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December 3, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Climate change Stuff: Editorial – Declaration’s value will be measured by action Bronwyn Hayward (Spinoff): NZ joins a groundswell in sounding the climate emergency alarm. Can it make any real difference? Marc Daalder (Newsroom): What it will take ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 03 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-03-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 03 2020">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Paterson, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of New England Deep sea animals can be the stuff of nightmares. Many inhabit the ocean’s twilight zone (down to 1,000 metres depth), where sunlight has virtually disappeared, and have adapted their vision to this dark alien world. Evolution gave ... <a title="Freaky ‘frankenprawns’: ancient deep sea monsters called radiodonts had incredible vision that likely drove an evolutionary arms race" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/freaky-frankenprawns-ancient-deep-sea-monsters-called-radiodonts-had-incredible-vision-that-likely-drove-an-evolutionary-arms-race-146104/" aria-label="Read more about Freaky ‘frankenprawns’: ancient deep sea monsters called radiodonts had incredible vision that likely drove an evolutionary arms race">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fabio A Capitanio, Lecturer in Geophysics, Monash University Our planet is unique in the Solar system. It’s the only one with active plate tectonics, ocean basins, continents and, as far as we know, life. But Earth in its current form is 4.5 billion years in the making; ... <a title="The floor is lava: after 1.5 billion years in flux, here’s how a new, stronger crust set the stage for life on Earth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/the-floor-is-lava-after-1-5-billion-years-in-flux-heres-how-a-new-stronger-crust-set-the-stage-for-life-on-earth-151276/" aria-label="Read more about The floor is lava: after 1.5 billion years in flux, here’s how a new, stronger crust set the stage for life on Earth">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peta-Anne Zimmerman, Senior Lecturer/Program Advisor Griffith Graduate Infection Prevention and Control Program, Griffith University On Monday the Victorian government announced an overhaul of the state’s hotel quarantine program. The government has introduced a new oversight agency, COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria, and crafted a “reset” of rules and regulations ... <a title="Victoria’s hotel quarantine overhaul is a step in the right direction, but issues remain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/victorias-hotel-quarantine-overhaul-is-a-step-in-the-right-direction-but-issues-remain-151101/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s hotel quarantine overhaul is a step in the right direction, but issues remain">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon C. Day, PSM, Post-career PhD candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University The Great Barrier Reef is now in “critical” condition and the health of four other Australian World Heritage properties has worsened, according to a sobering report just released by ... <a title="‘Severely threatened and deteriorating’: global authority on nature lists the Great Barrier Reef as critical" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/severely-threatened-and-deteriorating-global-authority-on-nature-lists-the-great-barrier-reef-as-critical-151275/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Severely threatened and deteriorating’: global authority on nature lists the Great Barrier Reef as critical">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Baxter, Fellow – Melbourne Law School; Senior Researcher – Climate Council; Associate – Australian-German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne Australia’s latest emissions data, released this week, contained one particularly startling, and unjustifiable, fact. Against all odds, in a year when emissions fell in almost ... <a title="‘Unjustifiable’: new report shows how the nation’s gas expansion puts Australians in harm’s way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/unjustifiable-new-report-shows-how-the-nations-gas-expansion-puts-australians-in-harms-way-151199/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Unjustifiable’: new report shows how the nation’s gas expansion puts Australians in harm’s way">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Ziguras, Professor of Global Studies, RMIT University The arrival at Darwin airport on Monday of 63 students from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia on a charter flight from Singapore ended an eight-month hiatus in international student arrivals in Australia. They are now in the ... <a title="How unis can use student housing to solve international student quarantine issues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/how-unis-can-use-student-housing-to-solve-international-student-quarantine-issues-150180/" aria-label="Read more about How unis can use student housing to solve international student quarantine issues">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Clements, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Sydney Many Australian cities have fallen back on offering free car parking to attract visitors back to the CBD after the pandemic. In contrast, cities around the world are basing their recovery strategies on ... <a title="Why Australian cities need post-COVID vision, not free parking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/why-australian-cities-need-post-covid-vision-not-free-parking-150380/" aria-label="Read more about Why Australian cities need post-COVID vision, not free parking">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica White, UQ Amplify Associate Lecturer, The University of Queensland Fiction and non-fiction works about disability and Deafness are often hampered by stereotypical representations. A disability is frequently presented as something to “overcome”, or used to characterise someone (ever notice all those evil characters portrayed as disfigured?). ... <a title="In our own voices: 5 Australian books about living with disability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/in-our-own-voices-5-australian-books-about-living-with-disability-150543/" aria-label="Read more about In our own voices: 5 Australian books about living with disability">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Pacific journalism and media researchers have gathered “live” in Auckland and “virtually” from Australia, Indonesia, and the region to showcase their projects and initiatives – and they spoke of the key challenges ahead. Presentations at the AUT Pacific Media Centre-organised event yesterday included cross-cultural documentaries, an industry panel on “transition”, Pasifika ... <a title="Pacific journalism, media and diversity researchers tackle challenges ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/pacific-journalism-media-and-diversity-researchers-tackle-challenges-ahead/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific journalism, media and diversity researchers tackle challenges ahead">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Chinese official Lijian Zhao’s tweeting an image depicting an Australian soldier holding a knife against a child’s throat and the subsequent angry exchanges is the latest incident in an exceptionally poor year for Australian-Chinese relations. Tensions deepened after Australia’s call ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Asia-Pacific expert Bates Gill on China’s endgame" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/politics-with-michelle-grattan-asia-pacific-expert-bates-gill-on-chinas-endgame-151292/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Asia-Pacific expert Bates Gill on China’s endgame">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University It’d be wrong to say that we are out of recession, although that’s how the graph of Wednesday’s GDP numbers makes it look. Gross domestic product (the measure of everything produced and earned and spent) ... <a title="It isn’t right to say we are out of recession, as these six graphs demonstrate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/it-isnt-right-to-say-we-are-out-of-recession-as-these-six-graphs-demonstrate-151210/" aria-label="Read more about It isn’t right to say we are out of recession, as these six graphs demonstrate">Read more</a>
