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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Bell-James, Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland Almost 200 nations have signed an ambitious agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss but none is on track to meet the crucial goal, our new research reveals. The agreement, known formally as the Kunming-Montreal ... <a title="With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/with-just-5-years-to-go-the-world-is-failing-on-a-vital-deal-to-halt-biodiversity-loss-249841/" aria-label="Read more about With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philippa Collin, Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Australian school students’ civics knowledge is the lowest it has been since testing began 20 years ago, according to new national data. Results have fallen since the last assessment in 2019 and to the lowest levels ... <a title="Australian students just recorded the lowest civics scores since testing began. But young people do care about politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/australian-students-just-recorded-the-lowest-civics-scores-since-testing-began-but-young-people-do-care-about-politics-250047/" aria-label="Read more about Australian students just recorded the lowest civics scores since testing began. But young people do care about politics">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Buckley, Senior Research Fellow, Education Research, Policy and Development Division, Australian Council for Educational Research Michael Jung/ Shutterstock There is a persistent gender gap in Australian schools. Boys, on average, outperform girls in maths. We see this in national tests such as NAPLAN, as well as ... <a title="Boys not only perform better in maths, they are also more confident about the subject than girls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/boys-not-only-perform-better-in-maths-they-are-also-more-confident-about-the-subject-than-girls-250022/" aria-label="Read more about Boys not only perform better in maths, they are also more confident about the subject than girls">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Felicity Deane, Professor, Queensland University of Technology Australian beef exports to the United States are GST-free and should not be subject to any retaliatory tariff. William Edge/Shutterstock The latest round of proposed tariffs from US President Donald Trump includes a response to what the White House describes ... <a title="Is Australia’s GST a tax or a tariff? And why has it become a target in the trade wars?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/is-australias-gst-a-tax-or-a-tariff-and-why-has-it-become-a-target-in-the-trade-wars-250041/" aria-label="Read more about Is Australia’s GST a tax or a tariff? And why has it become a target in the trade wars?">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Rickerby, Lecturer, School of Product Design, University of Canterbury The Poly-1. MOTAT , CC BY-NC Some 45 years ago, a team of staff and students at Wellington Polytechnic designed and built a desktop computer with an operating system customised for the needs of New Zealand schools. ... <a title="Remembering the Poly-1: what NZ’s forgotten homegrown school computer can teach us about state-led innovation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/remembering-the-poly-1-what-nzs-forgotten-homegrown-school-computer-can-teach-us-about-state-led-innovation-249577/" aria-label="Read more about Remembering the Poly-1: what NZ’s forgotten homegrown school computer can teach us about state-led innovation">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Two Palestinian resistance groups have condemned “the brutal assault” on prisoners at Ofer Prison, saying it was “barbaric criminal behaviour that reflects the fascist and terrorist nature of” Israel. In the joint statement, Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) called the attack a “miserable attempt” by Israel “to restore its shattered prestige”, ... <a title="Hamas, PIJ slam Israel’s ‘barbaric’ raid on Palestinians at Ofer Prison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/hamas-pij-slam-israels-barbaric-raid-on-palestinians-at-ofer-prison/" aria-label="Read more about Hamas, PIJ slam Israel’s ‘barbaric’ raid on Palestinians at Ofer Prison">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Avarua, Rarotonga Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown hopes to have “an opportunity to talk” with the New Zealand government to “heal some of the rift”. Brown returned to Avarua on Sunday afternoon (Cook Islands Time) following his week-long state visit to China, where he signed a “comprehensive ... <a title="‘No areas of concern’, says Cook Islands PM on NZ’s China deal fears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/no-areas-of-concern-says-cook-islands-pm-on-nzs-china-deal-fears/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No areas of concern’, says Cook Islands PM on NZ’s China deal fears">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sonia R. Grover, Clinical Professor of Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne Polina Zimmerman/Pexels Menstruation, or a period, is the bleeding that occurs about monthly in healthy people born with a uterus, from puberty to menopause. This happens when the endometrium, the tissue that lines the inside of ... <a title="What’s the difference between period pain and endometriosis pain?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/whats-the-difference-between-period-pain-and-endometriosis-pain-244656/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between period pain and endometriosis pain?">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ella Barclay, Senior Lecturer, School of Art and Design, Australian National University Despite the perceived outrage at Khaled Sabsabi’s depiction of Hassan Nasrallah in his 2007 work You, Australian art has long made subjects of outlaws and questionable figures. And it is all the richer for it. ... <a title="Would Sidney Nolan be cancelled for painting Ned Kelly today? That’s what Creative Australia has done to Khaled Sabsabi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/would-sidney-nolan-be-cancelled-for-painting-ned-kelly-today-thats-what-creative-australia-has-done-to-khaled-sabsabi-249952/" aria-label="Read more about Would Sidney Nolan be cancelled for painting Ned Kelly today? That’s what Creative Australia has done to Khaled Sabsabi">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Pryke, Honorary Research Associate, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney Lisa Tomasetti/Opera Australia “It’s an old song”, Hermes (Christine Anu) sings at the opening of Hadestown, but “we’re gonna sing it again and again”. Based on a myth first told in Greece over ... <a title="We’ve told this story for 2,500 years: how Hadestown playfully brings alive an ancient Greek myth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/weve-told-this-story-for-2-500-years-how-hadestown-playfully-brings-alive-an-ancient-greek-myth-249718/" aria-label="Read more about We’ve told this story for 2,500 years: how Hadestown playfully brings alive an ancient Greek myth">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Davis, Associate Professor in Conservation, Edith Cowan University Adwo/Shutterstock Humans have been poisoning rodents for centuries. But fast-breeding rats and mice have evolved resistance to earlier poisons. In response, manufacturers have produced second generation anticoagulant rodenticides such as bromadiolone, widely used in Australian households. Unfortunately, these ... <a title="Lethal second-generation rat poisons are killing endangered quolls and Tasmanian devils" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/lethal-second-generation-rat-poisons-are-killing-endangered-quolls-and-tasmanian-devils-250035/" aria-label="Read more about Lethal second-generation rat poisons are killing endangered quolls and Tasmanian devils">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato It’s an unfortunate fact that bad people sometimes want guns. And while laws are designed to prevent guns falling into the wrong hands, the determined criminal can be highly resourceful. There are three main ways to source an illegal ... <a title="The threat of 3D-printed ‘ghost guns’ is growing, but NZ is yet to act on these 3 big legal gaps" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/the-threat-of-3d-printed-ghost-guns-is-growing-but-nz-is-yet-to-act-on-these-3-big-legal-gaps-248541/" aria-label="Read more about The threat of 3D-printed ‘ghost guns’ is growing, but NZ is yet to act on these 3 big legal gaps">Read more</a>
