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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bhiamie Williamson, Research Associate & PhD Candidate, Australian National University How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees and destroying ancestral and totemic plants and animals? The fact is, ... <a title="Strength from perpetual grief: how Aboriginal people experience the bushfire crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/strength-from-perpetual-grief-how-aboriginal-people-experience-the-bushfire-crisis-129448/" aria-label="Read more about Strength from perpetual grief: how Aboriginal people experience the bushfire crisis">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marc Hudson, Researcher on sociomaterial transformations, social movements, Keele University As someone who has studied Australian climate policy and politics closely, this summer’s bushfire crisis have been both heartbreaking and bewildering. The grave warnings politicians ignored for so long have now come to pass. The fires may ... <a title="Watching Australia’s politicians fumble through the bushfire crisis, I’m overwhelmed by déjà vu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/watching-our-politicians-fumble-through-the-bushfire-crisis-im-overwhelmed-by-deja-vu-129338/" aria-label="Read more about Watching Australia’s politicians fumble through the bushfire crisis, I’m overwhelmed by déjà vu">Read more</a>
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January 7, 2020
Are our politicians doing a good job? Are they on top of the urgent problems that need fixing? These are some of the big questions that have arisen from reflecting on the last year in politics, especially as we shift into an election year. Yesterday’s Political Roundup looked at the politicians who performed strongly in ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Are politicians delivering for New Zealanders?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/07/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-are-politicians-delivering-for-new-zealanders/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Are politicians delivering for New Zealanders?">Read more</a>
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January 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University Frank Jotzo, the director of the Centre for Climate and Energy Policy at Australian National University, has some constructive advice for Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a column today for the ABC: do not waste an opportunity ... <a title="Listen to your people Scott Morrison: the bushfires demand a climate policy reboot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/07/listen-to-your-people-scott-morrison-the-bushfires-demand-a-climate-policy-reboot-129348/" aria-label="Read more about Listen to your people Scott Morrison: the bushfires demand a climate policy reboot">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2020
The verdicts are in on how New Zealand’s politicians performed last year. The end-of-year columns evaluating the MPs have been almost unanimous in their praise for Jacinda Ardern, who is seen to have navigated a difficult year superbly. But there are also some surprising verdicts. The Spinoff website has compiled their pundits’ picks for the ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Evaluating NZ’s politicians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/06/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-evaluating-nzs-politicians/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Evaluating NZ’s politicians">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Neville Nicholls, Professor emeritus, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University Public attention on the disastrous bushfire crisis in Australia will rightly continue for weeks to come. But as we direct resources to coping and recovery, we should not forget other weather and climate challenges looming ... <a title="The bushfires are horrendous, but expect cyclones, floods and heatwaves too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/05/the-bushfires-are-horrendous-but-expect-cyclones-floods-and-heatwaves-too-129328/" aria-label="Read more about The bushfires are horrendous, but expect cyclones, floods and heatwaves too">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Gearing, Journalist, author, broadcaster, Queensland University of Technology As I write this, fires are consuming huge swathes of Australia and conditions are expected to worsen. The situation is attracting global interest, and reporting has been extensive. But it isn’t always easy to find reliable information on ... <a title="How to monitor the bushfires raging across Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/03/how-to-monitor-the-bushfires-raging-across-australia-129298/" aria-label="Read more about How to monitor the bushfires raging across Australia">Read more</a>
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December 20, 2019
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 In October, the Canadian province of British Columbia passed legislation requiring parliament to align its laws with the UN Universal Declaration on the Rights ... <a title="What NZ and Australia can learn from British Columbia’s implementation of Indigenous rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/20/what-nz-and-australia-can-learn-from-british-columbias-implementation-of-indigenous-rights-128221/" aria-label="Read more about What NZ and Australia can learn from British Columbia’s implementation of Indigenous rights">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2019
The Minister of Finance visited his local soup kitchen one night last month, and tweeted “Good to catch up with folk I worked with/helped over the years+remember how important it is to give every helping hand we can”. But are Grant Robertson and his colleagues giving enough of a helping hand to those in poverty? ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Is the Government doing enough to address poverty?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/19/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-is-the-government-doing-enough-to-address-poverty/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Is the Government doing enough to address poverty?">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2019
How rotten is New Zealand, given the state of poverty at the end of 2019? And why do politicians and the public allow it? These are the questions that might be asked in the lead up to Christmas this year, given the wealth of information we have on disadvantage and suffering at the moment. Auckland ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How rotten is New Zealand?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/17/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-how-rotten-is-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How rotten is New Zealand?">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon C. Day, PSM, Post-career PhD candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University For some years, Australia has been on notice: the world is watching how we care for the Great Barrier Reef. The iconic natural wonder is the largest living organism ... <a title="Attention United Nations: don’t be fooled by Australia’s latest report on the Great Barrier Reef" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/17/attention-united-nations-dont-be-fooled-by-australias-latest-report-on-the-great-barrier-reef-128304/" aria-label="Read more about Attention United Nations: don’t be fooled by Australia’s latest report on the Great Barrier Reef">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The mid-year budget update has seen the government downgrading its forecast for Australia’s economic growth in 2019-20 by 0.25%, and slashing the projected surplus by A$2.1 billion, to $5 billion. The forecast for wage growth has also been reduced, and ... <a title="Australian Politics with Michelle Grattan: Mathias Cormann and Jim Chalmers on the mid-year budget update" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/16/politics-with-michelle-grattan-mathias-cormann-and-jim-chalmers-on-the-mid-year-budget-update-128931/" aria-label="Read more about Australian Politics with Michelle Grattan: Mathias Cormann and Jim Chalmers on the mid-year budget update">Read more</a>
