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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The Morrison government’s changes to welfare payments were among its most significant responses to the coronavirus crisis. In April, the new Coronavirus Supplement roughly doubled the level of benefits for unemployed people on the JobSeeker Payment ... <a title="When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/when-the-coronavirus-supplement-stops-jobseeker-needs-to-increase-by-185-a-week-138417/" aria-label="Read more about When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Chesters, Senior Lecturer/ Research Fellow, University of Melbourne It is well-established that recessions hit young people the hardest. We saw it in our early 1980s recession, our early 1990s recession, and in the one we are now entering. The latest payroll data shows that for most ... <a title="Recessions scar young people their entire lives, even into retirement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/recessions-scar-young-people-their-entire-lives-even-into-retirement-137236/" aria-label="Read more about Recessions scar young people their entire lives, even into retirement">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University While discontent at the federal government’s lack of support for the cultural sector during the coronavirus epidemic continues to grow, the few people still in jobs are readying for the optimistically termed “recovery period”. Physical access to arts events ... <a title="Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul together" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/home-of-the-arts-inside-an-arts-centre-keeping-body-and-soul-together-138801/" aria-label="Read more about Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul together">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ipek Kurtböke, Senior Lecturer, Environmental Microbiology, University of the Sunshine Coast Qantas has unveiled a range of precautions to guard passengers against COVID-19. The safety measures expected to be rolled out on June 12 include contactless check-in, hand sanitiser at departure gates, and optional masks and sanitising ... <a title="Plane cabins are havens for germs. Here’s how they can clean up their act" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/plane-cabins-are-havens-for-germs-heres-how-they-can-clean-up-their-act-134552/" aria-label="Read more about Plane cabins are havens for germs. Here’s how they can clean up their act">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2020
By RNZ Pacific The governor of Papua New Guinea’s West Sepik province says people are still defying the official border closure and crossing into Indonesia. Vanimo, the capital of PNG’s West Sepik province, a gateway into Indonesia’s Papua Province and its capital Jayapura Papua New Guinea closed its border with the neighbouring country three months ... <a title="People still slipping across Indonesian border, says PNG governor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/20/people-still-slipping-across-indonesian-border-says-png-governor/" aria-label="Read more about People still slipping across Indonesian border, says PNG governor">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mahmoud Elkhodr, Lecturer in Information and Communication Technologies, CQUniversity Australia New Zealanders finally have access to the government’s new tracing app to help people monitor their movements as lockdown continues to ease. As businesses can now open, the NZ COVID Tracer app allows people to keep a ... <a title="New Zealand’s COVID-19 Tracer app won’t help open a ‘travel bubble’ with Australia anytime soon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/20/new-zealands-covid-19-tracer-app-wont-help-open-a-travel-bubble-with-australia-anytime-soon-139026/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s COVID-19 Tracer app won’t help open a ‘travel bubble’ with Australia anytime soon">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Labor will campaign on the flaws in the JobKeeper program in the Eden-Monaro byelection, shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers says. “There will be so many people from Eden-Monaro who would have heard the Prime Minister say that there would be wage ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on JobKeeper’s flaws and the Eden-Monaro byelection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/20/politics-with-michelle-grattan-jim-chalmers-on-jobkeepers-flaws-and-the-eden-monaro-byelection-139035/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on JobKeeper’s flaws and the Eden-Monaro byelection">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jill Newby, Associate Professor and MRFF Career Development Fellow, UNSW As we’re slowly moving out of lockdown, many Australians will be feeling anxious about going outside, away from the safety of home, and returning to normal life. For most people, these coronavirus fears will be temporary. But ... <a title="7 ways to manage your #coronaphobia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/20/7-ways-to-manage-your-coronaphobia-138120/" aria-label="Read more about 7 ways to manage your #coronaphobia">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Jotzo, Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University The intricacies of climate change policy have not been front of mind for the Australian government this last half year, but the issue is now back on the agenda. Yesterday a review chaired by energy ... <a title="Morrison government dangles new carrots for industry but fails to fix bigger climate policy problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/20/morrison-government-dangles-new-carrots-for-industry-but-fails-to-fix-bigger-climate-policy-problem-138940/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison government dangles new carrots for industry but fails to fix bigger climate policy problem">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Kamradt-Scott, Associate professor, University of Sydney Only once before has the World Health Organisation held its annual World Health Assembly during a pandemic. The last time it happened, in 2009, the influenza pandemic was only in its first weeks – with far fewer deaths than the ... <a title="The world agreed to a coronavirus inquiry. Just when and how, though, are still in dispute" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/20/the-world-agreed-to-a-coronavirus-inquiry-just-when-and-how-though-are-still-in-dispute-138868/" aria-label="Read more about The world agreed to a coronavirus inquiry. Just when and how, though, are still in dispute">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2020
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS News The federal government has lodged an appeal to overturn a Federal Court decision recognising the Australian citizenship of a man born in pre-independence Papua New Guinea. Troyzone Zen Lee won a four-year battle with the federal government last month after being told in 2016 he was not an Australian ... <a title="Canberra appeals court ruling that PNG-born man is Australian" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/20/canberra-appeals-court-ruling-that-png-born-man-is-australian/" aria-label="Read more about Canberra appeals court ruling that PNG-born man is Australian">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The Commentariat There is a regular commentariat who appear on places such as ‘The Panel’ on Radio New Zealand (4pm on weekdays), and on panels on television shows such as Newshub Nation (TV3, weekends) and Q+A (TV1, Mondays). Generally, these panellists come out in favour of targeted assistance to the misfortunate, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Universal versus Targeted Assistance, a Muddled Dichotomy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/20/keith-rankin-analysis-universal-versus-targeted-assistance-a-muddled-dichotomy/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Universal versus Targeted Assistance, a Muddled Dichotomy">Read more</a>
