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June 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By My Nguyen, Senior Lecturer in Finance, RMIT University Shutterstock In a move that has taken the business world by surprise, PwC Australia this week offloaded its government consultancy business to Allegro Funds for just $1. It’s what’s known as a peppercorn transaction. Peppercorn transactions, which involve a ... <a title="You can’t buy much for $1, except maybe a global company. Why PwC could be sold for less than the price of a stamp" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/28/you-cant-buy-much-for-1-except-maybe-a-global-company-why-pwc-could-be-sold-for-less-than-the-price-of-a-stamp-208577/" aria-label="Read more about You can’t buy much for $1, except maybe a global company. Why PwC could be sold for less than the price of a stamp">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Gaston, Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland The University of Otago: funding boost still won’t avert some cuts. Getty Images Yesterday’s announcement of NZ$128 million in new funding for universities has naturally been welcomed as a badly-needed reprieve. But ... <a title="Bailout, Band-Aid or back to basics? 3 questions NZ’s university funding review must ask" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/28/bailout-band-aid-or-back-to-basics-3-questions-nzs-university-funding-review-must-ask-208564/" aria-label="Read more about Bailout, Band-Aid or back to basics? 3 questions NZ’s university funding review must ask">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ali Hammoud, PhD candidate, Western Sydney University Ashraf Amra/ AAP Millions of men, women and children have converged on Mecca this week for the Hajj pilgrimage. The Saudi government says it will be the largest crowd ever for the pilgrimage. The Hajj pilgrimage is, at its core, ... <a title="An unbroken covenant with God: what the Hajj means for Muslims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/28/an-unbroken-covenant-with-god-what-the-hajj-means-for-muslims-208571/" aria-label="Read more about An unbroken covenant with God: what the Hajj means for Muslims">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Today’s content FOREIGN AFFAIRS Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): Friends and partners: The first meeting of Hipkins and Xi Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): Chris Hipkins’ successful meeting with Xi Jinping Alexander Gillespie ... <a title="Newsletter: June 28 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/28/newsletter-june-28-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: June 28 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2023
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller Warm and constructive. That’s how Chris Hipkins wanted his meeting with Xi Jinping on Tuesday to be remembered. The New Zealand Prime Minister deployed the ‘warm and constructive’ phrase at least eight times in a subsequent press conference with New Zealand media. Hipkins was also keen to note that ‘the meeting ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: Chris Hipkins’ successful meeting with Xi Jinping" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/28/geoffrey-millers-political-roundup-chris-hipkins-successful-meeting-with-xi-jinping/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: Chris Hipkins’ successful meeting with Xi Jinping">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Menzel, Associate Dean Education, Gnibi College, Southern Cross University During this year’s Reconciliation Week I asked the group of non-Indigenous students I was teaching “who is responsible for doing Reconciliation work?”. They all quickly put their hands up and said “us”. I then asked them “what ... <a title="The Voice alone won’t solve the issues facing Indigenous people. Everyone has to do that work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/28/the-voice-alone-wont-solve-the-issues-facing-indigenous-people-everyone-has-to-do-that-work-206676/" aria-label="Read more about The Voice alone won’t solve the issues facing Indigenous people. Everyone has to do that work">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jianni Tien, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney Shutterstock Earlier this year, federal health minister Mark Butler announced a new national Lung Cancer Screening Program. The first of its kind for lung cancer, the screening program will open initially to current and former smokers aged 50 to ... <a title="‘The dirty disease’ – both smokers and non-smokers get lung cancer. They face stigma on top of illness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/28/the-dirty-disease-both-smokers-and-non-smokers-get-lung-cancer-they-face-stigma-on-top-of-illness-206595/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The dirty disease’ – both smokers and non-smokers get lung cancer. They face stigma on top of illness">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Hepburn, Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University MartinLueke, Shutterstock Fossil fuel companies in Australia could ship their carbon dioxide (CO₂) waste overseas for disposal, under changes to the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981 introduced to parliament late last week. During her second reading speech, Environment ... <a title="Australia has introduced a new bill that will allow us to ship carbon emissions overseas. Here’s why that’s not a great idea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/28/australia-has-introduced-a-new-bill-that-will-allow-us-to-ship-carbon-emissions-overseas-heres-why-thats-not-a-great-idea-208456/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has introduced a new bill that will allow us to ship carbon emissions overseas. Here’s why that’s not a great idea">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shani Sniedze, Research Fellow, Australian Council for Educational Research Suleman Mukhtar/Pexels As the school year hits the half-way mark, many Year 6 students and their families will be starting to think more about the move to high school next year. Moving to secondary school is a big ... <a title="‘It makes me nervous’: how to help your child prepare for high school" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/28/it-makes-me-nervous-how-to-help-your-child-prepare-for-high-school-207616/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It makes me nervous’: how to help your child prepare for high school">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia © Sarah Enticknap/Netflix Dating back to the 1930s – earlier, even – horror cinema has been socially and politically conscious, interrogating taboos around gender, sex, class and race along with the borders between states like ... <a title="Run Rabbit Run isn’t excessively bad – just earnest, heavy-handed and predictable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/28/run-rabbit-run-isnt-excessively-bad-just-earnest-heavy-handed-and-predictable-207626/" aria-label="Read more about Run Rabbit Run isn’t excessively bad – just earnest, heavy-handed and predictable">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato AAP/ Mark Mitchell/NZ Herald via AP and EPA/JADE GAO / POOL Chris Hipkins anticipated a “diplomatic” meeting with Xi Jinping. The Chinese leader said he placed “great importance” on the relationship with New Zealand. Both businesslike, Hipkins made sure ... <a title="Hipkins meets Xi Jinping: behind the handshakes, NZ walks an increasingly fine line with China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/28/hipkins-meets-xi-jinping-behind-the-handshakes-nz-walks-an-increasingly-fine-line-with-china-208558/" aria-label="Read more about Hipkins meets Xi Jinping: behind the handshakes, NZ walks an increasingly fine line with China">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The surplus for the financial year that ends Friday will be larger than the $4.2 billion forecast in the budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will say on Wednesday. In a speech to be delivered in Darwin, Chalmers says the government had ... <a title="This year’s surplus will be bigger than the $4.2 billion projected at budget time: Chalmers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/28/this-years-surplus-will-be-bigger-than-the-4-2-billion-projected-at-budget-time-chalmers-208585/" aria-label="Read more about This year’s surplus will be bigger than the $4.2 billion projected at budget time: Chalmers">Read more</a>
