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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Dunley, Senior Lecturer in History and Maritime Strategy, UNSW Sydney Over the past few days, the Australian media has been dominated by the activities of the Chinese navy’s Task Group 107 as it has progressed south along the Australian coast and conducted a series of live-fire ... <a title="Political fighting over Chinese warships misses the point: Australia’s navy is no match for China’s built-up force" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/political-fighting-over-chinese-warships-misses-the-point-australias-navy-is-no-match-for-chinas-built-up-force-251039/" aria-label="Read more about Political fighting over Chinese warships misses the point: Australia’s navy is no match for China’s built-up force">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Zarmati, Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences Education, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania A fragment of vitrified brain found at Herculaneum. Guido Giordano et al. / Scientific Reports A young man killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE was likely overcome ... <a title="‘Brain vitrification’: new research shows how the Vesuvius eruption turned a man’s brain to glass" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/brain-vitrification-new-research-shows-how-the-vesuvius-eruption-turned-a-mans-brain-to-glass-250918/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Brain vitrification’: new research shows how the Vesuvius eruption turned a man’s brain to glass">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ellen Reeves, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Liverpool Traci Hahn/Shutterstock People experiencing domestic violence are often urged to report their abuse to police. But what if your abuser is a police officer? Our new research, drawing on 17 interviews with victim-survivors from two studies and published in ... <a title="‘He knows how to make sure that there is no evidence’: when your domestic violence abuser is a police officer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/he-knows-how-to-make-sure-that-there-is-no-evidence-when-your-domestic-violence-abuser-is-a-police-officer-250754/" aria-label="Read more about ‘He knows how to make sure that there is no evidence’: when your domestic violence abuser is a police officer">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stefan Korber, Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Shutterstock It might have surprised some people when the United Nations made 2025 the International Year of Cooperatives and praised the “significant role cooperatives play in advancing the implementation of the Sustainable Development ... <a title="Farming cooperatives can get a bad environmental rap, but they can also be a force for good" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/farming-cooperatives-can-get-a-bad-environmental-rap-but-they-can-also-be-a-force-for-good-250905/" aria-label="Read more about Farming cooperatives can get a bad environmental rap, but they can also be a force for good">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Harcourt, Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney This weekend, Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) continues to trumpet its now annual pilgrimage to open its season in Las Vegas. While it’s only the second year of a five-year arrangement, the NRL claims its Vegas ... <a title="First Vegas, then the world? Why the NRL is eyeing international markets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/first-vegas-then-the-world-why-the-nrl-is-eyeing-international-markets-250622/" aria-label="Read more about First Vegas, then the world? Why the NRL is eyeing international markets">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
By Talaia Mika of the Cook Islands News As concerns continue to emerge over China’s “unusual” naval exercises in the Tasman Sea, raising eyebrows from New Zealand and Australia, the Cook Islands government was questioned for an update in Parliament. This follows the newly established bilateral relations between the Cook Islands and China through a ... <a title="Cook Islands government to seek update on China’s naval exercises" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/cook-islands-government-to-seek-update-on-chinas-naval-exercises/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands government to seek update on China’s naval exercises">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University studiovin/Shutterstock Australia is in the grip of a severe housing shortage. Many people are finding it extremely difficult to find a place to live in the face of rising rents and property price surges. Homelessness is ... <a title="Shuttered car factories in Australia could be repurposed to make houses faster and cheaper" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/shuttered-car-factories-in-australia-could-be-repurposed-to-make-houses-faster-and-cheaper-249709/" aria-label="Read more about Shuttered car factories in Australia could be repurposed to make houses faster and cheaper">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia We’ve probably all had a moment when we stopped taking the Oscars too seriously. For me, it was when Denzel Washington won best actor for Training Day (2001), a crime film in which he displays ... <a title="Oscars 2025: who will likely win, who should win, and who barely deserves to be there" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/oscars-2025-who-will-likely-win-who-should-win-and-who-barely-deserves-to-be-there-250783/" aria-label="Read more about Oscars 2025: who will likely win, who should win, and who barely deserves to be there">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma Sharp, Professor, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow & Senior Clinical Psychologist, The University of Queensland Drazen Zigic/Shutterstock Eating disorders impact more than 1.1 million people in Australia, representing 4.5% of the population. These disorders include binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, and anorexia nervosa. Meanwhile, more than 4.1 ... <a title="Eating disorders don’t just affect teen girls. The risk may go up around pregnancy and menopause too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/eating-disorders-dont-just-affect-teen-girls-the-risk-may-go-up-around-pregnancy-and-menopause-too-250156/" aria-label="Read more about Eating disorders don’t just affect teen girls. The risk may go up around pregnancy and menopause too">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Nicholls, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Economic growth took centre stage during Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s recent State of the Nation speech. Yet in amongst the discussion and criticism of the government’s plans, many have ... <a title="NZ’s barriers to economic growth: short-term thinking, political concentration and policy flip-flops" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/nzs-barriers-to-economic-growth-short-term-thinking-political-concentration-and-policy-flip-flops-249007/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s barriers to economic growth: short-term thinking, political concentration and policy flip-flops">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2025
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The family of a Papua New Guinea police constable, killed in an ambush last month, has blocked a section of the Highlands Highway in Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, demanding justice for his death. Constable Harry Gorano succumbed to his injuries in intensive care two weeks ago after spending ... <a title="Relatives of slain PNG police officer block Highlands Highway over unresolved killing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/28/relatives-of-slain-png-police-officer-block-highlands-highway-over-unresolved-killing/" aria-label="Read more about Relatives of slain PNG police officer block Highlands Highway over unresolved killing">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The Western media went into overdrive this week to work the laconic Kiwis into a mild frenzy over three Chinese naval vessels conducting exercises in the Tasman Sea a few thousand kilometres off our shores. What was really behind this orchestrated campaign? ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Yellow Peril! Red Peril! ‘We cannot hide anymore’. Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea. " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/eugene-doyle-yellow-peril-red-peril-we-cannot-hide-anymore-chinese-warships-in-the-tasman-sea/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Yellow Peril! Red Peril! ‘We cannot hide anymore’. Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea. ">Read more</a>
