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December 20, 2020
By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist Covid-19 vaccinations begin in the Northern Mariana Islands this weekend, but it is not yet clear when other Pacific countries will have access to a vaccine. The Northern Marianas, which is a US territory, was expecting 5,000 doses of the The Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to arrive during the ... <a title="Covid-19 vaccine roll out starts in parts of the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/20/covid-19-vaccine-roll-out-starts-in-parts-of-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 vaccine roll out starts in parts of the Pacific">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The most important changes in Scott Morrison’s limited reshuffle are centred on two vital and controversial issues – aged care and trade – that will severely test the government in coming months. Aged care has been elevated to cabinet and ... <a title="View from The Hill: aged care to cabinet, Tehan to trade in Morrison’s modest reshuffle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/view-from-the-hill-aged-care-to-cabinet-tehan-to-trade-in-morrisons-modest-reshuffle-152322/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: aged care to cabinet, Tehan to trade in Morrison’s modest reshuffle">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. 2020 has been the year of the scientist, or at least the public health scientist. Science is a method, not a discipline; it includes social science, because social science does at least notionally apply the scientific method. While being about the discovery of truth, the scientific method implies that truth (with ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Science: the Good, the Ugly, the False, and the Expedient" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/keith-rankin-analysis-science-the-good-the-ugly-the-false-and-the-expedient/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Science: the Good, the Ugly, the False, and the Expedient">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University It’s the last thing anyone wanted to hear, a week out from Christmas. But the growing cluster of COVID-19 cases linked to Sydney’s northern beaches has put Australia on alert. There are now 28 cases associated with the cluster, with ... <a title="Australia on alert as Sydney’s northern beaches COVID cluster grows, linked to US strain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/australia-on-alert-as-sydneys-northern-beaches-covid-cluster-grows-linked-to-us-strain-152310/" aria-label="Read more about Australia on alert as Sydney’s northern beaches COVID cluster grows, linked to US strain">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney Another day, another announcement about a COVID-19 vaccine. Whether that’s talk of results from clinical trials, emergency approval or plans for countries to prioritise certain groups for vaccination. But we still don’t know if current vaccines prevent disease ... <a title="A COVID-19 vaccine that prevents both the disease and viral transmission is the aim. Until then, here’s what we need to do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/a-covid-19-vaccine-that-prevents-both-the-disease-and-viral-transmission-is-the-aim-until-then-heres-what-we-need-to-do-151839/" aria-label="Read more about A COVID-19 vaccine that prevents both the disease and viral transmission is the aim. Until then, here’s what we need to do">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dianne Cook, Professor of Business Analytics, Monash University As last summer’s horrific bushfires raged, so too did debate about what caused them. Despite the prolonged drought and ever worsening climate change, some people sought to blame the fires largely on arson. Federal Coalition MPs were among those ... <a title="Open data shows lightning, not arson, was the likely cause of most Victorian bushfires last summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/open-data-shows-lightning-not-arson-was-the-likely-cause-of-most-victorian-bushfires-last-summer-151912/" aria-label="Read more about Open data shows lightning, not arson, was the likely cause of most Victorian bushfires last summer">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jorg Michael Hacker, Chief Scientist at Airborne Research Australia (ARA); and Professor, Flinders University Two days before Christmas last year, a fire reached our heritage-protected bush property in the Adelaide Hills, and destroyed our neighbour’s house. For the next two weeks we were on constant alert to ... <a title="Before and after: 4 new graphics show the recovery from last summer’s bushfire devastation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/before-and-after-4-new-graphics-show-the-recovery-from-last-summers-bushfire-devastation-149073/" aria-label="Read more about Before and after: 4 new graphics show the recovery from last summer’s bushfire devastation">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jorg Michael Hacker, Chief Scientist at Airborne Research Australia (ARA); and Professor, Flinders University Two days before Christmas last year, a fire reached our heritage-protected bush property in the Adelaide Hills, and destroyed our neighbour’s house. For the next two weeks we were on constant alert to ... <a title="Before and after: these 4 graphics show the recovery of last summer’s bushfire devastation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/before-and-after-these-4-graphics-show-the-recovery-of-last-summers-bushfire-devastation-149073/" aria-label="Read more about Before and after: these 4 graphics show the recovery of last summer’s bushfire devastation">Read more</a>
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December 18, 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 Ihumātao deal RNZ: Ihumātao: SOUL marks the beginning of the end 1News: Ihumātao protest leader celebrates land deal with Government, but not sold on housing proposals Justin Latif (Spinoff): The story behind the fight to save Ihumātao ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 18 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-18-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 18 2020">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Many houses in Fiji’s Vanua Levu have been destroyed, some families sheltered under beds and tables in their houses and others in cane plantations, as Cyclone Yasa wreaked havoc in many parts of the Northern Division, Fiji Village reports. Buildings and crops were been destroyed in Fiji’s second largest island and there’s ... <a title="Fiji declares state of disaster as TC Yasa wreaks havoc in Vanua Levu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/fiji-declares-state-of-disaster-as-tc-yasa-wreaks-havoc-in-vanua-levu/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji declares state of disaster as TC Yasa wreaks havoc in Vanua Levu">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Farkhondeh Hassandoust, Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology This week’s announcement of two new COVID-19 vaccine pre-purchase deals is encouraging, but doesn’t mean New Zealanders should become complacent about using the NZ COVID Tracer app during the summer holidays. The immunisation rollout won’t start until the second quarter ... <a title="Not just complacency: why people are reluctant to use COVID-19 contact-tracing apps" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/not-just-complacency-why-people-are-reluctant-to-use-covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-152085/" aria-label="Read more about Not just complacency: why people are reluctant to use COVID-19 contact-tracing apps">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Norris, Professor, School of Science, Western Sydney University At the very largest scale, the Universe consists of a “cosmic web” made of enormous, tenuous filaments of gas stretching between gigantic clumps of matter. Or that’s what our best models suggest. All we have seen so far ... <a title="A thread of the cosmic web: astronomers spot a 50 million light-year galactic filament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/a-thread-of-the-cosmic-web-astronomers-spot-a-50-million-light-year-galactic-filament-151569/" aria-label="Read more about A thread of the cosmic web: astronomers spot a 50 million light-year galactic filament">Read more</a>
