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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John N. Trey Rogers, Professor of Turfgrass Research, Michigan State University With 104 matches in 16 stadiums across Canada, the United States and Mexico, the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be soccer’s biggest event ever. It’s our job as turfgrass researchers hired by FIFA, the game’s governing ... <a title="We designed the turf for soccer’s biggest World Cup ever – here’s how we created the same playing experience across 3 countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/we-designed-the-turf-for-soccers-biggest-world-cup-ever-heres-how-we-created-the-same-playing-experience-across-3-countries-279536/" aria-label="Read more about We designed the turf for soccer’s biggest World Cup ever – here’s how we created the same playing experience across 3 countries">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Pace, Researcher and Lecturer at the Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body’s energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you’re doing right now. Reading these words, feeling the weight of ... <a title="How does imagination really work in the brain? New theory upends what we knew" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/how-does-imagination-really-work-in-the-brain-new-theory-upends-what-we-knew-280803/" aria-label="Read more about How does imagination really work in the brain? New theory upends what we knew">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwenda Tavan, Adjunct Associate Professor of Politics, La Trobe University Multiculturalism first made its way into Australian political dialogue in the 1970s, with the idea that the country could, and should, be home to people from all over the world. Inevitably, there was backlash against the idea, ... <a title="Multicultural Australia was built under a Liberal prime minister. The current party should take heed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/multicultural-australia-was-built-under-a-liberal-prime-minister-the-current-party-should-take-heed-277732/" aria-label="Read more about Multicultural Australia was built under a Liberal prime minister. The current party should take heed">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Davy, Senior Lecturer, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Every welfare program negotiates a fundamental tension: between fiscal responsibility and consistency on one hand, and care for real people with complex needs and situations on the other. Over the past decade or so, one ... <a title="First Robodebt, now NDIS and aged care: how computers still decide who gets care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/first-robodebt-now-ndis-and-aged-care-how-computers-still-decide-who-gets-care-280711/" aria-label="Read more about First Robodebt, now NDIS and aged care: how computers still decide who gets care">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Aikhenvald, Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow, Jawun Research Institute, CQUniversity Australia When the Crusaders descended upon the eastern shores of the Mediterranean at the end of the 11th century, they had to communicate with each other, with traders and with locals. Many of them spoke different ... <a title="What is a lingua franca? A brief history, from the Crusades to today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/what-is-a-lingua-franca-a-brief-history-from-the-crusades-to-today-275807/" aria-label="Read more about What is a lingua franca? A brief history, from the Crusades to today">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wesley Morgan, Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney US President Donald Trump is a longtime climate denier and oil industry ally, who sums up his own energy policy as “drill, baby, drill”. Yet he is doing more than almost anyone to speed up ... <a title="The end of oil? As fuel shocks cascade, 53 nations gather to plan a fossil fuel phaseout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/the-end-of-oil-as-fuel-shocks-cascade-53-nations-gather-to-plan-a-fossil-fuel-phaseout-280263/" aria-label="Read more about The end of oil? As fuel shocks cascade, 53 nations gather to plan a fossil fuel phaseout">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fotini Vasilopoulos, Postdoctoral Researcher, Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney Pretend play is a significant and often magical part of childhood. Children have huge imaginations and use these to turn rocks into spaceships, tables into forts or pens into fairies. ... <a title="Pretend play is a magical part of childhood. New research suggests it can also help mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/pretend-play-is-a-magical-part-of-childhood-new-research-suggests-it-can-also-help-mental-health-281121/" aria-label="Read more about Pretend play is a magical part of childhood. New research suggests it can also help mental health">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Evans, Emeritus Professor, School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, UNSW Sydney It looks increasingly likely Treasurer Jim Chalmers will make changes to the capital gains tax (CGT) discount in the federal budget in May. Under the current system, a person who has held an asset for ... <a title="Tinkering with the capital gains tax discount isn’t enough. Here’s why it needs to go" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/tinkering-with-the-capital-gains-tax-discount-isnt-enough-heres-why-it-needs-to-go-280577/" aria-label="Read more about Tinkering with the capital gains tax discount isn’t enough. Here’s why it needs to go">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra From October people will no longer have to pay to receive help with showering, dressing and support in managing continence, in changes to home care packages to be announced by Health Minister Mark Butler on Wednesday. Under the aged care ... <a title="Government finally to cover full cost of showering under home care program" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/government-finally-to-cover-full-cost-of-showering-under-home-care-program-281140/" aria-label="Read more about Government finally to cover full cost of showering under home care program">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Next month’s federal budget is an even tighter balancing act than usual, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers facing global economic uncertainty, a fuel crisis and the need to juggle cost-of-living relief with combating inflation. The government has been weighing up changes ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: former minister Ed Husic on why Labor must ‘stare down’ gas companies over tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/politics-with-michelle-grattan-former-minister-ed-husic-on-why-labor-must-stare-down-gas-companies-over-tax-281124/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: former minister Ed Husic on why Labor must ‘stare down’ gas companies over tax">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
RNZ Pacific Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Rights says it is investigating deaths of a dozen West Papuans in a military operation. The commission, known as Komnas HAM, says the incident took place last Tuesday in Kembru District in Puncak regency of Central Papua Komnas HAM said 12 civilians, including women and children, died as ... <a title="Indonesia’s human rights body to investigate deaths of 12 Papuans in military operation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/indonesias-human-rights-body-to-investigate-deaths-of-12-papuans-in-military-operation/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia’s human rights body to investigate deaths of 12 Papuans in military operation">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Nationals leader Matt Canavan is giving the concept of the political “ground game” a new twist in the Farrer byelection. Canavan is literally camping out in the southern New South Wales electorate, despite the Nationals seemingly having no chance of ... <a title="View from The Hill: It’s a chilly campaign for Matt Canavan in Farrer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/view-from-the-hill-its-a-chilly-campaign-for-matt-canavan-in-farrer-280583/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: It’s a chilly campaign for Matt Canavan in Farrer">Read more</a>
