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May 21, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. When policymakers try to fix things, they often mess up because of the way the problem is formulated and the ways that subsequent policies are targeted. A classic example was the Closing the Gaps initiative in the early 2000s. The problem – albeit simplified – is that some people are ‘advantaged’ ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – The Seventy-Thirty Problem, and the Māori Health Authority" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/keith-rankin-analysis-the-seventy-thirty-problem-and-the-maori-health-authority/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – The Seventy-Thirty Problem, and the Māori Health Authority">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Curtin, Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland Finance Minister Grant Robertson called this a recovery budget for “all New Zealanders”. But was it an inclusive budget? Specifically, what did Budget 2021 offer those women who were significantly affected by the job losses resulting from ... <a title="NZ Budget 2021: women left behind despite the focus on well-being" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/nz-budget-2021-women-left-behind-despite-the-focus-on-well-being-161187/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2021: women left behind despite the focus on well-being">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne Gray, Lecturer in School of Communications, Chief Investigator Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology The massive digital platform market has until recently been dominated by a handful of US-based companies such as Facebook and Google. However, as foreign governments and competing platforms try to ... <a title="TikTok and geopolitics: how ‘digital nationalism’ threatens to entrench big tech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/tiktok-and-geopolitics-how-digital-nationalism-threatens-to-entrench-big-tech-160919/" aria-label="Read more about TikTok and geopolitics: how ‘digital nationalism’ threatens to entrench big tech">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne From an ethics perspective, it has been a bad couple of weeks for media coverage of COVID-19. First, there was a highly questionable story in The Australian about China allegedly weaponising coronavirus, with the ... <a title="Alarmist reporting on COVID-19 will only heighten people’s anxieties and drive vaccine hesitancy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/alarmist-reporting-on-covid-19-will-only-heighten-peoples-anxieties-and-drive-vaccine-hesitancy-161170/" aria-label="Read more about Alarmist reporting on COVID-19 will only heighten people’s anxieties and drive vaccine hesitancy">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charles Corke, Associate Professor of Medicine, Deakin University Advances in medical technology have dramatically altered the process of dying. It’s now possible to prolong life, with the frightening reality that this may simply extend our dying process. Advance care planning is designed to empower us to retain ... <a title="Choosing the care you’ll receive at the end of your life doesn’t always go to plan. Here are some tips to make sure it does" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/choosing-the-care-youll-receive-at-the-end-of-your-life-doesnt-always-go-to-plan-here-are-some-tips-to-make-sure-it-does-160983/" aria-label="Read more about Choosing the care you’ll receive at the end of your life doesn’t always go to plan. Here are some tips to make sure it does">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Davis, Senior Lecturer in Wildlife Ecology, Edith Cowan University It’s the smell that hits you first. The scent of urine and decomposing bodies. Then you notice other signs: scuttles and squeaks, small dead bodies leaking blood, tails sticking out of hubcaps. If you’ve lived through a ... <a title="Mouse plague: bromadialone will obliterate mice, but it’ll poison eagles, snakes and owls, too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/mouse-plague-bromadialone-will-obliterate-mice-but-itll-poison-eagles-snakes-and-owls-too-160995/" aria-label="Read more about Mouse plague: bromadialone will obliterate mice, but it’ll poison eagles, snakes and owls, too">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Charles Deneen, Senior Lecturer in Higher Education Curriculum & Assessment, The University of Melbourne With some universities returning to face-to-face teaching this year, ANU Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt noted that, while his university was one of them, lectures would be much less common and not a ... <a title="Good riddance to boring lectures? Technology isn’t the answer – understanding good teaching is" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/good-riddance-to-boring-lectures-technology-isnt-the-answer-understanding-good-teaching-is-158217/" aria-label="Read more about Good riddance to boring lectures? Technology isn’t the answer – understanding good teaching is">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Tranter, Honorary Associate Professor, School of Science, UNSW Slowing transport in cities provides immense benefits for the health of people, economies and the planet, so why are we still obsessed with speed? As Mahatma Gandhi observed: There is more to life than increasing its speed. This ... <a title="Slaves to speed, we’d all benefit from ‘slow cities’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/slaves-to-speed-wed-all-benefit-from-slow-cities-152756/" aria-label="Read more about Slaves to speed, we’d all benefit from ‘slow cities’">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW The key narrative in Josh Frydenberg’s 2021 budget was the need to use more aggressive fiscal policy to drive unemployment down and wages up. Two key pieces of data this week indicate how things are tracking. On Wednesday the Australian Bureau ... <a title="Vital Signs: wages growth desultory, unemployment stunning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/vital-signs-wages-growth-desultory-unemployment-stunning-161099/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: wages growth desultory, unemployment stunning">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Breen, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing, Griffith University When town planners mapped Byron Bay in 1884 they mistakenly believed Captain James Cook had named Cape Byron after the English poet Lord Byron — when in fact it was named after the poet’s grandfather, a navy ... <a title="Friday essay: why there’s still something about Byron, beyond Insta influencers and beige linen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/friday-essay-why-theres-still-something-about-byron-beyond-insta-influencers-and-beige-linen-159055/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: why there’s still something about Byron, beyond Insta influencers and beige linen">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Palestine, West Papua and Western Sahara are places where the indigenous people are struggling for freedom and human rights. CARTOON: © Malcolm Evans By JOHN MINTO WHEN Nanaia Mahuta was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, there were hopes for a change in government thinking towards the ... <a title="Time for NZ to speak up clearly for Palestinian rights and international law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/time-for-nz-to-speak-up-clearly-for-palestinian-rights-and-international-law/" aria-label="Read more about Time for NZ to speak up clearly for Palestinian rights and international law">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist In the New Zealand 2021 Budget, a big investment of NZ$108 million has been signalled to support the wellbeing of the Pacific population through the rebuild and recovery from the covid-19 pandemic. Pacific Peoples Minister ‘Aupito William Sio said this was a significant investment for Pacific communities who ... <a title="NZ budget 2021: What does $108m mean for Pasifika ‘wellbeing’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/nz-budget-2021-what-does-108m-mean-for-pasifika-wellbeing/" aria-label="Read more about NZ budget 2021: What does $108m mean for Pasifika ‘wellbeing’?">Read more</a>
