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August 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Fujak, Senior Lecturer in Sport Management, Deakin University On Sunday, one of rugby league’s best forwards, Payne Haas, confirmed his switch in national allegiance from Australia to Samoa. Haas, who played four Tests for Australia, was born in New South Wales. His mother is Samoan and ... <a title="Payne Haas’s allegiance switch to Samoa: a threat or an opportunity for rugby league?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/payne-haass-allegiance-switch-to-samoa-a-threat-or-an-opportunity-for-rugby-league-262025/" aria-label="Read more about Payne Haas’s allegiance switch to Samoa: a threat or an opportunity for rugby league?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Business, union, community representatives and experts have gathered in Canberra to grapple with some of Australia’s most intractable problems: how to make us a more productive, sustainable and resilient country. A vast amount of work has been done before the ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Shadow Treasurer Ted O’Brien and industry chief Andrew McKellar’s tax and red tape wishlists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/politics-with-michelle-grattan-shadow-treasurer-ted-obrien-and-industry-chief-andrew-mckellars-tax-and-red-tape-wishlists-263331/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Shadow Treasurer Ted O’Brien and industry chief Andrew McKellar’s tax and red tape wishlists">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Declan Humphreys, Lecturer Cybersecurity and Ethics, University of the Sunshine Coast Bart Fish & Power Tools of AI, CC BY In July, the United States government made it clear that artificial intelligence (AI) companies wanting to do business with the White House will need to ensure their ... <a title="AI free from bias and ideology is a fantasy – humans can’t organise data without distorting reality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/ai-free-from-bias-and-ideology-is-a-fantasy-humans-cant-organise-data-without-distorting-reality-262523/" aria-label="Read more about AI free from bias and ideology is a fantasy – humans can’t organise data without distorting reality">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Tieman, Matthew Flinders Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying, Flinders University Maskot/Getty Images As our population ages, we’re living longer and dying older. End-of-life care is therefore an increasingly important part of aged care. In Australia, around 50% of ... <a title="‘I went out and I had a cry’: what aged-care staff say about their grief when residents die" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/i-went-out-and-i-had-a-cry-what-aged-care-staff-say-about-their-grief-when-residents-die-262937/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I went out and I had a cry’: what aged-care staff say about their grief when residents die">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic McAfee, Postdoctoral researcher, marine ecology, University of Adelaide The author inspects a restored native oyster reef at Coffin Bay, South Australia. Stefan Andrews South Australia’s catastrophic harmful algal bloom now affects almost 30% of the state’s coastline, stretching from the Coorong in the state’s southeast to ... <a title="How could we clean up the algal bloom?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/how-could-we-clean-up-the-algal-bloom-262749/" aria-label="Read more about How could we clean up the algal bloom?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maryanne Macdonald, Lecturer, Indigenous Education, Edith Cowan University Statistics showing Indigenous school students in a negative light are regularly reported in the Australian media and policy debates. We often hear how Indigenous students “trail” their non-Indigenous peers in NAPLAN results and how there are persistent “gaps” when ... <a title="Indigenous students want to finish Year 12. They need equal support and resources from schools to do this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/indigenous-students-want-to-finish-year-12-they-need-equal-support-and-resources-from-schools-to-do-this-257895/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous students want to finish Year 12. They need equal support and resources from schools to do this">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wenjia Tang, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Communication, University of Sydney What can you do in 60 seconds? In short dramas, or “micro dramas”, that’s enough time for a billionaire CEO to fall in love with his contracted wife, or for a werewolf mafia boss to break ... <a title="Werewolf exes and billionaire CEOs: why cheesy short dramas are taking over our social media feeds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/werewolf-exes-and-billionaire-ceos-why-cheesy-short-dramas-are-taking-over-our-social-media-feeds-259385/" aria-label="Read more about Werewolf exes and billionaire CEOs: why cheesy short dramas are taking over our social media feeds">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne The construction industry is a pillar of Australia’s economy, employing more than a million people. But construction work is also among the most dangerous industries. According to Safe Work Australia, construction ... <a title="What’s behind the high rate of suicide in Australia’s construction industry?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/whats-behind-the-high-rate-of-suicide-in-australias-construction-industry-262044/" aria-label="Read more about What’s behind the high rate of suicide in Australia’s construction industry?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Treasa Dunworth, Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images It’s now a week since Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced his government had begun to formally consider New Zealand’s position on the recognition of a Palestinian state. That leaves three weeks until the United ... <a title="NZ is trailing its allies over Palestinian statehood – but there’s still time to show leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/nz-is-trailing-its-allies-over-palestinian-statehood-but-theres-still-time-to-show-leadership-263040/" aria-label="Read more about NZ is trailing its allies over Palestinian statehood – but there’s still time to show leadership">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Grimmer, Associate Professor of Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania Julia M Cameron/Pexels, CC BY Imagine the weight of three Sydney Harbour Bridges. Between 2022 and 2023, product manufacturers were responsible for 540,000 tonnes (or three Sydney Harbour Bridges) of soft plastic ... <a title="Soft plastics recycling looks set to return to supermarkets. Cutting back on plastic would be even better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/soft-plastics-recycling-looks-set-to-return-to-supermarkets-cutting-back-on-plastic-would-be-even-better-263267/" aria-label="Read more about Soft plastics recycling looks set to return to supermarkets. Cutting back on plastic would be even better">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday will give the diverse collection of participants at the economic roundtable their riding instructions, as he seeks to wring as much substance as possible out of the meeting. The success or otherwise of the three-day ... <a title="View from The Hill: Roundtable to grapple with political footballs and regulatory hairballs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/view-from-the-hill-roundtable-to-grapple-with-political-footballs-and-regulatory-hairballs-262603/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Roundtable to grapple with political footballs and regulatory hairballs">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shae McCrystal, Professor of Labour Law, University of Sydney On Monday, the Federal Court of Australia handed Qantas a record fine of A$90 million for breaching the Fair Work Act by unlawfully terminating the employment of 1,820 ground workers during the pandemic. The decision to impose this ... <a title="The ‘wrong kind of sorry’: will a record fine for Qantas deter other companies from breaking the law?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/18/the-wrong-kind-of-sorry-will-a-record-fine-for-qantas-deter-other-companies-from-breaking-the-law-263324/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘wrong kind of sorry’: will a record fine for Qantas deter other companies from breaking the law?">Read more</a>
