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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>
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August 14, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand Health Minister Chris Hipkins says there are more covid-19 cases related to the Auckland cluster which will be revealed at 1pm today. He says for New Zealand to move to alert level 4 there would need to be a number of clusters and unconnected cases. Earlier, Auckland Mayor Phil Goff ... <a title="NZ covid-19 update: More coronavirus cases linked to Auckland cluster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/nz-covid-19-update-more-coronavirus-cases-linked-to-auckland-cluster/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid-19 update: More coronavirus cases linked to Auckland cluster">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist Following the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20, many people throughout Australia, and across the world, wanted to know how they could help in response to the environmental disaster. Hundreds contacted the Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA), Australia’s ... <a title="From Kangaroo Island to Mallacoota, citizen scientists proved vital to Australia’s bushfire recovery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/from-kangaroo-island-to-mallacoota-citizen-scientists-proved-vital-to-australias-bushfire-recovery-48230/" aria-label="Read more about From Kangaroo Island to Mallacoota, citizen scientists proved vital to Australia’s bushfire recovery">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Have we flattened the curve of global terrorism? In our COVID-19-obsessed news cycle stories about terrorism and terrorist attacks have largely disappeared. We now, though, understand a little more about how ... <a title="In COVID’s shadow, global terrorism goes quiet. But we have seen this before, and should be wary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/in-covids-shadow-global-terrorism-goes-quiet-but-we-have-seen-this-before-and-should-be-wary-144286/" aria-label="Read more about In COVID’s shadow, global terrorism goes quiet. But we have seen this before, and should be wary">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hall, Senior Researcher in Politics, Auckland University of Technology It isn’t easy being a political opposition in the midst of a crisis. The volatility within New Zealand’s National Party – which has had three leaders in as many months – is a case in point. Some ... <a title="The COVID-19 crisis tests oppositions as well as governments. Ahead of New Zealand’s election, National risks failing that test" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/the-covid-19-crisis-tests-oppositions-as-well-as-governments-ahead-of-new-zealands-election-national-risks-failing-that-test-144415/" aria-label="Read more about The COVID-19 crisis tests oppositions as well as governments. Ahead of New Zealand’s election, National risks failing that test">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Elshaug, Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, Professor of Health Policy and Co-Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney This is one of our occasional Essays on Health, this time from an Australian visiting fellow in Washington, DC. Adam Elshaug, professor of health policy, ... <a title="Pandemic letter from America: how the US handling of COVID-19 provides the starkest warning for us all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/pandemic-letter-from-america-how-the-us-handling-of-covid-19-provides-the-starkest-warning-for-us-all-144357/" aria-label="Read more about Pandemic letter from America: how the US handling of COVID-19 provides the starkest warning for us all">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick D. Nunn, Professor of Geography, School of Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast Sea level rise is a serious threat to the low-lying islands of the Republic of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean. To fight it, their president recently announced he plans to raise ... <a title="Pacific people have been ‘pummelled and demeaned’ for too long – now they’re fighting back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/pacific-people-have-been-pummelled-and-demeaned-for-too-long-now-theyre-fighting-back-144278/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific people have been ‘pummelled and demeaned’ for too long – now they’re fighting back">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Lintermans, Associate professor, University of Canberra The tragic fish kills in the lower Darling River drew attention to the plight of Australia’s freshwater fish, but they’ve been in trouble for a long time. Many species have declined sharply in recent decades, and as many as 90 ... <a title="Australia’s smallest fish among 22 at risk of extinction within two decades" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/australias-smallest-fish-among-22-at-risk-of-extinction-within-two-decades-144115/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s smallest fish among 22 at risk of extinction within two decades">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Somayeh Parvazian, Survey Methodologist, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) unpack the lives of young Australians as they leave school, enter further study or the workforce and make the transition into adulthood. The latest findings are now available for ... <a title="A 3-decade ‘moving picture’ of young Australians’ study, work and life, thanks to LSAY" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/a-3-decade-moving-picture-of-young-australians-study-work-and-life-thanks-to-lsay-141134/" aria-label="Read more about A 3-decade ‘moving picture’ of young Australians’ study, work and life, thanks to LSAY">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW In the early 1930s a 21-year-old undergraduate at the London School of Economics asked a great question during his summer research project: “if my economics professors are right that markets are an efficient way to allocate resources, then why do firms ... <a title="Vital Signs: this university funding crisis was always coming – COVID-19 just accelerated it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/vital-signs-this-university-funding-crisis-was-always-coming-covid-19-just-accelerated-it-144365/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: this university funding crisis was always coming – COVID-19 just accelerated it">Read more</a>
