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May 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Langford, Executive Director, Security & Defence PLuS and Professor, UNSW Sydney For the past 75 years, America’s nuclear umbrella has been the keystone that has kept East Asia’s great‑power rivalries from turning atomic. President Donald Trump’s second‑term “strategic reset” now threatens to crack that arch. By ... <a title="Why Donald Trump has put Asia on the precipice of a nuclear arms race" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/why-donald-trump-has-put-asia-on-the-precipice-of-a-nuclear-arms-race-256577/" aria-label="Read more about Why Donald Trump has put Asia on the precipice of a nuclear arms race">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heidi Norman, Professor of Aboriginal political history, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney First Nations people please be advised this article speaks of racially discriminating moments in history, including the distress and death of First Nations people. On ... <a title="Corroboree 2000, 25 years on: the march for Indigenous reconciliation has left a complicated legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/corroboree-2000-25-years-on-the-march-for-indigenous-reconciliation-has-left-a-complicated-legacy-252805/" aria-label="Read more about Corroboree 2000, 25 years on: the march for Indigenous reconciliation has left a complicated legacy">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron Gilbert, Professor of Finance, Auckland University of Technology Lynn Grieveson/Getty Images When KiwiSaver was introduced in 2007 it was built on a stark reality: New Zealand Super alone will not be enough for most people to retire with dignity. As the population ages and the cost ... <a title="KiwiSaver at a crossroads: budget another missed opportunity to fix NZ’s underperforming retirement scheme" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/kiwisaver-at-a-crossroads-budget-another-missed-opportunity-to-fix-nzs-underperforming-retirement-scheme-257341/" aria-label="Read more about KiwiSaver at a crossroads: budget another missed opportunity to fix NZ’s underperforming retirement scheme">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma King, ARC DECRA Fellow in Screen Studies, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, Australian National University Archival footage shows Tim Rarus, Greg Hlibok, Bridgetta Bourne-Firl and Jerry Covell, in Apple TV+ Deaf President Now! Apple TV+ In March 1988, students of the world’s only Deaf university started ... <a title="Deaf President Now! traces the powerful uprising that led to Deaf rights in the US – now again under threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/deaf-president-now-traces-the-powerful-uprising-that-led-to-deaf-rights-in-the-us-now-again-under-threat-257233/" aria-label="Read more about Deaf President Now! traces the powerful uprising that led to Deaf rights in the US – now again under threat">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Yorke, Lecturer in sport management, Western Sydney University runitstraight24/instagram.com, The Conversation, CC BY Created in Australia, “Run It Straight” is a new, ultra-violent combat sport. Across a 20×4 metre grassed “battlefield,” players charge at full speed toward one another. Alternating between carrying the ball (ball runner) ... <a title="Head knocks and ultra-violence: viral games Run It Straight and Power Slap put sports safety back centuries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/head-knocks-and-ultra-violence-viral-games-run-it-straight-and-power-slap-put-sports-safety-back-centuries-256473/" aria-label="Read more about Head knocks and ultra-violence: viral games Run It Straight and Power Slap put sports safety back centuries">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Curtin, Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Pay equity protest outside parliament on budget day, May 22 2025. Getty Images In 1936, when the National Party was created through a merger of the United and Reform parties, there was a recognition ... <a title="NZ Budget 2025: funding growth at the expense of pay equity for women could cost National in the long run" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/nz-budget-2025-funding-growth-at-the-expense-of-pay-equity-for-women-could-cost-national-in-the-long-run-257225/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2025: funding growth at the expense of pay equity for women could cost National in the long run">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor & Principal Fellow in Urban Risk & Resilience, The University of Melbourne At least ten people died in fatal crashes earlier this month in a single 48-hour period on Victorian roads. It was the latest tragic demonstration of the mounting road trauma in ... <a title="Australian roads are getting deadlier – pedestrians and males are among those at greater risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/australian-roads-are-getting-deadlier-pedestrians-and-males-are-among-those-at-greater-risk-256994/" aria-label="Read more about Australian roads are getting deadlier – pedestrians and males are among those at greater risk">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Rowe, Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University LBeddoe/Shutterstock Earlier this week, The Sydney Morning Herald reported one of Sydney’s top public high schools had more than 2,000 students for the first time, thanks to the booming population in the area. This follows similar reports of other ... <a title="There is a growing number of ‘super-sized’ schools. Does the number of students matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/there-is-a-growing-number-of-super-sized-schools-does-the-number-of-students-matter-257012/" aria-label="Read more about There is a growing number of ‘super-sized’ schools. Does the number of students matter?">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato An Oyster cellar in Leith John Burnet, 1819; National Galleries of Scotland, Photo: Antonia Reeve Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower classes ... <a title="From peasant fodder to posh fare: how snails and oysters became luxury foods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/from-peasant-fodder-to-posh-fare-how-snails-and-oysters-became-luxury-foods-254299/" aria-label="Read more about From peasant fodder to posh fare: how snails and oysters became luxury foods">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
We have been handed a long and protracted recession with few signs of growth and prosperity. Budget 2025 signals more of the same, writes Susan St John. ANALYSIS: By Susan St John With the coalition government’s second Budget being unveiled, we should question where New Zealand is heading. The 2024 Budget laid out the strategy. ... <a title="Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/govt-should-defuse-nzs-social-timebomb-but-wont/" aria-label="Read more about Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Remember that cliche about the Nationals tail wagging the Liberal dog? That tail wagged very vigorously this week, and smashed a lot of crockery, as it sought to bring Liberal leader Sussan Ley to heel. In a gesture of overreach, ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: if Ley and Littleproud find a way to cohabit, it will be a tense household" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/grattan-on-friday-if-ley-and-littleproud-find-a-way-to-cohabit-it-will-be-a-tense-household-256457/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: if Ley and Littleproud find a way to cohabit, it will be a tense household">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Piet Filet, Adjunct Industry Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University Heavy rain continues to fall across the Hunter and Mid North Coast of New South Wales. Rivers are bursting their banks and spreading over floodplains, leaving many areas on flood watch. And now, this emergency is heading ... <a title="The deluge in NSW sounds a warning to rural and regional communities elsewhere" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/the-deluge-in-nsw-sounds-a-warning-to-rural-and-regional-communities-elsewhere-256814/" aria-label="Read more about The deluge in NSW sounds a warning to rural and regional communities elsewhere">Read more</a>
