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February 27, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The above chart traces the vote-share of Germany’s establishment political parties: the right-wing CDU/CSU and the now-centre-right SPD (essentially the Christian Democrats, just like National in New Zealand) and the Social Democrats (just like Labour). And it compares Germany with England to show a similar process there. An increasingly stale political centre ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Germany’s stale (and still pale) political mainstream" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-germanys-stale-and-still-pale-political-mainstream/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Germany’s stale (and still pale) political mainstream">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Peter Dutton and his Coalition colleagues have dithered for several weeks on their plans for the Commonwealth public sector. While being upfront that public service jobs would be targeted, they’ve made numerous contradictory ... <a title="Dutton hints he’ll sack 36,000 public servants. Voters deserve to know what services will be affected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/dutton-hints-hell-sack-36-000-public-servants-voters-deserve-to-know-what-services-will-be-affected-250797/" aria-label="Read more about Dutton hints he’ll sack 36,000 public servants. Voters deserve to know what services will be affected">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Peter Dutton and his Coalition colleagues have dithered for several weeks on their plans for the Commonwealth public sector. While being upfront that public service jobs would be targeted, they’ve made numerous contradictory ... <a title="Peter Dutton strongly hints he’ll sack 36,000 public servants. Voters deserve to know what services will be affected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/peter-dutton-strongly-hints-hell-sack-36-000-public-servants-voters-deserve-to-know-what-services-will-be-affected-250797/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Dutton strongly hints he’ll sack 36,000 public servants. Voters deserve to know what services will be affected">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Strating, Director, La Trobe Asia, and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University Debating Australia’s role in world politics is not always high on the political agenda. Elections here are more often fought on economic issues than foreign or defence policy. And while the major parties ... <a title="A middle power with ‘great and powerful friends’: Australia’s changing role in the region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/a-middle-power-with-great-and-powerful-friends-australias-changing-role-in-the-region-228897/" aria-label="Read more about A middle power with ‘great and powerful friends’: Australia’s changing role in the region">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allison Kealy, Director, Innovative Planet Institute, Swinburne University of Technology Triff/Shutterstock Quantum technology is no longer confined to the lab – it’s making its way into our everyday lives. Now, it’s about to transform something even more fundamental: how we navigate the world. Imagine submarines travelling beneath ... <a title="Quantum navigation could transform how we travel. So what is it, and how does it work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/quantum-navigation-could-transform-how-we-travel-so-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work-250285/" aria-label="Read more about Quantum navigation could transform how we travel. So what is it, and how does it work?">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
The re-election of Donald Trump is proof that the Right’s most powerful weapon is media manipulation, ensuring the public sphere is not engaged in rational debate, reports the Independent Australia. COMMENTARY: By Victoria Fielding I once heard someone say that when the Left and the Right became polarised — when they divorced from each other ... <a title="Manipulated media: The weapon of the Right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/manipulated-media-the-weapon-of-the-right/" aria-label="Read more about Manipulated media: The weapon of the Right">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Mark Brown has survived a motion in the Cook Islands Parliament aimed at ousting his government, the second Pacific Island leader to face a no-confidence vote this week. In a vote yesterday afternoon (Tuesday, Cook Islands time), the man who has been at the centre of controversy in the past few ... <a title="Cook Islands needs to ‘stand on our own two feet,’ says Brown – wins confidence vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/cook-islands-needs-to-stand-on-our-own-two-feet-says-brown-wins-confidence-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands needs to ‘stand on our own two feet,’ says Brown – wins confidence vote">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mimi Zou, Professor, School of Private & Commercial Law, UNSW Sydney Dorason/Shutterstock When small Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek released a family of extremely efficient and highly competitive AI models last month, it rocked the global tech community. The release revealed China’s growing technological prowess. It ... <a title="DeepSeek is now a global force. But it’s just one player in China’s booming AI industry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/deepseek-is-now-a-global-force-but-its-just-one-player-in-chinas-booming-ai-industry-250494/" aria-label="Read more about DeepSeek is now a global force. But it’s just one player in China’s booming AI industry">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brooke Nickel, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, University of Sydney C-R-V/Shutterstock When Kim Kardashian posted on Instagram about having had a full-body MRI, she enthused that the test can be “life saving”, detecting diseases in the earliest stages before symptoms arise. What Kardashian neglected to say was ... <a title="We analysed almost 1,000 social media posts about 5 popular medical tests. Most were utterly misleading" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/we-analysed-almost-1-000-social-media-posts-about-5-popular-medical-tests-most-were-utterly-misleading-247362/" aria-label="Read more about We analysed almost 1,000 social media posts about 5 popular medical tests. Most were utterly misleading">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yuting Zhang, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne chainarong06/Shutterstock Anyone who needs to make their first appointment with a psychiatrist may expect a bit of a wait. Our new research shows Australians are waiting an average 77 days for this initial appointment. But some were ... <a title="Australians can wait at least 258 days for their first psychiatry appointment, our new study shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/australians-can-wait-at-least-258-days-for-their-first-psychiatry-appointment-our-new-study-shows-248012/" aria-label="Read more about Australians can wait at least 258 days for their first psychiatry appointment, our new study shows">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hinrich Schaefer, Research Scientist Trace Gases, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Baring Head station, overlooking Cook Strait, is one of the places where air samples are collected to track greenhouse gases. Author provided, CC BY-SA Imagine for a moment the atmosphere is a kitchen ... <a title="The atmosphere is getting better at cleaning itself – but that’s not all good news" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/the-atmosphere-is-getting-better-at-cleaning-itself-but-thats-not-all-good-news-248734/" aria-label="Read more about The atmosphere is getting better at cleaning itself – but that’s not all good news">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rongbin Xu, Research Fellow in Health and Epigenetics, Monash University PorporLing/Shutterstock Heat takes it out of you. After a long, hot day, we feel tired and grumpy. But sustained periods of heat do more than that – they age us faster. Cumulative heat stress changes our epigenetics – ... <a title="Intense heat changes our biology and can make us age significantly faster: study" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/27/intense-heat-changes-our-biology-and-can-make-us-age-significantly-faster-study-250784/" aria-label="Read more about Intense heat changes our biology and can make us age significantly faster: study">Read more</a>
