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June 29, 2021
By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji has reported 241 new cases of covid-19 infections and one death in the 24-hour period ending at 8am yesterday. Health Secretary Dr James Fong said 5 cases were prison officers from Suva who were undergoing 14 days quarantine at the FSC Compound in Rakiraki as part of essential movement ... <a title="Fiji reports 241 new covid cases and one death – pastors warned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/fiji-reports-241-new-covid-cases-and-one-death-pastors-warned/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji reports 241 new covid cases and one death – pastors warned">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Otago University News Retired foundation director of Otago’s National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Professor Kevin Clements has been awarded the International Studies Association’s (ISA) 2022 Distinguished Scholar Award in its peace studies section. The ISA said the award was given each year to a scholar who had a substantial record of research, practice ... <a title="Otago conflict studies centre founder awarded global peace prize" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/otago-conflict-studies-centre-founder-awarded-global-peace-prize/" aria-label="Read more about Otago conflict studies centre founder awarded global peace prize">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Facebook News Facebook has today launched a public education campaign to help people in five Pacific Island countries and territories learn how to identify and combat health-related misinformation. The locations and languages are Wallis & Futuna (French), New Caledonia (French), Tonga (English and Tongan), Solomon Islands (English and Solomon Islands Pijin), and Cook Islands (English). ... <a title="Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/facebook-boosts-pacific-wide-health-campaign-against-misinformation/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rama V Baru, Professor, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University COVID-19 has exposed the inherent fault lines in India’s public health system. This year, as the pandemic’s deadly second wave began raging across the country, hospitals ran out of beds, oxygen cylinders, ventilators, ... <a title="Why couldn’t India’s health system cope during the second wave? Years of bad health policies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/why-couldnt-indias-health-system-cope-during-the-second-wave-years-of-bad-health-policies-162508/" aria-label="Read more about Why couldn’t India’s health system cope during the second wave? Years of bad health policies">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Harris, Senior Lecturer in Climatology, Director, Climate Futures Program, University of Tasmania Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a ... <a title="Climate explained: how the IPCC reaches scientific consensus on climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/climate-explained-how-the-ipcc-reaches-scientific-consensus-on-climate-change-162600/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: how the IPCC reaches scientific consensus on climate change">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute Morgan Sette/AAP Australia is now over four months into its COVID vaccine rollout, and it’s still not going well. At the six-week mark, I wrote about four ways the vaccine rollout had been bungled: the wrong pace, phasing, model, and ... <a title="Australia has not learned the lessons of its bungled COVID vaccine rollout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/australia-has-not-learned-the-lessons-of-its-bungled-covid-vaccine-rollout-163481/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has not learned the lessons of its bungled COVID vaccine rollout">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Brophy, Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, University of Sydney This is an edited extract from China Panic: Australia’s Alternative to Paranoia and Pandering, by David Brophy Things could always be worse in Australia–China relations, but on both sides, analysts see a rift too deep to ... <a title="Australia’s China policy can’t be based on paranoia or corporate interests — there is a better way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/australias-china-policy-cant-be-based-on-paranoia-or-corporate-interests-there-is-a-better-way-163494/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s China policy can’t be based on paranoia or corporate interests — there is a better way">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Hobbs, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of Canterbury Lynn Grieveson/Getty Images The trans-Tasman travel bubble popped just ten weeks after quarantine-free travel started. The government today announced that the current pause in trans-Tasman travel has been extended until at least midnight on Sunday. It will ... <a title="New Zealand is right to pause travel to Australia. It buys time to upgrade its COVID-19 response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/new-zealand-is-right-to-pause-travel-to-australia-it-buys-time-to-upgrade-its-covid-19-response-163488/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand is right to pause travel to Australia. It buys time to upgrade its COVID-19 response">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meg Elkins, Senior Lecturer with School of Economics, Finance and Marketing and Behavioural Business Lab Member, RMIT University For ufologists the US government’s eagerly anticipated report of “unidentified aerial phenomena” may be a major disappointment. It goes further than any previous report in admitting unknowns. But conspiracy ... <a title="From UFOs to COVID conspiracy theories, we all struggle with the ‘truth out there’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/from-ufos-to-covid-conspiracy-theories-we-all-struggle-with-the-truth-out-there-163483/" aria-label="Read more about From UFOs to COVID conspiracy theories, we all struggle with the ‘truth out there’">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ross Wissing, PhD Candidate, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University University campuses are urban cultural institutions inextricably linked to the “making” of cities. They are also sited on unceded First Nations land, in prime locations. Meaningful attempts to recognise this – and better represent Indigenous ... <a title="Australia’s universities are on unceded land. Here’s how they must reconcile with First Nations people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/australias-universities-are-on-unceded-land-heres-how-they-must-reconcile-with-first-nations-people-155966/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s universities are on unceded land. Here’s how they must reconcile with First Nations people">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne Media coverage of the first few days of the COVID-19 Delta variant outbreak in New South Wales has been markedly different from that of the most recent lockdown in Victoria. The most noticeable difference ... <a title="Contrasting NSW and Victoria lockdown coverage reveals much about the politics of COVID – and the media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/contrasting-nsw-and-victoria-lockdown-coverage-reveals-much-about-the-politics-of-covid-and-the-media-163482/" aria-label="Read more about Contrasting NSW and Victoria lockdown coverage reveals much about the politics of COVID – and the media">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charles Corke, Associate Professor of Medicine, Deakin University Shutterstock Voluntary assisted dying has been a legal option for Victorians since June 2019. On July 1, it will become available in Western Australia, which was the second Australian state to legalise voluntary assisted dying. Tasmania and South Australia ... <a title="Voluntary assisted dying will begin in WA this week. But one Commonwealth law could get in the way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/voluntary-assisted-dying-will-begin-in-wa-this-week-but-one-commonwealth-law-could-get-in-the-way-161982/" aria-label="Read more about Voluntary assisted dying will begin in WA this week. But one Commonwealth law could get in the way">Read more</a>
