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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Fellow, Grattan Institute The pushback against federal Labor’s reforms to negative gearing is ramping up again with the release of NSW Treasury modelling. The modelling predicts that Labor’s changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount would cause a 0.8% to 1.3% decline ... <a title="Confirmation from NSW Treasury. Labor’s negative gearing policy would barely move house prices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/confirmation-from-nsw-treasury-labors-negative-gearing-policy-would-barely-move-house-prices-116736/" aria-label="Read more about Confirmation from NSW Treasury. Labor’s negative gearing policy would barely move house prices">Read more</a>
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May 8, 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 As election day approaches, dividend imputation is back in the news and the hot takes are running hot. Commentators are branding the system we’ve got a “tax dodge”, a “handout” ... <a title="There’s nothing unfair about dividend imputation — it refunds tax that shouldn’t have been paid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/theres-nothing-unfair-about-dividend-imputation-it-refunds-tax-that-shouldnt-have-been-paid-116604/" aria-label="Read more about There’s nothing unfair about dividend imputation — it refunds tax that shouldn’t have been paid">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Terry Goldsworthy, Associate Professor in Criminology, Bond University When we think of surveillance, we tend to imagine traditional surveillance tools like CCTV systems run by local authorities. The use of CCTV has certainly increased since I was a young constable on the Gold Coast in the early ... <a title="Big brother is watching: how new technologies are changing police surveillance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/big-brother-is-watching-how-new-technologies-are-changing-police-surveillance-115841/" aria-label="Read more about Big brother is watching: how new technologies are changing police surveillance">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Savage, Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney Labor’s proposal to end cash refunds of unused dividend imputation credits is highly targeted. It certainly doesn’t apply to age pensioners, even part pensioners, courtesy of Labor’s Pensioner Guarantee. Self managed super funds set up by pensioners ... <a title="It’s hard to find out who Labor’s dividend imputation policy will hit, but it is possible, and it isn’t the poor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/its-hard-to-find-out-who-labors-dividend-imputation-policy-will-hit-but-it-is-possible-and-it-isnt-the-poor-116370/" aria-label="Read more about It’s hard to find out who Labor’s dividend imputation policy will hit, but it is possible, and it isn’t the poor">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marilyn Johnson, Senior Researcher, Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University One in five people injured on Australian roads and paths is a cyclist, according to a new Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report that examined injury data from 1999–2000 to 2015–16. More cyclists are being injured ... <a title="3 Charts on the rise in cycling injuries and deaths in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/3-charts-on-the-rise-in-cycling-injuries-and-deaths-in-australia-116660/" aria-label="Read more about 3 Charts on the rise in cycling injuries and deaths in Australia">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Forsyth, Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University This article is part of an election series on wages, industrial relations, Labor and the union movement ahead of the 2019 federal election. You can read other pieces in the series here, here and here. Labor has promised to ... <a title="Labor wants to restore penalty rates within 100 days. But what about the independent umpire?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/labor-wants-to-restore-penalty-rates-within-100-days-but-what-about-the-independent-umpire-116154/" aria-label="Read more about Labor wants to restore penalty rates within 100 days. But what about the independent umpire?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Drew Evans, Associate Professor of Energy & Advanced Manufacturing, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of South Australia Imagine the day when you’ll unroll or unfold your smartphone to answer it. If things go to plan, this day may be sooner than you think. And we’re not ... <a title="Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/can-we-bend-it-the-challenge-for-samsung-and-others-to-make-flexible-technology-116270/" aria-label="Read more about Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technology">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Musker, Senior Research Fellow, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute 13 Reasons Why, the controversial Netflix programme that broaches the topic of adolescent suicide, has drawn further criticism after new research showed a potential link to a rise in suicide rates coinciding with the show’s ... <a title="Suicide rates are rising with or without 13 Reasons Why. Let’s use it as a chance to talk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/suicide-rates-are-rising-with-or-without-13-reasons-why-lets-use-it-as-a-chance-to-talk-116434/" aria-label="Read more about Suicide rates are rising with or without 13 Reasons Why. Let’s use it as a chance to talk">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Ryan, Lecturer – Environmental Health and Management, Western Sydney University This is an article from I’ve Always Wondered, a series where readers send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. Send your question to alwayswondered@theconversation.edu.au Are water crystals bad for the environment? –Terry Gilmour This ... <a title="I’ve always wondered: are water crystals bad for the environment?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/ive-always-wondered-are-water-crystals-bad-for-the-environment-112519/" aria-label="Read more about I’ve always wondered: are water crystals bad for the environment?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Norton, Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute Monday night’s ABC Four Corners program alleged several universities were admitting international students without the English-language skills needed to successfully complete their courses, effectively setting them up to fail. Such claims have been made so often, including by government ... <a title="Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/are-international-students-passing-university-courses-at-the-same-rate-as-domestic-students-116666/" aria-label="Read more about Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Crawford, Professor of Advertising, RMIT University Recent debates about prominent advertising in Melbourne and Sydney have highlighted public concerns about the commercialisation of public space. The sense that our cities have become increasingly vulnerable to commercial forces is premised on the assumption that advertising has no ... <a title="Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/selling-out-the-city-to-advertising-nothing-new-to-see-here-114972/" aria-label="Read more about Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenna Drenten, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Loyola University Chicago Australians are some of the most active social media users in the world and Instagram is particularly popular. One in three of us have an account, with more than 9,000,000 monthly active users. The rise of Instagram reflects ... <a title="How highly sexualised imagery is shaping ‘influence’ on Instagram – and harassment is rife" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/how-highly-sexualised-imagery-is-shaping-influence-on-instagram-and-harassment-is-rife-113030/" aria-label="Read more about How highly sexualised imagery is shaping ‘influence’ on Instagram – and harassment is rife">Read more</a>
