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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Labor’s extraordinary election result has triggered a power play that has exposed the uglier entrails of Labor factionalism. Even before the new caucus met in Canberra on Friday, the Labor right had dumped two of its cabinet ministers: Attorney-General Mark ... <a title="View from The Hill: two ministers and the Nationals discover the limits of loyalty in politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/view-from-the-hill-two-ministers-and-the-nationals-discover-the-limits-of-loyalty-in-politics-255959/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: two ministers and the Nationals discover the limits of loyalty in politics">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia Simply Amazing/Shutterstock If you walk through your local pharmacy or supermarket you’re bound to come across probiotics and prebiotics. They’re added to certain foods. They come as supplements you can drink ... <a title="What’s the difference between probiotics and prebiotics? A dietitian explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/whats-the-difference-between-probiotics-and-prebiotics-a-dietitian-explains-248653/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between probiotics and prebiotics? A dietitian explains">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland Composite image by The Conversation. Images courtesy of TruthSocial/@realDonaldTrump and Wikimedia Commons The US presidency and the papacy came together on May 3 when Donald Trump posted an AI-generated photograph of himself ... <a title="What will the Antichrist look like? According to Western thought, an authoritarian king – or the pope" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/what-will-the-antichrist-look-like-according-to-western-thought-an-authoritarian-king-or-the-pope-256205/" aria-label="Read more about What will the Antichrist look like? According to Western thought, an authoritarian king – or the pope">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dean J. Miller, Senior Lecturer, Appleton Institute, HealthWise Research Group, CQUniversity Australia Alexey Demidov/Pexels Have you ever felt an unexpected sense of calm while walking barefoot on grass? Or noticed your stress begin to fade as you stood ankle deep in the ocean? If so, you may ... <a title="What is grounding and could it improve my sleep? Here’s the science behind this TikTok trend" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/what-is-grounding-and-could-it-improve-my-sleep-heres-the-science-behind-this-tiktok-trend-253347/" aria-label="Read more about What is grounding and could it improve my sleep? Here’s the science behind this TikTok trend">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Studio Nut/Shutterstock Google has announced it will roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to children under the age of 13. While the launch starts within the next week in ... <a title="Google is rolling out its Gemini AI chatbot to kids under 13. It’s a risky move" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/google-is-rolling-out-its-gemini-ai-chatbot-to-kids-under-13-its-a-risky-move-256204/" aria-label="Read more about Google is rolling out its Gemini AI chatbot to kids under 13. It’s a risky move">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Historian, Australian Catholic University When Robert Francis Prevost appeared on the loggia of St Peter’s Basilica as Pope Leo XIV, he set three precedents. He is the first pope from North America, the first Augustinian to occupy the throne of Peter, and the ... <a title="‘Peace be with all of you’: how Pope Leo XIV embodies a living dialogue between tradition and modernity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/peace-be-with-all-of-you-how-pope-leo-xiv-embodies-a-living-dialogue-between-tradition-and-modernity-256084/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Peace be with all of you’: how Pope Leo XIV embodies a living dialogue between tradition and modernity">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lily Bentley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock From the enormous blue whale to the delicate monarch butterfly, animals of all shapes and sizes migrate across the globe. These migrations connect distant habitats, from the tropics to the poles. They ... <a title="Hidden connections of more than 100 migratory marine species revealed in interactive map" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/hidden-connections-of-more-than-100-migratory-marine-species-revealed-in-interactive-map-255972/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden connections of more than 100 migratory marine species revealed in interactive map">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Noel Morada, Visiting Professor, Nelson Mandela Centre, Chulalongkorn University; and Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Chulalongkorn University It’s been two months since former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested and handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face potential prosecution ... <a title="As Filipinos prepare to vote, ex-strongman Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest is dividing families – all the way to the president" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/as-filipinos-prepare-to-vote-ex-strongman-rodrigo-dutertes-arrest-is-dividing-families-all-the-way-to-the-president-255600/" aria-label="Read more about As Filipinos prepare to vote, ex-strongman Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest is dividing families – all the way to the president">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Farid Zaid, Senior Lecturer, Psychology, Monash University Javier Bermudez Zayas/Shutterstock Imagine a young man whose voice has been worn down by years of feeling invisible. Plain, numb and bitter, the “incel” tries to explain the kind of hopelessness most of us would rather not confront: I believed ... <a title="How the word ‘incel’ got away from us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/how-the-word-incel-got-away-from-us-255109/" aria-label="Read more about How the word ‘incel’ got away from us">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth Boyask, Director of LitPlus, AUT School of Education, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images There is a well-known whakatauki (Māori proverb) that goes: “Ka mua, ka muri” – “walking backwards into the future”. It applies to many areas of life, but in education the idea of ... <a title="Kiwi kids once led the world in reading – this 1950s primary school syllabus still has lessons for today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/kiwi-kids-once-led-the-world-in-reading-this-1950s-primary-school-syllabus-still-has-lessons-for-today-253719/" aria-label="Read more about Kiwi kids once led the world in reading – this 1950s primary school syllabus still has lessons for today">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Associate Professor in Behavioral Data Science, University of Technology Sydney ginger_polina_bublik/Shutterstock In today’s fractured online landscape, it is harder than ever to identify harmful actors such as trolls and misinformation spreaders. Often, efforts to spot malicious accounts focus on analysing what they say. However, our ... <a title="Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/some-reddit-users-just-love-to-disagree-new-ai-powered-troll-spotting-algorithm-finds-255879/" aria-label="Read more about Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Langford, Executive Director, Security & Defence PLuS and Professor, UNSW Sydney When United States President William McKinley advocated high‑tariff protectionism in 1896, he argued squeezing foreign competitors behind a 50% wall of duties would make America richer and safer. That logic framed US trade debates for ... <a title="To split Moscow from Beijing, Trump is reviving Nixon’s ‘madman diplomacy’. It could backfire badly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/09/to-split-moscow-from-beijing-trump-is-reviving-nixons-madman-diplomacy-it-could-backfire-badly-255878/" aria-label="Read more about To split Moscow from Beijing, Trump is reviving Nixon’s ‘madman diplomacy’. It could backfire badly">Read more</a>
