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March 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra On current opinion polls, we are looking at a very close race at the May election. As voting day draws near, Peter Dutton will face more forensic questioning about his policies and how he would run government. At the same ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Peter Dutton on why he’s not Australia’s Trump – ‘I’m my own person’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/politics-with-michelle-grattan-peter-dutton-on-why-hes-not-australias-trump-im-my-own-person-252156/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Peter Dutton on why he’s not Australia’s Trump – ‘I’m my own person’">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
While Rodrigo Duterte may still command support from his core base in the Philippines, something has clearly shifted. Yet the power he did wield haunts the nation as it awaits his trial at the International Criminal Court and it renews speculation about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who also has an ICC arrest warrant out ... <a title="Rodrigo Duterte, how the powerful turned powerless – by a target" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/rodrigo-duterte-how-the-powerful-turned-powerless-by-a-target/" aria-label="Read more about Rodrigo Duterte, how the powerful turned powerless – by a target">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Noel Morada, Visiting Professor, Nelson Mandela Centre, Chulalongkorn University; and Research Fellow, Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, The University of Queensland Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is now in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, to face charges of alleged ... <a title="Will Rodrigo Duterte be seen as a martyr – or a symbol of justice finally being carried out?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/will-rodrigo-duterte-be-seen-as-a-martyr-or-a-symbol-of-justice-finally-being-carried-out-252020/" aria-label="Read more about Will Rodrigo Duterte be seen as a martyr – or a symbol of justice finally being carried out?">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Old, Associate Professor in Biology, Zoology and Animal Science, Western Sydney University Wombat joeys are dependent on their mothers for up to two years. Tom Wayman/Shutterstock It was hard to watch. In a now-deleted Instagram reel, American influencer Sam Jones is filmed picking up a young ... <a title="Yes, it’s a terrible idea to pick up or interfere with wild animals – especially baby wombats. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/yes-its-a-terrible-idea-to-pick-up-or-interfere-with-wild-animals-especially-baby-wombats-heres-why-252164/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, it’s a terrible idea to pick up or interfere with wild animals – especially baby wombats. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Martín-Francés, Postdoctoral Fellow, PalaeoDiet Research Lab, Monash University The newly found fossil (right) alongside a mirrored reconstruction (left). Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA / Elena Santos / CENIEH In a system of caves in the Atapuerca Mountains in Spain, nearly 50 years of systematic archaeological excavations ... <a title="Fragments of a million-year-old face found in Spain shed new light on ancient human migrations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/fragments-of-a-million-year-old-face-found-in-spain-shed-new-light-on-ancient-human-migrations-252146/" aria-label="Read more about Fragments of a million-year-old face found in Spain shed new light on ancient human migrations">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor & Principal Fellow in Urban Risk & Resilience, The University of Melbourne The recent rollover of two army trucks carrying Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel responding to ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred was unprecedented for a domestic emergency operation. Thirty-two soldiers were hospitalised in the ... <a title="We can’t keep relying on the ADF to respond to natural disasters – how to rebuild our emergency volunteer workforce" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/we-cant-keep-relying-on-the-adf-to-respond-to-natural-disasters-how-to-rebuild-our-emergency-volunteer-workforce-251907/" aria-label="Read more about We can’t keep relying on the ADF to respond to natural disasters – how to rebuild our emergency volunteer workforce">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shima Ziajahromi, Advance Queensland Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University Gary D Chapman/Shutterstock Compost applied to agricultural soils in Australia each year contains tonnes of microplastics, our research has revealed. These microplastics can harm soil and plant health and eventually enter food crops, potentially posing a ... <a title="Tonnes of microplastics infiltrate Australia’s agricultural soils each year, study shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/tonnes-of-microplastics-infiltrate-australias-agricultural-soils-each-year-study-shows-250624/" aria-label="Read more about Tonnes of microplastics infiltrate Australia’s agricultural soils each year, study shows">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ferdi Botha, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research, The University of Melbourne Australia already has the highest gambling losses globally. Now, new data show that between 2015 and 2022, the number of Australian men involved in sports betting has increased substantially. And for ... <a title="The rate of sports betting has surged more than 57% – and younger people are betting more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/the-rate-of-sports-betting-has-surged-more-than-57-and-younger-people-are-betting-more-251902/" aria-label="Read more about The rate of sports betting has surged more than 57% – and younger people are betting more">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Jeffries, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University Pamela Au/Shutterstock News that a health worker at a Sydney hospital’s birth unit was infectious with hepatitis B for more than a decade has led to a health alert for mothers and babies. The staff member worked at ... <a title="What is hepatitis B, the virus at the centre of the recent hospital infection alert?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/what-is-hepatitis-b-the-virus-at-the-centre-of-the-recent-hospital-infection-alert-252037/" aria-label="Read more about What is hepatitis B, the virus at the centre of the recent hospital infection alert?">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Asia Pacific Report An open letter signed by 100 Christian leaders, calling for the granting of humanitarian visas to Aotearoa New Zealand for families of Palestinians trapped in Gaza has been handed over on the steps of Parliament. The letter was presented yesterday on Ash Wednesday to opposition Labour Party MP Phil Twyford, who was ... <a title="100 Christian leaders’ open letter calls for NZ humanitarian visas for trapped Gaza families" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/100-christian-leaders-open-letter-calls-for-nz-humanitarian-visas-for-trapped-gaza-families/" aria-label="Read more about 100 Christian leaders’ open letter calls for NZ humanitarian visas for trapped Gaza families">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Opinion-Analysis – by Keith Rankin. Former ambassador Phil Goff is the latest (so far) and (probably) the least of many ‘statesmen’ who have invoked Munich and the ‘resolute’ Winston Churchill (a backbench MP in 1938) in the cause of good-war mongering. (Refer Winston Peters sacks Phil Goff as UK High Commissioner RNZ 6 March 2025, ... <a title="Opinion-Analysis by Keith Rankin – Invoking Munich, ‘Appeasement’, and the ‘Lessons of History’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/opinion-analysis-by-keith-rankin-invoking-munich-appeasement-and-the-lessons-of-history/" aria-label="Read more about Opinion-Analysis by Keith Rankin – Invoking Munich, ‘Appeasement’, and the ‘Lessons of History’">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Hill, Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne and Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria Research Institute As the full moon rises tomorrow (Friday March 14), it will be a special sight for those in Aotearoa New Zealand. It will also be worth a look for people along ... <a title="A lunar eclipse is on tomorrow – NZ and parts of Australia are in for a spectacle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/a-lunar-eclipse-is-on-tomorrow-nz-and-parts-of-australia-are-in-for-a-spectacle-251369/" aria-label="Read more about A lunar eclipse is on tomorrow – NZ and parts of Australia are in for a spectacle">Read more</a>