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September 19, 2020
Analysis by Dr Paul G Buchanan – 36th Parallel Assessments. News that Zhenhua Data, an arm of China Zhenhua Electronics Group, a subsidiary of the military-connected China Electronic Information Industry Group (CETC), maintains a list of 800 New Zealanders on a “Overseas Key Information Database” that contains personal information on more than 2.4 million foreign ... <a title="Paul G Buchanan on The Chinese List – 36th Parallel Assessments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/19/the-chinese-list/" aria-label="Read more about Paul G Buchanan on The Chinese List – 36th Parallel Assessments">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In mid-September, new cases of Covid19 are higher than they have ever been. (See here for previous weekly charts, which included the ‘little’ countries.) While this still-rising incidence is partly due to more testing, it is also due to significant new outbreaks in the Levant (Israel, Palestine, Lebanon) and in Europe. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 in mid-September: New Cases, Worst Cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-in-mid-september-new-cases-worst-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 in mid-September: New Cases, Worst Cases">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Definition ‘Balance sheet recession’ is an innocuous name for a very big economic event. It represents a particular kind of contraction of a country’s economy – or of the global economy – in which one of the most important laws of ‘financial economics’ is practically disabled; that is the economic law ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Balance Sheet Recessions, and the Government Debt Fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/keith-rankin-analysis-balance-sheet-recessions-and-the-government-debt-fix/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Balance Sheet Recessions, and the Government Debt Fix">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2020
Welcome to A View from Afar. Today we are looking at the rise of a new generation of nuclear weapons. While the old Big Bang style of MAD – or Mutual Assured Destruction – nuclear bombs… may be very 20th century… today’s new-tech, precision-styled, tactical nukes provide – according to the United States – a ... <a title="LIVE: A View from Afar – 2020 a Decade of New High-Tech Nukes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/17/live-a-view-from-afar-2020-a-decade-of-new-high-tech-nukes/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE: A View from Afar – 2020 a Decade of New High-Tech Nukes">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Levine, Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The delay to the New Zealand election date — to which not every country’s citizenry would have adjusted with such alacrity — was only the latest event in a year when ... <a title="Stardust and substance: New Zealand’s election becomes a ‘third referendum’ on Jacinda Ardern’s leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/17/stardust-and-substance-new-zealands-election-becomes-a-third-referendum-on-jacinda-arderns-leadership-143262/" aria-label="Read more about Stardust and substance: New Zealand’s election becomes a ‘third referendum’ on Jacinda Ardern’s leadership">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Baer Arnold, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra The federal government has announced a plan to increase the sharing of citizen data across the public sector. This would include data sitting with agencies such as Centrelink, the Australian Tax Office, the Department of Home ... <a title="Australia – Towards a post-privacy world: proposed bill would spur open data sharing between agencies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/16/towards-a-post-privacy-world-proposed-bill-would-spur-open-data-sharing-between-agencies-146292/" aria-label="Read more about Australia – Towards a post-privacy world: proposed bill would spur open data sharing between agencies">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherie Lacey, Lecturer in Media Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington A digital building code is needed to help designers better protect the privacy of people when they use online platforms and websites. At the moment no such code exists in New Zealand. Our ... <a title="We need a code to protect our online privacy and wipe out ‘dark patterns’ in digital design" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/16/we-need-a-code-to-protect-our-online-privacy-and-wipe-out-dark-patterns-in-digital-design-145622/" aria-label="Read more about We need a code to protect our online privacy and wipe out ‘dark patterns’ in digital design">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Last weekend’s “anti-lockdown” protest in Auckland provided a snapshot of the various conspiracy theories and grievances circulating online and within the community: masks, vaccination, QAnon, 5G technology, government tyranny and COVID-19 were all in the mix. The “freedom rally” ... <a title="With the election campaign underway, can the law protect voters from fake news and conspiracy theories?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/with-the-election-campaign-underway-can-the-law-protect-voters-from-fake-news-and-conspiracy-theories-146095/" aria-label="Read more about With the election campaign underway, can the law protect voters from fake news and conspiracy theories?">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Jackman, Chief Executive Officer, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney With less than two months until the US presidential election, Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads incumbent Donald Trump in the bulk of opinion polls. But poll-based election forecasts have proved problematic before. The polls were widely ... <a title="The US presidential election might be closer than the polls suggest (if we can trust them this time)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/the-us-presidential-election-might-be-closer-than-the-polls-suggest-if-we-can-trust-them-this-time-141988/" aria-label="Read more about The US presidential election might be closer than the polls suggest (if we can trust them this time)">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacques Raubenheimer, Senior Research Fellow, Biostatistics, University of Sydney If we don’t analyse statistics for a living, it’s easy to be taken in by misinformation about COVID-19 statistics on social media, especially if we don’t have the right context. For instance, we may cherry pick statistics supporting ... <a title="Now everyone’s a statistician. Here’s what armchair COVID experts are getting wrong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/14/now-everyones-a-statistician-heres-what-armchair-covid-experts-are-getting-wrong-144494/" aria-label="Read more about Now everyone’s a statistician. Here’s what armchair COVID experts are getting wrong">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards Over the last three years there have been growing calls for the government to provide dental services under the health system – universal free dental care. This is because at the moment there’s an anomaly in which teeth are regarded as different from the rest of the body which means ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The missing election policy on free dental visits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/13/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-missing-election-policy-on-free-dental-visits/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The missing election policy on free dental visits">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The first chart shows the growth of Covid19 in Australia using an arithmetic scale. This means the axis labels on the left increase by a given number of cases; in this chart it is increments of 5,000 cases per 10 million people. Australia is currently sitting on just over 10,000 cases ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Australia to Scale" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/11/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-australia-to-scale/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Australia to Scale">Read more</a>
