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March 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Henry Cutler, Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University Less than two months from an election, the Albanese government last night presented a budget that aims to swing the voting pendulum its way. Headline health expenditure includes: $8.5 billion to encourage more ... <a title="Budget delivers cheaper medicines and more bulk billing but leaves out long-term health reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/26/budget-delivers-cheaper-medicines-and-more-bulk-billing-but-leaves-out-long-term-health-reform-251921/" aria-label="Read more about Budget delivers cheaper medicines and more bulk billing but leaves out long-term health reform">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexa Scarlata, Research Fellow, Media & Communication, RMIT University Shutterstock To mark 10 years since Netflix began operating in Australia, we and our colleagues at the Streaming Industries and Genres Network have published a report that looks at the state of Australia’s streaming industry today – and ... <a title="How Netflix has shaped (and shattered) our content landscape over the past decade – and what comes next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/26/how-netflix-has-shaped-and-shattered-our-content-landscape-over-the-past-decade-and-what-comes-next-251471/" aria-label="Read more about How Netflix has shaped (and shattered) our content landscape over the past decade – and what comes next">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2025
RNZ News The prime ministers of New Zealand and Papua New Guinea have signed a new statement of partnership marking 50 years of bilateral relations between the two countries. The document — which focuses on education, trade, security, agriculture and fisheries — was signed by Christopher Luxon and James Marape at the Beehive in Wellington ... <a title="PNG’s Marape and NZ’s Luxon sign new partnership marking 50 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/26/pngs-marape-and-nzs-luxon-sign-new-partnership-marking-50-years/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Marape and NZ’s Luxon sign new partnership marking 50 years">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Garrow, Editorial Web Developer Treasurer Jim Chalmers has described the income tax cuts in this week’s federal budget as a “top-up”. They will amount to roughly one cup of coffee a week for every taxpayer in the first year. But they will add another A$17 billion ... <a title="Is this the right budget for these economic times? We asked 5 experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/26/is-this-the-right-budget-for-these-economic-times-we-asked-5-experts-252922/" aria-label="Read more about Is this the right budget for these economic times? We asked 5 experts">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Man As Thep/Shutterstock The Australian housing market is in crisis: soaring prices, increasing rental stress, declining home ownership rates and a growing number of people experiencing homelessness. In response, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a ... <a title="A $33 billion vote-grabber or real relief? Examining the Albanese government’s big housing pledge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/26/a-33-billion-vote-grabber-or-real-relief-examining-the-albanese-governments-big-housing-pledge-252915/" aria-label="Read more about A $33 billion vote-grabber or real relief? Examining the Albanese government’s big housing pledge">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phillipa C. McCormack, Future Making Fellow, Environment Institute, University of Adelaide A bill introduced to parliament this week, if passed, would limit the government’s power to reconsider certain environment approvals when an activity is harming the environment. It fulfils Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s promise last month to ... <a title="Protecting salmon farming at the expense of the environment – another step backwards for Australia’s nature laws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/26/protecting-salmon-farming-at-the-expense-of-the-environment-another-step-backwards-for-australias-nature-laws-252814/" aria-label="Read more about Protecting salmon farming at the expense of the environment – another step backwards for Australia’s nature laws">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Valerie A. Cooper, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Of all the contradictions and ironies of Donald Trump’s second presidency so far, perhaps the most surprising has been his shutting down the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for being “radical propaganda”. Critics have long accused the agency — and its ... <a title="Trump silences Voice of America – end of a propaganda machine or void for China and Russia to fill?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/26/trump-silences-voice-of-america-end-of-a-propaganda-machine-or-void-for-china-and-russia-to-fill/" aria-label="Read more about Trump silences Voice of America – end of a propaganda machine or void for China and Russia to fill?">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Ellerton, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Education; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland Siora Photography/Unsplash There is a Fox News headline that goes like this: Transgender female runner who beat 14,000 women at London Marathon offers to give medal back Read about ... <a title="Critical thinking is more important than ever. How can I improve my skills?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/26/critical-thinking-is-more-important-than-ever-how-can-i-improve-my-skills-252517/" aria-label="Read more about Critical thinking is more important than ever. How can I improve my skills?">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vita Pilkington, Research Fellow, PhD Candidate in men’s experiences of sexual trauma, The University of Melbourne Kristi Blokhin/Shutterstock In Australia, it’s estimated almost one in five boys (18.8%) experience child sexual abuse. And at least one in 16 men (6.1%) experience sexual violence after age 15. However, ... <a title="‘We don’t have a cultural place for men as victims’: why men often don’t tell anyone about sexual abuse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/26/we-dont-have-a-cultural-place-for-men-as-victims-why-men-often-dont-tell-anyone-about-sexual-abuse-252630/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We don’t have a cultural place for men as victims’: why men often don’t tell anyone about sexual abuse">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Corey Martin, Lecturer/Podcast Producer, Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock Podcasting was once the underdog of the media world: a platform where anyone with a microphone and an idea could share their voice. With low barriers to entry and freedom from institutional gatekeeping, it promised to amplify marginalised ... <a title="Podcasting was once a rebel medium for diverse voices. Now it’s slowly being consumed by big media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/26/podcasting-was-once-a-rebel-medium-for-diverse-voices-now-its-slowly-being-consumed-by-big-media-252169/" aria-label="Read more about Podcasting was once a rebel medium for diverse voices. Now it’s slowly being consumed by big media">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jade Wrathall, Teaching Fellow, Te Kura Toi Tangata – School of Education, University of Waikato smolaw/Shutterstock The New Zealand government’s plan to purchase a standardised tool to assess reading, writing and mathematics for school children between Year 3 and 10 has caught parents, schools and education groups ... <a title="National standards by stealth? Why the government’s latest plan for schools might fail the history test" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/26/national-standards-by-stealth-why-the-governments-latest-plan-for-schools-might-fail-the-history-test-252917/" aria-label="Read more about National standards by stealth? Why the government’s latest plan for schools might fail the history test">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Tax cuts are the centrepiece of the Albanese government’s cost-of-living budget bid for re-election in May. The surprise tax measures mean taxpayers will receive an extra tax cut of up to A$268 from July 1 next year and up to ... <a title="Albanese government bids for votes with ‘top-up’ tax cuts for all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/25/albanese-government-bids-for-votes-with-top-up-tax-cuts-for-all-253021/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese government bids for votes with ‘top-up’ tax cuts for all">Read more</a>
