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June 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University Camille Pissarro, French (born in the Danish West Indies) 1830–1903. Spring pasture, 1889. Oil on canvas, 60.0 x 73.7 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Deposited by the Trustees of the White Fund, Lawrence, Massachusetts Photography © ... <a title="An orgy of sunlight, colour and hedonism: the French Impressionists are an oasis in a gloomy Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/an-orgy-of-sunlight-colour-and-hedonism-the-french-impressionists-are-an-oasis-in-a-gloomy-australia-163268/" aria-label="Read more about An orgy of sunlight, colour and hedonism: the French Impressionists are an oasis in a gloomy Australia">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Thorpe, Professor in Sociology of Sport and Physical Culture, University of Waikato GettyImages When Laurel Hubbard was announced as the first out transgender woman athlete to compete in an individual sport at an Olympic Games, controversy wasn’t far behind. One prominent commentator even called it a ... <a title="Why the way we talk about Olympian Laurel Hubbard has real consequences for all transgender people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/why-the-way-we-talk-about-olympian-laurel-hubbard-has-real-consequences-for-all-transgender-people-163418/" aria-label="Read more about Why the way we talk about Olympian Laurel Hubbard has real consequences for all transgender people">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Arindam Basu, University of Canterbury New Zealand has avoided community transmission, even though an Australian visitor tested positive for the delta variant which dominates Australia’s latest covid-19 outbreaks. New Zealand health authorities were quick to react, isolating and testing contacts and suspending travel. Of the traveller’s 2,609 contacts, 93 percent have now returned ... <a title="NZ has managed to dodge the covid-19 bullet, again. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/nz-has-managed-to-dodge-the-covid-19-bullet-again-heres-why/" aria-label="Read more about NZ has managed to dodge the covid-19 bullet, again. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
RNZ Pacific Four more people have died as Fiji recorded 312 new covid-19 cases in the 24 hours ending at 8am yesterday. The Health Ministry said 295 cases were from the Lami-Suva-Nausori containment zone, while 17 were from the western division. There are now 3306 active cases in isolation with 21 deaths reported since March ... <a title="Four new deaths as Fiji records hundreds more covid cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/four-new-deaths-as-fiji-records-hundreds-more-covid-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Four new deaths as Fiji records hundreds more covid cases">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
COMMENT: By Gavin Ellis, Knightly Views I have been reading the tea leaves in the bottom of the online subscription cup. My fortune-telling has been assisted by some very interesting international statistics. The pattern in the bottom of the cup is telling me that the winner-takes-most paywall phenomenon that has characterised the US market may ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: Dregs in the news media paywall teacup" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/gavin-ellis-dregs-in-the-news-media-paywall-teacup/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: Dregs in the news media paywall teacup">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Steyn, Research assistant, University of Auckland New Zealand’s chief science advisor Dame Juliet Gerrard receiving her first vaccination dose. Hannah Peters/Getty Images New Zealand will have to maintain some border controls and public health measures until a high proportion of the population is vaccinated, according to ... <a title="At least four in five New Zealanders will have to be vaccinated before border controls can be fully relaxed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/at-least-four-in-five-new-zealanders-will-have-to-be-vaccinated-before-border-controls-can-be-fully-relaxed-163486/" aria-label="Read more about At least four in five New Zealanders will have to be vaccinated before border controls can be fully relaxed">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Beth Gaze, Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne It’s been over a year since Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins’ report on sexual harassment in the workplace in Australia, Respect@Work, was released. After a long delay, the Morrison government published its response to the report in April, ... <a title="Can the government get its workplace harassment laws right? Its bill is a missed opportunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/can-the-government-get-its-workplace-harassment-laws-right-its-bill-is-a-missed-opportunity-163492/" aria-label="Read more about Can the government get its workplace harassment laws right? Its bill is a missed opportunity">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Nixon, Research officer, The University of Queensland Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND This article is part of the “Who would win?” series, where wildlife experts dream up hypothetical battles between animals (all in the name of science). Scorpions and tarantulas are two ancient arachnids that have ... <a title="Ever wondered who’d win in a fight between a scorpion and tarantula? A venom scientist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/ever-wondered-whod-win-in-a-fight-between-a-scorpion-and-tarantula-a-venom-scientist-explains-155138/" aria-label="Read more about Ever wondered who’d win in a fight between a scorpion and tarantula? A venom scientist explains">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Hurley, Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Shutterstock Childcare is unaffordable for more than 385,000 Australian families, a new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute shows. The Counting the cost to families: assessing childcare affordability in Australia report uses an international benchmark of no more than ... <a title="Nearly 40% of Australian families can’t ‘afford’ childcare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/nearly-40-of-australian-families-cant-afford-childcare-163497/" aria-label="Read more about Nearly 40% of Australian families can’t ‘afford’ childcare">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne Perth arts organisation ARTRAGE, which runs the annual Fringe World festival, last week announced it had accepted ongoing funding from the mining company Woodside Petroleum. Local artists have long protested ... <a title="Principles or pragmatism: does it matter where arts sponsorship comes from?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/principles-or-pragmatism-does-it-matter-where-arts-sponsorship-comes-from-163430/" aria-label="Read more about Principles or pragmatism: does it matter where arts sponsorship comes from?">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arindam Basu, Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University of Canterbury Lynn Grieveson/Getty Images New Zealand has avoided community transmission, even though an Australian visitor tested positive for the delta variant which dominates Australia’s latest COVID-19 outbreaks. New Zealand health authorities were quick to react, isolating and ... <a title="New Zealand has managed to dodge the COVID-19 bullet, again. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/new-zealand-has-managed-to-dodge-the-covid-19-bullet-again-heres-why-163485/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand has managed to dodge the COVID-19 bullet, again. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rory Smith, Lecturer in Astrophysics, Monash University Carl Knox/OzGrav/Swinburne Univ. One of the best things about being an astronomer is being able to discover something new about the universe. In fact, maybe the only thing better is discovering it twice. And that’s exactly what my colleagues and ... <a title="‘Laws of nature turned up to 11’: astronomers spot two neutron stars being swallowed by black holes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/laws-of-nature-turned-up-to-11-astronomers-spot-two-neutron-stars-being-swallowed-by-black-holes-163575/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Laws of nature turned up to 11’: astronomers spot two neutron stars being swallowed by black holes">Read more</a>
