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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cynthia Mehboob, PhD Scholar in Department of International Relations, Australian National University Gail Johnson/Shutterstock Last month tech giant Meta announced plans to build the world’s longest submarine communication cable. Known as Project Waterworth, the 50,000-kilometre cable would link five continents. Meta says it would improve connectivity and ... <a title="Submarine cables keep the world connected. They can also help us study climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/submarine-cables-keep-the-world-connected-they-can-also-help-us-study-climate-change-251046/" aria-label="Read more about Submarine cables keep the world connected. They can also help us study climate change">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacob Broom, Lecturer in Politics and Policy, Murdoch University The Western Australian election is less than a week away, and two themes have dominated: big public spending and culture wars. The main parties are racking up a long and expensive list of policy promises. The ABC’s election ... <a title="The WA election campaign has been about big promises, but culture wars are inescapable in contemporary politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/the-wa-election-campaign-has-been-about-big-promises-but-culture-wars-are-inescapable-in-contemporary-politics-249691/" aria-label="Read more about The WA election campaign has been about big promises, but culture wars are inescapable in contemporary politics">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Senior Research Fellow in Commercial Determinants of Health, The University of Melbourne Good quality information about when and how alcohol and gambling industries try to influence government decision making should be easily accessible. But in Australia, it’s not. When we mapped the network of alcohol ... <a title="Alcohol and gambling firms donate to political parties multiple times. And new rules won’t stop them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/alcohol-and-gambling-firms-donate-to-political-parties-multiple-times-and-new-rules-wont-stop-them-250374/" aria-label="Read more about Alcohol and gambling firms donate to political parties multiple times. And new rules won’t stop them">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Dempsey, Associate Professor in Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury Shutterstock/Oksana Bali The government recently announced a framework to regulate carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) by New Zealand companies. Energy and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts outlined new rules that would allow emitters to capture ... <a title="Leakage is a risk with carbon storage projects – NZ’s new framework must be clear on how to deal with this liability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/leakage-is-a-risk-with-carbon-storage-projects-nzs-new-framework-must-be-clear-on-how-to-deal-with-this-liability-251006/" aria-label="Read more about Leakage is a risk with carbon storage projects – NZ’s new framework must be clear on how to deal with this liability">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Stephen, Lecturer, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong Neon Wang/Unsplash More than 260,000 students across Australia are going to university for the first time. Some come to university to pursue a passion, others to discover one, and some aren’t quite sure why they’re here. Whatever their ... <a title="What can you do if you’ve started uni and you don’t like it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/what-can-you-do-if-youve-started-uni-and-you-dont-like-it-251052/" aria-label="Read more about What can you do if you’ve started uni and you don’t like it?">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Isaacs, Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney Disney+/Netflix/Stan This month, as the weather stays high and you’re likely to want to stay under the air-conditioning, our experts have a cornucopia of shows and films they’re watching to suit every mood. There is Robert de Niro’s ... <a title="Belle Gibson, teenage lives and trying to find the traitors: what we’re streaming this March" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/belle-gibson-teenage-lives-and-trying-to-find-the-traitors-what-were-streaming-this-march-250759/" aria-label="Read more about Belle Gibson, teenage lives and trying to find the traitors: what we’re streaming this March">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has accused Israel of “blackmail” over aid and urged the US government to act more like a neutral mediator in the ceasefire process. “We call on the US administration to stop its bias and alignment with the fascist plans of the war criminal Netanyahu, which target our ... <a title="Hamas accuses Israel of ‘blackmail’ over aid, demands end of US support for Netanyahu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/hamas-accuses-israel-of-blackmail-over-aid-demands-end-of-us-support-for-netanyahu/" aria-label="Read more about Hamas accuses Israel of ‘blackmail’ over aid, demands end of US support for Netanyahu">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself before its far weaker enemies as rapidly and brazenly as Donald ... <a title="In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America first. He is hastening its decline" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/02/in-siding-with-russia-over-ukraine-trump-is-not-putting-america-first-he-is-hastening-its-decline-251140/" aria-label="Read more about In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America first. He is hastening its decline">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2025
Pacific Media Watch With international media’s attention on the Israeli and Palestinian captives exchange, Israel’s military and settlers have been forcibly displacing tens of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, says Al Jazeera’s Listening Post media programme. The European Union has condemned Israel’s military operation in West Bank, attacking and killing refugees, and ... <a title="Israel’s genocide is expanding into the West Bank – but Western media ‘ignores’ it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/02/israels-genocide-is-expanding-into-the-west-bank-but-western-media-ignores-it/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s genocide is expanding into the West Bank – but Western media ‘ignores’ it">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Last week, on 26 February 2025, President Prabowo Subianto officially launched Indonesia’s first bullion banks, marking a significant shift in the country’s approach to gold and precious metal management. This initiative aims to strengthen Indonesia’s control over its gold reserves, improve financial stability, and reduce reliance on foreign institutions for gold ... <a title="Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan sovereignty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/02/indonesias-bullion-banks-new-mining-policies-pose-threat-to-west-papuan-sovereignty/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan sovereignty">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2025
More than 180 remained in detention without a clear indication of when or if they would be released, the physicians’ report said. “Detainees endure physical, psychological and sexual abuse as well as starvation and medical neglect amounting to torture,” the report said, denouncing a “deeply ingrained policy”. Healthcare workers were beaten, threatened, and forced to ... <a title="Palestine asks ICJ for advisory opinion on illegal occupier Israel’s obligations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/01/palestine-asks-icj-for-advisory-opinion-on-illegal-occupier-israels-obligations/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine asks ICJ for advisory opinion on illegal occupier Israel’s obligations">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2025
Asia Pacific Report In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents and 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tested by the United States, Greenpeace is calling on Washington to comply with demands by the Marshall Islands for nuclear justice. “The Marshall Islands bears the ... <a title="Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear justice by US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/01/four-decades-after-rongelap-evacuation-greenpeace-makes-new-plea-for-nuclear-justice-by-us/" aria-label="Read more about Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear justice by US">Read more</a>
