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August 14, 2020
Some Cook Islanders are expressing anger at the failure to implement stronger border control public health measures in response to 17 new community-transmitted covid-19 cases in New Zealand – and a further 13 today. Social media is abuzz with comments from some concerned locals. The island’s 10 volunteer puna cannot effectively manage supervised quarantine at ... <a title="‘Don’t risk our lives’ over covid, warns opposition Cook Islands Democrats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/dont-risk-our-lives-over-covid-warns-opposition-cook-islands-democrats/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Don’t risk our lives’ over covid, warns opposition Cook Islands Democrats">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adele Marum, PhD Candidate in English, University of Melbourne Review: Little Birds, Sky Atlantic, released on Stan August 5 2020 Little Birds adapts a 1979 collection of French-born diarist Anaïs Nin’s unsettling erotic short stories published two years after her death. Nin maintained that she wrote these ... <a title="Playing and paying the whore in Little Birds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/playing-and-paying-the-whore-in-little-birds-144345/" aria-label="Read more about Playing and paying the whore in Little Birds">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorraine Finlay, Lecturer in Law, Murdoch University The events of the past few days in Western Australia have been extraordinary as the protracted conflict between the government and mining billionaire Clive Palmer reached a fever pitch. Premier Mark McGowan declared the state is “in a war” with ... <a title="The WA government legislated itself a win in its dispute with Clive Palmer — and put itself above the law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/the-wa-government-legislated-itself-a-win-in-its-dispute-with-clive-palmer-and-put-itself-above-the-law-144360/" aria-label="Read more about The WA government legislated itself a win in its dispute with Clive Palmer — and put itself above the law">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific correspondent Pasifika family or just an Auckland family? There has been much debate over whether it was wrong to identify the family at the centre of New Zealand’s covid-cluster as a “Pasifika family”. As Pacific correspondent let me make this clear – it would have been the absolute peak ... <a title="Barbara Dreaver: Should we identify the first covid family as Pasifika? Yes we should, and here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/barbara-dreaver-should-we-identify-the-first-covid-family-as-pasifika-yes-we-should-and-heres-why/" aria-label="Read more about Barbara Dreaver: Should we identify the first covid family as Pasifika? Yes we should, and here’s why">Read more</a>
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August 14, 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 suspicions around Govt response, conspiracy theories Danyl Mclauchlan (Spinoff): The ruthless electoral politics behind National’s Covid conspiracy-baiting David Farrier (Stuff): ‘I’m just outlining facts’: watching New Zealand getting red-pilled, in freal ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 14 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-14-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 14 2020">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By RNZ News The lack of testing of staff at New Zealand’s border is extraordinary, a prominent epidemiologist says. Health officials are frantically trying to trace the origin of the covid-19 cluster in Auckland, which could have come from the border. Otago University professor Sir David Skegg told RNZ Morning Report reports show more than ... <a title="NZ’s lack of covid testing of staff at border ‘extraordinary’, says Skegg" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/nzs-lack-of-covid-testing-of-staff-at-border-extraordinary-says-skegg/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s lack of covid testing of staff at border ‘extraordinary’, says Skegg">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By Grant Duncan, Massey University If New Zealand can do grocery shopping under lockdown, we can vote under lockdown too. As much as supermarkets and pharmacies, the general election is an essential service and it must continue. There are ways and means to safely exercise our democratic rights during lockdown. The prime minister left it ... <a title="Voting is an essential service too. Why NZ can’t be afraid to go to the polls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/voting-is-an-essential-service-too-why-nz-cant-be-afraid-to-go-to-the-polls/" aria-label="Read more about Voting is an essential service too. Why NZ can’t be afraid to go to the polls">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk French authorities say 50 gendarmes who had been deployed in French Polynesia have tested positive to covid-19 after their return to France, reports Tahiti’s Radio One. The police were part of a group of 82 from Tarbes who had just returned home, the prefecture in the Hautes-Pyrenees department announced. The news ... <a title="50 French police who have returned from Polynesia test covid positive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/50-french-police-who-have-returned-from-polynesia-test-covid-positive/" aria-label="Read more about 50 French police who have returned from Polynesia test covid positive">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand Health Minister Chris Hipkins says there are more covid-19 cases related to the Auckland cluster which will be revealed at 1pm today. He says for New Zealand to move to alert level 4 there would need to be a number of clusters and unconnected cases. Earlier, Auckland Mayor Phil Goff ... <a title="NZ covid-19 update: More coronavirus cases linked to Auckland cluster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/nz-covid-19-update-more-coronavirus-cases-linked-to-auckland-cluster/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid-19 update: More coronavirus cases linked to Auckland cluster">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist Following the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20, many people throughout Australia, and across the world, wanted to know how they could help in response to the environmental disaster. Hundreds contacted the Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA), Australia’s ... <a title="From Kangaroo Island to Mallacoota, citizen scientists proved vital to Australia’s bushfire recovery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/from-kangaroo-island-to-mallacoota-citizen-scientists-proved-vital-to-australias-bushfire-recovery-48230/" aria-label="Read more about From Kangaroo Island to Mallacoota, citizen scientists proved vital to Australia’s bushfire recovery">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Have we flattened the curve of global terrorism? In our COVID-19-obsessed news cycle stories about terrorism and terrorist attacks have largely disappeared. We now, though, understand a little more about how ... <a title="In COVID’s shadow, global terrorism goes quiet. But we have seen this before, and should be wary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/in-covids-shadow-global-terrorism-goes-quiet-but-we-have-seen-this-before-and-should-be-wary-144286/" aria-label="Read more about In COVID’s shadow, global terrorism goes quiet. But we have seen this before, and should be wary">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hall, Senior Researcher in Politics, Auckland University of Technology It isn’t easy being a political opposition in the midst of a crisis. The volatility within New Zealand’s National Party – which has had three leaders in as many months – is a case in point. Some ... <a title="The COVID-19 crisis tests oppositions as well as governments. Ahead of New Zealand’s election, National risks failing that test" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/the-covid-19-crisis-tests-oppositions-as-well-as-governments-ahead-of-new-zealands-election-national-risks-failing-that-test-144415/" aria-label="Read more about The COVID-19 crisis tests oppositions as well as governments. Ahead of New Zealand’s election, National risks failing that test">Read more</a>
