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December 11, 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 Royal Commission into terrorist attack Chris Trotter: The Royal Commission’s recommendations on hate speech will unite the right Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Royal Commission Report: Staying safely inside “The Norms” of our neoliberal society Paul Moon (Stuff): Silencing ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 11 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-11-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 11 2020">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hamish McCallum, Professor, Griffith School of Environment and Science, Griffith University In the midst of a human pandemic, we have some good news about a wildlife one: our new research, published today in Science, shows Tasmanian devils are likely to survive despite the infectious cancer that has ... <a title="Tasmanian devils look set to conquer their own pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/tasmanian-devils-look-set-to-conquer-their-own-pandemic-151842/" aria-label="Read more about Tasmanian devils look set to conquer their own pandemic">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Rockett, Virologist, University of Sydney “Coronavirus” has already established itself as the scary new word of 2020. Add the word “mutant”, and you’ve got an even stronger candidate for the scary new phrase of 2021. One fear is that critical parts of the coronavirus genome will ... <a title="Yes, the coronavirus mutates. But that shouldn’t affect the current crop of vaccines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/yes-the-coronavirus-mutates-but-that-shouldnt-affect-the-current-crop-of-vaccines-150541/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, the coronavirus mutates. But that shouldn’t affect the current crop of vaccines">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Sharrock, Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for Vocational and Educational Policy, University of Melbourne The French Review didn’t confirm a “free speech crisis” in Australian universities. But nor did its report last year confirm free speech was “alive and well”, as Universities Australia would have it. In ... <a title="Feel free to disagree on campus … by learning to do it well" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/feel-free-to-disagree-on-campus-by-learning-to-do-it-well-151019/" aria-label="Read more about Feel free to disagree on campus … by learning to do it well">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Alexander, Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne Based in Melbourne, we set out to find new ways of seeing and understanding aspects of Australian urban life in the 21st century. We did this by walking the city without preconceptions, open and ready to ... <a title="Tramping the city to find enchantment in a disenchanting world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/tramping-the-city-to-find-enchantment-in-a-disenchanting-world-150938/" aria-label="Read more about Tramping the city to find enchantment in a disenchanting world">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Ralston, Professorial fellow, Monash University When the government’s retirement incomes review of which I was a part examined superannuation, the age pension and voluntary savings, home ownership had a surprisingly important role. The home is the largest form of voluntary saving and is far more entwined ... <a title="Home ownership and super are far more entwined than you might think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/home-ownership-and-super-are-far-more-entwined-than-you-might-think-151693/" aria-label="Read more about Home ownership and super are far more entwined than you might think">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sommer Kapitan, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Auckland University of Technology When New Zealand digital media giant Stuff stopped using Facebook as an advertising partner in July this year, it joined the ranks of other openly activist brands. But it also showed how brand activism is moving from ... <a title="Brand activism is moving up the supply chain — corporate accountability or commercial censorship?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/brand-activism-is-moving-up-the-supply-chain-corporate-accountability-or-commercial-censorship-151749/" aria-label="Read more about Brand activism is moving up the supply chain — corporate accountability or commercial censorship?">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giselle Bastin, Associate Professor of English, Flinders University The recent outcry from royal biographers about the accuracy and fairness of series 4 of The Crown taps into narratives that have surrounded the field of royal life writing since it emerged in the early 20th century. There has ... <a title="Friday essay: the hidden agenda of royal experts circling The Crown series 4" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/friday-essay-the-hidden-agenda-of-royal-experts-circling-the-crown-series-4-151293/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: the hidden agenda of royal experts circling The Crown series 4">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A government-dominated parliamentary committee has recommended the voting system for federal elections should become optional preferential and pre-polling should be reduced from three to two weeks. The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters in its report on the 2019 election ... <a title="Parliamentary electoral committee floats bigger parliament, longer terms and no byelections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/parliamentary-electoral-committee-floats-bigger-parliament-longer-terms-and-no-byelections-151863/" aria-label="Read more about Parliamentary electoral committee floats bigger parliament, longer terms and no byelections">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra You didn’t need Nostradamus to predict the Labor and union blasts when the government released its industrial relations reforms this week. But who – except the few in the know – would have foreseen the government-union-Labor unity ticket to land ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Who would have thought John Setka could be such a unifying force?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/grattan-on-friday-who-would-have-thought-john-setka-could-be-such-a-unifying-force-151852/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Who would have thought John Setka could be such a unifying force?">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Klein, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University The government’s Cashless Debit Card almost fell apart last night. Senator Rex Patrick’s refusal to support the government’s plans to make the scheme permanent gave some hope that this expensive, ideological and cruel policy would end. Yet in the final ... <a title="Who’s really behaving badly? Confronting Australia’s cashless welfare card" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/whos-really-behaving-badly-confronting-australias-cashless-welfare-card-151847/" aria-label="Read more about Who’s really behaving badly? Confronting Australia’s cashless welfare card">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Webb, Dean, Graduate Research, University of Canberra Tara June Winch’s The Yield has won the fiction category of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. I wrote an enthusiastic review of this novel earlier in 2020, and my admiration has not abated in the months since it won ... <a title="Prime Minister’s Literary Awards: The Yield and The Lost Arabs throw fragile lines across cultural and linguistic divides" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/prime-ministers-literary-awards-the-yield-and-the-lost-arabs-throw-fragile-lines-across-cultural-and-linguistic-divides-151848/" aria-label="Read more about Prime Minister’s Literary Awards: The Yield and The Lost Arabs throw fragile lines across cultural and linguistic divides">Read more</a>
