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February 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Meese, Research fellow, RMIT University Over the past few weeks, Google and Facebook have engaged in desperate attempts to avoid regulation under the Australian government’s proposed mandatory news media bargaining code. Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg even appealed to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Communications Minister Paul ... <a title="Google’s and Facebook’s loud appeal to users over the news media bargaining code shows a lack of political power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/googles-and-facebooks-loud-appeal-to-users-over-the-news-media-bargaining-code-shows-a-lack-of-political-power-154379/" aria-label="Read more about Google’s and Facebook’s loud appeal to users over the news media bargaining code shows a lack of political power">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Professor of International Health, Burnet Institute Here’s a newspaper headline from May 27, 2020: “Worker at Melbourne quarantine hotel tests positive for COVID-19”. And here’s one from yesterday: “Coronavirus lockdown announced for Perth and South West after quarantine hotel worker tests positive.” Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, ... <a title="Perth is the latest city to suffer a COVID quarantine breach. Why does this keep happening?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/perth-is-the-latest-city-to-suffer-a-covid-quarantine-breach-why-does-this-keep-happening-154375/" aria-label="Read more about Perth is the latest city to suffer a COVID quarantine breach. Why does this keep happening?">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University The Climate Change Commission’s draft advice on how to decarbonise New Zealand’s economy is refreshing, particularly as it calls on the government to start phasing out fossil fuels instead of relying on offsets and carbon trading. Until now, New ... <a title="How to cut emissions from transport: ban fossil fuel cars, electrify transport and get people walking and cycling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/how-to-cut-emissions-from-transport-ban-fossil-fuel-cars-electrify-transport-and-get-people-walking-and-cycling-154363/" aria-label="Read more about How to cut emissions from transport: ban fossil fuel cars, electrify transport and get people walking and cycling">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Few people expected the Reserve Bank to adjust its cash rate at its first meeting of the year today, and for good reason. It has been saying loudly that it is “not expecting ... <a title="The Reserve Bank could still go negative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/the-reserve-bank-could-still-go-negative-149267/" aria-label="Read more about The Reserve Bank could still go negative">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW More than a year since COVID-19 emerged, there are nearly 40,000 Australians overseas who want to come home. Geoffrey Robertson QC. Lukas Coch/AAP Amid mounting stories of people desperate to return for ... <a title="Should Aussies stranded overseas go to the United Nations for help to get home?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/should-aussies-stranded-overseas-go-to-the-united-nations-for-help-to-get-home-154372/" aria-label="Read more about Should Aussies stranded overseas go to the United Nations for help to get home?">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
COMMENT: By Scott Waide In a nation such as Papua New Guinea where oral storytelling is central to the intergenerational transfer of knowledge and wisdom, playwright Andrew Kuliniasi has taken things to a whole different level by embedding historical accounts and capturing snapshots of a society in transition in a Western art form. In 2015, ... <a title="Scott Waide: Playwright Andrew Kuliniasi unleashes another creative bomb – on culture, sex and gender" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/scott-waide-playwright-andrew-kuliniasi-unleashes-another-creative-bomb-on-culture-sex-and-gender/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Waide: Playwright Andrew Kuliniasi unleashes another creative bomb – on culture, sex and gender">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
By Ihsanuddin in Jakarta Jakarta Indonesian Doctor’s Association (IDI) chairperson Slamet Budiarto has challenged a statement by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo who has claimed that the Indonesian government has succeeded in bringing the coronavirus pandemic under control. Budiarto said he was confused about what parameters Widodo was using in making such a statement. “I don’t ... <a title="Indonesian doctors challenge Jokowi’s claim pandemic is ‘under control’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/indonesian-doctors-challenge-jokowis-claim-pandemic-is-under-control/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian doctors challenge Jokowi’s claim pandemic is ‘under control’">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Patricio Zamorano From Washington, DC “That is not who we are,” insists the U.S. political class after the grave events of January 6 when a mob of Trump supporters brutally invaded the Capitol here in Washington, DC, leading to the loss of five lives. An entire nation, ... <a title="Made in the USA: Tutelage Democracy Feeds Its Own Insurrection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/made-in-the-usa-tutelage-democracy-feeds-its-own-insurrection/" aria-label="Read more about Made in the USA: Tutelage Democracy Feeds Its Own Insurrection">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Lucy Pagoada-Quesada From New York Mr. President Joe Biden, As a Honduran-US citizen, I am writing to urge you to change course in U.S. policy towards Honduras so that my country recuperates its democracy. You were Vice President when in 2009, the government of your party led ... <a title="Open Letter from a Honduran Teacher to President Joe Biden" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/open-letter-from-a-honduran-teacher-to-president-joe-biden/" aria-label="Read more about Open Letter from a Honduran Teacher to President Joe Biden">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Op-Ed By Frederick Mills and William Camacaro From Washington DC and New York Venezuela is a nation of people who fight battles even though they have no weapons, who triumph despite setbacks, who organize themselves in disasters, who exalt in the face of terror, who are offended by ... <a title="New Biden Administration: Time for U.S. Rapprochement with Venezuela" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/new-biden-administration-time-for-u-s-rapprochement-with-venezuela/" aria-label="Read more about New Biden Administration: Time for U.S. Rapprochement with Venezuela">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By COHA Editorial Board From Washington DC The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) is pleased to announce its formal nomination of the Henry Reeve Brigade for the Nobel Peace Prize, in a formal submission delivered today January 22 to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Stockholm, Sweden. For ... <a title="COHA is honored to nominate the Cuban Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/coha-is-honored-to-nominate-the-cuban-henry-reeve-international-medical-brigade-for-the-2021-nobel-peace-prize/" aria-label="Read more about COHA is honored to nominate the Cuban Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
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 Māori wards in local government Richard Harman: Brash loses Maori wards campaign Audrey Young (Herald): Labour kept plans on divisive Māori wards under wraps (paywalled) David Farrar: Govt proposes to use urgency to cancel local referenda! Anna Whyte (1News): Government ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 02 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-02-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 02 2021">Read more</a>
