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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ama Samarasinghe, Lecturer, Financial Planning and Tax, RMIT University doublelee/Shutterstock On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia cut the target cash rate by 0.25 percentage points. It now sits at 3.85% – the lowest since May 2023. Australia’s big four banks were all quick to announce they ... <a title="Interest rates are coming down. Here’s what homeowners should know about refinancing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/interest-rates-are-coming-down-heres-what-homeowners-should-know-about-refinancing-257116/" aria-label="Read more about Interest rates are coming down. Here’s what homeowners should know about refinancing">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Editor’s Note: I’m pleased to say my old friend Martyn ‘Bomber’ Bradbury has launched his new programme and podcast titled The Bradbury Group. Martyn needs no introduction to New Zealanders. Under his handle ‘Bomber’ he’s been at the forefront of political debate, especially from a left perspective, for decades. What is particularly refreshing about this ... <a title="EDITOR’S NOTE: New Podcast The Bradbury Group Launches in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/editors-note-new-podcast-the-bradbury-group-launches-in-nz/" aria-label="Read more about EDITOR’S NOTE: New Podcast The Bradbury Group Launches in NZ">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Raw, Lecturer, Sport Management, Swinburne University of Technology Bratislav Kostic/Shutterstock Australia’s underwhelming performance at the 2024 Paris Paralympics has raised serious questions about how well our adaptive sport system is working. The Paris games returned our lowest medal tally since 1988, from our smallest team since ... <a title="Australian para sport has issues everywhere – here’s what must be fixed ahead of the Brisbane Paralympics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/australian-para-sport-has-issues-everywhere-heres-what-must-be-fixed-ahead-of-the-brisbane-paralympics-256450/" aria-label="Read more about Australian para sport has issues everywhere – here’s what must be fixed ahead of the Brisbane Paralympics">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Murray, Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, Swinburne University of Technology bodnar.photo/Shutterstock If you’re browsing the supermarket fridge for reduced-fat milk, it’s easy to be confused by the many different types. You can find options labelled skim, skimmed, skinny, no fat, extra light, lite, light, low fat, reduced fat, ... <a title="What’s the difference between skim milk and light milk?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/whats-the-difference-between-skim-milk-and-light-milk-255608/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between skim milk and light milk?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn Locke, Associate Researcher in Digital Disability, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University Chansom Pantip/Shutterstock Since the recent explosion of widely available generative artificial intelligence (AI), it now seems that a new AI tool emerges every week. With varying success, AI offers solutions for productivity, creativity, ... <a title="AI is now used for audio description. But it should be accurate and actually useful for people with low vision" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/ai-is-now-used-for-audio-description-but-it-should-be-accurate-and-actually-useful-for-people-with-low-vision-256808/" aria-label="Read more about AI is now used for audio description. But it should be accurate and actually useful for people with low vision">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Gaston, Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Shutterstock/Olivier Le Queinec A lack of strategy and research funding – by both the current and previous governments – has been well documented, most comprehensively in the first report ... <a title="NZ Budget 2025: science investment must increase as a proportion of GDP for NZ to innovate and compete" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/nz-budget-2025-science-investment-must-increase-as-a-proportion-of-gdp-for-nz-to-innovate-and-compete-255591/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2025: science investment must increase as a proportion of GDP for NZ to innovate and compete">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jeremy Rose Reading an NBC News report a couple of days ago about a Trump administration plan to relocate 1 million Gazans to Libya reminded me of a conversation between the legendary Warsaw Ghetto leader Marek Edelman and fellow fighter and survivor Simcha Rotem that took place more than quarter of a ... <a title="Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/starvation-of-gaza-a-distressing-continuation-of-a-decades-old-plan/" aria-label="Read more about Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Spotify was started, according to its official claims, because its founders “love music and piracy was killing it”. In Mood Machine, music journalist Liz Pelly argues this is rewriting history. In fact, she ... <a title="Spotify continues to change music. What’s next – will AI musicians replace music made by humans?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/spotify-continues-to-change-music-whats-next-will-ai-musicians-replace-music-made-by-humans-253630/" aria-label="Read more about Spotify continues to change music. What’s next – will AI musicians replace music made by humans?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol He’s leapt from cliffs, clung to planes mid-takeoff and held his breath underwater for as long as professional freedivers. Now, at 62, Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt for one final mission – and ... <a title="Feats of the human body behind Tom Cruise’s stunts in Mission: Impossible movies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/feats-of-the-human-body-behind-tom-cruises-stunts-in-mission-impossible-movies-256908/" aria-label="Read more about Feats of the human body behind Tom Cruise’s stunts in Mission: Impossible movies">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham After a two-hour phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on May 19, US president Donald Trump took to social media to declare that Russia and Ukraine will “immediately start negotiations” towards a ceasefire and an end to ... <a title="After another call with Putin, it looks like Trump has abandoned efforts to mediate peace in Ukraine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/after-another-call-with-putin-it-looks-like-trump-has-abandoned-efforts-to-mediate-peace-in-ukraine-257021/" aria-label="Read more about After another call with Putin, it looks like Trump has abandoned efforts to mediate peace in Ukraine">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leonora Risse, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Canberra NDAB Creativity/Shutterstock After two years of publishing the gender pay gaps of Australia’s private-sector companies, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency has released public-sector employer data for the first time. The report shows a stark contrast between the private ... <a title="The public service has a much smaller gender pay gap than the private sector. It’s a big achievement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/the-public-service-has-a-much-smaller-gender-pay-gap-than-the-private-sector-its-a-big-achievement-256810/" aria-label="Read more about The public service has a much smaller gender pay gap than the private sector. It’s a big achievement">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barbara Catinella, Professor and Senior Principal Research Fellow, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), The University of Western Australia One of the galaxies mapped by WALLABY: the red shade shows the atomic hydrogen gas content of the galaxy, overlaid on an optical image showing the stars. ... <a title="For making stars, it’s not just how much gas a galaxy has that matters – it’s where it’s hiding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/for-making-stars-its-not-just-how-much-gas-a-galaxy-has-that-matters-its-where-its-hiding-257011/" aria-label="Read more about For making stars, it’s not just how much gas a galaxy has that matters – it’s where it’s hiding">Read more</a>
