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Month: March 2021

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Hard bump ahead? Decline in insolvencies and bankruptcies is a ticking time bomb

March 11, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Davis, Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne The vast arsenal of fiscal, monetary and legal measures used by Australian governments to offset the COVID-induced economic crisis have worked well. They did not prevent a recession (defined technically as two quarters of negative GDP growth) ... <a title="Hard bump ahead? Decline in insolvencies and bankruptcies is a ticking time bomb" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/hard-bump-ahead-decline-in-insolvencies-and-bankruptcies-is-a-ticking-time-bomb-155744/" aria-label="Read more about Hard bump ahead? Decline in insolvencies and bankruptcies is a ticking time bomb">Read more</a>

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Zoning isn’t to blame for Australia’s soaring house prices

March 11, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Limb, Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning, Queensland University of Technology Among the many explanations put forward for soaring home prices, one we hear repeatedly is zoning — the regulations that govern the purposes for which land can be used, including how densely people can be ... <a title="Zoning isn’t to blame for Australia’s soaring house prices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/zoning-isnt-to-blame-for-australias-soaring-house-prices-154482/" aria-label="Read more about Zoning isn’t to blame for Australia’s soaring house prices">Read more</a>

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‘Where are you really from?’ The harsh realities of Afro-Aussie life are brought to stage in Black Brass

March 11, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kwadwo Adusei-Asante, Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University Review: Black Brass, written and performed by Mararo Wangai; directed by Matt Edgerton. Performing Lines WA for Perth Festival. The scene opens into a messy music studio, used bottles and pizza boxes littered everywhere. A young man of sub-Saharan African ... <a title="‘Where are you really from?’ The harsh realities of Afro-Aussie life are brought to stage in Black Brass" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/where-are-you-really-from-the-harsh-realities-of-afro-aussie-life-are-brought-to-stage-in-black-brass-156110/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Where are you really from?’ The harsh realities of Afro-Aussie life are brought to stage in Black Brass">Read more</a>

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Dear editor, we have you in our sights for reporting ‘the truth’ on Papua

March 11, 2021

EDITORIAL: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report, the Auckland-based independent news and analysis website, has been increasingly targeted by Indonesian trolls over the past three months, involving a spate of “letters to the editor” and social media attacks. One of the most frequent letter writers, an “Abel Lekahena”, who claims ... <a title="Dear editor, we have you in our sights for reporting ‘the truth’ on Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/dear-editor-we-have-you-in-our-sights-for-reporting-the-truth-on-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Dear editor, we have you in our sights for reporting ‘the truth’ on Papua">Read more</a>

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Morrison government to subsidise holidaymakers in $1.2 billion tourism and aviation package

March 11, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Nearly 800,000 half-price air tickets for travel to and from holiday areas will be provided under a $1.2 billion program to support aviation and tourism, to be announced by the Morrison government on Thursday. The measures are designed to assist ... <a title="Morrison government to subsidise holidaymakers in $1.2 billion tourism and aviation package" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/morrison-government-to-subsidise-holidaymakers-in-1-2-billion-tourism-and-aviation-package-156875/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison government to subsidise holidaymakers in $1.2 billion tourism and aviation package">Read more</a>

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Opioid script changes mean well, but have left some people in chronic pain

March 10, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aili Langford, Bpharm (Hons), PhD Candidate School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney Chronic pain affects about 3.4 million Australians. Internationally, almost one-third of people with chronic non-cancer pain take opioids to manage their condition. In Australia, opioids are among the most frequently ... <a title="Opioid script changes mean well, but have left some people in chronic pain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/opioid-script-changes-mean-well-but-have-left-some-people-in-chronic-pain-156753/" aria-label="Read more about Opioid script changes mean well, but have left some people in chronic pain">Read more</a>

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‘He had hundreds of pictures of me’: tales of sexism from female teachers in elite boys’ schools

March 10, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George Variyan, Lecturer, Monash University Recent allegations of sexual misconduct at parties involving private-school students have exposed the toxic culture in many schools. The ex-schoolgirl who launched the online petition that led to the revelations, Chanel Contos, told the ABC schools needed to address: locker room talk ... <a title="‘He had hundreds of pictures of me’: tales of sexism from female teachers in elite boys’ schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/he-had-hundreds-of-pictures-of-me-tales-of-sexism-from-female-teachers-in-elite-boys-schools-156748/" aria-label="Read more about ‘He had hundreds of pictures of me’: tales of sexism from female teachers in elite boys’ schools">Read more</a>

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Part escape room, part choose-your-own adventure, the whodunit Whistleblower has the audience at its heart

March 10, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leah Mercer, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University Review: Whistleblower, directed by Arielle Gray, Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd and Tim Watts. The Last Great Hunt for Perth Festival. Whistleblower is a cross between a choose-your-own-adventure book and an escape-room experience with a dash of the improv TV-show Thank ... <a title="Part escape room, part choose-your-own adventure, the whodunit Whistleblower has the audience at its heart" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/part-escape-room-part-choose-your-own-adventure-the-whodunit-whistleblower-has-the-audience-at-its-heart-154271/" aria-label="Read more about Part escape room, part choose-your-own adventure, the whodunit Whistleblower has the audience at its heart">Read more</a>

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Suhayra Aden became New Zealand’s problem because of a dubious Australian law that has since been repealed

March 10, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rayner Thwaites, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney New Zealand authorities are still refusing to comment publicly on the likely deportation from Turkey of Suhayra Aden, the former Australian-New Zealand dual citizen alleged by Turkish authorities to be an Islamic State terrorist. But according to ... <a title="Suhayra Aden became New Zealand’s problem because of a dubious Australian law that has since been repealed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/suhayra-aden-became-new-zealands-problem-because-of-a-dubious-australian-law-that-has-since-been-repealed-156099/" aria-label="Read more about Suhayra Aden became New Zealand’s problem because of a dubious Australian law that has since been repealed">Read more</a>

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From Elvis to Dolly, celebrity endorsements might be the key to countering vaccine hesitancy

March 10, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle O’Shea, Senior Lecturer, School of Business, Western Sydney University The Australian government has secured close to 54 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, as well as 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. This is more than enough coronavirus vaccines for the entire population — and ... <a title="From Elvis to Dolly, celebrity endorsements might be the key to countering vaccine hesitancy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/from-elvis-to-dolly-celebrity-endorsements-might-be-the-key-to-countering-vaccine-hesitancy-152893/" aria-label="Read more about From Elvis to Dolly, celebrity endorsements might be the key to countering vaccine hesitancy">Read more</a>

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Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 10 2021

March 10, 2021

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 Covid: Vaccine RNZ: Covid-19: 51% of New Zealanders willing to take vaccine – survey The Hui: New poll shows 23 percent of Māori unlikely to get coronavirus jab Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): One in five New Zealanders ‘unlikely’ ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 10 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-10-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 10 2021">Read more</a>

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New evidence shows half of Australians have ditched social media at some point, but millennials lag behind

March 10, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger Patulny, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wollongong A recent nationally representative survey has shown Australians are willing and able to pull the plug on social media. But it turns out the generation you were born in, as well as your level of education, will likely ... <a title="New evidence shows half of Australians have ditched social media at some point, but millennials lag behind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/new-evidence-shows-half-of-australians-have-ditched-social-media-at-some-point-but-millennials-lag-behind-156128/" aria-label="Read more about New evidence shows half of Australians have ditched social media at some point, but millennials lag behind">Read more</a>