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Year: 2021

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COVID vaccines offer the pharma industry a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reset its reputation. But it’s after decades of big profits and scandals

August 4, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Moynihan, Assistant Professor, Bond University Elsa Olofsson/Unsplash Just weeks before the first COVID-19 cases emerged, Gallup published its latest poll on America’s views about business. At the bottom of the list of 25 sectors was the pharmaceutical industry. Below advertising. Below oil and gas. Below the ... <a title="COVID vaccines offer the pharma industry a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reset its reputation. But it’s after decades of big profits and scandals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/covid-vaccines-offer-the-pharma-industry-a-once-in-a-generation-opportunity-to-reset-its-reputation-but-its-after-decades-of-big-profits-and-scandals-165082/" aria-label="Read more about COVID vaccines offer the pharma industry a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reset its reputation. But it’s after decades of big profits and scandals">Read more</a>

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Vineyard tourism is a big source of carbon emissions. Want to help? Then buy more wine

August 4, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ya-Yen Sun, Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland Shutterstock In a non-COVID year, Australia’s vineyards host more than eight million wine tourists. While these visitors benefit wine producers and regional communities, they also generate a substantial amount of greenhouse gases. If fact, our recent research showed tourist ... <a title="Vineyard tourism is a big source of carbon emissions. Want to help? Then buy more wine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/vineyard-tourism-is-a-big-source-of-carbon-emissions-want-to-help-then-buy-more-wine-164600/" aria-label="Read more about Vineyard tourism is a big source of carbon emissions. Want to help? Then buy more wine">Read more</a>

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The Hiroshima Panels are a remarkable artistic exploration of trauma

August 4, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barbara Hartley, Honorary Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland XIV Crows (からす) by Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi, 1972 Courtesy the Maruki Gallery On August 6, 1945, the US military obliterated Hiroshima with the world’s first deployed nuclear bomb. Several days later, artist Maruki Iri arrived in ... <a title="The Hiroshima Panels are a remarkable artistic exploration of trauma" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/the-hiroshima-panels-are-a-remarkable-artistic-exploration-of-trauma-164333/" aria-label="Read more about The Hiroshima Panels are a remarkable artistic exploration of trauma">Read more</a>

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Let’s choose our words more carefully when discussing mātauranga Māori and science

August 4, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily Parke, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Auckland www.shutterstock.com Responding to the recent controversy over mātauranga Māori and the letter he co-authored titled “In defence of science”, Emeritus Professor Michael Corballis said: “We don’t know any Māori who knows what mātauranga is.” This immediately made us ... <a title="Let’s choose our words more carefully when discussing mātauranga Māori and science" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/lets-choose-our-words-more-carefully-when-discussing-matauranga-maori-and-science-165465/" aria-label="Read more about Let’s choose our words more carefully when discussing mātauranga Māori and science">Read more</a>

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Tuatara are ancient, slow and endangered. But their super speedy sperm could boost conservation efforts

August 4, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Lamar, PhD Researcher, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Shutterstock/Rudmer Zwerver New Zealand’s endemic tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) are the sole survivors of an ancient reptile order called Rhynchocephalia. Once widespread across New Zealand, tuatara survive in only a fraction of their historic range, on ... <a title="Tuatara are ancient, slow and endangered. But their super speedy sperm could boost conservation efforts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/tuatara-are-ancient-slow-and-endangered-but-their-super-speedy-sperm-could-boost-conservation-efforts-165173/" aria-label="Read more about Tuatara are ancient, slow and endangered. But their super speedy sperm could boost conservation efforts">Read more</a>

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Open season again for Indonesian military trolls and ‘fake news’ campaign on West Papua

August 4, 2021

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie It is open season again for Indonesian trolls targeting Asia Pacific Report and other media with fake news and disinformation dispatches in a crude attempt to gloss over human rights violations. Just three months ago I wrote about this issue in my “Dear editor” article exposing the disinformation campaign. There ... <a title="Open season again for Indonesian military trolls and ‘fake news’ campaign on West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/open-season-again-for-indonesian-military-trolls-and-fake-news-campaign-on-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Open season again for Indonesian military trolls and ‘fake news’ campaign on West Papua">Read more</a>

