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September 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW superjoseph/Shutterstock Australia is in the middle of its worst COVID-19 outbreak. Our hospital system is under strain. Vulnerable communities are being hit hard. And more than half the nation is locked down. There is an understandable desire to know when we ... <a title="Introducing OzSAGE, a source of practical expert advice for how to reopen Australia from COVID safely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/03/introducing-ozsage-a-source-of-practical-expert-advice-for-how-to-reopen-australia-from-covid-safely-166943/" aria-label="Read more about Introducing OzSAGE, a source of practical expert advice for how to reopen Australia from COVID safely">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Palmer, Professor, School of Art, RMIT University Hoda Afshar’s exhibition Remain, The Substation, Melbourne, 2019. Photograph by Leela Schauble. Courtesy the artist and The Substation, Melbourne Australians have always loved photography exhibitions. They are consistently among the most well attended at our museums and galleries, and ... <a title="Friday essay: 10 photography exhibitions that defined Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/03/friday-essay-10-photography-exhibitions-that-defined-australia-166755/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: 10 photography exhibitions that defined Australia">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk President Lionel Aingimea of Nauru has praised the University of the South Pacific for becoming ranked among the world’s top 10 percent of universities by The Times Higher Education rankings (THE). This is the first time that the university has achieved this recognition in its 53-year history. President Aingimea, who is ... <a title="Nauru president praises USP for its global top 10% university ranking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/03/nauru-president-praises-usp-for-its-global-top-10-university-ranking/" aria-label="Read more about Nauru president praises USP for its global top 10% university ranking">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2021
RNZ News A man with covid-19 who allegedly escaped an Auckland MIQ facility today has been charged with breaking lockdown rules and has been bailed to return to a managed quarantine facility. The man was arrested this afternoon at an Ōtāhuhu address by police in full PPE gear after leaving the Novotel Ibis-Ellerslie without permission ... <a title="NZ police arrest alleged covid-positive MIQ hotel escaper in Auckland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/03/nz-police-arrest-alleged-covid-positive-miq-hotel-escaper-in-auckland/" aria-label="Read more about NZ police arrest alleged covid-positive MIQ hotel escaper in Auckland">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In the Orwellian world of the pandemic, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews’s raising of the white flag on “COVID zero” was greeted positively by the Morrison government and with relief by many among the public who are at the end of ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: The transition to living with ‘endemic’ COVID could be rough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/03/grattan-on-friday-the-transition-to-living-with-endemic-covid-could-be-rough-167218/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: The transition to living with ‘endemic’ COVID could be rough">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Griffin, Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The University of Queensland This week the World Health Organization named a new “variant of interest” of the coronavirus, called the Mu variant. It was first found in Colombia in January 2021, and has been found in about 39 ... <a title="What’s the Mu variant? And will we keep seeing more concerning variants?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/02/whats-the-mu-variant-and-will-we-keep-seeing-more-concerning-variants-167183/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the Mu variant? And will we keep seeing more concerning variants?">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2021
By Marcheilla Ariesta in Jakarta Indonesia, the world’s fourth largest country by population with 270 million, has not yet determined its stance towards the Taliban leadership after seizing power in Afghanistan. It is also the most populous Muslim country. The Director-General for Asia Pacific and Africa at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdul Kadir Jailani, ... <a title="Indonesia holds fire on Afghanistan relations – awaits Taliban government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/02/indonesia-holds-fire-on-afghanistan-relations-awaits-taliban-government/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia holds fire on Afghanistan relations – awaits Taliban government">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2021
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva Fijian Media Association president Stanley Simpson says a journalist who asked Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum to respond to comments made against him by opposition National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad have acted responsibly. He made the comment in relation to a question posed by a Fijivillage journalist to the AG ... <a title="Fiji news media ‘acted responsibly’ in questions over AG’s ego, says FMA" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/02/fiji-news-media-acted-responsibly-in-questions-over-ags-ego-says-fma/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji news media ‘acted responsibly’ in questions over AG’s ego, says FMA">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2021
Eight more people have died from covid-19 in Fiji, taking the death toll past 500. The Fiji government also confirmed 290 new cases for the 24 hours to 8am yesterday.That compares with 505 cases and seven deaths in the previous 24-hour period. Fiji now has 17,124 active cases. There were 2306 recoveries. The death toll ... <a title="Fiji reports 290 new covid cases, 8 more deaths in 24 hours" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/02/fiji-reports-290-new-covid-cases-8-more-deaths-in-24-hours/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji reports 290 new covid cases, 8 more deaths in 24 hours">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Former Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma has also joined activists and Victor Yeimo’s family along with Yeimo’s lawyer who protested at the private residence of the Papua chief public prosecutor in the Doc 5 area of Jayapura city at the weekend, reports Suara Papua. Karma revealed that he was shocked at ... <a title="Ex-tapol Filep Karma shocked over prosecutor’s ‘racist’ treatment of Yeimo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/02/ex-tapol-filep-karma-shocked-over-prosecutors-racist-treatment-of-yeimo/" aria-label="Read more about Ex-tapol Filep Karma shocked over prosecutor’s ‘racist’ treatment of Yeimo">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Williams, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities, Griffith University Mick Tsikas/AAP Nationals MP George Christensen recently copped condemnation from federal parliament for spreading misinformation about COVID-19. The member for the central Queensland seat of Dawson falsely claimed masks and lockdowns were ineffective against the spread of COVID, ... <a title="The George Christensen formula — how do maverick MPs succeed in Australian politics?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/02/the-george-christensen-formula-how-do-maverick-mps-succeed-in-australian-politics-166190/" aria-label="Read more about The George Christensen formula — how do maverick MPs succeed in Australian politics?">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nial Wheate, Associate Professor of the Sydney Pharmacy School, University of Sydney Shutterstock Westmead Hospital in Sydney’s west says it has treated a patient who overdosed after taking the drug ivermectin, an unproven and potentially dangerous treatment for COVID-19. The person went to hospital seeking treatment for ... <a title="Thinking of trying ivermectin for COVID? Here’s what can happen with this controversial drug" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/02/thinking-of-trying-ivermectin-for-covid-heres-what-can-happen-with-this-controversial-drug-167178/" aria-label="Read more about Thinking of trying ivermectin for COVID? Here’s what can happen with this controversial drug">Read more</a>
