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June 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By T.J. Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University cosma/Shutterstock People turn to the internet to run billions of search queries each year. These range from keeping tabs on world events and celebrities to learning new words and getting DIY help. One of the ... <a title="AI overviews have transformed Google search. Here’s how they work – and how to opt out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/13/ai-overviews-have-transformed-google-search-heres-how-they-work-and-how-to-opt-out-258282/" aria-label="Read more about AI overviews have transformed Google search. Here’s how they work – and how to opt out">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Barrera, PhD Candidate, School of Public Health, University of Adelaide Paul Macdonald of Edithburgh Diving South Australian beaches have been awash with foamy, discoloured water and dead marine life for months. The problem hasn’t gone away; it has spread. Devastating scenes of death and destruction mobilised ... <a title="‘Like an underwater bushfire’: SA’s marine algal bloom is still killing almost everything in its path" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/13/like-an-underwater-bushfire-sas-marine-algal-bloom-is-still-killing-almost-everything-in-its-path-257885/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Like an underwater bushfire’: SA’s marine algal bloom is still killing almost everything in its path">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Walsh, Associate Professor, Screen and Media, Flinders University Released 50 years ago, Sunday Too Far Away deals episodically with a group of shearers led by Foley (Jack Thompson), and the events leading up to the national shearers’ strike of 1956. The shearers are a ragtag group ... <a title="Sunday Too Far Away at 50: how a story about Aussie shearers launched a local film industry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/13/sunday-too-far-away-at-50-how-a-story-about-aussie-shearers-launched-a-local-film-industry-258576/" aria-label="Read more about Sunday Too Far Away at 50: how a story about Aussie shearers launched a local film industry">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ibrahim Z. Bahreldin, Associate Professor of Urban & Environmental Design, University of Khartoum What makes a public space truly public? In Khartoum, before the current conflict engulfed Sudan, the answer was not always a park, a plaza or a promenade. The city’s streets, tea stalls (sitat al-shai), ... <a title="Khartoum before the war: the public spaces that held the city together" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/13/khartoum-before-the-war-the-public-spaces-that-held-the-city-together-258632/" aria-label="Read more about Khartoum before the war: the public spaces that held the city together">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Tasmanian politics has been thrown into chaos after a Labor motion of no confidence forced Premier Jeremy Rockliff to either resign or call for a new election. The premier opted for the latter, with Tasmanians to vote on July 19, ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Senator Tammy Tyrrell on wild days in Tasmania" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/13/politics-with-michelle-grattan-senator-tammy-tyrrell-on-wild-days-in-tasmania-258802/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Senator Tammy Tyrrell on wild days in Tasmania">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Former prime minister Paul Keating famously used to say the resident galah in any pet shop was talking about micro-economic policy. These days, if you encounter a pet shop with a galah, she’ll be chattering about productivity. Productivity is currently ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: the galahs are chattering about ‘productivity’, but can Labor really get it moving?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/12/grattan-on-friday-the-galahs-are-chattering-about-productivity-but-can-labor-really-get-it-moving-257337/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: the galahs are chattering about ‘productivity’, but can Labor really get it moving?">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra For the first time in memory, an Australian prime minister is approaching a prospective meeting with a US president with a distinct feeling of wariness. Of course Anthony Albanese would deny it. But it’s undeniable the government is relieved that ... <a title="View from The Hill: Is the US playing cat and mouse ahead of expected Albanese-Trump talks?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/12/view-from-the-hill-is-the-us-playing-cat-and-mouse-ahead-of-expected-albanese-trump-talks-257336/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Is the US playing cat and mouse ahead of expected Albanese-Trump talks?">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eyal Mayroz, Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney After more than 20 months of devastating violence in Gaza, the right-wing Israeli government’s pursuit of two irreconcilable objectives — “destroying” Hamas and releasing Israeli hostages — has left the coastal strip in ruins. At ... <a title="Global outrage over Gaza has reinforced a ‘siege mentality’ in Israel – what are the implications for peace?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/12/global-outrage-over-gaza-has-reinforced-a-siege-mentality-in-israel-what-are-the-implications-for-peace-258561/" aria-label="Read more about Global outrage over Gaza has reinforced a ‘siege mentality’ in Israel – what are the implications for peace?">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yaqoot Fatima, Professor of Sleep Health, University of the Sunshine Coast coldsnowstorm/Getty Images Last week, Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approved the weight-loss drug Mounjaro to treat sleep apnoea, a condition in which breathing stops and starts repeatedly during sleep. The TGA has indicated Mounjaro can be ... <a title="The weight loss drug Mounjaro has been approved to treat sleep apnoea. How does it work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/12/the-weight-loss-drug-mounjaro-has-been-approved-to-treat-sleep-apnoea-how-does-it-work-258195/" aria-label="Read more about The weight loss drug Mounjaro has been approved to treat sleep apnoea. How does it work?">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rose-Marie Stambe, Adjunct Research Fellow, social and economic marginalisation, The University of Queensland Matej Kastelic/Shutterstock Inflation has steadied and interest rates are finally coming down. But for many Australians, especially those in low-paid, insecure or precarious work, the cost-of-living crisis feels far from over. The federal government ... <a title="Not all insecure work has to be a ‘bad job’: research shows job design can make a big difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/12/not-all-insecure-work-has-to-be-a-bad-job-research-shows-job-design-can-make-a-big-difference-257642/" aria-label="Read more about Not all insecure work has to be a ‘bad job’: research shows job design can make a big difference">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Linda Shearwin, Researcher, Comparative Genome Biology Laboratory, University of Adelaide Rob D / Shutterstock For decades, scientists have known that platypuses and echidnas – Australia’s unique egg-laying mammals – have another developmental quirk: they don’t use the same genetic toolkit as other mammals to develop male and ... <a title="In most mammals, one gene determines sex. But 100 million years ago, platypuses and echidnas went their own way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/12/in-most-mammals-one-gene-determines-sex-but-100-million-years-ago-platypuses-and-echidnas-went-their-own-way-258801/" aria-label="Read more about In most mammals, one gene determines sex. But 100 million years ago, platypuses and echidnas went their own way">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hilary Bowman-Smart, Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Precision Health, University of South Australia Monash IVF CEO Michael Knaap has resigned after one of the company’s Melbourne clinics mistakenly transferred the wrong embryo to a patient. The patient wanted her partner’s embryo, but instead her own embryo was ... <a title="IVF is big business. But when patients become customers, what does this mean for their care?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/12/ivf-is-big-business-but-when-patients-become-customers-what-does-this-mean-for-their-care-258585/" aria-label="Read more about IVF is big business. But when patients become customers, what does this mean for their care?">Read more</a>