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August 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It’s too early to make a judgement about how productive the government’s economic reform (also known as productivity roundtable) will be, but the fact it’s behind closed doors is making it a rather amorphous affair to follow. Its sessions are ... <a title="View from The Hill: Everyone wants a slice of the productivity action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/view-from-the-hill-everyone-wants-a-slice-of-the-productivity-action-263431/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Everyone wants a slice of the productivity action">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Ireland-Piper, Associate Professor of Law, National Security College, Australian National University Israeli politician Simcha Rothman Gil Cohen-Magan/Getty The Australian government has cancelled the visa of Israeli politician Simcha Rothman, setting off a diplomatic falling out that’s escalated over the course of the week. Rothman is a ... <a title="Granting visas to enter Australia is a delicate balancing act – whether you’re a politician or not" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/granting-visas-to-enter-australia-is-a-delicate-balancing-act-whether-youre-a-politician-or-not-263528/" aria-label="Read more about Granting visas to enter Australia is a delicate balancing act – whether you’re a politician or not">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The peak body of Australian Jewry has delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as strongly chastising Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in letters to the two leaders. The Executive Council of Australia Jewry has told ... <a title="Australian Jewish representatives deliver stinging rebukes to Netanyahu and Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/australian-jewish-representatives-deliver-stinging-rebukes-to-netanyahu-and-albanese-263430/" aria-label="Read more about Australian Jewish representatives deliver stinging rebukes to Netanyahu and Albanese">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
During the past 22 months in Gaza, the pattern has become unbearable yet tragically predictable: A journalist reports about civilians; killed or starved, shares footage of a hospital corridor, shelters bombed out, schools and homes destroyed, and then they are silenced. Killed. At the Committee to Protect Journalists we documented that 2024 was the deadliest ... <a title="When journalists like Anas al-Sharif are killed we lose access to truth in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/when-journalists-like-anas-al-sharif-are-killed-we-lose-access-to-truth-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about When journalists like Anas al-Sharif are killed we lose access to truth in Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Duygu Yengin, Associate Professor of Economics; President, Economic Society of Australia (SA); Deputy Chair, Women in Economics Network, University of Adelaide Productivity is the buzzword at this week’s economic reform roundtable in Canberra. It’s about how effectively we turn our time, skills and resources into goods and ... <a title="Productivity is the buzzword of the week, but we’re not making the most of half the workforce" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/productivity-is-the-buzzword-of-the-week-but-were-not-making-the-most-of-half-the-workforce-263187/" aria-label="Read more about Productivity is the buzzword of the week, but we’re not making the most of half the workforce">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milena Heinsch, Professor and Head of Social Work, University of Tasmania Milan Markovic/Getty Talking about suicide can feel scary. But new data has found one in three Australian teenagers have thought about, planned or attempted suicide in the last 12 months – so starting the conversation is ... <a title="1 in 3 teens has thought about suicide this year. Here’s what to look for – and where to get help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/1-in-3-teens-has-thought-about-suicide-this-year-heres-what-to-look-for-and-where-to-get-help-263422/" aria-label="Read more about 1 in 3 teens has thought about suicide this year. Here’s what to look for – and where to get help">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelvin (Shiu Fung) Wong, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock Personality tests have become increasingly popular in daily life. From hiring to dating, they promise to help us understand who we are and how we are similar, or different, to others. But do ... <a title="Are you really an ISFJ? The truth about personality tests – and why we keep taking them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/are-you-really-an-isfj-the-truth-about-personality-tests-and-why-we-keep-taking-them-261183/" aria-label="Read more about Are you really an ISFJ? The truth about personality tests – and why we keep taking them">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Rudge, Law Lecturer, University of Sydney Jane Khomi/Getty A small Australian trial that used psychedelic-assisted therapy to improve the mental health and wellbeing of terminally ill patients is in the news today. The results are based on research conducted in Melbourne involving 35 people. All had ... <a title="Two years on from Australia’s bold psychedelic experiment, here are our concerns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/two-years-on-from-australias-bold-psychedelic-experiment-here-are-our-concerns-261367/" aria-label="Read more about Two years on from Australia’s bold psychedelic experiment, here are our concerns">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University The South Australian Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence has released its final report. Led by Royal Commissioner Natasha Stott Despoja, the 700-page report presents findings from extensive consultations, including more than 380 written ... <a title="South Australia’s domestic and sexual violence royal commission recommendations should be embraced across the country" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/south-australias-domestic-and-sexual-violence-royal-commission-recommendations-should-be-embraced-across-the-country-263521/" aria-label="Read more about South Australia’s domestic and sexual violence royal commission recommendations should be embraced across the country">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kirsten Zemke, Pouako Matua (Senior Lecturer) in Ethnomusicology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Matariki has come and gone for another year, but the melody still shimmers. I’m referring in particular to a song released for the 2025 Māori new year: Matariki Hunga Nui – Calling Me ... <a title="Calling me home: how a Matariki anthem wrote a new chapter in the story of Māori country music" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/calling-me-home-how-a-matariki-anthem-wrote-a-new-chapter-in-the-story-of-maori-country-music-260790/" aria-label="Read more about Calling me home: how a Matariki anthem wrote a new chapter in the story of Māori country music">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Baker, Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide Unsplash, CC BY-NC-SA Most Australians invest much of their income into housing, making employment, education and retirement decisions based on the location, timing and strength of their housing investment. Across the nation, the housing choices of the last ... <a title="Housing can be good for productivity. Here are 5 ways we can build it better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/housing-can-be-good-for-productivity-here-are-5-ways-we-can-build-it-better-263335/" aria-label="Read more about Housing can be good for productivity. Here are 5 ways we can build it better">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Boucaut, Lecturer, media and cultural studies, University of Adelaide The AFL is facing a monumental stress test in its efforts to tackle homophobia, with one of the league’s biggest stars facing a season-ending suspension on the eve of the finals series. Adelaide star Izak Rankine has ... <a title="Australian sports media is compounding the AFL’s homophobia problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/australian-sports-media-is-compounding-the-afls-homophobia-problem-263427/" aria-label="Read more about Australian sports media is compounding the AFL’s homophobia problem">Read more</a>
