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June 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriele Gratton, Associate Professor of Economics and Scientia Fellow, UNSW Exactly two weeks before the Reserve Bank of Australia cut interest rates to a record low, the bank’s head, Philip Lowe, outlined a predicament to the Economic Society of Australia. He is faced with a global problem, ... <a title="Our economic model looks broken, but trying to fix it could be a disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/07/our-economic-model-looks-broken-but-trying-to-fix-it-could-be-a-disaster-118397/" aria-label="Read more about Our economic model looks broken, but trying to fix it could be a disaster">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2019
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – The Afghan Files … How the ABC reported a “Defence leak exposing deadly secrets of Australia’s special forces” in 2017. Image: Screen shot of ABC/PMC By Pacific Media Watch AN Australian police raid on public broadcaster ABC risks having a chilling effect on freedom of the ... <a title="ABC raid over Afghan Files atrocities allegations ‘chilling’ for freedom of press" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/07/abc-raid-over-afghan-files-atrocities-allegations-chilling-for-freedom-of-press/" aria-label="Read more about ABC raid over Afghan Files atrocities allegations ‘chilling’ for freedom of press">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2019
How Al Jazeera reported yesterday’s raid by Australian police on the offices of the national public broadcaster ABC. The raid was over a series of stories from 2017 on killings allegedly carried out by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. Video: Al Jazeera By RNZ News An Australian police raid on public broadcaster ABC risks having ... <a title="ABC raid ‘chilling’ for freedom of press, says editorial chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/06/abc-raid-chilling-for-freedom-of-press-says-editorial-chief/" aria-label="Read more about ABC raid ‘chilling’ for freedom of press, says editorial chief">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2019
Should we really care about the “Budget hack” that has been consuming a lot of politicians and political commentators over the last week? Is this really, as John Key used to say about scandals involving his own Government, one of “the things that matter”? I made the case yesterday in my column, The Budget ‘hack’ scandal ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Who cares about the “Budget hack”?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/06/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-who-cares-about-the-budget-hack/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Who cares about the “Budget hack”?">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne In their raids on media organisations, journalists and whistleblowers, the Australian Federal Police have shown themselves to be the tool of a secretive, ruthless and vindictive executive government. Secretive because the extensive web ... <a title="Media raids raise questions about AFP’s power and weak protection for journalists and whistleblowers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/06/media-raids-raise-questions-about-afps-power-and-weak-protection-for-journalists-and-whistleblowers-118328/" aria-label="Read more about Media raids raise questions about AFP’s power and weak protection for journalists and whistleblowers">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Support for Māori communities was a funding priority in New Zealand’s well-being budget. In a Facebook post, Labour MP Meka Whaitiri celebrated the new targeted investment of NZ$593 million as “simply unprecedented”. The budget makes a significant ... <a title="Budget lessons in the politics of Indigenous self-determination" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/budget-lessons-in-the-politics-of-indigenous-self-determination-118118/" aria-label="Read more about Budget lessons in the politics of Indigenous self-determination">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marina Yue Zhang, Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology Trade conflict between the US and China has accelerated towards the brink of trade war. A recent Trump executive order preventing US companies from working with “adversaries” (China fits this description) was hammered home ... <a title="Blocking Huawei’s 5G could isolate Australia from future economic opportunities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/03/blocking-huaweis-5g-could-isolate-australia-from-future-economic-opportunities-117968/" aria-label="Read more about Blocking Huawei’s 5G could isolate Australia from future economic opportunities">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate C. Prickett, Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand’s budget 2019 promised to usher in a new era of policy addressing well-being. It was meant to go beyond the status quo of measuring how ... <a title="Children had no say in New Zealand’s well-being budget, and that matters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/children-had-no-say-in-new-zealands-well-being-budget-and-that-matters-118113/" aria-label="Read more about Children had no say in New Zealand’s well-being budget, and that matters">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
For each Budget, the government of the day spends huge amounts of resources getting its message and branding across about its spending decisions. Careful attempts at framing their Budget are made, and all of this largely gets reported. This year is no different, and so you can read, watch and listen to hundreds of media ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The other side of the Budget story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-other-side-of-the-budget-story/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The other side of the Budget story">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
By RNZ Pacific The well-being of Pacific people in New Zealand has been recognised in this year’s Budget with increases in funding for the community in education, languages, health and business. The government said the initiatives announced in the Budget would provide Pacific peoples with more scope to lift their own well-being. It also said ... <a title="NZ Budget gives boost for Pacific education, languages and health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/nz-budget-gives-boost-for-pacific-education-languages-and-health/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget gives boost for Pacific education, languages and health">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 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>
