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October 25, 2019
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage by Patricio ZamoranoFrom Washington DC The media had to double down through a constant barrage of violent photos and videos arriving through social networks so that especially non-Chileans, who are accustomed to the mythical image of a stable and exemplary country, could internalize and believe the spectacle of ... <a title="Chile and the Economic and Political Violence of the State" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/25/chile-and-the-economic-and-political-violence-of-the-state-2/" aria-label="Read more about Chile and the Economic and Political Violence of the State">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2019
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Foto-Reportaje | La furia de Chile tras el lente Four young Chilean photographers lived the days of violence directly, documenting dramatic moments of social outbreak that still persist: a curfew, state of emergency, and the military on the streets in public security functions for the first time since ... <a title="Photo-report | The Chilean fury behind the lens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/25/photo-report-the-chilean-fury-behind-the-lens/" aria-label="Read more about Photo-report | The Chilean fury behind the lens">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2019
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Wilma Salgado, PhD Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno has been cutting government spending since signing an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in February of this year. This policy has benefited multinational corporations, the banks, and in general, powerful economic groups at the ... <a title="Ecuador: Lenin Moreno’s government sacrifices the poor to satisfy the IMF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/25/ecuador-lenin-morenos-government-sacrifices-the-poor-to-satisfy-the-imf/" aria-label="Read more about Ecuador: Lenin Moreno’s government sacrifices the poor to satisfy the IMF">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Gunn, Honorary Associate Professor, Forensic Biology, University of Technology Sydney Home affairs minister Peter Dutton suggested earlier this week that DNA testing would be needed to verify Australian citizenship claims of ISIS brides trapped in Syria. There are some people who may claim to be Australian ... <a title="No, Mr Dutton, DNA testing ISIS brides won’t tell you who’s an Australian citizen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/25/no-mr-dutton-dna-testing-isis-brides-wont-tell-you-whos-an-australian-citizen-125712/" aria-label="Read more about No, Mr Dutton, DNA testing ISIS brides won’t tell you who’s an Australian citizen">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Bolleter, Deputy Director, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, University of Western Australia Any moves to greatly increase the population of northern Australian by 2060 could have a devastating impact on the local environment without long-term careful planning by all tiers of government. That’s the finding of ... <a title="You can’t boost Australia’s north to 5 million people without a proper plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/25/you-cant-boost-australias-north-to-5-million-people-without-a-proper-plan-125063/" aria-label="Read more about You can’t boost Australia’s north to 5 million people without a proper plan">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eva Vivalt, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Australian National University We ask experts for advice all the time. A company might ask an economist for advice on how to motivate its employees. A government might ask what the effect of a policy reform will be. To give the ... <a title="Predicting research results can mean better science and better advice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/25/predicting-research-results-can-mean-better-science-and-better-advice-125568/" aria-label="Read more about Predicting research results can mean better science and better advice">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roberta Ryan, Professor, UTS Institute for Public Policy and Governance and UTS Centre for Local Government, University of Technology Sydney As regional Australian towns face the prospect of running out of water, it’s time to ask why Australia does not make better use of recycled wastewater. The ... <a title="80% of household water goes to waste – we need to get it back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/25/80-of-household-water-goes-to-waste-we-need-to-get-it-back-125798/" aria-label="Read more about 80% of household water goes to waste – we need to get it back">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brett Healey, PhD Student, Curtin University Ask a child why they write and you might receive a common response: the teacher told me to. Kids often lack confidence as writers and find it emotionally draining. The problem might be the classroom and its detachment from what writers ... <a title="‘I’m in another world’: writing without rules lets kids find their voice, just like professional authors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/25/im-in-another-world-writing-without-rules-lets-kids-find-their-voice-just-like-professional-authors-124976/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I’m in another world’: writing without rules lets kids find their voice, just like professional authors">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University Ask any economist a question, and you will usually get the answer: “productivity”. The winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, Paul Krugman, set the standard in 1994: Productivity isn’t everything, but, ... <a title="What if we measured the thing that matters most: “carbon productivity”" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/25/what-if-we-measured-the-thing-that-matters-most-carbon-productivity-124902/" aria-label="Read more about What if we measured the thing that matters most: “carbon productivity”">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW The race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination is hotting up, and so is academic debate about one of the leading contender’s signature proposal – a wealth tax. The US Democratic primary is becoming a race of four (odds in parentheses): ... <a title="Vital Signs: talk of a US wealth tax is about symbolism as much as it is about economics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/25/vital-signs-talk-of-a-us-wealth-tax-is-about-symbolism-as-much-as-it-is-about-economics-125803/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: talk of a US wealth tax is about symbolism as much as it is about economics">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Breen, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing, Griffith University Two of the best known 20th century road stories are arguably On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. In 1959 Kerouac appeared on the Steve Allen show ... <a title="Friday essay: thrills, booze and athleisure gear – writing on the road" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/25/friday-essay-thrills-booze-and-athleisure-gear-writing-on-the-road-124278/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: thrills, booze and athleisure gear – writing on the road">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra John Howard is an icon for the Liberals and a confidant for Scott Morrison. So he was the obvious choice to star at last week’s dinner to mark the 75th anniversary of the party’s founding by Robert Menzies. Howard joined ... <a title="Grattan on Friday – Anthony Albanese needs some meat in his first ‘vision statement’ next week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/25/grattan-on-friday-anthony-albanese-needs-some-meat-in-his-first-vision-statement-next-week-125834/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday – Anthony Albanese needs some meat in his first ‘vision statement’ next week">Read more</a>
