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May 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Improved demand including in the retail sector and the re-opening of schools will be the largest contributors to an estimated $9.4 billion monthly rise in GDP from the planned three-stage lifting of COVID restrictions, according to Treasury estimates. The first ... <a title="First stage of ‘road back’ will boost monthly GDP by $3.1 billion and jobs by 252,500: Frydenberg" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/first-stage-of-road-back-will-boost-monthly-gdp-by-3-1-billion-and-jobs-by-252-500-frydenberg-138330/" aria-label="Read more about First stage of ‘road back’ will boost monthly GDP by $3.1 billion and jobs by 252,500: Frydenberg">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today a staggered move for New Zealand into alert level 2 starting on Thursday, with schools and bars reopening later and groups limited to 10 people. She said retail, malls, cafes, restaurants, cinemas and other public spaces including playgrounds and gyms would be able to reopen on ... <a title="Ardern unveils staggered NZ move to alert level 2 – but warns ‘take care’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/ardern-unveils-staggered-nz-move-to-alert-level-2-but-warns-take-care/" aria-label="Read more about Ardern unveils staggered NZ move to alert level 2 – but warns ‘take care’">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Tochka, Head of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Melbourne When he landed in Australia in October 1957, Little Richard should have been on top of the world. In just two years, the wild showman had traded the chitlin’ circuit for an international audience. Instead, he was ... <a title="Rock and roll and nuclear weapons: how the Cold War shaped Little Richard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/rock-and-roll-and-nuclear-weapons-how-the-cold-war-shaped-little-richard-138295/" aria-label="Read more about Rock and roll and nuclear weapons: how the Cold War shaped Little Richard">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Weihuan Zhou, Senior Lecturer and member of Herbert Smith Freehills CIBEL Centre, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Australia’s surprising call for an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus in China has provoked escalating threats of retaliation by China. China started with a warning that Australia’s ... <a title="China might well refuse to take our barley, and there would be little we could do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/china-might-well-refuse-to-take-our-barley-and-there-would-be-little-we-could-do-138267/" aria-label="Read more about China might well refuse to take our barley, and there would be little we could do">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch More than 30 media freedom groups, journalists and academics have combined in an international statement today condemning the closure of the largest Philippine television network and calling on President Rodrigo Duterte to “urgently reinstate” the broadcaster. In a statement by the Australian-based Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom (AJF), director Peter Greste said the ... <a title="30 media freedom groups, academics, journalists protest over TV shutdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/30-media-freedom-groups-academics-journalists-protest-over-tv-shutdown/" aria-label="Read more about 30 media freedom groups, academics, journalists protest over TV shutdown">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Associate Professor in Biogeography, University of Melbourne If you go to the Surrey Hills of northwest Tasmania, you’ll see a temperate rainforest dominated by sprawling trees with genetic links going back millions of years. It’s a forest type many consider to be ancient “wilderness”. But ... <a title="This rainforest was once a grassland savanna maintained by Aboriginal people – until colonisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/this-rainforest-was-once-a-grassland-savanna-maintained-by-aboriginal-people-until-colonisation-138289/" aria-label="Read more about This rainforest was once a grassland savanna maintained by Aboriginal people – until colonisation">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Lesh, University of Melbourne Jack Mundey, who has died at the age of 90, was a pioneer of the Australian heritage movement. As well as contributing to labor and environmental politics, Mundey reconceived of the ways that Australians related to their cities and heritage places. As ... <a title="Our cities owe much of their surviving heritage to Jack Mundey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/our-cities-owe-much-of-their-surviving-heritage-to-jack-mundey-138293/" aria-label="Read more about Our cities owe much of their surviving heritage to Jack Mundey">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Leberman, Professor of Leadership, Massey University Sports representatives are calling on New Zealand’s government not to return to normal when the nation begins to ease restrictions from Thursday this week. Instead, they argue, it is time to create a more even playing field by addressing chronic ... <a title="As sport resumes after lockdown, it’s time to level the playing field for women and girls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/as-sport-resumes-after-lockdown-its-time-to-level-the-playing-field-for-women-and-girls-137697/" aria-label="Read more about As sport resumes after lockdown, it’s time to level the playing field for women and girls">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Robertson, Professor, University of Western Australia In the wake of our success so far in containing the spread of COVID-19, the prime minister has been prodding us to come out from under the doona. With the premiers, he has prepared a three-step plan. The problem, he ... <a title="It’s hard to know when to come out from under the doona. It’ll be soon, but not yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/its-hard-to-know-when-to-come-out-from-under-the-doona-itll-be-soon-but-not-yet-137879/" aria-label="Read more about It’s hard to know when to come out from under the doona. It’ll be soon, but not yet">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
By RNZ News NZME is insisting a deal for it to purchase media rival Stuff is still on the cards, despite Stuff’s owner saying it has wrapped up talks with no deal. Stuff and NZME are seeking leave to appeal the High Court decision blocking their merger. NZME said today it was asking the government ... <a title="NZME makes offer to buy rival Stuff for nominal $1" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/nzme-makes-offer-to-buy-rival-stuff-for-nominal-1/" aria-label="Read more about NZME makes offer to buy rival Stuff for nominal $1">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Karnon, Professor of Health Economics, Flinders University Nothing our leaders can do now will return the economy to where it was before COVID-19. For one thing, international travel is likely to remain closed for a long time. But there are things they can do, and on ... <a title="Should we re-open pubs next week? The benefits seem to exceed the costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/should-we-re-open-pubs-next-week-the-benefits-seem-to-exceed-the-costs-137609/" aria-label="Read more about Should we re-open pubs next week? The benefits seem to exceed the costs">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Richards, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology In recent years, the biggest increases in Australia’s prison population have come from people convicted of sexual offences. From 2017-18, this segment of the prison population increased by 10%. The following year, it was up again by 7%. As ... <a title="Inside an innovative program helping sex offenders reintegrate into society – and why it works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/inside-an-innovative-program-helping-sex-offenders-reintegrate-into-society-and-why-it-works-136513/" aria-label="Read more about Inside an innovative program helping sex offenders reintegrate into society – and why it works">Read more</a>
