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August 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yuting Zhang, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne Kseniya Ovchinnikova/Getty Australia needs to do better at preventing health conditions from arising and worsening, according to an interim report on delivering quality care more efficiently released overnight by the Productivity Commission. But the commission’s interim report ... <a title="Private health insurers want to fund more out-of-hospital care. But the Productivity Commission has other ideas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/private-health-insurers-want-to-fund-more-out-of-hospital-care-but-the-productivity-commission-has-other-ideas-261954/" aria-label="Read more about Private health insurers want to fund more out-of-hospital care. But the Productivity Commission has other ideas">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angela Jackson, Social Policy Commissioner, Productivity Commission, and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tasmania MTStock Studio/Getty Too often in discussions about productivity, the care economy only gets mentioned as the problem child putting a drag on growth. This week, the Productivity Commission is seeking to change that ... <a title="From childcare to aged care, here’s how to deliver safer, more affordable care for all Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/from-childcare-to-aged-care-heres-how-to-deliver-safer-more-affordable-care-for-all-australians-262942/" aria-label="Read more about From childcare to aged care, here’s how to deliver safer, more affordable care for all Australians">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Martin, Lecturer in Screen Studies, Swinburne University of Technology Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection/Getty Images For half a century, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has lured costumed fans to cinemas for late-night screenings. Its raunchy mix of Broadway musical, science fiction and schlock horror was originally a ... <a title="At 50, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is ‘imperfectly’ good (and queer) as ever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/at-50-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-is-imperfectly-good-and-queer-as-ever-261852/" aria-label="Read more about At 50, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is ‘imperfectly’ good (and queer) as ever">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2025
Asia Pacific Report It was a bit like the old days — the heyday of Aotearoa New Zealand’s nuclear-free movement in the 1980s, leading up to the Rarotonga Treaty for a nuclear free Pacific zone that was signed on 6 August 1985 just weeks after the Rainbow Warrior bombing. The New Zealand nuclear-free law followed ... <a title="Nagasaki Day and Aro Valley Peace Talks recall nuke-free heyday" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/nagasaki-day-and-aro-valley-peace-talks-recall-nuke-free-heyday/" aria-label="Read more about Nagasaki Day and Aro Valley Peace Talks recall nuke-free heyday">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Reserve Bank’s rate cut this week will help relieve many mortgage holders, but it wasn’t all positive news from the bank. It also underscored the serious productivity and economic growth challenges facing the Australian economy. The Economic Reform Roundtable ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers wants roundtable to ‘crack open’ the challenge of slow housing approvals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/politics-with-michelle-grattan-jim-chalmers-wants-roundtable-to-crack-open-the-challenge-of-slow-housing-approvals-263112/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers wants roundtable to ‘crack open’ the challenge of slow housing approvals">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the most prominent journalists in Gaza, the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, along with four of his colleagues at the network and another freelance journalist. UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for ... <a title="Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif, warns UN expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/israel-has-deliberate-strategy-of-killing-palestinian-journalists-like-anas-al-sharif-warns-un-expert/" aria-label="Read more about Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif, warns UN expert">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Keersten Fitzgerald, Lecturer in General Practice, University of Sydney Leonardo Iheme/Unsplash When it comes to penises, we seem unable to escape the idea that “bigger is better”. Popular culture and pornography constantly present us with unrealistic standards – that penises should be long, thick and hard. This ... <a title="Does penis size matter? And how do I know what’s normal?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/does-penis-size-matter-and-how-do-i-know-whats-normal-259910/" aria-label="Read more about Does penis size matter? And how do I know what’s normal?">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark says she has witnessed Israel deliberately obstructing life-saving humanitarian aid into Gaza. Together with former Irish president Mary Robinson, Clark visited the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Palestinian territory this week. The two former world leaders are part of The Elders, an independent, non-government organisation of ... <a title="Israel deliberately obstructing aid, says former PM Helen Clark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/israel-deliberately-obstructing-aid-says-former-pm-helen-clark/" aria-label="Read more about Israel deliberately obstructing aid, says former PM Helen Clark">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
By Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, RNZ Māori news journalist in Parliament New Zealand’s Prime Minister says the war in Gaza is “utterly appalling” and Israeil Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost the plot”. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s comments came on a tense day in Parliament today, where the Green Party’s co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick was “named” for refusing ... <a title="Israeli PM has ‘lost the plot’, says NZ’s Christopher Luxon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/israeli-pm-has-lost-the-plot-says-nzs-christopher-luxon/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli PM has ‘lost the plot’, says NZ’s Christopher Luxon">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on August 13, 2025.
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August 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Hains-Wesson, Professor of Education and Associate Dean Learning and Teaching, RMIT University Once, a university degree was widely seen as a “ticket” to securing high-paying jobs and social mobility. Now, as artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionise the labour market, it’s university students and recent graduates ... <a title="Will AI pull the career ladder up out of reach – or just change what it looks like?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/will-ai-pull-the-career-ladder-up-out-of-reach-or-just-change-what-it-looks-like-262866/" aria-label="Read more about Will AI pull the career ladder up out of reach – or just change what it looks like?">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Australia’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has condemned the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of working journalists as “terrorists”, following the deaths of five Al Jazeera staff over the weekend. Al Jazeera journalists Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed ... <a title="MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/meaa-condemns-targeted-attacks-on-gaza-journalists-as-a-war-crime/" aria-label="Read more about MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime">Read more</a>
