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May 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gerald Burke, Adjunct Professor, Education, Monash University The Coalition has promised to create 80,000 new apprenticeships in areas of skills shortages if it wins the election. Most skilled trades (such as motor mechanics, panel beaters, carpenters, automotive electricians, plumbers, hairdressers) have recently been in shortage. The Coalition ... <a title="Employer incentives may not be the most cost-effective or fair way of boosting apprenticeship numbers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/16/employer-incentives-may-not-be-the-most-cost-effective-or-fair-way-of-boosting-apprenticeship-numbers-114986/" aria-label="Read more about Employer incentives may not be the most cost-effective or fair way of boosting apprenticeship numbers">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Laughland-Booy, Research Fellow in Sociology, Australian Catholic University With the election campaign racing to its conclusion, there’s been a lot of talk about the impact younger voters will have on the result. Some political leaders might view the potential voting power of young people with disdain. ... <a title="Young Australians don’t trust politicians. Here’s one reason why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/16/young-australians-dont-trust-politicians-heres-one-reason-why-116259/" aria-label="Read more about Young Australians don’t trust politicians. Here’s one reason why">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Feo Snagovsky, PhD Candidate in Political Science, Australian National University Australia’s major political parties are not popular institutions. Minor parties and independent candidates have been chipping away at their primary vote for decades. While less than 10% of voters cast a ballot for them in the 1950s ... <a title="Are independents part of a ‘green-left’ conspiracy? New research finds they are more the ‘sensible centre’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/16/are-independents-part-of-a-green-left-conspiracy-new-research-finds-they-are-more-the-sensible-centre-117094/" aria-label="Read more about Are independents part of a ‘green-left’ conspiracy? New research finds they are more the ‘sensible centre’">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Hamilton, Visiting Scholar, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University This is the final in a three-part series on the budget tax measures that began with an analysis of the government’s plan to flatten the tax schedule and continued with ... <a title="Shock. More investment isn’t necessarily better. Those instant asset write-offs are bad tax policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/16/shock-more-investment-isnt-necessarily-better-those-instant-asset-write-offs-are-bad-tax-policy-116509/" aria-label="Read more about Shock. More investment isn’t necessarily better. Those instant asset write-offs are bad tax policy">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Oldfield, Associate Professor in Architecture, UNSW Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based ... <a title="Curious Kids: what’s the tallest skyscraper it’s possible to build?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/16/curious-kids-whats-the-tallest-skyscraper-its-possible-to-build-116817/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: what’s the tallest skyscraper it’s possible to build?">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Young, Professor, University of Melbourne News Corp must have been startled to find itself becoming one of the major issues in this election campaign. But this is just another sign that, in recent years, the company’s ability to read the public mood has gone wildly off-kilter. ... <a title="The secret history of News Corp: a media empire built on spreading propaganda" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/16/the-secret-history-of-news-corp-a-media-empire-built-on-spreading-propaganda-116992/" aria-label="Read more about The secret history of News Corp: a media empire built on spreading propaganda">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Davy, Research Fellow, Public Service Research Group, UNSW This week at the aged care royal commission hearings, the CEOs of three aged care providers called for a change in the way residential aged care is funded to improve the quality of care. This followed a plea ... <a title="So you’re thinking of going into a nursing home? Here’s what you’ll have to pay for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/16/so-youre-thinking-of-going-into-a-nursing-home-heres-what-youll-have-to-pay-for-114295/" aria-label="Read more about So you’re thinking of going into a nursing home? Here’s what you’ll have to pay for">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Hopkin, Acting Editor, FactCheck, The Conversation The Adani Carmichael coal mine has been an election issue across state and federal politics since 2016. Despite bipartisan support, it defined the November 2017 Queensland election, has shaped federal by-elections since and prompted protests in almost every Australian state ... <a title="Interactive: Everything you need to know about Adani – from cost, environmental impact and jobs to its possible future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/16/interactive-everything-you-need-to-know-about-adani-from-cost-environmental-impact-and-jobs-to-its-possible-future-116901/" aria-label="Read more about Interactive: Everything you need to know about Adani – from cost, environmental impact and jobs to its possible future">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Wood, Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute The lowest blow of this election campaign may have come from a firm of real estate agents that abused its position of trust to scare renters about Labor’s proposed negative gearing changes. If you are one ... <a title="Real estate agents targeting tenants is the lowest of the low blows during election 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/16/real-estate-agents-targeting-tenants-is-the-lowest-of-the-low-blows-during-election-2019-117188/" aria-label="Read more about Real estate agents targeting tenants is the lowest of the low blows during election 2019">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Terry Carney, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Sydney Campaign promises can seem like so much noise and distraction; this morning’s announcement replaced by another by the afternoon and forgotten before bedtime. But as the “robo-debt” saga showed, such announcements can have devastating consequences if not properly ... <a title="Danger. Election 2016 delivered us Robodebt. Promises can have consequences" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/16/danger-election-2016-delivered-us-robodebt-promises-can-have-consequences-117191/" aria-label="Read more about Danger. Election 2016 delivered us Robodebt. Promises can have consequences">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin O’Brien, Lecturer in Economics, University of Wollongong After three years of submissions, hearings and deliberations, Australia’s workplace relations umpire, the Fair Work Commission, decided in 2017 to decrease the penalty rates paid to retail and hospitality workers on the safety-net award for working on Sundays and ... <a title="Cutting penalty rates was supposed to create jobs. It hasn’t, and here’s why not" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/16/cutting-penalty-rates-was-supposed-to-create-jobs-it-hasnt-and-heres-why-not-117178/" aria-label="Read more about Cutting penalty rates was supposed to create jobs. It hasn’t, and here’s why not">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alistair Paterson, ARC Future Fellow, University of Western Australia It is understandable that Captain Cook is a trigger for debates about our national identity and history. However, we often risk being blinded by the legacy of Cook. Around the continent, early encounters with outsiders occurred on other ... <a title="The Murujuga Mermaid: how rock art in WA sheds light on historic encounters of Australian exploration" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/16/the-murujuga-mermaid-how-rock-art-in-wa-sheds-light-on-historic-encounters-of-australian-exploration-116815/" aria-label="Read more about The Murujuga Mermaid: how rock art in WA sheds light on historic encounters of Australian exploration">Read more</a>
