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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato The leak of the confidential personal information of COVID-19 patients by Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker and influential party figure Michelle Boag has been highly embarrassing for the National Party. In less than 24 hours their attack strategy has detonated ... <a title="The National Party COVID-19 leak shows why the law must change to protect New Zealand citizens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/the-national-party-covid-19-leak-shows-why-the-law-must-change-to-protect-new-zealand-citizens-142250/" aria-label="Read more about The National Party COVID-19 leak shows why the law must change to protect New Zealand citizens">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Lacey, Senior Lecturer in International Trade, University of Adelaide When the United Kingdom completed its telecom supply chain review last year it gave a green light to Huawei by concluding that nationality-based bans did nothing to improve network security and could actually harm it by weakening ... <a title="Huawei’s window of opportunity closes: how geopolitics triumphed over technology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/huaweis-window-of-opportunity-closes-how-geopolitics-triumphed-over-technology-142158/" aria-label="Read more about Huawei’s window of opportunity closes: how geopolitics triumphed over technology">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin, 6 July 2020 Three Citizenships The concept of ‘citizenship’ has both general and specific meanings. The most specific and familiar I call passport citizenship. A passport citizen of a country is a person holding a passport for that country, or with unambiguous entitlement to hold such a passport. More than anything a ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Duty of Care and Economic Citizenship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/07/keith-rankin-analysis-duty-of-care-and-economic-citizenship/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Duty of Care and Economic Citizenship">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Victorian government will lock down all metropolitan Melbourne for six weeks from Wednesday night, as a new wave of the coronavirus takes hold in the city. The lockdown will also cover the Mitchell Shire, north of Melbourne, which includes ... <a title="Six-week lockdown for Melbourne as record 191 new cases in latest tally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/07/six-week-lockdown-for-melbourne-as-record-191-new-cases-in-latest-tally-142171/" aria-label="Read more about Six-week lockdown for Melbourne as record 191 new cases in latest tally">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics, University of South Australia Victoria recorded its largest daily increase of 127 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, 16 more than the previous peak of 111 cases on March 28. As I recently wrote, there’s no formal definition of what constitutes a second ... <a title="Victoria is undeniably in a second wave of COVID-19. It’s time to plan for another statewide lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/victoria-is-undeniably-in-a-second-wave-of-covid-19-its-time-to-plan-for-another-statewide-lockdown-142047/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria is undeniably in a second wave of COVID-19. It’s time to plan for another statewide lockdown">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2020
By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News The State Services Minister says the government will do everything it can to track down who is responsible for a massive privacy breach relating to New Zealand’s active covid cases, and is not ruling out pursuing criminal charges. An investigation has been ordered into the breach, with ... <a title="Criminal charges possible if leak source identified in NZ covid privacy breach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/04/criminal-charges-possible-if-leak-source-identified-in-nz-covid-privacy-breach/" aria-label="Read more about Criminal charges possible if leak source identified in NZ covid privacy breach">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin, 2 July 2020 Socialism versus Progressive Capitalism I was disappointed that the Green Party continues to reject a distributive Universal Basic Income (UBI) in favour of a redistributive and polarising Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) model. GMI is the antithesis of UBI. The essence of UBI, through flattening income tax, is the creation ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Green Party Tax-Benefit Policy is not Helpful" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/02/keith-rankin-analysis-green-party-tax-benefit-policy-is-not-helpful/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Green Party Tax-Benefit Policy is not Helpful">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics, University of South Australia I recently wrote about Victoria’s surge in COVID-19 cases. On that day, Victoria recorded 11 new infections, after a few days of new cases in the high teens and low twenties. I wondered then whether the situation could ... <a title="Victoria is on the precipice of an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak. Will the new measures work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/02/victoria-is-on-the-precipice-of-an-uncontrolled-coronavirus-outbreak-will-the-new-measures-work-141706/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria is on the precipice of an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak. Will the new measures work?">Read more</a>
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July 1, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards The Greens have shaken up the election campaign with the announcement of their radical poverty and action plan to reform welfare provision and introduce a new wealth tax for millionaires. It’s a big-thinking, controversial policy and has generated a lot of disagreement over how radical it is, whether it could ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Greens’ Zeitgeist poverty and tax action plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/01/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-greens-zeitgeist-poverty-and-tax-action-plan/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Greens’ Zeitgeist poverty and tax action plan">Read more</a>
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July 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Kingham, Professor, University of Canterbury CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz ... <a title="Climate explained: will the COVID-19 lockdown slow the effects of climate change?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/01/climate-explained-will-the-covid-19-lockdown-slow-the-effects-of-climate-change-141604/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: will the COVID-19 lockdown slow the effects of climate change?">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
These charts tell a simple story about how the coronavirus pandemic could be a catalyst for the transition to a more sustainable economic future. Looking at Chart 1, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the economy is shown as the combination of yellow and orange. (We note that these charts represent another aspect of pie ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Pandemic as a Catalyst for a New Economic Normal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-pandemic-as-a-catalyst-for-a-new-economic-normal/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Pandemic as a Catalyst for a New Economic Normal">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marta Rychert, Senior Researcher in Drug Policy, Massey University In less than three months, New Zealanders will vote in the world’s first national referendum on a comprehensive proposal to legalise the recreational use of cannabis. Unlike cannabis ballots in several US states in which the public only ... <a title="Reforming cannabis laws is a complex challenge, but New Zealand’s history of drug reform holds important lessons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/reforming-cannabis-laws-is-a-complex-challenge-but-new-zealands-history-of-drug-reform-holds-important-lessons-141113/" aria-label="Read more about Reforming cannabis laws is a complex challenge, but New Zealand’s history of drug reform holds important lessons">Read more</a>
