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May 27, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. 1980s: Sweden like New Zealand and Australia Sweden in the 1980s, financially speaking, looked something like New Zealand and Australia. It was a period of stress from high oil prices, and global inflation. Governments ‘took up the slack’, running deficit balances. In Sweden, the slack was caused mainly by private-sector surpluses. ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Financial Signatures: Sweden and Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-financial-signatures-sweden-and-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Financial Signatures: Sweden and Australia">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Quinn, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University A new trial has begun in Victoria this week to evaluate a potential vaccine against COVID-19. The vaccine is called NVX-CoV2373 and is from a US biotech company, Novavax. The trial will be carried ... <a title="The vaccine we’re testing in Australia is based on a flu shot. Here’s how it could work against coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/the-vaccine-were-testing-in-australia-is-based-on-a-flu-shot-heres-how-it-could-work-against-coronavirus-139380/" aria-label="Read more about The vaccine we’re testing in Australia is based on a flu shot. Here’s how it could work against coronavirus">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Six South Pacific journalists have been awarded grants by the Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) to strengthen environmental reporting in the region, reports Internews. The awardees include three Fiji journalists – Mai TV journalist and chief executive Stanley Simpson, who hosts the investigative current affairs programme Simpson@Eight, Sheldon Chanel and Luke Rawalai. ... <a title="EJN awards grants for investigative ‘green’ reporting in Asia-Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/ejn-awards-grants-for-investigative-green-reporting-in-asia-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about EJN awards grants for investigative ‘green’ reporting in Asia-Pacific">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Maguire, Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle The Jerusalem District Court has ruled that Malka Leifer is fit to stand trial on charges of child sexual abuse. This is a significant ruling in a very long process seeking Leifer’s extradition to ... <a title="Malka Leifer has been ruled fit to stand trial. Will extradition to Australia follow?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/malka-leifer-has-been-ruled-fit-to-stand-trial-will-extradition-to-australia-follow-139463/" aria-label="Read more about Malka Leifer has been ruled fit to stand trial. Will extradition to Australia follow?">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elspeth Tilley, Associate Professor of English (Expressive Arts), Massey University You’re walking on a public footpath when a jogger overtakes you from behind, well inside the recommended two-metre physical distance. What to do? By the time you’ve reacted it’s too late. Just another random encounter in the ... <a title="Don’t stand so close to me – understanding consent can help with those tricky social distancing moments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/dont-stand-so-close-to-me-understanding-consent-can-help-with-those-tricky-social-distancing-moments-139293/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t stand so close to me – understanding consent can help with those tricky social distancing moments">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorana Bartels, Professor and Program Leader of Criminology, Australian National University Yesterday was National Sorry Day in Australia. It marks the anniversary of the tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, which chronicles decades of removals of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Sorry ... <a title="For First Nations people, coronavirus has meant fewer services, separated families and over-policing: new report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/for-first-nations-people-coronavirus-has-meant-fewer-services-separated-families-and-over-policing-new-report-139460/" aria-label="Read more about For First Nations people, coronavirus has meant fewer services, separated families and over-policing: new report">Read more</a>
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May 27, 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 Welfare Sue Bradford (Pundit): Labour betrays Its traditions – and the most vulnerable – with two-tier welfare payments Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Former Green Party leader Metiria Turei puts Government on blast over new ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 27 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-27-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 27 2020">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific correspondent of TVNZ One News Pacific governments are being warned to put urgent covid-19 safety measures into place at ports as foreign fishing boats emerge as a new point of transmission. One Ecuadorian vessel is now at sea with 29 out of 30 of its crew covid-positive and there are suspicions ... <a title="Foreign fishing boats become new covid-19 threat for Pacific nations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/foreign-fishing-boats-become-new-covid-19-threat-for-pacific-nations/" aria-label="Read more about Foreign fishing boats become new covid-19 threat for Pacific nations">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sian Tomkinson, Media and Communication Scholar, University of Western Australia Last week, a 17-year-old boy in Toronto was charged with an act of terrorism in the alleged killing of a woman with a machete – the first time such a charge has been brought in a case ... <a title="‘Incel’ violence is a form of extremism. It’s time we treated it as a security threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/incel-violence-is-a-form-of-extremism-its-time-we-treated-it-as-a-security-threat-138536/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Incel’ violence is a form of extremism. It’s time we treated it as a security threat">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Rosenbaum, Associate professor & Scientia Fellow, UNSW Amid the coronavirus pandemic we are being warned of a “second wave” of mental health problems that threatens to overrun an already weakened mental health service. As we emerge from this crisis, while some people may need specialist help ... <a title="What are the characteristics of strong mental health?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/what-are-the-characteristics-of-strong-mental-health-139032/" aria-label="Read more about What are the characteristics of strong mental health?">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bill Hare, Director, Climate Analytics, Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University (Perth), Visiting scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Every few years, the idea that gas will help Australia transition to a zero-emissions economy seems to re-emerge, as if no one had thought of it before. Federal energy ... <a title="A single mega-project exposes the Morrison government’s gas plan as staggering folly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/a-single-mega-project-exposes-the-morrison-governments-gas-plan-as-staggering-folly-133435/" aria-label="Read more about A single mega-project exposes the Morrison government’s gas plan as staggering folly">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah McLaren, Professor of Life Cycle Management, Massey University CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send ... <a title="Climate explained: why countries don’t count emissions from goods they import" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/climate-explained-why-countries-dont-count-emissions-from-goods-they-import-138604/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: why countries don’t count emissions from goods they import">Read more</a>
