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September 3, 2025
RNZ Pacific The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will address Papua New Guinea’s national Parliament today. The UN chief is in Papua New Guinea on a four-day official state visit September 2-5. Prime Minister James Marape has held bilateral discussions with Guterres at his Melanesian House Office in Port Moresby yesterday. “We remain fully committed ... <a title="UN chief to address PNG parliament today during ‘historic’ visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/un-chief-to-address-png-parliament-today-during-historic-visit/" aria-label="Read more about UN chief to address PNG parliament today during ‘historic’ visit">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karin Hammarberg, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women’s Health, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University fitopardo/Getty Australia’s fertility sector has been rocked by yet more reports of serious errors, this time involving sperm donors from overseas. On Monday, an ABC investigation revealed a ... <a title="Here’s what we know – and don’t know – about using IVF sperm donors from overseas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/heres-what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-using-ivf-sperm-donors-from-overseas-264276/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what we know – and don’t know – about using IVF sperm donors from overseas">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rohan Lloyd, Lecturer in Science and Society, James Cook University Peter Harrison/Getty At the end of the 1960s, there was every expectation the Great Barrier Reef would be drilled for oil. The first gas well had been drilled in Victoria’s Bass Strait in 1965 and oil was ... <a title="Half a century ago, the Great Barrier Reef was to be drilled for oil. It was saved – for a time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/half-a-century-ago-the-great-barrier-reef-was-to-be-drilled-for-oil-it-was-saved-for-a-time-262710/" aria-label="Read more about Half a century ago, the Great Barrier Reef was to be drilled for oil. It was saved – for a time">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Brown, Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland Maskot/Getty Images Students have been protesting to keep in-person lectures at the newly amalgamated Adelaide University next year. University representatives say Adelaide University will not remove face-to-face lectures but “rework” the traditional format in line with ... <a title="Some unis are moving away from in-person lectures. Here’s why that’s not such a bad thing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/some-unis-are-moving-away-from-in-person-lectures-heres-why-thats-not-such-a-bad-thing-264189/" aria-label="Read more about Some unis are moving away from in-person lectures. Here’s why that’s not such a bad thing">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Parris, Senior Lecturer, Deakin Business School, Deakin University David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Pathways to resolving Australia’s skills shortage were a key discussion point at the government’s recent economic reform roundtable. One of those discussions specifically focused on the need to streamline skills recognition for qualified ... <a title="Underuse of migrants’ skills is costing us billions. Discrimination often starts at the job interview" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/underuse-of-migrants-skills-is-costing-us-billions-discrimination-often-starts-at-the-job-interview-263635/" aria-label="Read more about Underuse of migrants’ skills is costing us billions. Discrimination often starts at the job interview">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Koskie, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Media and Communications, University of Sydney ThisIsEngineering/Pexels Disclosure, consent and platform power have become newly invigorated battlefields with the rise of AI. The issue came to the fore recently with YouTube’s controversial decision to use AI-powered tools to “unblur, denoise and ... <a title="YouTube’s AI editing scandal reveals how reality can be manipulated without our consent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/youtubes-ai-editing-scandal-reveals-how-reality-can-be-manipulated-without-our-consent-264047/" aria-label="Read more about YouTube’s AI editing scandal reveals how reality can be manipulated without our consent">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Visiting Scholar in Politics, School of Policy and Global Affairs, City St George’s, University of London Getty Images If history is a guide, any future referendum on extending the parliamentary term to four years will be rejected by New Zealanders. Two previous referendums, in 1967 ... <a title="Third time lucky for a 4-year parliamentary term? A lack of checks and balances is still the problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/third-time-lucky-for-a-4-year-parliamentary-term-a-lack-of-checks-and-balances-is-still-the-problem-264106/" aria-label="Read more about Third time lucky for a 4-year parliamentary term? A lack of checks and balances is still the problem">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Callum Jones, Associate research fellow, Deakin University Over the weekend, rallies were staged across various Australian cities under the branding “March for Australia”. The rallies, which were attended by avowed neo-Nazis and elected politicians alike, called for an end to mass migration. These protests are not unique ... <a title="How Australia’s anti-immigration rallies were amplified online by the global far right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/02/how-australias-anti-immigration-rallies-were-amplified-online-by-the-global-far-right-264269/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia’s anti-immigration rallies were amplified online by the global far right">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucia McCallum, Senior Scientist in Geodesy, University of Tasmania Gints Ivuskans / AFP via Getty Images On Sunday, a plane carrying European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen was reportedly forced to land in Bulgaria using paper maps after its GPS navigation systems were jammed. Bulgarian authorities ... <a title="Russia’s GPS interference: do I need to worry when flying?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/02/russias-gps-interference-do-i-need-to-worry-when-flying-264334/" aria-label="Read more about Russia’s GPS interference: do I need to worry when flying?">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government will keep the permanent migration level for 2025-26 at 185,000, the same level as the previous financial year. Immigration Minister Tony Burke announced the figure amid a fresh divisive debate about immigration, intensified by the weekend marches calling ... <a title="Albanese government sets unchanged 185,000 intake under permanent migration program" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/02/albanese-government-sets-unchanged-185-000-intake-under-permanent-migration-program-263910/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese government sets unchanged 185,000 intake under permanent migration program">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Haswell, Professor of Health, Safety and Environment, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology Environment groups have called for federal intervention following revelations an LNG export hub in Darwin has emitted large volumes of methane from an LNG storage tank since 2006. ... <a title="Long-hidden methane leak in Darwin raises fresh doubts over Australia’s climate action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/02/long-hidden-methane-leak-in-darwin-raises-fresh-doubts-over-australias-climate-action-264260/" aria-label="Read more about Long-hidden methane leak in Darwin raises fresh doubts over Australia’s climate action">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hall, Professor of International Relations, Griffith University Just months into President Donald Trump’s second term in office, one of the United States’ most important strategic partnerships is in crisis. Relations between the US and India are at their lowest ebb in a quarter of a century. ... <a title="Donald Trump was once India’s best friend. How did it all go wrong?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/02/donald-trump-was-once-indias-best-friend-how-did-it-all-go-wrong-264272/" aria-label="Read more about Donald Trump was once India’s best friend. How did it all go wrong?">Read more</a>
