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November 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology The COVID-19 pandemic delivered a body blow to CBD retailers, but it’s just the latest of their challenges in recent years. They were already under pressure from cautious consumer spending, intense competition from online retailing ... <a title="The suburbs are the future of post-COVID retail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/02/the-suburbs-are-the-future-of-post-covid-retail-148802/" aria-label="Read more about The suburbs are the future of post-COVID retail">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin University COVID has shown us what’s possible when it comes to alleviating poverty. For six months JobSeeker payments were doubled and then maintained at a level 50% above normal. When the bonus finishes at ... <a title="$1 billion per year (or less) could halve rental housing stress" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/02/1-billion-per-year-or-less-could-halve-rental-housing-stress-146397/" aria-label="Read more about $1 billion per year (or less) could halve rental housing stress">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Isaacs, Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney How do filmmakers communicate big ideas on screen? In this video series, film scholar Bruce Isaacs analyses pivotal film scenes in detail. (Warning: this video contains violence and may be upsetting for some viewers.) [embedded content] Hollywood has ... <a title="Close up: in JFK’s opening montage Oliver Stone gets creative with history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/02/close-up-in-jfks-opening-montage-oliver-stone-gets-creative-with-history-146920/" aria-label="Read more about Close up: in JFK’s opening montage Oliver Stone gets creative with history">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In an election victory driven by her management of COVID, the dire second wave in Victoria likely helped Annastacia Pałaszczuk. Defending her tough border policy and her message about keeping Queenslanders safe, she had a real life example to illustrate ... <a title="View from The Hill: Victoria’s pain reinforced Pałaszczuk’s winning message" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/01/view-from-the-hill-victorias-pain-reinforced-palaszczuks-winning-message-149244/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Victoria’s pain reinforced Pałaszczuk’s winning message">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Salisbury, Research Assistant, School of Political Science & International Studies, The University of Queensland Queensland’s state election was always going to deliver an outcome for the record books. This was Australia’s first poll at state or federal level contested by two female leaders. It was also ... <a title="‘Three-peat Palaszczuk’: why Queenslanders swung behind Labor in historic election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/01/three-peat-palaszczuk-why-queenslanders-swung-behind-labor-in-historic-election-149076/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Three-peat Palaszczuk’: why Queenslanders swung behind Labor in historic election">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2020
The Niugini Biomed Ltd papers … seeking to “leap frog” over all the other things Papua New Guinea needs and do drug research. Image: Scott Waide blog We cannot even get National Agriculture and Quarantine Inspection Authority (NAQIA) accredited laboratories up and running around Papua New Guinea for various lab testing our requirements. These labs ... <a title="Challenging covid-19 – two critics of PNG’s K10m drug development plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/01/challenging-covid-19-two-critics-of-pngs-k10m-drug-development-plan/" aria-label="Read more about Challenging covid-19 – two critics of PNG’s K10m drug development plan">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne With 48% of enrolled voters counted in Saturday’s Queensland election, the ABC is giving Labor 47 of the 93 seats (a bare majority), the LNP 33, all Others seven and six seats remain in doubt. ... <a title="Labor wins Queensland election, as Greens could win up to four seats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/01/labor-wins-queensland-election-as-greens-could-win-up-to-four-seats-148715/" aria-label="Read more about Labor wins Queensland election, as Greens could win up to four seats">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2020
By RNZ News Green Party delegates have voted to accept a deal with Labour which will give it two ministerial portfolios outside of cabinet in the New Zealand government. Consensus was blocked, so the party required 75 percent of delegates to get the deal across the line this evening. Labour offered the Green Party the ... <a title="NZ Greens accept Labour’s offer for ‘cooperation agreement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/01/nz-greens-accept-labours-offer-for-cooperation-agreement/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Greens accept Labour’s offer for ‘cooperation agreement’">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Papua Province Humanitarian Team for Cases of Violence Against Religious Figures in Intan Jaya Regency, Haris Azhar, has announced the results of their investigation into the shooting of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani who was allegedly shot by a rogue Indonesian military (TNI) officer in Hitadipa District, Intan Jaya, on September 19, ... <a title="Independent investigators blame TNI for murder of Papuan pastor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/31/independent-investigators-blame-tni-for-murder-of-papuan-pastor/" aria-label="Read more about Independent investigators blame TNI for murder of Papuan pastor">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Patricio ZamoranoFrom Washington DC A wave of Indigenous peoples supporting the Luis Arce-David Choquehuanca presidential ticket defeated the main right-wing candidate, Carlos Mesa by 20 points, restoring democracy to Bolivia. Just days later around 80% of Chilean voters decided by referendum to re-found their nation with a ... <a title="Radical neoliberalism was born and will die in Chile" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/31/radical-neoliberalism-was-born-and-will-die-in-chile/" aria-label="Read more about Radical neoliberalism was born and will die in Chile">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2020
The euthanasia referendum has passed New Zealand’s public vote, with 65.2 percent voting in favour, but the cannabis question has 53.1 percent voting “no” so far, preliminary results show. The number of voters who chose “no” in the End of Life Choice referendum reached 33.8 percent. In the cannabis question, “yes” received 46.1 percent of ... <a title="NZ referendum preliminary results – yes to euthanasia reform, no to cannabis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/31/nz-referendum-preliminary-results-yes-to-euthanasia-reform-no-to-cannabis/" aria-label="Read more about NZ referendum preliminary results – yes to euthanasia reform, no to cannabis">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University After three people died in a knife attack in Nice this week that French President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist attack”, there was a sense of déjà vu — we ... <a title="For French Muslims, every terror attack brings questions about their loyalty to the republic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/30/for-french-muslims-every-terror-attack-brings-questions-about-their-loyalty-to-the-republic-149151/" aria-label="Read more about For French Muslims, every terror attack brings questions about their loyalty to the republic">Read more</a>
