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February 15, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Covid: New community outbreak Jo Moir (Newsroom): The border will never be unbreachable Audrey Young (Herald): The best place to judge Ardern’s lockdown is from a rear view mirror (paywalled) Josh Van Veen (Democracy Project): Ardern’s Year of ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 15 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-15-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 15 2021">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Wallace, Associate Professor, 50/50 By 2030 Foundation, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra Federal opposition leader Anthony Albanese’s recent six-day tour of Queensland came not a minute too soon for Labor’s prospects in the possible election year of 2021. The old adage that ... <a title="Labor’s wicked problem: how to win back Queensland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/labors-wicked-problem-how-to-win-back-queensland-154951/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s wicked problem: how to win back Queensland">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoë Hyde, Epidemiologist, University of Western Australia In the past fortnight, two vaccine stories made headlines around the world. Novavax announced spectacular results for its phase 3 trial, while preliminary data suggest the AstraZeneca vaccine is ineffective against the South African variant. These two vaccines comprise the ... <a title="Herd immunity is the end game for the pandemic, but the AstraZeneca vaccine won’t get us there" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/herd-immunity-is-the-end-game-for-the-pandemic-but-the-astrazeneca-vaccine-wont-get-us-there-155115/" aria-label="Read more about Herd immunity is the end game for the pandemic, but the AstraZeneca vaccine won’t get us there">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dale Dominey-Howes, Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney When disaster strikes, not everyone is affected the same way. A growing body of research shows the experiences of sexually and gender diverse people are frequently very different to those of heterosexual people. Our research ... <a title="‘You never know if you will be treated properly and with respect’: voices of LGBTIQA+ people who lived through disasters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/you-never-know-if-you-will-be-treated-properly-and-with-respect-voices-of-lgbtiqa-people-who-lived-through-disasters-153190/" aria-label="Read more about ‘You never know if you will be treated properly and with respect’: voices of LGBTIQA+ people who lived through disasters">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shelley Kinash, Professor of Higher Education, University of Southern Queensland Throughout the world, COVID-19 health regulations have made the on-campus lecture mostly defunct. And most Australian universities won’t be offering on-campus lectures in 2021. The Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning (ACODE) recently published a white ... <a title="COVID killed the on-campus lecture, but will unis raise it from the dead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/covid-killed-the-on-campus-lecture-but-will-unis-raise-it-from-the-dead-152971/" aria-label="Read more about COVID killed the on-campus lecture, but will unis raise it from the dead?">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Davies, Professor of Human Geography, University of Western Australia Internal migration resulted in a net loss of 11,200 people from Australia’s capital cities in the September quarter of 2020, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data released this month. At the same time, some regional areas ... <a title="Has COVID really caused an exodus from our cities? In fact, moving to the regions is nothing new" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/has-covid-really-caused-an-exodus-from-our-cities-in-fact-moving-to-the-regions-is-nothing-new-154724/" aria-label="Read more about Has COVID really caused an exodus from our cities? In fact, moving to the regions is nothing new">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Htwe Htwe Thein, Associate professor, Curtin University The actions of the Myanmar military in arresting members of the government in dawn raids on February 1, the day parliament was set to convene, have been met with shock and dismay both within the country and around the world. ... <a title="Taking care of business: the coup in Myanmar is partly about protecting the economic interests of the military elite" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/taking-care-of-business-the-coup-in-myanmar-is-partly-about-protecting-the-economic-interests-of-the-military-elite-154727/" aria-label="Read more about Taking care of business: the coup in Myanmar is partly about protecting the economic interests of the military elite">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, University of Melbourne The Members’ Hall of Parliament House is home to the 25 completed portraits of Australia’s former prime ministers. The most recently revealed ... <a title="Cartoonist Johannes Leak is not known for his portraits – so why is he being given $40,000 to do Tony Abbott’s?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/cartoonist-johannes-leak-is-not-known-for-his-portraits-so-why-is-he-being-given-40-000-to-do-tony-abbotts-155037/" aria-label="Read more about Cartoonist Johannes Leak is not known for his portraits – so why is he being given $40,000 to do Tony Abbott’s?">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As JobKeeper enters its final weeks, the government has released the latest Tax Office breakdown of the numbers coming off the program, amid concerns its end in late March will see a rise in unemployment. With attention currently on Victoria, ... <a title="Victorians struggle to exit JobKeeper, as the scheme’s end looms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/victorians-struggle-to-exit-jobkeeper-as-the-schemes-end-looms-155288/" aria-label="Read more about Victorians struggle to exit JobKeeper, as the scheme’s end looms">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer S. Hunt, Lecturer in Security Studies, Australian National University Twice-impeached former US President Donald Trump has evaded conviction once more. On the fourth day of the impeachment trial, the Senate verdict is in. Voting guilty: 57 senators (representing nearly 70% of the country or 202 million ... <a title="Trump evades conviction again as Republicans opt for self-preservation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/14/trump-evades-conviction-again-as-republicans-opt-for-self-preservation-155283/" aria-label="Read more about Trump evades conviction again as Republicans opt for self-preservation">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in Suva The whistleblowing vice-chancellor at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Professor Pal Ahluwalia, has described the illegal deportation of he and his wife, Sandra Price, last week as a “surreal” experience. Many would agree that the inhumane, immoral and illegal deportation has plunged the tertiary institution into ... <a title="The future of USP is at stake – do Australia and NZ still stand for human rights?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/13/the-future-of-usp-is-at-stake-do-australia-and-nz-still-stand-for-human-rights/" aria-label="Read more about The future of USP is at stake – do Australia and NZ still stand for human rights?">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2021
REFLECTIONS: By Robbie Robertson and Akosita Tamanisau in Melbourne The pictures of Professor Pal Ahluwalia, the vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific (USP), and his wife Sandra Price on the morning of Thursday, February 4, during their long and unexpected plane journey back to Brisbane after their shock expulsion from Fiji brought back ... <a title="Fiji’s actions threaten to unwind the Pacific’s great experiment in regional education at USP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/13/fijis-actions-threaten-to-unwind-the-pacifics-great-experiment-in-regional-education-at-usp/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s actions threaten to unwind the Pacific’s great experiment in regional education at USP">Read more</a>
