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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Peterie, Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Between July 2018 and August 2019, the Home Affairs Department spent A$6.1m flying refugees, asylum seekers and other immigration detainees around Australia. This figure includes $5.7 million for charter flights and $400,000 for commercial flights with airlines like Qantas. ... <a title="‘People are crying and begging’: the human cost of forced relocations in immigration detention" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/people-are-crying-and-begging-the-human-cost-of-forced-relocations-in-immigration-detention-132193/" aria-label="Read more about ‘People are crying and begging’: the human cost of forced relocations in immigration detention">Read more</a>
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March 2, 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 Coronavirus John Armstrong (1News): Cometh the hour; cometh the Minister of Finance? Audrey Young (Herald): Coronavirus and the next election (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Covid-19 infects the election (paywalled) Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Jacinda Ardern and Scott ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 01 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-01-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 01 2020">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monique Mann, Senior lecturer, Deakin University You’d thinking flying in a plane would be more dangerous than driving a car. In reality it’s much safer, partly because the aviation industry is heavily regulated. Airlines must stick to strict standards for safety, testing, training, policies and procedures, auditing ... <a title="Airlines take no chances with our safety. And neither should artificial intelligence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/airlines-take-no-chances-with-our-safety-and-neither-should-artificial-intelligence-132580/" aria-label="Read more about Airlines take no chances with our safety. And neither should artificial intelligence">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mehmet Ozalp, Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University As the nine-year Syrian civil war enters its final turn, Turkey and Russia, long-time allies in Syria, are on the ... <a title="Turkey and Russia lock horns in Syria as fear of outright war escalates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/turkey-and-russia-lock-horns-in-syria-as-fear-of-outright-war-escalates-131830/" aria-label="Read more about Turkey and Russia lock horns in Syria as fear of outright war escalates">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, La Trobe University The coronovirus outbreak has reminded us of the importance of public health responses in managing the spread of disease. But what actually is public health? And why are we so often hearing from public health experts about the coronavirus and ... <a title="Smallpox, seatbelts and smoking: 3 ways public health has saved lives from history to the modern day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/smallpox-seatbelts-and-smoking-3-ways-public-health-has-saved-lives-from-history-to-the-modern-day-128300/" aria-label="Read more about Smallpox, seatbelts and smoking: 3 ways public health has saved lives from history to the modern day">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University New South Wales’ Forestry Corporation will this week start “selective timber harvesting” from two state forests ravaged by bushfire on the state’s south coast. The state-owned company says the operations will be “strictly managed” ... <a title="Logging is due to start in fire-ravaged forests this week. It’s the last thing our wildlife needs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/logging-is-due-to-start-in-fire-ravaged-forests-this-week-its-the-last-thing-our-wildlife-needs-132347/" aria-label="Read more about Logging is due to start in fire-ravaged forests this week. It’s the last thing our wildlife needs">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Laird, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong At a time Australia is meant to be reducing its greenhouse emissions, the upward trend in transport sector emissions continues. The latest National Greenhouse Gas Inventory report released last week shows the transport sector emitted 102 million tonnes (Mt) ... <a title="Transport is letting Australia down in the race to cut emissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/transport-is-letting-australia-down-in-the-race-to-cut-emissions-131905/" aria-label="Read more about Transport is letting Australia down in the race to cut emissions">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute This morning the Grattan Institute releases its submission to the government’s retirement incomes review, a review called in anticipation of five annual increases in compulsory superannuation contributions, scheduled to begin in July 2021. Our research shows the super increases ... <a title="Forget more compulsory super: here are 5 ways to actually boost retirement incomes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/forget-more-compulsory-super-here-are-5-ways-to-actually-boost-retirement-incomes-132655/" aria-label="Read more about Forget more compulsory super: here are 5 ways to actually boost retirement incomes">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government will use its procurement policy to encourage the recycling of plastics, as well as committing financial assistance for upgrading infrastructure to boost the capacity for this waste to be reused. Scott Morrison will announce the initiatives to ... <a title="Morrison government will use purchasing power to encourage plastics recycling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/morrison-government-will-use-purchasing-power-to-encourage-plastics-recycling-132742/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison government will use purchasing power to encourage plastics recycling">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Anderson, Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne With the announcement that China’s Sun Yang has been banned from swimming for eight years, FINA, the world governing swimming body, must take stock of how it oversees one of the most popular and high-profile ... <a title="Sun Yang ban shows world swimming body must establish an integrity commission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/01/sun-yang-ban-shows-world-swimming-body-must-establish-an-integrity-commission-132738/" aria-label="Read more about Sun Yang ban shows world swimming body must establish an integrity commission">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2020
OPINION: SunStar editorial in Cebu So it goes. Nineteen senators in the Philippines Senate have approved on the third and final reading of Senate Bill (SB) 1083 this week, effectively giving more teeth to the Human Security Act of 2007, which was a watered down version of the 1996 Anti-Terror Act of Senator Juan Ponce ... <a title="New Philippine law gives ‘more teeth’ in anti-terror fight but lacks safeguards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/01/new-philippine-law-gives-more-teeth-in-anti-terror-fight-but-lacks-safeguards/" aria-label="Read more about New Philippine law gives ‘more teeth’ in anti-terror fight but lacks safeguards">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2020
By Colin Peacock of RNZ Mediawatch Authorities and the media alike knew it was just a matter of time before New Zealand had its first case of the new coronavirus. But panic-buying sparked by the breaking news prompted more headlines this weekend that undermined the message to keep calm and carry on. “Please – if you’re ... <a title="Panic-buying hits headlines after first NZ coronavirus case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/01/panic-buying-hits-headlines-after-first-nz-coronavirus-case/" aria-label="Read more about Panic-buying hits headlines after first NZ coronavirus case">Read more</a>
