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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chiara Holgate, Hydrologist & PhD Candidate, Australian National University The extreme, recent drought has devastated many communities around the Murray-Darling Basin, but the processes driving drought are still not well understood. Our new study helps to change this. We threw a weather model into reverse and ran ... <a title="We looked at 35 years of rainfall and learnt how droughts start in the Murray-Darling Basin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/we-looked-at-35-years-of-rainfall-and-learnt-how-droughts-start-in-the-murray-darling-basin-145766/" aria-label="Read more about We looked at 35 years of rainfall and learnt how droughts start in the Murray-Darling Basin">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW You might have missed it – what with the biggest recession since the 1930s and a pandemic going on – but there may be big, and bad, changes happening to a media landscape near you. Right now the Australian government is ... <a title="Google and Facebook shouldn’t subsidise journalism, but the government could" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/google-and-facebook-shouldnt-subsidise-journalism-but-the-government-could-146746/" aria-label="Read more about Google and Facebook shouldn’t subsidise journalism, but the government could">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dale Boccabella, Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW It’s one thing to bring forward tax cuts, as the government is thinking of doing in the October budget. It’s another to leave wide open an arrangement that allows substantial tax minimisation (or elimination) on income of a trust ... <a title="Testamentary trusts are one of the last truly outrageous means of avoiding tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/testamentary-trusts-are-one-of-the-last-truly-outrageous-means-of-avoiding-tax-142035/" aria-label="Read more about Testamentary trusts are one of the last truly outrageous means of avoiding tax">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Clode, Senior Research Fellow in Creative Writing, Flinders University In 1765, a young, peasant woman left a remote corner of rural France where her impoverished family had scraped a living for generations. She set out on a journey that would take her around the world from ... <a title="Friday essay: who was Jeanne Barret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/friday-essay-who-was-jeanne-barret-the-first-woman-to-circumnavigate-the-globe-146296/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: who was Jeanne Barret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe?">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra We’ve all observed Scott Morrison’s pragmatism in this pandemic but COVID has highlighted another notable feature of his political style. The prime minister is a great admirer of Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt, US president in the early 1900s, and this year ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Can Morrison use his ‘bully pulpit’ to inspire the confidence vital for economic recovery?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/grattan-on-friday-can-morrison-use-his-bully-pulpit-to-inspire-the-confidence-vital-for-economic-recovery-146871/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Can Morrison use his ‘bully pulpit’ to inspire the confidence vital for economic recovery?">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government has announced reforms to facilitate an increased flow of credit to households and businesses. A key change will be that lenders will be able to rely on the information provided by borrowers, unless there are reasonable grounds for ... <a title="Government proposes changes to smooth the path for borrowers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/government-proposes-changes-to-smooth-the-path-for-borrowers-146877/" aria-label="Read more about Government proposes changes to smooth the path for borrowers">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
By Michael Field French Polynesian authorities are conceding the Pacific territory of 280,000 people will probably have 100,000 cases of covid-19 by the end of the year. Most of those affected will be young Polynesians and authorities seem comforted by this, as their medical system can cope and they expect few deaths. There are indications ... <a title="100,000 Polynesians with covid by year’s end, warn Tahiti officials" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/100000-polynesians-with-covid-by-years-end-warn-tahiti-officials/" aria-label="Read more about 100,000 Polynesians with covid by year’s end, warn Tahiti officials">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2020
By Romulus Masiu in Port Moresby Full independence will be top of the agenda pledges Ishmael Toroama, the newly elected president for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. Straight after his declaration yesterday at Hutjena in Bougainville, President-elect Toroama, a former rebel commander during the Bougainville civil war of the late 1980s, said he was looking ... <a title="Toroama declares independence top of agenda, offers ‘olive branch’ to rivals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/24/toroama-declares-independence-top-of-agenda-offers-olive-branch-to-rivals/" aria-label="Read more about Toroama declares independence top of agenda, offers ‘olive branch’ to rivals">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Edmond, Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne Former prime minister Paul Keating isn’t alone in wanting the Reserve Bank to do much more to ensure economic recovery. In an opinion piece for major newspapers he has said it ought to be directly funding government spending rather ... <a title="Keating is right. The Reserve Bank should do more. It needs to aim for more inflation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/24/keating-is-right-the-reserve-bank-should-do-more-it-needs-to-aim-for-more-inflation-146393/" aria-label="Read more about Keating is right. The Reserve Bank should do more. It needs to aim for more inflation">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra John Frydenberg has painted a sombre picture of the outlook for the Australian economy, saying that by mid next year it is set to be 6% smaller than at the end of last year. The treasurer also warned wages growth ... <a title="COVID will leave Australia with smaller economy and older population: Frydenberg" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/24/covid-will-leave-australia-with-smaller-economy-and-older-population-frydenberg-146848/" aria-label="Read more about COVID will leave Australia with smaller economy and older population: Frydenberg">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jude McCulloch, Professor of Criminology, Monash University The state of emergency that has been issued in Victoria during the pandemic is to be taken seriously. Police are undoubtedly one component of the state’s health response, needed to enforce measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 such as ... <a title="Expanding Victoria’s police powers without robust, independent oversight is a dangerous idea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/24/expanding-victorias-police-powers-without-robust-independent-oversight-is-a-dangerous-idea-146758/" aria-label="Read more about Expanding Victoria’s police powers without robust, independent oversight is a dangerous idea">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jagadish Thaker, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University New Zealand’s top 30 corporations do a poor job reporting on climate change compared with similar Australian and Fortune Global 500 companies, according to our research. The fact that most big businesses in New Zealand ... <a title="New Zealand companies lag behind others in their reporting on climate change, and that’s a risk to their reputation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/24/new-zealand-companies-lag-behind-others-in-their-reporting-on-climate-change-and-thats-a-risk-to-their-reputation-145305/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand companies lag behind others in their reporting on climate change, and that’s a risk to their reputation">Read more</a>
