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April 23, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brent Keogh, Lecturer in the School of Communications, University of Technology Sydney On April 15, United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth led a prayer session at the Pentagon. But instead of quoting from any recognised canon of sacred scripture, Hegseth’s prayer sounded unmistakably like Samuel L. ... <a title="How the Trump administration co-opts pop culture and religion for political gain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/how-the-trump-administration-co-opts-pop-culture-and-religion-for-political-gain-281011/" aria-label="Read more about How the Trump administration co-opts pop culture and religion for political gain">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Van Amber, Senior Lecturer in Fashion & Textiles, RMIT University As the weather cools in the southern hemisphere and energy prices climb, many of us are trying to stay warm without cranking the heating. The doona – or duvet, if you prefer – is central to ... <a title="The science of cosiness: a textiles expert explains feather down, bamboo, polyester duvets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/the-science-of-cosiness-a-textiles-expert-explains-feather-down-bamboo-polyester-duvets-280450/" aria-label="Read more about The science of cosiness: a textiles expert explains feather down, bamboo, polyester duvets">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Romain Fathi, Associate Professor, School of History, ANU / Chercheur Associé at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Australian National University The United States under President Donald Trump and the European Union have a complicated relationship. On one hand, European countries and the US have built some ... <a title="How the war in Iran has brought European countries closer together – without Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/how-the-war-in-iran-has-brought-european-countries-closer-together-without-trump-281025/" aria-label="Read more about How the war in Iran has brought European countries closer together – without Trump">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Duygu Yengin, Associate Professor of Economics, Adelaide University Right now, courts across Australia are grappling with a difficult legal question. How do you put a dollar value on the cultural and spiritual harm done to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples when their Country has been damaged ... <a title="Why Native Title rulings need a system to value cultural loss" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/why-native-title-rulings-need-a-system-to-value-cultural-loss-279743/" aria-label="Read more about Why Native Title rulings need a system to value cultural loss">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rowan Light, Lecturer in History, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau In 1916, in the middle of the Great War, 2nd Lieutenant Leonard (Len) James Shaw of the 2nd Auckland Battalion sent a pressed Flanders poppy in folded paper to his niece Jessie Osborne in Waikato. Shaw ... <a title="Anzac Day 2026: how the poppy has endured as our symbol of war and remembrance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/anzac-day-2026-how-the-poppy-has-endured-as-our-symbol-of-war-and-remembrance-280911/" aria-label="Read more about Anzac Day 2026: how the poppy has endured as our symbol of war and remembrance">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney In sweeping reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) announced today, the government will cut 160,000 participants from the scheme over the next four years and reduce funding for the average plan by A$5,000 in the next two ... <a title="Tightened eligibility and cuts to plans: what the NDIS changes mean for participants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/tightened-eligibility-and-cuts-to-plans-what-the-ndis-changes-mean-for-participants-281147/" aria-label="Read more about Tightened eligibility and cuts to plans: what the NDIS changes mean for participants">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government will slash spending in real terms on the National Disability Insurance Scheme over four years, as it undertakes a massive “reset” of the program. People with lower support needs will be moved off the scheme and over the ... <a title="NDIS slashed and higher health insurance subsidy for over 65s scrapped, in Health Minister Butler’s package" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/ndis-slashed-and-higher-health-insurance-subsidy-for-over-65s-scrapped-in-health-minister-butlers-package-281143/" aria-label="Read more about NDIS slashed and higher health insurance subsidy for over 65s scrapped, in Health Minister Butler’s package">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Hepburn, Professor of Law, Deakin University Is Australia giving away its gas resources, virtually for free? That question is at the centre of this week’s parliamentary inquiry into the taxation of gas resources. Over the last decade, Australia has become one of the world’s largest exporters ... <a title="Foreign companies are making billions off Australia’s gas. It’s time that changed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/foreign-companies-are-making-billions-off-australias-gas-its-time-that-changed-281010/" aria-label="Read more about Foreign companies are making billions off Australia’s gas. It’s time that changed">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University Much of the current conversation about AI assumes uptake is inevitable, more technology means better outcomes and the main task is managing risk. But we asked Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... <a title="‘No accountability, no checks and balances, no responsibility’: how Indigenous peoples think about AI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/no-accountability-no-checks-and-balances-no-responsibility-how-indigenous-peoples-think-about-ai-280734/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No accountability, no checks and balances, no responsibility’: how Indigenous peoples think about AI">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thileepan Naren, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University; Curtin University The proportion of people diagnosed with and treated for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is growing. Prescription rates have increased 11-fold in 20 years. But the growth isn’t uniform across the country. This week, ... <a title="How to safeguard against overdiagnosis when more GPs treat ADHD" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/how-to-safeguard-against-overdiagnosis-when-more-gps-treat-adhd-281030/" aria-label="Read more about How to safeguard against overdiagnosis when more GPs treat ADHD">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne While a federal YouGov poll has Labor’s primary vote down three points to a tie with One Nation, that hasn’t been the case in any other federal ... <a title="Slump for Labor in YouGov survey, but not in other federal polls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/slump-for-labor-in-yougov-survey-but-not-in-other-federal-polls-281116/" aria-label="Read more about Slump for Labor in YouGov survey, but not in other federal polls">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University It was the big-picture reform that defined the Labor prime minister Bob Hawke and infuriated his opponents with its radical promise of a fairer, healthier society. Medicare, Australia’s taxpayer-funded system of universal health insurance, established in 1984, has ... <a title="While it wasn’t his idea, Medicare helped make the mythos of Bob Hawke" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/while-it-wasnt-his-idea-medicare-helped-make-the-mythos-of-bob-hawke-276632/" aria-label="Read more about While it wasn’t his idea, Medicare helped make the mythos of Bob Hawke">Read more</a>
