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Month: April 2025

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Newspoll steady as both leaders’ ratings fall; Labor surging in poll of marginal seats

April 21, 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 With less than two weeks to go now until the federal election, the polls continue to favour the government being returned. Newspoll was steady at 52–48 to ... <a title="Newspoll steady as both leaders’ ratings fall; Labor surging in poll of marginal seats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/21/newspoll-steady-as-both-leaders-ratings-fall-labor-surging-in-poll-of-marginal-seats-254715/" aria-label="Read more about Newspoll steady as both leaders’ ratings fall; Labor surging in poll of marginal seats">Read more</a>

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Caitlin Johnstone: ‘I want a death that the world will hear’  –  journalist assassinated by Israel for telling the truth

April 20, 2025

Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israel assassinated a photojournalist in Gaza in an airstrike targeting her family’s home on Wednesday, the day after it was announced that a documentary she appears in would premier in Cannes next month. Her name was Fatima Hassouna. Nine members of her ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: ‘I want a death that the world will hear’  –  journalist assassinated by Israel for telling the truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/caitlin-johnstone-i-want-a-death-that-the-world-will-hear-journalist-assassinated-by-israel-for-telling-the-truth/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: ‘I want a death that the world will hear’  –  journalist assassinated by Israel for telling the truth">Read more</a>

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Indicators of alien life may have been found – astrophysicist explains what the new research means

April 20, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University Darryl Fonseka/Shutterstocl What do you think of when it comes to extra terrestrial life? Most popular sci-fi books and TV shows suggest humanoid beings could live on other planets. But when astronomers are searching for extra-terrestrial life, it ... <a title="Indicators of alien life may have been found – astrophysicist explains what the new research means" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/indicators-of-alien-life-may-have-been-found-astrophysicist-explains-what-the-new-research-means-254843/" aria-label="Read more about Indicators of alien life may have been found – astrophysicist explains what the new research means">Read more</a>

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Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen

April 20, 2025

By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as “a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women”. That would probably not fly these days — but as ... <a title="Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/mediawatch-jailed-australian-foreign-correspondents-life-spread-across-the-big-screen/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen">Read more</a>

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Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages in Gaza

April 20, 2025

Asia Pacific Report Peaceful protesters in Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest city Auckland held an Easter prayer vigil honouring Palestinian political prisoners and the sacrifice of thousands of innocent lives as relentless Israeli bombing of displaced Gazans in tents killed at least 92 people in two days. Organisers of the rally for the 80th week since ... <a title="Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/palestinian-solidarity-vigil-at-easter-in-nz-as-israeli-bombing-rages-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages in Gaza">Read more</a>

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Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door

April 19, 2025

ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces in April 1975. They are being commemorated very differently; after all, there’s nothing to celebrate in Cambodia. Its capital Phnom Penh was ... <a title="Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/did-australia-back-the-wrong-war-in-the-1960s-now-putins-russia-is-knocking-on-the-door/" aria-label="Read more about Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door">Read more</a>

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Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific

April 19, 2025

By Gujari Singh in Washington The Trump administration has issued a new executive order opening up vast swathes of protected ocean to commercial exploitation, including areas within the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. It allows commercial fishing in areas long considered off-limits due to their ecological significance — despite overwhelming scientific consensus that marine ... <a title="Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/trump-executive-orders-roll-back-ocean-fisheries-protections-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific">Read more</a>

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Google loses online ad monopoly case. But it’s just one of many antitrust battles against big tech

April 19, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney Tech giant Google has just suffered another legal blow in the United States, losing a landmark antitrust case. This follows on from the company’s loss in a similar case last year. Social media giant Meta ... <a title="Google loses online ad monopoly case. But it’s just one of many antitrust battles against big tech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/google-loses-online-ad-monopoly-case-but-its-just-one-of-many-antitrust-battles-against-big-tech-254602/" aria-label="Read more about Google loses online ad monopoly case. But it’s just one of many antitrust battles against big tech">Read more</a>

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What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater transparency

April 18, 2025

By Susana Leiataua, RNZ National presenter There are calls for greater transparency about what the HMNZS Manawanui was doing before it sank in Samoa last October — including whether the New Zealand warship was performing specific security for King Charles and Queen Camilla. The Manawanui grounded on the reef off the south coast of Upolu ... <a title="What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater transparency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/18/what-was-hmnzs-manawanui-doing-before-it-sank-calls-for-greater-transparency/" aria-label="Read more about What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater transparency">Read more</a>

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Labor’s poll surge continues in YouGov, but it’s barely ahead in Freshwater

April 18, 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 Labor increased its lead again in a YouGov poll, but Freshwater put the party ahead by just 50.3–49.7. This article also covers the final WA upper house ... <a title="Labor’s poll surge continues in YouGov, but it’s barely ahead in Freshwater" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/18/labors-poll-surge-continues-in-yougov-but-its-barely-ahead-in-freshwater-254708/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s poll surge continues in YouGov, but it’s barely ahead in Freshwater">Read more</a>