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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
ANALYSIS: By Albert Schram This article attempts to put the current governance crisis at the Fiji-based University of the South Pacific (USP), one of only two regional universities in the world, in a broader regional perspective. If Pacific regional integration and coordination means anything, then this would be a good moment to demonstrate it values ... <a title="Albert Schram: University governance, academic freedom and institutional autonomy in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/albert-schram-university-governance-academic-freedom-and-institutional-autonomy-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Albert Schram: University governance, academic freedom and institutional autonomy in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Pat Turner, for decades a strong Aboriginal voice, is the lead convenor of the Coalition of Peaks, which brings together about 50 indigenous community peak organisations. In this role she is part of the negotiations for a new agreement on ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Pat Turner on Closing the Justice Gap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/politics-with-michelle-grattan-pat-turner-on-closing-the-justice-gap-140451/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Pat Turner on Closing the Justice Gap">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University While Australians are singing the praises of the front-line workers during the COVID-19 crisis, there is a forgotten front line that has also made personal sacrifices to help us get through the pandemic: ABC ... <a title="Cutting the ABC cuts public trust, a cost no democracy can afford" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/cutting-the-abc-cuts-public-trust-a-cost-no-democracy-can-afford-140438/" aria-label="Read more about Cutting the ABC cuts public trust, a cost no democracy can afford">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Cunneen, Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney Calls to “defund the police” in the wake of the death of George Floyd are leading to immediate proposals to either dismantle police departments or cut their funding in US cities like Minneapolis, New York and Los Angeles. ... <a title="Defunding the police could bring positive change in Australia. These communities are showing the way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/defunding-the-police-could-bring-positive-change-in-australia-these-communities-are-showing-the-way-140333/" aria-label="Read more about Defunding the police could bring positive change in Australia. These communities are showing the way">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lesley Russell, Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney The national cabinet, which was quickly set up to tackle the nation’s threats from the coronavirus pandemic, will now replace the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). For almost 30 years, COAG has been the ... <a title="The national cabinet’s in and COAG’s out. It’s a fresh chance to put health issues on the agenda, but there are risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/the-national-cabinets-in-and-coags-out-its-a-fresh-chance-to-put-health-issues-on-the-agenda-but-there-are-risks-140165/" aria-label="Read more about The national cabinet’s in and COAG’s out. It’s a fresh chance to put health issues on the agenda, but there are risks">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Senior research fellow, Southern Cross University All humans alive today can claim a common ancestral link to some hominin. Hominins include modern humans, extinct human species, and all our immediate ancestors. Recent discoveries of hominin remains, including the skull of a Homo erectus in South ... <a title="Who owns the bones? Human fossils shouldn’t just belong to whoever digs them up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/who-owns-the-bones-human-fossils-shouldnt-just-belong-to-whoever-digs-them-up-140060/" aria-label="Read more about Who owns the bones? Human fossils shouldn’t just belong to whoever digs them up">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lawrence English, Adjunct Lecturer, The University of Queensland Protest has, by default, always been aligned with sound. It is an action concerned with the amplification of a message – wanting to make sure it is heard. Over the past 50 years, protesters’ voices have found power in ... <a title="Voices, hearts and hands – how the powerful sounds of protest have changed over time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/voices-hearts-and-hands-how-the-powerful-sounds-of-protest-have-changed-over-time-140192/" aria-label="Read more about Voices, hearts and hands – how the powerful sounds of protest have changed over time">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch After Australia’s misguided attempts at handing over $17.1 of Australian-made television content to the Pacific region last month with programmes such as Neighbours and Border Control, questions have been asked about a $10 million New Zealand grant made in 2018. At the 2018 Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) meeting ... <a title="NZ’s $10m grant for Pasifika TV channel – MFAT clears the air" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/nzs-10m-grant-for-pasifika-tv-channel-mfat-clears-the-air/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s $10m grant for Pasifika TV channel – MFAT clears the air">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Tolhurst, Hon. Assoc. Prof., Fire Ecology and Management, University of Melbourne Last season’s bushfires directly killed 34 people and devastated more than 8 million hectares of land along the south-eastern fringe of Australia. A further 445 people are estimated to have died from smoke-induced respiratory problems. ... <a title="It’s 12 months since the last bushfire season began, but don’t expect the same this year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/its-12-months-since-the-last-bushfire-season-began-but-dont-expect-the-same-this-year-139757/" aria-label="Read more about It’s 12 months since the last bushfire season began, but don’t expect the same this year">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Baker, Lecturer in Business Strategy, Auckland University of Technology To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it is curious to see The Warehouse Group (TWG) not letting a good crisis go to waste. Despite recently receiving NZ$68 million in government wage subsidies as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, ... <a title="By sacking staff and closing stores, big businesses like The Warehouse could hurt their own long-term interests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/by-sacking-staff-and-closing-stores-big-businesses-like-the-warehouse-could-hurt-their-own-long-term-interests-140420/" aria-label="Read more about By sacking staff and closing stores, big businesses like The Warehouse could hurt their own long-term interests">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Fiji police have raided the headquarters of Fiji’s National Federation Party, apparently in search of information related to social media posts. In a video shared to the party’s social media, it showed several plain clothes officers rifling through files, papers and storage last night. Speaking to RNZ Pacific shortly after the raid, ... <a title="Fiji police raid opposition party headquarters in social media blitz" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/fiji-police-raid-opposition-party-headquarters-in-social-media-blitz/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji police raid opposition party headquarters in social media blitz">Read more</a>
