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September 1, 2021
RNZ News New Zealand’s Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the country may never find out the source of the current outbreak, while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she lies awake at night pondering the ways in which it may have happened. In today’s update, Dr Bloomfield said there were 49 new cases of ... <a title="Bloomfield says no update on how virus got into NZ community" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/01/bloomfield-says-no-update-on-how-virus-got-into-nz-community/" aria-label="Read more about Bloomfield says no update on how virus got into NZ community">Read more</a>
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September 1, 2021
By Timoci Vula in Suva The University of Canterbury and the University of the South Pacific are partnering in a unique research project that will explore the impact of climate change in the Pacific, and the role indigenous ecological knowledge can play to help communities to adapt. A statement from the USP said the project ... <a title="USP and Canterbury University partner for Pacific climate research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/01/usp-and-canterbury-university-partner-for-pacific-climate-research/" aria-label="Read more about USP and Canterbury University partner for Pacific climate research">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra On the eve of ANZUS turning 70 on Wednesday, Scott Morrison was asked whether he had spoken to US President Joe Biden since the fall of Kabul. “No, I haven’t as yet. I anticipate doing that not too far away,” ... <a title="View from The Hill: Morrison yet to forge personal relationship with Biden as ANZUS turns 70" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/31/view-from-the-hill-morrison-yet-to-forge-personal-relationship-with-biden-as-anzus-turns-70-167054/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Morrison yet to forge personal relationship with Biden as ANZUS turns 70">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kalinda Griffiths, Scientia lecturer, UNSW The second wave of COVID-19 in New South Wales brings concerns about vaccination rates in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Shutterstock On Sunday, New South Wales saw four more deaths from COVID-19. One of them was a man from Dubbo who ... <a title="The first Indigenous COVID death reminds us of the outsized risk NSW communities face" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/31/the-first-indigenous-covid-death-reminds-us-of-the-outsized-risk-nsw-communities-face-166888/" aria-label="Read more about The first Indigenous COVID death reminds us of the outsized risk NSW communities face">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University iQonceptShutterstock Failure is only the beginning. Thirteen of Australia’s 80 closely-regulated MySuper superannuation funds have failed the APRA performance test. There’s a one in six chance you’re in one. The results were made public on ... <a title="My super fund just failed the APRA performance test. What’s next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/31/my-super-fund-just-failed-the-apra-performance-test-whats-next-166956/" aria-label="Read more about My super fund just failed the APRA performance test. What’s next?">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan McMullan, Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, UNSW Shutterstock The Delta variant is more infectious and is leading to more COVID-19 cases in children than previous strains. Many parents are wondering whether Delta is making kids sicker, and how to care for their ... <a title="Got a child with COVID at home? Here’s how to look after them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/31/got-a-child-with-covid-at-home-heres-how-to-look-after-them-166732/" aria-label="Read more about Got a child with COVID at home? Here’s how to look after them">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Burke, Professor of Environmental Politics & International Relations, UNSW WWF Australia Scientists recently confirmed the Amazon rainforest is now emitting more carbon dioxide than it absorbs, due to uncontrolled burning and deforestation. It brings the crucial ecosystem closer to a tipping point that would see it ... <a title="Human progress is no excuse to destroy nature. A push to make ‘ecocide’ a global crime must recognise this fundamental truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/31/human-progress-is-no-excuse-to-destroy-nature-a-push-to-make-ecocide-a-global-crime-must-recognise-this-fundamental-truth-164594/" aria-label="Read more about Human progress is no excuse to destroy nature. A push to make ‘ecocide’ a global crime must recognise this fundamental truth">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Benjamin, Associate Professor in Maritime Archaeology, Flinders University and ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University When people arrived in Australia more than 65,000 years ago, they landed on shores that are now deep under water. The first footprints on this continent ... <a title="Australia’s coastal waters are rich in Indigenous cultural heritage, but it remains hidden and under threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/31/australias-coastal-waters-are-rich-in-indigenous-cultural-heritage-but-it-remains-hidden-and-under-threat-166564/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s coastal waters are rich in Indigenous cultural heritage, but it remains hidden and under threat">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Mark Mitchell – Pool/Getty Images As New Zealand grapples to bring a Delta outbreak under control and to accelerate the vaccination rollout, social cohesion is vital for a successful elimination strategy. Political consensus on elimination has endured so far. ... <a title="What are the limits of dissent as NZ locks down, vaccinates and prepares to ‘open up’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/31/what-are-the-limits-of-dissent-as-nz-locks-down-vaccinates-and-prepares-to-open-up-166892/" aria-label="Read more about What are the limits of dissent as NZ locks down, vaccinates and prepares to ‘open up’?">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society and NATSEM, University of Canberra Shutterstock “The Art of Making Money” is the sort of book title you might see in an airport bookshop. But the (now not so) “Young British Artist” Damien Hirst has taken ... <a title="Damien Hirst’s dotty ‘currency’ art makes as much sense as Bitcoin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/31/damien-hirsts-dotty-currency-art-makes-as-much-sense-as-bitcoin-166958/" aria-label="Read more about Damien Hirst’s dotty ‘currency’ art makes as much sense as Bitcoin">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2021
Essay by Keith Rankin. Following the completion of the Taliban reconquest of Afghanistan, I heard Helen Clark on the radio news say, among other things, that the Taliban are a “medieval theocracy”. While she’s literally correct, ‘medieval’ has unfortunately become one of those problem derogatory words of casual historical racism; words like ‘neanderthal’, ‘philistine’, cretin’, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay: Positively Medieval" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/31/keith-rankin-essay-positively-medieval/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay: Positively Medieval">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ausma Bernot, PhD Candidate, Griffith University China has used big data to trace and control the outbreak of COVID-19. This has involved a significant endeavour to build new technologies and expand its already extensive surveillance infrastructure across the country. In our recent study, we show how the ... <a title="China’s ‘surveillance creep’: how big data COVID monitoring could be used to control people post-pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/31/chinas-surveillance-creep-how-big-data-covid-monitoring-could-be-used-to-control-people-post-pandemic-164788/" aria-label="Read more about China’s ‘surveillance creep’: how big data COVID monitoring could be used to control people post-pandemic">Read more</a>
