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April 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Hodgson, Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University Federal elections always offer the opportunity for a reset. Whoever wins the May 3 election should consider a much needed revamp of the tax system, which is no longer fit for purpose. The biggest challenge ... <a title="Post-election tax reform is the key to reversing Australia’s growing wealth divide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/14/post-election-tax-reform-is-the-key-to-reversing-australias-growing-wealth-divide-252177/" aria-label="Read more about Post-election tax reform is the key to reversing Australia’s growing wealth divide">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lachlan Vass, Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University National licensing of electricians has been one of the few productivity reforms of recent years. Shutterstock The federal election leaders’ and treasurers’ debates last week covered many topics: from Trump’s tariffs ... <a title="Productivity reform has been put in the too-hard basket for years. Here’s why leaders leave it alone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/14/productivity-reform-has-been-put-in-the-too-hard-basket-for-years-heres-why-leaders-leave-it-alone-253749/" aria-label="Read more about Productivity reform has been put in the too-hard basket for years. Here’s why leaders leave it alone">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A national Newspoll, conducted April 7–10 from a sample of 1,271, gave Labor a 52–48 lead, unchanged since the March 31 to April 4 Newspoll. Primary votes ... <a title="Newspoll steady but Albanese’s ratings jump; swing to Labor in marginal seats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/14/newspoll-steady-but-albaneses-ratings-jump-swing-to-labor-in-marginal-seats-254445/" aria-label="Read more about Newspoll steady but Albanese’s ratings jump; swing to Labor in marginal seats">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Cull, Associate Professor, Western Sydney University doublelee/Shutterstock There is no denying housing reform is urgently needed in Australia to make housing more affordable and accessible to everyday Australians. Both major parties have now announced the incentives they are offering to help first-home buyers. While both Labor ... <a title="Labor and Coalition support for new home buyers welcome but other Australians also struggling with housing affordability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/labor-and-coalition-support-for-new-home-buyers-welcome-but-other-australians-also-struggling-with-housing-affordability-254451/" aria-label="Read more about Labor and Coalition support for new home buyers welcome but other Australians also struggling with housing affordability">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University Tang Yan Song The election campaign has erupted into a economic battleground as Labor and the Coalition unveiled major new tax policies at their campaign launches. Each policy package is aimed at addressing the mounting cost-of-living pressures facing millions of ... <a title="Voters have a clear choice. Labor’s long term and equitable tax reform or the Coalition’s big but one-off tax cuts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/voters-have-a-clear-choice-labors-long-term-and-equitable-tax-reform-or-the-coalitions-big-but-one-off-tax-cuts-254452/" aria-label="Read more about Voters have a clear choice. Labor’s long term and equitable tax reform or the Coalition’s big but one-off tax cuts">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra If anyone had any doubts before, Sunday’s Liberal and Labor launches highlighted that this election is an auction for votes, in particular those of the under 40s and people in the outer suburbs. Amid the usual launch hoopla – the ... <a title="Election Diary: Liberal and Labor launches focus on housing, but who thinks either side can fix that crisis any time soon?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/election-diary-liberal-and-labor-launches-focus-on-housing-but-who-thinks-either-side-can-fix-that-crisis-any-time-soon-254206/" aria-label="Read more about Election Diary: Liberal and Labor launches focus on housing, but who thinks either side can fix that crisis any time soon?">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Seth Asare Okyere, Visiting lecturer, University of Pittsburg and Adjunct Associate Professor, Osaka University, University of Pittsburgh Humans are walking beings. Walking is intrinsically linked to our physical development from childhood and enables our connections with people and places. We can say it is essential to our ... <a title="Accra is a tough city to walk in: how city planners can fix the problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/accra-is-a-tough-city-to-walk-in-how-city-planners-can-fix-the-problem-253636/" aria-label="Read more about Accra is a tough city to walk in: how city planners can fix the problem">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Merja Myllylahti, Senior Lecturer, Co-Director Research Centre for Journalism, Media & Democracy, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images The news media is doing its best to keep everyone up to speed with the pace of Donald Trump’s radical changes to the world order. But in Aotearoa New ... <a title="‘Trump fatigue’ is putting Kiwis off the news, with trust in media still low – new report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/trump-fatigue-is-putting-kiwis-off-the-news-with-trust-in-media-still-low-new-report-252714/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Trump fatigue’ is putting Kiwis off the news, with trust in media still low – new report">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese will promise a $10 billion scheme to facilitate the building of up to 100,000 homes that would be earmarked for sale to first home buyers. To be unveiled at Labor’s formal campaign launch in Perth on Sunday, the ... <a title="Albanese pitches to aspiring home buyers with $10 billion plan and removal of means test on deposit guarantee" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/albanese-pitches-to-aspiring-home-buyers-with-10-billion-plan-and-removal-of-means-test-on-deposit-guarantee-254205/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese pitches to aspiring home buyers with $10 billion plan and removal of means test on deposit guarantee">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Peter Dutton at his party launch on Sunday will offer a “cost of living tax offset” of up to $1,200 to more than 10 million taxpayers. The one-off offset would go to taxpayers earning up to $144,000 when they lodged ... <a title="Dutton to offer targeted income tax offset of up to $1,200" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/dutton-to-offer-targeted-income-tax-offset-of-up-to-1-200-254204/" aria-label="Read more about Dutton to offer targeted income tax offset of up to $1,200">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It takes a bit for Labor not to preference the Greens but on Friday it was announced that in the Melbourne seat of Macnamara, where Jewish MP Josh Burns is embattled, the ALP will run an open ticket. Macnamara, which ... <a title="Election Diary: Labor breaks practice of preferencing Greens to protect Jewish MP Josh Burns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/11/election-diary-labor-breaks-practice-of-preferencing-greens-to-protect-jewish-mp-josh-burns-254202/" aria-label="Read more about Election Diary: Labor breaks practice of preferencing Greens to protect Jewish MP Josh Burns">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Mortimore, Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University The Coalition has announced it would, if elected to government, weaken a scheme aimed at cutting car emissions. The scheme, known as the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES), was introduced by the Albanese government and was due to take ... <a title="Coalition plan to dump fuel efficiency penalties would make Australia a global outlier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/11/coalition-plan-to-dump-fuel-efficiency-penalties-would-make-australia-a-global-outlier-254386/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition plan to dump fuel efficiency penalties would make Australia a global outlier">Read more</a>
