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August 20, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Early Identification and Action We are now learning, from Covid19, one thing above all else. With epidemics, it is early identification and action that matters. When our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, says that New Zealand’s government approach is to “go hard and go early”, she is only partly correct. What matters ... <a title="Keith Rankin – Epidemic Costs and Responses: Coronavirus and Tuberculosis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/keith-rankin-epidemic-costs-and-responses-coronavirus-and-tuberculosis/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin – Epidemic Costs and Responses: Coronavirus and Tuberculosis">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria O’Sullivan, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, and Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University Prime Minister Scott Morrison took many people by surprise this week when he said a COVID-19 vaccine would be “as mandatory as you could possibly make it”. Although he ... <a title="Can the government, or my employer, force me to get a COVID-19 vaccine under the law?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/can-the-government-or-my-employer-force-me-to-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-under-the-law-144739/" aria-label="Read more about Can the government, or my employer, force me to get a COVID-19 vaccine under the law?">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Egliston, Postdoctoral research fellow, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology There has been a clash of clans in mobile gaming, with angry birds Apple, Google and Epic Games in a saga over in-app payments. Video game developer Epic’s massively popular “battle royale” game Fortnite ... <a title="Apple, Google and Fortnite’s stoush is a classic case of how far big tech will go to retain power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/apple-google-and-fortnites-stoush-is-a-classic-case-of-how-far-big-tech-will-go-to-retain-power-144728/" aria-label="Read more about Apple, Google and Fortnite’s stoush is a classic case of how far big tech will go to retain power">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Willsteed, Senior lecturer, Queensland University of Technology In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic. This road down to Nashville is like crystal and stone, it’s a place where a man sells his ... <a title="Winter Winds by hippy cowboy Mickey Newbury: the perfect soundtrack to wintry times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/winter-winds-by-hippy-cowboy-mickey-newbury-the-perfect-soundtrack-to-wintry-times-143542/" aria-label="Read more about Winter Winds by hippy cowboy Mickey Newbury: the perfect soundtrack to wintry times">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Larisa Labzin, Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland Could we have some immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, without ever having been exposed to it? Some new studies found people who were never symptomatic, exposed to, or tested positive for COVID-19 ... <a title="Exposure to common colds might give some people a head start in fighting COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/exposure-to-common-colds-might-give-some-people-a-head-start-in-fighting-covid-19-143455/" aria-label="Read more about Exposure to common colds might give some people a head start in fighting COVID-19">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
VIDEO: In this week’s A View from Afar with Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning, we discuss: What’s behind the United Arab Emirates/Israel deal? Lukashenko has lost respect among Belarusians. But will he lose power in the eastern European state? Trumpianism, is it even a word? Is it for export? And how is the Democrat National ... <a title="VIDEO: A View from Afar – UAE-Israel Deal + Belarus + Trumpianism Biden and the US Elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/video-a-view-from-afar-uae-israel-deal-belarus-trumpianism-biden-and-the-us-elections/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: A View from Afar – UAE-Israel Deal + Belarus + Trumpianism Biden and the US Elections">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The Department of Social Services has confirmed Australia’s pensioners will not receive an automatic indexation increase this September, because inflation has gone backwards. This will be the first time since 1997 the pension hasn’t risen with ... <a title="There will be no pension increase in September for the first time in 23 years. But there is a simple fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/there-will-be-no-pension-increase-in-september-for-the-first-time-in-23-years-but-there-is-a-simple-fix-144732/" aria-label="Read more about There will be no pension increase in September for the first time in 23 years. But there is a simple fix">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Adelaide Over 2,000 active cases of COVID-19 and 245 resident deaths as of August 19 have been linked to aged care homes in Victoria, spread across over 120 facilities. The St Basil’s cluster alone now involves 191 cases. In ... <a title="Poor ventilation may be adding to nursing homes’ COVID-19 risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/poor-ventilation-may-be-adding-to-nursing-homes-covid-19-risks-144725/" aria-label="Read more about Poor ventilation may be adding to nursing homes’ COVID-19 risks">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce I live in Auckland. Last night while driving home around 8pm I passed a small roadside car park with about 10 vehicles in it with people sleeping in them. I doubt they were holiday makers. A story on today’s RNZ news feed says there are now 29 registered food banks serving ... <a title="Bryan Bruce: Unemployment isn’t working – we need universal job creation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/bryan-bruce-unemployment-isnt-working-we-need-universal-job-creation/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Bruce: Unemployment isn’t working – we need universal job creation">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
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 Border testing, quarantine facilities, alternative plans from NZ First, National, ACT Thomas Manch (Stuff): The Covid-19 border testing saga that’s going septic amid ministers’ muddled accounts Karl du Fresne: Incompetence is one thing, misinformation ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 20 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-20-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 20 2020">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shimona Kealy, Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University Prehistoric axes and beads found in caves on a remote Indonesian island suggest this was a crucial staging post for seafaring people who lived in this region as the last ice age was coming ... <a title="Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/stone-tools-from-a-remote-cave-reveal-how-island-hopping-humans-made-a-living-in-the-jungle-millennia-ago-144570/" aria-label="Read more about Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia ago">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristy Hess, Associate Professor (Communication), Deakin University After Australia’s two big local newspaper companies, Australian Community Media (ACM) and News Corporation, shut down scores of rural newspapers as part of their COVID-19 cost-saving strategies, there were heartwarming stories of retrenched journalists and volunteers stepping in to fill ... <a title="The government’s regional media bailout doesn’t go far enough — here are reforms we really need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/the-governments-regional-media-bailout-doesnt-go-far-enough-here-are-reforms-we-really-need-144666/" aria-label="Read more about The government’s regional media bailout doesn’t go far enough — here are reforms we really need">Read more</a>
