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October 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane McAdam AO, Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Melizabeth Uhi, a school principal, stands in front of her destroyed home in Vanuatu, a week after Cyclone Pam tore through the South Pacific archipelago in 2015. Nick Perry/AP As world ... <a title="Millions of people were evacuated during disasters last year – another rising cost of climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/millions-of-people-were-evacuated-during-disasters-last-year-another-rising-cost-of-climate-change-170105/" aria-label="Read more about Millions of people were evacuated during disasters last year – another rising cost of climate change">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olga Kokshagina, Researcher – Innovation & Entrepreneurship, RMIT University Matt Rourke/AP The Australian government’s recent warning to Facebook over misinformation is just the latest salvo in the seemingly constant battle to hold the social media giant to account for the content posted on its platform. It came ... <a title="Is it even possible to regulate Facebook effectively? Time and again, attempts have led to the same outcome" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/is-it-even-possible-to-regulate-facebook-effectively-time-and-again-attempts-have-led-to-the-same-outcome-169947/" aria-label="Read more about Is it even possible to regulate Facebook effectively? Time and again, attempts have led to the same outcome">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judith Brett, Emeritus Professor of Politics, La Trobe University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND The formation of Australia’s federation in 1901 was both practical and sentimental. Pressing policy matters in the areas of immigration, trade and defence required the coordination of a federal government. As important was ... <a title="COVID exposed our fractured national identity, but state-based loyalties were rising long before" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/covid-exposed-our-fractured-national-identity-but-state-based-loyalties-were-rising-long-before-170017/" aria-label="Read more about COVID exposed our fractured national identity, but state-based loyalties were rising long before">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margie Danchin, Paediatrician at the Royal Childrens Hospital and Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist, University of Melbourne and MCRI, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Shutterstock Vaccination rates across Australia continue to rise. Teenagers aged 12 to 15 have only had access to the vaccine since early September and, ... <a title="How to talk to your child about a COVID diagnosis … and share the news with others" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/how-to-talk-to-your-child-about-a-covid-diagnosis-and-share-the-news-with-others-170014/" aria-label="Read more about How to talk to your child about a COVID diagnosis … and share the news with others">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Johanna Nalau, Research Fellow, Climate Adaptation, Griffith University Shutterstock The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is widely discussed, but the other side of climate action is less often talked about: adapting to impacts already locked in. Even if we drastically reduce emissions, the cost of natural ... <a title="Australia ranks last out of 54 nations on its strategy to cope with climate change. The Glasgow summit is a chance to protect us all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/australia-ranks-last-out-of-54-nations-on-its-strategy-to-cope-with-climate-change-the-glasgow-summit-is-a-chance-to-protect-us-all-169627/" aria-label="Read more about Australia ranks last out of 54 nations on its strategy to cope with climate change. The Glasgow summit is a chance to protect us all">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Tietz, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, UNSW The person taking notes during our meeting, we later learn, is averaging a high distinction in their studies for a bachelor degree. If this level of performance is maintained this student is heading for a university medal – an ... <a title="How a maximum security prison offers a pathway to academic excellence and a PhD" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/how-a-maximum-security-prison-offers-a-pathway-to-academic-excellence-and-a-phd-169625/" aria-label="Read more about How a maximum security prison offers a pathway to academic excellence and a PhD">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Mackie, Professor of Classics, La Trobe University Aomawa Baker as Andromache in a production of The Trojan Woman in Los Angeles. Wikimedia Commons The story of the long struggle for the life of the city of Troy might be thought of as the pre-eminent Greek myth. ... <a title="Guide to the classics: Euripides’ The Trojan Women – an unflinching look at the brutality of war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/guide-to-the-classics-euripides-the-trojan-women-an-unflinching-look-at-the-brutality-of-war-162426/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the classics: Euripides’ The Trojan Women – an unflinching look at the brutality of war">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Cooper, Associate Professor of Law, University of Waikato Shutterstock Last week’s formal recognition by the United Nations Human Rights Council that the right to a healthy environment is an essential human right has been heralded as a historic victory for environmental protection and an important step ... <a title="How the new human right to a healthy environment could accelerate New Zealand’s action on climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/how-the-new-human-right-to-a-healthy-environment-could-accelerate-new-zealands-action-on-climate-change-170187/" aria-label="Read more about How the new human right to a healthy environment could accelerate New Zealand’s action on climate change">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Wardle, Professor of Public Health, Southern Cross University The natural or “alternative” health community is often held up as being vaccine hesitant. Yet, the relationship between the natural health community and vaccination is complex. Stories such as the Adelaide naturopath recently disciplined for using a newspaper ... <a title="Follow a natural health philosophy? Vaccination may have more in common with it than you think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/19/follow-a-natural-health-philosophy-vaccination-may-have-more-in-common-with-it-than-you-think-167981/" aria-label="Read more about Follow a natural health philosophy? Vaccination may have more in common with it than you think">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as Michelle Grattan’s usual interviews with experts and politicians about the news of the day, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where all things political will be discussed with members of The Conversations’s politics ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Mustering the government’s rural rump into the 2050 tent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/19/politics-with-michelle-grattan-mustering-the-governments-rural-rump-into-the-2050-tent-170218/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Mustering the government’s rural rump into the 2050 tent">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Few of us who have survived the last year aren’t grateful for technology. Zoom, email, connected workplaces and solid internet connections at home have made it possible to work, shop, study and carry on our ... <a title="The easy way to rein in Facebook and Google: stop them gobbling up competitors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/19/the-easy-way-to-rein-in-facebook-and-google-stop-them-gobbling-up-competitors-170104/" aria-label="Read more about The easy way to rein in Facebook and Google: stop them gobbling up competitors">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Giuffre, Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney The Wiggles When Emma Watkins took over as “The Yellow Wiggle” in 2012 there were huge headlines. Her casting was a seismic shift for those who grew up loving her male predecessors (Greg Page, and then briefly ... <a title="Emma is hanging up the yellow skivvy: how the ‘first girl Wiggle’ created a powerful legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/19/emma-is-hanging-up-the-yellow-skivvy-how-the-first-girl-wiggle-created-a-powerful-legacy-170200/" aria-label="Read more about Emma is hanging up the yellow skivvy: how the ‘first girl Wiggle’ created a powerful legacy">Read more</a>
