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September 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato We live, to borrow a phrase, in interesting times. The pandemic aside, relations between the superpowers are tense. The sudden arrival of the new AUKUS security agreement between Australia, the US and UK simply adds to the general sense ... <a title="ANZUS without NZ? Why the new security pact between Australia, the UK and US might not be all it seems" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/17/anzus-without-nz-why-the-new-security-pact-between-australia-the-uk-and-us-might-not-be-all-it-seems-168071/" aria-label="Read more about ANZUS without NZ? Why the new security pact between Australia, the UK and US might not be all it seems">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra For a very intellectually smart man, Christian Porter often shows extraordinarily bad judgment. After he was accused of historical rape, which he strongly denied, he believed he could remain as attorney-general, despite that being clearly not viable. Then he chose ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Porter’s funding from a ‘blind trust’ is an integrity test for Morrison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/17/grattan-on-friday-porters-funding-from-a-blind-trust-is-an-integrity-test-for-morrison-168112/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Porter’s funding from a ‘blind trust’ is an integrity test for Morrison">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra For a very intellectually smart man, Christian Porter often shows extraordinarily bad judgment. After he was accused of historical rape, which he strongly denied, he believed he could remain as attorney-general, despite that being clearly not viable. Then he chose ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Porter’s funding from a ‘blind trust’ is as integrity test for Morrison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/grattan-on-friday-porters-funding-from-a-blind-trust-is-as-integrity-test-for-morrison-168112/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Porter’s funding from a ‘blind trust’ is as integrity test for Morrison">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne Australia’s labour force statistics for August again make the case for giving up on the rate of unemployment as an indicator of the state of the labour market. In June the official unemployment rate dropped below 5% for ... <a title="Just 4.5% jobless during lockdowns? The unemployment rate is now meaningless" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/just-4-5-jobless-during-lockdowns-the-unemployment-rate-is-now-meaningless-167805/" aria-label="Read more about Just 4.5% jobless during lockdowns? The unemployment rate is now meaningless">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Green, Professor in Indigenous Australian Studies and GCWLCH Co-ordinator, Charles Sturt University The town of Wilcannia in the far outback of New South Wales on the banks of the Darling river. shutterstock The COVID-19 crisis in Wilcannia demonstrates how entrenched neglect, combined with a global pandemic, ... <a title="COVID in Wilcannia: a national disgrace we all saw coming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/covid-in-wilcannia-a-national-disgrace-we-all-saw-coming-167348/" aria-label="Read more about COVID in Wilcannia: a national disgrace we all saw coming">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By AJ Mitchell, Research fellow, Australian National University US Navy/Wikimedia Commons The Australian government has just declared an historic defence agreement with the United States and United Kingdom that will see a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines patrol our shores and surrounding waters. Research into nuclear-based propulsion of ... <a title="How do nuclear-powered submarines work? A nuclear scientist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/how-do-nuclear-powered-submarines-work-a-nuclear-scientist-explains-168067/" aria-label="Read more about How do nuclear-powered submarines work? A nuclear scientist explains">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Hannah, Lecturer in Public Policy, The University of Western Australia On Friday, US President Joe Biden announced a sweeping new vaccine mandate for employers covering around 100 million adults. Given the urgent need to increase Australia’s vaccination rate, it may be tempting to think we need ... <a title="Biden announces COVID vaccine mandate for 100 million Americans. Australia shouldn’t follow just yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/biden-announces-covid-vaccine-mandate-for-100-million-americans-australia-shouldnt-follow-just-yet-168066/" aria-label="Read more about Biden announces COVID vaccine mandate for 100 million Americans. Australia shouldn’t follow just yet">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia A. O’Brien, Visiting Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University, and Adjunct Professor, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University Today it was announced the US, Australia and the UK are forming a new security partnership to be known as AUKUS. This alliance, announced by the leaders ... <a title="The AUKUS pact, born in secrecy, will have huge implications for Australia and the region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/the-aukus-pact-born-in-secrecy-will-have-huge-implications-for-australia-and-the-region-168065/" aria-label="Read more about The AUKUS pact, born in secrecy, will have huge implications for Australia and the region">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Narelle Lemon, Associate Professor in Education, Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock School holidays are upon us again. In pre-pandemic days, many parents and carers would be busily planning holidays interstate or overseas, booking in play dates, organising day trips or tee-ing up visits to family and friends. ... <a title="Wondering what to do with kids in lockdown school holidays? Ideas from a happiness expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/wondering-what-to-do-with-kids-in-lockdown-school-holidays-ideas-from-a-happiness-expert-167798/" aria-label="Read more about Wondering what to do with kids in lockdown school holidays? Ideas from a happiness expert">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Ravenswood, Associate Professor in Employment Relations, Auckland University of Technology Shutterstock As Auckland enters it’s fifth week in level 4 lockdown and the rest of New Zealand stays at level 2, spare a thought for the nation’s invisible network of essential community support workers. They are ... <a title="Overlooked and undervalued, New Zealand’s community caregivers have become the ‘invisible’ essential workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/overlooked-and-undervalued-new-zealands-community-caregivers-have-become-the-invisible-essential-workers-167632/" aria-label="Read more about Overlooked and undervalued, New Zealand’s community caregivers have become the ‘invisible’ essential workers">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Suzanne Dudley, Postdoctoral Fellow, Macquarie University Shutterstock Supplying oxygen to their growing offspring and removing carbon dioxide is a major challenge for every pregnant animal. Humans deal with this problem by developing a placenta, but in seahorses — where the male, not the female, gestates and ... <a title="Pregnant male seahorses support up to 1,000 growing babies by forming a placenta" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/pregnant-male-seahorses-support-up-to-1-000-growing-babies-by-forming-a-placenta-167534/" aria-label="Read more about Pregnant male seahorses support up to 1,000 growing babies by forming a placenta">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University The Morrison government has decided it’s best for Australia to accelerate the production of a more capable, integrated, nuclear-powered submarine platform with the US and the UK. This will more tightly enmesh Australia into the US ... <a title="Why nuclear submarines are a smart military move for Australia — and could deter China further" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/why-nuclear-submarines-are-a-smart-military-move-for-australia-and-could-deter-china-further-168064/" aria-label="Read more about Why nuclear submarines are a smart military move for Australia — and could deter China further">Read more</a>
