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June 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Becky Freeman, Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney The decision, handed down on June 9 by the World Trade Organisation’s appeals body, that Australia’s plain packaging tobacco control policy doesn’t flout WTO laws marks the end of almost a decade of legal wrangling over this landmark public ... <a title="Australia’s decisive win on plain packaging paves way for other countries to follow suit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/australias-decisive-win-on-plain-packaging-paves-way-for-other-countries-to-follow-suit-140553/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s decisive win on plain packaging paves way for other countries to follow suit">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch Thousands of people took part in the Black Lives Matter protests in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin today. Auckland’s Aotea Square protesters, largely peaceful and family oriented, marched to Custom Street and demonstrated outside the American consulate where protesters took a knee and observed a minute of silence for ... <a title="Thousands throng Auckland for NZ Black Lives Matter protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/14/thousands-throng-auckland-for-nz-black-lives-matter-protests/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands throng Auckland for NZ Black Lives Matter protests">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Imagery: Metaphors, Symbols, Analogies As a species, people use symbols to facilitate understandings of the complexities of the world. In the last millennium in Europe, the highest subjects of learning were ‘classical studies’ and ‘theology’. It was because almost all of the principal explanatory stories of human life – as the priestly ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Goldmining as our Metaphor for Economic Activity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/11/keith-rankin-analysis-goldmining-as-our-metaphor-for-economic-activity/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Goldmining as our Metaphor for Economic Activity">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Vowles, Professor of Political Science, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand’s 2020 general election will be like no other in our history. It comes in the wake of a remarkable government-led act of collective solidarity that has sacrificed businesses and livelihoods in ... <a title="An election like no other: with 100 days to go, can Jacinda Ardern maintain her extraordinary popularity?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/11/an-election-like-no-other-with-100-days-to-go-can-jacinda-ardern-maintain-her-extraordinary-popularity-140252/" aria-label="Read more about An election like no other: with 100 days to go, can Jacinda Ardern maintain her extraordinary popularity?">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These charts plot seven-day rolling averages. It means that the most recent death and case incidences of Covid19 is the average of new cases for the seven days ended 9 June 2020. The New Zealand data looks incomplete, but that’s because it is now zero; New Zealand is recovered, not recovering. Contrast ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Cases and Deaths over Time for Recovering and High-Incidence Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-cases-and-deaths-over-time-for-recovering-and-high-incidence-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Cases and Deaths over Time for Recovering and High-Incidence Countries">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
INDEPTH: By Guyon Espiner, RNZ News investigative reporter, with contributor John Daniell New Zealand has lost some of its independence within the Five Eyes intelligence alliance and been “drawn in a lot closer” to the US-led spy network, former Prime Minister Helen Clark says. She made the comments in new RNZ podcast The Service, which ... <a title="NZ’s independence from Five Eyes has slipped, says former PM Clark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/nzs-independence-from-five-eyes-has-slipped-says-former-pm-clark/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s independence from Five Eyes has slipped, says former PM Clark">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University “What’s in it for us?” This is the first question Prime Minister Scott Morrison should have asked himself when US President Donald Trump invited him to join an expanded G7 gathering at Camp David in September. The ... <a title="Attending the G7 in the US carries great diplomatic risks for Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/attending-the-g7-in-the-us-carries-great-diplomatic-risks-for-australia-140331/" aria-label="Read more about Attending the G7 in the US carries great diplomatic risks for Australia">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. How many current pandemics? The word ‘pandemic’ is not entirely defined on narrow public health criteria. (Likewise, an economic depression has no technical definition.) In an important sense it is a word of history, a word to describe significant health events of the past that had substantial diffusion beyond any particular locality. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – A Plague of Pandemics, including a Pandemic of Plague" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/09/keith-rankin-analysis-a-plague-of-pandemics-including-a-pandemic-of-plague/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – A Plague of Pandemics, including a Pandemic of Plague">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2020
“Covid-free” New Zealand has moved early today to its lowest restrictions – alert level 1. The change happened at midnight after New Zealanders had done something “remarkable” by uniting in the fight against covid-19, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. After praising New Zealand’s response to the virus yesterday, she revealed the country would be moving ... <a title="New Zealand relaxes covid restrictions after ‘remarkable’ virus fight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/09/new-zealand-relaxes-covid-restrictions-after-remarkable-virus-fight/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand relaxes covid restrictions after ‘remarkable’ virus fight">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Good or Bad? Are there good or bad signature patterns for countries. The most obvious answer is that every country should ideally look like Portugal in 2019. Government sector and foreign sector balances would be close to zero. Private sector balances would also be close to zero, with household surpluses (net household ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Financial Signatures: Portugal and New Zealand compared" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/08/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-financial-signatures-portugal-and-new-zealand-compared/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Financial Signatures: Portugal and New Zealand compared">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2020
By Michael Plank of the University of Canterbury; Alex James of the University of Canterbury; Audrey Lustig of Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research; Nicholas Steyn; Rachelle Binny of Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, and Shaun Hendy There is now a 95 percent chance covid-19 has been eliminated in New Zealand, according to our modelling, based ... <a title="NZ hits 95% chance of eliminating covid – but new cases will emerge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/08/nz-hits-95-chance-of-eliminating-covid-but-new-cases-will-emerge/" aria-label="Read more about NZ hits 95% chance of eliminating covid – but new cases will emerge">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Halvard Dalheim, Practitioner in Residence, The Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney Living, working and playing in the one neighbourhood has often been touted as the ideal outcome for well-planned cities. Yet this goal has been elusive. For most of us, our daily activities are segregated into ... <a title="We’re at a fork in the road: do we choose neighbourhoods to live, work and play in?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/08/were-at-a-fork-in-the-road-do-we-choose-neighbourhoods-to-live-work-and-play-in-138949/" aria-label="Read more about We’re at a fork in the road: do we choose neighbourhoods to live, work and play in?">Read more</a>
