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April 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Johnston, Director of Learning and Teaching at Excelsia University College and Research Affiliate, University of Sydney As Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young waved a decapitated salmon dripping with blood in parliament last week, you could feel the election coming. Hanson-Young was protesting the watering down of Australia’s ... <a title="Headless fish and babies take centre stage during election season – but don’t let the theatre of politics distract you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/03/headless-fish-and-babies-take-centre-stage-during-election-season-but-dont-let-the-theatre-of-politics-distract-you-253230/" aria-label="Read more about Headless fish and babies take centre stage during election season – but don’t let the theatre of politics distract you">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris F. Wright, Professor of Work and Labour Market Policy, University of Sydney Labor has called for an “economically sustainable real wage increase” for almost 3 million workers who depend on the award system for their wages. In a submission to the Fair Work Commission’s Annual Wage ... <a title="Labor wants to give the minimum wage a real boost. The benefits would likely outweigh any downsides" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/labor-wants-to-give-the-minimum-wage-a-real-boost-the-benefits-would-likely-outweigh-any-downsides-253624/" aria-label="Read more about Labor wants to give the minimum wage a real boost. The benefits would likely outweigh any downsides">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron Humphrey, Lecturer, Media and Digital Humanities, University of Adelaide Leading man of 1990s Hollywood, Val Kilmer, has died at 65 from pneumonia. Battling cancer since 2014, he has not been a frequent presence on our film screens for most of this century. While he has recently ... <a title="Val Kilmer’s macho action figures held a melancholy just below the surface" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/val-kilmers-macho-action-figures-held-a-melancholy-just-below-the-surface-253631/" aria-label="Read more about Val Kilmer’s macho action figures held a melancholy just below the surface">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Ahead of Donald Trump’s tariff announcement early Thursday (Australian time), the United States president has become a serious and increasing worry for Peter Dutton’s campaign. Even apart from Labor’s obvious and constant “Trump-whistling”, many voters are apparently seeing a lot ... <a title="Election diary: Dutton tries to shake off Trump dust and avoid being trapped on wages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/election-diary-dutton-tries-to-shake-off-trump-dust-and-avoid-being-trapped-on-wages-253117/" aria-label="Read more about Election diary: Dutton tries to shake off Trump dust and avoid being trapped on wages">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grace McQuilten, Associate professor, RMIT University Australia’s visual arts and craft workers are facing increasingly deteriorating conditions, according to research published today. Our four-year study reveals workers are abandoning the visual art sector, largely because of unstable employment, below-average salaries and a lack of support. We present ... <a title="New research lays bare the harsh realities facing artists and arts workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/new-research-lays-bare-the-harsh-realities-facing-artists-and-arts-workers-253547/" aria-label="Read more about New research lays bare the harsh realities facing artists and arts workers">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By T.J. Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University A (real) photo of a protester dressed as Pikachu in Paris on March 29 2025. Remon Haazen / Getty Images You wouldn’t usually associate Pikachu with protest. But a figure dressed as the iconic yellow ... <a title="Can you tell the difference between real and fake news photos? Take the quiz to find out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-real-and-fake-news-photos-take-the-quiz-to-find-out-253539/" aria-label="Read more about Can you tell the difference between real and fake news photos? Take the quiz to find out">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Wolpe, Non-resident Senior Fellow, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney The Democrats have been under intense pressure to find an effective way to challenge US President Donald Trump without control of either chamber of Congress or a de facto opposition leader. They may have just ... <a title="US Senator Cory Booker just spoke for 25 hours in Congress. What was he trying to achieve?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/us-senator-cory-booker-just-spoke-for-25-hours-in-congress-what-was-he-trying-to-achieve-253616/" aria-label="Read more about US Senator Cory Booker just spoke for 25 hours in Congress. What was he trying to achieve?">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lesley Russell, Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney AshTproductions/Shutterstock Australian researchers are reeling from the international reach of the Trump administration’s ideological war on science and research, which threatens local research projects that receive funding from the United States National ... <a title="The Medical Research Future Fund has grown far beyond its target. Why is so much of the money unused?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/the-medical-research-future-fund-has-grown-far-beyond-its-target-why-is-so-much-of-the-money-unused-253338/" aria-label="Read more about The Medical Research Future Fund has grown far beyond its target. Why is so much of the money unused?">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Camp, Senior Lecturer, School of Music, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Warner Bros Discovery The last few decades have seen many attempts to make musical TV shows. Some of them applied the aesthetics of musicals (where people spontaneously sing and dance) to the television form, ... <a title="New NZ TV series Happiness gives us an engaging musical peak behind the amateur theatre curtain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/new-nz-tv-series-happiness-gives-us-an-engaging-musical-peak-behind-the-amateur-theatre-curtain-253025/" aria-label="Read more about New NZ TV series Happiness gives us an engaging musical peak behind the amateur theatre curtain">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raffaele F Ciriello, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Kathryn Conrad/Better Images of AI, CC BY In 2023, the World Health Organization declared loneliness and social isolation as a pressing health threat. This crisis is driving millions to seek companionship from artificial intelligence (AI) ... <a title="An AI companion chatbot is inciting self-harm, sexual violence and terror attacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/an-ai-companion-chatbot-is-inciting-self-harm-sexual-violence-and-terror-attacks-252625/" aria-label="Read more about An AI companion chatbot is inciting self-harm, sexual violence and terror attacks">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Jeffries, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University NicoElNino/Shutterstock More than five years since COVID was declared a pandemic, we’re still facing the regular emergence of new variants of the virus, SARS-CoV-2. The latest variant on the rise is LP.8.1. It’s increasing in Australia, making up ... <a title="A new COVID variant is on the rise. Here’s what to know about LP.8.1" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/a-new-covid-variant-is-on-the-rise-heres-what-to-know-about-lp-8-1-253237/" aria-label="Read more about A new COVID variant is on the rise. Here’s what to know about LP.8.1">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Yao, Senior Lecturer, School of Management, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington B.Zhou/Shutterstock China’s economic rocket ride appears to be ending – or slowing, at least. Growth has declined from 8.4% in 2021 to 4.5% today, youth unemployment has climbed to 16.9%, and cities ... <a title="Living in ‘garbage time’: when 500 million Chinese change their spending habits, the world feels it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/living-in-garbage-time-when-500-million-chinese-change-their-spending-habits-the-world-feels-it-253341/" aria-label="Read more about Living in ‘garbage time’: when 500 million Chinese change their spending habits, the world feels it">Read more</a>
