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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacob Broom, Lecturer in Politics and Policy, Murdoch University The Western Australian election is less than a week away, and two themes have dominated: big public spending and culture wars. The main parties are racking up a long and expensive list of policy promises. The ABC’s election ... <a title="The WA election campaign has been about big promises, but culture wars are inescapable in contemporary politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/the-wa-election-campaign-has-been-about-big-promises-but-culture-wars-are-inescapable-in-contemporary-politics-249691/" aria-label="Read more about The WA election campaign has been about big promises, but culture wars are inescapable in contemporary politics">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Senior Research Fellow in Commercial Determinants of Health, The University of Melbourne Good quality information about when and how alcohol and gambling industries try to influence government decision making should be easily accessible. But in Australia, it’s not. When we mapped the network of alcohol ... <a title="Alcohol and gambling firms donate to political parties multiple times. And new rules won’t stop them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/alcohol-and-gambling-firms-donate-to-political-parties-multiple-times-and-new-rules-wont-stop-them-250374/" aria-label="Read more about Alcohol and gambling firms donate to political parties multiple times. And new rules won’t stop them">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Dempsey, Associate Professor in Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury Shutterstock/Oksana Bali The government recently announced a framework to regulate carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) by New Zealand companies. Energy and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts outlined new rules that would allow emitters to capture ... <a title="Leakage is a risk with carbon storage projects – NZ’s new framework must be clear on how to deal with this liability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/leakage-is-a-risk-with-carbon-storage-projects-nzs-new-framework-must-be-clear-on-how-to-deal-with-this-liability-251006/" aria-label="Read more about Leakage is a risk with carbon storage projects – NZ’s new framework must be clear on how to deal with this liability">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Stephen, Lecturer, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong Neon Wang/Unsplash More than 260,000 students across Australia are going to university for the first time. Some come to university to pursue a passion, others to discover one, and some aren’t quite sure why they’re here. Whatever their ... <a title="What can you do if you’ve started uni and you don’t like it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/what-can-you-do-if-youve-started-uni-and-you-dont-like-it-251052/" aria-label="Read more about What can you do if you’ve started uni and you don’t like it?">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Isaacs, Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney Disney+/Netflix/Stan This month, as the weather stays high and you’re likely to want to stay under the air-conditioning, our experts have a cornucopia of shows and films they’re watching to suit every mood. There is Robert de Niro’s ... <a title="Belle Gibson, teenage lives and trying to find the traitors: what we’re streaming this March" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/belle-gibson-teenage-lives-and-trying-to-find-the-traitors-what-were-streaming-this-march-250759/" aria-label="Read more about Belle Gibson, teenage lives and trying to find the traitors: what we’re streaming this March">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself before its far weaker enemies as rapidly and brazenly as Donald ... <a title="In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America first. He is hastening its decline" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/02/in-siding-with-russia-over-ukraine-trump-is-not-putting-america-first-he-is-hastening-its-decline-251140/" aria-label="Read more about In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America first. He is hastening its decline">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham The visit of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House has not gone to plan – at least not to his plan. There were extraordinary scenes as a press conference between Zelensky and Trump descended into acrimony, ... <a title="Raised voices and angry scenes at the White House as Trump clashes with Zelensky over the ‘minerals deal’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/01/raised-voices-and-angry-scenes-at-the-white-house-as-trump-clashes-with-zelensky-over-the-minerals-deal-250855/" aria-label="Read more about Raised voices and angry scenes at the White House as Trump clashes with Zelensky over the ‘minerals deal’">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government will temporarily freeze the indexation on draught beer excise, in what it describes as a win for drinkers, brewers and businesses. The freeze is for two years and starts from the next due indexation date in August. ... <a title="Albanese’s pitch on beer – temporary freeze on excise indexation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/01/albaneses-pitch-on-beer-temporary-freeze-on-excise-indexation-250898/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese’s pitch on beer – temporary freeze on excise indexation">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gavin Brown, Lecturer in Religious Education, Australian Catholic University Wikimedia Commons Most people recognise organisations such as the YMCA and the Boy Scouts, or events such as the Modern Olympic Games, summer camps and wilderness retreats. Few, though, have ever heard of the movement from which they ... <a title="How ‘muscular Christianity’ strove to bring men back to religion – and what it can teach us today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/how-muscular-christianity-strove-to-bring-men-back-to-religion-and-what-it-can-teach-us-today-249485/" aria-label="Read more about How ‘muscular Christianity’ strove to bring men back to religion – and what it can teach us today">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Ferrie, A/Prof, UTS Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research and ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Technology Sydney PsiQuantum American quantum computing startup PsiQuantum announced yesterday that it has cracked a significant puzzle on the road to making the technology useful: manufacturing quantum chips in useful quantities. PsiQuantum burst out ... <a title="A quantum computing startup says it is already making millions of light-powered chips" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/a-quantum-computing-startup-says-it-is-already-making-millions-of-light-powered-chips-251057/" aria-label="Read more about A quantum computing startup says it is already making millions of light-powered chips">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma Hamilton, Senior Lecturer, RMIT University Jacob Lund/Shutterstock As International Women’s Day approaches, we must redouble our efforts to champion social justice and the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). These are under unprecedented attack by some political leaders. In the United States, President Donald Trump ... <a title="Diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace are under attack. Here’s why they matter more than ever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-the-workplace-are-under-attack-heres-why-they-matter-more-than-ever-250651/" aria-label="Read more about Diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace are under attack. Here’s why they matter more than ever">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Thorp, Professor of Finance, University of Sydney Marek Masik/Shutterstock You might remember Pesto, the king penguin chick who became a star attraction at Melbourne Aquarium last year. Good food, good genes and a safe home let Pesto grow into a huge ball of brown fluff twice ... <a title="Australia’s retirement savings are too big to invest at home – here’s why super funds are looking to the US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/australias-retirement-savings-are-too-big-to-invest-at-home-heres-why-super-funds-are-looking-to-the-us-250920/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s retirement savings are too big to invest at home – here’s why super funds are looking to the US">Read more</a>
