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June 4, 2025
RNZ Pacific Fiji’s Maritime Safety Authority has launched an investigation into Goundar Shipping Limited following two incidents involving its vessels. Late last month, one vessel ran aground on the reef of Ono-i-Lau, and villagers had to step in to ferry stranded passengers to nearby islands using small boats. On Monday, the Lomaiviti Princess II was ... <a title="Ship runs aground in Fiji – then its rescue vessel capsizes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/ship-runs-aground-in-fiji-then-its-rescue-vessel-capsizes/" aria-label="Read more about Ship runs aground in Fiji – then its rescue vessel capsizes">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leanda Denise Mason, Vice Chancellor Research Fellow in Conservation Ecology, Edith Cowan University A great raft spider (_Dolomedes plantarius_). Salparadis/Shutterstock Can spiders swim? Waubra Preschool students, Victoria, Australia What a great question! Most spiders don’t swim by choice. But they sure can survive in water when they ... <a title="Curious Kids: can spiders swim?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/curious-kids-can-spiders-swim-257832/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: can spiders swim?">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Thomas, Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University As Israel’s devastating war in Gaza has ground on, the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was thought to be “dead”. Now, it is showing signs of life again. French President Emmanuel Macron is reportedly pressing other European ... <a title="A two-state solution is gaining momentum again. Does it have a chance of success?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/a-two-state-solution-is-gaining-momentum-again-does-it-have-a-chance-of-success-257890/" aria-label="Read more about A two-state solution is gaining momentum again. Does it have a chance of success?">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney Many bold claims have been made about Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and its capacity to improve productivity and generate workplace efficiencies. A recent Microsoft survey found 24% of private sector leaders have already deployed GenAI across their organisations. Many ... <a title="Senior public servants think GenAI will boost productivity – but are worried about the risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/senior-public-servants-think-genai-will-boost-productivity-but-are-worried-about-the-risks-256566/" aria-label="Read more about Senior public servants think GenAI will boost productivity – but are worried about the risks">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sebastian Rosenberg, Associate Professor, Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, and Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney Matthew Ashmore/Shutterstock On ABC’s 4 Corners this week, psychiatrists and nurses have warned New South Wales’ mental health system is in crisis. They report some patients with severe mental ... <a title="People with severe mental illness are waiting for days in hospital EDs. Here’s how we can do better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/people-with-severe-mental-illness-are-waiting-for-days-in-hospital-eds-heres-how-we-can-do-better-257971/" aria-label="Read more about People with severe mental illness are waiting for days in hospital EDs. Here’s how we can do better">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marilyn Campbell, Professor, School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock The federal government has launched a “rapid review” to look at what works to prevent bullying in schools. Led by mental health experts, the review will underpin a new national standard to ... <a title="With a government review underway, we have to ask why children bully other kids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/with-a-government-review-underway-we-have-to-ask-why-children-bully-other-kids-257643/" aria-label="Read more about With a government review underway, we have to ask why children bully other kids">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Draper, Professor, and Executive Director: Institute for International Trade, and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Trade and Environment, University of Adelaide General_4530/Getty While the Trump administration’s on-again, off-again trade wars wreak havoc on the business plans of the world’s exporters, the risks to the ... <a title="In the trade wars, there are lessons for the US from Brexit. Australia and our trading partners should take note" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/in-the-trade-wars-there-are-lessons-for-the-us-from-brexit-australia-and-our-trading-partners-should-take-note-257555/" aria-label="Read more about In the trade wars, there are lessons for the US from Brexit. Australia and our trading partners should take note">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Camp, Senior Lecturer, School of Music, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau A few snippets of musicalised dialogue from the cast album of the new Broadway musical Death Becomes Her – with music and lyrics by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, and a book by Marco ... <a title="‘That was rude’: why the new Broadway musical Death Becomes Her was ripe for TikTok memes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/that-was-rude-why-the-new-broadway-musical-death-becomes-her-was-ripe-for-tiktok-memes-257550/" aria-label="Read more about ‘That was rude’: why the new Broadway musical Death Becomes Her was ripe for TikTok memes">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2025
RNZ Pacific Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, a pioneering Ni-Vanuatu politician, has died. Lini passed away at the Port Vila General Hospital on Sunday, according to local news media. Lini was the first woman to be elected to the Vanuatu Parliament in 1987 as a member of the National United Party. Motarilavoa Hilda Lini in 1989 . ... <a title="Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/motarilavoa-hilda-lini-a-trailblazer-for-vanuatu-women-in-politics-dies/" aria-label="Read more about Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Taieri MP Ingrid Leary reflected on her years in Fiji as a television journalist and media educator at a Fiji Centre function in Auckland celebrating Fourth Estate values and independence at the weekend. It was a reunion with former journalism professor David Robie — they had worked together as a team at ... <a title="Fiji coup culture and political meddling in media education gets airing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/fiji-coup-culture-and-political-meddling-in-media-education-gets-airing/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji coup culture and political meddling in media education gets airing">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Buchanan, Professor, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney Carlos Castilla/Shutterstock A week ago, the Australian Financial Review released this year’s “Rich List”. It reported the number of billionaires in Australia increased from 150 to 166 between 2024 and 2025. ... <a title="Australia’s lowest paid workers just got a 3.5% wage increase. Their next boost could be even better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/australias-lowest-paid-workers-just-got-a-3-5-wage-increase-their-next-boost-could-be-even-better-258072/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s lowest paid workers just got a 3.5% wage increase. Their next boost could be even better">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Teresa Ubide, ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Igneous Petrology/Volcanology, The University of Queensland Fabrizio Villa / Getty Images On Monday morning local time, a huge cloud of ash, hot gas and rock fragments began spewing from Italy’s Mount Etna. An enormous plume was seen stretching ... <a title="What’s a ‘Strombolian eruption?’ A volcanologist explains what happened at Mount Etna" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/whats-a-strombolian-eruption-a-volcanologist-explains-what-happened-at-mount-etna-258060/" aria-label="Read more about What’s a ‘Strombolian eruption?’ A volcanologist explains what happened at Mount Etna">Read more</a>
