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February 19, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Allen, Demographer, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University We’re the highest-growing country in the world, with 1.6% increase, and that’s double than a lot of other countries. – One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, interview on Sky News Australia, May 9 2018 One ... <a title="FactCheck: is Australia’s population the ‘highest-growing in the world’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/19/factcheck-is-australias-population-the-highest-growing-in-the-world-96523/" aria-label="Read more about FactCheck: is Australia’s population the ‘highest-growing in the world’?">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fabrizio Carmignani, Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University The Conversation fact-checks claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9.35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using the hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by email. [embedded content]Excerpt ... <a title="FactCheck Q&A: did the Coalition ‘deliver more than a million jobs in the last year’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/19/factcheck-qanda-did-the-coalition-deliver-more-than-a-million-jobs-in-the-last-year-99378/" aria-label="Read more about FactCheck Q&A: did the Coalition ‘deliver more than a million jobs in the last year’?">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anilan V, Postdoctoral Researcher, Adelaide University Let’s say you want to encourage more drivers to shift to battery-electric vehicles. What’s the best way to do it? Globally, billions have been poured into incentives to encourage drivers to switch. The most popular approaches are rebates to cut the ... <a title="Want to boost uptake of battery EVs? Subsidise chargers at home and work – not the vehicles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/19/want-to-boost-uptake-of-battery-evs-subsidise-chargers-at-home-and-work-not-the-vehicles-272176/" aria-label="Read more about Want to boost uptake of battery EVs? Subsidise chargers at home and work – not the vehicles">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Professor of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne Regulating climate emissions just became more difficult. US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has repealed its own 2009 legal finding that greenhouse gas ... <a title="Trump has scrapped the long-standing legal basis for tackling climate emissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/19/trump-has-scrapped-the-long-standing-legal-basis-for-tackling-climate-emissions-275921/" aria-label="Read more about Trump has scrapped the long-standing legal basis for tackling climate emissions">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bert Johnson, Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College Jesse Jackson’s two campaigns for president, in 1984 and 1988, were unsuccessful but historic. The civil rights activist and organizer, who died on Feb. 17, 2026, helped pave the way for Barack Obama’s election a generation later as the ... <a title="How Jesse Jackson set the stage for Bernie Sanders and today’s progressives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/19/how-jesse-jackson-set-the-stage-for-bernie-sanders-and-todays-progressives-276249/" aria-label="Read more about How Jesse Jackson set the stage for Bernie Sanders and today’s progressives">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Clark, Professor of Medieval History, University of Exeter Henry VIII is not remembered as a loving husband. Any English schoolchild can recount the unpleasant fates of most of his six wives with the rhyme: “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.” But though the end of his ... <a title="Heart-shaped locket discovery offers rare glimpse into Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragon’s marriage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/19/heart-shaped-locket-discovery-offers-rare-glimpse-into-henry-viii-and-katharine-of-aragons-marriage-276123/" aria-label="Read more about Heart-shaped locket discovery offers rare glimpse into Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragon’s marriage">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damian Tobin, Lecturer in International Business, University College Cork After the US captured Venezuela’s president at the start of 2026, Donald Trump promised to “unleash” the country’s oil supply. He wanted companies to invest US$100 billion (£74 billion) to get hold of it. Big oil though, seems ... <a title="Why big oil is not interested in Venezuela" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/19/why-big-oil-is-not-interested-in-venezuela-275763/" aria-label="Read more about Why big oil is not interested in Venezuela">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney This is an article in our Guide to the Classics series. I first encountered William Golding’s 1954 novel Lord of the Flies in my final year of primary school in the UK. A long-term staple ... <a title="‘It could happen here’: Lord of the Flies took its lessons from Hitler’s Germany. They speak to now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/19/it-could-happen-here-lord-of-the-flies-took-its-lessons-from-hitlers-germany-they-speak-to-now-275672/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It could happen here’: Lord of the Flies took its lessons from Hitler’s Germany. They speak to now">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sebastian Maslow, Associate Professor, International Relations, Contemporary Japanese Politics & Society, University of Tokyo Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) got a historic landslide victory in last week’s parliamentary elections. This marks the first time since its founding in 1955 that ... <a title="Make Japan strong again: Sanae Takaichi’s plan to transform her country’s military" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/19/make-japan-strong-again-sanae-takaichis-plan-to-transform-her-countrys-military-275676/" aria-label="Read more about Make Japan strong again: Sanae Takaichi’s plan to transform her country’s military">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marten Risius, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland Online chat service Discord has announced it will begin testing age verification for some users, joining a growing list of platforms trying to work out who is actually behind the screen. The move comes as ... <a title="Age verification online can be done safely and privately. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/19/age-verification-online-can-be-done-safely-and-privately-heres-how-276104/" aria-label="Read more about Age verification online can be done safely and privately. Here’s how">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Fuerbach, Professor, Photonics Research Centre, Macquarie University Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square. In ... <a title="Is this glass square the long, long future of data storage?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/19/is-this-glass-square-the-long-long-future-of-data-storage-276263/" aria-label="Read more about Is this glass square the long, long future of data storage?">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Graham, Associate Professor in Digital Media, Queensland University of Technology A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ... <a title="A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/19/a-few-weeks-of-xs-algorithm-can-make-you-more-right-wing-and-it-doesnt-wear-off-quickly-276153/" aria-label="Read more about A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly">Read more</a>
