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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Martin, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University Australia currently has the most restrictive tobacco and vaping policies in the developed world. Australian smokers are taxed at one of the highest rates among comparable nations, with taxes set to further increase at rate of 5% per year. ... <a title="Australia’s restrictive vaping and tobacco policies are fuelling a lucrative and dangerous black market" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/australias-restrictive-vaping-and-tobacco-policies-are-fuelling-a-lucrative-and-dangerous-black-market-225279/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s restrictive vaping and tobacco policies are fuelling a lucrative and dangerous black market">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Television New Zealand’s chief executive has been challenged by the public broadcaster’s Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver at a fiery staff meeting over job cuts and axing of high profile programmes, reports The New Zealand Herald. Writing in his Media Insider column today, editor-at-large Shayne Currie reported that Dreaver, one of TVNZ’s most ... <a title="Pacific journalist Barbara Dreaver challenges TVNZ chief over job cuts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/pacific-journalist-barbara-dreaver-challenges-tvnz-chief-over-job-cuts/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific journalist Barbara Dreaver challenges TVNZ chief over job cuts">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. On Monday morning on RNZ’s Morning Report, Revenue Minister Simon Watts admitted that it was a legitimate option for ‘landlords’ to leave their houses empty. (Refer Revenue Minister on mortgage tax deductions for landlords, RNZ 11 March 2024.) The official narrative of the elite political class is that when tenancies on ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Empty Rentals and ‘Investor’-friendly Taxes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/keith-rankin-analysis-empty-rentals-and-investor-friendly-taxes/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Empty Rentals and ‘Investor’-friendly Taxes">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinea’s rising voice as opposition candidate for prime minister, East Sepik Governor Allan Bird, has pushed back after addressing recent death threats. Bird told RNZ Pacific he has declined police protection and is opting to use his own security after his nomination as opposition candidate for ... <a title="PNG MP Allan Bird on death threats: ‘Picking on me isn’t a smart thing to do’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/png-mp-allan-bird-on-death-threats-picking-on-me-isnt-a-smart-thing-to-do/" aria-label="Read more about PNG MP Allan Bird on death threats: ‘Picking on me isn’t a smart thing to do’">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasiya Byesyedina, PhD Candidate, Department of Government and International Relations, Sessional Teacher and Student Writing Fellow, University of Sydney I’m an Australian-Ukrainian researcher and I moved back to Kyiv from Sydney in 2022 after the full-scale Russian invasion. My life in a war zone has given me ... <a title="As the air-raid sirens sound, I am studying Ukrainian culture with new fervour. I’m far from alone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/as-the-air-raid-sirens-sound-i-am-studying-ukrainian-culture-with-new-fervour-im-far-from-alone-224508/" aria-label="Read more about As the air-raid sirens sound, I am studying Ukrainian culture with new fervour. I’m far from alone">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan March, Professor of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne Helitak430/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA As extreme fire weather becomes more common across ever larger areas of Australia, we need new options for living with the risk of bushfire. Underground or earth-sheltered ... <a title="Can earth-covered houses protect us from bushfires? Even if they’re a solution, it’s not risk-free" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/can-earth-covered-houses-protect-us-from-bushfires-even-if-theyre-a-solution-its-not-risk-free-216449/" aria-label="Read more about Can earth-covered houses protect us from bushfires? Even if they’re a solution, it’s not risk-free">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Rowe, Research Fellow, James Cook University Wildfire burns between 3.94 million and 5.19 million square kilometres of land every year worldwide. If that area were a single country, it would be the seventh largest in the world. In Australia, most fire occurs in the vast tropical ... <a title="Indigenous fire management began more than 11,000 years ago: new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/indigenous-fire-management-began-more-than-11-000-years-ago-new-research-225263/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous fire management began more than 11,000 years ago: new research">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marilyn Campbell, Professor, School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology Mobile phones are currently banned in all Australian state schools and many Catholic and independent schools around the country. This is part of a global trend over more than a decade to restrict ... <a title="We looked at all the recent evidence on mobile phone bans in schools – this is what we found" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/we-looked-at-all-the-recent-evidence-on-mobile-phone-bans-in-schools-this-is-what-we-found-224848/" aria-label="Read more about We looked at all the recent evidence on mobile phone bans in schools – this is what we found">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ameeta Jain, Associate Professor, Deakin Business School, Deakin University This article is part of The Conversation’s series examining the housing crisis. Read the other articles in the series here. Australia’s rental vacancy rate has hit a historic low of close to zero. The latest estimate from SQM ... <a title="Prefabricated and build-to-rent houses could help bring rents down" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/prefabricated-and-build-to-rent-houses-could-help-bring-rents-down-223839/" aria-label="Read more about Prefabricated and build-to-rent houses could help bring rents down">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maree Patsouras, PhD Candidate, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University Syda Productions/Shutterstock Men have historically, and still do, drink more than women. But in recent years there has been an uptick in women’s drinking, particularly among women in their late 30s through to their 60s. ... <a title="Mother’s little helper: interviews with Australian women show a complex relationship with alcohol" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/mothers-little-helper-interviews-with-australian-women-show-a-complex-relationship-with-alcohol-225285/" aria-label="Read more about Mother’s little helper: interviews with Australian women show a complex relationship with alcohol">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Lamb, Associate Professor in Geophysics, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington NASA, CC BY-SA Our world may seem fragile, but Earth has been around for a very long time. If we ventured far back into the past, would we reach a time when it ... <a title="Strange rock formations beneath the Pacific Ocean could change our understanding of the early Earth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/strange-rock-formations-beneath-the-pacific-ocean-could-change-our-understanding-of-the-early-earth-223718/" aria-label="Read more about Strange rock formations beneath the Pacific Ocean could change our understanding of the early Earth">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A $4 billion ten-year agreement between the federal and Northern Territory governments that aims to see up to 270 houses built annually in remote Indigenous communities will be unveiled by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday. The federal government is ... <a title="Albanese and NT governments to spend $4 billion over a decade to tackle Indigenous housing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/albanese-and-nt-governments-to-spend-4-billion-over-a-decade-to-tackle-indigenous-housing-225466/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese and NT governments to spend $4 billion over a decade to tackle Indigenous housing">Read more</a>
