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February 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Loosemore, Professor of Construction Management, University of Technology Sydney This week, the Productivity Commission released its much-awaited report into productivity growth in Australia’s housing construction sector. It wasn’t a glowing appraisal. The commission found physical productivity – the total number of houses built per hour worked ... <a title="Here’s why increasing productivity in housing construction is such a tricky problem to solve" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/19/heres-why-increasing-productivity-in-housing-construction-is-such-a-tricky-problem-to-solve-250048/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s why increasing productivity in housing construction is such a tricky problem to solve">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cristóbal Castro Barrientos, PhD candidate, NZ Policy Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology Max Dallocco/Shutterstock Despite Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s reassurance that “some green shoots” are starting to show in the economy, including a 50 point cut in the official cash rate expected to be announced later ... <a title="Economic ‘green shoots’ and lower interest rates disguise worrying trends in NZ’s job market" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/19/economic-green-shoots-and-lower-interest-rates-disguise-worrying-trends-in-nzs-job-market-249685/" aria-label="Read more about Economic ‘green shoots’ and lower interest rates disguise worrying trends in NZ’s job market">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pascale Lubbe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Ecology, University of Otago Royal spoonbills are among several new species that have crossed the Tasman and naturalised in New Zealand. JJ Harrison/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn ... <a title="Loss of forests brought new birds to NZ during the last Ice Age – we’re witnessing a similar process now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/19/loss-of-forests-brought-new-birds-to-nz-during-the-last-ice-age-were-witnessing-a-similar-process-now-248523/" aria-label="Read more about Loss of forests brought new birds to NZ during the last Ice Age – we’re witnessing a similar process now">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Stone, Principal Research Fellow, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Having dense breasts is a clear risk factor for breast cancer. It can also make cancers hard to spot on mammograms. Yet you might not be aware you have dense ... <a title="Having dense breasts is linked to cancer. But advice about breast density can depend on where you live" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/having-dense-breasts-is-linked-to-cancer-but-advice-about-breast-density-can-depend-on-where-you-live-249863/" aria-label="Read more about Having dense breasts is linked to cancer. But advice about breast density can depend on where you live">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The National Anti-Corruption Commission will finally investigate whether six people referred to it by the royal commission into Robodebt engaged in corrupt conduct. This follows an independent reconsideration by former High Court judge Geoffrey Nettle, who examined the NACC”s original ... <a title="NACC belatedly to investigate whether six Robodebt referrals engaged in ‘corrupt conduct’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/nacc-belatedly-to-investigate-whether-six-robodebt-referrals-engaged-in-corrupt-conduct-250145/" aria-label="Read more about NACC belatedly to investigate whether six Robodebt referrals engaged in ‘corrupt conduct’">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Last week in Europe, the United States sent some very strong messages it is prepared to upend the established global order. US Vice President JD Vance warned a stunned Munich Security Conference that Europe has an ... <a title="Trump’s view of the world is becoming clear: America’s interests matter more than any set of rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/trumps-view-of-the-world-is-becoming-clear-americas-interests-matter-more-than-any-set-of-rules-250144/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s view of the world is becoming clear: America’s interests matter more than any set of rules">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Reserve Bank has delivered the expected modest rate cut of a quarter of a percentage point, and we’re set for the predictable frenzy of speculation about an April election. The cut is unlikely to be a major vote changer, ... <a title="View from the Hill: will Albanese opt for an April election now a rate cut has him breathing more easily?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/view-from-the-hill-will-albanese-opt-for-an-april-election-now-a-rate-cut-has-him-breathing-more-easily-250136/" aria-label="Read more about View from the Hill: will Albanese opt for an April election now a rate cut has him breathing more easily?">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra The Reserve Bank cut official interest rates on Tuesday, the first decrease in four years, saying inflationary pressures are easing “a little more quickly than expected”. However, the central bank said the outlook ... <a title="The Reserve Bank has cut rates for the first time in four years. But it is cautious about future cuts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/the-reserve-bank-has-cut-rates-for-the-first-time-in-four-years-but-it-is-cautious-about-future-cuts-249704/" aria-label="Read more about The Reserve Bank has cut rates for the first time in four years. But it is cautious about future cuts">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Reserve Bank has delivered the expected modest rate cut of a quarter of a percentage point, and we’re set for the predictable frenzy of speculation about an April election. The cut is unlikely to be a major vote changer, ... <a title="View from the Hill: will Albanese opt for an April election now that a rates cut has him breathing more easily?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/view-from-the-hill-will-albanese-opt-for-an-april-election-now-that-a-rates-cut-has-him-breathing-more-easily-250136/" aria-label="Read more about View from the Hill: will Albanese opt for an April election now that a rates cut has him breathing more easily?">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allan Fels, Professor Allan Fels, Professor of Law, Economics and Business at the University of Melbourne and Monash University., The University of Melbourne Australia is creeping towards adding a divestiture power to its Competition and Consumer Act. Under such a law, the courts, on the recommendation of ... <a title="What is divestiture and how would it stop insurance companies ‘ripping off’ customers?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/what-is-divestiture-and-how-would-it-stop-insurance-companies-ripping-off-customers-250036/" aria-label="Read more about What is divestiture and how would it stop insurance companies ‘ripping off’ customers?">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arjen Vaartjes, PhD Student, Quantum Physics, UNSW Sydney Dmitriy Rybin / Shutterstock What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them quantum physicists – up at night for decades. At very small scales, we know ... <a title="New experiments finally prove a long-forgotten theory about how quantum particles spin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/new-experiments-finally-prove-a-long-forgotten-theory-about-how-quantum-particles-spin-250059/" aria-label="Read more about New experiments finally prove a long-forgotten theory about how quantum particles spin">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Anne Kenny, Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University Australia’s minister for home affairs announced on Sunday that the federal government has struck a deal with Nauru to “resettle” three non-citizens from what’s come to be known as the “NZYQ cohort”. The NZYQ cohort is a ... <a title="Australia is deporting 3 non-citizens from the ‘NZYQ’ group to Nauru. What could it do instead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/australia-is-deporting-3-non-citizens-from-the-nzyq-group-to-nauru-what-could-it-do-instead-250053/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is deporting 3 non-citizens from the ‘NZYQ’ group to Nauru. What could it do instead?">Read more</a>
