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June 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics, University of South Australia On Sunday, Victoria recorded 19 new COVID-19 cases for the preceding day. Only New South Wales (5) and Western Australia (1) also had new cases. Reports indicate in the 24 hours since, Victoria can count another 16 infections. ... <a title="Victoria’s coronavirus hotspots: not quite a second wave, but still cause for concern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/victorias-coronavirus-hotspots-not-quite-a-second-wave-but-still-cause-for-concern-141193/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s coronavirus hotspots: not quite a second wave, but still cause for concern">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards Could the quarantine and testing botch-ups have an impact on the election? The Government might have been hoping that the scandal was a one-week wonder, but the stories of quarantine and testing fiascos keep coming and will be felt strongly by the public. Many voters will now have much less ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Fallout from the Covid border blunder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-fallout-from-the-covid-border-blunder/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Fallout from the Covid border blunder">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deanna Kemp, Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland Rio Tinto has committed to an internal review of its heritage management processes in the wake of its destruction of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal heritage site in Western Australia last month. After intense ... <a title="How Rio Tinto can ensure its Aboriginal heritage review is transparent and independent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/how-rio-tinto-can-ensure-its-aboriginal-heritage-review-is-transparent-and-independent-141192/" aria-label="Read more about How Rio Tinto can ensure its Aboriginal heritage review is transparent and independent">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Centaine Snoswell, Research Fellow Health Economics, The University of Queensland The expansion of telehealth services was a deliberate strategy to help reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission between practitioners and patients, so is it working? According to our analysis, the answer is that telehealth is indeed reducing ... <a title="Telehealth in lockdown meant 7 million fewer chances to transmit the coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/telehealth-in-lockdown-meant-7-million-fewer-chances-to-transmit-the-coronavirus-141041/" aria-label="Read more about Telehealth in lockdown meant 7 million fewer chances to transmit the coronavirus">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katrina Raynor, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Transforming Housing Project, University of Melbourne In a Conversation article a year ago we applied negotiation theory to changes to the Victorian Planning and Environment Act. The changes were designed to support local councils in negotiations with developers to secure affordable housing. ... <a title="‘Confusing and not delivering enough’: developers and councils want new affordable housing rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/confusing-and-not-delivering-enough-developers-and-councils-want-new-affordable-housing-rules-139762/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Confusing and not delivering enough’: developers and councils want new affordable housing rules">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2020
New Zealand’s coronavirus reality check last week is a “timely wake-up call” crucial to moving towards a transtasman travel bubble, says The New Zealand Herald. “There cannot be any complacency or missteps once our border controls are eased. The risks need be managed as well as possible,” said the country’s largest and most influential newspaper ... <a title="NZ’s coronavirus reality check a ‘timely wake-up call’, says Herald" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/nzs-coronavirus-reality-check-a-timely-wake-up-call-says-herald/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s coronavirus reality check a ‘timely wake-up call’, says Herald">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giorgia Alù, Associate Professor, Department of Italian Studies, University of Sydney Aridly undulating to the horizon in hillock after hillock, comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation. This is the description of a scorched, unruly ... <a title="Guide to the Classics: The Leopard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/guide-to-the-classics-the-leopard-133443/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the Classics: The Leopard">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Pacific Conference of Churches has called for justice in Mā’ohi (French Polynesia) and for Oscar Temaru, the activist mayor of Fa’aa and former territorial president. In a message read at a protest march in Pape’ete at the weekend, PCC general secretary Reverend James Bhagwan called on France not to ignore ... <a title="Pacific churches add ‘justice for Mā’ohi’ voice at Tahitian rally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/pacific-churches-add-justice-for-maohi-voice-at-tahitian-rally/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific churches add ‘justice for Mā’ohi’ voice at Tahitian rally">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robin Smit, Adjunct associate professor, University of Technology Sydney The transport sector is Australia’s second-largest polluter, pumping out almost 20% of our total greenhouse gas emissions. But everyday drivers can make a difference. In particular, the amount of time you let your car engine idle can have ... <a title="Switch off your engine, it’s not hard: how to cut your fuel bill, clear the air and reduce emissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/switch-off-your-engine-its-not-hard-how-to-cut-your-fuel-bill-clear-the-air-and-reduce-emissions-135316/" aria-label="Read more about Switch off your engine, it’s not hard: how to cut your fuel bill, clear the air and reduce emissions">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Wallace, Program director of Interior Architecture, University of South Australia “What will it take to encourage much more widespread reliance on working at home for at least part of each week?” asked Frank Schiff, the chief economist of the US Committee for Economic Development, in The ... <a title="The death of the open-plan office? Not quite, but a revolution is in the air" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/the-death-of-the-open-plan-office-not-quite-but-a-revolution-is-in-the-air-140724/" aria-label="Read more about The death of the open-plan office? Not quite, but a revolution is in the air">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kurt Sengul, Doctoral Researcher, University of Newcastle The Conversation is running a series of explainers on key figures in Australian political history, looking at the way they changed the nature of debate, its impact then, and it relevance to politics today. You can also read the rest ... <a title="Pauline Hanson built a political career on white victimhood and brought far-right rhetoric to the mainstream" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/pauline-hanson-built-a-political-career-on-white-victimhood-and-brought-far-right-rhetoric-to-the-mainstream-134661/" aria-label="Read more about Pauline Hanson built a political career on white victimhood and brought far-right rhetoric to the mainstream">Read more</a>
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June 22, 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 Border restrictions, quarantine Tracy Watkins (Stuff): The only way to restore confidence is to order an urgent inquiry into our border failures John Armstrong (1News): David Clark is Minister of Health in name ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 22 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-22-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 22 2020">Read more</a>
