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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Kaufman, Research Fellow, Vaccine Uptake Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Yesterday, we heard from a nurse at one of Victoria’s mass vaccination clinics who said she’d administered just one vaccine in an eight-hour shift. She said vaccine hesitancy was a factor in people not turning up ... <a title="From faith leaders to office workers: 5 ways we can all be COVID vaccine champions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/from-faith-leaders-to-office-workers-5-ways-we-can-all-be-covid-vaccine-champions-160454/" aria-label="Read more about From faith leaders to office workers: 5 ways we can all be COVID vaccine champions">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Minglu Chen, Senior Lecturer, Government and International Relations, University of Sydney I was making small talk with a medical technician during a health check a few months ago. After hearing I was a senior lecturer teaching Chinese politics at the University of Sydney, she commented: “It must ... <a title="Teaching Chinese politics in Australia: polarised views leave academics between a rock and a hard place" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/teaching-chinese-politics-in-australia-polarised-views-leave-academics-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-157886/" aria-label="Read more about Teaching Chinese politics in Australia: polarised views leave academics between a rock and a hard place">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Mclaughlin, PhD Candidate, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle Five Australian states and territories are trialling or planning 30km/h speed limits and zones. However, some people question if 30km/h speed limits are actually urgent and necessary, or are instead a so-called “nanny state” ... <a title="Busted: 5 myths about 30km/h speed limits in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/busted-5-myths-about-30km-h-speed-limits-in-australia-160547/" aria-label="Read more about Busted: 5 myths about 30km/h speed limits in Australia">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Malcolm Whyte, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Science, Australian National University Success in the Olympic Games is usually focused on medals, especially gold ones, and countries are usually ranked in terms of the number of medals won, and sometimes as medals per million of population or gross domestic ... <a title="Dollar for dollar, the winning nations at the Olympic Games seem to be the poorest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/dollar-for-dollar-the-winning-nations-at-the-olympic-games-seem-to-be-the-poorest-158760/" aria-label="Read more about Dollar for dollar, the winning nations at the Olympic Games seem to be the poorest">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute Since 2015, the share of younger people (aged 20 to 39) with private health insurance has dropped from 24% to 22%. People in this age group contribute more in insurance premiums than they claim in pay-outs. So this decline ends ... <a title="4 ways to fix private health insurance so it can sustain a growing, ageing population" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/4-ways-to-fix-private-health-insurance-so-it-can-sustain-a-growing-ageing-population-161171/" aria-label="Read more about 4 ways to fix private health insurance so it can sustain a growing, ageing population">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s Head of State has agreed to convene Parliament in order to swear in the members elected in April’s general election after weeks of political deadlock. Leaders of the majority FAST party – which won 26 of 51 seats – met with Tuimaleali’ifano Va’aleto’a Sualauvi II today to request that Parliament be called ... <a title="Samoa’s Head of State will convene Fono parliament to swear in MPs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/samoas-head-of-state-will-convene-fono-parliament-to-swear-in-mps/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s Head of State will convene Fono parliament to swear in MPs">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Green Party motion asking New Zealand MPs to recognise Palestine as a state has failed in the House, with opposition National and ACT MPs objecting to the effort. Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman, who arrived in New Zealand at an early age with her family as an Iranian-born refugee, today ... <a title="Green Party’s bid for NZ declaration of Palestine as a state fails" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/green-partys-bid-for-nz-declaration-of-palestine-as-a-state-fails/" aria-label="Read more about Green Party’s bid for NZ declaration of Palestine as a state fails">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
By Barney Orere in Port Moresby The five reserved seats for women being put forward by Papua New Guinea’s special parliamentary committee on gender-based violence has been rejected by women and a petition is on its way to demand different proposal. The women will petition the parliamentary committee to voice their disapproval about the five ... <a title="PNG women reject 5-seat gender plan as a ‘farce’, propose new scheme" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/png-women-reject-5-seat-gender-plan-as-a-farce-propose-new-scheme/" aria-label="Read more about PNG women reject 5-seat gender plan as a ‘farce’, propose new scheme">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
A heartfelt message from a sister in Gaza to her brother We are still fine. The “war front” in our neighborhood is still somewhat quiet, aside from loud explosions near and far. Gaza is a ghost town. It’s the Hiroshima of the 21st century. My daughter called me last night. She was crying in panic. ... <a title="Israeli onslaught against Gaza continues: ‘But we are still alive!’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/israeli-onslaught-against-gaza-continues-but-we-are-still-alive/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli onslaught against Gaza continues: ‘But we are still alive!’">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis, Knightly Views columnist Sometime this week Newsroom co-editor Mark Jennings is due to be interviewed under caution by the New Zealand police because he kicked the hornet’s nest. The particular hornet’s nest he disturbed was Oranga Tamariki, a state agency, and the reason it was given a boot was a now-discredited ... <a title="The man who kicked the hornet’s nest – focus on the Newsroom police probe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/the-man-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest-focus-on-the-newsroom-police-probe/" aria-label="Read more about The man who kicked the hornet’s nest – focus on the Newsroom police probe">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arjuna Dibley, Visiting Researcher, Climate and Energy College, The University of Melbourne The Morrison government today announced it’s building a new gas power plant in the Hunter Valley, committing up to A$600 million for the government-owned corporation Snowy Hydro to construct the project. Critics argue the plant ... <a title="Government-owned firms like Snowy Hydro can do better than building $600 million gas plants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/government-owned-firms-like-snowy-hydro-can-do-better-than-building-600-million-gas-plants-161180/" aria-label="Read more about Government-owned firms like Snowy Hydro can do better than building $600 million gas plants">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Even if every country meets its current climate targets, Earth’s temperature will still rise by a dangerous 2.1℃ this century, according to sobering findings from a new International Energy Agency ... <a title="New International Energy Agency report reprimands any new fossil fuel development. Guess what Australia did next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/new-international-energy-agency-report-reprimands-any-new-fossil-fuel-development-guess-what-australia-did-next-161178/" aria-label="Read more about New International Energy Agency report reprimands any new fossil fuel development. Guess what Australia did next?">Read more</a>
