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August 11, 2020
Welcome to Evening Report’s TECH NOW. This week, we examine the BIG ISSUES behind the TECH HEADLINES with ComputerWorld NZ’s editor, Sarah Putt. What’s Happening in the Tech World? Govt & IT – Old-Tech’s Got to Go. What’s New-Tech Look Like? Excessive Online Data Collection – Unfriendly Databases – Why is Data Theft Still a Thing? ... <a title="VIDEO: Evening Report’s Tech Now with Sarah Putt and Selwyn Manning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/live-evening-reports-tech-now-with-sarah-putt-and-selwyn-manning/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Evening Report’s Tech Now with Sarah Putt and Selwyn Manning">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. “I think you have to recognise money comes from somewhere. It doesn’t just come from a big money tree.” Judith Collins 2020 “Someone has to pay the bill – there aren’t little pixies at the bottom of the garden printing cash.” John Key 2009 These messages from two different National Party ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Money: Where Does it Come From, Where Does it Go?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/keith-rankin-analysis-money-where-does-it-come-from-where-does-it-go/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Money: Where Does it Come From, Where Does it Go?">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2020
Headline: A crisis of governance. – 36th Parallel Assessments [embedded content] The Port of Beirut warehouse explosion, involving 2.7 kilotons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate negligently stored in an unsecured area, crystalizes in one national tragedy a much wider trend: the crisis and decline of democratic governance world-wide. For a decade Lebanon has been gripped ... <a title="Video + Analysis: A crisis of governance – Paul G Buchanan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/08/a-crisis-of-governance/" aria-label="Read more about Video + Analysis: A crisis of governance – Paul G Buchanan">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The known incidences of Covid19 in Spain, Belgium and Sweden are similar, although Sweden lagged for a while before overtaking the other two. In deaths, Sweden is slightly lower than Spain and about 30% lower than Belgium. Belgium, after little San Marino, is still the country with the highest deaths per ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Comparing Australian Outbreak with High Incidence European Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-covid19-comparing-australian-outbreak-with-high-incidence-european-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Comparing Australian Outbreak with High Incidence European Countries">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2020
Evening Report Video: This week in A View from Afar with Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning, we examine the Beirut explosion and what is going on behind the headlines. We also debate how leaders around the world are using authoritarianism as a mask to cover their weak handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. A View ... <a title="Video: A View from Afar – The Beirut Explosion + Authoritarianism as a Covid-19 Mask" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/live-a-view-from-afar-the-beirut-explosion-authoritarianism-as-a-covid-19-mask/" aria-label="Read more about Video: A View from Afar – The Beirut Explosion + Authoritarianism as a Covid-19 Mask">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Money as an Unfortunate Metaphor for Cost Especially but not only in election years, when any new policy is proposed by a major party, a ubiquitous refrain follows: “what will it cost?”; “where will the money come from?”. The context is that cost is the spending of ‘coin’. Indeed I once ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Counting the Cost of Government Action and Inaction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/keith-rankin-analysis-counting-the-cost-of-government-action-and-inaction/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Counting the Cost of Government Action and Inaction">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards Can we postpone this year’s election? Quite frankly, the political parties don’t seem ready for it, and aren’t about to offer voters the necessary policy choices for the unprecedented times we’re in. We’ve ended up with a campaign focused on scandal, personality and leadership, with a policy void that’s worse ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Where is the contest of ideas in the election campaign?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-where-is-the-contest-of-ideas-in-the-election-campaign/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Where is the contest of ideas in the election campaign?">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liam Smith, Director, BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University With new rules restricting Victorians’ activities and movements to try and stem the second wave of coronavirus cases comes the question of whether people will actually stick to them. There are at least two ways to answer ... <a title="Can Victorians stick to the stage 4 rules? Our perception of what others are doing might be the key" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/can-victorians-stick-to-the-stage-4-rules-our-perception-of-what-others-are-doing-might-be-the-key-143252/" aria-label="Read more about Can Victorians stick to the stage 4 rules? Our perception of what others are doing might be the key">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Reilly, Professor, University of Western Australia In international affairs, words are bullets, according to an old diplomatic saying. If so, Australia in recent years has begun firing new ammunition. In his address to the Aspen Security Forum today, Prime Minister Scott Morrison stressed the importance of ... <a title="Why is ‘values’ the new buzzword in Australian foreign policy? (Hint: it has something to do with China)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/05/why-is-values-the-new-buzzword-in-australian-foreign-policy-hint-it-has-something-to-do-with-china-143839/" aria-label="Read more about Why is ‘values’ the new buzzword in Australian foreign policy? (Hint: it has something to do with China)">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Smith, Senior Lecturer in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney Americans were alarmed last week when their president suggested on Twitter that the November 3 presidential election should be delayed because mail-in ballots would be fraudulent. The president has no authority ... <a title="Trump can’t delay the election, but he can try to delegitimise it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/05/trump-cant-delay-the-election-but-he-can-try-to-delegitimise-it-143747/" aria-label="Read more about Trump can’t delay the election, but he can try to delegitimise it">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeremy Moses, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Canterbury Perhaps predictably, last week’s announcement that Behrouz Boochani had been granted refugee status in New Zealand quickly became election campaign fodder. Both National Party leader Judith Collins and NZ First leader Winston Peters alluded to Boochani being ... <a title="Claims that Behrouz Boochani jumped the queue are a reminder of the dangers of anti-refugee politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/claims-that-behrouz-boochani-jumped-the-queue-are-a-reminder-of-the-dangers-of-anti-refugee-politics-143743/" aria-label="Read more about Claims that Behrouz Boochani jumped the queue are a reminder of the dangers of anti-refugee politics">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Nicky Hager welcomes the Op Burnham Inquiry report, the most serious findings against the NZSAS and NZDF in their history – This report was first published on TheDailyBlog.co.nz Ref. Report-of-the-Government-Inquiry-into-Operation-Burnham-print-version (Sir Terence Arnold KNZM QC, Chair, Sir Geoffrey Palmer KCMG AC QC PC, Member, July 31,2020 [pdf]); + Inquiry-into-events-in-Afghanistan (Inspector General of Intelligence and Security, ... <a title="Nicky Hager – I welcome the Operation Burnham Inquiry report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/nicky-hager-i-welcome-the-operation-burnham-inquiry-report/" aria-label="Read more about Nicky Hager – I welcome the Operation Burnham Inquiry report">Read more</a>
