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August 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilan Noy, Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Images The words and pictures documenting the famine in the Gaza strip are horrifying. The coverage has led to acrimonious and often misguided ... <a title="Soaring food prices prove the Gaza famine is real – and will affect generations to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/05/soaring-food-prices-prove-the-gaza-famine-is-real-and-will-affect-generations-to-come-262486/" aria-label="Read more about Soaring food prices prove the Gaza famine is real – and will affect generations to come">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janet Ransley, Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University AVN Photo Lab/Shutterstock About half of all serious weapons-related violence in Australia happens at home as part of domestic and family violence. The weapons most used in these incidents are kitchen knives. Yet new laws around the country overwhelmingly ... <a title="Governments and police are tackling weapons in public – but they’re ignoring it in our homes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/05/governments-and-police-are-tackling-weapons-in-public-but-theyre-ignoring-it-in-our-homes-260097/" aria-label="Read more about Governments and police are tackling weapons in public – but they’re ignoring it in our homes">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2025
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By John Perry and Roger D. Harris By escalating deportations, ending humanitarian protections, and cutting remittances, Trump’s immigration policy threatens to destabilize Latin American economies and exacerbate humanitarian crises. Ironically, this might trigger a new wave of migration. The economic importance of Latinos living and working in the ... <a title="Trump Targets Latino Migrants – Ideology over Humanity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/05/trump-targets-latino-migrants-ideology-over-humanity/" aria-label="Read more about Trump Targets Latino Migrants – Ideology over Humanity">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin O’Sullivan, Associate Professor, School of Law, The University of Western Australia Society needs efficient and well-functioning courts. In practice, that means we need judges and magistrates in good mental health. However, a growing body of research shows these judicial officers are living with very concerning levels ... <a title="Trauma, stress and burnout among judges and magistrates could put the whole legal system at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/05/trauma-stress-and-burnout-among-judges-and-magistrates-could-put-the-whole-legal-system-at-risk-262214/" aria-label="Read more about Trauma, stress and burnout among judges and magistrates could put the whole legal system at risk">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Allen, Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University At first glance, it might seem like good news. Divorces in Australia have dropped to their lowest rate since no-fault divorce was introduced. And on average, marriages are lasting longer. Latest data show 2.1 divorces ... <a title="Australia’s divorce rate is the lowest it’s been in 50 years. Why?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/05/australias-divorce-rate-is-the-lowest-its-been-in-50-years-why-262206/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s divorce rate is the lowest it’s been in 50 years. Why?">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Procter, Professor and Chair: Mental Health Nursing, University of South Australia Maskot/Getty Stories about interest rates and cost-of-living often focus on Australians’ hip pockets. But what about the impact on our mental health? The National Mental Health Commission’s most recent “report card” shows financial stress has ... <a title="Financial stress is on the rise in Australia. Here’s what to do if money worries are affecting your mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/05/financial-stress-is-on-the-rise-in-australia-heres-what-to-do-if-money-worries-are-affecting-your-mental-health-262441/" aria-label="Read more about Financial stress is on the rise in Australia. Here’s what to do if money worries are affecting your mental health">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Nassios, Deputy Director and Associate Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University Teerachai Jampanak/Shutterstock Australia’s tax system has come under scrutiny again ahead of the government’s reform roundtable later this month. Economists argue we could raise the same revenue with less economic harm by relying more ... <a title="Some taxes are inefficient at any level. Even modest reforms will help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/05/some-taxes-are-inefficient-at-any-level-even-modest-reforms-will-help-262043/" aria-label="Read more about Some taxes are inefficient at any level. Even modest reforms will help">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew J. Martin, Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW Sydney Johnny Greig/ Getty Images If you had to do a test, how would you respond? Would you relish the chance to demonstrate your knowledge? Or worry you were about to fall short of the mark ... <a title="How do you feel about doing exams? Our research unearthed 4 types of test-takers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/05/how-do-you-feel-about-doing-exams-our-research-unearthed-4-types-of-test-takers-261552/" aria-label="Read more about How do you feel about doing exams? Our research unearthed 4 types of test-takers">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist New Zealand’s foreign minister says Cook Islanders are free to choose whether their country continues in free association with New Zealand. Winston Peters made the comment at a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the constitution of the Cook Islands in Auckland today. Peters attended the community event ... <a title="‘Right to choose’ key to Cook Islands-NZ relationship, says Peters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/right-to-choose-key-to-cook-islands-nz-relationship-says-peters/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Right to choose’ key to Cook Islands-NZ relationship, says Peters">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Clancy Overell, editor of The Betoota Advocate After years of sitting on the fence and looking the other way, the Australian media is today reckoning with the fact that showing basic sympathy towards the starving and war-weary people of Gaza is actually a very mainstream sentiment. This explosive moment of self-reflection has rocked ... <a title="Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend well beyond university lawns and Instagram" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/australian-media-faces-existential-crisis-after-realising-free-palestine-might-extend-well-beyond-university-lawns-and-instagram/" aria-label="Read more about Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend well beyond university lawns and Instagram">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A Chinese woman has appeared in the ACT magistrates court on Monday accused of foreign interference, by allegedly covertly collecting information about a Canberra Buddhist association. Police arrested the woman, an Australian permanent resident, on Saturday, after searching homes in ... <a title="Chinese national accused under foreign interference law of spying on Buddhists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/chinese-national-accused-under-foreign-interference-law-of-spying-on-buddhists-262032/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese national accused under foreign interference law of spying on Buddhists">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The most important measure of the favourability or otherwise of the international economic environment is called a country’s ‘Terms of Trade’. This label essentially means ‘barter price’, reflecting that international trade is essentially one country’s barter with the rest of the world. (Digression. We note that such ‘barter’ is rarely the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – New Zealand’s highly favourable Terms of Trade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/keith-rankin-analysis-new-zealands-highly-favourable-terms-of-trade/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – New Zealand’s highly favourable Terms of Trade">Read more</a>
