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May 28, 2025
RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa has advised Samoa’s head of state that it is necessary to dissolve Parliament so the country can move to an election. This follows the bill for the budget not getting enough support for a first reading on yesterday, and Fiame announcing she would therefore seek an early election. ... <a title="Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/samoan-pm-fiame-advises-dissolution-of-parliament-calls-for-snap-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Parker, Adjunct Fellow, Naval Studies at UNSW Canberra, and Expert Associate, National Security College, Australian National University Last week, Chinese coast guard vessels rammed and shot water cannon at Philippine ships in the South China Sea. The incident was well within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone ... <a title="Australia must not become complacent to China’s aggression in the South China Sea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/australia-must-not-become-complacent-to-chinas-aggression-in-the-south-china-sea-257328/" aria-label="Read more about Australia must not become complacent to China’s aggression in the South China Sea">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Edele, Hansen Professor in History and Deputy Dean, The University of Melbourne United States President Donald Trump was “not happy” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, this week. For three consecutive nights, from Friday to Sunday, Russia launched about 900 drones and scores of missiles at ... <a title="Is Vladimir Putin’s indiscriminate bombing of Ukrainian civilians ‘crazy’? It’s more a sign of impatience" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/is-vladimir-putins-indiscriminate-bombing-of-ukrainian-civilians-crazy-its-more-a-sign-of-impatience-257630/" aria-label="Read more about Is Vladimir Putin’s indiscriminate bombing of Ukrainian civilians ‘crazy’? It’s more a sign of impatience">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Brannelly, Senior Lecturer in One Health and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne Laura Brannelly, CC BY-NC-ND For a small frog, the alpine tree frog (Litoria verreauxii alpina) packs a lot of surprises. For one, this tree frog lives in snowy gullies and high mountain crags across ... <a title="This rare alpine frog is fighting against a lethal fungus – by breeding faster and faster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/this-rare-alpine-frog-is-fighting-against-a-lethal-fungus-by-breeding-faster-and-faster-256234/" aria-label="Read more about This rare alpine frog is fighting against a lethal fungus – by breeding faster and faster">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joo-Cheong Tham, Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne Frame stock footage/Shutterstock Australian employers are monitoring employees, frequently without workers’ knowledge or consent, according to a new report. And when workers do know about surveillance, there is little they can do about it. Laws have not ... <a title="Being monitored at work? A new report calls for tougher workplace surveillance controls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/being-monitored-at-work-a-new-report-calls-for-tougher-workplace-surveillance-controls-257352/" aria-label="Read more about Being monitored at work? A new report calls for tougher workplace surveillance controls">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Devon Polaschek, Professor of Psychology/Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato Getty Images Last week’s budget allocated NZ$472 million in new funding to deal with a growing prison population caused by greater use of prison remand and proposals to increase prison sentence lengths. The new funding comes ... <a title="‘Chaotic, sometimes dangerous places’ – why successful rehab for prisoners on remand will be hard to achieve" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/chaotic-sometimes-dangerous-places-why-successful-rehab-for-prisoners-on-remand-will-be-hard-to-achieve-256506/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Chaotic, sometimes dangerous places’ – why successful rehab for prisoners on remand will be hard to achieve">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nuhu Osman Attah, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy, Australian National University V Kulieva / Shutterstock / Anthropic When multibillion-dollar AI developer Anthropic released the latest versions of its Claude chatbot last week, a surprising word turned up several times in the accompanying “system card”: spiritual. Specifically, the ... <a title="AI models might be drawn to ‘spiritual bliss’. Then again, they might just talk like hippies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/ai-models-might-be-drawn-to-spiritual-bliss-then-again-they-might-just-talk-like-hippies-257618/" aria-label="Read more about AI models might be drawn to ‘spiritual bliss’. Then again, they might just talk like hippies">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hilde Tubex, Professor, The University of Western Australia For too many women, prison is “as good as it gets”. New research based on interviews with 80 female prisoners in Western Australia reveals most of these women were “criminalised” by circumstances outside their control before they became offenders. ... <a title="‘No support, no housing, no job’ – the vicious cycle pushing more women into prison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/no-support-no-housing-no-job-the-vicious-cycle-pushing-more-women-into-prison-257218/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No support, no housing, no job’ – the vicious cycle pushing more women into prison">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Subhadra Evans, Associate Professor, Psychology, Deakin University Shutterstock Around half of teenage girls experience moderate to severe period pain. The mechanical force of the uterus contracting and inflammatory chemicals such as prostaglandins contribute to this pain. Moderate to severe period pain has a significant impact on daily ... <a title="Girls with painful periods are twice as likely as their peers to have symptoms of anxiety or depression" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/girls-with-painful-periods-are-twice-as-likely-as-their-peers-to-have-symptoms-of-anxiety-or-depression-256232/" aria-label="Read more about Girls with painful periods are twice as likely as their peers to have symptoms of anxiety or depression">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maarten De Brauwer, Senior Research Scientist in Marine and Estuarine Ecology, Southern Cross University Maarten De Brauwer Rivers up and down the north coast of New South Wales have been hammered again, just three years after devastating floods hit the Northern Rivers and Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley. The events ... <a title="From surprise platypus to wandering cane toads, here’s what we found hiding in NSW estuaries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/from-surprise-platypus-to-wandering-cane-toads-heres-what-we-found-hiding-in-nsw-estuaries-257123/" aria-label="Read more about From surprise platypus to wandering cane toads, here’s what we found hiding in NSW estuaries">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Whitington, Associate Professor in Education Futures (Adjunct), University of South Australia One of the Albanese government’s headline election policies was a “three-day guarantee” for childcare. From January 5 2026, all eligible Australian families will be able to access at least three days of subsidised early education ... <a title="The ‘3 day guarantee’ for childcare starts next year. The challenge could be finding quality care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/the-3-day-guarantee-for-childcare-starts-next-year-the-challenge-could-be-finding-quality-care-256905/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘3 day guarantee’ for childcare starts next year. The challenge could be finding quality care">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fei Gao, Lecturer in Taxation, Discipline of Accounting, Governance & Regulation, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney Tada Images/Shutterstock Tech giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix make billions of dollars from Australian users every year. But most of those profits are not taxed here. To address ... <a title="Australia could tax Google, Facebook and other tech giants with a digital services tax – but don’t hold your breath" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/australia-could-tax-google-facebook-and-other-tech-giants-with-a-digital-services-tax-but-dont-hold-your-breath-257251/" aria-label="Read more about Australia could tax Google, Facebook and other tech giants with a digital services tax – but don’t hold your breath">Read more</a>
