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June 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra We follow the medical advice, has been a Morrison government mantra since the pandemic’s start. Well, not any more. With the rollout struggling and half the country in lockdown, Scott Morrison is now encouraging younger people to get the AstraZeneca ... <a title="View from The Hill: No, this isn’t based on the medical advice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/view-from-the-hill-no-this-isnt-based-on-the-medical-advice-163588/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: No, this isn’t based on the medical advice">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Wood, Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney Shutterstock Pfizer remains the “preferred” vaccine for Australians aged under 40, due to a small but real increased risk of a rare clotting disorder. But last night Prime Minister Scott Morrison said younger Australians ... <a title="Under-40s can ask their GP for an AstraZeneca shot. What’s changed? What are the risks? Are there benefits?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/under-40s-can-ask-their-gp-for-an-astrazeneca-shot-whats-changed-what-are-the-risks-are-there-benefits-163571/" aria-label="Read more about Under-40s can ask their GP for an AstraZeneca shot. What’s changed? What are the risks? Are there benefits?">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Seale, Associate professor, UNSW National cabinet yesterday announced it will mandate COVID-19 vaccination for residential aged-care workers, with the aim to ensure all aged-care staff have received their first dose by mid-September. A support package worth A$11 million is intended to facilitate this, by enabling aged-care ... <a title="Evidence supports mandatory COVID vaccination for aged-care workers. But we need to make it easier too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/evidence-supports-mandatory-covid-vaccination-for-aged-care-workers-but-we-need-to-make-it-easier-too-163569/" aria-label="Read more about Evidence supports mandatory COVID vaccination for aged-care workers. But we need to make it easier too">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea and Fiji are among several countries in the region going backwards in their fight against the covid-19 pandemic and this is concerning, a New Zealand epidemiologist has warned. PNG has recorded more than 170 deaths and more than 17,000 cases of the virus. In Fiji, 17 ... <a title="PNG, Fiji situation ‘going backwards’ over covid, warns NZ health expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/png-fiji-situation-going-backwards-over-covid-warns-nz-health-expert/" aria-label="Read more about PNG, Fiji situation ‘going backwards’ over covid, warns NZ health expert">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her usual interviews with experts and politicians about the news of the day, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where all things political will be discussed with members of The Conversations’s politics team. ... <a title="Podcast with Michelle Grattan: the return to lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/podcast-with-michelle-grattan-the-return-to-lockdown-163585/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast with Michelle Grattan: the return to lockdown">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rafal Chomik, Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW Catarina Sousa Follow/Pexels, CC BY-SA We’ve had five intergenerational reports now, the first (IGR02) in 2002, and the most recent (IGR21) on Monday. Each has presented a startling picture of a widening ... <a title="The intergenerational report was sobering, but the reality may be worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/the-intergenerational-report-was-sobering-but-the-reality-may-be-worse-163257/" aria-label="Read more about The intergenerational report was sobering, but the reality may be worse">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji has reported 241 new cases of covid-19 infections and one death in the 24-hour period ending at 8am yesterday. Health Secretary Dr James Fong said 5 cases were prison officers from Suva who were undergoing 14 days quarantine at the FSC Compound in Rakiraki as part of essential movement ... <a title="Fiji reports 241 new covid cases and one death – pastors warned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/fiji-reports-241-new-covid-cases-and-one-death-pastors-warned/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji reports 241 new covid cases and one death – pastors warned">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Otago University News Retired foundation director of Otago’s National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Professor Kevin Clements has been awarded the International Studies Association’s (ISA) 2022 Distinguished Scholar Award in its peace studies section. The ISA said the award was given each year to a scholar who had a substantial record of research, practice ... <a title="Otago conflict studies centre founder awarded global peace prize" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/otago-conflict-studies-centre-founder-awarded-global-peace-prize/" aria-label="Read more about Otago conflict studies centre founder awarded global peace prize">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Facebook News Facebook has today launched a public education campaign to help people in five Pacific Island countries and territories learn how to identify and combat health-related misinformation. The locations and languages are Wallis & Futuna (French), New Caledonia (French), Tonga (English and Tongan), Solomon Islands (English and Solomon Islands Pijin), and Cook Islands (English). ... <a title="Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/facebook-boosts-pacific-wide-health-campaign-against-misinformation/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rama V Baru, Professor, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University COVID-19 has exposed the inherent fault lines in India’s public health system. This year, as the pandemic’s deadly second wave began raging across the country, hospitals ran out of beds, oxygen cylinders, ventilators, ... <a title="Why couldn’t India’s health system cope during the second wave? Years of bad health policies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/why-couldnt-indias-health-system-cope-during-the-second-wave-years-of-bad-health-policies-162508/" aria-label="Read more about Why couldn’t India’s health system cope during the second wave? Years of bad health policies">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Harris, Senior Lecturer in Climatology, Director, Climate Futures Program, University of Tasmania Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a ... <a title="Climate explained: how the IPCC reaches scientific consensus on climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/climate-explained-how-the-ipcc-reaches-scientific-consensus-on-climate-change-162600/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: how the IPCC reaches scientific consensus on climate change">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute Morgan Sette/AAP Australia is now over four months into its COVID vaccine rollout, and it’s still not going well. At the six-week mark, I wrote about four ways the vaccine rollout had been bungled: the wrong pace, phasing, model, and ... <a title="Australia has not learned the lessons of its bungled COVID vaccine rollout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/australia-has-not-learned-the-lessons-of-its-bungled-covid-vaccine-rollout-163481/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has not learned the lessons of its bungled COVID vaccine rollout">Read more</a>
