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February 9, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Larissa Hjorth, Professor of Mobile Media and Games., RMIT University The recent murders of Minneapolis residents Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good are drawing renewed attention to the activities of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. While they are not the only people to have ... <a title="How watching videos of ICE violence affects our mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/09/how-watching-videos-of-ice-violence-affects-our-mental-health-275217/" aria-label="Read more about How watching videos of ICE violence affects our mental health">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Jim Sanday When peace is being designed, Fiji is not invited into the room. When peace needs enforcing, Fiji is asked to send soldiers. That uncomfortable reality is exposed by the emergence of US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” for Gaza. While New Zealand was formally invited to join the Board ... <a title="Troops without a seat – the Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ and Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/09/troops-without-a-seat-the-gaza-board-of-peace-and-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about Troops without a seat – the Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ and Fiji">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Sussan Ley and David Littleproud on Sunday announced an 11th hour patch up of the federal Coalition that the Liberal leader hopes will hold off an early challenge from Angus Taylor. But on Sunday night it was doubtful whether re-forming ... <a title="View from The Hill: will disastrous Newspoll trigger Taylor challenge to Ley, despite Coalition patch-up?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/08/view-from-the-hill-will-disastrous-newspoll-trigger-taylor-challenge-to-ley-despite-coalition-patch-up-275399/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: will disastrous Newspoll trigger Taylor challenge to Ley, despite Coalition patch-up?">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2026
Writing in The Guardian on Thursday, UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti laid out the reasons Israeli President Isaac Herzog should not be welcome in Australia, and urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to correct his terrible mistake in inviting him. COMMENTARY: By Chris Sidoti It’s not too late for Anthony Albanese to withdraw the invitation to the ... <a title="Isaac Herzog is accused of inciting genocide in Gaza. He shouldn’t be welcomed to Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/07/isaac-herzog-is-accused-of-inciting-genocide-in-gaza-he-shouldnt-be-welcomed-to-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Isaac Herzog is accused of inciting genocide in Gaza. He shouldn’t be welcomed to Australia">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2026
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Jonathan Cook If you struggle to cope with the endless pressure to communicate in an ever-more connected world, spare a thought for the late serial paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The flood of three million documents released by the US Department of Justice last weekend confirm ... <a title="Jonathan Cook: The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/07/jonathan-cook-the-criminal-elite-exposed-in-the-epstein-files-are-burying-the-truth/" aria-label="Read more about Jonathan Cook: The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Sunday’s Newspoll is being keenly awaited by federal Liberals as leadership aspirant Angus Taylor contemplates the timing of a challenge to Sussan Ley. With talks to try to get the federal Coalition together looking near collapse, Taylor danced around the ... <a title="View from The Hill: Angus Taylor circles Ley, as Liberals watch polling and negotiations with Nats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/06/view-from-the-hill-angus-taylor-circles-ley-as-liberals-watch-polling-and-negotiations-with-nats-274833/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Angus Taylor circles Ley, as Liberals watch polling and negotiations with Nats">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Archana Koirala, Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist; Clinical Researcher, University of Sydney LSO Photo/Getty Images Australia is battling its biggest rise in whooping cough cases in 35 years. During 2024 and 2025 Australia recorded 82,513 whooping cough cases – the highest number since monitoring began in 1991. ... <a title="Whooping cough cases are at their highest level in 35 years – so why the surge?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/06/whooping-cough-cases-are-at-their-highest-level-in-35-years-so-why-the-surge-275082/" aria-label="Read more about Whooping cough cases are at their highest level in 35 years – so why the surge?">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hickie, Co-Director, Health and Policy, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney Joel Cauchi’s psychiatrist failed to see the early warning signs of his relapse into psychosis and should be investigated by the Queensland health ombudsman, New South Wales coroner Teresa O’Sullivan has concluded. Cauchi, who ... <a title="Lessons from Bondi Junction attack show what we really need from schizophrenia care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/06/lessons-from-bondi-junction-attack-show-what-we-really-need-from-schizophrenia-care-275221/" aria-label="Read more about Lessons from Bondi Junction attack show what we really need from schizophrenia care">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Palmer, Lecturer in International Law, Griffith University Just four months ago, Timor-Leste formally became a member of the Association of Southeast Asian States (ASEAN). This week, the tiny country took an unprecedented step: its judicial authorities appointed a prosecutor to examine the Myanmar military’s responsibility for ... <a title="With international law at a ‘breaking point’, a tiny country goes after Myanmar’s junta on its own" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/06/with-international-law-at-a-breaking-point-a-tiny-country-goes-after-myanmars-junta-on-its-own-275089/" aria-label="Read more about With international law at a ‘breaking point’, a tiny country goes after Myanmar’s junta on its own">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eve Vincent, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Macquarie University Pavel Danilyuk/Pexels, CC BY Teeth are one of the most visible markers of poverty: structural circumstances that are individually borne. In an essay for Aeon, US journalist Sarah Smarsh calls them “poor teeth”. She writes: Often, bad teeth are blamed ... <a title="What our teeth reveal about the growing gap between rich and poor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/06/what-our-teeth-reveal-about-the-growing-gap-between-rich-and-poor-274519/" aria-label="Read more about What our teeth reveal about the growing gap between rich and poor">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher and Sustainable Future Lead, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Bunnings, The Conversation Australia is in a deep housing crisis. The latest National Housing Supply and Affordability Council analysis shows the country is likely to fall more than a quarter-of-a-million homes short ... <a title="Bunnings’ backyard pods won’t fix the housing crisis, but they signal a shift" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/06/bunnings-backyard-pods-wont-fix-the-housing-crisis-but-they-signal-a-shift-275210/" aria-label="Read more about Bunnings’ backyard pods won’t fix the housing crisis, but they signal a shift">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Associate Professor, Chair of Linguistics and Director of Language Lab, The University of Western Australia Aelitta / Getty Images Claims that artificial intelligence (AI) is on the verge of surpassing human intelligence have become commonplace. According to some commentators, rapid advances in large language ... <a title="Why comparisons between AI and human intelligence miss the point" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/06/why-comparisons-between-ai-and-human-intelligence-miss-the-point-274621/" aria-label="Read more about Why comparisons between AI and human intelligence miss the point">Read more</a>
