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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Graham, Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology At midday on August 12 2020, the hashtag #DanLiedPeopleDied started trending on Twitter. By evening it had attracted over 10,000 tweets. The hashtag appeared to reflect widespread public distrust in Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ handling of the coronavirus outbreak. ... <a title="The story of #DanLiedPeopleDied: how a hashtag reveals Australia’s ‘information disorder’ problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/the-story-of-danliedpeopledied-how-a-hashtag-reveals-australias-information-disorder-problem-144403/" aria-label="Read more about The story of #DanLiedPeopleDied: how a hashtag reveals Australia’s ‘information disorder’ problem">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, University of Melbourne With massive fronds creating a luxuriously green canopy in the understory of Australian forests, tree ferns are a familiar sight on many long drives or bushwalks. But how much do you really know about them? First of all, tree ... <a title="Tree ferns are older than dinosaurs. And that’s not even the most interesting thing about them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/tree-ferns-are-older-than-dinosaurs-and-thats-not-even-the-most-interesting-thing-about-them-138435/" aria-label="Read more about Tree ferns are older than dinosaurs. And that’s not even the most interesting thing about them">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Paddy Nixon discuss the week in politics. This week Michelle and Paddy discuss the week of hearings before the Royal Commission into Aged Care, Victorian ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Royal Commission into Aged Care and Melbourne’s ongoing quarantine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/video-michelle-grattan-on-the-royal-commission-into-aged-care-and-melbournes-ongoing-quarantine-144501/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Royal Commission into Aged Care and Melbourne’s ongoing quarantine">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand has announced there are 12 new cases and one probable case of covid-19 in Auckland and Waikato today. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield revealed at today’s daily briefing there were now a total of 48 active cases, with 30 linked to the community outbreak. The total number of confirmed ... <a title="NZ covid-19 update: 12 new confirmed cases, one probable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/nz-covid-19-update-12-new-confirmed-cases-one-probable/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid-19 update: 12 new confirmed cases, one probable">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Some Cook Islanders are expressing anger at the failure to implement stronger border control public health measures in response to 17 new community-transmitted covid-19 cases in New Zealand – and a further 13 today. Social media is abuzz with comments from some concerned locals. The island’s 10 volunteer puna cannot effectively manage supervised quarantine at ... <a title="‘Don’t risk our lives’ over covid, warns opposition Cook Islands Democrats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/dont-risk-our-lives-over-covid-warns-opposition-cook-islands-democrats/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Don’t risk our lives’ over covid, warns opposition Cook Islands Democrats">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adele Marum, PhD Candidate in English, University of Melbourne Review: Little Birds, Sky Atlantic, released on Stan August 5 2020 Little Birds adapts a 1979 collection of French-born diarist Anaïs Nin’s unsettling erotic short stories published two years after her death. Nin maintained that she wrote these ... <a title="Playing and paying the whore in Little Birds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/playing-and-paying-the-whore-in-little-birds-144345/" aria-label="Read more about Playing and paying the whore in Little Birds">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorraine Finlay, Lecturer in Law, Murdoch University The events of the past few days in Western Australia have been extraordinary as the protracted conflict between the government and mining billionaire Clive Palmer reached a fever pitch. Premier Mark McGowan declared the state is “in a war” with ... <a title="The WA government legislated itself a win in its dispute with Clive Palmer — and put itself above the law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/the-wa-government-legislated-itself-a-win-in-its-dispute-with-clive-palmer-and-put-itself-above-the-law-144360/" aria-label="Read more about The WA government legislated itself a win in its dispute with Clive Palmer — and put itself above the law">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific correspondent Pasifika family or just an Auckland family? There has been much debate over whether it was wrong to identify the family at the centre of New Zealand’s covid-cluster as a “Pasifika family”. As Pacific correspondent let me make this clear – it would have been the absolute peak ... <a title="Barbara Dreaver: Should we identify the first covid family as Pasifika? Yes we should, and here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/barbara-dreaver-should-we-identify-the-first-covid-family-as-pasifika-yes-we-should-and-heres-why/" aria-label="Read more about Barbara Dreaver: Should we identify the first covid family as Pasifika? Yes we should, and here’s why">Read more</a>
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August 14, 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 National Party suspicions around Govt response, conspiracy theories Danyl Mclauchlan (Spinoff): The ruthless electoral politics behind National’s Covid conspiracy-baiting David Farrier (Stuff): ‘I’m just outlining facts’: watching New Zealand getting red-pilled, in freal ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 14 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-14-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 14 2020">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By RNZ News The lack of testing of staff at New Zealand’s border is extraordinary, a prominent epidemiologist says. Health officials are frantically trying to trace the origin of the covid-19 cluster in Auckland, which could have come from the border. Otago University professor Sir David Skegg told RNZ Morning Report reports show more than ... <a title="NZ’s lack of covid testing of staff at border ‘extraordinary’, says Skegg" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/nzs-lack-of-covid-testing-of-staff-at-border-extraordinary-says-skegg/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s lack of covid testing of staff at border ‘extraordinary’, says Skegg">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By Grant Duncan, Massey University If New Zealand can do grocery shopping under lockdown, we can vote under lockdown too. As much as supermarkets and pharmacies, the general election is an essential service and it must continue. There are ways and means to safely exercise our democratic rights during lockdown. The prime minister left it ... <a title="Voting is an essential service too. Why NZ can’t be afraid to go to the polls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/voting-is-an-essential-service-too-why-nz-cant-be-afraid-to-go-to-the-polls/" aria-label="Read more about Voting is an essential service too. Why NZ can’t be afraid to go to the polls">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk French authorities say 50 gendarmes who had been deployed in French Polynesia have tested positive to covid-19 after their return to France, reports Tahiti’s Radio One. The police were part of a group of 82 from Tarbes who had just returned home, the prefecture in the Hautes-Pyrenees department announced. The news ... <a title="50 French police who have returned from Polynesia test covid positive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/50-french-police-who-have-returned-from-polynesia-test-covid-positive/" aria-label="Read more about 50 French police who have returned from Polynesia test covid positive">Read more</a>
