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May 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Speaker Tony Smith has announced July 4 for the byelection in the Labor NSW seat of Eden-Monaro, which will be the first electoral test between Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese. For health reasons this will coincide with the start of ... <a title="Eden-Monaro byelection to be on July 4" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/eden-monaro-byelection-to-be-on-july-4-139324/" aria-label="Read more about Eden-Monaro byelection to be on July 4">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2020
By RNZ News Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher has purchased Stuff from its Australian owners Nine Entertainment for $1 to return the media company to New Zealand ownership. The sale is expected to be completed by May 31. “Our plan is to transition the ownership of Stuff to give staff a direct stake in the ... <a title="Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher restores NZ ownership for $1" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/stuff-chief-executive-sinead-boucher-restores-nz-ownership-for-1/" aria-label="Read more about Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher restores NZ ownership for $1">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Dawel, Lecturer, Australian National University Many Australians have welcomed the gradual easing of coronavirus restrictions. We can now catch up with friends and family in small numbers, and get out and about a little more than we’ve been able to for a couple of months. All ... <a title="Coronavirus lockdown made many of us anxious. But for some people, returning to ‘normal’ might be scarier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/coronavirus-lockdown-made-many-of-us-anxious-but-for-some-people-returning-to-normal-might-be-scarier-138517/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus lockdown made many of us anxious. But for some people, returning to ‘normal’ might be scarier">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hui Feng, ARC Future Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University Beijing’s recent announcement it would authorise the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress – China’s rubber-stamp parliament – to draft a national security law for Hong Kong caught most off guard. The move sparked renewed ... <a title="China is taking a risk by getting tough on Hong Kong. Now, the US must decide how to respond" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/china-is-taking-a-risk-by-getting-tough-on-hong-kong-now-the-us-must-decide-how-to-respond-139294/" aria-label="Read more about China is taking a risk by getting tough on Hong Kong. Now, the US must decide how to respond">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ann Kayis-Kumar, Senior Lecturer and Tax Clinic Director, School of Taxation & Business Law, UNSW Performers and sole traders find it hard to get JobKeeper in part because they are behind on their paperwork Are sole traders falling through the JobKeeper cracks? JobKeeper is working out awfully ... <a title="Performers and sole traders find it hard to get JobKeeper in part because they get behind on their paperwork" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/performers-and-sole-traders-find-it-hard-to-get-jobkeeper-in-part-because-they-get-behind-on-their-paperwork-137997/" aria-label="Read more about Performers and sole traders find it hard to get JobKeeper in part because they get behind on their paperwork">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Surpluses and Deficits of Different Economic Sectors This new series of weekly charts looks at forty years of surpluses and deficits in different countries, showing what makes these countries tick, and why they were where they were – financially speaking – at the end of the 2010s. (We may note, for ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Financial Signatures: Japan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-financial-signatures-japan/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Financial Signatures: Japan">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland It is low tide at the end of the wet season in Broome, Western Australia. Shorebirds feeding voraciously on worms and clams suddenly get restless. Chattering loudly they take flight, circling up over Roebuck Bay then heading off for ... <a title="Be still, my beating wings: hunters kill migrating birds on their 10,000km journey to Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/be-still-my-beating-wings-hunters-kill-migrating-birds-on-their-10-000km-journey-to-australia-138382/" aria-label="Read more about Be still, my beating wings: hunters kill migrating birds on their 10,000km journey to Australia">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian R. Camilleri, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Technology Sydney The demand for online shopping has obviously increased since COVID-19 restrictions were put in place. But less obvious are the subtle psychological drivers behind our collective online shopping splurge. In fact, online shopping can relieve stress, ... <a title="Can’t resist splurging on online shopping? Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/cant-resist-splurging-on-online-shopping-heres-why-138938/" aria-label="Read more about Can’t resist splurging on online shopping? Here’s why">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2020
By Lokman Tsui in Hongkong This story is an edited version of a post published by the author on Facebook on Friday, May 22, reflecting on the possible consequences of the end of “One Country, two Systems” – a principle written into the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 to safeguard Hong Kong’s political autonomy-following Beijing’s ... <a title="Why Hong Kong isn’t dead yet – ‘It’s not power, it’s political violence’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/why-hong-kong-isnt-dead-yet-its-not-power-its-political-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Why Hong Kong isn’t dead yet – ‘It’s not power, it’s political violence’">Read more</a>
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May 25, 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 leadership change – commentary, analysis Richard Harman (Politik): Adams’ return signals what really lay behind Muller’s campaign John Armstrong (1News): Todd Muller is capable and qualified despite uninspiring opening as National ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 25 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-25-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 25 2020">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian R. Camilleri, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Technology Sydney The demand for online shopping has obviously increased since COVID-19 restrictions were put in place. But less obvious are the subtle psychological drivers behind our collective online shopping splurge. In fact, online shopping can relieve stress, ... <a title="Can’t resist splurging in online shopping? Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/cant-resist-splurging-in-online-shopping-heres-why-138938/" aria-label="Read more about Can’t resist splurging in online shopping? Here’s why">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stan Grant, Vice Chancellors Chair Australian/Indigenous Belonging, Charles Sturt University The Uluru Statement from the Heart offered a new compact with all Australians that would reset our national identity and enhance our political legitimacy. But its poetic vision and pragmatism proved its death knell. Trying to reconcile ... <a title="Three years on from Uluru, we must lift the blindfolds of liberalism to make progress" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/three-years-on-from-uluru-we-must-lift-the-blindfolds-of-liberalism-to-make-progress-138930/" aria-label="Read more about Three years on from Uluru, we must lift the blindfolds of liberalism to make progress">Read more</a>