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January 22, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell On 14 December 2025, a father and son, reportedly linked to the ISIS clerical fascist organisation, committed a murderous attack on innocent participants at a Jewish celebration on Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach. Fifteen were killed and around 40 seriously injured. There is no way this horrific event can be minimised. It ... <a title="Ian Powell: Bondi Beach’s murderous terrorism aftermath – an Aotearoa perspective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/ian-powell-bondi-beachs-murderous-terrorism-aftermath-an-aotearoa-perspective/" aria-label="Read more about Ian Powell: Bondi Beach’s murderous terrorism aftermath – an Aotearoa perspective">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2026
Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the guilty verdict against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio whose case has been challenged since her arrest almost six years ago. Cumpio was found guilty today on a charge of “financing terrorism” in the Philippines, and now faces a sentence ... <a title="RSF condemns verdict in ‘fabricated’ case against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/rsf-condemns-verdict-in-fabricated-case-against-filipino-journalist-frenchie-mae-cumpio/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns verdict in ‘fabricated’ case against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2026
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on January 22, 2026.
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January 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University In what has become a familiar, exhausting cycle, the rest of the world is left with the futile task of trying to dredge meaning from the wreckage left behind by US President Donald ... <a title="Trump sows ‘chaotic cruelty’ while Canadian PM Carney reminds the world it doesn’t have to play along" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/trump-sows-chaotic-cruelty-while-canadian-pm-carney-reminds-the-world-it-doesnt-have-to-play-along-274099/" aria-label="Read more about Trump sows ‘chaotic cruelty’ while Canadian PM Carney reminds the world it doesn’t have to play along">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zena Assaad, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Australian National University The United States is set to become “the world’s undisputed [artificial intelligence-enabled] fighting force”. At least that’s the view of the country’s Department of War, which earlier this month released a new strategy to accelerate the deployment ... <a title="The United States’ new military strategy is a case of ‘AI peacocking’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/the-united-states-new-military-strategy-is-a-case-of-ai-peacocking-273803/" aria-label="Read more about The United States’ new military strategy is a case of ‘AI peacocking’">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2026
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The signing of a new agreement on New Caledonia’s political and financial future has triggered a fresh wave of reactions from across the French territory’s political chessboard. The Elysée-Oudinot agreement was signed on Monday, January 19, in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron as well ... <a title="Pro-independence FLNKS ‘unequivocally’ reject latest agreement for New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/pro-independence-flnks-unequivocally-reject-latest-agreement-for-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-independence FLNKS ‘unequivocally’ reject latest agreement for New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The federal Coalition is dead, with Nationals leader David Littleproud on Thursday morning declaring it “untenable” after Liberal leader Sussan Ley stared down the Liberals’ minor partner. This followed all Nationals frontbenchers resigning from the shadow ministry on Wednesday night, ... <a title="Nationals break Coalition, declaring it ‘untenable’ and blaming Ley" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/nationals-break-coalition-declaring-it-untenable-and-blaming-ley-274025/" aria-label="Read more about Nationals break Coalition, declaring it ‘untenable’ and blaming Ley">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Australia’s Labor government has successfully passed a “hate speech” bill that’s plainly aimed, at least in part, at suppressing pro-Palestine organizations as “hate groups”. Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about the new laws, saying their extremely vague wording, lack of procedural fairness and low thresholds for implementation mean groups ... <a title="Australia’s frightening new ‘hate speech’ laws are clearly aimed at pro-Palestine groups" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/australias-frightening-new-hate-speech-laws-are-clearly-aimed-at-pro-palestine-groups/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s frightening new ‘hate speech’ laws are clearly aimed at pro-Palestine groups">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Stevens, Professor in Ocean Physics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Stevens/NIWA/K061, CC BY-NC-ND Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of ... <a title="Beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/beneath-antarcticas-largest-ice-shelf-a-hidden-ocean-is-revealing-its-secrets-273219/" aria-label="Read more about Beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yanyan Hong, Adjunct Fellow in Communication, Media and Film Studies, Adelaide University Agata Grzybowska © 2025 Focus Features In Hamnet, Agnes Hathaway (Jessie Buckley) asks William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) to introduce himself by telling her a story. It is her way of seeing who this man really ... <a title="Shakespeare reinvented: how Chloé Zhao blends East and West philosophies in Hamnet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/shakespeare-reinvented-how-chloe-zhao-blends-east-and-west-philosophies-in-hamnet-273352/" aria-label="Read more about Shakespeare reinvented: how Chloé Zhao blends East and West philosophies in Hamnet">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Sanka Vidanagama/Getty Images For many people this summer – especially those across Northland Auckland and Coromandel – showery days and bursts of heavy rain have become all too familiar. This week, fresh downpours on ... <a title="NZ is again being soaked this summer – record ocean heat helps explain it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/nz-is-again-being-soaked-this-summer-record-ocean-heat-helps-explain-it-274013/" aria-label="Read more about NZ is again being soaked this summer – record ocean heat helps explain it">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maxime Aubert, Professor of Archaeological Science, Griffith University Supplied When we think of the world’s oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the birthplace of symbolic human culture. But new evidence from Indonesia ... <a title="Humanity’s oldest known cave art has been discovered in Sulawesi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/humanitys-oldest-known-cave-art-has-been-discovered-in-sulawesi-273364/" aria-label="Read more about Humanity’s oldest known cave art has been discovered in Sulawesi">Read more</a>
