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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Barnes, Lecturer in Physics, Western Sydney University An artist’s impression of a high-energy particle travelling through the KM3NeT neutrino telescope. KM3NeT Three and a half kilometres beneath the Mediterranean Sea, around 80km off the coast of Sicily, lies half of a very unusual telescope called KM3NeT. ... <a title="3.5 kilometres underwater, scientists found a staggeringly energetic particle from outer space" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/3-5-kilometres-underwater-scientists-found-a-staggeringly-energetic-particle-from-outer-space-249590/" aria-label="Read more about 3.5 kilometres underwater, scientists found a staggeringly energetic particle from outer space">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Jensen, Associate professor, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, University of Canberra Kemarrravv13/Shutterstock Hate speech on X was consistently 50% higher for at least eight months after tech billionaire Elon Musk bought the social media platform, new research has found. The research looked ... <a title="Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/hate-speech-on-x-surged-for-at-least-8-months-after-elon-musk-takeover-new-research-249603/" aria-label="Read more about Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Graham, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney Ufuk Zivana/Shutterstock Prime Minister Christopher Luxon wants New Zealand to “go for growth”. But his plan, focused on reforming foreign investment, planning and competition laws, as well as boosting the tourism and mining sectors, is hampered by a ... <a title="To achieve real growth, the NZ government needs to relax the rules around housing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/to-achieve-real-growth-the-nz-government-needs-to-relax-the-rules-around-housing-249000/" aria-label="Read more about To achieve real growth, the NZ government needs to relax the rules around housing">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Appiah Takyi, Senior Lecturer, Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Street vending is a major economic activity in most of Ghana’s urban areas. The vendors bring everyday goods to residents and commuters at affordable prices in places convenient to them. However, ... <a title="Ghana’s urban strategies neglect the needs of street vendors: policy must catch up with reality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/ghanas-urban-strategies-neglect-the-needs-of-street-vendors-policy-must-catch-up-with-reality-248020/" aria-label="Read more about Ghana’s urban strategies neglect the needs of street vendors: policy must catch up with reality">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – The United States shares the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression. ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges The billionaires, Christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants who have seized control of Congress, the ... <a title="Chris Hedges: The US empire self-destructs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/chris-hedges-the-us-empire-self-destructs/" aria-label="Read more about Chris Hedges: The US empire self-destructs">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government has secured bipartisan support for a major new regime covering political donations and spending, after making significant concessions. The government agreed to increase the proposed threshold above which donations must be disclosed from $1000 to $5000. The ... <a title="Government-Coalition deal secures sweeping new regime for political donations and spending" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/government-coalition-deal-secures-sweeping-new-regime-for-political-donations-and-spending-249720/" aria-label="Read more about Government-Coalition deal secures sweeping new regime for political donations and spending">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With the election only months away, the Labor government finds itself suddenly battling with the Trump administration for an exemption from new US tariffs on steel and aluminium. The opposition has supported the effort, but it also claims a Coalition ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: David Littleproud on US tariffs, a government-owned Rex, and the Nationals’ identity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/politics-with-michelle-grattan-david-littleproud-on-us-tariffs-a-government-owned-rex-and-the-nationals-identity-249708/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: David Littleproud on US tariffs, a government-owned Rex, and the Nationals’ identity">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julee McDonagh, Senior Research Fellow of Frailty Research, University of Wollongong PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock Ageing is a normal part of the life course. It doesn’t matter how many green smoothies you drink, or how many “anti-ageing” skin care products you use, you can’t stop the ageing ... <a title="What’s the difference between ageing and frailty? One is inevitable – the other is not" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/whats-the-difference-between-ageing-and-frailty-one-is-inevitable-the-other-is-not-247450/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between ageing and frailty? One is inevitable – the other is not">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University The Conversation, CC BY-SA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. Colonial commemorations such as the statues of James Cook ... <a title="A new public statue of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter shows a bright future for Australian monuments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/a-new-public-statue-of-archie-roach-and-ruby-hunter-shows-a-bright-future-for-australian-monuments-249484/" aria-label="Read more about A new public statue of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter shows a bright future for Australian monuments">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Robin Davies Much has been and much more will be written about the looming abolition of USAID. It’s “the removal of a huge and important tool of American global statecraft” (Konyndyk), or the wood-chipping of a “viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America” (Musk) or, more reasonably, the unwarranted cancellation of an ... <a title="Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/powerless-another-asia-pacific-angle-on-the-long-siege-of-usaid/" aria-label="Read more about Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Masarik/Shutterstock In some overseas countries, pets can travel with their owners in a plane’s cabin, in a carrier under a seat. In Australia, pets must travel in the luggage hold of aircraft. But this ... <a title="Australians may soon be able to fly with their pets in a plane’s cabin – but not every pet is suited to it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/australians-may-soon-be-able-to-fly-with-their-pets-in-a-planes-cabin-but-not-every-pet-is-suited-to-it-249689/" aria-label="Read more about Australians may soon be able to fly with their pets in a plane’s cabin – but not every pet is suited to it">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lee Morgenbesser, Associate Professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Griffith University Many Americans have watched in horror as Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has been permitted to tear through various offices of the United States government in recent weeks. Backed by President Donald ... <a title="Is Elon Musk taking over the US government? Here’s how ‘state capture’ works – and why we should be concerned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/is-elon-musk-taking-over-the-us-government-heres-how-state-capture-works-and-why-we-should-be-concerned-249471/" aria-label="Read more about Is Elon Musk taking over the US government? Here’s how ‘state capture’ works – and why we should be concerned">Read more</a>
