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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Wark, Conjoint Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle The latest figures available show there are 1,189 people admitted with COVID-19 to hospitals in New South Wales, with 222 of them in intensive care units (ICU), 94 needing ventilation. This week there were ... <a title="We’re two frontline COVID doctors. Here’s what we see as case numbers rise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/were-two-frontline-covid-doctors-heres-what-we-see-as-case-numbers-rise-167195/" aria-label="Read more about We’re two frontline COVID doctors. Here’s what we see as case numbers rise">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucas Walsh, Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University Australian Education Minister Alan Tudge says he does not want students to leave school with “a hatred” of their country because the history curriculum for years 7 to 10 “paints an ... <a title="Teaching a ‘hatred’ of Australia? No, minister, here’s why a democracy has critical curriculum content" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/teaching-a-hatred-of-australia-no-minister-heres-why-a-democracy-has-critical-curriculum-content-167697/" aria-label="Read more about Teaching a ‘hatred’ of Australia? No, minister, here’s why a democracy has critical curriculum content">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Gleeson, Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University covaxx Dimitris Barletis/Shutterstock After months of holding out, Australia has at last joined other members of the World Trade Organisation in backing a waiver of patents and other intellectual property rights on vaccines, treatments, diagnostic tests and ... <a title="Australia has finally backed a plan to let developing countries make cheap COVID-19 vaccines — what matters is what it does next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/australia-has-finally-backed-a-plan-to-let-developing-countries-make-cheap-covid-19-vaccines-what-matters-is-what-it-does-next-167630/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has finally backed a plan to let developing countries make cheap COVID-19 vaccines — what matters is what it does next">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeremy Martens, Senior Lecturer, History, The University of Western Australia Portrait of Sir James Stirling, ca. 1833. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales ML 15 Ref: 897230’ In June, councillors in Perth’s City of Stirling decided not to change the name of their municipality, despite ... <a title="New research shows WA’s first governor condoned killing of Noongar people despite proclaiming all equal under law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/new-research-shows-was-first-governor-condoned-killing-of-noongar-people-despite-proclaiming-all-equal-under-law-165871/" aria-label="Read more about New research shows WA’s first governor condoned killing of Noongar people despite proclaiming all equal under law">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Blair Williams, Research Fellow, Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL), Australian National University Mick Tsikas/AAP This week, a new Australian political biography will appear on bookshelves. This is The Accidental Prime Minister, an examination of Scott Morrison by journalist Annika Smethurst. While a prime minister makes for ... <a title="I studied 31 Australian political biographies published in the past decade — only 4 were about women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/i-studied-31-australian-political-biographies-published-in-the-past-decade-only-4-were-about-women-167448/" aria-label="Read more about I studied 31 Australian political biographies published in the past decade — only 4 were about women">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charith Rathnayaka, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast Shutterstock Potatoes can become more brittle, apples may be harder to dehydrate, and sultanas might be off the menu altogether — these are possible outcomes of recurring and intensifying droughts under climate change in Australia. It ... <a title="Climate change is coming for your snacks: why repeated drought threatens dried fruits and veggies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/climate-change-is-coming-for-your-snacks-why-repeated-drought-threatens-dried-fruits-and-veggies-166826/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change is coming for your snacks: why repeated drought threatens dried fruits and veggies">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea has dispatched a team of government officials to investigate a covid-19 delta variant threat in its two frontline provinces bordering Indonesia’s Papua — Western and West Sepik. Health Minister Jelta Wong has revealed this in Parliament while responding to questions without notice. Admitting the rise of ... <a title="PNG dispatches investigators to check out ‘delta threat’ on Papuan border" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/png-dispatches-investigators-to-check-out-delta-threat-on-papuan-border/" aria-label="Read more about PNG dispatches investigators to check out ‘delta threat’ on Papuan border">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
RNZ News Auckland will stay in covid-19 alert level 4 for another week until 11.59pm next Tuesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. Cabinet has made an in principle decision that Tāmaki Makaurau will then move to alert level 3. The rest of New Zealand will remain in alert level 2 until Tuesday next week. Alert ... <a title="Ardern says Auckland to stay in lockdown for another week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/ardern-says-auckland-to-stay-in-lockdown-for-another-week/" aria-label="Read more about Ardern says Auckland to stay in lockdown for another week">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Jason Brown in Auckland Twenty years ago, I was on a plane from Rarotonga to Auckland. Lovely flight, with a path at the end I had never experienced before. Almost from the tip of the North Island, down to Tamaki Makaurau — the rising sun bathing the hills and coastline in rich, almost ... <a title="Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to the end of being Pacific pawns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/jason-brown-9-11-and-a-mango-dawn-and-heres-to-the-end-of-being-pacific-pawns/" aria-label="Read more about Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to the end of being Pacific pawns">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Pasifika local government politician in New Zealand, the first from Kiribati to be elected to political office, has appealed to “Pasifika friends and family” to get vaccinated now as part of the national covid rollout. Victoria Short, deputy chair of Auckland’s Hibiscus and Bays Local Board, says not to wait. ... <a title="Plea to Pasifika ‘friends and family’, community to get covid shots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/plea-to-pasifika-friends-and-family-community-to-get-covid-shots/" aria-label="Read more about Plea to Pasifika ‘friends and family’, community to get covid shots">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva Nauru president Lionel Aingimea has accused Fiji of being “divisive” over its refusal to pay its share of funding for the 12-nation regional University of the South Pacific, saying the institution needs every member country to pay their contribution. Aingimea said all Pacific island country members of USP were present ... <a title="Nauru president Aingimea accuses Fiji of being ‘divisive’ over USP funding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/nauru-president-aingimea-accuses-fiji-of-being-divisive-over-usp-funding/" aria-label="Read more about Nauru president Aingimea accuses Fiji of being ‘divisive’ over USP funding">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
RNZ News Covid-19 numbers dropped slightly today to 20 new community cases, while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a deal with Denmark to bring 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to this country. The number of new delta variant community cases in New Zealand dropped back to 20 cases from yesterday’s 23, which was the ... <a title="NZ’s covid-19 numbers drop to 20 new cases – new vaccine deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/nzs-covid-19-numbers-drop-to-20-new-cases-new-vaccine-deal/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s covid-19 numbers drop to 20 new cases – new vaccine deal">Read more</a>
