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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University The Andrews government’s ninth budget is its toughest. The bill from Victoria’s COVID experience, as well as the state government’s ambitious infrastructure spending, has finally come due. The pandemic has added more than $30 billion to the state’s total net ... <a title="Victoria bites a $117 billion bullet, and begins the long march of land tax reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/victoria-bites-a-117-billion-bullet-and-begins-the-long-march-of-land-tax-reform-206066/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria bites a $117 billion bullet, and begins the long march of land tax reform">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute Shutterstock From working 20 to 30 hours of unpaid overtime each week in one of Australia’s fanciest restaurants to picking fruit while being exposed to dangerous chemicals for less than $10 an hour, the underpayment of migrant workers is ... <a title="Up to one in six recent migrants are paid less than the minimum wage. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/23/up-to-one-in-six-recent-migrants-are-paid-less-than-the-minimum-wage-heres-why-206067/" aria-label="Read more about Up to one in six recent migrants are paid less than the minimum wage. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2023
The National, Port Moresby Papua New Guinea yesterday intialled a defence cooperation agreement with the United States amid day-long protests against the signing by university students and opposition MPs. The agreement was signed by PNG Defence Minister Win Daki and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. A statement by the US State Department said the ... <a title="Blinken, Daki sign controversial US-PNG defence pact after day of protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/23/blinken-daki-sign-controversial-us-png-defence-pact-after-day-of-protests/" aria-label="Read more about Blinken, Daki sign controversial US-PNG defence pact after day of protests">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Phillip Mallis/Flickr, CC BY-SA By the end of the year, Victoria’s trouble-plagued native forest industry will end – six years ahead of schedule. The state’s iconic mountain ash forests and endangered wildlife will at ... <a title="After the chainsaws, the quiet: Victoria’s rapid exit from native forest logging is welcome – and long overdue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/23/after-the-chainsaws-the-quiet-victorias-rapid-exit-from-native-forest-logging-is-welcome-and-long-overdue-206181/" aria-label="Read more about After the chainsaws, the quiet: Victoria’s rapid exit from native forest logging is welcome – and long overdue">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The proposition that cutting prices will stoke inflation is a hard one to get your head around, even if you are an economist. Yet it has been seriously put forward as a critique of this ... <a title="Will Jim Chalmers’ budget drive up inflation? Not likely – and here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/23/will-jim-chalmers-budget-drive-up-inflation-not-likely-and-heres-why-206171/" aria-label="Read more about Will Jim Chalmers’ budget drive up inflation? Not likely – and here’s why">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ayesha Jehangir, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Media Transition, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney shutterstock Pakistan’s former military chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa. At the end of his tenure, he declared the military would no longer meddle in politics anymore. ... <a title="Explainer: A historical trail of Pakistan’s powerful military enterprise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/23/explainer-a-historical-trail-of-pakistans-powerful-military-enterprise-205749/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: A historical trail of Pakistan’s powerful military enterprise">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hall, Acting Director, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University Narendra Modi arrives this week for an official visit to Australia. When he first came to Australia in November 2014, the recently elected Indian prime minister was still to find his feet on the global stage. Keen to ... <a title="Divided Indian diaspora in Australia tops concerns for Narendra Modi visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/23/divided-indian-diaspora-in-australia-tops-concerns-for-narendra-modi-visit-205993/" aria-label="Read more about Divided Indian diaspora in Australia tops concerns for Narendra Modi visit">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isabelle Kingsley, Senior Research Associate at the Office of the Women in STEM Ambassador, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock It likely comes as no surprise that women receive a smaller share of research funding than men. But untangling the underlying reasons is no small feat. A recently published international ... <a title="Fewer women receive research grants – but the reasons are more complicated than you’d think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/23/fewer-women-receive-research-grants-but-the-reasons-are-more-complicated-than-youd-think-205649/" aria-label="Read more about Fewer women receive research grants – but the reasons are more complicated than you’d think">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan, Charles Sturt University Many different arguments for and against the Voice to Parliament have been heard in the lead-up to this year’s referendum in Australia. This has included some media and politicians drawing comparisons between the Voice and South Africa’s apartheid regime. Cory Bernardi, a Sky News commentator, argued, for instance, ... <a title="The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over Parliament – this misinformation is undermining democratic debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/23/the-voice-isnt-apartheid-or-a-veto-over-parliament-this-misinformation-is-undermining-democratic-debate/" aria-label="Read more about The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over Parliament – this misinformation is undermining democratic debate">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Guastella, Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health, University of Sydney Shutterstock Neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), affect one in ten people. While the primary focus is often on these diagnoses, worrying research shows people ... <a title="Around half of kids getting neurodevelopmental assessment show signs of mental distress. We can support them better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/23/around-half-of-kids-getting-neurodevelopmental-assessment-show-signs-of-mental-distress-we-can-support-them-better-205225/" aria-label="Read more about Around half of kids getting neurodevelopmental assessment show signs of mental distress. We can support them better">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake M Robinson, Ecologist and Researcher, Flinders University pxfuel Nurturing a forest ecosystem back to life after it’s been logged is not always easy. It can take a lot of hard work and careful monitoring to ensure biodiversity thrives again. But monitoring biodiversity can be costly, intrusive ... <a title="Good vibrations: how listening to the sounds of soil helps us monitor and restore forest health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/23/good-vibrations-how-listening-to-the-sounds-of-soil-helps-us-monitor-and-restore-forest-health-205223/" aria-label="Read more about Good vibrations: how listening to the sounds of soil helps us monitor and restore forest health">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2023
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller. Chris Hipkins is blazing his way through New Zealand’s foreign policy. The New Zealand Prime Minister’s fast-but-furious visit to Papua New Guinea this week – which saw Hipkins spend just 23 hours in Port Moresby, the PNG capital – was the PM’s fourth such rapid international trip since he took office. ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: How successful was Chris Hipkins’ trip to Papua New Guinea?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/23/geoffrey-millers-political-roundup-how-successful-was-chris-hipkins-trip-to-papua-new-guinea/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: How successful was Chris Hipkins’ trip to Papua New Guinea?">Read more</a>
