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Murdoch’s News Corp has moved into the mortgage business. Where are the regulators?

June 30, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roberta Esbitt, Associate, RMIT University If you want to advertise a house online in Australia, you don’t have many options. Just two companies dominate the market. Australia’s largest property listings platform, realestate.com.au, belongs to digital media company REA Group, which is majority-owned by Rupert Murdoch’s US-based media ... <a title="Murdoch’s News Corp has moved into the mortgage business. Where are the regulators?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/30/murdochs-news-corp-has-moved-into-the-mortgage-business-where-are-the-regulators-259039/" aria-label="Read more about Murdoch’s News Corp has moved into the mortgage business. Where are the regulators?">Read more</a>

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Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’

June 30, 2025

Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free policy as a “fundamental tenet” of its independent foreign policy in the face of gathering global storm clouds. Writing in a new book being published next week, she says “nuclear war is an existential threat to ... <a title="Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/30/clark-warns-in-new-pacific-book-renewed-nuclear-tensions-pose-existential-threat-to-humanity/" aria-label="Read more about Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’">Read more</a>

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‘Bridge for peace – not more bombs,’ say CNMI Gaza protesters

June 29, 2025

By Bryan Manabat in Saipan Advocacy groups in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) disrupted the US Department of Defense’s public meeting this week, which tackled proposed military training plans on Tinian, voicing strong opposition to further militarisation in the Marianas. Members of the Marianas for Palestine, Prutehi Guahan and Commonwealth670 burst into ... <a title="‘Bridge for peace – not more bombs,’ say CNMI Gaza protesters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/29/bridge-for-peace-not-more-bombs-say-cnmi-gaza-protesters/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Bridge for peace – not more bombs,’ say CNMI Gaza protesters">Read more</a>

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Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time

June 29, 2025

COMMENTARY: By Ahmad Ibsais On June 22, American warplanes crossed into Iranian airspace and dropped 14 massive bombs. The attack was not in response to a provocation; it came on the heels of illegal Israeli aggression that took the lives of more than 600 Iranians. This was a return to something familiar and well-practised: an ... <a title="Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/29/why-manufacturing-consent-for-war-with-iran-failed-this-time/" aria-label="Read more about Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time">Read more</a>

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A return to Nature.

June 29, 2025

Headline: A return to Nature. – 36th Parallel Assessments Thomas Hobbes wrote his seminal work Leviathan in 1651. In it he describes the world system as it was then as being in “a state of nature,” something that some have interpreted as anarchy. However, anarchy has order and purpose. It is not chaos. In fact, ... <a title="A return to Nature." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/29/a-return-to-nature/" aria-label="Read more about A return to Nature.">Read more</a>

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Do all Iranians hate the regime? Hate America? Life inside the country is more complex than that

June 29, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Theobald, Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame Australia From 2015 to 2018, I spent 15 months doing research work in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. As an anthropologist, I was interested in everyday life in Iran outside the capital Tehran. I was ... <a title="Do all Iranians hate the regime? Hate America? Life inside the country is more complex than that" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/29/do-all-iranians-hate-the-regime-hate-america-life-inside-the-country-is-more-complex-than-that-259554/" aria-label="Read more about Do all Iranians hate the regime? Hate America? Life inside the country is more complex than that">Read more</a>

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Talks result in PNG and Bougainville signing ‘Melanesian Agreement’

June 28, 2025

RNZ Pacific The leaders of Bougainville and Papua New Guinea have signed a deal that may bring the autonomous region’s quest for independence closer. Called “Melanesian Agreement”, the deal was developed earlier this month in 10 days of discussion at the New Zealand army base at Burnham, near Christchurch. Both governments have agreed that the ... <a title="Talks result in PNG and Bougainville signing ‘Melanesian Agreement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/28/talks-result-in-png-and-bougainville-signing-melanesian-agreement/" aria-label="Read more about Talks result in PNG and Bougainville signing ‘Melanesian Agreement’">Read more</a>

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Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not US bomb-based statecraft

June 28, 2025

ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle Setting aside any thoughts I may have about theocratic rulers (whether they be in Tel Aviv or Tehran), I am personally glad that Iran was able to hold out against the US-Israeli attacks this month. The ceasefire, however, will only be a pause in the long-running campaign to destabilise, weaken and ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not US bomb-based statecraft" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/28/eugene-doyle-why-asia-pacific-should-be-cheering-for-iran-and-not-us-bomb-based-statecraft/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not US bomb-based statecraft">Read more</a>

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Israeli soldiers ‘ordered’ to fire at Gaza aid seekers – 70 killed across Strip

June 28, 2025

Israeli soldiers have said that they were ordered to open fire at unarmed Palestinian civilians desperately seeking aid at designated distribution sites in Gaza, a report in the Ha’aretz newspaper has revealed. The report came as 70 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip — mostly at aid sites belonging to the widely condemned Gaza ... <a title="Israeli soldiers ‘ordered’ to fire at Gaza aid seekers – 70 killed across Strip" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/28/israeli-soldiers-ordered-to-fire-at-gaza-aid-seekers-70-killed-across-strip/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli soldiers ‘ordered’ to fire at Gaza aid seekers – 70 killed across Strip">Read more</a>

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RFK Junior is stoking fears about vaccine safety. Here’s why he’s wrong – and the impact it could have

June 28, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Leask, Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney The United States used to be a leader in vaccine research, development and policymaking. Now US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr is undermining the country’s vaccine program at the highest level and supercharging vaccine skepticism. ... <a title="RFK Junior is stoking fears about vaccine safety. Here’s why he’s wrong – and the impact it could have" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/28/rfk-junior-is-stoking-fears-about-vaccine-safety-heres-why-hes-wrong-and-the-impact-it-could-have-259986/" aria-label="Read more about RFK Junior is stoking fears about vaccine safety. Here’s why he’s wrong – and the impact it could have">Read more</a>