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January 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tessa Leach, Research Manager, Industry, at Climateworks Centre, Monash University Maksim_Gusev/Shutterstock Aluminium is an exceptionally useful metal. Lightweight, resistant to rust and able to be turned into alloys with other metals. Small wonder it’s the second most used metal in the world after iron and demand is ... <a title="Making aluminium uses 10% of Australia’s electricity. Will tax incentives help smelters go green?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/making-aluminium-uses-10-of-australias-electricity-will-tax-incentives-help-smelters-go-green-247794/" aria-label="Read more about Making aluminium uses 10% of Australia’s electricity. Will tax incentives help smelters go green?">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Garrett, Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney In a piece of pure political theatre, Donald Trump began his second presidency by signing a host of executive orders before a rapturous crowd of 20,000 in Washington on Monday. The orders immediately reversed swathes of ... <a title="Executive orders show Trump’s power and political theatre, but their impact may be limited" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/executive-orders-show-trumps-power-and-political-theatre-but-their-impact-may-be-limited-247892/" aria-label="Read more about Executive orders show Trump’s power and political theatre, but their impact may be limited">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gil Davis, Associate Professor and Director, Ancient Israel Program, Australian Catholic University Roman coins circa 8 BCE-7 BCE, during the rule of Augustus (Octavian). © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA Nowadays, we probably never stop to think about why money was invented. If you ... <a title="Trump’s meme coin is nothing new: it takes a page out of the ancient world’s playbook" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/trumps-meme-coin-is-nothing-new-it-takes-a-page-out-of-the-ancient-worlds-playbook-247807/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s meme coin is nothing new: it takes a page out of the ancient world’s playbook">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
By Leah Lowonbu in Port Vila Vanuatu’s only incumbent female parliamentarian has lost her seat in a snap election leaving only one woman candidate in contention after an unofficial vote count. The unofficial counting at polling locations indicated the majority of the 52 incumbent MPs have been reelected but also with some high profile departures. ... <a title="Vanuatu risks return to all-male parliament in snap election in spite of strong ‘ vot woman’ campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/vanuatu-risks-return-to-all-male-parliament-in-snap-election-in-spite-of-strong-vot-woman-campaign/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu risks return to all-male parliament in snap election in spite of strong ‘ vot woman’ campaign">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin Keogh, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University Photo by cottonbro studio/Pexels If you’ve ever seen people at the gym or the park jumping, hopping or hurling weighted balls to the ground, chances are they were doing plyometric exercises. Examples include: ... <a title="What are plyometric exercises? How all that hopping and jumping builds strength, speed and power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/what-are-plyometric-exercises-how-all-that-hopping-and-jumping-builds-strength-speed-and-power-246322/" aria-label="Read more about What are plyometric exercises? How all that hopping and jumping builds strength, speed and power">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Freshly elected US president Donald Trump has exercised his usual degree of modesty and named his newly launched cryptocurrency or memecoin, $Trump. And like the man himself, the coin’s price is extraordinarily volatile. ... <a title="The $Trump memecoin is reaping billions – but like the man himself, it’s extremely volatile" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/the-trump-memecoin-is-reaping-billions-but-like-the-man-himself-its-extremely-volatile-247788/" aria-label="Read more about The $Trump memecoin is reaping billions – but like the man himself, it’s extremely volatile">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Garrett, Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney In a piece of pure political theatre, Donald Trump began his second presidency by signing a host of executive orders before a rapturous crowd of 20,000 in Washington on Monday. The orders immediately reversed swathes of ... <a title="Executive orders show Trump’s power and political theatre, but his honeymoon period may be short-lived" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/executive-orders-show-trumps-power-and-political-theatre-but-his-honeymoon-period-may-be-short-lived-247892/" aria-label="Read more about Executive orders show Trump’s power and political theatre, but his honeymoon period may be short-lived">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominique Falla, Associate Professor, Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University JYP Entertainment A South Korean boy band you’ve probably never heard of recently made history by becoming the first act to debut at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 with each of its first ... <a title="This K-pop band just made US Billboard history. Here’s how Stray Kids conquered the music world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/this-k-pop-band-just-made-us-billboard-history-heres-how-stray-kids-conquered-the-music-world-247801/" aria-label="Read more about This K-pop band just made US Billboard history. Here’s how Stray Kids conquered the music world">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University Today, in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington DC, the 47th President of the United States was sworn into office. The second Trump era has begun. In his inaugural address, Trump outlined a radical ... <a title="Trump promises a second term focused on immigration and nationalism – as well as revenge and retribution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/trump-promises-a-second-term-focused-on-immigration-and-nationalism-as-well-as-revenge-and-retribution-247773/" aria-label="Read more about Trump promises a second term focused on immigration and nationalism – as well as revenge and retribution">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sophia Nimphius, Professor of Human Performance, Edith Cowan University Tennis fans are once again filling Melbourne Park for the 2025 Australian Open, after setting an all-time attendance record in 2024. The Australian Open is one of four annual Grand Slam events, alongside the French Open, Wimbledon and ... <a title="Game, set, debate: why do women only play 3 sets in tennis?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/game-set-debate-why-do-women-only-play-3-sets-in-tennis-241245/" aria-label="Read more about Game, set, debate: why do women only play 3 sets in tennis?">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Khoo, Associate Professor of International Politics and Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Indo-Pacific Affairs (Christchurch), University of Otago Getty Images Donald Trump is an unusual United States president in that he may be the first to strike greater anxiety in allies than in adversaries. Take the ... <a title="Friend or foe? How Trump’s threats against ‘free-riding’ allies could backfire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/friend-or-foe-how-trumps-threats-against-free-riding-allies-could-backfire-247800/" aria-label="Read more about Friend or foe? How Trump’s threats against ‘free-riding’ allies could backfire">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
Al Jazeera journalist Fadi al-Wahidi, who was gravely injured on 9 October 2024 while reporting from the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, is fighting for his life as the Israeli authorities continued to refuse his transfer to a hospital abroad, despite repeated calls from RSF. Also, two Palestinian photojournalists, Haytham Abdel Wahed and Nidal ... <a title="Gaza ceasefire: RSF calls for open borders for journalists – end to impunity for Israel’s war crimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/gaza-ceasefire-rsf-calls-for-open-borders-for-journalists-end-to-impunity-for-israels-war-crimes/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza ceasefire: RSF calls for open borders for journalists – end to impunity for Israel’s war crimes">Read more</a>
