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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The demography that makes up the Australian electorate is changing and as voters desert the major parties polls are becoming harder to read. Kos Samaras is a director of the political consultancy firm Redbridge, which undertakes both quantitative research and ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Kos Samaras on polls and the people who’ll decide this election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/politics-with-michelle-grattan-kos-samaras-on-polls-and-the-people-wholl-decide-this-election-253531/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Kos Samaras on polls and the people who’ll decide this election">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
“I started filming when we started to end.” With these haunting words, Basel Adra begins No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary that depicts life in Masafer Yatta, a collection of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank that are under complete occupation – military and civil – by Israel. For Basel and his community, this ... <a title="It will take more than an Oscar to stop Israel’s West Bank plans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/it-will-take-more-than-an-oscar-to-stop-israels-west-bank-plans/" aria-label="Read more about It will take more than an Oscar to stop Israel’s West Bank plans">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Peter Dutton came perilously close to a DOGE moment on Monday night, when he was asked about getting the “woke” agendas out of the education system. Noting the Commonwealth government “doesn’t own or run a school”, Dutton told a Sky ... <a title="Election Diary: Dutton flags intervention in what he sees as ‘woke’ education, but how much could he actually do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/election-diary-dutton-flags-intervention-in-what-he-sees-as-woke-education-but-how-much-could-he-actually-do-253116/" aria-label="Read more about Election Diary: Dutton flags intervention in what he sees as ‘woke’ education, but how much could he actually do?">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Holloway, Senior Research DECRA Fellow, Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has begun his election campaign with fresh criticism of schools. The Coalition has previously raised concerns the national curriculum is “unwieldy” and “infused with ideology”. On Monday ... <a title="Who decides what Australian students are taught in schools?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/who-decides-what-australian-students-are-taught-in-schools-253532/" aria-label="Read more about Who decides what Australian students are taught in schools?">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled that Parliament must be recalled on April 8 to debate a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister James Marape. In a decision handed down yesterday, the court found that actions taken by the Parliament’s Private Business Committee and Deputy Speaker, ... <a title="Supreme Court orders a recall of PNG parliament for no confidence vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/supreme-court-orders-a-recall-of-png-parliament-for-no-confidence-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Supreme Court orders a recall of PNG parliament for no confidence vote">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Smith, Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is doing little to enhance his country’s standing abroad. But it is helping to reinforce his political authority at home. Congress and the courts are ... <a title="Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’: why the US is on a war footing over tariffs and mass deportations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/trumps-liberation-day-why-the-us-is-on-a-war-footing-over-tariffs-and-mass-deportations-252808/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’: why the US is on a war footing over tariffs and mass deportations">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra The Reserve Bank of Australia left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4.1% today, stressing the uncertainty in the economic outlook. As the Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock told a media conference, “since ... <a title="Reserve Bank holds rates steady, cautious about the economic outlook" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/reserve-bank-holds-rates-steady-cautious-about-the-economic-outlook-253434/" aria-label="Read more about Reserve Bank holds rates steady, cautious about the economic outlook">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Neal, Senior lecturer in Economics / Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney The damage climate change will inflict on the world’s economy is likely to have been massively underestimated, according to new research by my colleagues and I which accounts for the full global ... <a title="Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/global-warming-of-more-than-3-c-this-century-may-wipe-40-off-the-worlds-economy-new-analysis-reveals-253032/" aria-label="Read more about Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia The small Queensland town of Eromanga bills itself as Australia’s town furthest from the sea. But this week, an ocean of freshwater arrived. Monsoon-like weather has hit the normally arid Channel Country of inland Queensland. Some towns have ... <a title="Torrential rains created inland seas in outback Queensland. Soon, they will supersize Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/torrential-rains-created-inland-seas-in-outback-queensland-soon-they-will-supersize-kati-thanda-lake-eyre-253529/" aria-label="Read more about Torrential rains created inland seas in outback Queensland. Soon, they will supersize Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kai Riemer, Professor of Information Technology and Organisation, University of Sydney Social media has recently been flooded with images that looked like they belonged in a Studio Ghibli film. Selfies, family photos and even memes have been re-imagined with the soft pastel palette characteristic of the Japanese ... <a title="ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli-style images show its creative power – but raise new copyright problems" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/chatgpts-studio-ghibli-style-images-show-its-creative-power-but-raise-new-copyright-problems-253438/" aria-label="Read more about ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli-style images show its creative power – but raise new copyright problems">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, University of South Australia Jacob Lund/Shutterstock Getting a headache during or after exercise can be seriously frustrating – especially if you have kept hydrated to try and stop them from happening. But why do these headaches occur? And does keeping hydrated ... <a title="Why do I get headaches when I exercise, even when I drink lots of water?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/why-do-i-get-headaches-when-i-exercise-even-when-i-drink-lots-of-water-253039/" aria-label="Read more about Why do I get headaches when I exercise, even when I drink lots of water?">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah G. Phillips, Professor of Global Conflict and Development; Non-Resident Fellow at the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies (Yemen), University of Sydney The “Signalgate” story has received wall-to-wall coverage since Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, published explosive details about a Signal group chat where senior ... <a title="‘Signalgate’ was damaging to the Trump administration. It could be deadly for Yemeni civilians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/signalgate-was-damaging-to-the-trump-administration-it-could-be-deadly-for-yemeni-civilians-253524/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Signalgate’ was damaging to the Trump administration. It could be deadly for Yemeni civilians">Read more</a>
