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September 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Logan, Lecturer of Civil Systems Engineering, University of Canterbury Getty Images If you live in a city or town, you have a mental map of the places you travel to most. But how accessible are those places, and how long does it take you to get ... <a title="NZ’s most walkable towns and cities ranked: see how your neighbourhood stacks up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/05/nzs-most-walkable-towns-and-cities-ranked-see-how-your-neighbourhood-stacks-up-189383/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s most walkable towns and cities ranked: see how your neighbourhood stacks up">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Griffin, Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The University of Queensland Unsplash/CDC Regulators in Australia and the United States last week approved Omicron-specific boosters, following approval in the United Kingdom in mid-August. In Australia, a Moderna Omicron booster has been provisionally approved for use in adults ... <a title="Better COVID vaccines are on the way. What do they do? And what technology might we see in future?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/05/better-covid-vaccines-are-on-the-way-what-do-they-do-and-what-technology-might-we-see-in-future-189531/" aria-label="Read more about Better COVID vaccines are on the way. What do they do? And what technology might we see in future?">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leonora Risse, Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University Lukas Coch/AAP The last time an Australian government hosted a national jobs summit, only one woman was present. It was 1983, and that woman was Susan Ryan, a minister in the Hawke government and the trailblazing architect of the ... <a title="How the jobs summit shifted gender equality from the sidelines to the mainstream" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/04/how-the-jobs-summit-shifted-gender-equality-from-the-sidelines-to-the-mainstream-189869/" aria-label="Read more about How the jobs summit shifted gender equality from the sidelines to the mainstream">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Phillips, Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University You wouldn’t know it from the pages of our daily newspapers, but the rate of growth in rents has been pretty modest. Not everywhere, not for everyone, ... <a title="Rent crisis? Average rents are increasing less than you might think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/04/rent-crisis-average-rents-are-increasing-less-than-you-might-think-189154/" aria-label="Read more about Rent crisis? Average rents are increasing less than you might think">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nancy Baxter, Professor and Head of Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, The University of Melbourne From Friday September 9, the isolation requirements for people with COVID and no symptoms will be cut from seven days to five days. Masks will no longer be required on ... <a title="Cutting COVID isolation and mask mandates will mean more damage to business and health in the long run" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/03/cutting-covid-isolation-and-mask-mandates-will-mean-more-damage-to-business-and-health-in-the-long-run-189862/" aria-label="Read more about Cutting COVID isolation and mask mandates will mean more damage to business and health in the long run">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily Roycroft, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian National University A hopping mouse from the arid desert of Australia (Notomys). Hopping mice have evolved highly efficient kidneys to deal with the low water environments of Australia’s deserts. David Paul/Museums Victoria A single, pregnant rodent floating on driftwood across the ... <a title="‘Impressive rafting skills’: the 8-million-year old origin story of how rodents colonised Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/03/impressive-rafting-skills-the-8-million-year-old-origin-story-of-how-rodents-colonised-australia-189793/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Impressive rafting skills’: the 8-million-year old origin story of how rodents colonised Australia">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Conversation The jobs and skills summit, which concluded on Friday, has been a highly-managed exercise by the Albanese government in maximising policy and political productivity. The government went into the meeting knowing, broadly, the key initiatives it intended to ... <a title="View from The Hill: Summit triggers immediate action and elevates gender equality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/02/view-from-the-hill-summit-triggers-immediate-action-and-elevates-gender-equality-189883/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Summit triggers immediate action and elevates gender equality">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Gleeson-White, Associate Professor in American Literature, University of Sydney Joseph Mayers/Sydney Theatre Company Review: A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Wesley Enoch for the Sydney Theatre Company. It is hard to believe the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning A Raisin in the ... <a title="Sydney Theatre Company’s A Raisin in the Sun is an enormous achievement with superb cast, direction and staging" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/02/sydney-theatre-companys-a-raisin-in-the-sun-is-an-enormous-achievement-with-superb-cast-direction-and-staging-187430/" aria-label="Read more about Sydney Theatre Company’s A Raisin in the Sun is an enormous achievement with superb cast, direction and staging">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Curtis Ho, Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Tasmania SpaceX, CC BY-NC Many around the world will watch eagerly this Saturday as NASA launches Artemis I, the agency’s first Moon exploration mission since the 1970s. The spectacle involves the most powerful rocket in the world: the Space Launch ... <a title="It’s not just rocket science – hidden chemistry powers Moon launches and sustains life in space" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/02/its-not-just-rocket-science-hidden-chemistry-powers-moon-launches-and-sustains-life-in-space-189773/" aria-label="Read more about It’s not just rocket science – hidden chemistry powers Moon launches and sustains life in space">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Horvath, Senior lecturer, La Trobe University Little remains of the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader and one of the greatest reformers in Russian history. In the name of “glasnost” (openness) and “perestroika” (restructuring), Gorbachev dismantled totalitarianism, abolished censorship, freed hundreds of political prisoners, ... <a title="Why Gorbachev’s legacy still threatens Putin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/02/why-gorbachevs-legacy-still-threatens-putin-189778/" aria-label="Read more about Why Gorbachev’s legacy still threatens Putin">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato GettyImages With only six days left for submissions to the select committee examining the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill, it is becoming clear this crucial piece of legislation has some significant shortcomings. These will need attention before it ... <a title="The merger of TVNZ and RNZ needs to build trust in public media – 3 things the law change must get right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/02/the-merger-of-tvnz-and-rnz-needs-to-build-trust-in-public-media-3-things-the-law-change-must-get-right-189769/" aria-label="Read more about The merger of TVNZ and RNZ needs to build trust in public media – 3 things the law change must get right">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Nolan, Professor of Law and Justice and Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW Sydney Mark Schiefelbein/AP The Chinese regime’s treatment of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups in the province of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, says a long-awaited report from the Office ... <a title="UN report on Xinjiang abuses leaves no room for plausible deniability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/02/un-report-on-xinjiang-abuses-leaves-no-room-for-plausible-deniability-189795/" aria-label="Read more about UN report on Xinjiang abuses leaves no room for plausible deniability">Read more</a>
