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Year: 2021

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Airline policies mandating vaccines will be a turbulent test of workplace rights

June 28, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giuseppe Carabetta, Senior Lecturer, Sydney University Business School, University of Sydney Airlines want you vaccinated. They want as many people as possible vaccinated. The sooner that happens, the sooner borders open and they can get back to profitability. They also have reasons to want to protect both ... <a title="Airline policies mandating vaccines will be a turbulent test of workplace rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/28/airline-policies-mandating-vaccines-will-be-a-turbulent-test-of-workplace-rights-162241/" aria-label="Read more about Airline policies mandating vaccines will be a turbulent test of workplace rights">Read more</a>

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Surrealists at Sea: Dušan and Voitre Marek finally receive their place in the pantheon of Australian surrealism

June 28, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Speck, Professorial Fellow (Honorary), The University of Melbourne Dušan Marek, born Bítouchov, Czechoslovakia 1926, died Adelaide 1993. Analysis of Substance, 1952, Kings Cross, Sydney. Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 88.2 cm. Purchased with the assistance of James Agapitos OAM and Ray Wilson OAM 2007, National Gallery ... <a title="Surrealists at Sea: Dušan and Voitre Marek finally receive their place in the pantheon of Australian surrealism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/28/surrealists-at-sea-dusan-and-voitre-marek-finally-receive-their-place-in-the-pantheon-of-australian-surrealism-163249/" aria-label="Read more about Surrealists at Sea: Dušan and Voitre Marek finally receive their place in the pantheon of Australian surrealism">Read more</a>

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Self-collected cervical screening is a great way to prevent cervical cancer. How can we get more people doing it?

June 28, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Creagh, Research Assistant in Evaluation and Implementation Science, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne from www.shutterstock.com Cervical cancer is a preventable cancer — most cases are caused by long-term infection with high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV). ... <a title="Self-collected cervical screening is a great way to prevent cervical cancer. How can we get more people doing it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/28/self-collected-cervical-screening-is-a-great-way-to-prevent-cervical-cancer-how-can-we-get-more-people-doing-it-163360/" aria-label="Read more about Self-collected cervical screening is a great way to prevent cervical cancer. How can we get more people doing it?">Read more</a>

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Want more research commercialisation? Then remove the barriers and give academics real incentives to do it

June 28, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Davern, Associate Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Shutterstock Research commercialisation in Australia has been getting more attention recently, but researchers face major obstacles to achieving this. If Australia wants to get serious about commercialising research knowledge, then we have to ... <a title="Want more research commercialisation? Then remove the barriers and give academics real incentives to do it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/28/want-more-research-commercialisation-then-remove-the-barriers-and-give-academics-real-incentives-to-do-it-161355/" aria-label="Read more about Want more research commercialisation? Then remove the barriers and give academics real incentives to do it">Read more</a>

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View from the Hill: COVID battle on a knife edge

June 28, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The argument Scott Morrison has consistently put – that NSW has a better way of dealing with COVID, by avoiding comprehensive closures – has been blown away by Gladys Berejiklian’s reluctant resort to a lockdown of greater Sydney and other ... <a title="View from the Hill: COVID battle on a knife edge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/28/view-from-the-hill-covid-battle-on-a-knife-edge-163476/" aria-label="Read more about View from the Hill: COVID battle on a knife edge">Read more</a>

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Intergenerational report to show Australia older, smaller and more in debt

June 28, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock Australia will be smaller and older than previously expected in 40 years time after the first downward revision of official projections in an intergenerational report in 20 years. The much lower projections in Monday’s ... <a title="Intergenerational report to show Australia older, smaller and more in debt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/28/intergenerational-report-to-show-australia-older-smaller-and-more-in-debt-163474/" aria-label="Read more about Intergenerational report to show Australia older, smaller and more in debt">Read more</a>

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Joyce repays supporters and demotes opponents in a ‘reward and punishment’ reshuffle

