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May 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Mossop, Dean of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney Our governments are committing taxpayers to further debt as part of a planned recovery from the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Infrastructure spending is great for economic stimulus, but it has to be the ... <a title="The PM wants to fast-track mega-projects for pandemic recovery. Here’s why that’s a bad idea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/the-pm-wants-to-fast-track-mega-projects-for-pandemic-recovery-heres-why-thats-a-bad-idea-136838/" aria-label="Read more about The PM wants to fast-track mega-projects for pandemic recovery. Here’s why that’s a bad idea">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hongzhi Gao, Associate professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington When it comes to our economic over-reliance on China, New Zealand consumers need look no further than their most popular big box chain, The Warehouse. The familiar “big red shed” sourced about 60% of its ... <a title="Beyond travel, a trans-Tasman bubble is an opportunity for Australia and NZ to reduce dependence on China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/beyond-travel-a-trans-tasman-bubble-is-an-opportunity-for-australia-and-nz-to-reduce-dependence-on-china-137062/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond travel, a trans-Tasman bubble is an opportunity for Australia and NZ to reduce dependence on China">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna M. Kotarba-Morley, Lecturer, Archaeology, Flinders University Many think of globalisation as a modern and corporate phenomenon, and it has been readily linked to the spread of coronavirus. But globalisation isn’t new. Archaeological research shows it began in antiquity. A global economy, with luxury consumerism and global ... <a title="From war elephants to cheap electronics: modern globalisation has its roots in ancient trade networks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/from-war-elephants-to-cheap-electronics-modern-globalisation-has-its-roots-in-ancient-trade-networks-125483/" aria-label="Read more about From war elephants to cheap electronics: modern globalisation has its roots in ancient trade networks">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With the COVID case curve currently close to the floor, Scott Morrison on Tuesday declared attention had to be directed firmly onto another curve. “Thousands of Australian lives have been saved, when you look at the experience of how coronavirus ... <a title="View from The Hill: Juggling the curves as we ease the COVID restrictions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/view-from-the-hill-juggling-the-curves-as-we-ease-the-covid-restrictions-137940/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Juggling the curves as we ease the COVID restrictions">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Eden-Monaro byelection has triggered an extraordinarily bitter attack by NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro on fellow National, deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack. In a message to McCormack, a furious Barilaro said, “You will never be acknowledged by me as ... <a title="Eden-Monaro opens wounds in Nationals, with Barilaro attack on McCormack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/eden-monaro-opens-wounds-in-nationals-with-barilaro-attack-on-mccormack-137907/" aria-label="Read more about Eden-Monaro opens wounds in Nationals, with Barilaro attack on McCormack">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
The Samoa Observer media freedom video, Journalism Without Fear or Favour. By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s two daily newspapers – the PNG Post-Courier and The National – which dominate the market, demonstrated “overwhelming deference” to the office of former Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, says a new report about ... <a title="PNG media suffers ‘overwhelming deference’, says freedom report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/png-media-suffers-overwhelming-deference-says-freedom-report/" aria-label="Read more about PNG media suffers ‘overwhelming deference’, says freedom report">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Surviving the Black Flu It has been interesting for me to look back and investigate the Black Flu pandemic of 1918. The 1918 pandemic is widely regarded to have been the world’s worst pandemic since the Black Death of the late 1340s. (It was commonly known as the ‘Spanish Flu’, but this ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Smart Treatments in a Pandemic; Lessons from the Black Flu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/keith-rankin-analysis-smart-treatments-in-a-pandemic-lessons-from-the-black-flu/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Smart Treatments in a Pandemic; Lessons from the Black Flu">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yun-Hee Jeon, Susan and Isaac Wakil Professor of Healthy Ageing, University of Sydney One in four Australians who have died from COVID-19 is from an aged care facility. These deaths show how fatal and fast the spread of the infection can be, and the extreme challenge of ... <a title="Aged care visitor guidelines balance residents’ rights and coronavirus risk – but may be hard to implement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/aged-care-visitor-guidelines-balance-residents-rights-and-coronavirus-risk-but-may-be-hard-to-implement-137706/" aria-label="Read more about Aged care visitor guidelines balance residents’ rights and coronavirus risk – but may be hard to implement">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, University of South Australia We are hearing increasing talk about a trans-Tasman “travel bubble”, which could see Australia and New Zealand open their borders to each other. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was a special guest at Australia’s national ... <a title="Why a trans-Tasman travel bubble makes a lot of sense for Australia and New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/why-a-trans-tasman-travel-bubble-makes-a-lot-of-sense-for-australia-and-new-zealand-137878/" aria-label="Read more about Why a trans-Tasman travel bubble makes a lot of sense for Australia and New Zealand">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Felicity Gerry, Professor and Queen’s Counsel, Deakin University Last month, Victoria swiftly pushed through a bill introducing judge-only criminal trials as a short-term measure to tackle the absence of court sittings during the coronavirus lockdown. The new law, which was cautiously welcomed by the state Criminal Bar ... <a title="Jury is out: why shifting to judge-alone trials is a flawed approach to criminal justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/jury-is-out-why-shifting-to-judge-alone-trials-is-a-flawed-approach-to-criminal-justice-137397/" aria-label="Read more about Jury is out: why shifting to judge-alone trials is a flawed approach to criminal justice">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Carruthers, Senior lecturer, Australian Catholic University Woman? All they knew for sure was that they desired her. Désir, a gigantic five-letter word. So commented American artist Dorothea Tanning recalling her time in the surrealist milieu of New York in the 1940s. On a New York rooftop ... <a title="Dorothea Tanning – an unusual surrealist with an unique female gaze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/dorothea-tanning-an-unusual-surrealist-with-an-unique-female-gaze-131214/" aria-label="Read more about Dorothea Tanning – an unusual surrealist with an unique female gaze">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Robie, Professor of Pacific Journalism, Director of the Pacific Media Centre, Auckland University of Technology As fears grow over vulnerability to the coronavirus in parts of the Pacific, some governments stand accused of sheltering behind tough emergency or lockdown rules to silence criticism. Already, several media ... <a title="Pacific governments accused of using coronavirus crisis as cover for media crackdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/pacific-governments-accused-of-using-coronavirus-crisis-as-cover-for-media-crackdown-137700/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific governments accused of using coronavirus crisis as cover for media crackdown">Read more</a>
