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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Shutterstock Despite community resistance and legal push-back, the government isn’t slowing down on its plan to roll back speed limit reductions on many roads. In the process, it’s going against expert advice from transport ... <a title="False economies: the evidence shows higher speed limits don’t make financial sense" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/false-economies-the-evidence-shows-higher-speed-limits-dont-make-financial-sense-251138/" aria-label="Read more about False economies: the evidence shows higher speed limits don’t make financial sense">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yetta Gurtner, Adjunct senior lecturer, Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University Tropical Cyclone Alfred is predicted to make landfall anywhere between Bundaberg and northern New South Wales this week. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has warned it may bring severe hazards and “dangerous and life-threatening flash ... <a title="How to prepare for a cyclone, according to an expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/how-to-prepare-for-a-cyclone-according-to-an-expert-251251/" aria-label="Read more about How to prepare for a cyclone, according to an expert">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A poll of 20 marginal seats by Redbridge and Accent Research was conducted for the News Ltd tabloids on February 20–25, from a sample presumably over 1,000. ... <a title="Labor gains in Redbridge poll of marginal seats and seizes lead in a Morgan poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/labor-gains-in-redbridge-poll-of-marginal-seats-and-seizes-lead-in-a-morgan-poll-250614/" aria-label="Read more about Labor gains in Redbridge poll of marginal seats and seizes lead in a Morgan poll">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cynthia Mehboob, PhD Scholar in Department of International Relations, Australian National University Gail Johnson/Shutterstock Last month tech giant Meta announced plans to build the world’s longest submarine communication cable. Known as Project Waterworth, the 50,000-kilometre cable would link five continents. Meta says it would improve connectivity and ... <a title="Submarine cables keep the world connected. They can also help us study climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/submarine-cables-keep-the-world-connected-they-can-also-help-us-study-climate-change-251046/" aria-label="Read more about Submarine cables keep the world connected. They can also help us study climate change">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacob Broom, Lecturer in Politics and Policy, Murdoch University The Western Australian election is less than a week away, and two themes have dominated: big public spending and culture wars. The main parties are racking up a long and expensive list of policy promises. The ABC’s election ... <a title="The WA election campaign has been about big promises, but culture wars are inescapable in contemporary politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/the-wa-election-campaign-has-been-about-big-promises-but-culture-wars-are-inescapable-in-contemporary-politics-249691/" aria-label="Read more about The WA election campaign has been about big promises, but culture wars are inescapable in contemporary politics">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Senior Research Fellow in Commercial Determinants of Health, The University of Melbourne Good quality information about when and how alcohol and gambling industries try to influence government decision making should be easily accessible. But in Australia, it’s not. When we mapped the network of alcohol ... <a title="Alcohol and gambling firms donate to political parties multiple times. And new rules won’t stop them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/alcohol-and-gambling-firms-donate-to-political-parties-multiple-times-and-new-rules-wont-stop-them-250374/" aria-label="Read more about Alcohol and gambling firms donate to political parties multiple times. And new rules won’t stop them">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Dempsey, Associate Professor in Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury Shutterstock/Oksana Bali The government recently announced a framework to regulate carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) by New Zealand companies. Energy and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts outlined new rules that would allow emitters to capture ... <a title="Leakage is a risk with carbon storage projects – NZ’s new framework must be clear on how to deal with this liability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/leakage-is-a-risk-with-carbon-storage-projects-nzs-new-framework-must-be-clear-on-how-to-deal-with-this-liability-251006/" aria-label="Read more about Leakage is a risk with carbon storage projects – NZ’s new framework must be clear on how to deal with this liability">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Stephen, Lecturer, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong Neon Wang/Unsplash More than 260,000 students across Australia are going to university for the first time. Some come to university to pursue a passion, others to discover one, and some aren’t quite sure why they’re here. Whatever their ... <a title="What can you do if you’ve started uni and you don’t like it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/what-can-you-do-if-youve-started-uni-and-you-dont-like-it-251052/" aria-label="Read more about What can you do if you’ve started uni and you don’t like it?">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Isaacs, Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney Disney+/Netflix/Stan This month, as the weather stays high and you’re likely to want to stay under the air-conditioning, our experts have a cornucopia of shows and films they’re watching to suit every mood. There is Robert de Niro’s ... <a title="Belle Gibson, teenage lives and trying to find the traitors: what we’re streaming this March" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/belle-gibson-teenage-lives-and-trying-to-find-the-traitors-what-were-streaming-this-march-250759/" aria-label="Read more about Belle Gibson, teenage lives and trying to find the traitors: what we’re streaming this March">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself before its far weaker enemies as rapidly and brazenly as Donald ... <a title="In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America first. He is hastening its decline" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/02/in-siding-with-russia-over-ukraine-trump-is-not-putting-america-first-he-is-hastening-its-decline-251140/" aria-label="Read more about In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America first. He is hastening its decline">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham The visit of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House has not gone to plan – at least not to his plan. There were extraordinary scenes as a press conference between Zelensky and Trump descended into acrimony, ... <a title="Raised voices and angry scenes at the White House as Trump clashes with Zelensky over the ‘minerals deal’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/01/raised-voices-and-angry-scenes-at-the-white-house-as-trump-clashes-with-zelensky-over-the-minerals-deal-250855/" aria-label="Read more about Raised voices and angry scenes at the White House as Trump clashes with Zelensky over the ‘minerals deal’">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government will temporarily freeze the indexation on draught beer excise, in what it describes as a win for drinkers, brewers and businesses. The freeze is for two years and starts from the next due indexation date in August. ... <a title="Albanese’s pitch on beer – temporary freeze on excise indexation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/01/albaneses-pitch-on-beer-temporary-freeze-on-excise-indexation-250898/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese’s pitch on beer – temporary freeze on excise indexation">Read more</a>
