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September 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Levett, PhD candidate, public international law, University of Technology Sydney Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on August 25. As a freelance photographer and videographer, she had captured the suffering in Gaza through indelible images ... <a title="Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/01/local-journalists-and-fixers-are-dying-at-unprecedented-rates-in-gaza-can-anyone-protect-them-263923/" aria-label="Read more about Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?">Read more</a>
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September 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government’s trial has found age-assurance for its under-16 social media ban can be done effectively and protect privacy but there is not a one-size-fits-all model. The report, from an independent company and released in full, also warns continued vigilance ... <a title="Report on social media age assurance trial says there is not a one-size-fits-all solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/01/report-on-social-media-age-assurance-trial-says-there-is-not-a-one-size-fits-all-solution-263909/" aria-label="Read more about Report on social media age assurance trial says there is not a one-size-fits-all solution">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government’s deal with Nauru to take up to 280 former immigration detainees again shows both sides of politics will resort to drastic and expensive actions when faced with intractable issues around illegal non-citizens. On Friday news came from ... <a title="View from The Hill: Albanese government resorts to whatever-it-takes to rid Australia of former detainees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/31/view-from-the-hill-albanese-government-resorts-to-whatever-it-takes-to-rid-australia-of-former-detainees-263914/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Albanese government resorts to whatever-it-takes to rid Australia of former detainees">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Public policy in New Zealand is paralysed by an unwavering mis-framing of the current economic stagnation. A key part of the problem is the popular attachment to the phrase ‘cost of living crisis’ as a catch-all for contemporary economic malaise. The first task towards clear thinking is to disentangle ‘cost of ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Intellectual Paralysis: Cost of Living, Inflation, and Interest Costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/31/keith-rankin-analysis-intellectual-paralysis-cost-of-living-inflation-and-interest-costs/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Intellectual Paralysis: Cost of Living, Inflation, and Interest Costs">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese appears to be edging closer to landing the long-sought meeting with President Donald Trump when the prime minister is in the United States in September. Despite Albanese’s reluctance to admit it, Deputy Prime Minster’s Richard Marles’ high level ... <a title="View from The Hill: Albanese edging closer to landing Trump September meeting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/29/view-from-the-hill-albanese-edging-closer-to-landing-trump-september-meeting-263917/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Albanese edging closer to landing Trump September meeting">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Blunden, Professor and Head of Paediatric Sleep Research, CQUniversity Australia Vitaliia Hryshchenko/Getty US-based online store iHerb has suspended sales of melatonin gummies to Australia. This comes after a rise in reports of non-fatal overdoses in Western Australia in children who took these popular supplements. This latest ... <a title="Can kids overdose on melatonin gummies? Yes, and an online store has suspended sales" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/29/can-kids-overdose-on-melatonin-gummies-yes-and-an-online-store-has-suspended-sales-264116/" aria-label="Read more about Can kids overdose on melatonin gummies? Yes, and an online store has suspended sales">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Josh Roose, Associate Professor of Politics, Deakin University Australia has watched on as authorities have searched for Dezi Freeman, a so-called “sovereign citizen” accused of killing two police officers in the regional Victorian town of Porepunkah. The case has put the spotlight on the sovereign citizen, or ... <a title="The ‘sovereign citizen’ movement is growing. So is the risk of more violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/29/the-sovereign-citizen-movement-is-growing-so-is-the-risk-of-more-violence-264182/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘sovereign citizen’ movement is growing. So is the risk of more violence">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Littleton, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Healthy Sustainable Development, Torrens University Australia Westend61/Getty Images An experimental aged-care model in South Australia, where purpose-built independent retirement living apartments are co-located with an early learning centre, is seeking to foster connections between residents and children. ... <a title="‘We need to look after our grand-friends’: how childcare in aged care can help young and old" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/29/we-need-to-look-after-our-grand-friends-how-childcare-in-aged-care-can-help-young-and-old-263275/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We need to look after our grand-friends’: how childcare in aged care can help young and old">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Mackay, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images From images of fruit to claims of being “sugar-free”, manufacturers of baby and toddler foods try to convince parents their products are a healthy choice, convenient and good for their child’s ... <a title="New research finds many infant food products make claims that don’t match the main ingredients" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/29/new-research-finds-many-infant-food-products-make-claims-that-dont-match-the-main-ingredients-263424/" aria-label="Read more about New research finds many infant food products make claims that don’t match the main ingredients">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Geraghty, Senior Associate, Economic Prosperity and Democracy program, Grattan Institute Claudio Schwarz/Unsplash, CC BY Australia’s workforce is almost evenly split between men and women. Yet fewer than one in four Australians work in a gender-balanced occupation. This has improved over time, but at a glacial rate. ... <a title="Fewer than 1 in 4 Australians work in a gender-balanced occupation. Fixing it is in all our interests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/29/fewer-than-1-in-4-australians-work-in-a-gender-balanced-occupation-fixing-it-is-in-all-our-interests-264130/" aria-label="Read more about Fewer than 1 in 4 Australians work in a gender-balanced occupation. Fixing it is in all our interests">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon Hyndman, Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University In sports such as wrestling, boxing, rowing, weight lifting and the martial arts, athletes are grouped by weight to make things fairer. It wouldn’t make sense for someone who weighs 60 kilograms to fight ... <a title="Why endurance events like marathons should have weight divisions for heavier runners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/29/why-endurance-events-like-marathons-should-have-weight-divisions-for-heavier-runners-261663/" aria-label="Read more about Why endurance events like marathons should have weight divisions for heavier runners">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Message, Professor of Public Humanities and Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University United States President Donald Trump first signalled his intention to target the Smithsonian Institution in March, when he signed an executive order titled Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History. ... <a title="Trump isn’t the first US politician to pick a fight with the Smithsonian. But this time could be different" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/29/trump-isnt-the-first-us-politician-to-pick-a-fight-with-the-smithsonian-but-this-time-could-be-different-264022/" aria-label="Read more about Trump isn’t the first US politician to pick a fight with the Smithsonian. But this time could be different">Read more</a>
