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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karen Stockin, Professor of Marine Ecology, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University A humpback whale repeatedly restranding in shallow waters in the Baltic Sea for more than three weeks has become the focus of a complex debate about reconciling compassion for animals with ethical, evidence-based decision ... <a title="Whale strandings draw emotional responses. But repeated rescues can cause more harm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/whale-strandings-draw-emotional-responses-but-repeated-rescues-can-cause-more-harm-281137/" aria-label="Read more about Whale strandings draw emotional responses. But repeated rescues can cause more harm">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anja Shortland, Professor in Political Economy, King’s College London When evolutionary biologist Joseph Popp coded the first documented piece of ransomware in 1989, he had little idea it would become a major criminal business model capable of bringing economies to their knees. Popp, who worked for the ... <a title="From floppy discs to Claude Mythos, how ransomware grew into a multibillion-dollar industry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/from-floppy-discs-to-claude-mythos-how-ransomware-grew-into-a-multibillion-dollar-industry-281000/" aria-label="Read more about From floppy discs to Claude Mythos, how ransomware grew into a multibillion-dollar industry">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert James Nicholls, Professor of Climate Adaptation, University of East Anglia Venice has co-existed with the sea throughout its 1,500-year history, perhaps better than any other city on earth. Yet over the past century it has flooded increasingly often, as the sea rises and the city itself ... <a title="Venice is sinking – we analysed every plan to save it, and none would preserve the city as we know it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/venice-is-sinking-we-analysed-every-plan-to-save-it-and-none-would-preserve-the-city-as-we-know-it-280891/" aria-label="Read more about Venice is sinking – we analysed every plan to save it, and none would preserve the city as we know it">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John N. Trey Rogers, Professor of Turfgrass Research, Michigan State University With 104 matches in 16 stadiums across Canada, the United States and Mexico, the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be soccer’s biggest event ever. It’s our job as turfgrass researchers hired by FIFA, the game’s governing ... <a title="We designed the turf for soccer’s biggest World Cup ever – here’s how we created the same playing experience across 3 countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/we-designed-the-turf-for-soccers-biggest-world-cup-ever-heres-how-we-created-the-same-playing-experience-across-3-countries-279536/" aria-label="Read more about We designed the turf for soccer’s biggest World Cup ever – here’s how we created the same playing experience across 3 countries">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Pace, Researcher and Lecturer at the Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body’s energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you’re doing right now. Reading these words, feeling the weight of ... <a title="How does imagination really work in the brain? New theory upends what we knew" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/how-does-imagination-really-work-in-the-brain-new-theory-upends-what-we-knew-280803/" aria-label="Read more about How does imagination really work in the brain? New theory upends what we knew">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwenda Tavan, Adjunct Associate Professor of Politics, La Trobe University Multiculturalism first made its way into Australian political dialogue in the 1970s, with the idea that the country could, and should, be home to people from all over the world. Inevitably, there was backlash against the idea, ... <a title="Multicultural Australia was built under a Liberal prime minister. The current party should take heed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/multicultural-australia-was-built-under-a-liberal-prime-minister-the-current-party-should-take-heed-277732/" aria-label="Read more about Multicultural Australia was built under a Liberal prime minister. The current party should take heed">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Davy, Senior Lecturer, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Every welfare program negotiates a fundamental tension: between fiscal responsibility and consistency on one hand, and care for real people with complex needs and situations on the other. Over the past decade or so, one ... <a title="First Robodebt, now NDIS and aged care: how computers still decide who gets care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/first-robodebt-now-ndis-and-aged-care-how-computers-still-decide-who-gets-care-280711/" aria-label="Read more about First Robodebt, now NDIS and aged care: how computers still decide who gets care">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Aikhenvald, Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow, Jawun Research Institute, CQUniversity Australia When the Crusaders descended upon the eastern shores of the Mediterranean at the end of the 11th century, they had to communicate with each other, with traders and with locals. Many of them spoke different ... <a title="What is a lingua franca? A brief history, from the Crusades to today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/what-is-a-lingua-franca-a-brief-history-from-the-crusades-to-today-275807/" aria-label="Read more about What is a lingua franca? A brief history, from the Crusades to today">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wesley Morgan, Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney US President Donald Trump is a longtime climate denier and oil industry ally, who sums up his own energy policy as “drill, baby, drill”. Yet he is doing more than almost anyone to speed up ... <a title="The end of oil? As fuel shocks cascade, 53 nations gather to plan a fossil fuel phaseout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/the-end-of-oil-as-fuel-shocks-cascade-53-nations-gather-to-plan-a-fossil-fuel-phaseout-280263/" aria-label="Read more about The end of oil? As fuel shocks cascade, 53 nations gather to plan a fossil fuel phaseout">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fotini Vasilopoulos, Postdoctoral Researcher, Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney Pretend play is a significant and often magical part of childhood. Children have huge imaginations and use these to turn rocks into spaceships, tables into forts or pens into fairies. ... <a title="Pretend play is a magical part of childhood. New research suggests it can also help mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/pretend-play-is-a-magical-part-of-childhood-new-research-suggests-it-can-also-help-mental-health-281121/" aria-label="Read more about Pretend play is a magical part of childhood. New research suggests it can also help mental health">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Evans, Emeritus Professor, School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, UNSW Sydney It looks increasingly likely Treasurer Jim Chalmers will make changes to the capital gains tax (CGT) discount in the federal budget in May. Under the current system, a person who has held an asset for ... <a title="Tinkering with the capital gains tax discount isn’t enough. Here’s why it needs to go" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/tinkering-with-the-capital-gains-tax-discount-isnt-enough-heres-why-it-needs-to-go-280577/" aria-label="Read more about Tinkering with the capital gains tax discount isn’t enough. Here’s why it needs to go">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra From October people will no longer have to pay to receive help with showering, dressing and support in managing continence, in changes to home care packages to be announced by Health Minister Mark Butler on Wednesday. Under the aged care ... <a title="Government finally to cover full cost of showering under home care program" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/government-finally-to-cover-full-cost-of-showering-under-home-care-program-281140/" aria-label="Read more about Government finally to cover full cost of showering under home care program">Read more</a>
