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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
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>
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January 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Helene Nolan, Senior research fellow, Western Sydney University Darren England/AAP The current wet conditions delivered by La Niña may have caused widespread flooding, but they’ve also provided a reprieve from the threat of bushfires in southeastern Australia. This is an ideal time to consider how we ... <a title="Fire management in Australia has reached a crossroads and ‘business as usual’ won’t cut it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/fire-management-in-australia-has-reached-a-crossroads-and-business-as-usual-wont-cut-it-174696/" aria-label="Read more about Fire management in Australia has reached a crossroads and ‘business as usual’ won’t cut it">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Heinemann, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Canterbury shutterstock Two high-profile University of Auckland academics raised important questions about academic freedom with their complaint to the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) that their employer had failed its duty of care to them. Associate Professor Siouxsie ... <a title="What does ‘academic freedom’ mean in practice? Why the Siouxsie Wiles and Shaun Hendy employment case matters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/what-does-academic-freedom-mean-in-practice-why-the-siouxsie-wiles-and-shaun-hendy-employment-case-matters-174695/" aria-label="Read more about What does ‘academic freedom’ mean in practice? Why the Siouxsie Wiles and Shaun Hendy employment case matters">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="The 3 problems with fines for not reporting positive COVID tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/14/the-3-problems-with-fines-for-not-reporting-positive-covid-tests-174774/" aria-label="Read more about The 3 problems with fines for not reporting positive COVID tests">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australia’s journey through Omicron is like the bus tour from hell. Steering awry, seat belts forgotten or not working, and the driver’s patter wearing thin with stressed passengers. Eventually we’ll see the back of the boggy ground on this outback ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Government management of Omicron blighted by false assumptions, bad planning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/13/grattan-on-friday-government-management-of-omicron-blighted-by-false-assumptions-bad-planning-174876/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Government management of Omicron blighted by false assumptions, bad planning">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Penny Olsen, Honorary Professor in the Division of Ecology and Evolution, Australian National University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Who would have thought the budgerigar, Australia’s most petite parrot and a denizen of our arid and semi-arid inland, would become the most popular pet bird in the ... <a title="In a fight between a wild and a domestic budgie, whose feathers would fly?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/13/in-a-fight-between-a-wild-and-a-domestic-budgie-whose-feathers-would-fly-171956/" aria-label="Read more about In a fight between a wild and a domestic budgie, whose feathers would fly?">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Anne Kenny, Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University After Novak Djokovic’s visa was restored by a Federal Court judge this week, the ultimate decision of whether he could stay in Australia rested with one person: Immigration Minister Alex Hawke. The personal powers of the immigration ... <a title="Why one man with ‘god-like’ powers decides if Novak Djokovic can stay or go" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/13/why-one-man-with-god-like-powers-decides-if-novak-djokovic-can-stay-or-go-174773/" aria-label="Read more about Why one man with ‘god-like’ powers decides if Novak Djokovic can stay or go">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society and NATSEM, University of Canberra Shutterstock Comedian Robin Williams once called cocaine “God’s way of telling you you are making too much money”. This role may now have been overtaken by non-fungible tokens, the blockchain-based means ... <a title="NFTs, an overblown speculative bubble inflated by pop culture and crypto mania" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/13/nfts-an-overblown-speculative-bubble-inflated-by-pop-culture-and-crypto-mania-174462/" aria-label="Read more about NFTs, an overblown speculative bubble inflated by pop culture and crypto mania">Read more</a>
