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June 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leticia Anderson, Lecturer in Humanities, Southern Cross University As Black Lives Matter protests rage across the world, many of us are motivated to learn more about racism, and talk to our students and children in ways that can facilitate change. Education is a powerful took for creating ... <a title="9 tips teachers can use when talking about racism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/9-tips-teachers-can-use-when-talking-about-racism-140837/" aria-label="Read more about 9 tips teachers can use when talking about racism">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bhavna Middha, Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Local governments across Australia are mandated to consult their residents on urban development issues. They are increasingly using digital platforms to do this. Early findings from our international research project, Democratic Urban Development in the Digital Age, ... <a title="Councils often ignore residents on social media. How can digital platforms ensure they have a say in planning?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/councils-often-ignore-residents-on-social-media-how-can-digital-platforms-ensure-they-have-a-say-in-planning-138609/" aria-label="Read more about Councils often ignore residents on social media. How can digital platforms ensure they have a say in planning?">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Flavio Romero Macau, Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management and Global Logistics, Edith Cowan University Hand-written letters and posted bills are disappearing, and they were vanishing well before the latest slump. Australia Post says between 2007 and 2019 the volume of personally addressed letters more than halved ... <a title="Australia Post can’t turn back. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/australia-post-cant-turn-back-heres-why-140722/" aria-label="Read more about Australia Post can’t turn back. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Thomas Henry Wright, Associate Professor, Nagoya University Since lockdown, everyone has had to rely heavily on digital technologies: be it Zoom work meetings and lengthy email chains, gaming and streaming services for entertainment, or social media platforms to organise everything from groceries to protests. Human existence ... <a title="Finding beauty in code – 5 ways digital poetry combines human and computer languages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/finding-beauty-in-code-5-ways-digital-poetry-combines-human-and-computer-languages-140344/" aria-label="Read more about Finding beauty in code – 5 ways digital poetry combines human and computer languages">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the up to six years in jail sentence that Philippine journalist Maria Ressa faces on a criminal libel charge in a “shocking judicial masquerade” in Manila yesterday. It called on the country’s justice system to recover a “semblance of credibility” by overturning her conviction on appeal, ... <a title="RSF brands Maria Ressa’s conviction as ‘masquerade’ amid global criticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/rsf-brands-maria-ressas-conviction-as-masquerade-amid-global-criticism/" aria-label="Read more about RSF brands Maria Ressa’s conviction as ‘masquerade’ amid global criticism">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Foreign Minister Marise Payne has attacked China’s “disinformation” about racism in this country and committed Australia to a more activist role in pressing for reform of multilateral institutions, including the World Health Organisation. In a Tuesday night speech titled “Australia ... <a title="Foreign Minister Payne pledges continued fight against Chinese ‘disinformation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/foreign-minister-payne-pledges-continued-fight-against-chinese-disinformation-140874/" aria-label="Read more about Foreign Minister Payne pledges continued fight against Chinese ‘disinformation’">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The ALP national executive has decided on sweeping federal intervention into the crisis-ridden Victorian ALP, in the wake of revelations of the alleged “industrial scale” branch stacking and threats by now former state minister and power broker Adem Somyurek. Former ... <a title="Steve Bracks and Jenny Macklin installed to run crisis-ridden Victorian ALP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/steve-bracks-and-jenny-macklin-installed-to-run-crisis-ridden-victorian-alp-140858/" aria-label="Read more about Steve Bracks and Jenny Macklin installed to run crisis-ridden Victorian ALP">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shaun Hendy, Professor of Physics, University of Auckland New Zealand is one of a handful of countries where community transmission of COVID-19 has been eliminated. But with two new cases announced today (June 16), we have learned that elimination is not the end – rather, it’s the ... <a title="2 new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, but elimination of community transmission still stands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/2-new-covid-19-cases-in-new-zealand-but-elimination-of-community-transmission-still-stands-140843/" aria-label="Read more about 2 new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, but elimination of community transmission still stands">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
By RNZ News Two new cases of covid-19 in New Zealand were women aged in their 30s and 40s who visited a dying parent in Wellington under compassionate grounds, says Dr Ashley Bloomfield says. In a statement released today, the Ministry of Health said the two new cases were related to the border as a ... <a title="Two new covid-19 cases in NZ visited dying parent, says Bloomfield" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/two-new-covid-19-cases-in-nz-visited-dying-parent-says-bloomfield/" aria-label="Read more about Two new covid-19 cases in NZ visited dying parent, says Bloomfield">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, Discipline of Linguistics, University of Western Australia Aboriginal English is spoken by an estimated 80% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and is the first and only language spoken by many Aboriginal children. There are similarities between ... <a title="10 ways Aboriginal Australians made English their own" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/10-ways-aboriginal-australians-made-english-their-own-128219/" aria-label="Read more about 10 ways Aboriginal Australians made English their own">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Foreign lives matter, especially (but by no means only) when they are our foreigners. As intimated on 15 March 2019, our foreigners include all non New Zealand citizens in New Zealand, at a given point in time (the ‘present’). And our foreigners include all non New Zealand citizens normally resident in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Foreign Lives Matter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/keith-rankin-analysis-foreign-lives-matter/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Foreign Lives Matter">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Val Hooper, Associate Professor, and Head of the School of Marketing and International Business, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s novel 1984 will relate to the menace of Big Brother watching their every keystroke and mouse click. For a growing ... <a title="A question of trust: should bosses be able to spy on workers, even when they work from home?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/a-question-of-trust-should-bosses-be-able-to-spy-on-workers-even-when-they-work-from-home-140623/" aria-label="Read more about A question of trust: should bosses be able to spy on workers, even when they work from home?">Read more</a>
