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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia’s top economists are reluctant to endorse the use of either cash incentives or lotteries to boost vaccination rates. A survey of 60 leading Australian economists selected by the Economic Society has instead overwhelmingly endorsed ... <a title="Top economists in no rush to offer cash incentives for vaccination" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/top-economists-in-no-rush-to-offer-cash-incentives-for-vaccination-166560/" aria-label="Read more about Top economists in no rush to offer cash incentives for vaccination">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharon Kaye Parker, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Curtin University Shutterstock If you think your manager treats you unfairly, the thought might have crossed your mind that replacing said boss with an unbiased machine that rewards performance based on objective data is a path to workplace happiness. ... <a title="3 ways ‘algorithmic management’ makes work more stressful and less satisfying" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/3-ways-algorithmic-management-makes-work-more-stressful-and-less-satisfying-166030/" aria-label="Read more about 3 ways ‘algorithmic management’ makes work more stressful and less satisfying">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthea Vogl, Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney When the federal government first announced Australia’s COVID vaccination program in January, the eligibility criteria indicated refugees and asylum seekers, as well as certain other non-citizens, would not be able to access free vaccines. Days later, Health Minister Greg ... <a title="How many people in immigration detention have been vaccinated? Home Affairs won’t tell us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/how-many-people-in-immigration-detention-have-been-vaccinated-home-affairs-wont-tell-us-166101/" aria-label="Read more about How many people in immigration detention have been vaccinated? Home Affairs won’t tell us">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthea Vogl, Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney When the federal government first announced Australia’s COVID vaccination program in January, the eligibility criteria indicated refugees and asylum seekers, as well as certain other non-citizens, would not be able to access free vaccines. Days later, Health Minister Greg ... <a title="How many refugees in immigration detention have been vaccinated? Home Affairs won’t tell us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/how-many-refugees-in-immigration-detention-have-been-vaccinated-home-affairs-wont-tell-us-166101/" aria-label="Read more about How many refugees in immigration detention have been vaccinated? Home Affairs won’t tell us">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Hartig, PhD Candidate, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University Curtin University, Author provided On August 28, a SpaceX rocket will blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying supplies bound for the International Space Station. But also on board will be a small satellite ... <a title="We’re launching Australia’s first scratch-built satellite, and it’s a giant leap towards the Moon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/were-launching-australias-first-scratch-built-satellite-and-its-a-giant-leap-towards-the-moon-166409/" aria-label="Read more about We’re launching Australia’s first scratch-built satellite, and it’s a giant leap towards the Moon">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Government management of outbreak, expert advice Gordon Campbell: On our polarised attitudes to the Covid response Andrea Vance (Stuff): Failings ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 23 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-23-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 23 2021">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
EVENING REPORT: On Friday August 20 the Reserve Bank of New Zealand governor Adrian Orr told Bloomberg that a fundamental imbalance in the New Zealand economy is a lack of supply within the residential housing market. But will a supply correction alone resolve New Zealand’s affordable housing crisis? Stephen Minto analyses this question.
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Stevens, Research fellow, Australian Catholic University AMES Australia/Wikimedia Commons With the fall of Kabul this week, many commentators have noted the parallels with the fall of Saigon 46 years ago. The rapid advance of the Taliban insurgents and seizing of the capital left the US humiliated ... <a title="We can’t compare Australia’s intake of Afghan refugees with the post-Vietnam War era. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/we-cant-compare-australias-intake-of-afghan-refugees-with-the-post-vietnam-war-era-heres-why-166408/" aria-label="Read more about We can’t compare Australia’s intake of Afghan refugees with the post-Vietnam War era. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hamish McCallum, Director, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University, Griffith University Shutterstock The COVID-19 pandemic is a dramatic demonstration of evolution in action. Evolutionary theory explains much of what has already happened, predicts what will happen in the future and suggests which management strategies ... <a title="How will Delta evolve? Here’s what the theory tells us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/how-will-delta-evolve-heres-what-the-theory-tells-us-165243/" aria-label="Read more about How will Delta evolve? Here’s what the theory tells us">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Jotzo, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University The European Union is pressing ahead with carbon border levies – charges on carbon-intensive goods from countries such as Australia that haven’t taken strong action ... <a title="Land of opportunity: more sustainable Australian farming would protect our lucrative exports (and the planet)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/land-of-opportunity-more-sustainable-australian-farming-would-protect-our-lucrative-exports-and-the-planet-166177/" aria-label="Read more about Land of opportunity: more sustainable Australian farming would protect our lucrative exports (and the planet)">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Harpur, Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, the University of Queensland; International Distinguished Fellow, the Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University., The University of Queensland Shutterstock Should universities require students to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before attending campus once vaccines are readily available in Australia? ... <a title="Uni students have had to be vaccinated against other diseases — COVID-19 is no different" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/uni-students-have-had-to-be-vaccinated-against-other-diseases-covid-19-is-no-different-166103/" aria-label="Read more about Uni students have had to be vaccinated against other diseases — COVID-19 is no different">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University Unsplash/Cristina Anne Costello, CC BY Born into slavery, then crippled by his master and exiled by the Emperor Domitian, Epictetus (c.60-135 CE) has become arguably the central figure in today’s global revival of Stoicism. A straight-talking advocate of the ... <a title="When life gives you lemons … 4 Stoic tips for getting through lockdown from Epictetus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/when-life-gives-you-lemons-4-stoic-tips-for-getting-through-lockdown-from-epictetus-166487/" aria-label="Read more about When life gives you lemons … 4 Stoic tips for getting through lockdown from Epictetus">Read more</a>
