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February 3, 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 National Party Henry Cooke (Stuff): Simon Bridges chooses scorched earth approach that will be the end of him or Winston Peters Jane Patterson (RNZ): Why the Nats had to rule out NZ First ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 03 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/03/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-03-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 03 2020">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leanne Wiseman, Professor of Law, Griffith University, Associate Director Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA), Griffith University Australians are buying more and and more gadgets and devices. Our homes and workplaces seemed to be filled with smart phones, drones, Fitbits, internet- connected fridges, air-conditioners that ... <a title="US and EU laws show Australia’s Right to Repair moment is well overdue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/03/us-and-eu-laws-show-australias-right-to-repair-moment-is-well-overdue-127323/" aria-label="Read more about US and EU laws show Australia’s Right to Repair moment is well overdue">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Iain White, Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato Politicians in many countries around the world claim to be experiencing a “housing crisis”. But how do they define it, who is affected, and what is the cause? These are critical questions. Exploring them can help us understand ... <a title="Housing crisis? What crisis? How politicians talk about housing and why it matters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/03/housing-crisis-what-crisis-how-politicians-talk-about-housing-and-why-it-matters-128861/" aria-label="Read more about Housing crisis? What crisis? How politicians talk about housing and why it matters">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute A key question for the government’s retirement incomes review is who ultimately pays for compulsory super contributions, especially since they are set to climb from 9.5% of wages to 12% over the next five years. Legally, they come from ... <a title="Think superannuation comes from employers’ pockets? It comes from yours" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/03/think-superannuation-comes-from-employers-pockets-it-comes-from-yours-130797/" aria-label="Read more about Think superannuation comes from employers’ pockets? It comes from yours">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darren Paul Fisher, Head of Directing, Department of Film, Screen and Creative Media, Bond University You’ve seen the Game of Thrones scene with Jon and Daenerys where somehow a Starbucks coffee cup made it into the frame? Or maybe the one in Star Wars where the Stormtrooper ... <a title="How script supervisors keep film continuity – and coffee cups and cigarettes – in check" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/03/how-script-supervisors-keep-film-continuity-and-coffee-cups-and-cigarettes-in-check-127911/" aria-label="Read more about How script supervisors keep film continuity – and coffee cups and cigarettes – in check">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Agriculture Minister and Nationals deputy leader Bridget McKenzie has finally fallen on her sword, after intense pressure on her to limit the government’s damage from the sports rorts affair ahead of parliament resuming this week. But McKenzie has been pushed ... <a title="View from The Hill: Bridget McKenzie falls – but for the lesser of her political sins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/02/view-from-the-hill-bridget-mckenzie-falls-but-for-the-lesser-of-her-political-sins-131011/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Bridget McKenzie falls – but for the lesser of her political sins">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2020
By RNZ News A man has died of the Wuhan coronavirus outside China, and any foreign travellers who leave from or transit through China will be refused entry to New Zealand from tomorrow. A 44-year-old Chinese man from the city of Wuhan, where the new coronavirus was first detected, died today in hospital in the ... <a title="NZ to shut out foreign travellers from China – first death outside mainland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/02/nz-to-shut-out-foreign-travellers-from-china-first-death-outside-mainland/" aria-label="Read more about NZ to shut out foreign travellers from China – first death outside mainland">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University The sports rorts scandal has evoked in some commentators considerable nostalgia. There was a time, we are assured, when politics was governed by genuine integrity. Andrew Peacock offered John Gorton his resignation ... <a title="Remembrance of rorts past: why the McKenzie scandal might not count for a hill of beans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/02/remembrance-of-rorts-past-why-the-mckenzie-scandal-might-not-count-for-a-hill-of-beans-130793/" aria-label="Read more about Remembrance of rorts past: why the McKenzie scandal might not count for a hill of beans">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2020
By Denis Muller in Melbourne In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation’s editorial team in Australia was henceforth taking what he called a “zero-tolerance” approach to climate change deniers and sceptics. Their comments would be blocked and their accounts locked. His reasons were succinct: Climate change deniers and those ... <a title="Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change ethically misguided and dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/02/media-impartiality-on-climate-change-ethically-misguided-and-dangerous/" aria-label="Read more about Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change ethically misguided and dangerous">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2020
By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta Mongabay environmental editor Phil Jacobson was deported from Indonesia last evening, flying from Jakarta to New York after he was ordered not to leave Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, for 45 days. It is tragic that an American environmentalist who dedicated his energies to protecting Indonesia’s rain forests and indigenous people ... <a title="Andreas Harsono: Jakarta punishes journalists – leaves them in limbo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/01/andreas-harsono-jakarta-punishes-journalists-leaves-them-in-limbo/" aria-label="Read more about Andreas Harsono: Jakarta punishes journalists – leaves them in limbo">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2020
By RNZ News A New Zealand district councillor says he has been bombarded with racist messages since he spoke out about racism towards Asian people after the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. The illness has killed hundreds and sickened thousands since it emerged in China this month. In South Korea and Vietnam, businesses have put ... <a title="Coronavirus: NZ local councillor ‘bombarded’ with racist messages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/01/coronavirus-nz-local-councillor-bombarded-with-racist-messages/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus: NZ local councillor ‘bombarded’ with racist messages">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Hooker, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney Every disease outbreak brings an accompanying outbreak of fear. Already we’re seeing coverage on the spread of coronavirus fear which leads to misinformation, an effect on the economy and, perhaps the most alarming, xenophobia ... <a title="Coronavirus fears can trigger anti-Chinese prejudice. Here’s how schools can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/31/coronavirus-fears-can-trigger-anti-chinese-prejudice-heres-how-schools-can-help-130945/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus fears can trigger anti-Chinese prejudice. Here’s how schools can help">Read more</a>
