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February 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government, politically-speaking, is trying to do a loaves-and-fishes exercise with the Medevac legislation, over which the parliament defied the executive this week. It is attempting to inflate Labor’s support for a modest measure to facilitate medical transfers from ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: What does “reopening” Christmas Island actually mean and why do it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/grattan-on-friday-what-does-reopening-christmas-island-actually-mean-and-why-do-it-111866/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: What does “reopening” Christmas Island actually mean and why do it?">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sanjaya Senanayake, Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Physician, Australian National University The devastating Townsville floods have receded but the clean up is being complicated by the appearance of a serious bacterial infection known as melioidosis. One person has died from melioidosis and nine others have been ... <a title="Here’s what you need to know about melioidosis, the deadly infection that can spread after floods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-melioidosis-the-deadly-infection-that-can-spread-after-floods-111813/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what you need to know about melioidosis, the deadly infection that can spread after floods">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling Today, we’re bringing you a special episode of our podcast Trust Me, I’m An Expert for anyone wondering: what the hell happened this week? A sitting government lost a vote on the floor of parliament (which hasn’t happened in decades) over ... <a title="A refugee legal expert on a week of ‘reckless’ rhetoric and a new way to process asylum seeker claims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/a-refugee-legal-expert-on-a-week-of-reckless-rhetoric-and-a-new-way-to-process-asylum-seeker-claims-111756/" aria-label="Read more about A refugee legal expert on a week of ‘reckless’ rhetoric and a new way to process asylum seeker claims">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Saurav Dutta, Head of School at the School of Accounting, Curtin University Zip Co’s “buy now, pay later” service is fast becoming a ubiquitous payment option in Australia. Retailers from Bunnings and Best & Less to Target and Tigerair offer it. All up, the company now boasts ... <a title="How Zip Pay works, and why the extra cost of ‘buy now, pay later’ is still enticing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/how-zip-pay-works-and-why-the-extra-cost-of-buy-now-pay-later-is-still-enticing-110429/" aria-label="Read more about How Zip Pay works, and why the extra cost of ‘buy now, pay later’ is still enticing">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Political Roundup: The Story of the Chinese blowback against New Zealand by Dr Bryce Edwards This week might come to be seen as a turning point in New Zealand’s complex trading and political relations with China. Suddenly there is a very strong awareness of the deteriorating relations between the capitals of Wellington and Beijing. And ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Story of the Chinese blowback against New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-story-of-the-chinese-blowback-against-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Story of the Chinese blowback against New Zealand">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Biddle, Associate Professor, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Scott Morrison today became the fifth prime minister to deliver a Closing the Gap report to parliament – the 11th since the strategy began in 2008. Closing the Gap has aimed to reduce ... <a title="Four lessons from 11 years of Closing the Gap reports" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/four-lessons-from-11-years-of-closing-the-gap-reports-111816/" aria-label="Read more about Four lessons from 11 years of Closing the Gap reports">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Column: Barbara Sumner – 1960 was a big year for my adopting parents. First came the infertility diagnosis. Then a new baby arrived with little warning and no fanfare. Followed within days by a new refrigerator. I was one of over 103,000 New Zealand babies forcibly removed from my single mother. Her dying mother sent ... <a title="The baby or the fridge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/the-baby-or-the-fridge/" aria-label="Read more about The baby or the fridge">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Senior Lecturer School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University We must discover … the redemptive power of love. And when we do that, we will make of this whole world a new world. But love, love is the only way. In his spirited ... <a title="Love, Academically. Why scholarly hearts are beating for Love Studies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/love-academically-why-scholarly-hearts-are-beating-for-love-studies-104697/" aria-label="Read more about Love, Academically. Why scholarly hearts are beating for Love Studies">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brian Lovell, Research Director of the Security and Surveillance Research group; Professor, The University of Queensland Recently, the Victorian Government brought in new rules stating Victorian state schools will be banned from using facial recognition technology in classrooms unless they have the approval of parents, students and ... <a title="Face recognition technology in classrooms is here – and that’s ok" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/face-recognition-technology-in-classrooms-is-here-and-thats-ok-111351/" aria-label="Read more about Face recognition technology in classrooms is here – and that’s ok">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Curious Kids is a series for children. Send your question to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do we have a drought?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/curious-kids-why-do-we-have-a-drought-110592/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do we have a drought?">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Award-winning journalist, publisher and editor Maria Ressa (left) being arrested in Rappler’s newsroom yesterday. She was being kept in detention last night. Image: Maria Tan/AFP/RSF Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Paris-based global media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned yesterday’s arrest of Maria Ressa, editor of the independent Manila-based news website Rappler, on ... <a title="Philippine website editor Maria Ressa held on ‘cyber libel’ charge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/philippine-website-editor-maria-ressa-held-on-cyber-libel-charge/" aria-label="Read more about Philippine website editor Maria Ressa held on ‘cyber libel’ charge">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
By RNZ Pacific A short documentary which highlights the risks of being a journalist in Indonesian-ruled Papua region (West Papua) has won an international film award. Aprila, directed by Rohan Radheya, took out the best short film award at the 16th Pacific FIFO Documentary Film Festival in French Polynesia. The Dutch journalist and film-maker’s documentary ... <a title="West Papua film exposes plight of ‘ignored’ local journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/west-papua-film-exposes-plight-of-ignored-local-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua film exposes plight of ‘ignored’ local journalists">Read more</a>
