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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Peter Dutton says if he became prime minister he would lobby US President Donald Trump “to reconsider his position” on Ukraine. The opposition leader, who previously rejected Trump’s description of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator”, has gone further ... <a title="Dutton says as PM he would ‘lobby’ Donald Trump to reconsider Ukraine stand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/dutton-says-as-pm-he-would-lobby-donald-trump-to-reconsider-ukraine-stand-251256/" aria-label="Read more about Dutton says as PM he would ‘lobby’ Donald Trump to reconsider Ukraine stand">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Harriette Richards, Senior Lecturer, School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University In a year with few surprises in the awards categories, there was also a dearth of surprises on the red carpet. The sartorial themes included sparkling metallics, coloured menswear and bows, bows and more bows. Metallic ... <a title="From the fashion to the speeches to the music, this was an Oscars of few surprises. 5 experts break it down" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/from-the-fashion-to-the-speeches-to-the-music-this-was-an-oscars-of-few-surprises-5-experts-break-it-down-251264/" aria-label="Read more about From the fashion to the speeches to the music, this was an Oscars of few surprises. 5 experts break it down">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Content warning: This story discusses rape and violence. Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested nine more men in connection with the rape and murder of a Port Moresby woman. The arrests, announced by Police Commissioner David Manning, follow a two-week investigation supported by forensic experts from the ... <a title="Nine more arrested in PNG for brutal kidnap, rape and murder of woman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/nine-more-arrested-in-png-for-brutal-kidnap-rape-and-murder-of-woman/" aria-label="Read more about Nine more arrested in PNG for brutal kidnap, rape and murder of woman">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia If you’re in southeast Queensland, brace yourself. Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to cross the southeast Queensland coast late this Thursday as a Category 2 storm. The last tropical cyclone to make landfall in the region was ex-Tropical ... <a title="Cyclone Alfred is expected to hit southeast Queensland – the first in 50 years to strike so far south" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/cyclone-alfred-is-expected-to-hit-southeast-queensland-the-first-in-50-years-to-strike-so-far-south-251241/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Alfred is expected to hit southeast Queensland – the first in 50 years to strike so far south">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Louise Stewart, Senior Career Medical Officer, Northern Sydney Local Health District; PhD Candidate, University of Sydney fizkes/Shutterstock An estimated one in five women and one in 16 men in Australia have experienced sexual violence. After such a traumatic experience, it’s understandable many are unsure if they ... <a title="I’m a medical forensic examiner. Here’s what people can expect from a health response after a sexual assault" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/im-a-medical-forensic-examiner-heres-what-people-can-expect-from-a-health-response-after-a-sexual-assault-244404/" aria-label="Read more about I’m a medical forensic examiner. Here’s what people can expect from a health response after a sexual assault">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Chand, Lecturer in Illustration and Animation, University of South Australia Maslow Entertainment Director Chantelle Murray’s new family film The Lost Tiger is the first animated feature written and directed by an Indigenous woman. Continuing with a long history of Indigenous storytelling, Murray has embedded the film ... <a title="The Lost Tiger: first animated film by an Indigenous woman explores heritage and identity through a thylacine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/the-lost-tiger-first-animated-film-by-an-indigenous-woman-explores-heritage-and-identity-through-a-thylacine-251033/" aria-label="Read more about The Lost Tiger: first animated film by an Indigenous woman explores heritage and identity through a thylacine">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Witzenberger, Research Fellow, GenAI Lab, Queensland University of Technology After a year of shoehorning generative AI into its flagship products, Microsoft is trying to recoup the costs by raising prices, putting ads in products, and cancelling data centre leases. Google is making similar moves, adding unavoidable ... <a title="Microsoft cuts data centre plans and hikes prices in push to make users carry AI costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/microsoft-cuts-data-centre-plans-and-hikes-prices-in-push-to-make-users-carry-ai-costs-250932/" aria-label="Read more about Microsoft cuts data centre plans and hikes prices in push to make users carry AI costs">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Shutterstock Despite community resistance and legal push-back, the government isn’t slowing down on its plan to roll back speed limit reductions on many roads. In the process, it’s going against expert advice from transport ... <a title="False economies: the evidence shows higher speed limits don’t make financial sense" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/false-economies-the-evidence-shows-higher-speed-limits-dont-make-financial-sense-251138/" aria-label="Read more about False economies: the evidence shows higher speed limits don’t make financial sense">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yetta Gurtner, Adjunct senior lecturer, Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University Tropical Cyclone Alfred is predicted to make landfall anywhere between Bundaberg and northern New South Wales this week. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has warned it may bring severe hazards and “dangerous and life-threatening flash ... <a title="How to prepare for a cyclone, according to an expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/how-to-prepare-for-a-cyclone-according-to-an-expert-251251/" aria-label="Read more about How to prepare for a cyclone, according to an expert">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
By Kate Green , RNZ News reporter Protesters have scaled the building of an international weapons company in Rolleston, Christchurch, in resistance to it establishing a presence in Aotearoa New Zealand. Two people from the group Peace Action Ōtautahi were on the roof of the NIOA building on Stoneleigh Drive, shown in a photo on ... <a title="Activists scale NZ building in protest against global weapons company" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/activists-scale-nz-building-in-protest-against-global-weapons-company/" aria-label="Read more about Activists scale NZ building in protest against global weapons company">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A poll of 20 marginal seats by Redbridge and Accent Research was conducted for the News Ltd tabloids on February 20–25, from a sample presumably over 1,000. ... <a title="Labor gains in Redbridge poll of marginal seats and seizes lead in a Morgan poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/labor-gains-in-redbridge-poll-of-marginal-seats-and-seizes-lead-in-a-morgan-poll-250614/" aria-label="Read more about Labor gains in Redbridge poll of marginal seats and seizes lead in a Morgan poll">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90 percent of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funding means “nothing’s safe right now,” a regional political analyst says. President Donald Trump’s government has said it is slashing about US$60 billion in overall US development and humanitarian assistance around ... <a title="Political analyst hopes NZ, Australia will ‘step up’ over USAID cuts gap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/political-analyst-hopes-nz-australia-will-step-up-over-usaid-cuts-gap/" aria-label="Read more about Political analyst hopes NZ, Australia will ‘step up’ over USAID cuts gap">Read more</a>
