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May 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Indra Mckie, Postdoctoral Researcher in Collaborative Human-AI Interaction Culture, University of Technology Sydney Ashlifier/Shutterstock Have you heard of the “male technologist” mindset? It may sound familiar, and you may even know such people personally. Design researchers Turkka Keinonen and Nils Ehrenberg have defined the male technologist as ... <a title="Who really benefits from smart tech at home? ‘Optimising’ family life can reinforce gender roles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/who-really-benefits-from-smart-tech-at-home-optimising-family-life-can-reinforce-gender-roles-256477/" aria-label="Read more about Who really benefits from smart tech at home? ‘Optimising’ family life can reinforce gender roles">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute As debate rages about the federal government’s plan to lift the tax on earnings on superannuation balances over A$3 million, it’s worth revisiting why we offer super tax breaks in the first place, and why they need ... <a title="Actually, Gen Z stand to be the biggest winners from the new $3 million super tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/actually-gen-z-stand-to-be-the-biggest-winners-from-the-new-3-million-super-tax-257450/" aria-label="Read more about Actually, Gen Z stand to be the biggest winners from the new $3 million super tax">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Walker, Associate Professor, School of Historical and Classical Studies, University of Adelaide La Religieuse Tenant La Sainte Croix (The Nun Holds the Cross), Jacques Callot, French,1621–35. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the ... <a title="A not-so-modern epidemic: what 17th-century nuns can teach us about coping with loneliness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/a-not-so-modern-epidemic-what-17th-century-nuns-can-teach-us-about-coping-with-loneliness-249487/" aria-label="Read more about A not-so-modern epidemic: what 17th-century nuns can teach us about coping with loneliness">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samara McPhedran, Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University Following a shopping centre brawl in Melbourne at the weekend, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan announced the state will ban the sale of all machetes from Wednesday. In March this year, the Victorian government had already announced that from September 1 ... <a title="Australia’s first machete ban is coming to Victoria. Will it work, or is it just another political quick fix?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/australias-first-machete-ban-is-coming-to-victoria-will-it-work-or-is-it-just-another-political-quick-fix-257541/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s first machete ban is coming to Victoria. Will it work, or is it just another political quick fix?">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Linda Botterill, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia in 2025 is living up to Dorothy McKellar’s poetic vision of a country stricken by “drought and flooding rains”. The clean up is underway from the deadly floods in the Hunter and mid-north coast ... <a title="The drought is back – we need a new way to help farmers survive tough times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/the-drought-is-back-we-need-a-new-way-to-help-farmers-survive-tough-times-256576/" aria-label="Read more about The drought is back – we need a new way to help farmers survive tough times">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, University of South Australia Maksim Goncharenok/Pexels You’ve probably heard the terms “abs” and “core” used in social media videos, Pilates classes, or even by physiotherapists. Given they seem to refer to the same general area of your body, you might have ... <a title="What’s the difference between abs and core? One term focuses on aesthetics – and the other on function" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/whats-the-difference-between-abs-and-core-one-term-focuses-on-aesthetics-and-the-other-on-function-254582/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between abs and core? One term focuses on aesthetics – and the other on function">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on May 26, 2025.
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May 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carwyn Jones, Honorary Adjunct Professor, Te Kawa a Māui – School of Māori Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington ACT Party leader David Seymour. Getty Images With the ACT Party’s Regulatory Standards Bill now before the Finance and Expenditure Committee, having passed its first ... <a title="Fourth time lucky? ACT’s regulatory standards law may finally pass, despite Treaty and legal doubts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/fourth-time-lucky-acts-regulatory-standards-law-may-finally-pass-despite-treaty-and-legal-doubts-257107/" aria-label="Read more about Fourth time lucky? ACT’s regulatory standards law may finally pass, despite Treaty and legal doubts">Read more</a>
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May 26, 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, has died" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/motarilavoa-hilda-lini-a-trailblazer-for-vanuatu-women-in-politics-has-died/" aria-label="Read more about Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, has died">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji lawyer Nazhat Shameem Khan has been elevated to the top prosecutorial position at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The Office of the Prosecutor at ICC has announced that deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang have taken over leadership following chief prosecutor Karim AA ... <a title="Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at ICC" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/fiji-lawyer-nazhat-khan-takes-up-acting-top-prosecution-role-at-icc/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at ICC">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ha Nguyen, Senior Research Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia Ryan DeBerardinis/Shutterstock People who’ve lived through natural disasters, such as floods or cyclones, often re-assess their priorities. But for Australians who’ve lived through a severe cyclone, this can affect them in a way that’s received little attention. ... <a title="Cyclones drive people to buy health insurance, more so than some government campaigns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/cyclones-drive-people-to-buy-health-insurance-more-so-than-some-government-campaigns-256807/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclones drive people to buy health insurance, more so than some government campaigns">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick Finnerty, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in conservation and wildlife management, University of Sydney Pavel Mikoska By 2050, almost 70% of the world’s population will live in cities – 20% more than today. As cities expand, the natural world around them contracts. Species decline faster in and around ... <a title="Urban rewilding has brought back beavers, hornbills and platypuses to city parks – and that’s just the start" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/urban-rewilding-has-brought-back-beavers-hornbills-and-platypuses-to-city-parks-and-thats-just-the-start-256102/" aria-label="Read more about Urban rewilding has brought back beavers, hornbills and platypuses to city parks – and that’s just the start">Read more</a>
