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October 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. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Health system braces for influx of cases, home isolation required Zane Small ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 15 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/15/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-15-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 15 2021">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isabelle Volpe, PhD Candidate, Drug Policy Modelling Program, UNSW You may have read recently that TikTok allegedly “serves up” sex and drug videos to minors. Media reports have described the video-sharing platform, which is designed predominantly for young people, as an “addiction machine” that promotes harmful content. ... <a title="Sex, drugs and TikTok: keeping young people safe needs a mature response, not a moral panic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/15/sex-drugs-and-tiktok-keeping-young-people-safe-needs-a-mature-response-not-a-moral-panic-169530/" aria-label="Read more about Sex, drugs and TikTok: keeping young people safe needs a mature response, not a moral panic">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Seale, Associate professor, UNSW James Ross/AAP Australia’s international borders are due to reopen next month for people returning to states with 80% vaccination rates. Australian citizens and permanent residents who are fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine will be allowed to quarantine at home. They will ... <a title="International borders are about to open, but our research shows the plight of stranded Australians is not over" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/15/international-borders-are-about-to-open-but-our-research-shows-the-plight-of-stranded-australians-is-not-over-169646/" aria-label="Read more about International borders are about to open, but our research shows the plight of stranded Australians is not over">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen John Haslett, Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Massey University Hannah Peters/Getty Images For the detection of community transmission of COVID-19, New Zealand currently relies on contact tracing, testing of self-selected people with symptoms and those with permission to travel between different alert levels, and surveillance testing of ... <a title="How a random sampling regime could help detect COVID and highlight infection hotspots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/15/how-a-random-sampling-regime-could-help-detect-covid-and-highlight-infection-hotspots-169718/" aria-label="Read more about How a random sampling regime could help detect COVID and highlight infection hotspots">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Honorary Professional Fellow, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock Governments are pressing ahead with home quarantine for returning travellers and people are isolating at home due to COVID-19. So now is a good time to think about what you can ... <a title="I live in an apartment. How can I cut my risk of getting COVID?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/15/i-live-in-an-apartment-how-can-i-cut-my-risk-of-getting-covid-169364/" aria-label="Read more about I live in an apartment. How can I cut my risk of getting COVID?">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amber McLeod, Lecturer in Education, Monash University Shutterstock Despite the growth of technology in our daily lives, the integration of digital technologies into education has been slower than anticipated. There seem to be a number of factors at work here, including problems with access to technology and ... <a title="Videogames or homework? Why not both, as ACMI has 75 game lessons for you to try" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/15/videogames-or-homework-why-not-both-as-acmi-has-75-game-lessons-for-you-to-try-169359/" aria-label="Read more about Videogames or homework? Why not both, as ACMI has 75 game lessons for you to try">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND To the critics, the Treasury has just marked “its own homework”. It has produced a 60-page report entitled Insights from the first six months of JobKeeper. Commonwealth Treasury, October 11, 2021 And it finds the A$89 ... <a title="Vital Signs: JobKeeper delivered what was needed to save the patient" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/15/vital-signs-jobkeeper-delivered-what-was-needed-to-save-the-patient-169821/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: JobKeeper delivered what was needed to save the patient">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Libby (Elizabeth) Sander, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University Shutterstock COVID-19 has fundamentally changed our relationship with the office. After the enforced experiment of lockdowns pushing about 40% of the labour force into working from home, few of us want to return to ... <a title="How many days a week in the office are enough? You shouldn’t need to ask" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/15/how-many-days-a-week-in-the-office-are-enough-you-shouldnt-need-to-ask-166418/" aria-label="Read more about How many days a week in the office are enough? You shouldn’t need to ask">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emilie Dotte-Sarout, ARC DECRA research fellow, The University of Western Australia Mary Elizabeth Shutler in Vanuatu, in the1960s. Permitted to join the first archaeological expedition to New Caledonia in 1952 as a ‘voluntary assistant’, she was the only French speaker and chief interlocuter with the Kanak people. ... <a title="Friday essay: invisible no more – putting the first women archaeologists of the Pacific back on the map" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/15/friday-essay-invisible-no-more-putting-the-first-women-archaeologists-of-the-pacific-back-on-the-map-167886/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: invisible no more – putting the first women archaeologists of the Pacific back on the map">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Josh Van Veen, Research Associate, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland GettyImages Nine months out from the 2020 election, opinion polls suggested it would be a close race between Labour and National. But that all changed with the arrival of the global pandemic. COVID came to dominate ... <a title="Anniversary of a landslide: new research reveals what really swung New Zealand’s 2020 ‘COVID election’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/15/anniversary-of-a-landslide-new-research-reveals-what-really-swung-new-zealands-2020-covid-election-169351/" aria-label="Read more about Anniversary of a landslide: new research reveals what really swung New Zealand’s 2020 ‘COVID election’">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese has diminished his own, and Labor’s, credibility on integrity issues by declining to act immediately against MP Anthony Byrne, who this week admitted to participating extensively in branch stacking. Byrne’s evidence to Victoria’s Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission was ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Anthony Albanese needed to walk the talk on Labor integrity issue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/15/grattan-on-friday-anthony-albanese-needed-to-walk-the-talk-on-labor-integrity-issue-169957/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Anthony Albanese needed to walk the talk on Labor integrity issue">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jamie Triccas, Professor of Medical Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney Last Monday, Sydney emerged from a lockdown of more than 100 days after reaching the milestone of having 70% of the over-16 population fully vaccinated. Modelling predicted New South ... <a title="Why Sydney’s COVID numbers didn’t get as bad as the modelling suggested" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/14/why-sydneys-covid-numbers-didnt-get-as-bad-as-the-modelling-suggested-169368/" aria-label="Read more about Why Sydney’s COVID numbers didn’t get as bad as the modelling suggested">Read more</a>
