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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University studiovin/Shutterstock Australia is in the grip of a severe housing shortage. Many people are finding it extremely difficult to find a place to live in the face of rising rents and property price surges. Homelessness is ... <a title="Shuttered car factories in Australia could be repurposed to make houses faster and cheaper" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/shuttered-car-factories-in-australia-could-be-repurposed-to-make-houses-faster-and-cheaper-249709/" aria-label="Read more about Shuttered car factories in Australia could be repurposed to make houses faster and cheaper">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia We’ve probably all had a moment when we stopped taking the Oscars too seriously. For me, it was when Denzel Washington won best actor for Training Day (2001), a crime film in which he displays ... <a title="Oscars 2025: who will likely win, who should win, and who barely deserves to be there" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/oscars-2025-who-will-likely-win-who-should-win-and-who-barely-deserves-to-be-there-250783/" aria-label="Read more about Oscars 2025: who will likely win, who should win, and who barely deserves to be there">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma Sharp, Professor, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow & Senior Clinical Psychologist, The University of Queensland Drazen Zigic/Shutterstock Eating disorders impact more than 1.1 million people in Australia, representing 4.5% of the population. These disorders include binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, and anorexia nervosa. Meanwhile, more than 4.1 ... <a title="Eating disorders don’t just affect teen girls. The risk may go up around pregnancy and menopause too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/eating-disorders-dont-just-affect-teen-girls-the-risk-may-go-up-around-pregnancy-and-menopause-too-250156/" aria-label="Read more about Eating disorders don’t just affect teen girls. The risk may go up around pregnancy and menopause too">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Nicholls, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Economic growth took centre stage during Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s recent State of the Nation speech. Yet in amongst the discussion and criticism of the government’s plans, many have ... <a title="NZ’s barriers to economic growth: short-term thinking, political concentration and policy flip-flops" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/nzs-barriers-to-economic-growth-short-term-thinking-political-concentration-and-policy-flip-flops-249007/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s barriers to economic growth: short-term thinking, political concentration and policy flip-flops">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The family of a Papua New Guinea police constable, killed in an ambush last month, has blocked a section of the Highlands Highway in Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, demanding justice for his death. Constable Harry Gorano succumbed to his injuries in intensive care two weeks ago after spending ... <a title="Relatives of slain PNG police officer block Highlands Highway over unresolved killing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/relatives-of-slain-png-police-officer-block-highlands-highway-over-unresolved-killing/" aria-label="Read more about Relatives of slain PNG police officer block Highlands Highway over unresolved killing">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The Western media went into overdrive this week to work the laconic Kiwis into a mild frenzy over three Chinese naval vessels conducting exercises in the Tasman Sea a few thousand kilometres off our shores. What was really behind this orchestrated campaign? ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Yellow Peril! Red Peril! ‘We cannot hide anymore’. Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea. " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/eugene-doyle-yellow-peril-red-peril-we-cannot-hide-anymore-chinese-warships-in-the-tasman-sea/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Yellow Peril! Red Peril! ‘We cannot hide anymore’. Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea. ">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Will Jeffery, Sessional Academic, Discipline of Film Studies, University of Sydney Gene Hackman, an acting titan of 1970s and ‘80s Hollywood with more than 80 screen credits to his name, has died at 95. He was found dead in his home with his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, ... <a title="Gene Hackman will be remembered as the Hollywood actor’s actor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/gene-hackman-will-be-remembered-as-the-hollywood-actors-actor-233109/" aria-label="Read more about Gene Hackman will be remembered as the Hollywood actor’s actor">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As the Albanese government struggles to stay on its political feet, who would have thought the China issue would suddenly insert itself into the campaign, leaving the prime minister looking, at best, flat-footed? Improving and stabilising what had become a ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese falls victim to a Chinese burn" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/grattan-on-friday-albanese-falls-victim-to-a-chinese-burn-251029/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese falls victim to a Chinese burn">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Summers, Professor, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock The greatest achievements in women’s economic progress in recent decades are potentially being eroded by domestic violence. This is the key finding of a new research report being released today by the University of Technology Sydney’s ... <a title="Revealed: the profound economic impact on women who experience domestic violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/revealed-the-profound-economic-impact-on-women-who-experience-domestic-violence-250278/" aria-label="Read more about Revealed: the profound economic impact on women who experience domestic violence">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rod Campbell, Honorary fellow, Deakin University Not so long ago, former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull was branded “Mr Harbourside Mansion”, a moniker bestowed upon him by his own side of politics. Turnbull’s estimated A$200 million in wealth when he entered politics was well known. So too ... <a title="Politics and property – how our leaders are among the privileged using legal loopholes to build their wealth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/politics-and-property-how-our-leaders-are-among-the-privileged-using-legal-loopholes-to-build-their-wealth-250929/" aria-label="Read more about Politics and property – how our leaders are among the privileged using legal loopholes to build their wealth">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chrystal Zhang, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering & Aviation, RMIT University Petr Podrouzek/Shutterstock Treasurer Jim Chalmers has given the green light for Qatar Airways to buy a 25% stake in Virgin Australia, as part of a strategic alliance. The deal will shake up the Australian aviation market. The ... <a title="Virgin Australia’s deal with Qatar has been given the green light. Travellers should be the winners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/virgin-australias-deal-with-qatar-has-been-given-the-green-light-travellers-should-be-the-winners-251025/" aria-label="Read more about Virgin Australia’s deal with Qatar has been given the green light. Travellers should be the winners">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katrina McFerran, Professor and Head of Creative Arts and Music Therapy Research Unit; Director of Researcher Development Unit, The University of Melbourne Al Cruz/Unsplash Imagine a scene from the movie Jaws, with the great white shark closing in on another helpless victim. The iconic semi-tone pattern builds ... <a title="Why does music make us feel things?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/why-does-music-make-us-feel-things-250756/" aria-label="Read more about Why does music make us feel things?">Read more</a>
