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February 20, 2020
Is the National Party off the hook over the Serious Fraud Office donations prosecution? That’s what the party is claiming, pointing out that no National official or MP has been charged. But of course, there was a National MP involved – albeit one no longer with the party – and he is being prosecuted. In ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s embarrassing donation scandal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/20/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nationals-embarrassing-donation-scandal/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s embarrassing donation scandal">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Donation scandals Bryce Edwards (Guardian): Vested interests in New Zealand politics are too big to ignore – we need a Royal Commission Richard Harman (Politik): Parties likely to have to wait till ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 20 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/20/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-20-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 20 2020">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Piccini, Lecturer, Australian Catholic University Australia has just entered its final year of its membership on the UN Human Rights Council. This position was won on the strength of two key arguments: Australia would be the first Pacific nation to sit on the body, founded in ... <a title="For Australia to be respected on human rights, it needs to look deeper into its own record" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/20/for-australia-to-be-respected-on-human-rights-it-needs-to-look-deeper-into-its-own-record-129550/" aria-label="Read more about For Australia to be respected on human rights, it needs to look deeper into its own record">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2020
By Rambo Talabong in Manila The top lawyer of the Philippine Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) who was a controversial witness in Senate hearings on the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) controversy has been shot dead. According to the police report, lawyer Fredric Santos was gunned down yesterday afternoon by two unidentified suspects in front of ... <a title="Philippine legal chief in Senate probe shot dead in front of daughter’s school" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/20/philippine-legal-chief-in-senate-probe-shot-dead-in-front-of-daughters-school/" aria-label="Read more about Philippine legal chief in Senate probe shot dead in front of daughter’s school">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rowan Callick, Industry Fellow, Griffith University Brand “People’s Republic of China” is wobbling, as if the massive picture of Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square was swaying with an earthquake tremor. But it can only actually fall if pushed from inside. The handling of the coronavirus epidemic is ... <a title="How vulnerable is Xi Jinping over coronavirus? In today’s China, there are few to hold him to account" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/20/how-vulnerable-is-xi-jinping-over-coronavirus-in-todays-china-there-are-few-to-hold-him-to-account-131760/" aria-label="Read more about How vulnerable is Xi Jinping over coronavirus? In today’s China, there are few to hold him to account">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Waling, Research fellow, La Trobe University Older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI+) people fear discrimination, exclusion and isolation in Australia’s aged care services, we found in our research. With an ageing cohort of LGBTI+ people needing to access, and currently using, Australia’s aged care ... <a title="‘I will euthanise myself before I go into aged care’: how aged care is failing LGBTI+ people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/20/i-will-euthanise-myself-before-i-go-into-aged-care-how-aged-care-is-failing-lgbti-people-131306/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I will euthanise myself before I go into aged care’: how aged care is failing LGBTI+ people">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Tolhurst, Hon. Assoc. Prof., Fire Ecology and Management, University of Melbourne When it comes to reducing the extent of bushfires, scientists disagree on the best way to do it. Hazard-reduction burning (also known as “prescribed burning” or “controlled burning”) is controversial and, depending on the scientific ... <a title="The burn legacy: why the science on hazard reduction is contested" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/20/the-burn-legacy-why-the-science-on-hazard-reduction-is-contested-132083/" aria-label="Read more about The burn legacy: why the science on hazard reduction is contested">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Stanley, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney We were heavily involved in the consultation program for Melbourne’s long-term land-use plan, Plan Melbourne. The idea that resonated most with many participants was shaping the city as a ... <a title="People love the idea of 20-minute neighbourhoods. So why isn’t it top of the agenda?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/20/people-love-the-idea-of-20-minute-neighbourhoods-so-why-isnt-it-top-of-the-agenda-131193/" aria-label="Read more about People love the idea of 20-minute neighbourhoods. So why isn’t it top of the agenda?">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dr Michael X. Savvas, Senior Lecturer in the Transition Office (PhD in Creative Writing), Flinders University A recent project to encourage South Australian prisoners to write provides insights into how prisoners may benefit from written expression. The project, Life Sentences, gave more than 70 contributors professional feedback, ... <a title="Life sentences – what creative writing by prisoners tells us about the inside" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/20/life-sentences-what-creative-writing-by-prisoners-tells-us-about-the-inside-130783/" aria-label="Read more about Life sentences – what creative writing by prisoners tells us about the inside">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wallace Boone Law, PhD Candidate, University of Adelaide On the night of January 9 2020, my wife and I secured our Kangaroo Island home and anxiously monitored the South Australian Country Fire Service (CFS) website for bushfire advice. After many horrific weeks of bushfires, the winds had ... <a title="I made bushfire maps from satellite data, and found a glaring gap in Australia’s preparedness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/20/i-made-bushfire-maps-from-satellite-data-and-found-a-glaring-gap-in-australias-preparedness-132087/" aria-label="Read more about I made bushfire maps from satellite data, and found a glaring gap in Australia’s preparedness">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Larissa Christensen, Lecturer in Criminology & Justice | Co-leader of the Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit (SVRPU), University of the Sunshine Coast This week’s ABC’s Four Corners exposed an elite Melbourne school for failing to adequately respond to the grooming of a student by a former ... <a title="Grooming: what parents should know and what schools should do if they suspect it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/19/grooming-what-parents-should-know-and-what-schools-should-do-if-they-suspect-it-131993/" aria-label="Read more about Grooming: what parents should know and what schools should do if they suspect it">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trish Luker, Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains the names and voices of deceased people. When was the last time you signed your name? Perhaps you are more familiar with the frustrations of trying to insert ... <a title="Indigenous pain and protest written in the history of signatures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/19/indigenous-pain-and-protest-written-in-the-history-of-signatures-130458/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous pain and protest written in the history of signatures">Read more</a>
