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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A federal cabinet minister has lashed out with an extraordinary attack on premiers, declaring Friday’s national cabinet meeting “has become a flashpoint for the future of Australia’s federation”. Agriculture minister David Littleproud accused premiers of “city centric decisions” and said ... <a title="Federal government fires a shot ahead of national cabinet discussing border wars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/federal-government-fires-a-shot-ahead-of-national-cabinet-discussing-border-wars-144816/" aria-label="Read more about Federal government fires a shot ahead of national cabinet discussing border wars">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Eckard, Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, University of Melbourne The National Farmer’s Federation says Australia needs a tougher policy on climate, today calling on the Morrison government to commit to an economy wide target of net-zero greenhouse gas emission by 2050. It’s quite ... <a title="Australia’s farmers want more climate action – and they’re starting in their own (huge) backyards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/australias-farmers-want-more-climate-action-and-theyre-starting-in-their-own-huge-backyards-144792/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s farmers want more climate action – and they’re starting in their own (huge) backyards">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Markus Wagner, Associate Professor of Law, University of Wollongong It’s on again. This time it’s Australia’s wine industry that’s under investigation in China for allegedly violating anti-dumping rules. The investigation has sent shock waves through the wine industry and beyond. Broadly speaking, anti-dumping rules prohibit producers from ... <a title="It’s hard to tell why China is targeting Australian wine. There are two possibilities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/its-hard-to-tell-why-china-is-targeting-australian-wine-there-are-two-possibilities-144734/" aria-label="Read more about It’s hard to tell why China is targeting Australian wine. There are two possibilities">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Early Identification and Action We are now learning, from Covid19, one thing above all else. With epidemics, it is early identification and action that matters. When our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, says that New Zealand’s government approach is to “go hard and go early”, she is only partly correct. What matters ... <a title="Keith Rankin – Epidemic Costs and Responses: Coronavirus and Tuberculosis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/keith-rankin-epidemic-costs-and-responses-coronavirus-and-tuberculosis/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin – Epidemic Costs and Responses: Coronavirus and Tuberculosis">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria O’Sullivan, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, and Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University Prime Minister Scott Morrison took many people by surprise this week when he said a COVID-19 vaccine would be “as mandatory as you could possibly make it”. Although he ... <a title="Can the government, or my employer, force me to get a COVID-19 vaccine under the law?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/can-the-government-or-my-employer-force-me-to-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-under-the-law-144739/" aria-label="Read more about Can the government, or my employer, force me to get a COVID-19 vaccine under the law?">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Egliston, Postdoctoral research fellow, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology There has been a clash of clans in mobile gaming, with angry birds Apple, Google and Epic Games in a saga over in-app payments. Video game developer Epic’s massively popular “battle royale” game Fortnite ... <a title="Apple, Google and Fortnite’s stoush is a classic case of how far big tech will go to retain power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/apple-google-and-fortnites-stoush-is-a-classic-case-of-how-far-big-tech-will-go-to-retain-power-144728/" aria-label="Read more about Apple, Google and Fortnite’s stoush is a classic case of how far big tech will go to retain power">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
By RNZ Pacific The chair of the Pasifika GP Network is calling on the government to ensure there is a Pacific voice on the new group overseeing testing at the country’s border. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday announced a small team to work with health officials running the testing regime. It will be led by ... <a title="‘We need a Pasifika voice’ plea for response to NZ’s Auckland covid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/we-need-a-pasifika-voice-plea-for-response-to-nzs-auckland-covid/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We need a Pasifika voice’ plea for response to NZ’s Auckland covid">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Willsteed, Senior lecturer, Queensland University of Technology In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic. This road down to Nashville is like crystal and stone, it’s a place where a man sells his ... <a title="Winter Winds by hippy cowboy Mickey Newbury: the perfect soundtrack to wintry times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/winter-winds-by-hippy-cowboy-mickey-newbury-the-perfect-soundtrack-to-wintry-times-143542/" aria-label="Read more about Winter Winds by hippy cowboy Mickey Newbury: the perfect soundtrack to wintry times">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Samoa’s Director-General of Health says the country remains free of the covid-19 coronavirus so the public should not believe rumours to the contrary. Leausa Dr Take Naseri held his first covid press conference since March yesterday and spent the time highlighting the government’s work to prevent the virus from entering the country. ... <a title="Samoa health director calls on public to stop rumour-fed covid panic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/samoa-health-director-calls-on-public-to-stop-rumour-fed-covid-panic/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa health director calls on public to stop rumour-fed covid panic">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Larisa Labzin, Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland Could we have some immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, without ever having been exposed to it? Some new studies found people who were never symptomatic, exposed to, or tested positive for COVID-19 ... <a title="Exposure to common colds might give some people a head start in fighting COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/exposure-to-common-colds-might-give-some-people-a-head-start-in-fighting-covid-19-143455/" aria-label="Read more about Exposure to common colds might give some people a head start in fighting COVID-19">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The Department of Social Services has confirmed Australia’s pensioners will not receive an automatic indexation increase this September, because inflation has gone backwards. This will be the first time since 1997 the pension hasn’t risen with ... <a title="There will be no pension increase in September for the first time in 23 years. But there is a simple fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/there-will-be-no-pension-increase-in-september-for-the-first-time-in-23-years-but-there-is-a-simple-fix-144732/" aria-label="Read more about There will be no pension increase in September for the first time in 23 years. But there is a simple fix">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Adelaide Over 2,000 active cases of COVID-19 and 245 resident deaths as of August 19 have been linked to aged care homes in Victoria, spread across over 120 facilities. The St Basil’s cluster alone now involves 191 cases. In ... <a title="Poor ventilation may be adding to nursing homes’ COVID-19 risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/poor-ventilation-may-be-adding-to-nursing-homes-covid-19-risks-144725/" aria-label="Read more about Poor ventilation may be adding to nursing homes’ COVID-19 risks">Read more</a>
