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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Kaine, Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney In late March, the Victorian government put private security firms in charge of hotel quarantine in Melbourne. This happened without a formal tender process. It was a decision made at the height ... <a title="Melbourne’s hotel quarantine bungle is disappointing but not surprising. It was overseen by a flawed security industry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/melbournes-hotel-quarantine-bungle-is-disappointing-but-not-surprising-it-was-overseen-by-a-flawed-security-industry-142044/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne’s hotel quarantine bungle is disappointing but not surprising. It was overseen by a flawed security industry">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
By RNZ News Health Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand’s latest case of covid-19 will be charged for breaching isolation and visiting a central Auckland supermarket last night. Hipkins said the 32-year-old man, who arrived from India on July 3, left his managed isolation last night to go to the Countdown supermarket on Victoria Street ... <a title="New NZ case of ‘isolated’ covid patient visiting supermarket to be charged" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/new-nz-case-of-isolated-covid-patient-visiting-supermarket-to-be-charged/" aria-label="Read more about New NZ case of ‘isolated’ covid patient visiting supermarket to be charged">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato The leak of the confidential personal information of COVID-19 patients by Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker and influential party figure Michelle Boag has been highly embarrassing for the National Party. In less than 24 hours their attack strategy has detonated ... <a title="The National Party COVID-19 leak shows why the law must change to protect New Zealand citizens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/the-national-party-covid-19-leak-shows-why-the-law-must-change-to-protect-new-zealand-citizens-142250/" aria-label="Read more about The National Party COVID-19 leak shows why the law must change to protect New Zealand citizens">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dani Larkin, Associate Lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle Gunnai-Kurnai and Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe was recently elected by Greens party members to replace the former party leader, Richard Di Natale, as senator for Victoria. Thorpe is the first Indigenous woman to represent the Greens in federal ... <a title="Lidia Thorpe wants to shift course on Indigenous recognition. Here’s why we must respect the Uluru Statement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/lidia-thorpe-wants-to-shift-course-on-indigenous-recognition-heres-why-we-must-respect-the-uluru-statement-141609/" aria-label="Read more about Lidia Thorpe wants to shift course on Indigenous recognition. Here’s why we must respect the Uluru Statement">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charlene Zietsma, Associate professor, Pennsylvania State University In May this year, we were convening a dream conference: 140 like-minded academics on a Greek island for three-and-a-half days to work on a topic we cared about – organising sustainably. We recognised the contradiction of travelling to Crete to ... <a title="COVID-19 forced us to move a conference from a Greek island to the web — and quickly. Here’s what we learnt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/covid-19-forced-us-to-move-a-conference-from-a-greek-island-to-the-web-and-quickly-heres-what-we-learnt-140634/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 forced us to move a conference from a Greek island to the web — and quickly. Here’s what we learnt">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marina Yue Zhang, Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology Only 40% of students in China who previously intended to study overseas still plan to, while just under 50% of those who had studied overseas plan to return to their study after the borders ... <a title="Students in China heed their government’s warnings against studying in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/students-in-china-heed-their-governments-warnings-against-studying-in-australia-141871/" aria-label="Read more about Students in China heed their government’s warnings against studying in Australia">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
By RNZ News The opposition National Party leader says he has written to the party’s board asking them to remove MP Hamish Walker from the party after it was revealed he leaked private health information to New Zealand media. It was revealed yesterday that former National Party president Michelle Boag was responsible for leaking confidential ... <a title="‘There needs to be consequences’, says Muller over NZ MP’s covid leak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/there-needs-to-be-consequences-says-muller-over-nz-mps-covid-leak/" aria-label="Read more about ‘There needs to be consequences’, says Muller over NZ MP’s covid leak">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
COMMENT: By Nasya Bahfen in Melbourne Australia’s Victorian state government told returned travellers to quarantine for two weeks. Some broke the rules. It then paid for them to stay in hotels with security guards. Some of the guards couldn’t keep their dicks in their pants. Some of the returned travellers broke the rules. It then ... <a title="Nasya Bahfen: Some broke the rules and the covid enemy is taking over" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/nasya-bahfen-some-broke-the-rules-and-the-covid-enemy-is-taking-over/" aria-label="Read more about Nasya Bahfen: Some broke the rules and the covid enemy is taking over">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bjorn Sturmberg, Research Leader, Battery Storage & Grid Integration Program, Australian National University Electric vehicles can help keep the air clean in our cities – as we’ve seen recently with the reduction of traffic through COVID-19 lockdowns – but they face two obstacles. In the short term ... <a title="Owners of electric vehicles to be paid to plug into the grid to help avoid blackouts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/owners-of-electric-vehicles-to-be-paid-to-plug-into-the-grid-to-help-avoid-blackouts-132519/" aria-label="Read more about Owners of electric vehicles to be paid to plug into the grid to help avoid blackouts">Read more</a>
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July 8, 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 revealed as source of Covid-19 privacy leak Audrey Young (Herald): National’s failures on patient leak from top to bottom (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Stuff): National leader Todd Muller found wanting in first real ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 08 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-july-08-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 08 2020">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University In an age of isolation, video sharing platform TikTok has emerged as a bonding force for many. But recent headlines allege the service, owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance, is feeding users’ data to the Chinese Communist Party. ... <a title="China could be using TikTok to spy on Australians, but banning it isn’t a simple fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/china-could-be-using-tiktok-to-spy-on-australians-but-banning-it-isnt-a-simple-fix-142157/" aria-label="Read more about China could be using TikTok to spy on Australians, but banning it isn’t a simple fix">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kingsley Dixon, John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University This article is a preview from Flora, Fauna, Fire, a multimedia project launching on Monday July 13. The project tracks the recovery of Australia’s native plants and animals after last summer’s bushfire tragedy. Sign up to The Conversation’s newsletter ... <a title="After last summer’s fires, the bell tolls for Australia’s endangered mountain bells" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/after-last-summers-fires-the-bell-tolls-for-australias-endangered-mountain-bells-139665/" aria-label="Read more about After last summer’s fires, the bell tolls for Australia’s endangered mountain bells">Read more</a>
