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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Williamson, Professor of Microbiology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Shutterstock Since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 testing in Australia has been performed using highly sensitive PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests. But this conventional model of testing, which involves swabbing by a health-care ... <a title="Rapid antigen testing isn’t perfect. But it could be a useful part of Australia’s COVID response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/rapid-antigen-testing-isnt-perfect-but-it-could-be-a-useful-part-of-australias-covid-response-164873/" aria-label="Read more about Rapid antigen testing isn’t perfect. But it could be a useful part of Australia’s COVID response">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vicki Sentas, Senior Lecturer, UNSW Law, UNSW With rolling lockdowns now part of how Australians live in the pandemic age, important questions arise about corresponding changes in policing. Constantly changing public health orders bring not only confusion but expansive police authority to enforce many new criminal offences. ... <a title="COVID has changed policing — but now policing needs to change to respond better to COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/covid-has-changed-policing-but-now-policing-needs-to-change-to-respond-better-to-covid-164959/" aria-label="Read more about COVID has changed policing — but now policing needs to change to respond better to COVID">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia Myanmar is facing a catastrophic health crisis that could have ramifications not just for the country’s long-suffering people, but across the region as well. The country is experiencing a major spike in COVID cases — what one Doctors Without ... <a title="How a perfect storm of events is turning Myanmar into a ‘super-spreader’ COVID state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/how-a-perfect-storm-of-events-is-turning-myanmar-into-a-super-spreader-covid-state-165174/" aria-label="Read more about How a perfect storm of events is turning Myanmar into a ‘super-spreader’ COVID state">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Blair Williams, Research Fellow, Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL), Australian National University Lukas Coch/AAP Australia has been rocked by serious allegations of sexual assault and harassment that have poured out of parliament house this year. In February, former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins revealed a toxic workplace ... <a title="If Australia is serious about fixing the culture at parliament, this is the code of conduct we need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/if-australia-is-serious-about-fixing-the-culture-at-parliament-this-is-the-code-of-conduct-we-need-161884/" aria-label="Read more about If Australia is serious about fixing the culture at parliament, this is the code of conduct we need">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Earlier this month National Cabinet released a four-phase COVID response plan. It wasn’t so much a plan – it had no dates and no thresholds – but more a back-of-the-napkin thought bubble. It was sensible, but vague. National Cabinet ... <a title="Australia shouldn’t ‘open up’ before we vaccinate at least 80% of the population. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/australia-shouldnt-open-up-before-we-vaccinate-at-least-80-of-the-population-heres-why-165073/" aria-label="Read more about Australia shouldn’t ‘open up’ before we vaccinate at least 80% of the population. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University AAP Shamefully, Australia has one of the highest extinction rates in the world. And the number one threat to our ... <a title="Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year – and it will get worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/pest-plants-and-animals-cost-australia-around-25-billion-a-year-and-it-will-get-worse-164969/" aria-label="Read more about Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year – and it will get worse">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Seto, Research Fellow, University of Wollongong Small Pacific Island states depend on their commercial fisheries for food supplies and economic health. But our new research shows climate change will dramatically alter tuna stocks in the tropical Pacific, with potentially severe consequences for the people who depend ... <a title="Climate change is causing tuna to migrate, which could spell catastrophe for the small islands that depend on them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/climate-change-is-causing-tuna-to-migrate-which-could-spell-catastrophe-for-the-small-islands-that-depend-on-them-164000/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change is causing tuna to migrate, which could spell catastrophe for the small islands that depend on them">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Gelber, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, The University of Queensland The University of Melbourne will open the Robert Menzies Institute, in honour of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister, in September this year. The presence of board members with close ties to the Liberal Party and the ... <a title="Should the University of Melbourne host the Menzies Institute? The answer hinges on academic freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/should-the-university-of-melbourne-host-the-menzies-institute-the-answer-hinges-on-academic-freedom-165072/" aria-label="Read more about Should the University of Melbourne host the Menzies Institute? The answer hinges on academic freedom">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Flavio Romero Macau, Associate dean, Edith Cowan University Claudio Divizia/Shutterstock If a “ring of steel” was actually placed around Sydney, as suggested by Victorian premier Daniel Andrews, the rest of Australia would suffer in ways that aren’t immediately apparent. Completely sealing a city or a region is ... <a title="A COVID ‘ring of steel’ around Sydney would play havoc with Australia’s supply chains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/a-covid-ring-of-steel-around-sydney-would-play-havoc-with-australias-supply-chains-165313/" aria-label="Read more about A COVID ‘ring of steel’ around Sydney would play havoc with Australia’s supply chains">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Bonyhady, Emeritus professor, Australian National University Masking Afghan coats for sale in Herat, 1974. Shutterstock The London launch of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in May 1967 was a musical and fashion landmark. While the clothes worn by all four Beatles startled the journalists and ... <a title="Friday essay: how ‘Afghan’ coats left Kabul for the fashion world and became a hippie must-have" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/friday-essay-how-afghan-coats-left-kabul-for-the-fashion-world-and-became-a-hippie-must-have-165007/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: how ‘Afghan’ coats left Kabul for the fashion world and became a hippie must-have">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Warning: Content may be distressing to some viewers. The video of the assault on the Papuan deaf teenager. Video: Benar News SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya Shocking video footage showing a brutal and inhumane assault on a deaf Papuan teenager named Steven has emerged from the Merauke region of Papua and sparked outrage. This assault ... <a title="Outrage over Indonesian officers for stomping on disabled Papuan teen’s head" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/outrage-over-indonesian-officers-for-stomping-on-disabled-papuan-teens-head/" aria-label="Read more about Outrage over Indonesian officers for stomping on disabled Papuan teen’s head">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese this week sent a clear message – he intends to use John Howard’s 1996 model as his strategic guide to the election. With this in mind, it was predictable the opposition leader would embrace the government’s stage three ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese lightens his boat, ahead of the battle of the ‘grey men’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/grattan-on-friday-albanese-lightens-his-boat-ahead-of-the-battle-of-the-grey-men-165331/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese lightens his boat, ahead of the battle of the ‘grey men’">Read more</a>
