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September 28, 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 Newshub-Reid Research poll Tova O’Brien (Newshub): National is in a classic opposition party death spiral Audrey Young (Herald): Latest poll is a shocker for National (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Labour – walking away with it ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 28 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/28/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-28-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 28 2020">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Daniel Andrews’ Sunday announcement of some modest steps out of lockdown will bring both relief and reassurance to many Victorians, but frustration to those who think he should move faster. Certainly the Morrison government wants the state to take bigger ... <a title="View from The Hill: Morrison government’s message to Daniel Andrews: ‘open faster’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/view-from-the-hill-morrison-governments-message-to-daniel-andrews-open-faster-146997/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Morrison government’s message to Daniel Andrews: ‘open faster’">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Wallace, Associate Professor, 50/50 By 2030 Foundation, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra The politician who achieved equal rights legislation for women in Australia, Hon Susan Ryan AO, died unexpectedly yesterday in Sydney aged 77, still fighting for fairness in a country challenged ... <a title="Vale Susan Ryan, pioneer Labor feminist who showed big, difficult policy changes can, and should, be made" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/vale-susan-ryan-pioneer-labor-feminist-who-showed-big-difficult-policy-changes-can-and-should-be-made-146996/" aria-label="Read more about Vale Susan Ryan, pioneer Labor feminist who showed big, difficult policy changes can, and should, be made">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
By RNZ News With just under three weeks until the election, Newshub’s new political poll shows the gap is closing between Labour and National, but Labour could still govern alone. The Newshub Reid Research Poll had Labour at 50.1 percent – down 10 percent on the last poll – but well above National at 29.6 ... <a title="Labour support slips in new NZ poll, but could still govern alone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/labour-support-slips-in-new-nz-poll-but-could-still-govern-alone/" aria-label="Read more about Labour support slips in new NZ poll, but could still govern alone">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced an end to the curfew and a COVID-safe return to work for 127,000 Melburnians, as restrictions ease at 11.59pm tonight. He has also flagged a provisional early lifting of many other aspects of the ... <a title="Curfew lifted and COVID-19 roadmap is ‘ahead of schedule’ as Melbourne inches towards end of lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/curfew-lifted-and-covid-19-roadmap-is-ahead-of-schedule-as-melbourne-inches-towards-end-of-lockdown-146987/" aria-label="Read more about Curfew lifted and COVID-19 roadmap is ‘ahead of schedule’ as Melbourne inches towards end of lockdown">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
By Clifford Faiparik in Port Moresby Retired and serving police officers in Papua New Guinea are being investigated for alleged offences such as gun-smuggling, fraud and theft, according to Police Minister Bryan Kramer. It includes “massive corruption at the police headquarters in Port Moresby by retired and serving senior police officers”. “Cases now under investigation ... <a title="PNG police minister says officers being probed for gun-smuggling, fraud" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/png-police-minister-says-officers-being-probed-for-gun-smuggling-fraud/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police minister says officers being probed for gun-smuggling, fraud">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Overwhelmingly, Australia’s leading economists want the budget to boost social housing and the JobSeeker unemployment benefit rather than bring forward personal income tax cuts. The 49 eminent economists who responded to Conversation-Economic Society of Australia ... <a title="Top economists back boosts to JobSeeker and social housing over tax cuts in pre-budget poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/top-economists-back-boosts-to-jobseeker-and-social-housing-over-tax-cuts-in-pre-budget-poll-146914/" aria-label="Read more about Top economists back boosts to JobSeeker and social housing over tax cuts in pre-budget poll">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Flowers, Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Flinders University Last week, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Ginsburg’s “most fervent wish”, revealed by her granddaughter, was that she “not be replaced until a new president ... <a title="What would Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, mean for abortion rights in the US?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/what-would-amy-coney-barrett-trumps-pick-for-the-supreme-court-mean-for-abortion-rights-in-the-us-146931/" aria-label="Read more about What would Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, mean for abortion rights in the US?">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Three crew members of an unnamed foreign ship intercepted by a Papua New Guinea Navy vessel near Kavieng, New Ireland, last month have denied violating local laws and withholding information from authorities. In the Kavieng District Court before Magistrate Patrick Baiwan on Wednesday were ship’s captain Shi Kehu from ... <a title="Arrested ship crew deny ‘bunkering’, other marine charges in PNG court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/arrested-ship-crew-deny-bunkering-other-marine-charges-in-png-court/" aria-label="Read more about Arrested ship crew deny ‘bunkering’, other marine charges in PNG court">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Flowers, Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Flinders University Last week, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Ginsburg’s “most fervent wish”, revealed by her granddaughter, was that she “not be replaced until a new president ... <a title="What would Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s expected pick for the Supreme Court, mean for abortion rights in the US?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/26/what-would-amy-coney-barrett-trumps-expected-pick-for-the-supreme-court-mean-for-abortion-rights-in-the-us-146931/" aria-label="Read more about What would Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s expected pick for the Supreme Court, mean for abortion rights in the US?">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2020
By Katie Todd, RNZ News Reporter Academics who made allegations of racism at the University of Waikato are welcoming the outcome of an independent review. While individual claims have been dismissed as “inaccurate”, “incorrect” and “reflective of differing perspectives”, it is hoped the findings could lead to nationwide action on racism at tertiary institutions. Six ... <a title="University of Waikato launches taskforce to address racism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/26/university-of-waikato-launches-taskforce-to-address-racism/" aria-label="Read more about University of Waikato launches taskforce to address racism">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lea M D Delbridge, Professor of Physiology, University of Melbourne Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s easy to forget one of the largest health challenges we face remains the global obesity epidemic. World Health Organisation data shows obesity has nearly tripled in less than 50 years, with about ... <a title="Body fat deep below the surface is a toxic risk, especially for your heart" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/26/body-fat-deep-below-the-surface-is-a-toxic-risk-especially-for-your-heart-146307/" aria-label="Read more about Body fat deep below the surface is a toxic risk, especially for your heart">Read more</a>
