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September 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle O’Shea, Senior Lecturer Management, Western Sydney University The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has long tried to insulate itself from politics in society, but wider issues have always been a part of sport – including the Olympics. Sometimes political statements have been subtle and accommodated by the ... <a title="The Olympics strive for political neutrality. So, how will they deal with surging athlete activism?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/the-olympics-strive-for-political-neutrality-so-how-will-they-deal-with-surging-athlete-activism-144951/" aria-label="Read more about The Olympics strive for political neutrality. So, how will they deal with surging athlete activism?">Read more</a>
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September 18, 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 Election Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Campaigning but no contest of ideas Josie Pagani (Herald): Contest is between the haves and the have-yachts (paywalled) Tim Watkin (RNZ): Gulliver’s Election… and is Labour angling to govern alone? Stephen ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 18 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-18-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 18 2020">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Definition ‘Balance sheet recession’ is an innocuous name for a very big economic event. It represents a particular kind of contraction of a country’s economy – or of the global economy – in which one of the most important laws of ‘financial economics’ is practically disabled; that is the economic law ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Balance Sheet Recessions, and the Government Debt Fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/keith-rankin-analysis-balance-sheet-recessions-and-the-government-debt-fix/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Balance Sheet Recessions, and the Government Debt Fix">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Curato, Associate Professor, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra Developments in gene editing are often met with moral panic. Every new announcement raises outrage over the audacity of scientists “playing God”. The existence of mutant mosquitoes and designer babies are often framed ... <a title="Why we need a global citizens’ assembly on gene editing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/why-we-need-a-global-citizens-assembly-on-gene-editing-146398/" aria-label="Read more about Why we need a global citizens’ assembly on gene editing">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mehmet Ozalp, Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may have successfully warded off a nine-year rebellion against his government, but he is being tested ... <a title="In war-torn Syria, the coronavirus pandemic has brought its people to the brink of starvation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/in-war-torn-syria-the-coronavirus-pandemic-has-brought-its-people-to-the-brink-of-starvation-144794/" aria-label="Read more about In war-torn Syria, the coronavirus pandemic has brought its people to the brink of starvation">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suresh Mahalingam, Principal Research Leader, Emerging Viruses, Inflammation and Therapeutics Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University The World Health Organisation lists about 180 COVID-19 vaccines being developed around the world. Each vaccine aims to use a slightly different approach to prepare your immune system to recognise ... <a title="From adenoviruses to RNA: the pros and cons of different COVID vaccine technologies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/from-adenoviruses-to-rna-the-pros-and-cons-of-different-covid-vaccine-technologies-145454/" aria-label="Read more about From adenoviruses to RNA: the pros and cons of different COVID vaccine technologies">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yeshe Colliver, Lecturer in early childhood, Macquarie University Archie! Don’t run away… you should be in bed already and we still need to brush your tee-eeeth! Your four year old runs down the hallway without his pants on, knocking over that leaning tower of washing. Around the ... <a title="Tinker Bell, Batman, Ben 10… if your kids are in character, they’re more likely to help around the house" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/tinker-bell-batman-ben-10-if-your-kids-are-in-character-theyre-more-likely-to-help-around-the-house-139962/" aria-label="Read more about Tinker Bell, Batman, Ben 10… if your kids are in character, they’re more likely to help around the house">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed – for lack of a better word – is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms ... <a title="Vital Signs: 50 years ago Milton Friedman told us greed was good. He was half right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/vital-signs-50-years-ago-milton-friedman-told-us-greed-was-good-he-was-half-right-146294/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: 50 years ago Milton Friedman told us greed was good. He was half right">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily van der Nagel, Lecturer in Social Media, Monash University Sex is fascinating, important, and sometimes scary. Sex is a normal part of life. Yet, the multiplicity and richness of sexual practices on social media rarely make it into everyday conversations. Nudes, it seems, are now part ... <a title="Friday essay: shifting identities – performing sexual selves on social media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/friday-essay-shifting-identities-performing-sexual-selves-on-social-media-145322/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: shifting identities – performing sexual selves on social media">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government is extending the COVID health measures for a further six months, until the end of March, in its latest acknowledgement that pandemic assistance will be needed on various fronts for a longer period. The extension, costing $2 billion, ... <a title="Government extends COVID health initiatives at $2 billion cost" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/government-extends-covid-health-initiatives-at-2-billion-cost-146430/" aria-label="Read more about Government extends COVID health initiatives at $2 billion cost">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra If Labor were threatening to build a power station, the Liberals would likely be screaming “socialists”. As for a Coalition government contemplating such a thing — well, to say the obvious, it hardly fits with the Liberals’ stated free market, ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Morrison signs up to the gas gospel, but the choir is not in tune" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/17/grattan-on-friday-morrison-signs-up-to-the-gas-gospel-but-the-choir-is-not-in-tune-146405/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Morrison signs up to the gas gospel, but the choir is not in tune">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Kramer September 16 – yesterday – marked the 45th year of Independence for Papua New Guinea. It also marked just over a year and three months since I was appointed Minister for Police, following the collapse of the O’Neill government. I note many people are asking why I am so quiet in ... <a title="Bryan Kramer: One year in – why so quiet about corruption in PNG?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/17/bryan-kramer-one-year-in-why-so-quiet-about-corruption-in-png/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Kramer: One year in – why so quiet about corruption in PNG?">Read more</a>
