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September 20, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin., Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Newstart recipients and other Australians on benefits get their half-yearly pay rise today (and also on March 20). This one is vanishingly small. Announced very quietly by Social Services Minister Anne Ruston earlier this week, ... <a title="It’s Newstart pay rise day. You’re in line for 24 cents, which is peanuts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/20/its-newstart-pay-rise-day-youre-in-line-for-24-cents-which-is-peanuts-123856/" aria-label="Read more about It’s Newstart pay rise day. You’re in line for 24 cents, which is peanuts">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warren Hogan, Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney The budget was for practical purposes in neither deficit nor in surplus in 2018-19, the final figures released by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann on Thursday reveal. The underlying cash deficit was just A$690 million, which, ... <a title="The big budget question is why the surplus wasn’t big" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/20/the-big-budget-question-is-why-the-surplus-wasnt-big-123689/" aria-label="Read more about The big budget question is why the surplus wasn’t big">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW This week NBN Co announced pricing changes for the National Broadband Network. It includes a new plan boasting a download speed of 1 gigabit per second and an upload speed of 50 megabits per second for $80 a month. These are ... <a title="Vital Signs: NBN’s new price plans are too little, too late" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/20/vital-signs-nbns-new-price-plans-are-too-little-too-late-123750/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: NBN’s new price plans are too little, too late">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin John Brophy, Emeritus Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne Friendship is an incomparable, immeasurable boon to me, and a source of life — not metaphorically but literally. -Simone Weil About eight years ago, I went to dinner with a dear friend I had known for ... <a title="Friday essay: on the ending of a friendship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/20/friday-essay-on-the-ending-of-a-friendship-121627/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: on the ending of a friendship">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra John Howard is remembered by his Liberal tribe as a reformer, but his legacy is mixed. The GST has endured but he essentially doomed his government when he let his ideological obsession with industrial relations run away with him. The ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Morrison government solid on industrial relations reform but bootlicks One Nation on family law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/19/grattan-on-friday-morrison-government-solid-on-industrial-relations-reform-but-bootlicks-one-nation-on-family-law-123880/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Morrison government solid on industrial relations reform but bootlicks One Nation on family law">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Hanna, Honorary Senior Fellow, Australian National University This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Global warming is accelerating, driven by the continuing rise in greenhouse gas emissions. Australia’s climate ... <a title="How rising temperatures affect our health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/19/how-rising-temperatures-affect-our-health-123016/" aria-label="Read more about How rising temperatures affect our health">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Anne Kenny, Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University Today, the Sri Lankan family who had resettled in the small town of Biloela in Queensland was given a last-minute reprieve in their fight to stay in Australia. A federal court judge ruled the family had established ... <a title="How the Biloela Tamil family deportation case highlights the failures of our refugee system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/19/how-the-biloela-tamil-family-deportation-case-highlights-the-failures-of-our-refugee-system-123685/" aria-label="Read more about How the Biloela Tamil family deportation case highlights the failures of our refugee system">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sebastien Darchen, Senior Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland The crashing chords of punk echoed through the end of the 70s, heralding the arrival of a diverse bunch of subcultures. In Brisbane, none was more notable than the tribe known as Goth. Just like the punks ... <a title="It’s hot in here: the evolution of Goth subculture in sub-tropical Brisbane" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/19/its-hot-in-here-the-evolution-of-goth-subculture-in-sub-tropical-brisbane-120890/" aria-label="Read more about It’s hot in here: the evolution of Goth subculture in sub-tropical Brisbane">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucas Walsh, Professor, Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies in the Faculty of Education. Latest books with Rosalyn Black include "Imagining Youth Futures: University Students in Post-Truth Times" and "Rethinking Youth Citizenship after the Age of Entitlement", Monash University Senator Jacqui Lambie has proposed establishing a Senate ... <a title="Stop calling young people apathetic. For many, volunteering and activism go hand-in-hand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/19/stop-calling-young-people-apathetic-for-many-volunteering-and-activism-go-hand-in-hand-123754/" aria-label="Read more about Stop calling young people apathetic. For many, volunteering and activism go hand-in-hand">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Dodd, Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne Today on Media Files, a podcast on major themes and issues in the media, we meet Bastian Obermayer, the Pulitizer prize-winning journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into global tax evasion and money laundering. ... <a title="Media Files: investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer, who led the Panama Papers tax exposé" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/19/media-files-investigative-journalist-bastian-obermayer-who-led-the-panama-papers-tax-expose-122643/" aria-label="Read more about Media Files: investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer, who led the Panama Papers tax exposé">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato After nearly two decades of fighting, the death toll in the war in Afghanistan is staggering. Apart from more than 45,000 Afghani soldiers killed since 2014 and 3,576 western coalition soldiers since the beginning of the conflict in 2001, ... <a title="Operation Burnham: inquiry underway to determine any wrongdoing by New Zealand troops in Afghanistan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/19/operation-burnham-inquiry-underway-to-determine-any-wrongdoing-by-new-zealand-troops-in-afghanistan-123438/" aria-label="Read more about Operation Burnham: inquiry underway to determine any wrongdoing by New Zealand troops in Afghanistan">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute Compared to the rest of the world, income inequality is not particularly high in Australia, nor is it getting much worse. The real problem is housing inequality. Rising house prices have increased wealth inequality. Rising housing costs have dramatically ... <a title="Rising inequality in Australia isn’t about incomes: it’s almost all about housing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/19/rising-inequality-in-australia-isnt-about-incomes-its-almost-all-about-housing-119872/" aria-label="Read more about Rising inequality in Australia isn’t about incomes: it’s almost all about housing">Read more</a>
