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January 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Mark Baker/AP Immigration Minister Alex Hawke announced late Friday he had cancelled tennis star Novak Djokovic’s visa “on health and good order grounds, on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so”. Djokovic’s lawyers are expected ... <a title="Novak Djokovic’s visa cancelled ‘in the public interest’, with possible 3-year ban from Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/novak-djokovics-visa-cancelled-in-the-public-interest-with-possible-3-year-ban-from-australia-174968/" aria-label="Read more about Novak Djokovic’s visa cancelled ‘in the public interest’, with possible 3-year ban from Australia">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University Thousands more essential workers will be allowed back to work rather than having to self-isolate for seven days, under new rules agreed by national cabinet. High-risk close contacts – those living with someone who has COVID-19 – must have a ... <a title="Latest isolation rules for critical workers gets the balance right. But that’s not the end of the story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/latest-isolation-rules-for-critical-workers-gets-the-balance-right-but-thats-not-the-end-of-the-story-174884/" aria-label="Read more about Latest isolation rules for critical workers gets the balance right. But that’s not the end of the story">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
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 Covid, MIQ, border Matthew Hooton (Herald): Govt’s sanguine stance on Omicron should have NZ worried (paywalled) ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 14 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-january-14-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 14 2022">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne shutterstock Shutterstock While Australians are used to summer heat, most of us only have to endure the occasional day over 40℃. Yesterday though, the temperature peaked at 50.7℃ in Onslow, a small Western Australian town around ... <a title="This WA town just topped 50℃ – a dangerous temperature many Australians will have to get used to" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/this-wa-town-just-topped-50-a-dangerous-temperature-many-australians-will-have-to-get-used-to-174909/" aria-label="Read more about This WA town just topped 50℃ – a dangerous temperature many Australians will have to get used to">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Shutterstock/The Conversation The NSW government this week decreed that anyone returning a positive COVID-19 reading using a rapid antigen test must report their result (through the Service NSW app or website). Failing to do so can result in a $1,000 fine. ... <a title="Vital Signs. The 3 problems with fines for not reporting positive COVID tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/vital-signs-the-3-problems-with-fines-for-not-reporting-positive-covid-tests-174774/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs. The 3 problems with fines for not reporting positive COVID tests">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Nine years ago widespread publicity given to the public execution of Kepari Leniata, who was falsely accused of sorcery and burnt by a mob in broad daylight in Papua New Guinea’s third-largest city Mt Hagen, shocked people around the world. The tragic death also highlighted the problem of Sorcery ... <a title="Still no justice for PNG sorcery burning victim Kepari Leniata after nine years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/still-no-justice-for-png-sorcery-burning-victim-kepari-leniata-after-nine-years/" aria-label="Read more about Still no justice for PNG sorcery burning victim Kepari Leniata after nine years">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
A report on the Next Generation Radio project … covering climate change in Fiji in real time. Video: Next Gen SPECIAL REPORT: By Michelle Betz in Ninole, Hawai’i As Cyclone Cody got set to pummel Fiji in early January, students at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji were getting set to start ... <a title="Boosting Pacific digital media skills amid a cyclone – all part of the job" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/boosting-pacific-digital-media-skills-amid-a-cyclone-all-part-of-the-job/" aria-label="Read more about Boosting Pacific digital media skills amid a cyclone – all part of the job">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor The Cook Islands has reopened its borders to fully vaccinated New Zealanders, but with less fanfare and more trepidation than last year’s kick-off. The two-way quarantine-free travel bubble lasted just three months in 2021 before authorities pulled the pin due to Auckland’s delta outbreak of covid-19. Since ... <a title="Cook Islands reopens border with vaccinated New Zealanders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/cook-islands-reopens-border-with-vaccinated-new-zealanders/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands reopens border with vaccinated New Zealanders">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
RNZ Pacific France’s highest court has upheld a corruption conviction of French Polynesia’s former president Gaston Flosse, effectively ending his political career. It confirmed a 2020 appeal court ruling in Tahiti, which had deprived Flosse of his eligibility to hold public office for five years after finding him and the current president Edouard Fritch guilty ... <a title="Tahiti’s Flosse banned from public office after latest court defeat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/tahitis-flosse-banned-from-public-office-after-latest-court-defeat/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti’s Flosse banned from public office after latest court defeat">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
By Ella Stewart, RNZ News reporter New Zealanders living overseas say covid-19 is now part of everyday life as cases of the highly-infectious omicron variant steadily grow around the globe. More than 307 million covid-19 cases have been confirmed since the pandemic began, with countries now breaking records for daily case numbers as leaders struggle ... <a title="Omicron part of everyday life, say New Zealanders living overseas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/omicron-part-of-everyday-life-say-new-zealanders-living-overseas/" aria-label="Read more about Omicron part of everyday life, say New Zealanders living overseas">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paola Magni, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science, Murdoch University COVID may have curtailed travel, hospitality, education and entertainment, but crime scene investigation never stops. As a forensic scientist, researcher and lecturer, I know first-hand the risks and challenges crime scene investigation (CSI) teams have faced over the ... <a title="Crime won’t stop because of COVID. So how should we protect crime scene investigators?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/crime-wont-stop-because-of-covid-so-how-should-we-protect-crime-scene-investigators-174870/" aria-label="Read more about Crime won’t stop because of COVID. So how should we protect crime scene investigators?">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia Shutterstock Before Australia’s recent changes to COVID testing, working out when we reached the peak of cases was, in principal, straightforward. We looked at the numbers of new daily cases, diagnosed via PCR. From there, we ... <a title="When will this COVID wave be over? 4 numbers to keep an eye on and why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/when-will-this-covid-wave-be-over-4-numbers-to-keep-an-eye-on-and-why-174533/" aria-label="Read more about When will this COVID wave be over? 4 numbers to keep an eye on and why">Read more</a>
