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June 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University What keeps democracies together? As America burns, Brazilians die and Europe braces for another wave of the coronavirus, the question assumes an alarming immediacy. If the answer is complicated in one way, it is simple in another: what we ... <a title="Friday essay: the politics of dancing and thinking about cultural values beyond dollars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/05/friday-essay-the-politics-of-dancing-and-thinking-about-cultural-values-beyond-dollars-139839/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: the politics of dancing and thinking about cultural values beyond dollars">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When Ken Wyatt, the Minister for Indigenous Australians, last week effectively pronounced dead the prospect of a referendum on indigenous recognition being put to the people this parliamentary term, the demise of his hoped-for timetable received little attention. Partly, this ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Pandemic kills Indigenous referendum, delivers likely mortal blow to religious discrimination legislation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/05/grattan-on-friday-pandemic-kills-indigenous-referendum-delivers-likely-mortal-blow-to-religious-discrimination-legislation-140079/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Pandemic kills Indigenous referendum, delivers likely mortal blow to religious discrimination legislation">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government will significantly strengthen its scrutiny of foreign investment to protect sensitive national security technology and information and further ring fence the nation’s critical infrastructure. It will insert a new “national security test” on bids, in a sweeping ... <a title="Morrison government toughens foreign investment scrutiny to protect ‘national security’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/05/morrison-government-toughens-foreign-investment-scrutiny-to-protect-national-security-140100/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison government toughens foreign investment scrutiny to protect ‘national security’">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Plank, Professor in Mathematics, University of Canterbury There is now a 95% chance COVID-19 has been eliminated in New Zealand, according to our modelling, based on official Ministry of Health data. As of June 4, New Zealand has had 20 consecutive days of zero new cases, ... <a title="New Zealand hits a 95% chance of eliminating coronavirus – but we predict new cases will emerge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/new-zealand-hits-a-95-chance-of-eliminating-coronavirus-but-we-predict-new-cases-will-emerge-139973/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand hits a 95% chance of eliminating coronavirus – but we predict new cases will emerge">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne When a newspaper with the authority of The New York Times chooses to publish a party-political essay calculated to further inflame the violence wracking cities across America, serious questions arise. On June 3 the Times ... <a title="In publishing Tom Cotton, the New York Times has made a terrible error of judgment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/in-publishing-tom-cotton-the-new-york-times-has-made-a-terrible-error-of-judgment-140065/" aria-label="Read more about In publishing Tom Cotton, the New York Times has made a terrible error of judgment">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute Scott Morrison’s new housing stimulus package is straight-out retail politics. HomeBuilder offers homeowners (including first home buyers) a grant of A$25,000 to build a new home worth less than $750,000 or to spend between $150,000 and $750,000 renovating an ... <a title="Scott Morrison’s HomeBuilder scheme is classic retail politics but lousy economics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/scott-morrisons-homebuilder-scheme-is-classic-retail-politics-but-lousy-economics-140076/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison’s HomeBuilder scheme is classic retail politics but lousy economics">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Richard Braczkowski, Research Associate, Griffith University Pangolins are one of the most illegally trafficked animals on the planet and are suspected to be linked to the current coronavirus pandemic. Pangolins are also one of the world’s most threatened species but new efforts are underway to reintroduce ... <a title="Back from extinction: a world first effort to return threatened pangolins to the wild" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/back-from-extinction-a-world-first-effort-to-return-threatened-pangolins-to-the-wild-138621/" aria-label="Read more about Back from extinction: a world first effort to return threatened pangolins to the wild">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brett Mitchell, Professor of Nursing, University of Newcastle With coronavirus restrictions gradually lifting across the country, we’re now able to resume many of our regular activities. A lot of us might have been particularly keen to get back to the gym, which is now an option in ... <a title="Heading back to the gym? Here’s how you can protect yourself and others from coronavirus infection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/heading-back-to-the-gym-heres-how-you-can-protect-yourself-and-others-from-coronavirus-infection-139681/" aria-label="Read more about Heading back to the gym? Here’s how you can protect yourself and others from coronavirus infection">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Perhaps at no point in Australia’s history has the demand for real-time figures been stronger than during the coronavirus crisis. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has stepped up its efforts to get data fast, to help inform the government’s COVID-19 ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Statistician David Gruen and the race for real-time pandemic data" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/politics-with-michelle-grattan-statistician-david-gruen-and-the-race-for-real-time-pandemic-data-140068/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Statistician David Gruen and the race for real-time pandemic data">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bree Hurst, Senior Lecturer, QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the ... <a title="Brands backing Black Lives Matter: it might be a marketing ploy, but it also shows leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/brands-backing-black-lives-matter-it-might-be-a-marketing-ploy-but-it-also-shows-leadership-139874/" aria-label="Read more about Brands backing Black Lives Matter: it might be a marketing ploy, but it also shows leadership">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jolynna Sinanan, Research Fellow in Digital Media and Ethnography, University of Sydney Earlier this week, you might have seen your social media taken over by a stream of posts showing simple images of a black square. These posts, often tagged with #BlackoutTuesday, were gestures of solidarity with ... <a title="Blackout Tuesday: the black square is a symbol of online activism for non-activists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/blackout-tuesday-the-black-square-is-a-symbol-of-online-activism-for-non-activists-139982/" aria-label="Read more about Blackout Tuesday: the black square is a symbol of online activism for non-activists">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick White, PhD Candidate in History and Politics, James Cook University Australia’s local governments breathed new life into embattled regional communities after the second world war. Today, this history reminds us of the role local councils and communities should play in plans to power the national recovery ... <a title="Lessons from history point to local councils’ role in Australia’s recovery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/lessons-from-history-point-to-local-councils-role-in-australias-recovery-138547/" aria-label="Read more about Lessons from history point to local councils’ role in Australia’s recovery">Read more</a>
