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June 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wayne Hope, Professor of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology How many media analysts predicted it? In 2018 Australia’s Nine Entertainment absorbed Fairfax Media and its New Zealand subsidiary Stuff. Just under two years later chief executive Sinead Boucher bought Stuff from Nine for a dollar. The ... <a title="Crisis, disintegration and hope: only urgent intervention can save New Zealand’s media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/03/crisis-disintegration-and-hope-only-urgent-intervention-can-save-new-zealands-media-139299/" aria-label="Read more about Crisis, disintegration and hope: only urgent intervention can save New Zealand’s media">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards The latest opinion poll is out, and it’s more bad news for the National Party, with Roy Morgan putting them on only 26.5% support, against Labour’s 56.5%. You can see the details here: Roy Morgan May opinion poll. Roy Morgan is regarded as less accurate than other polling companies, and the ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Todd Muller’s torrid start as National leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/02/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-todd-mullers-torrid-start-as-national-leader/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Todd Muller’s torrid start as National leader">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Corbould, Associate Professor, Deakin University The protests that have engulfed American cities in the past week are rooted in decades of frustrations. Racist policing, legal and extra-legal discrimination, exclusion from the major avenues of wealth creation and vicious stereotyping have long histories and endure today. African ... <a title="The fury in US cities is rooted in a long history of racist policing, violence and inequality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/02/the-fury-in-us-cities-is-rooted-in-a-long-history-of-racist-policing-violence-and-inequality-139752/" aria-label="Read more about The fury in US cities is rooted in a long history of racist policing, violence and inequality">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Danielle K. Kilgo of Indiana University A teenager held her phone steady enough to capture the final moments of George Perry Floyd’s life as he apparently suffocated under the weight of a Minneapolis police officer’s knee on his neck. The video went viral. What happened next has played out time and again in ... <a title="Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape public’s view of protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/riot-or-resistance-how-media-frames-unrest-in-minneapolis-will-shape-publics-view-of-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape public’s view of protest">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The large western economies account for by far the most covid19 deaths in the world. Even Germany, with a covid19 death incidence of 100 per million is well above the world average to date of 50 deaths per million people. Of these large countries, only the United States looks likely to ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Deaths and Cases to the end of May 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/31/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-deaths-and-cases-to-the-end-of-may-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Deaths and Cases to the end of May 2020">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy J. Lynch, Associate Professor in American Politics, University of Melbourne Violence has erupted across several US cities after the death of a black man, George Floyd, who was shown on video gasping for breath as a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck. The ... <a title="As Minneapolis burns, Trump’s presidency is sinking deeper into crisis. And yet, he may still be re-elected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/31/as-minneapolis-burns-trumps-presidency-is-sinking-deeper-into-crisis-and-yet-he-may-still-be-re-elected-139739/" aria-label="Read more about As Minneapolis burns, Trump’s presidency is sinking deeper into crisis. And yet, he may still be re-elected">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Sweden has lost 400 of its ten million people to Covid 19 in the week to 28 May. And there is little sign, yet, of a significant slowdown in deaths. Sweden’s weekly death rate has been this high for the last eight weeks; ie since the beginning of April. It would ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Deaths and Cases in the last week of May 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/30/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-deaths-and-cases-in-the-last-week-of-may-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Deaths and Cases in the last week of May 2020">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has won support for a major restructure of federal-state architecture which scraps the Council of Australian Governments, enshrines the “national cabinet” permanently, and pares down a plethora of ancillary ministerial bodies. The Prime Minister is shaping the ongoing ... <a title="Scott Morrison strengthens his policy power, enshrining national cabinet and giving it “laser-like” focus on jobs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/scott-morrison-strengthens-his-policy-power-enshrining-national-cabinet-and-giving-it-laser-like-focus-on-jobs-139678/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison strengthens his policy power, enshrining national cabinet and giving it “laser-like” focus on jobs">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. On Project Syndicate – and in other places in recent months – orthodox US economist Kenneth Rogoff has presented the case for deeply negative interest rates. Another financial sacred cow falls; yes, interest rates can be negative, even substantially negative. It can take a while, though, for shot sacred cows to ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Deeply Negative Interest Rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/keith-rankin-on-deeply-negative-interest-rates/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Deeply Negative Interest Rates">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jarrod Haar, Professor of Human Resource Management, Auckland University of Technology When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said recently, “I’ve heard lots of people suggesting we should have a four-day week”, she inevitably ignited debate. Ardern was not, as some critics seemed to assume, just flying ... <a title="A four-day working week could be the shot in the arm post-coronavirus tourism needs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/a-four-day-working-week-could-be-the-shot-in-the-arm-post-coronavirus-tourism-needs-139388/" aria-label="Read more about A four-day working week could be the shot in the arm post-coronavirus tourism needs">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Markey, Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University In a bid to repair the economy, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced an industrial relations overhaul. Business groups and unions will be brought together to try to change a system that Morrison says is “not fit for purpose”. This is ... <a title="Morrison wants unions and business to ‘put down the weapons’ on IR. But real reform will not be easy." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/morrison-wants-unions-and-business-to-put-down-the-weapons-on-ir-but-real-reform-will-not-be-easy-139462/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison wants unions and business to ‘put down the weapons’ on IR. But real reform will not be easy.">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2020
Is Todd Muller the Ned Flanders of the National Party? This is how he’s been characterised by political commentator Gordon Campbell, who suggests the change in leadership is, in Simpsons terms, akin to swapping the scary and cruel Monty Burns for Homer Simpson’s compassionate but conservative neighbour. There’s almost a consensus amongst political commentators that ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Where is Todd Muller taking National?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/27/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-where-is-todd-muller-taking-national/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Where is Todd Muller taking National?">Read more</a>
