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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra We see the political parties’ frantic election campaigns, but behind the scenes the Australian Electoral Commisison is working just as hard. An often overlooked part of Australia’s democracy, the AEC is vital in ensuring our elections are both efficient and ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tom Rogers calls for national digital literacy campaign and more civics teaching" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/politics-with-michelle-grattan-tom-rogers-calls-for-national-digital-literacy-campaign-and-more-civics-teaching-250901/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tom Rogers calls for national digital literacy campaign and more civics teaching">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Hargreaves, Senior Learning Advisor, University of Southern Queensland State Library of Victoria It was 2009. John Farnham walked on stage at the disaster relief concert for the most devastating bushfires in Australian history. He belted out You’re The Voice to 36,000 people at the Sydney Cricket ... <a title="Church hymns and social beers: how Australia is reviving the magic of singing together" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/church-hymns-and-social-beers-how-australia-is-reviving-the-magic-of-singing-together-250254/" aria-label="Read more about Church hymns and social beers: how Australia is reviving the magic of singing together">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Melatos, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Sydney If you are a member of a super fund, some of your long-term savings are probably invested in private markets. Public markets are familiar to most of us – the stock market and government and corporate bond markets. ... <a title="Your super fund is invested in private markets. What are they and why has ASIC raised concerns?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/your-super-fund-is-invested-in-private-markets-what-are-they-and-why-has-asic-raised-concerns-250788/" aria-label="Read more about Your super fund is invested in private markets. What are they and why has ASIC raised concerns?">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
A rally on the steps of the Victorian Parliament under the banner of Jews for a Free Palestine was arranged for Sunday, February 9. At 11:11pm on the eve of that rally, Mark Leibler —a lawyer who claims to have a high profile and speak on behalf of Jews by the totally unelected organisation AIJAC ... <a title="J’accuse!… the Jew who accuses his fellow Jews of being antisemites" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/jaccuse-the-jew-who-accuses-his-fellow-jews-of-being-antisemites/" aria-label="Read more about J’accuse!… the Jew who accuses his fellow Jews of being antisemites">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Omid Aliasghar, Senior Lecturer, Management and International Business, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau NicoElNino/Shutterstock When it comes to turning research into real-world success, New Zealand has a problem. Despite the country’s NZ$3.7 billion research and development spending in 2023 – a 17% jump from the previous ... <a title="Ignore the ‘ivory tower’ clichés – universities are the innovation partners more Kiwi businesses need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/ignore-the-ivory-tower-cliches-universities-are-the-innovation-partners-more-kiwi-businesses-need-249129/" aria-label="Read more about Ignore the ‘ivory tower’ clichés – universities are the innovation partners more Kiwi businesses need">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jesse Ruse, Clinical Psychologist, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Netflix Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar has renewed interest in Belle Gibson’s infamous wellness scam, reminding us how vulnerable we can be to deception. While Gibson’s scheme eventually collapsed, her story highlights how fraudsters can exploit our psychological and ... <a title="Why do we fall for wellness scams? Our cultural biases and myths are often to blame" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/why-do-we-fall-for-wellness-scams-our-cultural-biases-and-myths-are-often-to-blame-250790/" aria-label="Read more about Why do we fall for wellness scams? Our cultural biases and myths are often to blame">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie Harkin, Lecturer, Games, School of Design, RMIT University Papergames 24/7 companionship. Spend time with him whenever you want. This is the promise made by Love and Deepspace, a mobile romance game by the Chinese company Papergames. Some think video games are all guns and cars, but ... <a title="Chinese dating simulator Love and Deepspace now has a period tracker – it signals a shift in mobile gaming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/chinese-dating-simulator-love-and-deepspace-now-has-a-period-tracker-it-signals-a-shift-in-mobile-gaming-250497/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese dating simulator Love and Deepspace now has a period tracker – it signals a shift in mobile gaming">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gerald Roche, Lecturer in Linguistics, La Trobe University Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found indicating he had been brutally tortured in ... <a title="Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. This is in danger of extinction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/tibet-is-one-of-the-most-linguistically-diverse-places-in-the-world-this-is-in-danger-of-extinction-246316/" aria-label="Read more about Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. This is in danger of extinction">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Franks, Professor and Director – Global Centre for Mineral Security, The University of Queensland Thanagornsoisep/Shutterstock Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The astonishing scale of this demand is hard to comprehend – 12.5 million Olympic sized swimming ... <a title="Nose-to-tail mining: how making sand from ore could solve a looming crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/nose-to-tail-mining-how-making-sand-from-ore-could-solve-a-looming-crisis-250284/" aria-label="Read more about Nose-to-tail mining: how making sand from ore could solve a looming crisis">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Georgina Dimopoulos, Associate Professor, Law, Southern Cross University Bricolage/AAP When parental separation ends up in the family courts, serious risks such as family violence, child abuse, drug, alcohol or substance misuse, and mental health issues are often involved. But many children feel shut out of family court ... <a title="‘They’re meant to help and did the complete opposite’: many children feel silenced by family courts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/theyre-meant-to-help-and-did-the-complete-opposite-many-children-feel-silenced-by-family-courts-250636/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They’re meant to help and did the complete opposite’: many children feel silenced by family courts">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
RNZ Pacific The Papua New Guinea government wants to have everyone on their National Identity (NID) card system by the country’s 50th anniversary on 16 September 2025. While the government has been struggling to set up the NID programme for more than 10 years, in January the Prime Minister, James Marape, announced they aimed to ... <a title="PNG govt’s latest ID plan unlikely to be achieved, says academic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/png-govts-latest-id-plan-unlikely-to-be-achieved-says-academic/" aria-label="Read more about PNG govt’s latest ID plan unlikely to be achieved, says academic">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rex Mitchell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Flinders University Hedley Herbert Finlayson, The Red Centre, 1935 When it comes to how hard an animal can bite, size always matters. There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), known as the ngudlukanta to the ... <a title="Presumed extinct, this desert rat-kangaroo may still be alive in hiding. New analysis reveals its delicate diet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/presumed-extinct-this-desert-rat-kangaroo-may-still-be-alive-in-hiding-new-analysis-reveals-its-delicate-diet-250283/" aria-label="Read more about Presumed extinct, this desert rat-kangaroo may still be alive in hiding. New analysis reveals its delicate diet">Read more</a>
