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March 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Latty, Associate Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Mircea Costina/Shutterstock About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimise reproduction, making pollination one of nature’s most important processes. Bees are usually the first insects to come to ... <a title="Not just bees and butterflies: beetles and other brilliant bugs are nature’s unsung pollinators" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/14/not-just-bees-and-butterflies-beetles-and-other-brilliant-bugs-are-natures-unsung-pollinators-246484/" aria-label="Read more about Not just bees and butterflies: beetles and other brilliant bugs are nature’s unsung pollinators">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Shutterstock Nearly 30 years before the Christchurch terror attacks of March 15 2019, New Zealand had to grapple with the horrors of another mass shooting. The Aramoana massacre on November 13 1990 left 13 people dead and a nation ... <a title="Australia has learned valuable lessons from its own shooting tragedies: 6 ideas NZ can borrow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/14/australia-has-learned-valuable-lessons-from-its-own-shooting-tragedies-6-ideas-nz-can-borrow-252178/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has learned valuable lessons from its own shooting tragedies: 6 ideas NZ can borrow">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Nason, Research Associate, Foreign Policy and Defence, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney Shutterstock Following the recent imposition of steel and aluminium tariffs, the Australian government is coming to terms with the reality of engaging with a US ally that is increasingly transactional. The Trump ... <a title="There is no Plan B. Australia must stick with AUKUS – for better or worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/14/there-is-no-plan-b-australia-must-stick-with-aukus-for-better-or-worse-252166/" aria-label="Read more about There is no Plan B. Australia must stick with AUKUS – for better or worse">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan van den Hoek, Senior Lecturer, Clinical Exercise Physiology, University of the Sunshine Coast A Ferrari test drive simulator cockpit at the Ferrari Museum in Italy. Luca Lorenzelli/Shutterstock The Albert Park circuit for the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix has 14 turns over 5.278 kilometres. F1 drivers ... <a title="Do it with your eyes closed: how Formula 1 drivers memorise race tracks before even stepping foot on them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/14/do-it-with-your-eyes-closed-how-formula-1-drivers-memorise-race-tracks-before-even-stepping-foot-on-them-248136/" aria-label="Read more about Do it with your eyes closed: how Formula 1 drivers memorise race tracks before even stepping foot on them">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University US President Donald Trump appears to have abruptly upended America’s most trusted alliances with European countries since taking office just two months ago. But are we misreading the cues? In addition to putting pressure on Ukraine ... <a title="Cooler heads must prevail with Trump – Australia shouldn’t give up on the ‘special friendship’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/14/cooler-heads-must-prevail-with-trump-australia-shouldnt-give-up-on-the-special-friendship-252012/" aria-label="Read more about Cooler heads must prevail with Trump – Australia shouldn’t give up on the ‘special friendship’">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bonnie Clough, Senior Lecturer, School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University Shvets Production/Pexels Almost half of Australians will experience mental health problems in their lifetime. Recent floods, droughts, cyclones, bushfires and the COVID pandemic have increased distress in the community. Yet, many people who need mental health services ... <a title="Digital mental health programs are inexpensive and innovative. But do they work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/14/digital-mental-health-programs-are-inexpensive-and-innovative-but-do-they-work-251061/" aria-label="Read more about Digital mental health programs are inexpensive and innovative. But do they work?">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Speck, Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, University of Adelaide When the invitation for artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino to represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale was rescinded, the statement from Creative Australia’s board said their selection now posed “an unacceptable risk” and ... <a title="Who gets to be political in Australian art?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/14/who-gets-to-be-political-in-australian-art-250648/" aria-label="Read more about Who gets to be political in Australian art?">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolina Quintero Rodriguez, Senior Lecturer and Program Manager, Bachelor of Fashion (Enterprise) program, RMIT University Jay Hirano/Shutterstock Motorsport fans are getting their first taste of racing this year, with the opening grand prix of the 2025 Formula One (F1) season starting in Melbourne today. But it’s not ... <a title="Formula One drivers face temperatures up to 50°C. High tech racing suits help keep them cool" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/14/formula-one-drivers-face-temperatures-up-to-50-c-high-tech-racing-suits-help-keep-them-cool-250919/" aria-label="Read more about Formula One drivers face temperatures up to 50°C. High tech racing suits help keep them cool">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brian Tweed, Senior lecturer, Institute of Education, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Laiotz/Shutterstock Since the start of this year, all New Zealand schools have been required to use structured literacy to teach reading and writing – including the country’s 310 primary and intermediate Māori-medium kura ... <a title="Language is a ‘central element in being Māori’ – using structured literacy to teach te reo misses the point" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/14/language-is-a-central-element-in-being-maori-using-structured-literacy-to-teach-te-reo-misses-the-point-250390/" aria-label="Read more about Language is a ‘central element in being Māori’ – using structured literacy to teach te reo misses the point">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australian politicians on both sides of the house say protectionist policies are bad, right? That Australia, as a country, believes in and benefits from trade being as free as possible. But what about some voluntary protectionism in the wake of ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Will voters fear PM Peter Dutton would be a surprise packet?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/grattan-on-friday-will-voters-fear-pm-peter-dutton-would-be-a-surprise-packet-252174/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Will voters fear PM Peter Dutton would be a surprise packet?">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Professor of Sustainability, Environment & Education, Southern Cross University Many children in Queensland and northern New South Wales have had their lives disrupted by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred. Schools were closed (about 14 were still shut as of Thursday afternoon), families hunkered down and then the ... <a title="We spoke to kids after the Lismore floods. To recover, they told us they need support, time and hugs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/we-spoke-to-kids-after-the-lismore-floods-to-recover-they-told-us-they-need-support-time-and-hugs-251911/" aria-label="Read more about We spoke to kids after the Lismore floods. To recover, they told us they need support, time and hugs">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra On current opinion polls, we are looking at a very close race at the May election. As voting day draws near, Peter Dutton will face more forensic questioning about his policies and how he would run government. At the same ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Peter Dutton on why he’s not Australia’s Trump – ‘I’m my own person’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/politics-with-michelle-grattan-peter-dutton-on-why-hes-not-australias-trump-im-my-own-person-252156/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Peter Dutton on why he’s not Australia’s Trump – ‘I’m my own person’">Read more</a>
