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New Zealand is almost completely dependent on four things for its survival in the contemporary world. Imported wheat, rice, and refined fuel. And ships.
POLITICAL CARTOONS: By Campion Ohasio My name is Campion Ohasio, and I am currently the only political cartoonist in Solomon Islands. In recent weeks, I have received many questions and comments from people across the country about my cartoons. Some ask why I draw our national leaders in certain ways. Others wonder whether my caricatures ... <a title="Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal attack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/pacific-political-caricatures-why-criticising-a-leaders-actions-isnt-a-personal-attack/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal attack">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lev Bromberg, Lecturer, La Trobe University Over the decades, journalists and activist groups have revealed horrendous animal cruelty using covert recordings. A 2011 Four Corners investigation of abuse of Australian cattle in Indonesia is among the most well-known examples. Many attempts to record agricultural operations have involved ... <a title="Copyright law is being used to hide alleged animal abuse. Here’s what’s at stake" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/copyright-law-is-being-used-to-hide-alleged-animal-abuse-heres-whats-at-stake-281344/" aria-label="Read more about Copyright law is being used to hide alleged animal abuse. Here’s what’s at stake">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colin Hawes, Associate professor of law, University of Technology Sydney The Chinese-owned firm that operates the Port of Darwin isn’t happy about the federal government’s push to return it to an Australian owner. Now, the situation is escalating, with the stage set for an international legal showdown. ... <a title="Chinese companies are increasingly taking on foreign governments. It’s not just the Port of Darwin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/chinese-companies-are-increasingly-taking-on-foreign-governments-its-not-just-the-port-of-darwin-282045/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese companies are increasingly taking on foreign governments. It’s not just the Port of Darwin">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nikki-Anne Wilson, Lecturer, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney; Neuroscience Research Australia Words escape you. Your skin tingles. You are overwhelmed by how small and insignificant you really are, bursting with a feeling that is hard to define. This is awe. Awe is a complex emotional state we ... <a title="How a sense of awe can be good for your mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/how-a-sense-of-awe-can-be-good-for-your-mental-health-280272/" aria-label="Read more about How a sense of awe can be good for your mental health">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graeme Austin, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne; Chair of Private Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Music superstar Taylor Swift has applied to trademark her voice and image to head off the threat of AI-generated impersonations. But the problem extends much further than ... <a title="From Taylor Swift to Bollywood, stars turn to the civil courts to fight deepfakes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/from-taylor-swift-to-bollywood-stars-turn-to-the-civil-courts-to-fight-deepfakes-281745/" aria-label="Read more about From Taylor Swift to Bollywood, stars turn to the civil courts to fight deepfakes">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Conway, Senior Lecturer – Games and Interactivity, Swinburne University of Technology Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue ... <a title="Red button or blue button? What a viral question tells us about game theory and the state of the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/red-button-or-blue-button-what-a-viral-question-tells-us-about-game-theory-and-the-state-of-the-world-281993/" aria-label="Read more about Red button or blue button? What a viral question tells us about game theory and the state of the world">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Next week’s budget will contain cutbacks to the concessional treatment of electric vehicles (EVs) that will save the government $1.7 billion over the budget period. Announcing the changes to the Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) exemption for EVs, Treasurer Jim Chalmers ... <a title="Next week’s budget to reduce electric vehicle FBT concession" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/next-weeks-budget-to-reduce-electric-vehicle-fbt-concession-282062/" aria-label="Read more about Next week’s budget to reduce electric vehicle FBT concession">Read more</a>
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Kiwi Julien Blondel’s face may be bloodied but it is unbowed. So far the New Zealand government has done nothing after Blondel and other New Zealand peace activists were savagely beaten by Israeli soldiers who attacked the Global Sumud flotilla near the Greek Island of Crete on April 30. The flotilla ... <a title="After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/after-israels-brutal-attack-on-kiwis-the-nz-government-does-nothing/" aria-label="Read more about After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing">Read more</a>
There is a narrative going around that the war in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman – Israel/USA versus Iran – is a training exercise for the big one, a war between the United States and China centred on the Taiwan Strait.
By Stefan Armbruster of Pasifika TV Fiji has recorded a dramatic jump in its media freedom rating to be in the top 25 nations globally while Samoan government press restrictions have seen its rating plummet in the latest World Press Freedom Index. Advocacy group Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) said globally it was the first time ... <a title="Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/04/fiji-jumps-samoa-plunges-in-world-press-freedom-index/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index">Read more</a>
Inflation is a topic which has, for a long time now, been at the forefront of normative economics. Normative economics is the economics of mainstream ideology, not the economics informed by concept or science.