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August 17, 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 The bizarre summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska should sway all but the most credulous doubters that the White House is more interested in friendly relations ... <a title="Putin got the red-carpet treatment from Trump. Where does this leave Ukraine?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/17/putin-got-the-red-carpet-treatment-from-trump-where-does-this-leave-ukraine-260922/" aria-label="Read more about Putin got the red-carpet treatment from Trump. Where does this leave Ukraine?">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto This morning there is no article on the political page of The New Zealand Herald about the plight of people in Gaza, the same is the case at The Post and at RNZ. Even the 1News political page is Gaza free but what may stun you over a Sunday morning coffee ... <a title="Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if – but when – but not now’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/17/gerard-otto-on-palestine-genocide-and-the-media-not-if-but-when-but-not-now/" aria-label="Read more about Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if – but when – but not now’">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Gordon Campbell The word “Gaza” is taking on similar connotations to what the word “Auschwitz” meant to a previous generation. It signifies a deliberate and systematic attempt to erase an entire people from history on the basis of their ethnic identity. As a result, Israel is isolating itself as a pariah state on ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: The lack of spine in New Zealand’s foreign policy on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/16/gordon-campbell-the-lack-of-spine-in-new-zealands-foreign-policy-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: The lack of spine in New Zealand’s foreign policy on Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. World War One is really the first conflagration of a Great World War which lasted between 1914 and 1945. That great war was a ‘”game” of two halves’ with an extended and less violent mid-war phase; total war, with an interregnum which exacerbated rather than resolved the trigger issues of early ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Goodies and Baddies? Lessons since the World War of 1914" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/keith-rankin-analysis-goodies-and-baddies-lessons-since-the-world-war-of-1914/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Goodies and Baddies? Lessons since the World War of 1914">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne The Liberals won 14 of the 35 lower house seats at the July 19 Tasmanian state election, Labor ten, the Greens five, independents five and the Shooters, ... <a title="Greens may be a problem for Labor in next week’s Tasmanian no-confidence vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/greens-may-be-a-problem-for-labor-in-next-weeks-tasmanian-no-confidence-vote-262869/" aria-label="Read more about Greens may be a problem for Labor in next week’s Tasmanian no-confidence vote">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian A. Wright, Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Nico De Pasquale Photography/Getty Images One of the world’s most dangerous water-borne microorganisms, commonly called a “brain-eating amoeba”, has recently been detected in two drinking water supplies in south-west Queensland. Both affected towns are about 750 ... <a title="A rare ‘brain-eating amoeba’ has been detected in Queensland water. Can I catch it by drinking tapwater? Or in the shower?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/a-rare-brain-eating-amoeba-has-been-detected-in-queensland-water-can-i-catch-it-by-drinking-tapwater-or-in-the-shower-263110/" aria-label="Read more about A rare ‘brain-eating amoeba’ has been detected in Queensland water. Can I catch it by drinking tapwater? Or in the shower?">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Ho, Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University Kira auf der Heide/Unsplash When you order a coffee, do you ask for it to be “extra hot”? Whether you enjoy tea, coffee or something else, hot drinks are a comforting and often highly personal ritual. ... <a title="Do hot drinks really give you cancer? A gut expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/do-hot-drinks-really-give-you-cancer-a-gut-expert-explains-261256/" aria-label="Read more about Do hot drinks really give you cancer? A gut expert explains">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland Raphael, Sistine Madonna (detail), between c. 1512 and c. 1513. Wikimedia Commons We are all familiar with cherubs – small, winged children that have a status in Western art history as angels. ... <a title="Not quite angels: why we should stop calling these small winged children ‘cherubs’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/not-quite-angels-why-we-should-stop-calling-these-small-winged-children-cherubs-261163/" aria-label="Read more about Not quite angels: why we should stop calling these small winged children ‘cherubs’">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie MacGregor, ARC Future Fellow and Matthew Flinders Fellow in Chemistry, Flinders University Progress towards a legally binding global treaty on plastics pollution stalled and went into reverse this week. The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, ran overtime. It’s likely to conclude this ... <a title="The global plastics treaty process has fallen flat. Here’s what went wrong, and how you can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/the-global-plastics-treaty-process-has-fallen-flat-heres-what-went-wrong-and-how-you-can-help-263189/" aria-label="Read more about The global plastics treaty process has fallen flat. Here’s what went wrong, and how you can help">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Buchanan, Professor in Working Life, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney In the 1850s, when Melbourne stonemasons won the eight-hour day, employers of the day prophesied economic ruin. These standardised hours then flowed into other industries. Far from ruin, ... <a title="Australia used to lead the world on shorter work hours – we could do it again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/australia-used-to-lead-the-world-on-shorter-work-hours-we-could-do-it-again-263120/" aria-label="Read more about Australia used to lead the world on shorter work hours – we could do it again">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Townsend, Lecturer in History, UNSW Sydney Eighty years ago this week, Japan surrendered after nearly four years of war in the Asia-Pacific. For Australia, this meant the end of not only the war in the Pacific, but also the second world war that had begun six ... <a title="New research shows WWII dominates Australians’ knowledge of military history. But big gaps remain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/new-research-shows-wwii-dominates-australians-knowledge-of-military-history-but-big-gaps-remain-262711/" aria-label="Read more about New research shows WWII dominates Australians’ knowledge of military history. But big gaps remain">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Guzyal Hill, Research fellow, The University of Melbourne Australian workers are secretly using generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tools – without knowledge or approval from their boss, a new report shows. The “Our Gen AI Transition: Implications for Work and Skills” report from the federal government’s Jobs ... <a title="Many Australians secretly use AI at work, a new report shows. Clearer rules could reduce ‘shadow AI’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/many-australians-secretly-use-ai-at-work-a-new-report-shows-clearer-rules-could-reduce-shadow-ai-263043/" aria-label="Read more about Many Australians secretly use AI at work, a new report shows. Clearer rules could reduce ‘shadow AI’">Read more</a>
