section warned that to keep global temperature rises to 2℃ this ... <a title="‘Failure is not an option’: after a lost decade on climate action, the 2020s offer one last chance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/failure-is-not-an-option-after-a-lost-decade-on-climate-action-the-2020s-offer-one-last-chance-158913/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Failure is not an option’: after a lost decade on climate action, the 2020s offer one last chance">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Hubble, Associate Professor, University of Sydney Last month’s flood in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River region of western Sydney peaked at a staggering 12.9 metres, with water engulfing road signs and reaching the tops of many houses. There hasn’t been a major flood on the Hawkesbury-Nepean for more ... <a title="Sydney’s disastrous flood wasn’t unprecedented, and we can expect more major floods in just 10 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/sydneys-disastrous-flood-wasnt-unprecedented-and-we-can-expect-more-major-floods-in-just-10-years-158427/" aria-label="Read more about Sydney’s disastrous flood wasn’t unprecedented, and we can expect more major floods in just 10 years">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Ziguras, Professor of Global Studies, RMIT University Victorian universities recently re-proposed a previously conceived plan to get international students back under a similar model used to fly in tennis players for the Australian Open. Under the proposal, universities would help pay for around 1,000 foreign students ... <a title="The government keeps shelving plans to bring international students back to Australia. It owes them an explanation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/the-government-keeps-shelving-plans-to-bring-international-students-back-to-australia-it-owes-them-an-explanation-158778/" aria-label="Read more about The government keeps shelving plans to bring international students back to Australia. It owes them an explanation">Read more</a>
