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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute No one likes spending cuts and tax hikes, but on our estimate the government will soon need more of them if they are going to make a dent in looming A$70 billion a year budget deficits. A new Grattan Institute ... <a title="Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to fill it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/treasurer-chalmers-has-a-70-billion-a-year-budget-hole-weve-found-13-ways-to-fill-it-203331/" aria-label="Read more about Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to fill it">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Introducing ABC’s The Pacific – first episode. Video: ABC SPECIAL REPORT: By ABC Backstory editor Natasha Johnson When Tahlea Aualiitia talks about hosting the ABC’s new Pacific-focused news and current affairs TV programme, The Pacific, her voice breaks and she becomes emotional. Personally, it’s a career milestone, anchoring her first TV show after a decade ... <a title="ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and their storytellers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/abc-launches-new-tv-show-the-pacific-and-their-storytellers/" aria-label="Read more about ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and their storytellers">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The decision of Julian Leeser, who has resigned from the opposition frontbench to campaign for a yes vote on the Voice to parliament, is both principled and pragmatic. Principled because only rarely in politics do we see people make a ... <a title="View from The Hill: Julian Leeser shifts his own dial in the Liberal Party" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/view-from-the-hill-julian-leeser-shifts-his-own-dial-in-the-liberal-party-203574/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Julian Leeser shifts his own dial in the Liberal Party">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis Altman, VC Fellow LaTrobe University, La Trobe University Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong joined 50,000 people to march in support of queer rights across the Sydney Harbour Bridge for World Pride in early March. A week earlier, Albanese became the first sitting ... <a title="There’s a growing gap between countries advancing LGBTQ+ rights, and those going backwards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/theres-a-growing-gap-between-countries-advancing-lgbtq-rights-and-those-going-backwards-203329/" aria-label="Read more about There’s a growing gap between countries advancing LGBTQ+ rights, and those going backwards">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne Australia’s health system is under significant pressure. The Labor government has inherited a system with declining bulk-billing rates for GP visits. These fell from almost 90% of ... <a title="What if Medicare was restricted to GPs who bulk billed? This kind of reform is possible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/what-if-medicare-was-restricted-to-gps-who-bulk-billed-this-kind-of-reform-is-possible-203543/" aria-label="Read more about What if Medicare was restricted to GPs who bulk billed? This kind of reform is possible">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock So, you think you know why rents climbed. You probably think was skyrocketing interest rates and a tsunami of migration. It’s true that interest rates have jumped more over the past year than at ... <a title="What made rents soar? It might have been COVID, and pairing off" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/what-made-rents-soar-it-might-have-been-covid-and-pairing-off-203542/" aria-label="Read more about What made rents soar? It might have been COVID, and pairing off">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic Zaal, Director, Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute (ASTRI), CSIRO Solar Reserve, Author provided Australia’s transition to renewables is gathering speed, but there’s a looming problem with storage. We will need much more long-duration storage to get us through the night, once coal and fossil gas exit ... <a title="Batteries won’t cut it – we need solar thermal technology to get us through the night" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/batteries-wont-cut-it-we-need-solar-thermal-technology-to-get-us-through-the-night-203545/" aria-label="Read more about Batteries won’t cut it – we need solar thermal technology to get us through the night">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eyal Mayroz, Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney Violence has again erupted in the Middle East during one of the holiest times of year for both Jews and Muslims. In recent days, militants in southern Lebanon have fired a large number of rockets at ... <a title="As tensions escalate in the Middle East, can all-out war be averted?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/as-tensions-escalate-in-the-middle-east-can-all-out-war-be-averted-203550/" aria-label="Read more about As tensions escalate in the Middle East, can all-out war be averted?">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Leif, Senior Lecturer, Educational Psychology & Inclusive Education, Monash University Shutterstock A major international report says the “disciplinary climate” in Australian schools is among the “least favourable” in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). On Tuesday, the OECD released a profile on education in ... <a title="Australian classrooms are among the ‘least favourable’ for discipline in the OECD. Here’s how to improve student behaviour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/australian-classrooms-are-among-the-least-favourable-for-discipline-in-the-oecd-heres-how-to-improve-student-behaviour-202946/" aria-label="Read more about Australian classrooms are among the ‘least favourable’ for discipline in the OECD. Here’s how to improve student behaviour">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has New Zealand firmly in its sights. Last week, New Zealand’s foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta attended the annual NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels – alongside her counterparts from Australia, Japan and South Korea. Mahuta’s participation came after New Zealand’s then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ... <a title="Geoff Miller’s Political Roundup: Why NZ is getting closer to NATO" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/geoff-millers-political-roundup-why-nz-is-getting-closer-to-nato/" aria-label="Read more about Geoff Miller’s Political Roundup: Why NZ is getting closer to NATO">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Today’s content CULTURE WARS, DISINFORMATION Russell Palmer (RNZ): Rise in disinformation, conspiracy theories prompts calls for election protections Thomas Cranmer: From Academic Research to News Headlines: The Disinformation Project’s Influence ... <a title="Newsletter: April 11 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/newsletter-april-11-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: April 11 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter Campaigning for French Polynesia’s territorial elections has entered its final week. Dressed in their parties’ respective colours, supporters of several parties held small rallies at the weekend market in the capital Pape’ete. In two rounds of voting — on Sunday, April 16 and Sunday, April 30 — voters will ... <a title="French Polynesia election campaigning now in final week for Sunday’s vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/french-polynesia-election-campaigning-now-in-final-week-for-sundays-vote/" aria-label="Read more about French Polynesia election campaigning now in final week for Sunday’s vote">Read more</a>
