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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Felicity Deane, Professor, Queensland University of Technology Australian beef exports to the United States are GST-free and should not be subject to any retaliatory tariff. William Edge/Shutterstock The latest round of proposed tariffs from US President Donald Trump includes a response to what the White House describes ... <a title="Is Australia’s GST a tax or a tariff? And why has it become a target in the trade wars?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/is-australias-gst-a-tax-or-a-tariff-and-why-has-it-become-a-target-in-the-trade-wars-250041/" aria-label="Read more about Is Australia’s GST a tax or a tariff? And why has it become a target in the trade wars?">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Rickerby, Lecturer, School of Product Design, University of Canterbury The Poly-1. MOTAT , CC BY-NC Some 45 years ago, a team of staff and students at Wellington Polytechnic designed and built a desktop computer with an operating system customised for the needs of New Zealand schools. ... <a title="Remembering the Poly-1: what NZ’s forgotten homegrown school computer can teach us about state-led innovation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/remembering-the-poly-1-what-nzs-forgotten-homegrown-school-computer-can-teach-us-about-state-led-innovation-249577/" aria-label="Read more about Remembering the Poly-1: what NZ’s forgotten homegrown school computer can teach us about state-led innovation">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Two Palestinian resistance groups have condemned “the brutal assault” on prisoners at Ofer Prison, saying it was “barbaric criminal behaviour that reflects the fascist and terrorist nature of” Israel. In the joint statement, Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) called the attack a “miserable attempt” by Israel “to restore its shattered prestige”, ... <a title="Hamas, PIJ slam Israel’s ‘barbaric’ raid on Palestinians at Ofer Prison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/18/hamas-pij-slam-israels-barbaric-raid-on-palestinians-at-ofer-prison/" aria-label="Read more about Hamas, PIJ slam Israel’s ‘barbaric’ raid on Palestinians at Ofer Prison">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Avarua, Rarotonga Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown hopes to have “an opportunity to talk” with the New Zealand government to “heal some of the rift”. Brown returned to Avarua on Sunday afternoon (Cook Islands Time) following his week-long state visit to China, where he signed a “comprehensive ... <a title="‘No areas of concern’, says Cook Islands PM on NZ’s China deal fears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/no-areas-of-concern-says-cook-islands-pm-on-nzs-china-deal-fears/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No areas of concern’, says Cook Islands PM on NZ’s China deal fears">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sonia R. Grover, Clinical Professor of Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne Polina Zimmerman/Pexels Menstruation, or a period, is the bleeding that occurs about monthly in healthy people born with a uterus, from puberty to menopause. This happens when the endometrium, the tissue that lines the inside of ... <a title="What’s the difference between period pain and endometriosis pain?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/whats-the-difference-between-period-pain-and-endometriosis-pain-244656/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between period pain and endometriosis pain?">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ella Barclay, Senior Lecturer, School of Art and Design, Australian National University Despite the perceived outrage at Khaled Sabsabi’s depiction of Hassan Nasrallah in his 2007 work You, Australian art has long made subjects of outlaws and questionable figures. And it is all the richer for it. ... <a title="Would Sidney Nolan be cancelled for painting Ned Kelly today? That’s what Creative Australia has done to Khaled Sabsabi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/would-sidney-nolan-be-cancelled-for-painting-ned-kelly-today-thats-what-creative-australia-has-done-to-khaled-sabsabi-249952/" aria-label="Read more about Would Sidney Nolan be cancelled for painting Ned Kelly today? That’s what Creative Australia has done to Khaled Sabsabi">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Pryke, Honorary Research Associate, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney Lisa Tomasetti/Opera Australia “It’s an old song”, Hermes (Christine Anu) sings at the opening of Hadestown, but “we’re gonna sing it again and again”. Based on a myth first told in Greece over ... <a title="We’ve told this story for 2,500 years: how Hadestown playfully brings alive an ancient Greek myth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/weve-told-this-story-for-2-500-years-how-hadestown-playfully-brings-alive-an-ancient-greek-myth-249718/" aria-label="Read more about We’ve told this story for 2,500 years: how Hadestown playfully brings alive an ancient Greek myth">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Davis, Associate Professor in Conservation, Edith Cowan University Adwo/Shutterstock Humans have been poisoning rodents for centuries. But fast-breeding rats and mice have evolved resistance to earlier poisons. In response, manufacturers have produced second generation anticoagulant rodenticides such as bromadiolone, widely used in Australian households. Unfortunately, these ... <a title="Lethal second-generation rat poisons are killing endangered quolls and Tasmanian devils" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/lethal-second-generation-rat-poisons-are-killing-endangered-quolls-and-tasmanian-devils-250035/" aria-label="Read more about Lethal second-generation rat poisons are killing endangered quolls and Tasmanian devils">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato It’s an unfortunate fact that bad people sometimes want guns. And while laws are designed to prevent guns falling into the wrong hands, the determined criminal can be highly resourceful. There are three main ways to source an illegal ... <a title="The threat of 3D-printed ‘ghost guns’ is growing, but NZ is yet to act on these 3 big legal gaps" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/the-threat-of-3d-printed-ghost-guns-is-growing-but-nz-is-yet-to-act-on-these-3-big-legal-gaps-248541/" aria-label="Read more about The threat of 3D-printed ‘ghost guns’ is growing, but NZ is yet to act on these 3 big legal gaps">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Two independent Jewish Voices groups in Aotearoa New Zealand have written an open letter to the government condemning the Zionist “colonisation” project leading to genocide and criticising the role of the NZ Jewish Council for its “unelected” and “uncritical support” for Israel. The groups, Alternative Jewish Voices and Dayenu: New Zealand Jews ... <a title="Open letter from local Jewish Voices condemns Zionist ‘colonisation’ project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/open-letter-from-local-jewish-voices-condemns-zionist-colonisation-project/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter from local Jewish Voices condemns Zionist ‘colonisation’ project">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
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 A national Newspoll, conducted February 10–14 from a sample of 1,244, gave the Coalition a 51–49 lead, unchanged from the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes ... <a title="Coalition leading narrowly in four polls and would likely win an election held now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/coalition-leading-narrowly-in-four-polls-and-would-likely-win-an-election-held-now-249694/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition leading narrowly in four polls and would likely win an election held now">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By T.J. Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University Indonesia’s TVOne launched an AI news presenter in 2023. T.J. Thomson Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has taken off at lightning speed in the past couple of years, creating disruption in many industries. Newsrooms are no ... <a title="Generative AI is already being used in journalism – here’s how people feel about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/generative-ai-is-already-being-used-in-journalism-heres-how-people-feel-about-it-247232/" aria-label="Read more about Generative AI is already being used in journalism – here’s how people feel about it">Read more</a>
