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May 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Trade tensions between Australia and China have escalated to the point where China has placed an 80.5% tariff on Australian barley imports, beginning this week. China has been a huge market for Australian barley. It accounted for more than 70% of ... <a title="Vital Signs: Australian barley growers are the victims of weaponised trade rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/vital-signs-australian-barley-growers-are-the-victims-of-weaponised-trade-rules-139037/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Australian barley growers are the victims of weaponised trade rules">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yves Rees, Lecturer in History, La Trobe University The origin story of Australian modernism often centres around Heide – the Melbourne artistic community where, from 1934, bohemian art patrons John and Sunday Reed nurtured talents such as Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and John Perceval. But ... <a title="Friday essay: the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/friday-essay-the-melbourne-bookshop-that-ignited-australian-modernism-138300/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage The Reverend Phil Wheaton, an activist and community organizer in the Washington D.C. area, passed away this month. He had worked tirelessly for humanitarian causes, including for Salvadorans who came to the United States in large numbers in the 1980s fleeing their country’s civil war. Sonia Umanzor is ... <a title="Phil Wheaton: Remembering an Exemplary Fighter for the People" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/phil-wheaton-remembering-an-exemplary-fighter-for-the-people/" aria-label="Read more about Phil Wheaton: Remembering an Exemplary Fighter for the People">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
COMMENT: By Keith Locke The covid-19 coronavirus crisis is shaking up our thinking in a number of areas in New Zealand, not least on foreign policy. In the 1980s we were excluded from the Anzus alliance for daring to declare New Zealand nuclear-free. Since then we have supposedly had an “independent foreign policy”. In practice, ... <a title="Keith Locke: Covid-19 coronavirus helps us reshape NZ foreign policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/keith-locke-covid-19-coronavirus-helps-us-reshape-nz-foreign-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Locke: Covid-19 coronavirus helps us reshape NZ foreign policy">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Who’d be Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk right now? Facing a tough election in October, Palaszczuk is coming under huge pressure to open the state’s borders, so visitors in search of winter sun can start to get the tourist industry back ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Border wars split political leaders and embroil health experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/grattan-on-friday-border-wars-split-political-leaders-and-embroil-health-experts-139124/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Border wars split political leaders and embroil health experts">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Budget-related Economic Chatter Last week in New Zealand was Budget week, and the chatter about the burden of government debt reached a crescendo. I will highlight here comments made, on Monday 11 May, by four economists with substantial media profiles, from Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon (hosted by Kathryn Ryan), ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Unpacking our Fear of Government Debt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/keith-rankin-analysis-unpacking-our-fear-of-government-debt/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Unpacking our Fear of Government Debt">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. If tonight’s 1News-Colmar Brunton poll result is anywhere near the 31% recorded in Monday’s Newshub-Reid Research poll, Simon Bridges will surely be dog tucker when his caucus colleagues meet tomorrow to vote on the National Party leadership. The momentum is with newcomer Todd Muller, who seems likely to be installed ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Todd Muller has the momentum to become National’s leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-todd-muller-has-the-momentum-to-become-nationals-leader/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Todd Muller has the momentum to become National’s leader">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Musil, PhD Candidate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University “In a world where the wealthy elite control the media, elections and lives of working people, we’re faced with two choices – accept it or fight for something better.” That’s the premise of Tonight We ... <a title="Tonight we riot? What Nintendo’s ‘revolutionary’ video game misses about worker liberation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/tonight-we-riot-what-nintendos-revolutionary-video-game-misses-about-worker-liberation-136254/" aria-label="Read more about Tonight we riot? What Nintendo’s ‘revolutionary’ video game misses about worker liberation">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Teresa G. Carvalho, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, La Trobe University The White House’s confirmation that US President Donald Trump has been taking hydroxychloroquine every day for the past two weeks, with his doctor’s blessing, has reignited the controversy over the drug. It has long been used against ... <a title="Donald Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off COVID-19. Is that wise?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/donald-trump-is-taking-hydroxychloroquine-to-ward-off-covid-19-is-that-wise-139031/" aria-label="Read more about Donald Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off COVID-19. Is that wise?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Noble, Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University This week, the federal government released a review of a relief package it put in place in April to ensure the early childhood education and care sector remained financially viable and children of essential workers, as well as ... <a title="Childcare is critical for COVID-19 recovery. We can’t just snap back to ‘normal’ funding arrangements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/childcare-is-critical-for-covid-19-recovery-we-cant-just-snap-back-to-normal-funding-arrangements-139027/" aria-label="Read more about Childcare is critical for COVID-19 recovery. We can’t just snap back to ‘normal’ funding arrangements">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University The controversial Snowy 2.0 project has mounted a major hurdle after the New South Wales government today announced approval for its main works. The pumped hydro venture in southern NSW will pump water uphill into dams and release ... <a title="NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that’s a bad move" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/nsw-has-approved-snowy-2-0-here-are-six-reasons-why-thats-a-bad-move-139112/" aria-label="Read more about NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that’s a bad move">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nigel McMillan, Program Director, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Menzies Health Institute, Griffith University If you’ve already recovered from the coronavirus, can you go back to the workplace carefree? This is the question governments including in the UK, Chile, Germany and Italy are trying to answer by considering ... <a title="Immunity passports could help end lockdown, but risk class divides and intentional infections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/immunity-passports-could-help-end-lockdown-but-risk-class-divides-and-intentional-infections-138513/" aria-label="Read more about Immunity passports could help end lockdown, but risk class divides and intentional infections">Read more</a>
