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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Hamilton, Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University JobKeeper was always quick and dirty. Its design was far from perfect, with shortcomings I and others cautioned against. These were forgiven in the face of an impending calamity, but ... <a title="How to tweak JobKeeper, if we must" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/how-to-tweak-jobkeeper-if-we-must-138321/" aria-label="Read more about How to tweak JobKeeper, if we must">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Plekhanova, Lecturer, Massey University The New Zealand government’s recently announced NZ$50 million subsidy package to support local media was necessary and urgent – even if it came too late to save the Bauer magazine titles from closing. But the injection of government cash did not address ... <a title="Google and Facebook pay way less tax in New Zealand than in Australia – and we’re paying the price" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/google-and-facebook-pay-way-less-tax-in-new-zealand-than-in-australia-and-were-paying-the-price-137075/" aria-label="Read more about Google and Facebook pay way less tax in New Zealand than in Australia – and we’re paying the price">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Winnifred Louis, Professor, Social Psychology, The University of Queensland The coronavirus restrictions are slowly being eased but the pressures on families at home still probably lead to many tears of frustration. It could be tensions about noise and clutter, keeping up with home schooling and mums and ... <a title="How to stay calm and manage those family tensions during the coronavirus lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/how-to-stay-calm-and-manage-those-family-tensions-during-the-coronavirus-lockdown-137166/" aria-label="Read more about How to stay calm and manage those family tensions during the coronavirus lockdown">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katja Lee, Lecturer, Communication and Media Studies, University of Western Australia If you need confirmation of how much the world has changed, consider this. Finally I have a thing or two to teach Matthew McConaughey about performance. McConaughey may have acted in more than 50 movies. He ... <a title="Hide self: one tip on video conferencing good enough for Matthew McConaughey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/hide-self-one-tip-on-video-conferencing-good-enough-for-matthew-mcconaughey-136609/" aria-label="Read more about Hide self: one tip on video conferencing good enough for Matthew McConaughey">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australians have been told they can no longer be “heroes” and go to work if they have a cold. During Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s press conference last week announcing plans to re-open the economy, workers were ... <a title="If we want workers to stay home when sick, we need paid leave for casuals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/if-we-want-workers-to-stay-home-when-sick-we-need-paid-leave-for-casuals-138431/" aria-label="Read more about If we want workers to stay home when sick, we need paid leave for casuals">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Pacific Media Centre TAPOL has condemned the political decision to cancel the early release of five political prisoners that were arrested in Jakarta for demonstrating in favour of self-determination of West Papua. On April 24, the Central Court of Jakarta sentenced Paulus Suryanta Ginting, Ambrosius Mulait, Dano Tabuni, Charles Kossay and Ariana Elopere to nine ... <a title="TAPOL condemns cancellation of early release for Jakarta Five prisoners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/tapol-condemns-cancellation-of-early-release-for-jakarta-five-prisoners/" aria-label="Read more about TAPOL condemns cancellation of early release for Jakarta Five prisoners">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Economies as Pie Charts Most of us are familiar with the expressions ‘economic pie’ or ‘economic cake’. The ‘pie’ metaphor is probably best, because pies represent a holdall food item, less homogeneous in their finished forms than are cakes. Further, most of us are familiar with pie charts. Yesterday I published ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Pie Economics: a Way to Understand Economic Balance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/keith-rankin-analysis-pie-economics-a-way-to-understand-economic-balance/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Pie Economics: a Way to Understand Economic Balance">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Dane, Lecturer, University of Melbourne Australia’s literary journals are produced in a fragile ecosystem propped up by a patchwork of volunteer labour, generous patrons and, with any luck, a small slice of government funding. The Sydney Review of Books, the Australian Book Review and Overland were ... <a title="Literary magazines are often the first place new authors are published. We can’t lose them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/literary-magazines-are-often-the-first-place-new-authors-are-published-we-cant-lose-them-137900/" aria-label="Read more about Literary magazines are often the first place new authors are published. We can’t lose them">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s ruling Tapura Huiraatira party has responded with anger to a radio interview with one of the party’s two members of the French Senate. Nuihau Laurey, a former finance minister, had told Tahiti’s Radio1 that the territorial government’s measures to deal with the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic had not been up to ... <a title="Senator outrages Tahiti government with ‘brutal virus crisis’ criticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/senator-outrages-tahiti-government-with-brutal-virus-crisis-criticism/" aria-label="Read more about Senator outrages Tahiti government with ‘brutal virus crisis’ criticism">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Budget, economy Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): A budget with Labour’s future on the line Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Thursday’s Budget to be huge, but not revolutionary Terry Baucher (Spinoff): Can we expect any radical tax proposals? ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 13 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-13-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 13 2020">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
COMMENT: By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Was New Zealand media giants NZME trying to pull a “fast one” when the company sought urgent approval to help to buy out rival media company Stuff for $1. The New Zealand Herald owners filed an urgent Commerce Commission application at on Monday for the ... <a title="Media monopoly: Was NZME trying to pull a ‘fast one’ over Stuff?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/media-monopoly-was-nzme-trying-to-pull-a-fast-one-over-stuff/" aria-label="Read more about Media monopoly: Was NZME trying to pull a ‘fast one’ over Stuff?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW As Australia’s coronavirus restrictions are gradually lifted, we may well see an upswing in cases of COVID-19. The World Health Organisation has warned of the need for “extreme vigilance” in ... <a title="As restrictions ease, here are 5 crucial ways for Australia to stay safely on top of COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/as-restrictions-ease-here-are-5-crucial-ways-for-australia-to-stay-safely-on-top-of-covid-19-138000/" aria-label="Read more about As restrictions ease, here are 5 crucial ways for Australia to stay safely on top of COVID-19">Read more</a>
