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April 19, 2022
To help keep Political Roundup going, contribute via Victoria University of Wellington: https://bit.ly/VUWDemocracyProject To sign up for the email service: https://democracyproject.nz/nz-politics-daily/ Items of interest and importance today PM’S FOREIGN TRIP Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s first post-Covid trip is a sales job Derek Cheng (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern lands in Singapore for first overseas trip in more than ... <a title="Newsletter – Political Roundup: 19 April 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/newsletter-political-roundup-19-april-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter – Political Roundup: 19 April 2022">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Wynn, Lead Economist, CSIRO Futures, CSIRO Shutterstock As demand for alternative protein sources grows, Australians are increasingly looking for options that are healthy, sustainable and ethically made. At CSIRO, we have produced a “protein roadmap” to guide investments in a diverse range of new products and ... <a title="Plant-based patties, lab-grown meat and insects: how the protein industry is innovating to meet demand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/plant-based-patties-lab-grown-meat-and-insects-how-the-protein-industry-is-innovating-to-meet-demand-180859/" aria-label="Read more about Plant-based patties, lab-grown meat and insects: how the protein industry is innovating to meet demand">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carol Johnson, Emerita Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Adelaide AAP/Joel Carrett This is the second in a two-part series on the major parties’ Treasury spokespeople. You can read Michelle Grattan’s profile of Josh Frydenberg here. Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers decided it would be ... <a title="If Labor wins the election, he is set to become the next federal treasurer. So who is Jim Chalmers?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/if-labor-wins-the-election-he-is-set-to-become-the-next-federal-treasurer-so-who-is-jim-chalmers-180138/" aria-label="Read more about If Labor wins the election, he is set to become the next federal treasurer. So who is Jim Chalmers?">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Christoff, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne James Ross/AAP As far as political debate goes, this federal election seems to be less about climate change than any in the past 15 years. Unlike in 2010, 2013 and 2016 ... <a title="Climate policy in 2022 is no longer a political bin-fire – but it remains a smouldering issue for voters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/climate-policy-in-2022-is-no-longer-a-political-bin-fire-but-it-remains-a-smouldering-issue-for-voters-181058/" aria-label="Read more about Climate policy in 2022 is no longer a political bin-fire – but it remains a smouldering issue for voters">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Downie, Associate Professor, Australian National University Getty Not so long ago, it was easy for public banks to fund new fossil fuel projects. But now, as the world faces a worsening climate crisis, the tide may be turning. Case in point: after Traditional owners filed an ... <a title="Tiwi Islands offshore gas fight shows public banks are under real pressure over fossil fuel funding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/tiwi-islands-offshore-gas-fight-shows-public-banks-are-under-real-pressure-over-fossil-fuel-funding-180956/" aria-label="Read more about Tiwi Islands offshore gas fight shows public banks are under real pressure over fossil fuel funding">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rod Tyers, Winthrop Professor of Economics, The University of Western Australia Felix Mittermeier/Pexels, CC BY-SA If tensions between the Western world and China and Russia led to a split into two separate financial and trading systems, Australia would be among the countries most hurt. We ran the ... <a title="Australia would be among the biggest economic losers from a new cold war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/australia-would-be-among-the-biggest-economic-losers-from-a-new-cold-war-179102/" aria-label="Read more about Australia would be among the biggest economic losers from a new cold war">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Young, Lecturer, Deakin University shutterstock When Allen & Unwin requested a sequel to J.R.R. Tolkien’s first novel The Hobbit (1937), they could not have known that it would be one of the best publishing decisions of the century, if not all time. The Lord of the ... <a title="How Tolkien and Lord of the Rings inspired the commercial and artistic success of the fantasy fiction genre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/how-tolkien-and-lord-of-the-rings-inspired-the-commercial-and-artistic-success-of-the-fantasy-fiction-genre-170958/" aria-label="Read more about How Tolkien and Lord of the Rings inspired the commercial and artistic success of the fantasy fiction genre">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Labor has clung to its 53-47% two-party lead in the latest Newspoll, but Anthony Albanese’s ratings have taken a knock after his error-prone first week of the campaign. While Labor would win on this vote, with a uniform swing, both ... <a title="View from the Hill: Labor holds 53-47% lead but Albanese takes a hit in Newspoll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/view-from-the-hill-labor-holds-53-47-lead-but-albanese-takes-a-hit-in-newspoll-181443/" aria-label="Read more about View from the Hill: Labor holds 53-47% lead but Albanese takes a hit in Newspoll">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This is the first in a two-part series on the major parties’ Treasury spokespeople. You can read Carol Johnson’s profile of Jim Chalmers here. When Josh Frydenberg was studying law at Monash University, he’d tell fellow students he wanted to ... <a title="He’s the treasurer who may become the next leader of the Liberal Party. So how high can Josh Frydenberg fly?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/hes-the-treasurer-who-may-become-the-next-leader-of-the-liberal-party-so-how-high-can-josh-frydenberg-fly-181429/" aria-label="Read more about He’s the treasurer who may become the next leader of the Liberal Party. So how high can Josh Frydenberg fly?">Read more</a>
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April 18, 2022
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Outspoken Madang MP Bryan Kramer has been stripped of the Justice and Attorney-General ministries and given the Immigration and Border Security portfolio in a move seen as a demotion in Papua New Guinea’s pre-Easter cabinet mini-reshuffle. Prime Minister James Marape announced the change along with four others last week, ... <a title="Outspoken Kramer stripped of justice portfolio just before PNG elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/18/outspoken-kramer-stripped-of-justice-portfolio-just-before-png-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Outspoken Kramer stripped of justice portfolio just before PNG elections">Read more</a>
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April 18, 2022
By Luke Nacei in Suva Forming post-election alliances through formal agreement is an effective way of drawing in a broader and more culturally diverse group of voters into a bigger support bloc, says a New Zealand-based political sociologist. Professor Steven Ratuva, director of the Macmillan Brown Pacific Studies Centre at Canterbury University, said this while ... <a title="Fiji’s political ‘power game’ – Ratuva says how rival MoU pact can work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/18/fijis-political-power-game-ratuva-says-how-rival-mou-pact-can-work/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s political ‘power game’ – Ratuva says how rival MoU pact can work">Read more</a>
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April 18, 2022
By Anish Chand in Lautoka The Fiji Revenue and Customs Service has issued two infringement notices to the captain of the seized Russian super yacht Amadea which is berthed in Lautoka port. These are notices under Section 14 of the Customs Act of 1986 for failure to comply with procedure on arrival and Section 17 ... <a title="Fiji Customs issue breaches notice to skipper of Russian vessel Amadea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/18/fiji-customs-issue-breaches-notice-to-skipper-of-russian-vessel-amadea/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Customs issue breaches notice to skipper of Russian vessel Amadea">Read more</a>
