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January 28, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Neha Lalchandani, Research Fellow, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University, Deakin University Antoni Shkraba Studio/ Pexels If you pack school lunchboxes for your children, you’ll know it can sometimes feel like a real slog. It needs to be easy to prepare, nutritious and something ... <a title="Swap muesli bars for homemade popcorn: 5 ways to pack a lower-waste lunch box" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/28/swap-muesli-bars-for-homemade-popcorn-5-ways-to-pack-a-lower-waste-lunch-box-273808/" aria-label="Read more about Swap muesli bars for homemade popcorn: 5 ways to pack a lower-waste lunch box">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janine Dixon, Director, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University Steven Wei/Unsplash Australia has a problem. Across the economy, business investment has been sluggish for the past decade, leaving policymakers reaching for solutions. Weak business investment can leave the economy stuck in low gear, operating without enough equipment ... <a title="A new company tax mix has been proposed. We need to be careful how we assess it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/28/a-new-company-tax-mix-has-been-proposed-we-need-to-be-careful-how-we-assess-it-273892/" aria-label="Read more about A new company tax mix has been proposed. We need to be careful how we assess it">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Absalom, Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies, The University of Melbourne sheri silver/Unsplash If you watch American cooking shows, you’ve likely experienced “salad confusion”. You see a chef preparing what looks like rocket, but they call it arugula. It’s the same plant (Eruca sativa). It has the ... <a title="Rocket or arugula? How a salad vegetable mapped the Italian diaspora" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/28/rocket-or-arugula-how-a-salad-vegetable-mapped-the-italian-diaspora-272059/" aria-label="Read more about Rocket or arugula? How a salad vegetable mapped the Italian diaspora">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Renwick, Professor of Physical Geography (Climate Science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images It has been a month of umbrellas rather than sunscreen across much of New Zealand, with persistent rain, low sunshine and deadly storms dominating headlines and daily life. ... <a title="NZ’s sodden January explained: what’s driven this month’s big wet?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/28/nzs-sodden-january-explained-whats-driven-this-months-big-wet-274416/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s sodden January explained: what’s driven this month’s big wet?">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A week out from the resumption of parliament, the federal opposition is in a state of paralysis. The Liberals have a full-blown leadership crisis. A majority of the party believe Sussan Ley can’t survive for long. But leadership contenders Angus ... <a title="View from The Hill: Dysfunctional federal opposition is in gridlock" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/27/view-from-the-hill-dysfunctional-federal-opposition-is-in-gridlock-274028/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Dysfunctional federal opposition is in gridlock">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia Kevin Chen/Pexels, CC BY-NC-ND Millions of people in southeastern Australia are sweating through a record-breaking heatwave. The heat this week is likely to be one for the history books. The heat began on Saturday January 24th. On Australia ... <a title="Where did southern Australia’s record-breaking heatwave come from?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/27/where-did-southern-australias-record-breaking-heatwave-come-from-274417/" aria-label="Read more about Where did southern Australia’s record-breaking heatwave come from?">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Dyer, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University Joshua J. Cotten For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter of survival – and new research shows how flowers do it is more intriguing ... <a title="Red flowers have a ‘magic trait’ to attract birds and keep bees away" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/27/red-flowers-have-a-magic-trait-to-attract-birds-and-keep-bees-away-274033/" aria-label="Read more about Red flowers have a ‘magic trait’ to attract birds and keep bees away">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer in International Studies in the School of Society and Culture, Adelaide University Five years ago, on February 1 2021, Myanmar’s top generals decapitated the elected government. Democratic leaders were arrested, pushed underground or forced into exile. Since then, the economy has spluttered and ... <a title="5 years on from the junta’s coup, Myanmar’s flawed elections can’t unite a country at risk of breaking apart" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/27/5-years-on-from-the-juntas-coup-myanmars-flawed-elections-cant-unite-a-country-at-risk-of-breaking-apart-272894/" aria-label="Read more about 5 years on from the junta’s coup, Myanmar’s flawed elections can’t unite a country at risk of breaking apart">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The logbook of presidential flights in Indonesia reveals an unusual pattern — from the Merdeka Palace to the Land of the Bird of Paradise. By 2023, then President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo had set foot in Papua at least 17 times — a record in the republic’s history, surpassing the ... <a title="Jakarta at crossroads – can President Prabowo connect with Papuan hearts?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/27/jakarta-at-crossroads-can-president-prabowo-connect-with-papuan-hearts/" aria-label="Read more about Jakarta at crossroads – can President Prabowo connect with Papuan hearts?">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Barrett, Professor of Taxation and Commercial Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington It’s a problem as old as marriage and money: one spouse, usually the husband, using financial control to dominate the other. From restricting spending and hiding debts, to forcing someone into ... <a title="Australia is turning the spotlight on financial abuse in relationships. What can NZ learn?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/27/australia-is-turning-the-spotlight-on-financial-abuse-in-relationships-what-can-nz-learn-272416/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is turning the spotlight on financial abuse in relationships. What can NZ learn?">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ramona Vijeyarasa, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistants worldwide surpassed 8 billion, more than one per person on the planet. These assistants are helpful, polite – and almost always default to female. Their names also carry gendered connotations. ... <a title="Most AI assistants are feminine – and it’s fuelling dangerous stereotypes and abuse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/27/most-ai-assistants-are-feminine-and-its-fuelling-dangerous-stereotypes-and-abuse-272335/" aria-label="Read more about Most AI assistants are feminine – and it’s fuelling dangerous stereotypes and abuse">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kerry Brown, Professor of Employment and Industry, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University Boston Public Library/Unsplash For teens, a holiday or weekend job is a good way to earn pocket money and learn a new range of skills. But given the historical and ongoing exploitation ... <a title="Does your child want a part-time job? Here’s what the law says about kids at work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/27/does-your-child-want-a-part-time-job-heres-what-the-law-says-about-kids-at-work-271528/" aria-label="Read more about Does your child want a part-time job? Here’s what the law says about kids at work">Read more</a>
