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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University Tang Yan Song The election campaign has erupted into a economic battleground as Labor and the Coalition unveiled major new tax policies at their campaign launches. Each policy package is aimed at addressing the mounting cost-of-living pressures facing millions of ... <a title="Voters have a clear choice. Labor’s long term and equitable tax reform or the Coalition’s big but one-off tax cuts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/voters-have-a-clear-choice-labors-long-term-and-equitable-tax-reform-or-the-coalitions-big-but-one-off-tax-cuts-254452/" aria-label="Read more about Voters have a clear choice. Labor’s long term and equitable tax reform or the Coalition’s big but one-off tax cuts">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra If anyone had any doubts before, Sunday’s Liberal and Labor launches highlighted that this election is an auction for votes, in particular those of the under 40s and people in the outer suburbs. Amid the usual launch hoopla – the ... <a title="Election Diary: Liberal and Labor launches focus on housing, but who thinks either side can fix that crisis any time soon?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/election-diary-liberal-and-labor-launches-focus-on-housing-but-who-thinks-either-side-can-fix-that-crisis-any-time-soon-254206/" aria-label="Read more about Election Diary: Liberal and Labor launches focus on housing, but who thinks either side can fix that crisis any time soon?">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Seth Asare Okyere, Visiting lecturer, University of Pittsburg and Adjunct Associate Professor, Osaka University, University of Pittsburgh Humans are walking beings. Walking is intrinsically linked to our physical development from childhood and enables our connections with people and places. We can say it is essential to our ... <a title="Accra is a tough city to walk in: how city planners can fix the problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/accra-is-a-tough-city-to-walk-in-how-city-planners-can-fix-the-problem-253636/" aria-label="Read more about Accra is a tough city to walk in: how city planners can fix the problem">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Merja Myllylahti, Senior Lecturer, Co-Director Research Centre for Journalism, Media & Democracy, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images The news media is doing its best to keep everyone up to speed with the pace of Donald Trump’s radical changes to the world order. But in Aotearoa New ... <a title="‘Trump fatigue’ is putting Kiwis off the news, with trust in media still low – new report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/trump-fatigue-is-putting-kiwis-off-the-news-with-trust-in-media-still-low-new-report-252714/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Trump fatigue’ is putting Kiwis off the news, with trust in media still low – new report">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Health workers spoke out at a rally condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the latest atrocity against Palestinian aid workers today, calling on the New Zealand government to join global demands for an independent investigation. They were protesting over last month’s massacre of 15 Palestinian rescue workers and the destruction of their ... <a title="Health workers call for NZ government to join global demands for ambulance massacre inquiry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/health-workers-call-for-nz-government-to-join-global-demands-for-ambulance-massacre-inquiry/" aria-label="Read more about Health workers call for NZ government to join global demands for ambulance massacre inquiry">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese will promise a $10 billion scheme to facilitate the building of up to 100,000 homes that would be earmarked for sale to first home buyers. To be unveiled at Labor’s formal campaign launch in Perth on Sunday, the ... <a title="Albanese pitches to aspiring home buyers with $10 billion plan and removal of means test on deposit guarantee" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/albanese-pitches-to-aspiring-home-buyers-with-10-billion-plan-and-removal-of-means-test-on-deposit-guarantee-254205/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese pitches to aspiring home buyers with $10 billion plan and removal of means test on deposit guarantee">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Peter Dutton at his party launch on Sunday will offer a “cost of living tax offset” of up to $1,200 to more than 10 million taxpayers. The one-off offset would go to taxpayers earning up to $144,000 when they lodged ... <a title="Dutton to offer targeted income tax offset of up to $1,200" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/13/dutton-to-offer-targeted-income-tax-offset-of-up-to-1-200-254204/" aria-label="Read more about Dutton to offer targeted income tax offset of up to $1,200">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2025
RNZ Pacific Pacific climate activists this week handed a letter from civil society to this year’s United Nations climate conference hosts, Brazil, emphasising their demands for the end of fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy. More than 180 indigenous, youth, and environmental organisations from across the world have signed the letter, coordinated by the ... <a title="Pacific climate activists join 180+ groups calling on COP30 hosts Brazil to end fossil fuel dependence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/12/pacific-climate-activists-join-180-groups-calling-on-cop30-hosts-brazil-to-end-fossil-fuel-dependence/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific climate activists join 180+ groups calling on COP30 hosts Brazil to end fossil fuel dependence">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It takes a bit for Labor not to preference the Greens but on Friday it was announced that in the Melbourne seat of Macnamara, where Jewish MP Josh Burns is embattled, the ALP will run an open ticket. Macnamara, which ... <a title="Election Diary: Labor breaks practice of preferencing Greens to protect Jewish MP Josh Burns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/11/election-diary-labor-breaks-practice-of-preferencing-greens-to-protect-jewish-mp-josh-burns-254202/" aria-label="Read more about Election Diary: Labor breaks practice of preferencing Greens to protect Jewish MP Josh Burns">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2025
By Layla Bailey-McDowell, RNZ Māori news journalist Legal experts and Māori advocates say the fight to protect Te Tiriti is only just beginning — as the controversial Treaty Principles Bill is officially killed in Parliament. The bill — which seeks to redefine the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi — sparked a nationwide hīkoi and ... <a title="‘Delusional’ Treaty Principles Bill scrapped but fight for Te Tiriti just beginning, say lawyers and advocates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/11/delusional-treaty-principles-bill-scrapped-but-fight-for-te-tiriti-just-beginning-say-lawyers-and-advocates/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Delusional’ Treaty Principles Bill scrapped but fight for Te Tiriti just beginning, say lawyers and advocates">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Mortimore, Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University The Coalition has announced it would, if elected to government, weaken a scheme aimed at cutting car emissions. The scheme, known as the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES), was introduced by the Albanese government and was due to take ... <a title="Coalition plan to dump fuel efficiency penalties would make Australia a global outlier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/11/coalition-plan-to-dump-fuel-efficiency-penalties-would-make-australia-a-global-outlier-254386/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition plan to dump fuel efficiency penalties would make Australia a global outlier">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wesley Morgan, Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney Australia’s relationship with its regional neighbours could be in doubt under a Coalition government after two Pacific leaders challenged Opposition Leader Peter Dutton over his weak climate stance. This week, Palau’s president Surangel Whipps Jr ... <a title="Peter Dutton’s climate policy backslide threatens Australia’s clout in the Pacific – right when we need it most" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/11/peter-duttons-climate-policy-backslide-threatens-australias-clout-in-the-pacific-right-when-we-need-it-most-254385/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Dutton’s climate policy backslide threatens Australia’s clout in the Pacific – right when we need it most">Read more</a>
