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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Breunig, Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University How would you feel if you were having a Zoom meeting with your accountant and they asked “how would you like to save more than $5,000 in ... <a title="The government opens a coronavirus super loophole: it’s legal to put your money in, take it out, and save on tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/the-government-opens-a-coronavirus-super-loophole-its-legal-to-put-your-money-in-take-it-out-and-save-on-tax-135306/" aria-label="Read more about The government opens a coronavirus super loophole: it’s legal to put your money in, take it out, and save on tax">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Editor’s note: this is an edited version of a paper written in late March to outline the rationale for a short, sharp lockdown. The full version is below. The COVID-19 ... <a title="Regaining control: the case for a short, sharp lockdown (rather than the slow trickle we’ve had so far)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/regaining-control-the-case-for-a-short-sharp-lockdown-rather-than-the-slow-trickle-weve-had-so-far-135203/" aria-label="Read more about Regaining control: the case for a short, sharp lockdown (rather than the slow trickle we’ve had so far)">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie Collins, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University To the young and healthy, our new “social distancing” rules may look unnecessarily draconian. If you’re in a demographic that’s low risk for coronavirus, it may be difficult to see the benefit of taking personal responsibility for social ... <a title="Are you complicit in deaths if you don’t stay home? How to do good during the virus lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/are-you-complicit-in-deaths-if-you-dont-stay-home-how-to-do-good-during-the-virus-lockdown-134147/" aria-label="Read more about Are you complicit in deaths if you don’t stay home? How to do good during the virus lockdown">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dr Mette Hotker, Lecturer in Social Planning, RMIT University Most Australians know you never end up winning on the pokies. What Australians might not know is that the odds of winning a case against a poker-machine proposal in their local neighbourhood are very poor too. My recent ... <a title="Most community bids to block pokies fail – the law is stacked against them too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/most-community-bids-to-block-pokies-fail-the-law-is-stacked-against-them-too-132876/" aria-label="Read more about Most community bids to block pokies fail – the law is stacked against them too">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Jeffrey, Director and CEO of the Australia India Institute; Professor of Development Geography, University of Melbourne Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown for India’s 1.3 billion people. With just four hours’ notice, the government instructed everyone to remain in their homes, banned ... <a title="‘How will we eat’? India’s coronavirus lockdown threatens millions with severe hardship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/how-will-we-eat-indias-coronavirus-lockdown-threatens-millions-with-severe-hardship-135193/" aria-label="Read more about ‘How will we eat’? India’s coronavirus lockdown threatens millions with severe hardship">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Kearnes, Professor, Environment & Society, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW Public health messages about COVID-19 have been inconsistent and changed rapidly. Many have called for a unified source of expertise to guide responses to the crisis. However, with the federal, state and local governments, as ... <a title="We should listen to coronavirus experts, but local wisdom counts too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/we-should-listen-to-coronavirus-experts-but-local-wisdom-counts-too-134034/" aria-label="Read more about We should listen to coronavirus experts, but local wisdom counts too">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
OPINION: By Laurens Ikinia A sad story has taken place again in the PT Freeport Indonesia gold and copper mine area near Timika in West Papua on Monday with one New Zealander shot dead and seven other workers being severely wounded as reported by Asia Pacific Report yesterday. As one of the West Papuan students ... <a title="Freeport shooting: A sad tragedy, but don’t overlook past Papua repression" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/freeport-shooting-a-sad-tragedy-but-dont-overlook-past-papua-repression/" aria-label="Read more about Freeport shooting: A sad tragedy, but don’t overlook past Papua repression">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Arindam Basu of the University of Canterbury The number of New Zealanders testing positive for Covid-19 will continue to rise despite the strict conditions of the four-week lockdown that began last week. As of today, there are 647 cases in New Zealand, up from 39 recorded just over a week ago, and just over ... <a title="Why NZ’s coronavirus cases will rise for weeks – even in level 4 lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/why-nzs-coronavirus-cases-will-rise-for-weeks-even-in-level-4-lockdown/" aria-label="Read more about Why NZ’s coronavirus cases will rise for weeks – even in level 4 lockdown">Read more</a>
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April 1, 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 Public health strategy Derek Cheng (Herald): Lockdown ‘not enough’, top professor tells Govt video conference Derek Cheng (Herald): Just when you thought the Opposition had become irrelevant (paywalled) James Fyfe (Newshub): Sir David Skegg urges ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 01 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-01-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 01 2020">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Gearing, Journalist, author, broadcaster, Queensland University of Technology I’m trying to work out what to do before I end up in a body bag but that seems unavoidable right now. This was one of the first replies this month to my research questionnaire on domestic violence. ... <a title="Coronavirus and ‘domestic terrorism’: how to stop family violence under lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/coronavirus-and-domestic-terrorism-how-to-stop-family-violence-under-lockdown-135056/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus and ‘domestic terrorism’: how to stop family violence under lockdown">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, University of Melbourne Tree kangaroos are so unusual that when Europeans first encountered them in Australia in 1872, they were sceptical. Who would believe a kangaroo could climb a tree? But the ... <a title="Meet Chimbu, the blue-eyed, bear-eared tree kangaroo. Your cuppa can help save his species" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/meet-chimbu-the-blue-eyed-bear-eared-tree-kangaroo-your-cuppa-can-help-save-his-species-135033/" aria-label="Read more about Meet Chimbu, the blue-eyed, bear-eared tree kangaroo. Your cuppa can help save his species">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Zaphir, Researcher for the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland With the COVID-19 pandemic causing a great deal of anxiety, we might come to think people are irrational, selfish or downright crazy. We see people showing up to public venues en masse ... <a title="How not to fall for coronavirus BS: avoid the 7 deadly sins of thought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/how-not-to-fall-for-coronavirus-bs-avoid-the-7-deadly-sins-of-thought-133069/" aria-label="Read more about How not to fall for coronavirus BS: avoid the 7 deadly sins of thought">Read more</a>
