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February 12, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – The United States shares the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression. ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges The billionaires, Christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants who have seized control of Congress, the ... <a title="Chris Hedges: The US empire self-destructs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/chris-hedges-the-us-empire-self-destructs/" aria-label="Read more about Chris Hedges: The US empire self-destructs">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government has secured bipartisan support for a major new regime covering political donations and spending, after making significant concessions. The government agreed to increase the proposed threshold above which donations must be disclosed from $1000 to $5000. The ... <a title="Government-Coalition deal secures sweeping new regime for political donations and spending" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/government-coalition-deal-secures-sweeping-new-regime-for-political-donations-and-spending-249720/" aria-label="Read more about Government-Coalition deal secures sweeping new regime for political donations and spending">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With the election only months away, the Labor government finds itself suddenly battling with the Trump administration for an exemption from new US tariffs on steel and aluminium. The opposition has supported the effort, but it also claims a Coalition ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: David Littleproud on US tariffs, a government-owned Rex, and the Nationals’ identity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/politics-with-michelle-grattan-david-littleproud-on-us-tariffs-a-government-owned-rex-and-the-nationals-identity-249708/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: David Littleproud on US tariffs, a government-owned Rex, and the Nationals’ identity">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julee McDonagh, Senior Research Fellow of Frailty Research, University of Wollongong PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock Ageing is a normal part of the life course. It doesn’t matter how many green smoothies you drink, or how many “anti-ageing” skin care products you use, you can’t stop the ageing ... <a title="What’s the difference between ageing and frailty? One is inevitable – the other is not" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/whats-the-difference-between-ageing-and-frailty-one-is-inevitable-the-other-is-not-247450/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between ageing and frailty? One is inevitable – the other is not">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University The Conversation, CC BY-SA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. Colonial commemorations such as the statues of James Cook ... <a title="A new public statue of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter shows a bright future for Australian monuments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/a-new-public-statue-of-archie-roach-and-ruby-hunter-shows-a-bright-future-for-australian-monuments-249484/" aria-label="Read more about A new public statue of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter shows a bright future for Australian monuments">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Robin Davies Much has been and much more will be written about the looming abolition of USAID. It’s “the removal of a huge and important tool of American global statecraft” (Konyndyk), or the wood-chipping of a “viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America” (Musk) or, more reasonably, the unwarranted cancellation of an ... <a title="Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/powerless-another-asia-pacific-angle-on-the-long-siege-of-usaid/" aria-label="Read more about Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Masarik/Shutterstock In some overseas countries, pets can travel with their owners in a plane’s cabin, in a carrier under a seat. In Australia, pets must travel in the luggage hold of aircraft. But this ... <a title="Australians may soon be able to fly with their pets in a plane’s cabin – but not every pet is suited to it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/australians-may-soon-be-able-to-fly-with-their-pets-in-a-planes-cabin-but-not-every-pet-is-suited-to-it-249689/" aria-label="Read more about Australians may soon be able to fly with their pets in a plane’s cabin – but not every pet is suited to it">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lee Morgenbesser, Associate Professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Griffith University Many Americans have watched in horror as Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has been permitted to tear through various offices of the United States government in recent weeks. Backed by President Donald ... <a title="Is Elon Musk taking over the US government? Here’s how ‘state capture’ works – and why we should be concerned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/is-elon-musk-taking-over-the-us-government-heres-how-state-capture-works-and-why-we-should-be-concerned-249471/" aria-label="Read more about Is Elon Musk taking over the US government? Here’s how ‘state capture’ works – and why we should be concerned">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls has announced he will travel to New Caledonia later this month to pursue talks on the French territory’s political future. These discussions on February 22 follow preliminary talks held last week in Paris in “bilateral” mode with a wide range of ... <a title="French Overseas Minister Manuel Valls to visit Nouméa for key political talks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/french-overseas-minister-manuel-valls-to-visit-noumea-for-key-political-talks/" aria-label="Read more about French Overseas Minister Manuel Valls to visit Nouméa for key political talks">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nial Wheate, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University Miriam Alonso/Pexels The oral contraceptive pills Yaz and Yasmin will be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from March 1 2025, meaning Australian women will pay less for them. This listing follows advice from the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits ... <a title="Yaz and Yasmin contraceptive pills will be cheaper from March. How are they different from other pills?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/yaz-and-yasmin-contraceptive-pills-will-be-cheaper-from-march-how-are-they-different-from-other-pills-249480/" aria-label="Read more about Yaz and Yasmin contraceptive pills will be cheaper from March. How are they different from other pills?">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
As Benjamin Netanyahu threatens to resume war, Hamas outlines widespread Israeli ceasefire violations in document sent to the mediators. By Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous of Dropsite News Hamas officials submitted a two-page report to mediators yesterday listing a wide range of Israeli violations of the Gaza ceasefire since the agreement went into effect ... <a title="Hamas report to mediators accuses Israel of pervasive Gaza ceasefire violations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/hamas-report-to-mediators-accuses-israel-of-pervasive-gaza-ceasefire-violations/" aria-label="Read more about Hamas report to mediators accuses Israel of pervasive Gaza ceasefire violations">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raffaele F Ciriello, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Jan Antonin Kolar/Unsplash OpenAI’s “deep research” is the latest artificial intelligence (AI) tool making waves and promising to do in minutes what would take hours for a human expert to complete. Bundled as a feature ... <a title="OpenAI’s new ‘deep research’ agent is still just a fallible tool – not a human-level expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/openais-new-deep-research-agent-is-still-just-a-fallible-tool-not-a-human-level-expert-249496/" aria-label="Read more about OpenAI’s new ‘deep research’ agent is still just a fallible tool – not a human-level expert">Read more</a>
