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April 27, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Yesterday the IRD released its landmark report on the ultra-rich in New Zealand and the tax they pay. It starkly illustrates the extent to which the wealth of the ultra-rich has skyrocketed in recent years. The richest 311 families have a combined wealth of $85 billion, and own a quarter ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Why NZ’s regressive tax system is unlikely to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-why-nzs-regressive-tax-system-is-unlikely-to-change/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Why NZ’s regressive tax system is unlikely to change">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Elliffe, Professor of Law, University of Auckland Getty Images If nothing else, the just released Inland Revenue study of the tax rates paid by the wealthiest New Zealanders should put to rest the notion we have a progressive tax system. We don’t. A progressive system ... <a title="Proving the wealthiest New Zealanders pay low tax rates is a good start – now comes the hard part" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/proving-the-wealthiest-new-zealanders-pay-low-tax-rates-is-a-good-start-now-comes-the-hard-part-204532/" aria-label="Read more about Proving the wealthiest New Zealanders pay low tax rates is a good start – now comes the hard part">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Hellewell, Research Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, and The Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, Curtin University Patrick Case/Pexels It’s Friday night, your team is playing, and scores are nail-bitingly close. A player intercepts the ball, and bam! A player tackles his opponent ... <a title="Hit your head while playing sport? Here’s what just happened to your brain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/hit-your-head-while-playing-sport-heres-what-just-happened-to-your-brain-203038/" aria-label="Read more about Hit your head while playing sport? Here’s what just happened to your brain">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2023
By Meri Radinibaravi in Suva The gamble that the previous FijiFirst government took in 2016 — in reducing the value added tax (VAT) rate from 15 percent to 9 percent — was basically done to please the people, says Fiscal Review Committee chair Richard Naidu. He said this gamble failed miserably because government expenditure continued ... <a title="Fiji’s reduced VAT ‘a failed gamble’ – a vision now needed, says Naidu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/fijis-reduced-vat-a-failed-gamble-a-vision-now-needed-says-naidu/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s reduced VAT ‘a failed gamble’ – a vision now needed, says Naidu">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2023
By Marcia Negri in Port Moresby The arena was filled with applauses and whistles when Fidelis Kamsnok walked up to the podium to receive his degree at the University of Papua New Guinea’s 68th graduation ceremony held at the Sir John Guise indoor complex. Kamsnok, a father of three who hails from the East Sepik ... <a title="University security guard graduates at UPNG with BA degree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/university-security-guard-graduates-at-upng-with-ba-degree/" aria-label="Read more about University security guard graduates at UPNG with BA degree">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Timothy Bennett, PhD Student, School of Computing, Australian National University Michael Timothy Bennett/Generated using Midjourney, Author provided To build a machine, one must know what its parts are and how they fit together. To understand the machine, one needs to know what each part does ... <a title="Can machines be self-aware? New research explains how this could happen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/can-machines-be-self-aware-new-research-explains-how-this-could-happen-204371/" aria-label="Read more about Can machines be self-aware? New research explains how this could happen">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Whitcombe-Dobbs, Senior Lecturer in Child and Family Psychology, University of Canterbury Getty Images As the Abuse in Care Royal Commission inquiry has shown, the lifelong and intergenerational consequences of child abuse are devastating. Many children placed in state and religious institutions – often having already experienced ... <a title="Why NZ law should require everyone to report known or suspected child sexual abuse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/why-nz-law-should-require-everyone-to-report-known-or-suspected-child-sexual-abuse-204098/" aria-label="Read more about Why NZ law should require everyone to report known or suspected child sexual abuse">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn Holbrook, Senior Lecturer in History, Deakin University Lukas Coch/AAP Such has been the turmoil over the Liberal Party’s recent decision to join the National Party in campaigning against the forthcoming referendum on the Voice to Parliament that even some of the most reliable supporters in the ... <a title="Will a preoccupation with party unity destroy the Liberal Party?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/will-a-preoccupation-with-party-unity-destroy-the-liberal-party-203849/" aria-label="Read more about Will a preoccupation with party unity destroy the Liberal Party?">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Ball, Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Got COVID? Again? Deciding what to eat can be mentally taxing, especially when you are not feeling well. However, our diet plays a role in preventing and managing poor health, including COVID. Having a ... <a title="What to eat when you have COVID – and why reaching for the chicken soup is not a bad idea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/what-to-eat-when-you-have-covid-and-why-reaching-for-the-chicken-soup-is-not-a-bad-idea-202338/" aria-label="Read more about What to eat when you have COVID – and why reaching for the chicken soup is not a bad idea">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trivess Moore, Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University Shutterstock A long-awaited increase in energy-efficiency requirements for new homes is part of revised Australian construction standards taking effect on May 1. All new homes must achieve a minimum 7-star whole-of-home energy rating from ... <a title="We need a ‘lemon law’ to make all the homes we buy and rent more energy-efficient" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/we-need-a-lemon-law-to-make-all-the-homes-we-buy-and-rent-more-energy-efficient-204369/" aria-label="Read more about We need a ‘lemon law’ to make all the homes we buy and rent more energy-efficient">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joelle Gergis, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University Lake ice in Ruka, Finland. Tom Roeleveld/flickr, CC BY-NC Around half of all life on Earth is on the move because of climate change, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Many species’ habitats are ... <a title="Fear and Wonder podcast: how species are responding to climate change – and how humans can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/fear-and-wonder-podcast-how-species-are-responding-to-climate-change-and-how-humans-can-help-204359/" aria-label="Read more about Fear and Wonder podcast: how species are responding to climate change – and how humans can help">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne Orlando, Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University School phone bans may seem like the answer to reeling in young people’s technology use. But if we ban phones and bury this issue under the sand, when and how do our kids learn to have ... <a title="School phone bans seem obvious but could make it harder for kids to use tech in healthy ways" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/school-phone-bans-seem-obvious-but-could-make-it-harder-for-kids-to-use-tech-in-healthy-ways-204111/" aria-label="Read more about School phone bans seem obvious but could make it harder for kids to use tech in healthy ways">Read more</a>