June 27, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Nationals Senate leader Bridget McKenzie has been restored to cabinet and Darren Chester has been dropped to the backbench in a reshuffle of blatant reward and punishment following Barnaby Joyce’s elevation. Andrew Gee, whose switch to Joyce was important ... <a title="Joyce repays supporters and demotes opponents in a ‘reward and punishment’ reshuffle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/27/joyce-repays-supporters-and-demotes-opponents-in-a-reward-and-punishment-reshuffle-163475/" aria-label="Read more about Joyce repays supporters and demotes opponents in a ‘reward and punishment’ reshuffle">Read more</a>

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‘Don’t trust Indonesian military,’ says OPM warning civilians to leave conflict

June 27, 2021

IndoLeft News The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organisation (TPNPB-OPM) has warned the Papuan people not to trust that the TNI (Indonesian military) and the Polri (Indonesian police) can provide them with security guarantees in the region. OPM spokesperson Sebby Sambom said that they had “sounded the drums of war” against the security forces ... <a title="‘Don’t trust Indonesian military,’ says OPM warning civilians to leave conflict" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/27/dont-trust-indonesian-military-says-opm-warning-civilians-to-leave-conflict/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Don’t trust Indonesian military,’ says OPM warning civilians to leave conflict">Read more</a>

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Covid-19: ‘We’re not in the clear yet’, epidemiologist warns NZ

June 27, 2021

RNZ News It will take a few more days before New Zealand can be said to have dodged a bullet over the latest covid-19 scare, an epidemiologist says. University of Otago epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker told RNZ Sunday Morning it was a close call. “We’re not in the clear yet. That will take another few ... <a title="Covid-19: ‘We’re not in the clear yet’, epidemiologist warns NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/27/covid-19-were-not-in-the-clear-yet-epidemiologist-warns-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19: ‘We’re not in the clear yet’, epidemiologist warns NZ">Read more</a>

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Wellington travellers to Rarotonga offloaded ‘in error’ over covid scare

June 26, 2021

By Emmanuel Samoglou in Avarua, Cook Islands Cook Islands Te Marae Ora Ministry of Health has apologised to passengers who were offloaded in error on an Air New Zealand flight to Rarotonga on Thursday (Wednesday, Cook Islands time). The government said 13 passengers were offloaded off the flight after it was discovered they had originated ... <a title="Wellington travellers to Rarotonga offloaded ‘in error’ over covid scare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/26/wellington-travellers-to-rarotonga-offloaded-in-error-over-covid-scare/" aria-label="Read more about Wellington travellers to Rarotonga offloaded ‘in error’ over covid scare">Read more</a>

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RSF’s Apple Daily ‘funeral protests’ mark risk of death of free press in China

June 26, 2021

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has staged parallel protests outside the Chinese embassies in Paris and Berlin, holding funeral-style processions to denounce the “killing” of Apple Daily by the Hong Kong government, and to raise alarm of the threats posed by the Beijing regime to press freedom globally. Arriving at the Chinese ... <a title="RSF’s Apple Daily ‘funeral protests’ mark risk of death of free press in China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/26/rsfs-apple-daily-funeral-protests-mark-risk-of-death-of-free-press-in-china/" aria-label="Read more about RSF’s Apple Daily ‘funeral protests’ mark risk of death of free press in China">Read more</a>

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Samoa’s FAST gets Appeal Court election clarification it wanted

June 26, 2021

RNZ Pacific The Court of Appeal in Samoa says its ruling from June 2 on the sixth women’s seat cannot be used to delay the convening of Parliament. The court had said a sixth woman is required to satisfy the constitutional requirements but that any decision on this be delayed until after the electoral petition ... <a title="Samoa’s FAST gets Appeal Court election clarification it wanted" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/26/samoas-fast-gets-appeal-court-election-clarification-it-wanted/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s FAST gets Appeal Court election clarification it wanted">Read more</a>