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November 9, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Auckland restrictions, Govt management of Delta outbreak Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Ardern sets herself up ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 09 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/09/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-09-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 09 2021">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the Post-Courier editors Prime Minister James Marape has defended the massive cost of sending a 62-strong delegation to the COP26 Climate Summit in Scotland as “justified”. However, following a controversy over the K5.8 million (NZ$2.03 million) bill for the travel late last week, the Post-Courier responds with this editorial. Prime Minister James Marape ... <a title="Post-Courier: PNG presence must reflect climate change solutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/09/post-courier-png-presence-must-reflect-climate-change-solutions/" aria-label="Read more about Post-Courier: PNG presence must reflect climate change solutions">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2021
RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today that the New Zealand cabinet agreed to loosen restrictions for Auckland and upper Northland this week, while 190 new cases were reported and the deaths of two people who had covid-19 are under investigation. Ardern said at the 4pm post-cabinet press conference that last week’s in principle ... <a title="NZ covid restrictions ease for Auckland and Northland – 190 new cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/09/nz-covid-restrictions-ease-for-auckland-and-northland-190-new-cases/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid restrictions ease for Auckland and Northland – 190 new cases">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Safiullah Taye, Researcher and Academic, Deakin University The fall of the Afghanistan government to the Taliban has presented the world with some stark choices. In recent weeks, the international community has raised alarm about the rapidly escalating humanitarian emergency in the country, calling for an influx of ... <a title="Can the world avert mass starvation in Afghanistan without emboldening the Taliban?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/09/can-the-world-avert-mass-starvation-in-afghanistan-without-emboldening-the-taliban-170709/" aria-label="Read more about Can the world avert mass starvation in Afghanistan without emboldening the Taliban?">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Quinn, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University John Cairns, University of Oxford via AP The past 20 months has seen an explosion of vaccine development, with COVID vaccine testing and rollout happening at an unprecedented pace in the face of a ... <a title="Nose sprays, needle-free patches, durable immunity: towards the next generation of COVID vaccines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/09/nose-sprays-needle-free-patches-durable-immunity-towards-the-next-generation-of-covid-vaccines-170861/" aria-label="Read more about Nose sprays, needle-free patches, durable immunity: towards the next generation of COVID vaccines">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Rasmussen, Deputy Dean and Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney Australian Centre for Field Robotics/University of Sydney Australia has been slow to join the global shift towards decarbonisation and lower emissions. Now, ready or not, the world is on the verge of a ... <a title="How can Australia get cracking on emissions? The know-how we need is in our universities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/09/how-can-australia-get-cracking-on-emissions-the-know-how-we-need-is-in-our-universities-170374/" aria-label="Read more about How can Australia get cracking on emissions? The know-how we need is in our universities">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra After demonising Labor’s policy on electric cars before the 2019 election, the federal government has put electric vehicles at the centre of a “future fuels and vehicles strategy” that Prime Minister Scott Morrison will release on Tuesday. The policy puts ... <a title="Scott Morrison spruiks electric vehicles – but rules out subsidies and an end-date for petrol cars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/09/scott-morrison-spruiks-electric-vehicles-but-rules-out-subsidies-and-an-end-date-for-petrol-cars-171429/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison spruiks electric vehicles – but rules out subsidies and an end-date for petrol cars">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Hutton, Professor , University of Newcastle A fatal crowd surge during a performance by US rapper Travis Scott on Friday night has become one of the deadliest live music incidents in recent years. Crowd crushes during the Houston show, which was part of the Astroworld Music ... <a title="Astroworld tragedy: here’s how music festival organisers can stop big crowds turning deadly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/astroworld-tragedy-heres-how-music-festival-organisers-can-stop-big-crowds-turning-deadly-171397/" aria-label="Read more about Astroworld tragedy: here’s how music festival organisers can stop big crowds turning deadly">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Morris, Research scientist, University of Sydney Shutterstock One of the most well-known findings in the economic study of happiness is that, on average, happiness increases with income, but at a certain point diminishing returns set in. In other words, money can only buy a fixed level ... <a title="Why happiness is becoming more expensive and out of reach for many Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/why-happiness-is-becoming-more-expensive-and-out-of-reach-for-many-australians-170877/" aria-label="Read more about Why happiness is becoming more expensive and out of reach for many Australians">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. To be fair to Russia, it is one of the quickest in the world to release its total death data. It is less good about reporting deaths as attributable to Covid19. (See Russia: The nation with half a million secret Covid-19 deaths, NZ Herald, 8 Nov 2021.) Based on the data ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Russia is First Equal for Covid Deaths per capita" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-russia-is-first-equal-for-covid-deaths-per-capita/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Russia is First Equal for Covid Deaths per capita">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Amazon Prime Review: Burning, directed by Eva Orner. The word “crisis” comes from the Greek krinein, which means to decide. You’re stuck in the middle of a burning fire: you need to decide whether you ... <a title="Burning is the slickest film about climate change since An Inconvenient Truth – and that’s its problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/burning-is-the-slickest-film-about-climate-change-since-an-inconvenient-truth-and-thats-its-problem-171385/" aria-label="Read more about Burning is the slickest film about climate change since An Inconvenient Truth – and that’s its problem">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Honorary Professional Fellow, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock Students have returned to school in New South Wales and Victoria after weeks of lockdowns. Along with vaccination and masks, experts have flagged good ventilation as one of the key factors ... <a title="Schools need to know classrooms’ air quality to protect against COVID. But governments aren’t measuring it properly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/schools-need-to-know-classrooms-air-quality-to-protect-against-covid-but-governments-arent-measuring-it-properly-171107/" aria-label="Read more about Schools need to know classrooms’ air quality to protect against COVID. But governments aren’t measuring it properly">Read more</a>
