CoveragePost
July 14, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Op-Ed Stansfield SmithFrom Chicago Common Dreams, a liberal-left website, reposted an article by David Smilde of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA): Joe Biden Should Not Try to Out-Hawk Trump on Venezuela. It starts off well with the subtitle: “The first task for a Biden administration would ... <a title="WOLA’s David Smilde Advocates a more Efficient Regime Change Strategy against Venezuela" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/14/wolas-david-smilde-advocates-a-more-efficient-regime-change-strategy-against-venezuela/" aria-label="Read more about WOLA’s David Smilde Advocates a more Efficient Regime Change Strategy against Venezuela">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 14, 2020
Source: Statement by Todd Muller – New Zealand National Party I have taken time over the weekend to reflect on my experience over the last several weeks as Leader of the Opposition. It has become clear to me that I am not the best person to be Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the New ... <a title="Election 2020 – National Party Leader Todd Muller Resigns – Statement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/14/election-2020-national-party-leader-todd-muller-resigns-statement/" aria-label="Read more about Election 2020 – National Party Leader Todd Muller Resigns – Statement">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 14, 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 Todd Muller resigns as National Party leader 1News: Todd Muller resigns as leader of Opposition, National Party in shock announcement Herald: Todd Muller quits as National Party leader for health reasons Jamie Ensor ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 14 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-july-14-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 14 2020">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Audrey Courty, PhD candidate, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University Amid claims of social media platforms stifling free speech, a new challenger called Parler is drawing attention for its anti-censorship stance. Last week, Harper’s Magazine published an open letter signed by 150 academics, writers ... <a title="Parler: the Twitter ‘alternative’ isn’t the free speech haven it claims to be" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/14/parler-the-twitter-alternative-isnt-the-free-speech-haven-it-claims-to-be-142268/" aria-label="Read more about Parler: the Twitter ‘alternative’ isn’t the free speech haven it claims to be">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Hocking, Emeritus Professor, Monash University Forty-five years after they were written, hundreds of previously secret letters between the queen and the governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, relating to the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 will be released in full by the National Archives ... <a title="The big reveal: Jenny Hocking on what the ‘palace letters’ may tell us, finally, about The Dismissal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/14/the-big-reveal-jenny-hocking-on-what-the-palace-letters-may-tell-us-finally-about-the-dismissal-142473/" aria-label="Read more about The big reveal: Jenny Hocking on what the ‘palace letters’ may tell us, finally, about The Dismissal">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thea van de Mortel, Professor, Nursing and Deputy Head (Learn & Teaching), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University The recent lockdown of nine social housing towers in Melbourne’s north to contain the spread of COVID-19 led to widespread concerns for residents’ welfare. Among the concerns was ... <a title="We could have more coronavirus outbreaks in tower blocks. Here’s how lockdown should work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/14/we-could-have-more-coronavirus-outbreaks-in-tower-blocks-heres-how-lockdown-should-work-142297/" aria-label="Read more about We could have more coronavirus outbreaks in tower blocks. Here’s how lockdown should work">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Francesco Paolucci, Associate Professor of Health Economics, University of Bologna, and Professor of Health Economics, University of Newcastle Australia has fared better than most countries in reducing its COVID-19 cases to very low numbers. However, on June 15, new clusters of infection were identified in Victoria. The ... <a title="Is aggressive hotel isolation worth the cost to fight COVID-19? The answer depends on family size" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/14/is-aggressive-hotel-isolation-worth-the-cost-to-fight-covid-19-the-answer-depends-on-family-size-142283/" aria-label="Read more about Is aggressive hotel isolation worth the cost to fight COVID-19? The answer depends on family size">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Burke, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Putting a price on carbon should reduce emissions, because it makes dirty production processes more expensive than clean ones, right? That’s the economic theory. Stated baldly, it’s obvious, but there is perhaps a tiny chance ... <a title="Carbon pricing works: the largest-ever study puts it beyond doubt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/14/carbon-pricing-works-the-largest-ever-study-puts-it-beyond-doubt-142034/" aria-label="Read more about Carbon pricing works: the largest-ever study puts it beyond doubt">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona David, Visiting Fellow, University of Western Australia In previous recessions in Australia, far larger numbers of men than women lost their jobs. This reflected realities at that time. Men had higher levels of workforce participation than women, and the construction and manufacturing industries were particularly hard ... <a title="We need a new childcare system that encourages women to work, not punishes them for it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/14/we-need-a-new-childcare-system-that-encourages-women-to-work-not-punishes-them-for-it-142275/" aria-label="Read more about We need a new childcare system that encourages women to work, not punishes them for it">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon O’Connor, Associate Professor in American Politics at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney Curtis Sittenfeld has a knack of putting her readers in uncomfortable places in her fiction. In her short story Gender Studies she puts you in the middle of a hotel tryst ... <a title="Fiction, fact and Hillary Clinton: an American politics expert reads Rodham" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/14/fiction-fact-and-hillary-clinton-an-american-politics-expert-reads-rodham-142478/" aria-label="Read more about Fiction, fact and Hillary Clinton: an American politics expert reads Rodham">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 14, 2020
By Jimmy Kalebe in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea police have intercepted and confiscated almost K200,000 (about NZ$90,000) in K2 and K5 notes hidden in a container on a ship which arrived at the Lae wharf in a suspected money laundering case. The cash, packed into three boxes inside the container full of bottles of ... <a title="PNG police seize K200,000 on ship in suspected money laundering raid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/14/png-police-seize-k200000-on-ship-in-suspected-money-laundering-raid/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police seize K200,000 on ship in suspected money laundering raid">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 13, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Host Oscar Perress talked to contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Sri Krishnamurthi today about Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s government rejecting a licence for the country’s biggest radio and TV network ABS-CBN. Its 25-year-old franchise expired in May but the majority of legislators refused to renew in a threat to the post-Marcos ... <a title="Southern Cross: Uproar over ABS-CBN denial of TV licence by government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/13/southern-cross-uproar-over-abs-cbn-denial-of-tv-licence-by-government/" aria-label="Read more about Southern Cross: Uproar over ABS-CBN denial of TV licence by government">Read more</a>
