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March 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yee-Fui Ng, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University The question of how best to eliminate corruption has exercised the minds of philosophers as much as the practical drafters of legislation from Ancient Greek and Roman times. Within the political sphere, the notion of “corruption” has fluctuated ... <a title="Democracy’s bad eggs: corruption, pork-barrelling and abuses of power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/04/democracys-bad-eggs-corruption-pork-barrelling-and-abuses-of-power-229888/" aria-label="Read more about Democracy’s bad eggs: corruption, pork-barrelling and abuses of power">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Ghezelbash, Professor and Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Misinformation is a significant threat to our society. It undermines public discussion, erodes social cohesion, leads to bad policy and weakens democracy. Misinformation on refugee and migrant issues is ... <a title="Misinformation on refugees and migrants is rife during elections. We found 6 ways it spreads – and how to stop it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/04/misinformation-on-refugees-and-migrants-is-rife-during-elections-we-found-6-ways-it-spreads-and-how-to-stop-it-251035/" aria-label="Read more about Misinformation on refugees and migrants is rife during elections. We found 6 ways it spreads – and how to stop it">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon O’Connor, Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations, United States Studies Centre,, University of Sydney Since returning to the US presidency, Donald Trump has outdone himself, gaining global media headlines and attention with outrageous statements and dramatic decisions. The most consequential decision so far has ... <a title="Donald Trump is picking fights with leaders around the world. What exactly is his foreign policy approach?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/04/donald-trump-is-picking-fights-with-leaders-around-the-world-what-exactly-is-his-foreign-policy-approach-251238/" aria-label="Read more about Donald Trump is picking fights with leaders around the world. What exactly is his foreign policy approach?">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rod McNaughton, Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Mr.paripat niyantang/Shutterstock Small businesses across Australia and New Zealand are facing one of their toughest periods in decades. A flat economy and shifting consumer behaviour have put pressure on already thin operating margins. A 2024 survey ... <a title="A website is not enough: businesses that use digital tools without a strategic plan will struggle in a tough economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/04/a-website-is-not-enough-businesses-that-use-digital-tools-without-a-strategic-plan-will-struggle-in-a-tough-economy-250633/" aria-label="Read more about A website is not enough: businesses that use digital tools without a strategic plan will struggle in a tough economy">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government has signed up New South Wales to its new schools funding agreement, with an extra A$4.8 billion in funding for the state’s public schools over ten years. Queensland remains the only state still to join the agreement, ... <a title="Schools agreement provides NSW $4.8 billion extra for public schools over a decade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/04/schools-agreement-provides-nsw-4-8-billion-extra-for-public-schools-over-a-decade-251255/" aria-label="Read more about Schools agreement provides NSW $4.8 billion extra for public schools over a decade">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls left New Caledonia at the weekend after a one-week stay which was marked by the resumption of inclusive political talks on the French territory’s future. He has now submitted a “synthetical” working document to be discussed further and promised he ... <a title="French minister wraps up key talks in New Caledonia, returning late March" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/04/french-minister-wraps-up-key-talks-in-new-caledonia-returning-late-march/" aria-label="Read more about French minister wraps up key talks in New Caledonia, returning late March">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Taimoor Sohail, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne Mongkolchon Akesin, Shutterstock Flowing clockwise around Antarctica, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest ocean current on the planet. It’s five times stronger than the Gulf Stream and more than 100 times ... <a title="Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world’s strongest ocean current – and the global consequences are profound" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/melting-antarctic-ice-will-slow-the-worlds-strongest-ocean-current-and-the-global-consequences-are-profound-251053/" aria-label="Read more about Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world’s strongest ocean current – and the global consequences are profound">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Peter Dutton says if he became prime minister he would lobby US President Donald Trump “to reconsider his position” on Ukraine. The opposition leader, who previously rejected Trump’s description of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator”, has gone further ... <a title="Dutton says as PM he would ‘lobby’ Donald Trump to reconsider Ukraine stand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/dutton-says-as-pm-he-would-lobby-donald-trump-to-reconsider-ukraine-stand-251256/" aria-label="Read more about Dutton says as PM he would ‘lobby’ Donald Trump to reconsider Ukraine stand">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Harriette Richards, Senior Lecturer, School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University In a year with few surprises in the awards categories, there was also a dearth of surprises on the red carpet. The sartorial themes included sparkling metallics, coloured menswear and bows, bows and more bows. Metallic ... <a title="From the fashion to the speeches to the music, this was an Oscars of few surprises. 5 experts break it down" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/from-the-fashion-to-the-speeches-to-the-music-this-was-an-oscars-of-few-surprises-5-experts-break-it-down-251264/" aria-label="Read more about From the fashion to the speeches to the music, this was an Oscars of few surprises. 5 experts break it down">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Content warning: This story discusses rape and violence. Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested nine more men in connection with the rape and murder of a Port Moresby woman. The arrests, announced by Police Commissioner David Manning, follow a two-week investigation supported by forensic experts from the ... <a title="Nine more arrested in PNG for brutal kidnap, rape and murder of woman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/nine-more-arrested-in-png-for-brutal-kidnap-rape-and-murder-of-woman/" aria-label="Read more about Nine more arrested in PNG for brutal kidnap, rape and murder of woman">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia If you’re in southeast Queensland, brace yourself. Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to cross the southeast Queensland coast late this Thursday as a Category 2 storm. The last tropical cyclone to make landfall in the region was ex-Tropical ... <a title="Cyclone Alfred is expected to hit southeast Queensland – the first in 50 years to strike so far south" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/cyclone-alfred-is-expected-to-hit-southeast-queensland-the-first-in-50-years-to-strike-so-far-south-251241/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Alfred is expected to hit southeast Queensland – the first in 50 years to strike so far south">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Louise Stewart, Senior Career Medical Officer, Northern Sydney Local Health District; PhD Candidate, University of Sydney fizkes/Shutterstock An estimated one in five women and one in 16 men in Australia have experienced sexual violence. After such a traumatic experience, it’s understandable many are unsure if they ... <a title="I’m a medical forensic examiner. Here’s what people can expect from a health response after a sexual assault" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/im-a-medical-forensic-examiner-heres-what-people-can-expect-from-a-health-response-after-a-sexual-assault-244404/" aria-label="Read more about I’m a medical forensic examiner. Here’s what people can expect from a health response after a sexual assault">Read more</a>
