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May 7, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stacy Vallis, Lecturer in Architecture and Emerging Technologies, Auckland University of Technology Shutterstock/Emagnetic With large parts of New Zealand having recently been pummelled by ex-tropical Cyclone Tam and ongoing bouts of heavy rain, it is important to remember that natural hazards have long shaped our cities. Two ... <a title="Moving towns: 4 stories of communities facing relocation show the complex realities of managed retreat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/07/moving-towns-4-stories-of-communities-facing-relocation-show-the-complex-realities-of-managed-retreat-254693/" aria-label="Read more about Moving towns: 4 stories of communities facing relocation show the complex realities of managed retreat">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2025
Pacific Media Watch To mark the release of the 2025 World Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) partnered with the agency The Good Company to launch a new awareness campaign that puts an ironic twist on the glossy advertising of the tourism industry. Three out of six countries featured in the exposé are from ... <a title="Indonesian postcard image ‘dangerous’ but Fiji a rising star in RSF press freedom index" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/07/indonesian-postcard-image-dangerous-but-fiji-a-rising-star-in-rsf-press-freedom-index/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian postcard image ‘dangerous’ but Fiji a rising star in RSF press freedom index">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Liberals’ former Senate Leader Simon Birmingham has urged the party to adopt quotas for its women in parliament, in an excoriating post-election critique. Birmingham, a leading moderate who retired from parliament in January, says given the Liberals’ parliamentary representation ... <a title="Gender quotas are the only way for the Liberals to go: Simon Birmingham" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/06/gender-quotas-are-the-only-way-for-the-liberals-to-go-simon-birmingham-255958/" aria-label="Read more about Gender quotas are the only way for the Liberals to go: Simon Birmingham">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jakub Mesinovic, Research Fellow at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University fran_kie/Shutterstock As we age, it’s common to notice posture changes: shoulders rounding, head leaning forward, back starting to curve. You might associate this with older adults and wonder: will this happen to me? ... <a title="Why do some people get a curved back as they age and what can I do to avoid it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/06/why-do-some-people-get-a-curved-back-as-they-age-and-what-can-i-do-to-avoid-it-252811/" aria-label="Read more about Why do some people get a curved back as they age and what can I do to avoid it?">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angel Zhong, Professor of Finance, RMIT University Warren Buffett, the 94-year-old investing legend and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, has announced plans to step down at the end of this year. His departure will mark the end of an era for value investing, an investment approach built ... <a title="As Warren Buffett prepares to retire, does his investing philosophy have a future?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/06/as-warren-buffett-prepares-to-retire-does-his-investing-philosophy-have-a-future-255867/" aria-label="Read more about As Warren Buffett prepares to retire, does his investing philosophy have a future?">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stewart Riddle, Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland Days before Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the federal election, the Labor government settled a long-running argument with the states over school funding. This locked in a new 25%–75% split on federal and state funding for schools. ... <a title="Labor settled the ‘funding wars’ just before the election. Here are 4 big issues schools still face" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/06/labor-settled-the-funding-wars-just-before-the-election-here-are-4-big-issues-schools-still-face-255870/" aria-label="Read more about Labor settled the ‘funding wars’ just before the election. Here are 4 big issues schools still face">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giovanni E. Ferreira, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney Douglas Olivares/Shutterstock. Arthritis – an umbrella term for around 100 conditions that damage the joints – affects 4.1 million Australians. This is expected to rise by 31% to 5.4 million by 2040 ... <a title="What’s the difference between osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/06/whats-the-difference-between-osteoarthritis-and-rheumatoid-arthritis-249154/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis?">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ozgur Gocer, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney Flexible work has become the new norm, despite the best efforts of companies calling workers back to the office. Some employers assume that a return to the old ways of working is both possible and desirable. But for many workers, ... <a title="Office design isn’t keeping up with post-COVID work styles – here’s what workers really want" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/06/office-design-isnt-keeping-up-with-post-covid-work-styles-heres-what-workers-really-want-254997/" aria-label="Read more about Office design isn’t keeping up with post-COVID work styles – here’s what workers really want">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Strangio, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Monash University Watching elections over the decades, one thing that has struck me is that results are invariably hyperbolised in the first blush of the people’s verdict. The achievement of the winners is over-egged in the commentary, as is the scale ... <a title="The ‘feminisation’ of Labor is a key reason Australians embraced it – and Anthony Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/06/the-feminisation-of-labor-is-a-key-reason-australians-embraced-it-and-anthony-albanese-255883/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘feminisation’ of Labor is a key reason Australians embraced it – and Anthony Albanese">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Doug Richardson, Research Associate in Climate Science, UNSW Sydney Climate change is lengthening fire seasons across much of the world. This means the potential for wildfires at any time of the year, in both hemispheres, is increasing. That poses a problem. Australia regularly shares firefighting resources with ... <a title="Australia and North America have long fought fires together – but new research reveals that has to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/06/australia-and-north-america-have-long-fought-fires-together-but-new-research-reveals-that-has-to-change-254790/" aria-label="Read more about Australia and North America have long fought fires together – but new research reveals that has to change">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2025
By Losirene Lacanivalu, of the Cook Islands News A leading Cook Islands environmental lobby group is hoping that the Cook Islands government will speak out against the recent executive order from US President Donald Trump aimed at fast-tracking seabed mining. Te Ipukarea Society (TIS) says the arrogance of US president Trump to think that he ... <a title="Cook Islands environment group calls on govt to condemn Trump’s seabed mining order" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/06/cook-islands-environment-group-calls-on-govt-to-condemn-trumps-seabed-mining-order/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands environment group calls on govt to condemn Trump’s seabed mining order">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eve Warburton, Research Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, and Director, Indonesia Institute, Australian National University Last week, the Trump administration signed a deal with Ukraine that gives it privileged access to Ukraine’s natural resources. Some news outlets described the deal as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ... <a title="Why Zelensky – not Trump – may have ‘won’ the US-Ukraine minerals deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/06/why-zelensky-not-trump-may-have-won-the-us-ukraine-minerals-deal-255875/" aria-label="Read more about Why Zelensky – not Trump – may have ‘won’ the US-Ukraine minerals deal">Read more</a>
