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August 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stefani Vasil, Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Australian Catholic University Unsplash, CC BY In 2024, a young mother in Victoria ended her own life. As family violence services and Victoria Police pointed out, there were key circumstances that may have contributed to her death. Her former ... <a title="Some victim-survivors take their own lives. We need to better understand how suicide and family violence are linked" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/26/some-victim-survivors-take-their-own-lives-we-need-to-better-understand-how-suicide-and-family-violence-are-linked-262111/" aria-label="Read more about Some victim-survivors take their own lives. We need to better understand how suicide and family violence are linked">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Richter, Professor of Information Systems, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington KTStock/Getty Images When artificial intelligence (AI) enters the classroom, the focus is often on the risk of plagiarism or shortcuts. But in a postgraduate business analysis course on digital innovation and strategy, taught ... <a title="From fear to fluency: what our students learned when they used AI across an entire course" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/26/from-fear-to-fluency-what-our-students-learned-when-they-used-ai-across-an-entire-course-263805/" aria-label="Read more about From fear to fluency: what our students learned when they used AI across an entire course">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on August 26, 2025.
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August 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shannon Bosch, Associate Professor (Law), Edith Cowan University Senior Israeli Defence Force (IDF) officials have announced that around 130,000 reservists will take part in Israel’s planned military operation to take over Gaza City. Fighting is expected to continue well into 2026. The first set of 40,000–50,000 reservists ... <a title="Israel’s call-up of 130,000 reservists raises legal risks for dual citizens and their home countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/26/israels-call-up-of-130-000-reservists-raises-legal-risks-for-dual-citizens-and-their-home-countries-263783/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s call-up of 130,000 reservists raises legal risks for dual citizens and their home countries">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suzanne Nielsen, Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University Vilin Visuals/Getty Images Medicinal cannabis use has increased rapidly in recent years in Australia. Since access pathways were expanded in 2016, more than 700,000 prescription approvals have been issued. The vast majority of medicinal cannabis ... <a title="Medicinal cannabis is most often prescribed for pain, anxiety and sleep. Here’s what the evidence says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/26/medicinal-cannabis-is-most-often-prescribed-for-pain-anxiety-and-sleep-heres-what-the-evidence-says-262429/" aria-label="Read more about Medicinal cannabis is most often prescribed for pain, anxiety and sleep. Here’s what the evidence says">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Arrow, Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally. Inside Sydney’s swish Fullerton Hotel, a glittering cast of vice-chancellors, politicians, public servants, journalists, ... <a title="Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/26/universities-have-lost-their-way-but-cost-cutting-and-consultants-are-not-the-answer-263728/" aria-label="Read more about Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2025
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage China and members of an alliance of Latin American and Caribbean nations in recent days joined countries including Brazil and Colombia and anti-war voices around the world in denouncing the Trump administration’s deployment of US warships off the coast of Venezuela. At least three US Navy guided missile ... <a title="More Countries Condemn Trump’s ‘Imperialist’ Saber-Rattling Against Venezuela" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/26/more-countries-condemn-trumps-imperialist-saber-rattling-against-venezuela/" aria-label="Read more about More Countries Condemn Trump’s ‘Imperialist’ Saber-Rattling Against Venezuela">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2025
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By William Camacaro New York One of the casualties of Washington’s get-tough immigration policy is the plight of children separated by U.S. authorities from their parents. The political party of “family values” has caused needless trauma for these migrant children and round the clock anxiety for parents desperately ... <a title="Children First: A Campaign to Reunite 66 Venezuelan Kids with Their Parents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/25/children-first-a-campaign-to-reunite-66-venezuelan-kids-with-their-parents/" aria-label="Read more about Children First: A Campaign to Reunite 66 Venezuelan Kids with Their Parents">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Jotzo, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University Any week now, Australia will set its 2035 emissions target. It must signal the nation’s strong ambition on climate action, to drive policy and investment. And it must ... <a title="No room for the timid: setting Australia’s 2035 emissions target is a daring tightrope act" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/25/no-room-for-the-timid-setting-australias-2035-emissions-target-is-a-daring-tightrope-act-263802/" aria-label="Read more about No room for the timid: setting Australia’s 2035 emissions target is a daring tightrope act">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Greg Barns If it were China or Russia, the imposition of sanctions and threats of harm to prosecutors and judges of the International Criminal Court would be front page news in Australia- and in New Zealand. The Australian’s headline writers and columnists, for example, would be apoplectic. Prime Minister Albanese, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland ... <a title="Why the International Criminal Court is under attack – it must be defended" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/25/why-the-international-criminal-court-is-under-attack-it-must-be-defended/" aria-label="Read more about Why the International Criminal Court is under attack – it must be defended">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Hill, Speech Pathologist and Senior Lecturer, School of Allied Health, Curtin University From mid-2027, the government will divert children with mild and moderate developmental delay and autism away from the NDIS and onto a program called Thriving Kids. The government is also considering new Medicare items ... <a title="Kids with ‘developmental delay’ will be diverted from the NDIS. But how do you know if your child is delayed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/25/kids-with-developmental-delay-will-be-diverted-from-the-ndis-but-how-do-you-know-if-your-child-is-delayed-263633/" aria-label="Read more about Kids with ‘developmental delay’ will be diverted from the NDIS. But how do you know if your child is delayed?">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bhavna Middha, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Sociology, RMIT University Last month, Australia’s ban on the import, use and manufacture of three types of “forever chemical” came into effect. These chemicals – PFOA, PFOS and PFHxS – have long lifespans and resist breaking down. They’re ... <a title="Australia has banned 3 ‘forever chemicals’ – but Europe wants to ban all 14,000 as a precaution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/25/australia-has-banned-3-forever-chemicals-but-europe-wants-to-ban-all-14-000-as-a-precaution-262802/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has banned 3 ‘forever chemicals’ – but Europe wants to ban all 14,000 as a precaution">Read more</a>
