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July 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison summoned his self-restraint and resisted temptation. Invited on Thursday to attack the Victorian government over its disastrous decision to use private security guards to monitor people in hotel quarantine, the prime minister was careful. He hadn’t seen himself ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Does Victoria’s second wave suggest we should debate an elimination strategy?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/10/grattan-on-friday-does-victorias-second-wave-suggest-we-should-debate-an-elimination-strategy-142374/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Does Victoria’s second wave suggest we should debate an elimination strategy?">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Editorial by Selwyn Manning. New National Party leader Todd Muller has presented his party’s vision for New Zealand as it grapples with the economic cost of the Covid-19 pandemic. But Muller’s vision was unsurprisingly National while surprisingly short on economic detail. And, after a week where sordid privacy breaches plagued the party – leaving Muller ... <a title="UPDATED: Leadership, Vision, and Combating a Machiavellian Culture – Is Todd Muller National’s Solution?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/leadership-vision-and-combating-a-machiavellian-culture-is-todd-muller-nationals-solution/" aria-label="Read more about UPDATED: Leadership, Vision, and Combating a Machiavellian Culture – Is Todd Muller National’s Solution?">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Former Liberal Minister Christopher Pyne attracted critics for his political front. But he always had plenty of friends and networks, enabling him often to be a player, if not always a “fixer”. After his election to the South Australian seat ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Christopher Pyne on being ‘the ultimate insider’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/politics-with-michelle-grattan-christopher-pyne-on-being-the-ultimate-insider-142399/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Christopher Pyne on being ‘the ultimate insider’">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Reilly, Professor, University of Adelaide Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced new visa arrangements to help Hong Kong passport holders stay in Australia. This has the potential to impact thousands of Hong Kong visa holders, either already in Australia or overseas. Read more: Hong Kong activists ... <a title="Asylum or economic opportunity? The mixed messages in Australia’s new Hong Kong visa options" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/asylum-or-economic-opportunity-the-mixed-messages-in-australias-new-hong-kong-visa-options-142380/" aria-label="Read more about Asylum or economic opportunity? The mixed messages in Australia’s new Hong Kong visa options">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University The pandemic is prompting some Australian pregnant women to give birth at home without a midwife or registered health provider, according to a survey out this week. Another new survey helps ... <a title="During COVID-19, women are opting for ‘freebirthing’ if homebirths aren’t available. And that’s a worry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/during-covid-19-women-are-opting-for-freebirthing-if-homebirths-arent-available-and-thats-a-worry-142261/" aria-label="Read more about During COVID-19, women are opting for ‘freebirthing’ if homebirths aren’t available. And that’s a worry">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Stone, General practitioner; Clinical Associate Professor, ANU Medical School, Australian National University Metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire are beginning another six weeks of lockdown due to a spike in COVID-19 cases. While this second round of lockdown may bring the case numbers under control, its effects ... <a title="Melbourne’s second lockdown will take a toll on mental health. We need to look out for the vulnerable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/melbournes-second-lockdown-will-take-a-toll-on-mental-health-we-need-to-look-out-for-the-vulnerable-142172/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne’s second lockdown will take a toll on mental health. We need to look out for the vulnerable">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Debbie Bargallie, Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University The Morrison government has just announced a plan to boost the number of Indigenous Australians in the top ranks of the Australian Public Service. The plan may be well-intentioned, but it is also one in a long line of ... <a title="‘Tokenised, silenced’: new research reveals Indigenous public servants’ experiences of racism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/tokenised-silenced-new-research-reveals-indigenous-public-servants-experiences-of-racism-141372/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Tokenised, silenced’: new research reveals Indigenous public servants’ experiences of racism">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Russell Dean Christopher Bicknell, Post-doctoral researcher in Palaeobiology , University of New England If you ventured to the New York seaside in summer, you might see a large dome-shaped animal with a spiky tail, slowly moving towards the water. These are horseshoe crabs – the animals time ... <a title="‘Living fossils’: we mapped half a billion years of horseshoe crabs to save them from blood harvests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/living-fossils-we-mapped-half-a-billion-years-of-horseshoe-crabs-to-save-them-from-blood-harvests-141042/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Living fossils’: we mapped half a billion years of horseshoe crabs to save them from blood harvests">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Kamradt-Scott, Associate professor, University of Sydney This week US President Donald Trump made good on his threat to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organisation (WHO) by sending a formal letter of withdrawal to the UN Secretary-General. In so doing, the president has initiated ... <a title="Lives at ‘grave risk’: Trump’s withdrawal from the WHO is a hit to global health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/lives-at-grave-risk-trumps-withdrawal-from-the-who-is-a-hit-to-global-health-142266/" aria-label="Read more about Lives at ‘grave risk’: Trump’s withdrawal from the WHO is a hit to global health">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
COMMENT: By Benny Wenda, chair of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua For over 50 years, Indonesia has been promising West Papua “autonomy”. Each time, underneath autonomy lies only bullets and killings. As the 2001 Special Autonomy law expires this year, the United Liberation Movement (ULMWP) and all the people of West Papua are ... <a title="Benny Wenda: A referendum, not ‘autonomy’, only West Papua solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/benny-wenda-a-referendum-not-autonomy-only-west-papua-solution/" aria-label="Read more about Benny Wenda: A referendum, not ‘autonomy’, only West Papua solution">Read more</a>
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July 9, 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 National Party Covid-19 patient privacy leak Claire Trevett (Herald): The harm for Todd Muller in Hamish Walker’s Icarus moment (paywalled) Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): A swift end for Walker, prolonged pain for National Cat MacLennan ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 09 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-july-09-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 09 2020">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s Controller of the National Pandemic Response and Police Commissioner, David Manning, has told the public that a rumour circulating on social media about new cases of covid-19 in Port Moresby is false, the PNG Post-Courier reports. He also cautioned the public from spreading misinformation and fake news which ... <a title="PNG covid response controller warns public against fake news" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/png-covid-response-controller-warns-public-against-fake-news/" aria-label="Read more about PNG covid response controller warns public against fake news">Read more</a>
