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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Batty, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In a new series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page and screen. Set against the political backdrop of Australia’s refugee policy and the ... <a title="Inside the story: The Merger – a sports film as a vehicle for social change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/inside-the-story-the-merger-a-sports-film-as-a-vehicle-for-social-change-115702/" aria-label="Read more about Inside the story: The Merger – a sports film as a vehicle for social change">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alfio Leotta, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington The ocean rushes below as suddenly the LOUDSPEAKERS BLARE out Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries. So reads the screenplay for the 1979 war movie Apocalypse Now. It describes the sequence in which a squadron of American helicopters blasts Wagner ... <a title="Apocalypse Now turns 40: rediscovering the genesis of a film classic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/apocalypse-now-turns-40-rediscovering-the-genesis-of-a-film-classic-113448/" aria-label="Read more about Apocalypse Now turns 40: rediscovering the genesis of a film classic">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Tasmania political science professor, Richard Eccleston, says a lack of a coherent energy policy could count against the Coalition in the island state. “The party which seems to offer the more compelling commitment to climate change and renewable ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Richard Eccleston on the electoral mood in Tasmania" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/06/politics-with-michelle-grattan-richard-eccleston-on-the-electoral-mood-in-tasmania-116613/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Richard Eccleston on the electoral mood in Tasmania">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Commemorations have been held in New Caledonia over the weekend to mark the 30th anniversary of the assassination of the pro-independence leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou and his deputy on 4 May 1989. Tjibaou, leader of the pro-indeoendence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), was killed along with Yeiwéné Yeiwéné. The two Kanak ... <a title="Assassination of Kanak leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou marked 30 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/06/assassination-of-kanak-leader-jean-marie-tjibaou-marked-30-years-on/" aria-label="Read more about Assassination of Kanak leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou marked 30 years on">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The role of the media in elections and democracy was a celebrated theme on World Press Freedom Day on Friday with multiple events and talks held throughout the Pacific. In a statement on the day, Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) president Kora Nou said that a free media was the “backbone ... <a title="Media celebrated as ‘backbone of democracy’ in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/06/media-celebrated-as-backbone-of-democracy-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Media celebrated as ‘backbone of democracy’ in Pacific">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2019
Politically powerful South Auckland Councillor Daniel Newman has labelled Auckland Mayor Phil Goff’s promise to review the city’s Council Controlled Organisations as ‘Not good enough!’ Newman insists some of the CCOs be axed as they are “not fit for purpose”. Auckland Council is split into two significant blocks, referred to as Goff’s A-team and his ... <a title="‘Not good enough!’ Auckland Councillor Daniel Newman Slams Mayor Goff’s CCO Review" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/06/south-auckland-councillor-daniel-newman-labels-mayor-goffs-cco-review-promise-as-not-good-enough/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Not good enough!’ Auckland Councillor Daniel Newman Slams Mayor Goff’s CCO Review">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling Here’s an astonishingly large number. Around 900 million Indians are heading to the polls to decide if they want to reelect the current government of Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). India Tomorrow is a seven-part podcast ... <a title="India election 2019: millions of Indian youth are underemployed and going to the polls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/06/india-election-2019-millions-of-indian-youth-are-underemployed-and-going-to-the-polls-113563/" aria-label="Read more about India election 2019: millions of Indian youth are underemployed and going to the polls">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2019
by Dr Bryce Edwards Have the political left and supporters of the Labour-led Government been conned again? Big changes were promised in welfare reform, but with the response to the just-released working group report on the welfare system, it looks like very little is actually going to be delivered. Of course, the left has already ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Expediency rather than transformation on welfare reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/06/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-expediency-rather-than-transformation-on-welfare-reform/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Expediency rather than transformation on welfare reform">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary Sacks, Associate Professor, Deakin University Last week Labor pledged to consider serious steps to improve Australian diets and tackle our obesity epidemic. This would form part of a A$115.6 million plan from the Opposition to address preventable illness. This is the first time one of the ... <a title="Labor’s election pledge to improve Australian diets is a first – now we need action, not just ‘consideration’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/06/labors-election-pledge-to-improve-australian-diets-is-a-first-now-we-need-action-not-just-consideration-116425/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s election pledge to improve Australian diets is a first – now we need action, not just ‘consideration’">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hamilton, PhD Candidate in Zoology, University of Tasmania Tasmanian devils have a reputation as a fearsome animal – most of the time this is undeserved. When it comes to the mating season, however, it’s a fair judgement. Between February and April, mating can be incredibly aggressive, ... <a title="Sexual aggression key to spread of deadly tumours in Tasmanian devils" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/06/sexual-aggression-key-to-spread-of-deadly-tumours-in-tasmanian-devils-116271/" aria-label="Read more about Sexual aggression key to spread of deadly tumours in Tasmanian devils">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2019
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 06 2019 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 Welfare Tim Watkin (Pundit): Another chance to be transformational rejected… Labour’s cautious welfare response Sue Bradford (Spinoff): No hope for progressive welfare reform from ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 06 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-06-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 06 2019">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Narelle Miragliotta, Senior Lecturer in Australian Politics, Monash University The Greens are not expected to be the beneficiaries of a supposed surge in support for minor parties and independent candidates at this election. Since June 2017, Newspoll has rarely recorded the Greens’ primary vote much above 10%. ... <a title="Greens on track for stability, rather than growth, this election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/06/greens-on-track-for-stability-rather-than-growth-this-election-116295/" aria-label="Read more about Greens on track for stability, rather than growth, this election">Read more</a>
