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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Mudgway, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury A female candidate slapped after a public debate, another whose home was vandalised, a man trespassed for entering the same house, shouts and jeers directed at another woman candidate for using te reo Māori – the 2023 election ... <a title="Campaign trail threats and abuse reinforce the need to protect NZ’s women politicians – before they quit for good" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/campaign-trail-threats-and-abuse-reinforce-the-need-to-protect-nzs-women-politicians-before-they-quit-for-good-214828/" aria-label="Read more about Campaign trail threats and abuse reinforce the need to protect NZ’s women politicians – before they quit for good">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Jonas Weckschmied/Unsplash The world is very warm right now. We’re not only seeing record temperatures, but the records are being broken by record-wide margins. Take the preliminary September global-average temperature anomaly of 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels, ... <a title="6 reasons why global temperatures are spiking right now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/6-reasons-why-global-temperatures-are-spiking-right-now-215140/" aria-label="Read more about 6 reasons why global temperatures are spiking right now">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has shared its final report. In this series, we unpack what the commission’s 222 recommendations could mean for a more inclusive Australia. The federal government last week ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Greens Jordon Steele-John on the disability royal commission and Bill Shorten’s NDIS reforms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/politics-with-michelle-grattan-greens-jordon-steele-john-on-the-disability-royal-commission-and-bill-shortens-ndis-reforms-215072/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Greens Jordon Steele-John on the disability royal commission and Bill Shorten’s NDIS reforms">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Francesco Paolucci, Professor of Health Economics, University of Bologna, University of Newcastle Pexels/Andrea Piacquadio The federal government has, for a long time, encouraged Australians to get private health insurance, in an attempt to reduce the financial burden on the public health system. To make private health insurance ... <a title="People with private health insurance save the government $550 a year, on average" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/people-with-private-health-insurance-save-the-government-550-a-year-on-average-212787/" aria-label="Read more about People with private health insurance save the government $550 a year, on average">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathleen Openshaw, Lecturer in School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University Shutterstock A special UN working group this week tabled its first-ever report on the experiences of people of African descent in Australia to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The report documents what people ... <a title="‘No safe space in society’: new UN report reveals the extent of systemic racism faced by people of African descent in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/no-safe-space-in-society-new-un-report-reveals-the-extent-of-systemic-racism-faced-by-people-of-african-descent-in-australia-213365/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No safe space in society’: new UN report reveals the extent of systemic racism faced by people of African descent in Australia">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Pacific Media Watch New Caledonia’s daily newspaper Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes is back six months after it closed — but with a big difference. It is online only and free, almost. The return of the news outlet which had been an institution for half a century is welcomed in many quarters, but some local mayors would ... <a title="Noumea’s ‘newspaper’ Les Nouvelles is back – free and online only" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/noumeas-newspaper-les-nouvelles-is-back-free-and-online-only/" aria-label="Read more about Noumea’s ‘newspaper’ Les Nouvelles is back – free and online only">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
RNZ News The Algerian democracy advocate Ahmed Zaoui, a New Zealand citizen, has been arrested by Algerian security forces after commenting on human rights violations at a political meeting at his home. His New Zealand lawyer Deborah Manning said Zaoui had been detained at a police station in the city of Medea since he was ... <a title="Ahmed Zaoui detained in Algeria for democracy statements, lawyer says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/ahmed-zaoui-detained-in-algeria-for-democracy-statements-lawyer-says/" aria-label="Read more about Ahmed Zaoui detained in Algeria for democracy statements, lawyer says">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
RNZ Report: The Algerian democracy activist Ahmed Zaoui, a New Zealand citizen, has been arrested by Algerian security forces after commenting on human rights violations at a political meeting at his home.
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Stern, Professor of Data Science, Bond University Shutterstock In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk of human extinction. He put the chances of “existential catastrophe” for our species during the next century at one in six. It’s quite ... <a title="Is there really a 1 in 6 chance of human extinction this century?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/is-there-really-a-1-in-6-chance-of-human-extinction-this-century-215054/" aria-label="Read more about Is there really a 1 in 6 chance of human extinction this century?">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Abby Foster, Allied Health Research Advisor, Monash Health; Adjunct senior lecturer, La Trobe University; Adjunct research fellow, School of Primary & Allied Health Care, Monash University Chansom Pantip/Shutterstock The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has shared its final report. In ... <a title="For people with communication disability, complaining about their treatment isn’t so simple" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/for-people-with-communication-disability-complaining-about-their-treatment-isnt-so-simple-214717/" aria-label="Read more about For people with communication disability, complaining about their treatment isn’t so simple">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Shutterstock When we think of extinction, we think of individual species. But nature doesn’t operate like that. Entire communities and even whole ecosystems are now so compromised they could be lost entirely. Australia now ... <a title="It’s not just Victoria’s iconic mountain ash trees at risk – it’s every species in their community" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/its-not-just-victorias-iconic-mountain-ash-trees-at-risk-its-every-species-in-their-community-214582/" aria-label="Read more about It’s not just Victoria’s iconic mountain ash trees at risk – it’s every species in their community">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland In defending a Federal Court case brought by opponents of her decisions to approve two export coal mines, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is relying in part on what critics call the “drug dealer’s defence”. It’s reasoning that ... <a title="Why the ‘drug dealers defence’ doesn’t work for exporting coal. It’s actually Economics 101" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/why-the-drug-dealers-defence-doesnt-work-for-exporting-coal-its-actually-economics-101-214588/" aria-label="Read more about Why the ‘drug dealers defence’ doesn’t work for exporting coal. It’s actually Economics 101">Read more</a>
