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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
RNZ Pacific Five months after Samoa’s April 9 general election the FAST party government finally began its first parliamentary session today. But it was without the members of the opposition HRPP party, who were shut out by the Speaker, Papalii Lio Masipau. Papali’i announced a ban yesterday, saying the HRPP was still failing to acknowledge ... <a title="Samoan parliament sits but opposition MPs banned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/samoan-parliament-sits-but-opposition-mps-banned/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan parliament sits but opposition MPs banned">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A mural on the eastern side of the Wirobrajan intersection in Central Java city of Yogyakarta was covered over with black paint before President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s weekend visit. But officials have denied that it was censorship, reports CNN Indonesia. It was known that President Widodo would be passing through this ... <a title="Yogyakarta officials ‘black out’ critical street art before Jokowi’s visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/yogyakarta-officials-black-out-critical-street-art-before-jokowis-visit/" aria-label="Read more about Yogyakarta officials ‘black out’ critical street art before Jokowi’s visit">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk French High Commissioner Patrice Faure in New Caledonia has declared an eight hour curfew for 15 days from tonight as health authorities reported 256 new cases yesterday in the covid delta variant outbreak. The curfew will run from 9pm to 5am Government spokesman Yannick Slamet and Health Director Dr Mabon de ... <a title="New Caledonia imposes curfew as delta outbreak new cases hit 256" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/new-caledonia-imposes-curfew-as-delta-outbreak-new-cases-hit-256/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia imposes curfew as delta outbreak new cases hit 256">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Shailendra Singh in Suva Do the Fiji news media represent a wide range of political perspectives?Fiji’s national media, like media elsewhere, would cover a wider berth collectively, rather than as individual media organisations, because individual media have obvious leanings and priorities. But do the media, even as whole, provide a wide enough perspective?Not ... <a title="Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/slippery-slope-for-fijis-media-in-politically-charged-climate/" aria-label="Read more about Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate">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>
