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June 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon Hyndman, Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University Dan Kenyon/ Getty Images Children spend thousands of hours in playgrounds at school. A lot of this time does not have the same levels of teacher preparation and supervision as classrooms do. Research shows ... <a title="School playgrounds are one of the main locations for bullying. How can they be set up to stop it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/19/school-playgrounds-are-one-of-the-main-locations-for-bullying-how-can-they-be-set-up-to-stop-it-258566/" aria-label="Read more about School playgrounds are one of the main locations for bullying. How can they be set up to stop it?">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert B Whait, Senior Lecturer in Taxation Law, University of South Australia Soon, more than 15 million Australians should be lodging a tax return with the Australian Taxation Office in the hope of receiving at least a small refund. About 60% of taxpayers use an accountant to ... <a title="Would you cheat on your tax? It’s a risky move, the tax office knows a lot about you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/19/would-you-cheat-on-your-tax-its-a-risky-move-the-tax-office-knows-a-lot-about-you-258587/" aria-label="Read more about Would you cheat on your tax? It’s a risky move, the tax office knows a lot about you">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Llewellyn Spink, AI Corporate Governance Lead, Human Technology Institute, University of Technology Sydney The Conversation, CC BY-NC Australia’s productivity is flatlining, posting the worst vitals we’ve seen in 60 years. Politicians and chief executives are prescribing artificial intelligence (AI) like it’s the new penicillin – a wonder ... <a title="Companies are betting on AI to help lift productivity. Workers need to be part of the process" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/19/companies-are-betting-on-ai-to-help-lift-productivity-workers-need-to-be-part-of-the-process-258396/" aria-label="Read more about Companies are betting on AI to help lift productivity. Workers need to be part of the process">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katrina Muller-Townsend, Lecturer in Psychology, Edith Cowan University Island Records Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend album cover has fans divided. Carpenter poses on all fours, her glossy blond hair grasped by a male figure cropped from the frame. Her wide-eyed expression intensifies an ambiguous performance of subservience, ... <a title="Is Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend album cover satire or self-degradation? A psychology expert explores our reactions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/19/is-sabrina-carpenters-mans-best-friend-album-cover-satire-or-self-degradation-a-psychology-expert-explores-our-reactions-259043/" aria-label="Read more about Is Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend album cover satire or self-degradation? A psychology expert explores our reactions">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brodie Fraser, Senior Research Fellow, He Kāinga Oranga Housing and Health Research Programme, University of Otago Sangar Akreyi/Getty Images People who belong to the LGBTIQ+ community say flatting is fraught with difficulties that go well beyond learning new routines and sharing space with strangers. Our new research ... <a title="Kicked out for coming out: more than half of LGBTIQ+ flatmates face discrimination for their identity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/19/kicked-out-for-coming-out-more-than-half-of-lgbtiq-flatmates-face-discrimination-for-their-identity-259133/" aria-label="Read more about Kicked out for coming out: more than half of LGBTIQ+ flatmates face discrimination for their identity">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Lashmar, Reader in Journalism, City St George’s, University of London ‘Planting the sugar-cane’: vast fortunes were made from the trades in both sugar and human slaves in the Americas. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library Rich ... <a title="Tracing the Drax family’s millions – a story of British landed gentry, slavery and sugar plantations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/19/tracing-the-drax-familys-millions-a-story-of-british-landed-gentry-slavery-and-sugar-plantations-257376/" aria-label="Read more about Tracing the Drax family’s millions – a story of British landed gentry, slavery and sugar plantations">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Waddell, Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham George Orwell had a traumatic relationship with the sea. In August 1947, while he was writing Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) on the island of Jura in the Scottish Hebrides, he went on a fishing trip with his young ... <a title="Nineteen Eighty-Four might have been inspired by George Orwell’s fear of drowning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/19/nineteen-eighty-four-might-have-been-inspired-by-george-orwells-fear-of-drowning-251289/" aria-label="Read more about Nineteen Eighty-Four might have been inspired by George Orwell’s fear of drowning">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olivier Sterck, Associate professor, University of Oxford Humanitarian needs are rising around the world. At the same time, major donors such as the US and the UK are pulling back support, placing increasing strain on already overstretched aid systems. Global humanitarian needs have quadrupled since 2015, driven ... <a title="What happens when aid is cut to a large refugee camp? Kenyan study paints a bleak picture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/19/what-happens-when-aid-is-cut-to-a-large-refugee-camp-kenyan-study-paints-a-bleak-picture-259055/" aria-label="Read more about What happens when aid is cut to a large refugee camp? Kenyan study paints a bleak picture">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Foulds, Associate Professor of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Someone altered the AI chatbot Grok to make it insert text about a debunked conspiracy theory in unrelated responses. Cheng Xin/Getty Images The AI chatbot Grok spent one day in May 2025 spreading debunked conspiracy ... <a title="Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show how generative AI can be weaponized" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/19/groks-white-genocide-responses-show-how-generative-ai-can-be-weaponized-257880/" aria-label="Read more about Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show how generative AI can be weaponized">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images While the world’s media is largely focused on conflict in the Middle East, the focus for many Australians remains at home, with the government preparing the long task ahead of trying to lift Australia’s productivity. Last week, ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: an ‘impatient’ Jim Chalmers on taking political risks in Labor’s second term" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/18/politics-with-michelle-grattan-an-impatient-jim-chalmers-on-taking-political-risks-in-labors-second-term-259269/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: an ‘impatient’ Jim Chalmers on taking political risks in Labor’s second term">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Jim Chalmers speaking to the National Press Club June 18, 2025. Screenshot from the ABC Broadcast, CC BY-NC Jim Chalmers cast his Wednesday National Press Club speech as a second instalment in a two-part presentation that was kicked off by ... <a title="View from The Hill: Jim Chalmers wants to get on with economic reform and tax is in his sights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/18/view-from-the-hill-jim-chalmers-wants-to-get-on-with-economic-reform-and-tax-is-in-his-sights-258973/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Jim Chalmers wants to get on with economic reform and tax is in his sights">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Saikal, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Australian National University; and Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Fellow, Victoria University Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone beyond his initial aim of destroying Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons. He has called on the Iranian people ... <a title="Iran’s long history of revolution, defiance and outside interference – and why its future is so uncertain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/18/irans-long-history-of-revolution-defiance-and-outside-interference-and-why-its-future-is-so-uncertain-259270/" aria-label="Read more about Iran’s long history of revolution, defiance and outside interference – and why its future is so uncertain">Read more</a>
