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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW News of four new positive cases of COVID-19 in Melbourne’s northern suburbs has prompted renewed discussion about the vaccine rollout. The Victorian department of health is urging people to get ... <a title="Four cases in Melbourne’s north as vaccine push rolls on but what if I’ve already been recently exposed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/four-cases-in-melbournes-north-as-vaccine-push-rolls-on-but-what-if-ive-already-been-recently-exposed-161417/" aria-label="Read more about Four cases in Melbourne’s north as vaccine push rolls on but what if I’ve already been recently exposed?">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Baka, Adjunct Fellow, Olympic Scholar and Co-Director of the Olympic Research Network, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University With just 60 days to go until the start of the Tokyo Olympics, there are more questions than answers about how such a massive event will take ... <a title="The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead, but they will be a much compromised and watered-down event" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/the-tokyo-olympics-are-going-ahead-but-they-will-be-a-much-compromised-and-watered-down-event-160104/" aria-label="Read more about The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead, but they will be a much compromised and watered-down event">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A recent Resolve poll of New South Wales voters for The Sydney Morning Herald has given the Coalition 44% of the primary vote, Labor 28%, the Greens 12% and the Shooters Fishers and Farmers ... <a title="Coalition has large lead in NSW as Nats easily hold Upper Hunter at byelection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/coalition-has-large-lead-in-nsw-as-nats-easily-hold-upper-hunter-at-byelection-161273/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition has large lead in NSW as Nats easily hold Upper Hunter at byelection">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Hill, Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria On Wednesday evening, May 26, the Moon will slip into Earth’s shadow, creating a total lunar eclipse. No matter where you are across Australia, you’ll be well placed to see it. Lunar ... <a title="How to watch Wednesday’s total lunar eclipse from Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/how-to-watch-wednesdays-total-lunar-eclipse-from-australia-160262/" aria-label="Read more about How to watch Wednesday’s total lunar eclipse from Australia">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tiziana Ferrero-Regis, Senior Lecturer, Study Area Coordinator, Fashion, Queensland University of Technology Australian Fashion Week, which starts next Monday, is touting itself as one of the first live fashion shows since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Runway shows will feature labels Romance Was Born and Zimmermann as well ... <a title="5-metre pedestals, an Anna Wintour puppet… COVID-19 changed fashion shows but the runway will survive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/5-metre-pedestals-an-anna-wintour-puppet-covid-19-changed-fashion-shows-but-the-runway-will-survive-161001/" aria-label="Read more about 5-metre pedestals, an Anna Wintour puppet… COVID-19 changed fashion shows but the runway will survive">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
By Jamie Tahana, RNZ Pacific journalist Samoa’s constitutional crisis deepened today with the party that commands the majority of seats locked out of Parliament, but still insisting it can form a government today. The FAST party, its leader Fiame Naomi Mata’afa and a large number of supporters gathered in a tent on the lawn in ... <a title="FAST party locked out of Samoa’s Fale Fono as election turmoil continues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/fast-party-locked-out-of-samoas-fale-fono-as-election-turmoil-continues/" aria-label="Read more about FAST party locked out of Samoa’s Fale Fono as election turmoil continues">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has appealed for people in Samoa to uphold its democracy and institutions. Speaking on RNZ’s Morning Report today, she said New Zealand was closely watching events. “We have faith in Samoa’s democracy and institutions,” she said. [embedded content]The scene outside the Fale ... <a title="NZ’s Ardern appeals to Samoans to uphold democracy as crisis deepens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/nzs-ardern-appeals-to-samoans-to-uphold-democracy-as-crisis-deepens/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Ardern appeals to Samoans to uphold democracy as crisis deepens">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
COMMENT: By Rukuwai Tīpene-Allan “Welfare dependent”, “inferior”, “savages”, “natives”… Walking through Parliament, I head to my office in the press gallery, passing gilded portraits of reporters who came before, and I recall that the people who adorn these walls were the same people who published some of the most racist rhetoric that has ever been ... <a title="Māori in the gallery: Coping with daily racism in the Beehive as a Māori journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/maori-in-the-gallery-coping-with-daily-racism-in-the-beehive-as-a-maori-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Māori in the gallery: Coping with daily racism in the Beehive as a Māori journalist">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonine Jancey, Academic and Director Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health, Curtin University Despite their widespread reputation as a “safer” alternative to cigarettes, e-cigarettes (also known as electronic cigarettes or vapes) are far from harmless, particularly for adolescents, whose developing brains may suffer lifelong ... <a title="Vaping and e-cigarettes are glamourised on social media, putting young people in harm’s way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/vaping-and-e-cigarettes-are-glamourised-on-social-media-putting-young-people-in-harms-way-159436/" aria-label="Read more about Vaping and e-cigarettes are glamourised on social media, putting young people in harm’s way">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maximilian de Courten, Professor in Global Public Health and Director of the Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Alarm bells rang internationally last week when Taiwan announced it was moving to its second highest COVID alert level after a recent surge of cases. The country last year recorded zero ... <a title="COVID is surging in unvaccinated Taiwan. Australia should take heed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/covid-is-surging-in-unvaccinated-taiwan-australia-should-take-heed-161341/" aria-label="Read more about COVID is surging in unvaccinated Taiwan. Australia should take heed">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deepika Mathur, Research Fellow, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University Installing solar panels is an easy way to lower your carbon footprint and cut electricity bills. But our recent research found there are many incentives to remove them prematurely, adding to Australia’s massive waste problem. Researchers predict Australia ... <a title="Stop removing your solar panels early, please. It’s creating a huge waste problem for Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/stop-removing-your-solar-panels-early-please-its-creating-a-huge-waste-problem-for-australia-160546/" aria-label="Read more about Stop removing your solar panels early, please. It’s creating a huge waste problem for Australia">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simone Dennis, Professor of Anthropology and Head of School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University It won’t come as a surprise to anyone that women are underrepresented in leadership roles in many industries. This has led to a proliferation of women-only mentoring programs designed to challenge ... <a title="Why mentoring for women risks propping up patriarchal structures instead of changing them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/why-mentoring-for-women-risks-propping-up-patriarchal-structures-instead-of-changing-them-157965/" aria-label="Read more about Why mentoring for women risks propping up patriarchal structures instead of changing them">Read more</a>
