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September 6, 2020
The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange, a film by Juan Passarelli @jlpassarelli By Simon Floth in Armidale, NSW On Monday, September 7, Julian Assange is scheduled to appear in a British court for several weeks of hearings regarding the U.S. attempt to extradite him. This concerns Wikileaks obtaining and jointly publishing US-classified ... <a title="Assange’s UK detention violates international law – Australia must intervene" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/06/assanges-uk-detention-violates-international-law-australia-must-intervene/" aria-label="Read more about Assange’s UK detention violates international law – Australia must intervene">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Since its first death (in China) in January, 873 thousand people worldwide have died from Covid19. The chart shows the population-adjusted death tolls for the most-affected countries (excluding countries with less than 300,000 people. (San Marino – with 34,000 people – actually has the highest death rate.) In recent days, Peru ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Countries with most Deaths and Cases to date" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-countries-with-most-deaths-and-cases-to-date/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Countries with most Deaths and Cases to date">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
How badly will James Shaw’s private school debacle affect the Greens? Will it push them out of Parliament? This is increasingly the question being asked as the scandal rolls on and on this week. After all, the two main polling companies have had the party very close to the 5% MMP threshold in their surveys ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Has James Shaw sunk the Greens?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-has-james-shaw-sunk-the-greens/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Has James Shaw sunk the Greens?">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sommer Kapitan, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Auckland University of Technology “Kia ora, everyone. I’m standing against a blank wall in my house – because it’s the only view in my house that is not messy.” So begins a 2020 campaign message posted by New Zealand Prime Minister ... <a title="The Facebook prime minister: how Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand’s most successful political influencer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/the-facebook-prime-minister-how-jacinda-ardern-became-new-zealands-most-successful-political-influencer-144485/" aria-label="Read more about The Facebook prime minister: how Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand’s most successful political influencer">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2020
Welcome to Evening Report’s A View from Afar This episode, we are joined by political scientist Paul Buchanan to discuss: 1: What’s behind global military powers, China and Russia, intensifying aggression against the United States? 2: What has been the United States’ response to this aggression? And should nations in Asia-Pacific region be worried? 3: ... <a title="Video: A View From Afar – Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss China & Russia Military Aggression" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/video-a-view-from-afar-paul-buchanan-and-selwyn-manning-discuss-china-russia-military-aggression/" aria-label="Read more about Video: A View From Afar – Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss China & Russia Military Aggression">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology Whether or not Peter Ellis’s appeal against his remaining child abuse convictions from the Civic Creche case is successful, the fact it can be heard at all is significant. The Supreme Court decision announced today not only opens ... <a title="By allowing the Peter Ellis appeal to continue, the Supreme Court recognises the right to justice outlives the individual" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/by-allowing-the-peter-ellis-appeal-to-continue-the-supreme-court-recognises-the-right-to-justice-outlives-the-individual-145447/" aria-label="Read more about By allowing the Peter Ellis appeal to continue, the Supreme Court recognises the right to justice outlives the individual">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In practice, democratic political reforms are usually incremental, though typically seen as part of a process leading to wider and more embedded improvement. Reforms are ‘evolutionary’ – indeed, in a technical sense – in that they improve the ‘fitness’ of democratic society. Unlike biological evolution, which is a fully blind process, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Extending Democracy; a Path-Dependent Process" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/keith-rankin-analysis-extending-democracy-a-path-dependent-process/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Extending Democracy; a Path-Dependent Process">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dave Parry, Head of the Department of Computer Science, Auckland University of Technology The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has issued a warning to all New Zealand businesses to be prepared for cyber attacks, following almost a week of daily attacks on the New Zealand stock exchange ... <a title="NZ’s cyber security centre warns more attacks likely following stock market outages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/31/nzs-cyber-security-centre-warns-more-attacks-likely-following-stock-market-outages-145320/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s cyber security centre warns more attacks likely following stock market outages">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Unfair and avoidable differences in health outcomes separate Māori from other citizens, said a report from this month’s parliamentary select committee inquiry into Māori ... <a title="Two inquiries find unfair treatment and healthcare for Māori. This is how we fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/31/two-inquiries-find-unfair-treatment-and-healthcare-for-maori-this-is-how-we-fix-it-144939/" aria-label="Read more about Two inquiries find unfair treatment and healthcare for Māori. This is how we fix it">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards Was it just a terrible stuff-up? Or a reflection of the political direction the Green Party is shifting in? The announcement this week by co-leader James Shaw that he had secured nearly $12m for a private school has angered educationalists and raised significant questions about the Greens and what they ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Greens’ private school funding scandal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/30/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-greens-private-school-funding-scandal/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Greens’ private school funding scandal">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2020
Special Report by Selwyn Manning. A German language version of this report was published by Cicero.de magazine in Germany. Caution: This report contains detail that could be disturbing to many people. AT WHAT POINT in time does an atrocity have a beginning? Is it when the first gunshot is fired? When the first victim is ... <a title="SPECIAL REPORT: The Sentencing of a ‘Human Shell’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/29/special-report-the-sentencing-of-a-human-shell/" aria-label="Read more about SPECIAL REPORT: The Sentencing of a ‘Human Shell’">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology There was public celebration of the sentence of life without parole for the Christchurch terrorist Brenton Tarrant who admitted murdering 51 people and attempting to murder 40 others. Aged 29, the convicted mass murderer and terrorist is still ... <a title="No rehab and little chance of appeal for the Christchurch terrorist jailed for life without parole" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/28/no-rehab-and-little-chance-of-appeal-for-the-christchurch-terrorist-jailed-for-life-without-parole-145242/" aria-label="Read more about No rehab and little chance of appeal for the Christchurch terrorist jailed for life without parole">Read more</a>
