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June 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Senior Researcher in Architecture, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images Children’s play is essential for their cognitive, physical and social development. But in cities, spaces to play are usually separated, often literally fenced off, from the rest of urban life. In our new study, ... <a title="Beyond playgrounds: how less structured city spaces can nurture children’s creativity and independence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/27/beyond-playgrounds-how-less-structured-city-spaces-can-nurture-childrens-creativity-and-independence-257481/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond playgrounds: how less structured city spaces can nurture children’s creativity and independence">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Olver, Adjunct Professsor, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide Magic mine/Shutterstock From July, eligible Australians will be screened for lung cancer as part of the nation’s first new cancer screening program for almost 20 years. The program aims to detect ... <a title="Lung cancer screening is about to start. What you need to know if you smoke or have quit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/27/lung-cancer-screening-is-about-to-start-what-you-need-to-know-if-you-smoke-or-have-quit-253227/" aria-label="Read more about Lung cancer screening is about to start. What you need to know if you smoke or have quit">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew B. Watkins, Associate research scientist, School of Earth, Atmopshere & Environment, Monash University Andrew Watkins How often do you mow your lawn in winter? That may seem like an odd way to start a conversation about drought. But the answer helps explain why our current drought ... <a title="The drought in southern Australia is not over – it just looks that way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/27/the-drought-in-southern-australia-is-not-over-it-just-looks-that-way-259543/" aria-label="Read more about The drought in southern Australia is not over – it just looks that way">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Bloomberg, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Te Kura Ngahere-New Zealand School of Forestry, University of Canterbury Murry Cave/Gisborne District Council, CC BY-SA The biggest environmental problems for commercial plantation forestry in New Zealand’s steep hill country are discharges of slash (woody debris left behind after logging) and sediment ... <a title="One bad rainstorm away from disaster: why proposed changes to forestry rules won’t solve the ‘slash’ problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/27/one-bad-rainstorm-away-from-disaster-why-proposed-changes-to-forestry-rules-wont-solve-the-slash-problem-258280/" aria-label="Read more about One bad rainstorm away from disaster: why proposed changes to forestry rules won’t solve the ‘slash’ problem">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Sollis, Research Fellow, University of Tasmania DavideAngelini/Shutterstock The Albanese government devoted time and energy in its first term to developing a wellbeing agenda for the economy and society. It was a passion project of Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who wanted better ways to measure national welfare beyond ... <a title="Whatever happened to the Albanese government’s wellbeing agenda?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/27/whatever-happened-to-the-albanese-governments-wellbeing-agenda-258580/" aria-label="Read more about Whatever happened to the Albanese government’s wellbeing agenda?">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn J. Whitaker, Associate Professor, New Testament, & Director of The Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy, University of Divinity Wars are often waged in the name of religion. So what do key texts from Christianity, Islam and Judaism say about the justification for war? ... <a title="What do the Bible, the Quran and the Torah say about the justification for war?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/27/what-do-the-bible-the-quran-and-the-torah-say-about-the-justification-for-war-259679/" aria-label="Read more about What do the Bible, the Quran and the Torah say about the justification for war?">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Harrison, Director, Master of Business Administration Program (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University It’s quite unsettling to discover something so central to our cultural rituals – the “slop” in the Aussie mantra of “Slip! Slop! Slap!” – can no longer be trusted. We’ve never really ... <a title="Brands want us to trust them. But as the SPF debacle shows, they need to earn it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/27/brands-want-us-to-trust-them-but-as-the-spf-debacle-shows-they-need-to-earn-it-259565/" aria-label="Read more about Brands want us to trust them. But as the SPF debacle shows, they need to earn it">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sung-Ae Lee, Lecturer, Macquarie University In less than a decade, Korean TV dramas (K-dramas) have transmuted from a regional industry to a global phenomenon – partly a consequence of the rise of streaming giants. But foreign audiences may not realise the K-dramas they’ve seen on Netflix don’t ... <a title="Streaming giants have helped bring Korean dramas to the world – but much is lost in translation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/27/streaming-giants-have-helped-bring-korean-dramas-to-the-world-but-much-is-lost-in-translation-257547/" aria-label="Read more about Streaming giants have helped bring Korean dramas to the world – but much is lost in translation">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Next week will be the 40th anniversary of the Hawke government’s tax summit. Dominated by then treasurer Paul Keating’s unsuccessful bid to win support for a consumption tax, it was the public centrepiece of an extraordinary political and policy story. ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Jim Chalmers juggles expectations and ambition in pursuing tax reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/26/grattan-on-friday-jim-chalmers-juggles-expectations-and-ambition-in-pursuing-tax-reform-258971/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Jim Chalmers juggles expectations and ambition in pursuing tax reform">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin M. Chalker, Professor of Chemistry, Flinders University A sample of refined gold recovered from mining and e-waste recycling trials. Justin Chalker In 2022, humans produced an estimated 62 million tonnes of electronic waste – enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. This was up ... <a title="There’s gold trapped in your iPhone – and chemists have found a safe new way to extract it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/26/theres-gold-trapped-in-your-iphone-and-chemists-have-found-a-safe-new-way-to-extract-it-259817/" aria-label="Read more about There’s gold trapped in your iPhone – and chemists have found a safe new way to extract it">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In August, the Albanese government will hold an economic “roundtable” that will discuss productivity, budget sustainability and resilience. Australia’s tax system will be one of the central issues, and stakeholders are gearing up with their varying arguments for changes. Ken ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Ken Henry on changing the tax system to give struggling workers a fairer go" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/26/politics-with-michelle-grattan-ken-henry-on-changing-the-tax-system-to-give-struggling-workers-a-fairer-go-259887/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Ken Henry on changing the tax system to give struggling workers a fairer go">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kirk Dodd, Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney Brett Boardman/Bell Shakespeare Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays; perhaps because the hero is so pugnacious and classist, impressive in his strident vehemence, but lacking the vulnerability of a Macbeth or Othello. Set in the ... <a title="As one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays, Coriolanus is startlingly relevant under Trump 2.0" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/26/as-one-of-shakespeares-least-performed-plays-coriolanus-is-startlingly-relevant-under-trump-2-0-257548/" aria-label="Read more about As one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays, Coriolanus is startlingly relevant under Trump 2.0">Read more</a>
