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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This week, the Reserve Bank delivered welcome news for mortgage holders, with another 25 basis points rate cut. With this cut, some are hoping that the cost-of-living pain will start to finally ease. Economists, however, are still wary of celebrating ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on keeping Australia out of recession amid the ‘dark shadow’ of global instability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/politics-with-michelle-grattan-jim-chalmers-on-keeping-australia-out-of-recession-amid-the-dark-shadow-of-global-instability-257228/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on keeping Australia out of recession amid the ‘dark shadow’ of global instability">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – A forthcoming new edition of David Robie’s Eyes of Fire honours the ship’s final mission and the resilience of those affected by decades of radioactive fallout. PACIFIC MORNINGS: By Aui’a Vaimaila Leatinu’u The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior III ship returns to Aotearoa this July, 40 years ... <a title="40 years on – reflecting on Rainbow Warrior’s legacy, fight against nuclear colonialism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/40-years-on-reflecting-on-rainbow-warriors-legacy-fight-against-nuclear-colonialism/" aria-label="Read more about 40 years on – reflecting on Rainbow Warrior’s legacy, fight against nuclear colonialism">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Since last Thursday, intensified Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed more than 500 Palestinians, and a prolonged Israeli aid blockade has led to widespread starvation among the territory’s two million residents. Belatedly, Israel is letting in a token amount of food aid that UN Under-Secretary Tom Fletcher has called a ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/gordon-campbell-nzs-silence-over-gaza-genocide-ethnic-cleansing/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Victorian and NSW Nationals senators due to face the voters at the 2028 election will struggle to hold their seats if the former partners do not re-form the Coalition before then. Under usual Coalition arrangements, Bridget McKenzie, from Victoria, ... <a title="View from The Hill: Coalition split puts Victorian and NSW Nationals Senate seats at high risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/view-from-the-hill-coalition-split-puts-victorian-and-nsw-nationals-senate-seats-at-high-risk-256456/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Coalition split puts Victorian and NSW Nationals Senate seats at high risk">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia and French Polynesia have sent strong delegations this week to the United Nations Pacific regional seminar on the implementation of the Fourth International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism in Timor-Leste. The seminar opened in Dili today and ends on Friday. As French Pacific ... <a title="New Caledonia, French Polynesia at UN decolonisation seminar in Dili" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/new-caledonia-french-polynesia-at-un-decolonisation-seminar-in-dili/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia, French Polynesia at UN decolonisation seminar in Dili">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew King, Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne Emergency crews were scrambling to rescue residents trapped by floodwaters on Wednesday as heavy rain pummelled the Mid North Coast of New South Wales. In some areas, more ... <a title="NSW is copping rain and flooding while parts of Australia are in drought. What’s going on?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/nsw-is-copping-rain-and-flooding-while-parts-of-australia-are-in-drought-whats-going-on-257235/" aria-label="Read more about NSW is copping rain and flooding while parts of Australia are in drought. What’s going on?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Counting in several extremely close seats continues, but some results have become clearer. In Liberal-held Bradfield, Teal candidate Nicolette Boele has taken the lead, while the Calwell ... <a title="Counts in Bradfield and Calwell become clearer, while Jacqui Lambie faces a possible problem in the Tasmanian Senate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/counts-in-bradfield-and-calwell-become-clearer-while-jacqui-lambie-faces-a-possible-problem-in-the-tasmanian-senate-257122/" aria-label="Read more about Counts in Bradfield and Calwell become clearer, while Jacqui Lambie faces a possible problem in the Tasmanian Senate">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Houlihan, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast Dima Berlin/Shutterstock Can you only start a boring admin task once your house is clean? Do you leave the trickiest emails to the end of the day? Delaying a goal or task – usually to ... <a title="Why do I procrastinate? And can I do anything about it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/why-do-i-procrastinate-and-can-i-do-anything-about-it-255770/" aria-label="Read more about Why do I procrastinate? And can I do anything about it?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Clarke, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Tasmania Mirrorscape (detail), 2025, Théo Mercier. Photo credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artist and the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The first impulse is to kick it. After all, it’s a sand sculpture. ... <a title="A sculpture made from 80 tonnes of sand, Mirrorscape is remarkable – but too much is left unsaid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/a-sculpture-made-from-80-tonnes-of-sand-mirrorscape-is-remarkable-but-too-much-is-left-unsaid-256813/" aria-label="Read more about A sculpture made from 80 tonnes of sand, Mirrorscape is remarkable – but too much is left unsaid">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Cover, Professor of Digital Communication and Director of the RMIT Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University In its most recent battle with authorities in Australia, X (formerly Twitter) has launched legal action in the Federal Court, seeking an exemption from a new safety standard aimed at ... <a title="What’s the obscure Australian online safety standard Elon Musk’s X is trying to dodge in court? An expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/whats-the-obscure-australian-online-safety-standard-elon-musks-x-is-trying-to-dodge-in-court-an-expert-explains-257222/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the obscure Australian online safety standard Elon Musk’s X is trying to dodge in court? An expert explains">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ama Samarasinghe, Lecturer, Financial Planning and Tax, RMIT University doublelee/Shutterstock On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia cut the target cash rate by 0.25 percentage points. It now sits at 3.85% – the lowest since May 2023. Australia’s big four banks were all quick to announce they ... <a title="Interest rates are coming down. Here’s what homeowners should know about refinancing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/interest-rates-are-coming-down-heres-what-homeowners-should-know-about-refinancing-257116/" aria-label="Read more about Interest rates are coming down. Here’s what homeowners should know about refinancing">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Editor’s Note: I’m pleased to say my old friend Martyn ‘Bomber’ Bradbury has launched his new programme and podcast titled The Bradbury Group. Martyn needs no introduction to New Zealanders. Under his handle ‘Bomber’ he’s been at the forefront of political debate, especially from a left perspective, for decades. What is particularly refreshing about this ... <a title="EDITOR’S NOTE: New Podcast The Bradbury Group Launches in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/editors-note-new-podcast-the-bradbury-group-launches-in-nz/" aria-label="Read more about EDITOR’S NOTE: New Podcast The Bradbury Group Launches in NZ">Read more</a>
