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September 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Smith, Associate Professor in Disaster and Emergency Response, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University Many of us will be exposed to a disaster in our lifetime. In the past two years alone, Australians have lived through bushfires, floods, cyclones, and the ongoing COVID-19 ... <a title="From bushfires, to floods, to COVID-19: how cumulative disasters can harm our health and erode our resilience" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/15/from-bushfires-to-floods-to-covid-19-how-cumulative-disasters-can-harm-our-health-and-erode-our-resilience-160534/" aria-label="Read more about From bushfires, to floods, to COVID-19: how cumulative disasters can harm our health and erode our resilience">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Linda J. Graham, Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology Shutterstock Increasing numbers of students are being excluded from Australian schools. This is done both temporarily, through informal and formal suspensions, and permanently, through expelling them and cancelling their enrolments. We ... <a title="Suspensions and expulsions could set our most vulnerable kids on a path to school drop-out, drug use and crime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/15/suspensions-and-expulsions-could-set-our-most-vulnerable-kids-on-a-path-to-school-drop-out-drug-use-and-crime-166827/" aria-label="Read more about Suspensions and expulsions could set our most vulnerable kids on a path to school drop-out, drug use and crime">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University shutter_o/Shutterstock Last year COVID-19 seemed simple. It was horrific, but the arguments about what to do were fairly straightforward. On one side were people rightly horrified by its rapid spread who wanted us to stay ... <a title="Delta is tempting us to trade lives for freedoms — a choice it had looked like we wouldn’t have to make" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/15/delta-is-tempting-us-to-trade-lives-for-freedoms-a-choice-it-had-looked-like-we-wouldnt-have-to-make-167762/" aria-label="Read more about Delta is tempting us to trade lives for freedoms — a choice it had looked like we wouldn’t have to make">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Droogan, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University The Tailban destroyed this Buddha statue dating to the 6th century AD in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, in March 2001. The photo on the left was taken in 1977. AP Photo/Etsuro Kondo, (left photo) and Osamu Semba, both Asahi Despite cliched talk of ... <a title="The Taliban’s rule threatens what’s left of Afghanistan’s dazzlingly diverse cultural history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/15/the-talibans-rule-threatens-whats-left-of-afghanistans-dazzlingly-diverse-cultural-history-167780/" aria-label="Read more about The Taliban’s rule threatens what’s left of Afghanistan’s dazzlingly diverse cultural history">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Dare, Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland Shutterstock With COVID-19 causing extraordinarily intrusive and expensive lockdowns, vaccine “passports” or certificates are increasingly seen as key to getting out of them. Decision-makers and gatekeepers – from border guards to maître d’s – will have a means of ... <a title="Why a domestic NZ COVID ‘passport’ raises hard questions about discrimination, inequality and coercion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/15/why-a-domestic-nz-covid-passport-raises-hard-questions-about-discrimination-inequality-and-coercion-167703/" aria-label="Read more about Why a domestic NZ COVID ‘passport’ raises hard questions about discrimination, inequality and coercion">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Multiple doctors’ organisations, led by the Australian Medical Association, and a major farm lobby have called on the federal government to boost Australia’s climate change ambition, as pressure mounts on Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce to finalise a deal ahead ... <a title="Doctors and farmers turn up heat on Morrison ahead of Glasgow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/15/doctors-and-farmers-turn-up-heat-on-morrison-ahead-of-glasgow-167891/" aria-label="Read more about Doctors and farmers turn up heat on Morrison ahead of Glasgow">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this episode, politics + society editor Amanda Dunn ... <a title="Podcast with Michelle Grattan: Christian Porter’s anonymous money pot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/podcast-with-michelle-grattan-christian-porters-anonymous-money-pot-167907/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast with Michelle Grattan: Christian Porter’s anonymous money pot">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Novitz, Lecturer, Writing, School of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology EPA/HAYOUNG JEON Email newsletters might be associated with the ghost towns of old personal email addresses for many: relentlessly accumulating unopened updates from organisations, stores and services signed up to and forgotten in the ... <a title="Is Salman Rushdie’s decision to publish on Substack the death of the novel?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/is-salman-rushdies-decision-to-publish-on-substack-the-death-of-the-novel-167530/" aria-label="Read more about Is Salman Rushdie’s decision to publish on Substack the death of the novel?">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Schmulow, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong Shutterstock The implosion of Australia’s corporate watchdog, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, under the federal government’s new directions, has gone from tragedy to farce. ASIC was described as “weak, hesitant and timid” in a 2014 Senate ... <a title="ASIC, now less a corporate watchdog, more a lapdog" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/asic-now-less-a-corporate-watchdog-more-a-lapdog-167532/" aria-label="Read more about ASIC, now less a corporate watchdog, more a lapdog">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW New South Wales plans to relax restrictions when vaccination targets of 70% and 80% of those aged 16 years and over are met. The national plan was based on the ... <a title="NSW risks a second larger COVID peak by Christmas if it eases restrictions too quickly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/nsw-risks-a-second-larger-covid-peak-by-christmas-if-it-eases-restrictions-too-quickly-167877/" aria-label="Read more about NSW risks a second larger COVID peak by Christmas if it eases restrictions too quickly">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University Shutterstock/Tsetso Photo CC BY-ND Climate explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please ... <a title="Climate explained: how much of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels and could we replace it all with renewables?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/climate-explained-how-much-of-the-worlds-energy-comes-from-fossil-fuels-and-could-we-replace-it-all-with-renewables-167190/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: how much of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels and could we replace it all with renewables?">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University Last week’s National Summit on Women’s Safety was intended to gather input from stakeholders as the government finalises the next National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children in 2022. A series of invite-only virtual roundtables was also ... <a title="We need a national plan to address family violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/we-need-a-national-plan-to-address-family-violence-against-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-people-167640/" aria-label="Read more about We need a national plan to address family violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people">Read more</a>
