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May 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jarryd Bartle, Sessional Lecturer, RMIT University Shutterstock One of the surprising results from the federal election was a record vote for Legalise Cannabis Australia, a minor party previously known as the Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) party. The party received 2-7% of the Senate vote in most ... <a title="Legalise Cannabis Australia did well at the ballot box – but reform is most likely to come from a cautious approach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/legalise-cannabis-australia-did-well-at-the-ballot-box-but-reform-is-most-likely-to-come-from-a-cautious-approach-183612/" aria-label="Read more about Legalise Cannabis Australia did well at the ballot box – but reform is most likely to come from a cautious approach">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Strating, Director, La Trobe Asia and Associate Professor, La Trobe University, La Trobe University During the election campaign, Anthony Albanese singled out Indonesia as a key regional partner. The new prime minister made a point of declaring he intended his first overseas visit as head of ... <a title="‘Mutual respect and genuine partnership’: how a Labor government could revamp our relationship with Indonesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/mutual-respect-and-genuine-partnership-how-a-labor-government-could-revamp-our-relationship-with-indonesia-183116/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Mutual respect and genuine partnership’: how a Labor government could revamp our relationship with Indonesia">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Casswell, Professor of public health policy, Massey University Getty Images The World Health Organization’s newly released report on regulating cross-border alcohol marketing raises the alarm for countries like Australia and New Zealand, given their light touch towards alcohol advertising. Alcohol is widely consumed in Australasia but ... <a title="Alcohol marketing has crossed borders and entered the metaverse – how do we regulate the new digital risk?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/alcohol-marketing-has-crossed-borders-and-entered-the-metaverse-how-do-we-regulate-the-new-digital-risk-183334/" aria-label="Read more about Alcohol marketing has crossed borders and entered the metaverse – how do we regulate the new digital risk?">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
RNZ News A New Caledonian anti-independence candidate has withdrawn from the race for a seat in the French National Assembly just hours before nominations closed. Vaea Frogier pulled out, citing concern about the splits in the anti-independence camp. Seventeen candidates in New Caledonia are standing in next month’s election, with the pro-independence parties jointly fielding ... <a title="New Caledonia’s Frogier pulls out of French National Assembly race" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/new-caledonias-frogier-pulls-out-of-french-national-assembly-race/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s Frogier pulls out of French National Assembly race">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shaun Carney, Vice-Chancellor’s professorial fellow, Monash University Elections are a test – the ultimate test, really – of those who serve as parliamentarians and those who aspire to serve. Scott Morrison asserted quite absurdly early in the 2022 campaign that the election was not a popularity contest. ... <a title="Australian voters have elected their government. Now the Labor Party has to make them believe they were right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/australian-voters-have-elected-their-government-now-the-labor-party-has-to-make-them-believe-they-were-right-183213/" aria-label="Read more about Australian voters have elected their government. Now the Labor Party has to make them believe they were right">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University AAP/James Ross It is pretty human to crave the approval of peers and to hope for more of the same, even if unconsciously. But for political parties selling themselves as unifying forces of the middle, broad-based and representative, ... <a title="Morrison’s ‘great electoral bungle’ leaves the Liberals decimated and heading in the wrong direction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/morrisons-great-electoral-bungle-leaves-the-liberals-decimated-and-heading-in-the-wrong-direction-183596/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison’s ‘great electoral bungle’ leaves the Liberals decimated and heading in the wrong direction">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Lukas Coch/AAP Extreme weather events are the new normal. The use of nuclear weapons by Vladimir Putin’s Russian military is now an unthinkable possibility. And Xi Jinping’s China, our largest trading ... <a title="As Albanese heads to the Quad, what are the security challenges facing Australia’s new government?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/as-albanese-heads-to-the-quad-what-are-the-security-challenges-facing-australias-new-government-183435/" aria-label="Read more about As Albanese heads to the Quad, what are the security challenges facing Australia’s new government?">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catharine Coleborne, Dean of Arts/Head of School Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle Higher education did not figure prominently in the election campaign. The biggest issues facing the sector, in particular the arts, humanities and social sciences, could never be fully addressed in six ... <a title="3 big issues in higher education demand the new government’s attention" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/3-big-issues-in-higher-education-demand-the-new-governments-attention-183349/" aria-label="Read more about 3 big issues in higher education demand the new government’s attention">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Saul Eslake, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania Shutterstock Labor has inherited an economy with a pretty full “head of steam”. Domestic demand is growing strongly, fuelled by households flush with cash (and enriched by big increases in property prices) full pipelines of housing construction and government-funded infrastructure ... <a title="A new dawn over stormy seas: how Labor should manage the economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/a-new-dawn-over-stormy-seas-how-labor-should-manage-the-economy-183518/" aria-label="Read more about A new dawn over stormy seas: how Labor should manage the economy">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Phillimore, Executive Director, John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University Western Australia’s promise to be the kingmaker on federal election night has finally been delivered. During the count, the rest of the country saw a slow but steady accumulation of Labor gains despite a fall ... <a title="Swing when you’re winning: how Labor won big in Western Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/22/swing-when-youre-winning-how-labor-won-big-in-western-australia-183599/" aria-label="Read more about Swing when you’re winning: how Labor won big in Western Australia">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2022
RNZ News Joe Hawke — the prominent kaumātua and activist who led the long-running Takaparawhau occupation at Auckland’s Bastion Point in the late 1970s — has died, aged 82. Born in Tāmaki Makaurau in 1940, Joseph Parata Hohepa Hawke of Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrākei, led his people in their efforts to reclaim their land and ... <a title="Takaparawhau occupation protest leader Joe Hawke dies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/22/takaparawhau-occupation-protest-leader-joe-hawke-dies/" aria-label="Read more about Takaparawhau occupation protest leader Joe Hawke dies">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Joel Carrett/AAP Women were everywhere and nowhere in the 2022 federal election. The message from the weekend’s vote was that the things that really matter to women and their communities matter at the ballot box, too. ... <a title="Women stormed the 2022 election in numbers too big to ignore: what has Labor pledged on gender?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/22/women-stormed-the-2022-election-in-numbers-too-big-to-ignore-what-has-labor-pledged-on-gender-183369/" aria-label="Read more about Women stormed the 2022 election in numbers too big to ignore: what has Labor pledged on gender?">Read more</a>
