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January 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Neale Daniher, a campaigner in the fight against motor neurone disease and a former champion Essendon footballer, is the 2025 Australian of the Year, Himself a sufferer from the deadly disease Daniher, 63, who lives in Victoria, co-founded the charity ... <a title="Motor neurone disease campaigner, former AFL champion Neale Daniher, is 2025 Australian of the Year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/25/motor-neurone-disease-campaigner-former-afl-champion-neale-daniher-is-2025-australian-of-the-year-248302/" aria-label="Read more about Motor neurone disease campaigner, former AFL champion Neale Daniher, is 2025 Australian of the Year">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Peter Dutton has chosen a dark horse in naming David Coleman for the key shadow foreign affairs portfolio, in a reshuffle that also seeks to boost the opposition’s credentials with women. Coleman has been communications spokesman. He led the opposition’s ... <a title="Peter Dutton’s reshuffle: David Coleman the surprise choice as shadow foreign minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/25/peter-duttons-reshuffle-david-coleman-the-surprise-choice-as-shadow-foreign-minister-248303/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Dutton’s reshuffle: David Coleman the surprise choice as shadow foreign minister">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Patrick Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Andriana Syvanych/Shutterstock Most of us are fortunate that, when we turn on the tap, clean, safe and high-quality water comes out. But a senate inquiry into the presence of PFAS or ... <a title="How we treat catchment water to make it safe to drink" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/how-we-treat-catchment-water-to-make-it-safe-to-drink-242206/" aria-label="Read more about How we treat catchment water to make it safe to drink">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Richardson, Professor of Human Resource Management, Head of School of Management, Curtin University Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock US President Donald Trump has called time on working from home. An executive order signed on the first day of his presidency this week requires all federal government departments and agencies to: ... <a title="Trump has called time on working from home. Here’s why the world shouldn’t mindlessly follow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/trump-has-called-time-on-working-from-home-heres-why-the-world-shouldnt-mindlessly-follow-248036/" aria-label="Read more about Trump has called time on working from home. Here’s why the world shouldn’t mindlessly follow">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Glenn Banks, Professor of Geography, School of People, Environment and Planning, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Getty Images Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s state-of-the-nation address yesterday focused on growth above all else. We shouldn’t rush to judgement, but at least one prominent financial commentator has concluded ... <a title="Luxon goes all out for growth in mining and tourism – we should be careful what he wishes for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/luxon-goes-all-out-for-growth-in-mining-and-tourism-we-should-be-careful-what-he-wishes-for-248131/" aria-label="Read more about Luxon goes all out for growth in mining and tourism – we should be careful what he wishes for">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claudio Bozzi, Lecturer in Law, Deakin University Shutterstock On his way to the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro in November, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte to officially open a new US$3.6 billion (A$5.8 billion) deepwater mega-port in Peru called Chancay. China’s ... <a title="China has invested billions in ports around the world. This is why the West is so concerned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/china-has-invested-billions-in-ports-around-the-world-this-is-why-the-west-is-so-concerned-244733/" aria-label="Read more about China has invested billions in ports around the world. This is why the West is so concerned">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Murray, Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne Before the end of its first full day of operations, the new Trump administration gutted all advisory panels for the Department of Homeland Security. Among these was the well-respected Cyber Safety Review ... <a title="Trump has fired a major cyber security investigations body. It’s a risky move" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/trump-has-fired-a-major-cyber-security-investigations-body-its-a-risky-move-248106/" aria-label="Read more about Trump has fired a major cyber security investigations body. It’s a risky move">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lowe, Chair in Contemporary History, Deakin University After many years of heated debate over whether January 26 is an appropriate date to celebrate Australia Day – with some councils and other groups shifting away from it – the tide appears to be turning among some groups. ... <a title="Support for changing date of Australia Day softens, but remains strong among young people: new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/support-for-changing-date-of-australia-day-softens-but-remains-strong-among-young-people-new-research-247571/" aria-label="Read more about Support for changing date of Australia Day softens, but remains strong among young people: new research">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Whiterod, Science Program Manager, Goyder Institute for Water Research Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Research Centre, University of Adelaide Nick Whiterod Murray crayfish once thrived in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. The species was found everywhere from the headwaters of the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers in ... <a title="The world’s second largest freshwater crayfish was once plentiful in Australia’s longest river – we’re bringing it back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/the-worlds-second-largest-freshwater-crayfish-was-once-plentiful-in-australias-longest-river-were-bringing-it-back-236520/" aria-label="Read more about The world’s second largest freshwater crayfish was once plentiful in Australia’s longest river – we’re bringing it back">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Hargreaves, Senior Learning Advisor, University of Southern Queensland There are two verses to Advance Australia Fair, but do you know the second? Probably not. It’s in our citizenship booklet, Our Common Bond, suggesting Aussies know it and new citizens could be questioned on it in their ... <a title="Few Australians know the second verse of our national anthem – or how out of date it is" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/few-australians-know-the-second-verse-of-our-national-anthem-or-how-out-of-date-it-is-246678/" aria-label="Read more about Few Australians know the second verse of our national anthem – or how out of date it is">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Bridgewater, Adjunct Professor in Conservation, University of Canberra Getty Images/Servais Mont Existing policies to tackle environmental challenges fail to take into account that biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution are intertwined crises and produce compounding and intensifying impacts. Policy measures taken in isolation are likely to ... <a title="We live in times of multiple entwined crises – but our policy responses aren’t keeping up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/we-live-in-times-of-multiple-entwined-crises-but-our-policy-responses-arent-keeping-up-247180/" aria-label="Read more about We live in times of multiple entwined crises – but our policy responses aren’t keeping up">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government if re-elected will provide a $10,000 incentive payment to apprentices to work in housing construction. The promise will be announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese when he addresses the National Press Club on Friday. The money would ... <a title="Albanese to promise $10,000 for apprentices in housing construction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/albanese-to-promise-10-000-for-apprentices-in-housing-construction-248142/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese to promise $10,000 for apprentices in housing construction">Read more</a>
