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December 30, 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 Housing Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): What would actually happen if *shock horror* house prices fell? Rob Stock (Stuff): House prices set to rise further in first half of 2021 Susan St John (Interest): The speech I would like Grant ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 30 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/30/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-30-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 30 2020">Read more</a>
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December 30, 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 Parliament, and end of year reviews Bryce Edwards (Guardian): The secret of Jacinda Ardern’s success lies in her conservatism Chris Trotter (Interest): Jacinda Ardern knows that it’s restoration people want – not revolution Alexander Gillespie (The Conversation): New Zealand’s ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 29 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/30/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-29-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 29 2020">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Barnier, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Performance) and Professor of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University In Charles Dickens’ famous 1843 ghost story, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come. However, we do not need supernatural powers ... <a title="Ah, memories of 2020. Why it’s important to remember our COVID holidays, good or bad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/30/ah-memories-of-2020-why-its-important-to-remember-our-covid-holidays-good-or-bad-150061/" aria-label="Read more about Ah, memories of 2020. Why it’s important to remember our COVID holidays, good or bad">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Houseman, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Leeds The end of an era is something of a cliché, but it’s the only way to describe the closure of Sydney University’s International House at the end of this year. Prominently located on the corner of City Road ... <a title="‘A world view that sees people rather than nations’: the legacy of Sydney Uni’s International House" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/30/a-world-view-that-sees-people-rather-than-nations-the-legacy-of-sydney-unis-international-house-150086/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A world view that sees people rather than nations’: the legacy of Sydney Uni’s International House">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Barbour, Senior Lecturer, Linguistics, University of Waikato Malekula, the second-largest island in the Vanuatu archipelago, has a linguistic connection to Aotearoa. All of its many languages are distantly related to te reo Māori and the island is the site of a long-term project to document them. ... <a title="People on Vanuatu’s Malekula Island speak more than 30 Indigenous languages. Here’s why we must record them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/30/people-on-vanuatus-malekula-island-speak-more-than-30-indigenous-languages-heres-why-we-must-record-them-122253/" aria-label="Read more about People on Vanuatu’s Malekula Island speak more than 30 Indigenous languages. Here’s why we must record them">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University On December 10, it finally happened. Instead of demanding an interest payment from the government in return for lending it money, a group of investors offered to pay the government in order to lend it ... <a title="Sure, interest rates are negative, but so are some prices, and when you look around, they’re everywhere" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/30/sure-interest-rates-are-negative-but-so-are-some-prices-and-when-you-look-around-theyre-everywhere-152081/" aria-label="Read more about Sure, interest rates are negative, but so are some prices, and when you look around, they’re everywhere">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lydia Edwards, Fashion historian, Edith Cowan University The shoe known in Australia as a “thong” is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world. Worn with small variations across Egypt, Rome, Greece, sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Korea, Japan and some Latin American cultures, the shoe ... <a title="Flip flop: the un-Australian history of the rubber thong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/30/flip-flop-the-un-australian-history-of-the-rubber-thong-150068/" aria-label="Read more about Flip flop: the un-Australian history of the rubber thong">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2020
By RNZ Pacific More than 4000 people are still in evacuation centres in Fiji nearly two weeks after Tropical Cyclone Yasa struck. Relief supplies are getting out to affected areas, but there is growing concern about the risk of disease. Officials said 4035 people were in 84 evacuation centres, most of them in the northern ... <a title="Thousands still in evacuation centres in Fiji after Tropical Cyclone Yasa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/30/thousands-still-in-evacuation-centres-in-fiji-after-tropical-cyclone-yasa/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands still in evacuation centres in Fiji after Tropical Cyclone Yasa">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2020
By Irfan Kamil in Jakarta Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) chairperson Abdul Manan says there has been a sharp rise of cases of violence against journalists in Indonesia – a record 84 during 2020 Manan said that what were referred to as violence against journalists were actions which can be categorised as attempts to obstruct ... <a title="AJI slams sharp rise in violence against Indonesian journalists – 84 cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/30/aji-slams-sharp-rise-in-violence-against-indonesian-journalists-84-cases/" aria-label="Read more about AJI slams sharp rise in violence against Indonesian journalists – 84 cases">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne Dickson, Associate Professor of Psychology, Edith Cowan University For many cultures, the dawn of the new year is marked not only with celebration, but also the opportunity for personal reflection and growth. But as the year progresses, our initial drive for self-betterment can falter. The good ... <a title="9 tips to give yourself the best shot at sticking to new year’s resolutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/29/9-tips-to-give-yourself-the-best-shot-at-sticking-to-new-years-resolutions-151372/" aria-label="Read more about 9 tips to give yourself the best shot at sticking to new year’s resolutions">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael L. Brown, Director of the Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences and Senior Lecturer at the School of Philosophy, Australian National University Throughout the pandemic we have seen a deluge of outright lies, conspiracy theories and pseudoscience from various peddlers of self-interest. But to a philosopher ... <a title="3 fallacies that blighted this year’s COVID commentary — have you fallen foul of any of them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/29/3-fallacies-that-blighted-this-years-covid-commentary-have-you-fallen-foul-of-any-of-them-148518/" aria-label="Read more about 3 fallacies that blighted this year’s COVID commentary — have you fallen foul of any of them?">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Young, Francine V. McNiff Professor of Criminology, University of Melbourne If there’s one thing everyone seems to agree on, it’s that 2020 was a nightmare of a year. This was the year of political crisis: not just one, but several, one after another. Street artists have ... <a title="Getting to the (street) art of a year like no other" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/29/getting-to-the-street-art-of-a-year-like-no-other-149923/" aria-label="Read more about Getting to the (street) art of a year like no other">Read more</a>
