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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Counsel assisting the NSW Inquiry into the suitability of Crown Resorts to operate Sydney’s new Barangaroo casino summed up this week by telling the Commissioner Crown was not a suitable person to continue to ... <a title="If Crown is unfit to hold a Sydney casino licence, what about Melbourne, and Perth?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/if-crown-is-unfit-to-hold-a-sydney-casino-licence-what-about-melbourne-and-perth-149443/" aria-label="Read more about If Crown is unfit to hold a Sydney casino licence, what about Melbourne, and Perth?">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janna Thompson, Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University In 2017, when a biology professor in a state college in Washington protested against a proposed day-long ban on the presence of white students on campus, radical students shut the campus down. The ban was part of a yearly ... <a title="Friday essay: a new front in the culture wars, Cynical Theories takes unfair aim at the humanities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/friday-essay-a-new-front-in-the-culture-wars-cynical-theories-takes-unfair-aim-at-the-humanities-148524/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: a new front in the culture wars, Cynical Theories takes unfair aim at the humanities">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University The US presidential election may still be extremely close, but one thing is clear: those pundits and pollsters who predicted Trump was in no position to win will be going back to the drawing board. ... <a title="Who are Donald Trump’s supporters in New Zealand and what do we know about them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/who-are-donald-trumps-supporters-in-new-zealand-and-what-do-we-know-about-them-149424/" aria-label="Read more about Who are Donald Trump’s supporters in New Zealand and what do we know about them?">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Joe Hockey, former Australian ambassador to the United States who’s now in business there, came under sharp attack for some ill-informed comments about the high Democrat vote in Washington, DC. Despite this faux pas, Hockey’s description of the American system ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: A Biden presidency would put pressure on Scott Morrison over climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/grattan-on-friday-a-biden-presidency-would-put-pressure-on-scott-morrison-over-climate-change-149548/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: A Biden presidency would put pressure on Scott Morrison over climate change">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Taylor, Early Career Research Leader, Emerging Viruses, Inflammation and Therapeutics Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University The federal government’s announcement of agreements to supply vaccines from Novavax and Pfizer/BioNTech potentially increases the pool of COVID-19 vaccines Australians will be able to access. These two vaccines ... <a title="What do we know about the Novavax and Pfizer COVID vaccines that Australia just signed up for?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/05/what-do-we-know-about-the-novavax-and-pfizer-covid-vaccines-that-australia-just-signed-up-for-149522/" aria-label="Read more about What do we know about the Novavax and Pfizer COVID vaccines that Australia just signed up for?">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah John, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University Facing the gradual erosion of early leads in several battleground states — and increasingly likely defeat in the presidential election — the Trump campaign is launching a well-planned legal assault to challenge the validity of ballots and ... <a title="Re-election hopes fading, Trump tries for an election win in the courts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/05/re-election-hopes-fading-trump-tries-for-an-election-win-in-the-courts-149520/" aria-label="Read more about Re-election hopes fading, Trump tries for an election win in the courts">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colin Yeo, Honorary Research Fellow, English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia In a year that began during one of the worst bushfire seasons in living memory and then saw a global pandemic take hold, rereading Ben Elton’s Stark offers an eerily prescient window into 2020 ... <a title="‘The Earth was dying. Killed by the pursuit of money’ — rereading Ben Elton’s Stark as prophecy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/05/the-earth-was-dying-killed-by-the-pursuit-of-money-rereading-ben-eltons-stark-as-prophecy-147256/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The Earth was dying. Killed by the pursuit of money’ — rereading Ben Elton’s Stark as prophecy">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colin Yeo, Honorary Research Fellow, English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia In a year that began during one of the worst bushfire seasons in living memory and then saw a global pandemic take hold, rereading Ben Elton’s Stark offers an eerily prescient window into 2020 ... <a title="‘The Earth was dying. Killed by the pursuit of money’ — rereading Ben Elton’s satiric novel Stark as prophecy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/05/the-earth-was-dying-killed-by-the-pursuit-of-money-rereading-ben-eltons-satiric-novel-stark-as-prophecy-147256/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The Earth was dying. Killed by the pursuit of money’ — rereading Ben Elton’s satiric novel Stark as prophecy">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW At the time of writing we don’t yet know who will win the US presidential election. But we do know this for sure: Donald Trump will be able to win with less than half the votes cast. Put another way, Joe ... <a title="Vital Signs: Sure, the US election is gerrymandered, but so are others, and its hard to stop" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/05/vital-signs-sure-the-us-election-is-gerrymandered-but-so-are-others-and-its-hard-to-stop-149454/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Sure, the US election is gerrymandered, but so are others, and its hard to stop">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2020
Hi I’m Selwyn Manning and you are watching A View from Afar. As always, we are joined by political scientist and former Pentagon analyst… Paul Buchanan… and this week we will discuss: How voting counting continues in the United States with it being so very close but nudging favourably for Democrat candidate, Joe Biden. But incumbent, ... <a title="LIVE: Paul Buchanan + Selwyn Manning on US Elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/05/live-paul-buchanan-selwyn-manning-on-us-elections/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE: Paul Buchanan + Selwyn Manning on US Elections">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kendall George, Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery and Midwifery Program Leader, University of the Sunshine Coast For most people, running a marathon sounds like a lot of work — and they probably wouldn’t even consider completing more than one within 24 hours. The will to go the extra ... <a title="We studied mental toughness in ultra-marathon runners. Mind over matter is real — but won’t take you all the way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/05/we-studied-mental-toughness-in-ultra-marathon-runners-mind-over-matter-is-real-but-wont-take-you-all-the-way-149447/" aria-label="Read more about We studied mental toughness in ultra-marathon runners. Mind over matter is real — but won’t take you all the way">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis Altman, Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University Let’s assume Joe Biden narrowly wins the electoral college, and the Trump team lodges a series of court challenges to overturn results in Michigan and Pennsylvania, possibly elsewhere. The cases may drag on for the rest of ... <a title="Even if Biden has a likely win, leading a deeply divided nation will be difficult" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/05/even-if-biden-has-a-likely-win-leading-a-deeply-divided-nation-will-be-difficult-148185/" aria-label="Read more about Even if Biden has a likely win, leading a deeply divided nation will be difficult">Read more</a>
