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August 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Quentin Grafton, Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University In the wake of a damning royal commission and an ABC Four Corners investigation, the federal government has created an Inspector General for the Murray-Darling Basin, to ... <a title="Paddling blind: why we urgently need a water audit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/paddling-blind-why-we-urgently-need-a-water-audit-122118/" aria-label="Read more about Paddling blind: why we urgently need a water audit">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A video of Fiji’s Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama grabbing and shoving an opposition MP has gone viral. The video surfaced last week and shows Bainimarama seizing the coat of National Federation Party member Pio Tikoduadua and giving him a light shove in a car park outside the parliamentary building in Suva. About six ... <a title="Video shows Fiji PM seizing MP, goes viral" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/video-shows-fiji-pm-seizing-mp-goes-viral/" aria-label="Read more about Video shows Fiji PM seizing MP, goes viral">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grahame Dowling, Honorary Professor, University of Technology Sydney One of my banks invited me to a customer lunch a few weeks back so that it could announce its commitment to the new Banking Code of Conduct. Here was a chance for it to say sorry to its ... <a title="Lunch with bankers. Even they’re unimpressed with their new Banking Code of Conduct" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/lunch-with-bankers-even-theyre-unimpressed-with-their-new-banking-code-of-conduct-122036/" aria-label="Read more about Lunch with bankers. Even they’re unimpressed with their new Banking Code of Conduct">Read more</a>
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August 26, 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 by Dr Bryce Edwards. Privacy breach at Ministry for Culture and Heritage Audrey Young (Herald): How latest privacy breach will impact on Jacinda Ardern’s Government (paywalled) Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Ministry for Culture and Heritage ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 26 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-26-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 26 2019">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Evans Bailey, PhD Researcher in Virtual Reality, Auckland University of Technology Immortality has been a topic of discussion since the legend of the Holy Grail. Some people have gone as far as cryogenic freezing after death in the hope that one day science will have advanced ... <a title="The digital human: the cyber version of humanity’s quest for immortality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/the-digital-human-the-cyber-version-of-humanitys-quest-for-immortality-108081/" aria-label="Read more about The digital human: the cyber version of humanity’s quest for immortality">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elyse Methven, Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney As the state election loomed last year, the NSW government rushed through a new crime targeting drug suppliers. A person who supplies a prohibited drug for profit can now be prosecuted for homicide if another person uses the ... <a title="After 2 festival deaths, the NSW government rushed through a new drug homicide crime. But it may do more harm than good" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/after-2-festival-deaths-the-nsw-government-rushed-through-a-new-drug-homicide-crime-but-it-may-do-more-harm-than-good-121876/" aria-label="Read more about After 2 festival deaths, the NSW government rushed through a new drug homicide crime. But it may do more harm than good">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Talbot-Jones, Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington Last week, voter enrolment for the 2019 local government elections closed in New Zealand and concerns about low voter turnout resurfaced. During a panel discussion run by Auckland Council, the idea was raised to pay people to vote to encourage ... <a title="Voter turnout at New Zealand local elections keeps falling, but paying people to vote could backfire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/voter-turnout-at-new-zealand-local-elections-keeps-falling-but-paying-people-to-vote-could-backfire-122040/" aria-label="Read more about Voter turnout at New Zealand local elections keeps falling, but paying people to vote could backfire">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Dunk, Research Fellow, University of Sydney Last week, one of the world’s leading medical journals declared the medical community must act now to limit the health effects of climate change. In a stark editorial, readers of the New England Journal of Medicine were reminded that hospitals, ... <a title="How doctors convinced the world the planet was worth fighting for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/how-doctors-convinced-the-world-the-planet-was-worth-fighting-for-122190/" aria-label="Read more about How doctors convinced the world the planet was worth fighting for">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Goss, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute Australia’s young high achievers are turning their backs on teaching. They want to make a difference in their careers, and they are interested in teaching, but when it comes to the crunch they choose professions with better pay and ... <a title="Better pay and more challenge: here’s how to get our top students to become teachers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/better-pay-and-more-challenge-heres-how-to-get-our-top-students-to-become-teachers-122271/" aria-label="Read more about Better pay and more challenge: here’s how to get our top students to become teachers">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carl Grodach, Professor and Director of Urban Planning & Design, Monash University Since 2000, planning authorities in Australia have overseen a massive rezoning of inner-city industrial land to make way for mixed-use residential development. They claim central industrial space is obsolete in a post-industrial economy driven by ... <a title="Three ways to fix the problems caused by rezoning inner-city industrial land for mixed-use apartments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/three-ways-to-fix-the-problems-caused-by-rezoning-inner-city-industrial-land-for-mixed-use-apartments-121566/" aria-label="Read more about Three ways to fix the problems caused by rezoning inner-city industrial land for mixed-use apartments">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lara Owen, PhD Candidate, Monash University Last week, menstrual pad brand Libra launched their Blood Normal commercial in Australia, running it during prime time television shows including The Bachelor, The Project, and Gogglebox. Australia is a little late to the party: Blood Normal first ran in the ... <a title="Does anyone have a pad? TV is finally dismantling the period taboo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/does-anyone-have-a-pad-tv-is-finally-dismantling-the-period-taboo-122258/" aria-label="Read more about Does anyone have a pad? TV is finally dismantling the period taboo">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2019
ANALYSIS: By David Robie Indonesia’s harsh policies towards West Papua ought to be scrapped. Whatever happened to the brief window of enlightenment ushered in by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in 2015 with promises of a more “open door” policy towards foreign journalists and human rights groups? They were supposed to be seeing for themselves the ... <a title="West Papua’s road to ‘independence’, following the Timorese lead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/25/west-papuas-road-to-independence-following-the-timorese-lead/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua’s road to ‘independence’, following the Timorese lead?">Read more</a>
