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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stewart Sutherland, Senior Lecturer Indigenous Health, Australian National University Smoke and dust as food is prepared for a traditional Māori feast or Hangi, Rotorua New Zealand. Shutterstock Indigenous people are some of the most food insecure people in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand). The COVID-19 pandemic and ... <a title="Restrictions on cultural hunting practices are limiting Indigenous people’s access to food during the pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/restrictions-on-cultural-hunting-practices-are-limiting-indigenous-peoples-access-to-food-during-the-pandemic-168267/" aria-label="Read more about Restrictions on cultural hunting practices are limiting Indigenous people’s access to food during the pandemic">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Middleton, Doctoral Candidate, University of Auckland Nukunonu atoll. GettyImages If you didn’t know Tokelau Language Week begins this weekend, you can probably be forgiven. Spoken by fewer than 5,000 people worldwide, Tokelauan has been designated “severely endangered” by UNESCO, its second-most at-risk category. You simply don’t ... <a title="With more Tokelauan speakers in New Zealand than in Tokelau, it remains a unique but endangered language" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/with-more-tokelauan-speakers-in-new-zealand-than-in-tokelau-it-remains-a-unique-but-endangered-language-169536/" aria-label="Read more about With more Tokelauan speakers in New Zealand than in Tokelau, it remains a unique but endangered language">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Kennedy, University of Canterbury Author provided This week, a case review hearing sought to set a trial date – now likely in 2023 – for 13 organisations and individuals facing charges in the wake of the Whakaari White Island eruption of December 9 2019. The volcano ... <a title="Long read: reflections of a volcanologist as a science organisation faces charges in the wake of the 2019 Whakaari eruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/long-read-reflections-of-a-volcanologist-as-a-science-organisation-faces-charges-in-the-wake-of-the-2019-whakaari-eruption-162082/" aria-label="Read more about Long read: reflections of a volcanologist as a science organisation faces charges in the wake of the 2019 Whakaari eruption">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia www.shutterstock.com Imprisonment rates in Australia are currently the highest they have been in a century, despite a significant fall in crime, and the Productivity Commission is stepping in to determine why. The commission is ... <a title="Australia’s prison rates are up but crime is down. What’s going on?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/australias-prison-rates-are-up-but-crime-is-down-whats-going-on-170210/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s prison rates are up but crime is down. What’s going on?">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shelley Marshall, Associate Professor and Director of the RMIT Business and Human Rights Centre, RMIT University For over six weeks, Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners have been performing continuous cultural ceremony at the edge of Adani’s Carmichael mine in central Queensland. Leah Light Photography In a shift ... <a title="When native title fails: First Nations people are turning to human rights law to keep access to cultural sites" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/when-native-title-fails-first-nations-people-are-turning-to-human-rights-law-to-keep-access-to-cultural-sites-169634/" aria-label="Read more about When native title fails: First Nations people are turning to human rights law to keep access to cultural sites">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
By Gill Bonnett, RNZ News immigration reporter Pacific leaders say offering “visas for vaccinations’ would be the ultimate incentive for New Zealand overstayers to get the covid-19 jab, as Auckland struggles to stop delta variant infections spreading through the community. It comes as epidemiologists say the government needs to pull out all the stops to ... <a title="Vax for visas: ‘Overstayers would come out of woodwork’, say Pacific leaders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/vax-for-visas-overstayers-would-come-out-of-woodwork-say-pacific-leaders/" aria-label="Read more about Vax for visas: ‘Overstayers would come out of woodwork’, say Pacific leaders">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
RNZ Pacific A Pacific public health expert says a premature transition of covid-19 restrictions in New Zealand could be lethal for Māori and Pasifika communities. The government is under increasing pressure to ease restrictions in Auckland with National saying it would set a six-week deadline for ending lockdowns and that a target of 85-90 percent ... <a title="Early easing of covid restrictions ‘could be lethal for Māori/Pasifika’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/early-easing-of-covid-restrictions-could-be-lethal-for-maori-pasifika/" aria-label="Read more about Early easing of covid restrictions ‘could be lethal for Māori/Pasifika’">Read more</a>
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October 22, 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 Trade Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): Geopolitics behind NZ-UK free trade deal Liam Dann: ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 22 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-22-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 22 2021">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven W. Salisbury, PhD; Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland Anthony Romilio, Author provided Ipswich, about 40 kilometres west of Brisbane, seems an unlikely place to find dinosaur fossils. Yet the area has produced the oldest evidence of dinosaurs in Australia. A fresh ... <a title="Australia’s oldest dinosaur was a peaceful vegetarian, not a fierce predator" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/australias-oldest-dinosaur-was-a-peaceful-vegetarian-not-a-fierce-predator-170275/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s oldest dinosaur was a peaceful vegetarian, not a fierce predator">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naama Carlin, Lecturer, UNSW Shutterstock Mateship is an intrinsic part of Australian society, routinely discussed as an important national value. In 1999, Prime Minister John Howard even attempted to include mateship in the constitutional preamble. But despite its ubiquity in Australian culture, what does mateship mean to ... <a title="Mateship might sound blokey, but our research shows women value it more highly than men" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/mateship-might-sound-blokey-but-our-research-shows-women-value-it-more-highly-than-men-169154/" aria-label="Read more about Mateship might sound blokey, but our research shows women value it more highly than men">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute This morning, Melburnians are waking up to the end of the city’s sixth lockdown. Since March 2020, Melbourne has spent more time in lockdown than any other city in the world. It’s been a long and arduous journey for ... <a title="As Melbourne cautiously opens up today, what lies ahead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/as-melbourne-cautiously-opens-up-today-what-lies-ahead-170206/" aria-label="Read more about As Melbourne cautiously opens up today, what lies ahead?">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Lee, Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University Shutterstock Cancelled dance parties, festivals and other events have shaped how Australians use alcohol and other drugs during the pandemic. Now restrictions are easing, some people who have not used alcohol or other drugs recently ... <a title="Forgotten how to party? Safety tips from a drug and alcohol expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/forgotten-how-to-party-safety-tips-from-a-drug-and-alcohol-expert-170007/" aria-label="Read more about Forgotten how to party? Safety tips from a drug and alcohol expert">Read more</a>
