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February 5, 2026
Pacific Media Watch A new Pacific Media research publication and outlet for academics and community advocates has now been added to the Informit database for researchers. Two editions of the new journal, published by the Aotearoa-based independent Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) and following the traditions of Pacific Journalism Review, have been included in the ... <a title="Pacific Media journal research added to Informit global database" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/pacific-media-journal-research-added-to-informit-global-database/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media journal research added to Informit global database">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Lindsey, Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto waited decades for his chance to lead the country. The controversial former general finally won the office on his third ... <a title="Indonesia’s leader is going after critics with a vengeance. This could complicate relations with Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/indonesias-leader-is-going-after-critics-with-a-vengeance-this-could-complicate-relations-with-australia-274947/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia’s leader is going after critics with a vengeance. This could complicate relations with Australia">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Efron, Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne skynesher/Getty The Victorian government has announced it will train 150 GPs to diagnose and start treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults and children. This decision could shorten wait times and lower costs for ... <a title="More GPs will be able to diagnose and treat ADHD – and experts say it’s a positive step" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/more-gps-will-be-able-to-diagnose-and-treat-adhd-and-experts-say-its-a-positive-step-274959/" aria-label="Read more about More GPs will be able to diagnose and treat ADHD – and experts say it’s a positive step">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Essay by Keith Rankin. A great academic campus? But note the roof of the Concentrix building. A Green Way? Or was it the 1990s’-built Languages Building? Whoops, there goes Concentrix! Hard Yakka. Auckland’s answer to the Christchurch Cathedral Two days before present The Martians have landed: One Day before present: going, going, … Unitec ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Carrington precinct, aka Unitec" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/keith-rankin-essay-carrington-precinct-aka-unitec/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Carrington precinct, aka Unitec">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on February 5, 2026.
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February 5, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania This year’s Winter Olympics will be held in northern Italy, starting on Friday. They will be the most spread out in history: the two main competition sites – Milan and the winter resort of Cortina ... <a title="Milan Cortina Winter Olympics: history, new events and Australian medal chances" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/milan-cortina-winter-olympics-history-new-events-and-australian-medal-chances-271834/" aria-label="Read more about Milan Cortina Winter Olympics: history, new events and Australian medal chances">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joel Scanlan, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Law; Academic Co-Lead, CSAM Deterrence Centre, University of Tasmania In the 2024–25 financial year alone, the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation received nearly 83,000 reports of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM), primarily on mainstream platforms. This was a ... <a title="Big tech companies are still failing to tackle child abuse material online" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/big-tech-companies-are-still-failing-to-tackle-child-abuse-material-online-274857/" aria-label="Read more about Big tech companies are still failing to tackle child abuse material online">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ahmed Uzair Aziz, PhD Candidate in Māori Studies, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Rose Davis, CC BY-NC-ND This story begins with a 160-year-old cottage, sited in a vortex of overlapping histories, and becomes the tale of a city itself. The green and cream weatherboard house at ... <a title="This central Auckland cottage tells a remarkable tale of the city’s bicultural history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/this-central-auckland-cottage-tells-a-remarkable-tale-of-the-citys-bicultural-history-274005/" aria-label="Read more about This central Auckland cottage tells a remarkable tale of the city’s bicultural history">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jason Brown Fast-paced electronic music pumps in the background as a rapid montage of moving images flash across the screen. In a 20 second video, French sailors hunker down in an inflatable speeding over swells. Another sailor, in bright red shorts, is lowered from a helicopter onto the vessel’s back deck. Captured ... <a title="French shrug off cocaine case costs with new smugglers ‘strategy’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/french-shrug-off-cocaine-case-costs-with-new-smugglers-strategy/" aria-label="Read more about French shrug off cocaine case costs with new smugglers ‘strategy’">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist As Waitangi Day commemorations continue drawing people from across Aotearoa and around the world to the Bay of Islands, Te Tii Marae has become a gathering point for Indigenous ocean leadership from across the Pacific. Taiātea: Gathering of the Oceans held its public forum yesterday, uniting more than ... <a title="Indigenous and Pacific leaders unite at Waitangi with shared messages on ocean conservation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/indigenous-and-pacific-leaders-unite-at-waitangi-with-shared-messages-on-ocean-conservation/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous and Pacific leaders unite at Waitangi with shared messages on ocean conservation">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Fernando Garcia/Unsplash The extraordinary rescue this week in Geographe Bay, Western Australia has been described as heroic. A 13-year-old boy swam four hours to shore in rough seas after his family was swept far ... <a title="One family’s ocean paddle almost ended in tragedy. It reminds us coastal weather is notoriously changeable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/one-familys-ocean-paddle-almost-ended-in-tragedy-it-reminds-us-coastal-weather-is-notoriously-changeable-275077/" aria-label="Read more about One family’s ocean paddle almost ended in tragedy. It reminds us coastal weather is notoriously changeable">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hrvoje Tkalčić, Professor, Head of Geophysics, Director of Warramunga Array, Australian National University ANU Media Tyres stick to hot asphalt as I drive the Stuart Highway from Alice Springs northward, leaving the MacDonnell Ranges behind. My destination is the Warramunga facility, about 500 kilometres north – a ... <a title="In the Australian outback, we’re listening for nuclear tests – and what we hear matters more than ever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/in-the-australian-outback-were-listening-for-nuclear-tests-and-what-we-hear-matters-more-than-ever-272892/" aria-label="Read more about In the Australian outback, we’re listening for nuclear tests – and what we hear matters more than ever">Read more</a>
