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May 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Josh Frydenberg’s third budget aims to give Australia a post-pandemic soft landing, using revenue windfalls for spending and tax cuts rather than for slashing the deficit. Its philosophy is very much gain, not pain, for a population that has endured ... <a title="View from The Hill: Frydenberg finds the money tree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/view-from-the-hill-frydenberg-finds-the-money-tree-159225/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Frydenberg finds the money tree">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW I don’t often feel sorry for politicians. But having to manage a process that produces forecasts about the next four years of an economy still clawing its way out of a pandemic, and then having to publicly defend those forecasts, is ... <a title="Budget 2021: the floppy-V-shaped recovery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/budget-2021-the-floppy-v-shaped-recovery-159230/" aria-label="Read more about Budget 2021: the floppy-V-shaped recovery">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Never before has a budget spent so much to supercharge the economy after the worst of a recession has already passed. The economy bounced back from last year’s COVID recession far more sharply than the ... <a title="Frydenberg spends the budget bounty to drive unemployment down to new lows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/frydenberg-spends-the-budget-bounty-to-drive-unemployment-down-to-new-lows-159229/" aria-label="Read more about Frydenberg spends the budget bounty to drive unemployment down to new lows">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government has brought down a big-spending, expansionary budget that forecasts Australia’s unemployment rate will fall to 4.75% in two years time. But Australia’s international borders won’t be properly open for at least a year, according to the budget’s ... <a title="Budget splashes cash, with $17.7 billion for aged care and a pitch to women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/budget-splashes-cash-with-17-7-billion-for-aged-care-and-a-pitch-to-women-159227/" aria-label="Read more about Budget splashes cash, with $17.7 billion for aged care and a pitch to women">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Farmer, Researcher, The University of Melbourne Why does the sun’s bright light make me sneeze? — Orlo, age 5 Dear Orlo, Thanks for your lovely question. Very smart people have been wondering about this very question for thousands of years. To tell you the truth, Orlo, ... <a title="Curious Kids: why does the sun’s bright light make me sneeze?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/curious-kids-why-does-the-suns-bright-light-make-me-sneeze-158133/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why does the sun’s bright light make me sneeze?">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Boddy, PhD Candidate in History, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Singer Billie Eilish’s new look for British Vogue, in which she trades her baggy clothes for lingerie — most notably a series of corsets — has sparked much debate. Eilish has previously spoken ... <a title="Long before Billie Eilish, women wore corsets for form, function and support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/long-before-billie-eilish-women-wore-corsets-for-form-function-and-support-160598/" aria-label="Read more about Long before Billie Eilish, women wore corsets for form, function and support">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Peterie, Research Fellow, University of Wollongong Around Australia, Muslims are preparing to celebrate Eid al-Fitr – “the feast of breaking the fast” that marks the end of Ramadan. Eid usually involves dawn prayers and gatherings to share food and gifts. Family and community are central to ... <a title="For Muslim refugees in immigration detention, another sombre, isolated Eid holiday" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/for-muslim-refugees-in-immigration-detention-another-sombre-isolated-eid-holiday-159994/" aria-label="Read more about For Muslim refugees in immigration detention, another sombre, isolated Eid holiday">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Kosovac, Research Fellow in Water Policy, The University of Melbourne In Australia over recent months, the fury of women has been hard to ignore. The anger, much of it directed at the toxic masculine culture of Parliament House, has sparked a national conversation about how these ... <a title="‘Boys and their toys’: how overt masculinity dominates Australia’s relationship with water" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/boys-and-their-toys-how-overt-masculinity-dominates-australias-relationship-with-water-158772/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Boys and their toys’: how overt masculinity dominates Australia’s relationship with water">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato With the government facing a serious backlash over its public sector wage freeze policy, that sound you hear could be the ghost of Rob Muldoon chuckling. Former prime minister Robert Muldoon in 1981. CC BY As finance minister in ... <a title="Why NZ’s public sector wage freeze ignores the lessons of history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/why-nzs-public-sector-wage-freeze-ignores-the-lessons-of-history-160607/" aria-label="Read more about Why NZ’s public sector wage freeze ignores the lessons of history">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Public sector pay freeze Justin Giovannetti (Spinoff): Ardern and Robertson say public sector wage freeze is ‘misreporting’. But is it? Jenna ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 11 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-11-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 11 2021">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paulo de Souza, Professor, Griffith University China’s space program is making impressive progress. The country only launched its first crewed flight in 2003, more than 40 years after the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. China’s first Mars mission was in 2020, half ... <a title="China’s Tiangong space station: what it is, what it’s for, and how to see it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/chinas-tiangong-space-station-what-it-is-what-its-for-and-how-to-see-it-160456/" aria-label="Read more about China’s Tiangong space station: what it is, what it’s for, and how to see it">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Smith, Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney Australia’s vaccine rollout is moving far more slowly than the government had hoped, and there is evidence of vaccine hesitancy in a significant part of the population. Some governments and media ... <a title="Would Australians support mandates for the COVID-19 vaccine? Our research suggests most would" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/would-australians-support-mandates-for-the-covid-19-vaccine-our-research-suggests-most-would-159919/" aria-label="Read more about Would Australians support mandates for the COVID-19 vaccine? Our research suggests most would">Read more</a>
