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August 23, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. Jacinda Ardern’s Government was judged to have handled the first outbreak of Covid in 2020 extremely well. In 2021 there are signs that the Government is being judged differently. Highly competent lockdown decisions and communications with the public are one thing, but questions are being raised about whether the Government has ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Government’s Covid preparedness under scrutiny" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-governments-covid-preparedness-under-scrutiny/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Government’s Covid preparedness under scrutiny">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milo Barham, Senior Lecturer, Curtin University Milo Barham, Author provided Frozen northeast Greenland seems an unlikely place to gain insight into our ever-warming world. Between 50 million and 60 million years ago, however, the region was a different place. Back then Greenland had a subtropical climate befitting ... <a title="When Greenland was green: rapid global warming 55 million years ago shows us what the future may hold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/when-greenland-was-green-rapid-global-warming-55-million-years-ago-shows-us-what-the-future-may-hold-166342/" aria-label="Read more about When Greenland was green: rapid global warming 55 million years ago shows us what the future may hold">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma McBryde, Professor of Infectious Disease and Epidemiology, James Cook University Shutterstock People aged 16 and above will soon be able to get a COVID vaccine in Australia, but this begs the question: what about children in younger age groups? Currently, only 12-15 year olds with underlying ... <a title="High priority: why we must vaccinate children aged 12 and over now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/high-priority-why-we-must-vaccinate-children-aged-12-and-over-now-166425/" aria-label="Read more about High priority: why we must vaccinate children aged 12 and over now">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brian Moore, Lecturer, School of Education, Charles Sturt University Queensland school students have reportedly been bullied after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and have struggled to return to school as a result. The Queensland Department of Education stated it hasn’t heard of any bullying related to the COVID-19 ... <a title="School students who had COVID-19 report stigma and bullying. How can we stop it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/school-students-who-had-covid-19-report-stigma-and-bullying-how-can-we-stop-it-166507/" aria-label="Read more about School students who had COVID-19 report stigma and bullying. How can we stop it?">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angelina Hurley, PhD candidate, Griffith University This article contains mentions of the Stolen Generations. The golden rule when organising an arts event with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is to never hold it at the same time as a sports event. If there is a choice ... <a title="‘Art is our voice’: why the government needs to support Indigenous arts, not just sport, in the pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/art-is-our-voice-why-the-government-needs-to-support-indigenous-arts-not-just-sport-in-the-pandemic-163810/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Art is our voice’: why the government needs to support Indigenous arts, not just sport, in the pandemic">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joakim Goldhahn, Rock Art Australia Ian Potter Kimberley Chair, The University of Western Australia Adventurer Francis Birtles in his car with a man identified as Indigenous artist Nayombolmi. National Library of Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of ... <a title="Aboriginal art on a car? How an Indigenous artist and an adventurer met in the 1930 wet season in Kakadu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/aboriginal-art-on-a-car-how-an-indigenous-artist-and-an-adventurer-met-in-the-1930-wet-season-in-kakadu-164552/" aria-label="Read more about Aboriginal art on a car? How an Indigenous artist and an adventurer met in the 1930 wet season in Kakadu">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia’s top economists are reluctant to endorse the use of either cash incentives or lotteries to boost vaccination rates. A survey of 60 leading Australian economists selected by the Economic Society has instead overwhelmingly endorsed ... <a title="Top economists in no rush to offer cash incentives for vaccination" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/top-economists-in-no-rush-to-offer-cash-incentives-for-vaccination-166560/" aria-label="Read more about Top economists in no rush to offer cash incentives for vaccination">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharon Kaye Parker, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Curtin University Shutterstock If you think your manager treats you unfairly, the thought might have crossed your mind that replacing said boss with an unbiased machine that rewards performance based on objective data is a path to workplace happiness. ... <a title="3 ways ‘algorithmic management’ makes work more stressful and less satisfying" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/3-ways-algorithmic-management-makes-work-more-stressful-and-less-satisfying-166030/" aria-label="Read more about 3 ways ‘algorithmic management’ makes work more stressful and less satisfying">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthea Vogl, Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney When the federal government first announced Australia’s COVID vaccination program in January, the eligibility criteria indicated refugees and asylum seekers, as well as certain other non-citizens, would not be able to access free vaccines. Days later, Health Minister Greg ... <a title="How many people in immigration detention have been vaccinated? Home Affairs won’t tell us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/how-many-people-in-immigration-detention-have-been-vaccinated-home-affairs-wont-tell-us-166101/" aria-label="Read more about How many people in immigration detention have been vaccinated? Home Affairs won’t tell us">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthea Vogl, Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney When the federal government first announced Australia’s COVID vaccination program in January, the eligibility criteria indicated refugees and asylum seekers, as well as certain other non-citizens, would not be able to access free vaccines. Days later, Health Minister Greg ... <a title="How many refugees in immigration detention have been vaccinated? Home Affairs won’t tell us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/how-many-refugees-in-immigration-detention-have-been-vaccinated-home-affairs-wont-tell-us-166101/" aria-label="Read more about How many refugees in immigration detention have been vaccinated? Home Affairs won’t tell us">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Hartig, PhD Candidate, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University Curtin University, Author provided On August 28, a SpaceX rocket will blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying supplies bound for the International Space Station. But also on board will be a small satellite ... <a title="We’re launching Australia’s first scratch-built satellite, and it’s a giant leap towards the Moon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/were-launching-australias-first-scratch-built-satellite-and-its-a-giant-leap-towards-the-moon-166409/" aria-label="Read more about We’re launching Australia’s first scratch-built satellite, and it’s a giant leap towards the Moon">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
EVENING REPORT: On Friday August 20 the Reserve Bank of New Zealand governor Adrian Orr told Bloomberg that a fundamental imbalance in the New Zealand economy is a lack of supply within the residential housing market. But will a supply correction alone resolve New Zealand’s affordable housing crisis? Stephen Minto analyses this question.