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Accelerated jabs for younger people after Doherty modelling shows it’s vital to vaccinate them quickly

August 3, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government is set to tweak its vaccination timetable to accelerate jabs for those aged 30 to 39, after Doherty Institute modelling showing it is vital to get younger adults quickly vaccinated, because they are high COVID transmitters. Those in ... <a title="Accelerated jabs for younger people after Doherty modelling shows it’s vital to vaccinate them quickly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/03/accelerated-jabs-for-younger-people-after-doherty-modelling-shows-its-vital-to-vaccinate-them-quickly-165555/" aria-label="Read more about Accelerated jabs for younger people after Doherty modelling shows it’s vital to vaccinate them quickly">Read more</a>

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Podcast with Michelle Grattan: a four-stage plan and a $300 payment to get vaccinated

August 3, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversations’s politics team. In this episode, politics + society editor Amanda Dunn ... <a title="Podcast with Michelle Grattan: a four-stage plan and a $300 payment to get vaccinated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/03/podcast-with-michelle-grattan-a-four-stage-plan-and-a-300-payment-to-get-vaccinated-165542/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast with Michelle Grattan: a four-stage plan and a $300 payment to get vaccinated">Read more</a>

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NZ sends 100,000 vaccine doses to Fiji as covid deaths top 250

August 3, 2021

RNZ Pacific New Zealand is sending 100,000 vaccine doses and additional financial support to Fiji for nursing staff as the country’s covid-19 death toll passed 250. Fiji reported 1100 new cases and 13 more deaths today, bringing the total death toll to 254. Of the deaths, 252 of them have come from the April outbreak ... <a title="NZ sends 100,000 vaccine doses to Fiji as covid deaths top 250" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/03/nz-sends-100000-vaccine-doses-to-fiji-as-covid-deaths-top-250/" aria-label="Read more about NZ sends 100,000 vaccine doses to Fiji as covid deaths top 250">Read more</a>

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Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Fundamentalism in our Post-Globalisation Era

August 3, 2021

Analysis by Keith Rankin. We have this pretty fiction that the world is made up of approximately 200 politically autonomous nation-states. This in the entrenched ‘Wilsonian’ view of the political world that, in particular, was sort-of realised after World War One; a view that rendered the national empires (such as the British Empire) of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Fundamentalism in our Post-Globalisation Era" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/03/keith-rankin-essay-territorial-fundamentalism-in-our-post-globalisation-era/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Fundamentalism in our Post-Globalisation Era">Read more</a>

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Why Jack Dorsey’s Square paid a record $39 billion for Afterpay

August 3, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lien Duong, Senior Lecturer in School Accounting of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Curtin University The A$39 billion (US$29 billion) that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s digital payments company Square is paying to acquire Australian upstart payments outfit Afterpay is the biggest takeover deal in Australian corporate history. It ... <a title="Why Jack Dorsey’s Square paid a record $39 billion for Afterpay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/03/why-jack-dorseys-square-paid-a-record-39-billion-for-afterpay-165528/" aria-label="Read more about Why Jack Dorsey’s Square paid a record $39 billion for Afterpay">Read more</a>

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Vitamins and minerals aren’t risk-free. Here are 6 ways they can cause harm

August 3, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geraldine Moses, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland Shutterstock One reason dietary supplements are so popular is the perception they’re harmless. But like all drugs, there are many potential dangers from taking vitamins and minerals. The problem is that, unlike conventional medicines, dietary ... <a title="Vitamins and minerals aren’t risk-free. Here are 6 ways they can cause harm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/03/vitamins-and-minerals-arent-risk-free-here-are-6-ways-they-can-cause-harm-165399/" aria-label="Read more about Vitamins and minerals aren’t risk-free. Here are 6 ways they can cause harm">Read more</a>