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August 20, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Oro Governor Gary Juffa has welcomed a joint investigations team, led by Papua New Guinea’s Office of Immigrations and Citizenship Authority, to the province, reports the PNG Post-Courier. The team, comprising police national fraud and anti-corruption directorate and Immigration officers, would visit several logging sites in the province to carry out ... <a title="Juffa welcomes inter agency probe with logging spot checks in Oro" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/juffa-welcomes-inter-agency-probe-with-logging-spot-checks-in-oro/" aria-label="Read more about Juffa welcomes inter agency probe with logging spot checks in Oro">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
By Ben Strang, RNZ News Reporter The New Zealand government is being urged to launch an inquiry into its response to the covid-19 pandemic as soon as the Auckland outbreak is under control. Public health experts say the government wasted the 100 days New Zealand was free of community transmission. They say any inquiry could ... <a title="NZ government urged to launch inquiry into pandemic response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/nz-government-urged-to-launch-inquiry-into-pandemic-response/" aria-label="Read more about NZ government urged to launch inquiry into pandemic response">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Border testing, quarantine facilities, alternative plans from NZ First, National, ACT Thomas Manch (Stuff): The Covid-19 border testing saga that’s going septic amid ministers’ muddled accounts Karl du Fresne: Incompetence is one thing, misinformation ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 20 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-20-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 20 2020">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shimona Kealy, Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University Prehistoric axes and beads found in caves on a remote Indonesian island suggest this was a crucial staging post for seafaring people who lived in this region as the last ice age was coming ... <a title="Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/stone-tools-from-a-remote-cave-reveal-how-island-hopping-humans-made-a-living-in-the-jungle-millennia-ago-144570/" aria-label="Read more about Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia ago">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristy Hess, Associate Professor (Communication), Deakin University After Australia’s two big local newspaper companies, Australian Community Media (ACM) and News Corporation, shut down scores of rural newspapers as part of their COVID-19 cost-saving strategies, there were heartwarming stories of retrenched journalists and volunteers stepping in to fill ... <a title="The government’s regional media bailout doesn’t go far enough — here are reforms we really need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/the-governments-regional-media-bailout-doesnt-go-far-enough-here-are-reforms-we-really-need-144666/" aria-label="Read more about The government’s regional media bailout doesn’t go far enough — here are reforms we really need">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Lockwood, Associate Professor Implementation Science, JBI, University of Adelaide Early COVID-19 images of swabbing from Wuhan, China, looked more like an Ebola news story — health-care workers fully encased in personal protective equipment (PPE), inserting swabs so deeply that brain injury seemed imminent. As COVID-19 (and ... <a title="Goodbye, brain scrapers. COVID-19 tests now use gentler nose swabs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/goodbye-brain-scrapers-covid-19-tests-now-use-gentler-nose-swabs-144416/" aria-label="Read more about Goodbye, brain scrapers. COVID-19 tests now use gentler nose swabs">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland Ten years on from its release, and hitting cinemas again, Christopher Nolan’s Inception still puzzles and intrigues. It is one of those films in which you discover something new each time you watch it. Or, ... <a title="10 years on, Inception remains Christopher Nolan’s most complex and intellectual film" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/10-years-on-inception-remains-christopher-nolans-most-complex-and-intellectual-film-144664/" aria-label="Read more about 10 years on, Inception remains Christopher Nolan’s most complex and intellectual film">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Louise Flanagan, Infectious Diseases Specialist and Clinical Professor, University of Tasmania Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Wednesday the Australian government has signed a letter of intent to procure the University of Oxford’s vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and to provide it free ... <a title="The Oxford deal is welcome, but remember the vaccine hasn’t been proven to work yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/the-oxford-deal-is-welcome-but-remember-the-vaccine-hasnt-been-proven-to-work-yet-144726/" aria-label="Read more about The Oxford deal is welcome, but remember the vaccine hasn’t been proven to work yet">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With the withdrawal of the international market, and the stresses of delivering education virtually, the university sector has been hit especially hard by COVID-19. The sector, which in the 2018-2019 financial year contributed $37.6 billion in export income to the ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Professor Barney Glover on the bleak years ahead for higher education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/politics-with-michelle-grattan-professor-barney-glover-on-the-bleak-years-ahead-for-higher-education-144736/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Professor Barney Glover on the bleak years ahead for higher education">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Douglass Rovinsky, PhD Candidate, Monash University Until it was hunted to extinction, the thylacine – also known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf – was the world’s largest marsupial predator. However, our new research shows it was in fact only about half as large as previously ... <a title="The Tasmanian tiger was hunted to extinction as a ‘large predator’ – but it was only half as heavy as we thought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/the-tasmanian-tiger-was-hunted-to-extinction-as-a-large-predator-but-it-was-only-half-as-heavy-as-we-thought-144599/" aria-label="Read more about The Tasmanian tiger was hunted to extinction as a ‘large predator’ – but it was only half as heavy as we thought">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
By Jonathan Mitchell, RNZ News journalist New Zealand’s Attorney-General David Parker says there has been no decision yet on a possible appeal to the High Court ruling that some of the country’s alert level 4 covid-19 pandemic lockdown in late March and early April was unlawful. Lawyer Andrew Borrowdale had argued that the Director-General of ... <a title="High Court rules some of NZ’s covid-19 level 4 lockdown was unlawful" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/high-court-rules-some-of-nzs-covid-19-level-4-lockdown-was-unlawful/" aria-label="Read more about High Court rules some of NZ’s covid-19 level 4 lockdown was unlawful">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dr Laura Glitsos, Lecturer in Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University We know Instagram is the most influential app when it comes to lifestyle and beauty trends. But recent research shows increasing numbers of people are also going to Instagram for their news. A report by the ... <a title="Instagram is the home of pretty pictures. Why are people flocking to it for news?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/instagram-is-the-home-of-pretty-pictures-why-are-people-flocking-to-it-for-news-144079/" aria-label="Read more about Instagram is the home of pretty pictures. Why are people flocking to it for news?">Read more</a>
