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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Victorian and NSW Nationals senators due to face the voters at the 2028 election will struggle to hold their seats if the former partners do not re-form the Coalition before then. Under usual Coalition arrangements, Bridget McKenzie, from Victoria, ... <a title="View from The Hill: Coalition split puts Victorian and NSW Nationals Senate seats at high risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/view-from-the-hill-coalition-split-puts-victorian-and-nsw-nationals-senate-seats-at-high-risk-256456/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Coalition split puts Victorian and NSW Nationals Senate seats at high risk">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew King, Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne Emergency crews were scrambling to rescue residents trapped by floodwaters on Wednesday as heavy rain pummelled the Mid North Coast of New South Wales. In some areas, more ... <a title="NSW is copping rain and flooding while parts of Australia are in drought. What’s going on?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/nsw-is-copping-rain-and-flooding-while-parts-of-australia-are-in-drought-whats-going-on-257235/" aria-label="Read more about NSW is copping rain and flooding while parts of Australia are in drought. What’s going on?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 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 Counting in several extremely close seats continues, but some results have become clearer. In Liberal-held Bradfield, Teal candidate Nicolette Boele has taken the lead, while the Calwell ... <a title="Counts in Bradfield and Calwell become clearer, while Jacqui Lambie faces a possible problem in the Tasmanian Senate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/counts-in-bradfield-and-calwell-become-clearer-while-jacqui-lambie-faces-a-possible-problem-in-the-tasmanian-senate-257122/" aria-label="Read more about Counts in Bradfield and Calwell become clearer, while Jacqui Lambie faces a possible problem in the Tasmanian Senate">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Houlihan, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast Dima Berlin/Shutterstock Can you only start a boring admin task once your house is clean? Do you leave the trickiest emails to the end of the day? Delaying a goal or task – usually to ... <a title="Why do I procrastinate? And can I do anything about it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/why-do-i-procrastinate-and-can-i-do-anything-about-it-255770/" aria-label="Read more about Why do I procrastinate? And can I do anything about it?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Clarke, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Tasmania Mirrorscape (detail), 2025, Théo Mercier. Photo credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artist and the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The first impulse is to kick it. After all, it’s a sand sculpture. ... <a title="A sculpture made from 80 tonnes of sand, Mirrorscape is remarkable – but too much is left unsaid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/a-sculpture-made-from-80-tonnes-of-sand-mirrorscape-is-remarkable-but-too-much-is-left-unsaid-256813/" aria-label="Read more about A sculpture made from 80 tonnes of sand, Mirrorscape is remarkable – but too much is left unsaid">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Cover, Professor of Digital Communication and Director of the RMIT Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University In its most recent battle with authorities in Australia, X (formerly Twitter) has launched legal action in the Federal Court, seeking an exemption from a new safety standard aimed at ... <a title="What’s the obscure Australian online safety standard Elon Musk’s X is trying to dodge in court? An expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/whats-the-obscure-australian-online-safety-standard-elon-musks-x-is-trying-to-dodge-in-court-an-expert-explains-257222/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the obscure Australian online safety standard Elon Musk’s X is trying to dodge in court? An expert explains">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ama Samarasinghe, Lecturer, Financial Planning and Tax, RMIT University doublelee/Shutterstock On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia cut the target cash rate by 0.25 percentage points. It now sits at 3.85% – the lowest since May 2023. Australia’s big four banks were all quick to announce they ... <a title="Interest rates are coming down. Here’s what homeowners should know about refinancing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/interest-rates-are-coming-down-heres-what-homeowners-should-know-about-refinancing-257116/" aria-label="Read more about Interest rates are coming down. Here’s what homeowners should know about refinancing">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Raw, Lecturer, Sport Management, Swinburne University of Technology Bratislav Kostic/Shutterstock Australia’s underwhelming performance at the 2024 Paris Paralympics has raised serious questions about how well our adaptive sport system is working. The Paris games returned our lowest medal tally since 1988, from our smallest team since ... <a title="Australian para sport has issues everywhere – here’s what must be fixed ahead of the Brisbane Paralympics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/australian-para-sport-has-issues-everywhere-heres-what-must-be-fixed-ahead-of-the-brisbane-paralympics-256450/" aria-label="Read more about Australian para sport has issues everywhere – here’s what must be fixed ahead of the Brisbane Paralympics">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Murray, Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, Swinburne University of Technology bodnar.photo/Shutterstock If you’re browsing the supermarket fridge for reduced-fat milk, it’s easy to be confused by the many different types. You can find options labelled skim, skimmed, skinny, no fat, extra light, lite, light, low fat, reduced fat, ... <a title="What’s the difference between skim milk and light milk?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/whats-the-difference-between-skim-milk-and-light-milk-255608/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between skim milk and light milk?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn Locke, Associate Researcher in Digital Disability, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University Chansom Pantip/Shutterstock Since the recent explosion of widely available generative artificial intelligence (AI), it now seems that a new AI tool emerges every week. With varying success, AI offers solutions for productivity, creativity, ... <a title="AI is now used for audio description. But it should be accurate and actually useful for people with low vision" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/ai-is-now-used-for-audio-description-but-it-should-be-accurate-and-actually-useful-for-people-with-low-vision-256808/" aria-label="Read more about AI is now used for audio description. But it should be accurate and actually useful for people with low vision">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Gaston, Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Shutterstock/Olivier Le Queinec A lack of strategy and research funding – by both the current and previous governments – has been well documented, most comprehensively in the first report ... <a title="NZ Budget 2025: science investment must increase as a proportion of GDP for NZ to innovate and compete" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/nz-budget-2025-science-investment-must-increase-as-a-proportion-of-gdp-for-nz-to-innovate-and-compete-255591/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2025: science investment must increase as a proportion of GDP for NZ to innovate and compete">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Spotify was started, according to its official claims, because its founders “love music and piracy was killing it”. In Mood Machine, music journalist Liz Pelly argues this is rewriting history. In fact, she ... <a title="Spotify continues to change music. What’s next – will AI musicians replace music made by humans?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/spotify-continues-to-change-music-whats-next-will-ai-musicians-replace-music-made-by-humans-253630/" aria-label="Read more about Spotify continues to change music. What’s next – will AI musicians replace music made by humans?">Read more</a>
