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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Hutton, Professor , University of Newcastle A fatal crowd surge during a performance by US rapper Travis Scott on Friday night has become one of the deadliest live music incidents in recent years. Crowd crushes during the Houston show, which was part of the Astroworld Music ... <a title="Astroworld tragedy: here’s how music festival organisers can stop big crowds turning deadly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/astroworld-tragedy-heres-how-music-festival-organisers-can-stop-big-crowds-turning-deadly-171397/" aria-label="Read more about Astroworld tragedy: here’s how music festival organisers can stop big crowds turning deadly">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Morris, Research scientist, University of Sydney Shutterstock One of the most well-known findings in the economic study of happiness is that, on average, happiness increases with income, but at a certain point diminishing returns set in. In other words, money can only buy a fixed level ... <a title="Why happiness is becoming more expensive and out of reach for many Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/why-happiness-is-becoming-more-expensive-and-out-of-reach-for-many-australians-170877/" aria-label="Read more about Why happiness is becoming more expensive and out of reach for many Australians">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. To be fair to Russia, it is one of the quickest in the world to release its total death data. It is less good about reporting deaths as attributable to Covid19. (See Russia: The nation with half a million secret Covid-19 deaths, NZ Herald, 8 Nov 2021.) Based on the data ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Russia is First Equal for Covid Deaths per capita" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-russia-is-first-equal-for-covid-deaths-per-capita/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Russia is First Equal for Covid Deaths per capita">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Amazon Prime Review: Burning, directed by Eva Orner. The word “crisis” comes from the Greek krinein, which means to decide. You’re stuck in the middle of a burning fire: you need to decide whether you ... <a title="Burning is the slickest film about climate change since An Inconvenient Truth – and that’s its problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/burning-is-the-slickest-film-about-climate-change-since-an-inconvenient-truth-and-thats-its-problem-171385/" aria-label="Read more about Burning is the slickest film about climate change since An Inconvenient Truth – and that’s its problem">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Honorary Professional Fellow, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock Students have returned to school in New South Wales and Victoria after weeks of lockdowns. Along with vaccination and masks, experts have flagged good ventilation as one of the key factors ... <a title="Schools need to know classrooms’ air quality to protect against COVID. But governments aren’t measuring it properly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/schools-need-to-know-classrooms-air-quality-to-protect-against-covid-but-governments-arent-measuring-it-properly-171107/" aria-label="Read more about Schools need to know classrooms’ air quality to protect against COVID. But governments aren’t measuring it properly">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter van Duyn, Maritime Logistics Expert, Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL), Deakin University Ian Taylor/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Shipping, which transports 90% of the world’s trade, contributes nearly 3% of global emissions – a little more than the carbon footprint of Germany. If gone unchecked, this ... <a title="To reach net zero, we must decarbonise shipping. But two big problems are getting in the way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/to-reach-net-zero-we-must-decarbonise-shipping-but-two-big-problems-are-getting-in-the-way-170464/" aria-label="Read more about To reach net zero, we must decarbonise shipping. But two big problems are getting in the way">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Donne Potter, Professor, Research Centre for Hauora and Health, Massey University Shutterstock/Siriluk ok Despite New Zealand’s national cervical screening programme (NCSP), Māori women are more than twice as likely as European women to be diagnosed with, and die from, cervical cancer. Similarly, the screening programme has ... <a title="Cervical cancer screening in New Zealand: self-testing at home will improve equity of outcomes for non-European women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/cervical-cancer-screening-in-new-zealand-self-testing-at-home-will-improve-equity-of-outcomes-for-non-european-women-169628/" aria-label="Read more about Cervical cancer screening in New Zealand: self-testing at home will improve equity of outcomes for non-European women">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis One of the great failures of Fiji’s climate action campaign has been the missed opportunity of not linking up with arguably the world’s foremost climate crusader and inarguably the biggest star at COP26 — the young Swedish activist, Greta Thunberg. And the blame for that rests squarely with Fiji’s Permanent Representative ... <a title="Graham Davis: Fiji misses another COP26 chance – linking with Greta" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/graham-davis-fiji-misses-another-cop26-chance-linking-with-greta/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: Fiji misses another COP26 chance – linking with Greta">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Salter, Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology, UNSW www.shutterstock.com Child sexual abuse material is widely available online, thanks to technological progress and a lack of effective action by internet companies and governments. Last year, authorities in the United States received a record-breaking 21.7 million reports of child ... <a title="‘You never forget the knock at the door’: why families of child sex abuse material offenders need more help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/you-never-forget-the-knock-at-the-door-why-families-of-child-sex-abuse-material-offenders-need-more-help-171004/" aria-label="Read more about ‘You never forget the knock at the door’: why families of child sex abuse material offenders need more help">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dr Dani Larkin, Lecturer/Deputy Director of the Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW On Tuesday October 26, the Guardian Australia revealed the Morrison government intends to make further changes to Australian federal electoral legislation. These proposed changes include the requirement for registered voters to show ID prior to casting ... <a title="Why voter ID requirements could exclude the most vulnerable citizens, especially First Nations people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/why-voter-id-requirements-could-exclude-the-most-vulnerable-citizens-especially-first-nations-people-170797/" aria-label="Read more about Why voter ID requirements could exclude the most vulnerable citizens, especially First Nations people">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University GettyImages Might Jacinda Ardern stand down? Despite a landslide 50% election victory in October 2020, the New Zealand Labour Party annual conference last weekend – apparently incongruously – made it easier for the party’s leader ... <a title="Labour makes it easier to change leaders, but Jacinda Ardern has no reason to go – yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/labour-makes-it-easier-to-change-leaders-but-jacinda-ardern-has-no-reason-to-go-yet-171381/" aria-label="Read more about Labour makes it easier to change leaders, but Jacinda Ardern has no reason to go – yet">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Labour Party conference Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Glory days of Jacinda Ardern’s ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 08 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-08-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 08 2021">Read more</a>
