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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Rowley, Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Curtin Research Centre, Curtin University The re-election of the Morrison government has delivered an Australian housing policy platform based on home ownership. The recently announced First Home Loan Deposit Scheme and the existing First Home Super Saver Scheme ... <a title="Housing affordability has improved slightly, but people on lower incomes will continue to struggle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/housing-affordability-has-improved-slightly-but-people-on-lower-incomes-will-continue-to-struggle-117898/" aria-label="Read more about Housing affordability has improved slightly, but people on lower incomes will continue to struggle">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jim Stanford, Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute; Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney The Fair Work Commission has announced a 3% hike in the national Minimum Wage, effective July 1 – taking it to A$19.49 per hour, or $740.80 per week. ... <a title="We’ve been given a pay rise. Were it not for concern about the economy, it would have been bigger" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/weve-been-given-a-pay-rise-were-it-not-for-concern-about-the-economy-it-would-have-been-bigger-118053/" aria-label="Read more about We’ve been given a pay rise. Were it not for concern about the economy, it would have been bigger">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Quentin Beresford, Professor of Politics, Edith Cowan University With the final approval of the Adani Carmichael coal mine now apparently imminent, it is important to ask how it has seemingly defied the assessment of experts that it is not financially viable. After all, it’s only a week ... <a title="If the Adani mine gets built, it will be thanks to politicians, on two continents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/if-the-adani-mine-gets-built-it-will-be-thanks-to-politicians-on-two-continents-118043/" aria-label="Read more about If the Adani mine gets built, it will be thanks to politicians, on two continents">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stuart Kells, Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University Last year two Danish librarians – Christian Lauersen and Marie Eiriksson – founded Library Planet: a worldwide, crowdsourced, online library travel guide. According to them, Library Planet is meant to inspire travellers “to ... <a title="Friday essay: the library – humanist ideal, social glue and now, tourism hotspot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/friday-essay-the-library-humanist-ideal-social-glue-and-now-tourism-hotspot-116432/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: the library – humanist ideal, social glue and now, tourism hotspot">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Budget 2019 Commentary & reaction Corin Dann (RNZ): Some meat in Wellbeing Budget 2019 but will it satisfy? Bryce Edwards (RNZ): A status quo Budget when transformation was promised Matthew Hooton (Herald): This Government’s Wellbeing measures are total BS (paywalled) Audrey Young (Herald): Wellbeing Budget is different, but it isn’t radical (paywalled) Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): What the Wellbeing Budget should have been ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Government Budget Special Round-up – May 30 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/newsletter-new-zealand-government-budget-special-round-up-may-30-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Government Budget Special Round-up – May 30 2019">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University Benjamin Netanyahu is now in the fight of his turbulent political life. The stakes for Israel’s prime minister could hardly be greater. His continuance in office, his own reputation, his legacy, his immunity from prosecution on various ... <a title="Politics and religion collide in the Knesset as Netanyahu faces the fight of his political life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/politics-and-religion-collide-in-the-knesset-as-netanyahu-faces-the-fight-of-his-political-life-118041/" aria-label="Read more about Politics and religion collide in the Knesset as Netanyahu faces the fight of his political life">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christoph Schumacher, Professor of Innovation and Economics, Massey University New Zealand’s first “well-being budget” has landed, prioritising well-being over economic growth. So how is it different to any budgets that we have seen in the past? The government has moved away from GDP as a sole indicator ... <a title="New Zealand’s ‘well-being budget’: how it hopes to improve people’s lives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/new-zealands-well-being-budget-how-it-hopes-to-improve-peoples-lives-118052/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s ‘well-being budget’: how it hopes to improve people’s lives">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
ANALYSIS: By EMTV News James Marape, Papua New Guinea’s former Finance Minister and the man who led the defections that brought down the Peter O’Neill government, was today elected the country’s eighth prime minister. Another Highlands leader as member for Tari-Pori, Marape was the power-broker in the moves to shake up the government. The 48-year-old ... <a title="PNG’s ‘power broker’ minister Marape elected 8th PM for 8 million people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/pngs-power-broker-minister-marape-elected-8th-pm-for-8-million-people/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s ‘power broker’ minister Marape elected 8th PM for 8 million people">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bonny Parkinson, Senior Research Fellow, Macquarie University For many young women who take the contraceptive pill and don’t experience any side effects, seeing a doctor to renew your prescription each year is a nuisance. For some women, it’s enough to put them off taking the pill, placing ... <a title="Over-the-counter contraceptive pill could save the health system $96 million a year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/over-the-counter-contraceptive-pill-could-save-the-health-system-96-million-a-year-116826/" aria-label="Read more about Over-the-counter contraceptive pill could save the health system $96 million a year">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dougal Sutherland, Clinical Psychologist, Victoria University of Wellington The New Zealand government has allocated a record NZ$1.9 billion to mental health over five years in its first well-being budget. This includes a new frontline service for mental health, with a NZ$455 million programme and a goal of ... <a title="Mental health wins record funding in New Zealand’s first ‘well-being budget’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/mental-health-wins-record-funding-in-new-zealands-first-well-being-budget-118047/" aria-label="Read more about Mental health wins record funding in New Zealand’s first ‘well-being budget’">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Donna Lee Brien, Professor, Creative Industries, CQUniversity Australia Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In this series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page and screen. Two Australian books were published last year about a brutal murder that happened in ... <a title="Inside the story: humanising a cold case victim – writing the life and brutal death of Mollie Dean" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/inside-the-story-humanising-a-cold-case-victim-writing-the-life-and-brutal-death-of-mollie-dean-111185/" aria-label="Read more about Inside the story: humanising a cold case victim – writing the life and brutal death of Mollie Dean">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eddie Synot, Senior Research Assistant, Griffith University Ken Wyatt is the first Indigenous cabinet minister in the history of the Commonwealth government. That he was also the first Indigenous member of the House of Representatives when elected in 2010 as the member for Hasluck, WA, and is ... <a title="Ken Wyatt faces challenges – and opportunities – as minister for Indigenous Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/ken-wyatt-faces-challenges-and-opportunities-as-minister-for-indigenous-australians-117896/" aria-label="Read more about Ken Wyatt faces challenges – and opportunities – as minister for Indigenous Australians">Read more</a>
