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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Cornell, Research Fellow, Flinders University shutterstock beeboys/Shutterstock It would be impossible at this stage in the election campaign to be unaware that housing is a critical, potentially vote-changing, issue. But the suite of policies being proposed by the major parties largely focus on young, first home ... <a title="Older Australians are also hurting from the housing crisis. Where are the election policies to help them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/older-australians-are-also-hurting-from-the-housing-crisis-where-are-the-election-policies-to-help-them-255391/" aria-label="Read more about Older Australians are also hurting from the housing crisis. Where are the election policies to help them?">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Daria Nipot/Shutterstock Australia’s headline inflation rate held steady at a four-year low of 2.4% in the March quarter, according to official data, adding to the case for a cut in interest rates at ... <a title="Inflation is easing, boosting the case for another interest rate cut in May" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/inflation-is-easing-boosting-the-case-for-another-interest-rate-cut-in-may-255116/" aria-label="Read more about Inflation is easing, boosting the case for another interest rate cut in May">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Micah Boerma, Researcher, School of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland Nitinai Thabthong/Shutterstock One of the highlights of the school year is an overnight excursion or school camp. These can happen as early as Year 3. While many students are very excited about the chance to ... <a title="Is your child anxious about going on school camp? Here are 4 ways to prepare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/is-your-child-anxious-about-going-on-school-camp-here-are-4-ways-to-prepare-252290/" aria-label="Read more about Is your child anxious about going on school camp? Here are 4 ways to prepare">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Edwell, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Macquarie University SvetlanaVV/Shutterstock Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with sycophants doing his bidding would be seductive. But in fact, Roman emperors were heavily constrained by institutions, ... <a title="Which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/which-roman-emperor-was-most-like-donald-trump-254573/" aria-label="Read more about Which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump?">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Xanthe Mallett, Criminologist, CQUniversity Australia Melnikov Dmitriy/Shutterstock It’s election time, which means the age old “tough on crime” rhetoric is being heralded by many politicians aiming to score votes. Opposition leader Peter Dutton is pushing for a national public sex offender register. Currently only Western Australia has ... <a title="Locked up for life? Unpacking South Australia’s new child sex crime laws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/locked-up-for-life-unpacking-south-australias-new-child-sex-crime-laws-255429/" aria-label="Read more about Locked up for life? Unpacking South Australia’s new child sex crime laws">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mia Cobb, Research Fellow, Animal Welfare Science Centre, The University of Melbourne nygi/Unsplash When miniature dachshund Valerie was captured after 529 days alone in the wilds of Australia’s Kangaroo Island, experts speculated she survived partly by eating other animals’ poo. While this survival tactic may have saved ... <a title="Why do dogs eat poo? A canine scientist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/why-do-dogs-eat-poo-a-canine-scientist-explains-234361/" aria-label="Read more about Why do dogs eat poo? A canine scientist explains">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Collins, Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle Loquellano/Pexels Did you start 2025 with a promise to eat better but didn’t quite get there? Or maybe you want to branch out from making the same meal every week or the same lunch for work ... <a title="Sick of eating the same things? 5 ways to boost your nutrition and keep meals interesting and healthy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/sick-of-eating-the-same-things-5-ways-to-boost-your-nutrition-and-keep-meals-interesting-and-healthy-245672/" aria-label="Read more about Sick of eating the same things? 5 ways to boost your nutrition and keep meals interesting and healthy">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert G. Patman, Professor of International Relations, University of Otago GettyImages Getty Images Is it possible to reconcile increased international support for Ukraine with Donald Trump’s plan to end the war? At their recent meeting in London, Christopher Luxon and his British counterpart Keir Starmer seemed to ... <a title="Peace in our time? Why NZ should resist Trump’s one-sided plan for Ukraine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/peace-in-our-time-why-nz-should-resist-trumps-one-sided-plan-for-ukraine-255495/" aria-label="Read more about Peace in our time? Why NZ should resist Trump’s one-sided plan for Ukraine">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monica Gagliano, Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology, Southern Cross University Zenit Arti Audiovisive Earth’s cycles of light and dark profoundly affect billions of organisms. Events such as solar eclipses are known to bring about marked shifts in animals, but do they have the same effect on ... <a title="‘A living collective’: study shows trees synchronise electrical signals during a solar eclipse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/a-living-collective-study-shows-trees-synchronise-electrical-signals-during-a-solar-eclipse-255499/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A living collective’: study shows trees synchronise electrical signals during a solar eclipse">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Clune, Honorary Associate, Government and International Relations, University of Sydney While many Australians have already voted at pre-poll stations and by post, the politicking continues right up until May 3. So what’s happened across the country over the past five weeks? Here, six experts analyse how ... <a title="State of the states: the campaign is almost over, so how has it played out across Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/state-of-the-states-the-campaign-is-almost-over-so-how-has-it-played-out-across-australia-253125/" aria-label="Read more about State of the states: the campaign is almost over, so how has it played out across Australia?">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Briony Hill, Deputy Head, Health and Social Care Unit and Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Kate Cashin Photography According to a study from the United States, women experience weight stigma in maternity care at almost every visit. We expect this experience to be similar in Australia, where ... <a title="‘No compassion… just blame’: how weight stigma in maternity care harms larger-bodied women and their babies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/no-compassion-just-blame-how-weight-stigma-in-maternity-care-harms-larger-bodied-women-and-their-babies-252725/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No compassion… just blame’: how weight stigma in maternity care harms larger-bodied women and their babies">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Magnus Söderberg, Professor & Director, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University Christie Cooper/Shutterstock In an otherwise unremarkable election campaign, the major parties are promising sharply different energy blueprints for Australia. Labor is pitching a high-renewables future powered largely by wind, solar, hydroelectricity and ... <a title="Renewables, coal or nuclear? This election, your generation’s energy preference may play a surprising role" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/renewables-coal-or-nuclear-this-election-your-generations-energy-preference-may-play-a-surprising-role-253832/" aria-label="Read more about Renewables, coal or nuclear? This election, your generation’s energy preference may play a surprising role">Read more</a>
