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May 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Kildea, Adjunct Professor Irish Studies, UNSW In a remarkable coincidence, the first media reports about Spanish flu and COVID-19 in Australia both occurred on January 25 – exactly 101 years apart. This is not the only similarity between the two pandemics. Although history does not repeat, ... <a title="Lockdowns, second waves and burn outs. Spanish flu’s clues about how coronavirus might play out in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/lockdowns-second-waves-and-burn-outs-spanish-flus-clues-about-how-coronavirus-might-play-out-in-australia-138429/" aria-label="Read more about Lockdowns, second waves and burn outs. Spanish flu’s clues about how coronavirus might play out in Australia">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cathy Foley, Chief Scientist, CSIRO Quantum technology is not a phrase discussed over kitchen tables in Australia, but perhaps it should be. Australia’s quantum technology research has been breaking new ground for almost 30 years. Governments, universities and more recently multinationals have all invested in this research. ... <a title="Australian quantum technology could become a $4 billion industry and create 16,000 jobs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/australian-quantum-technology-could-become-a-4-billion-industry-and-create-16-000-jobs-138817/" aria-label="Read more about Australian quantum technology could become a $4 billion industry and create 16,000 jobs">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rowan Callick, Industry Fellow, Griffith University When former President Hu Jintao visited Australia in 2003, he began his address to parliament by describing the exploits of a 15th century Chinese admiral, Zheng He: Back in the 1420s, the expeditionary fleets of China’s Ming Dynasty reached Australian shores ... <a title="Behind China’s newly aggressive diplomacy: ‘wolf warriors’ ready to fight back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/behind-chinas-newly-aggressive-diplomacy-wolf-warriors-ready-to-fight-back-139028/" aria-label="Read more about Behind China’s newly aggressive diplomacy: ‘wolf warriors’ ready to fight back">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Ravenswood, Associate Professor in Employment Relations, Auckland University of Technology New Zealand’s residential aged care is the focus of three inquiries to understand why COVID-19 tore rapidly through some rest homes but not others. These reviews are significant and urgent, but my research suggests they need ... <a title="Low staff levels must be part of any reviews into the coronavirus outbreaks in NZ rest homes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/low-staff-levels-must-be-part-of-any-reviews-into-the-coronavirus-outbreaks-in-nz-rest-homes-137764/" aria-label="Read more about Low staff levels must be part of any reviews into the coronavirus outbreaks in NZ rest homes">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Quentin Grafton, Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The last bushfire season showed Australians they can no longer pretend climate change will not affect them. But there’s another climate change influence we must also face ... <a title="Australia, it’s time to talk about our water emergency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/australia-its-time-to-talk-about-our-water-emergency-139024/" aria-label="Read more about Australia, it’s time to talk about our water emergency">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilan Noy, Professor and Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, disaster recovery plans are almost always framed with aspirational plans to “build back better”. It’s a fine sentiment – ... <a title="Rich and poor don’t recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will be a global challenge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/rich-and-poor-dont-recover-equally-from-epidemics-rebuilding-fairly-will-be-a-global-challenge-138935/" aria-label="Read more about Rich and poor don’t recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will be a global challenge">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Trade tensions between Australia and China have escalated to the point where China has placed an 80.5% tariff on Australian barley imports, beginning this week. China has been a huge market for Australian barley. It accounted for more than 70% of ... <a title="Vital Signs: Australian barley growers are the victims of weaponised trade rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/vital-signs-australian-barley-growers-are-the-victims-of-weaponised-trade-rules-139037/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Australian barley growers are the victims of weaponised trade rules">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yves Rees, Lecturer in History, La Trobe University The origin story of Australian modernism often centres around Heide – the Melbourne artistic community where, from 1934, bohemian art patrons John and Sunday Reed nurtured talents such as Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and John Perceval. But ... <a title="Friday essay: the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/friday-essay-the-melbourne-bookshop-that-ignited-australian-modernism-138300/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage The Reverend Phil Wheaton, an activist and community organizer in the Washington D.C. area, passed away this month. He had worked tirelessly for humanitarian causes, including for Salvadorans who came to the United States in large numbers in the 1980s fleeing their country’s civil war. Sonia Umanzor is ... <a title="Phil Wheaton: Remembering an Exemplary Fighter for the People" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/phil-wheaton-remembering-an-exemplary-fighter-for-the-people/" aria-label="Read more about Phil Wheaton: Remembering an Exemplary Fighter for the People">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Who’d be Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk right now? Facing a tough election in October, Palaszczuk is coming under huge pressure to open the state’s borders, so visitors in search of winter sun can start to get the tourist industry back ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Border wars split political leaders and embroil health experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/grattan-on-friday-border-wars-split-political-leaders-and-embroil-health-experts-139124/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Border wars split political leaders and embroil health experts">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Budget-related Economic Chatter Last week in New Zealand was Budget week, and the chatter about the burden of government debt reached a crescendo. I will highlight here comments made, on Monday 11 May, by four economists with substantial media profiles, from Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon (hosted by Kathryn Ryan), ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Unpacking our Fear of Government Debt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/keith-rankin-analysis-unpacking-our-fear-of-government-debt/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Unpacking our Fear of Government Debt">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. If tonight’s 1News-Colmar Brunton poll result is anywhere near the 31% recorded in Monday’s Newshub-Reid Research poll, Simon Bridges will surely be dog tucker when his caucus colleagues meet tomorrow to vote on the National Party leadership. The momentum is with newcomer Todd Muller, who seems likely to be installed ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Todd Muller has the momentum to become National’s leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-todd-muller-has-the-momentum-to-become-nationals-leader/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Todd Muller has the momentum to become National’s leader">Read more</a>
