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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth Boyask, Director of LitPlus, AUT School of Education, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images There is a well-known whakatauki (Māori proverb) that goes: “Ka mua, ka muri” – “walking backwards into the future”. It applies to many areas of life, but in education the idea of ... <a title="Kiwi kids once led the world in reading – this 1950s primary school syllabus still has lessons for today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/kiwi-kids-once-led-the-world-in-reading-this-1950s-primary-school-syllabus-still-has-lessons-for-today-253719/" aria-label="Read more about Kiwi kids once led the world in reading – this 1950s primary school syllabus still has lessons for today">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Associate Professor in Behavioral Data Science, University of Technology Sydney ginger_polina_bublik/Shutterstock In today’s fractured online landscape, it is harder than ever to identify harmful actors such as trolls and misinformation spreaders. Often, efforts to spot malicious accounts focus on analysing what they say. However, our ... <a title="Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/some-reddit-users-just-love-to-disagree-new-ai-powered-troll-spotting-algorithm-finds-255879/" aria-label="Read more about Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Langford, Executive Director, Security & Defence PLuS and Professor, UNSW Sydney When United States President William McKinley advocated high‑tariff protectionism in 1896, he argued squeezing foreign competitors behind a 50% wall of duties would make America richer and safer. That logic framed US trade debates for ... <a title="To split Moscow from Beijing, Trump is reviving Nixon’s ‘madman diplomacy’. It could backfire badly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/to-split-moscow-from-beijing-trump-is-reviving-nixons-madman-diplomacy-it-could-backfire-badly-255878/" aria-label="Read more about To split Moscow from Beijing, Trump is reviving Nixon’s ‘madman diplomacy’. It could backfire badly">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hasthi Dissanayake, Research Fellow in Indigenous Health, The University of Melbourne The Doherty Institute Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely as non-Indigenous Australians to suffer from disease, particularly chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and kidney disease. The health disparities are worse in remote ... <a title="A community-led health program in remote Arnhem land is showing promising results for First Nations locals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/a-community-led-health-program-in-remote-arnhem-land-is-showing-promising-results-for-first-nations-locals-255519/" aria-label="Read more about A community-led health program in remote Arnhem land is showing promising results for First Nations locals">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn Cox, Professor of Literacy Education, University of Tasmania Mart Production/Pexels , CC BY Is reading to your kids a bedtime ritual in your home? For many of us, it will be a visceral memory of our own childhoods. Or of the time raising now grown-up children. ... <a title="Why it’s important to read aloud to your kids – even after they can read themselves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/why-its-important-to-read-aloud-to-your-kids-even-after-they-can-read-themselves-256089/" aria-label="Read more about Why it’s important to read aloud to your kids – even after they can read themselves">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hugh Stanford, Researcher Associate, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Much of the old circular railway line in Paris, La Petite Ceinture, or Little Belt, has been turned into a public park. ldgfr photos, Shutterstock Across Australian cities, leftover and overlooked green spaces are everywhere. Just think ... <a title="Old drains and railways are full of life. Here’s how to make the most of these overlooked green spaces" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/old-drains-and-railways-are-full-of-life-heres-how-to-make-the-most-of-these-overlooked-green-spaces-255736/" aria-label="Read more about Old drains and railways are full of life. Here’s how to make the most of these overlooked green spaces">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marian Makkar, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University Konstantin Shishkin/Shutterstock Workplace burnout – a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion – and the COVID pandemic have sparked a rethink of the traditional 9-to-5 job. It’s been estimated 30% of the Australian workforce is experiencing some degree ... <a title="Ever wanted to ditch the 9-to-5 and teach snowsports? We followed people who did it for 10 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/ever-wanted-to-ditch-the-9-to-5-and-teach-snowsports-we-followed-people-who-did-it-for-10-years-255012/" aria-label="Read more about Ever wanted to ditch the 9-to-5 and teach snowsports? We followed people who did it for 10 years">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland With Mother’s Day around the corner, you may be wondering what gift you’ll give mum – or any of the mums in your life. This year, why not skip the fancy dinner and offer one of the ... <a title="Stepmums, alien mums, robot mums, vengeful mums: 7 films to watch this Mother’s Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/stepmums-alien-mums-robot-mums-vengeful-mums-7-films-to-watch-this-mothers-day-255004/" aria-label="Read more about Stepmums, alien mums, robot mums, vengeful mums: 7 films to watch this Mother’s Day">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis Doyle, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, University of Dayton Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Thursday, May 8, 2025. AP Photo/Andrew Medichini Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been picked to be the ... <a title="Pope Leo XIV faces limits on changing the Catholic Church − but Francis made reforms that set the stage for larger changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/pope-leo-xiv-faces-limits-on-changing-the-catholic-church-but-francis-made-reforms-that-set-the-stage-for-larger-changes-256181/" aria-label="Read more about Pope Leo XIV faces limits on changing the Catholic Church − but Francis made reforms that set the stage for larger changes">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra By late last week it was clear Labor would win the election, but it came as more of a surprise when Peter Dutton lost the Queensland seat of Dickson he’d held since 2001. Nor did many anticipate Greens leader Adam ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Bitter struggle in Liberals for likely poisoned chalice, as Jacinta Price defects from Nationals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/08/grattan-on-friday-bitter-struggle-in-liberals-for-likely-poisoned-chalice-as-jacinta-price-defects-from-nationals-255634/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Bitter struggle in Liberals for likely poisoned chalice, as Jacinta Price defects from Nationals">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Barely hours after being guest speaker at the University of the South Pacific‘s annual World Press Freedom Day event this week, Fiji media industry stalwart Stanley Simpson was forced to fend off local trolls whom he described as “hypocrites”. “Attacked by both the Fiji Labour Party and ex-FijiFirst MPs in just one ... <a title="Fiji media’s Stan Simpson blasts ‘hypocrites’ in social media clash over press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/08/fiji-medias-stan-simpson-blasts-hypocrites-in-social-media-clash-over-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji media’s Stan Simpson blasts ‘hypocrites’ in social media clash over press freedom">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In the new parliament the government is expected to need only the Greens to pass the legislation opposed by the Coalition. Counting is not finished but on present indications it won’t require any other Senate crossbenchers. Given Labor’s enhanced position ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: David Pocock wants us to aim for up to 90% reduction in emissions by 2035" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/08/politics-with-michelle-grattan-david-pocock-wants-us-to-aim-for-up-to-90-reduction-in-emissions-by-2035-256218/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: David Pocock wants us to aim for up to 90% reduction in emissions by 2035">Read more</a>
