Independent Analysis and Reportage
Source: Radio New Zealand The family of murdered police office Lyn Fleming say the way she died was was “nothing short of barbaric”. Senior Sergeant Fleming and Senior Sergeant Adam Ramsay were on foot patrol in Buxton Square in the early hours of New Year’s Day last year when they were hit by a car…
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Tech giant Meta recently announced a set of new features to give parents greater oversight of how their children use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Horizon. This follows the company’s announcement earlier ... <a title="Meta’s new tools allow parents to better supervise their kids’ social media accounts. Will they work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/metas-new-tools-allow-parents-to-better-supervise-their-kids-social-media-accounts-will-they-work-283073/" aria-label="Read more about Meta’s new tools allow parents to better supervise their kids’ social media accounts. Will they work?">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher and Sustainable Future Lead, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University There is a large group in Australia’s housing crisis that often gets less attention. They are not homeless. They are not homeowners. They are renters in the middle. They may be working ... <a title="Not homeless, not homeowners: what does the budget mean for Australia’s squeezed renters?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/not-homeless-not-homeowners-what-does-the-budget-mean-for-australias-squeezed-renters-283093/" aria-label="Read more about Not homeless, not homeowners: what does the budget mean for Australia’s squeezed renters?">Read more</a>
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 In three credible post-budget polls, One Nation is up one to three points, with their victory at the May 9 Farrer byelection probably also contributing. Labor took ... <a title="One Nation gains in polls as budget is poorly received in Newspoll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/one-nation-gains-in-polls-as-budget-is-poorly-received-in-newspoll-283121/" aria-label="Read more about One Nation gains in polls as budget is poorly received in Newspoll">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University The human brain is remarkably complex, with trillions of connections that control how you move, think and feel. Yet it’s still vulnerable to debilitating conditions such as paralysis, stroke, epilepsy and various neurodegenerative diseases. Scientists are ... <a title="Brain implants allow us to move and talk. But they could also be hacked" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/brain-implants-allow-us-to-move-and-talk-but-they-could-also-be-hacked-281114/" aria-label="Read more about Brain implants allow us to move and talk. But they could also be hacked">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Griffin, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Management, University of California, Davis When rivers degrade, pests spread or drought hits crops, nature sends a bill. Yet it’s one rarely itemised on any balance sheet, because nature’s contribution to business remains genuinely hard to quantify. One major obstacle is ... <a title="Nature is good for business – and we now have numbers to show it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/nature-is-good-for-business-and-we-now-have-numbers-to-show-it-283052/" aria-label="Read more about Nature is good for business – and we now have numbers to show it">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nerkez Opacin, Senior Research Fellow in Nature and People, The University of Melbourne One in three Australians says they are lonely. To be lonely is to feel a lack of adequate social connection. Loneliness is about feeling disconnected from others or unable to form the kinds of ... <a title="When we took 37 strangers into the urban bush, their loneliness began to ease" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/when-we-took-37-strangers-into-the-urban-bush-their-loneliness-began-to-ease-282378/" aria-label="Read more about When we took 37 strangers into the urban bush, their loneliness began to ease">Read more</a>
ANALYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The eighth floor of the Tempo building in Jakarta became the setting for a gathering rich with meaning. What brought together community leaders, politicians, academics, religious figures, journalists, and the family of the late Thom Beanal was not merely a book launch. It was an earnest attempt to revisit ... <a title="Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/thom-beanal-saluting-a-human-rights-legacy-for-papuas-father/" aria-label="Read more about Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jess Carniel, Associate Professor in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland In a surprising turn of events, Bulgaria have taken home the crystal microphone trophy for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with Dara’s infectious dance hit Bangaranga. It is Bulgaria’s first-ever win and all the more poignant given ... <a title="Eurovision 2026: a win for Bulgaria, fourth for Australia, and continued controversy for broadcasters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/eurovision-2026-a-win-for-bulgaria-fourth-for-australia-and-continued-controversy-for-broadcasters-282252/" aria-label="Read more about Eurovision 2026: a win for Bulgaria, fourth for Australia, and continued controversy for broadcasters">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Politics; Director, Lau China Institute, King’s College London When Britain sent its first formal diplomatic mission to China in 1793, one of the participants from London, Peter Auber, remarked that the group had been “received with the utmost politeness, treated with the ... <a title="Donald Trump left Beijing empty-handed – but avoided something worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/donald-trump-left-beijing-empty-handed-but-avoided-something-worse-282663/" aria-label="Read more about Donald Trump left Beijing empty-handed – but avoided something worse">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Worthy, Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck, University of London The failure of many of the UK’s recent prime ministers, who have passed through Downing Street in quick succession, seems easy to explain. Theresa May couldn’t do what she promised and didn’t “get Brexit done”. Boris Johnson broke ... <a title="From landslide to leadership crisis: where did it all go wrong for Keir Starmer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/from-landslide-to-leadership-crisis-where-did-it-all-go-wrong-for-keir-starmer-282935/" aria-label="Read more about From landslide to leadership crisis: where did it all go wrong for Keir Starmer?">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation At 8.16am on August 10 2019, a post appeared on the online forum 4Chan: “[D]ont ask me how I know, but Epstein died an hour ago from hanging, cardiac arrest. Screencap this.” ABC News broke the story that ... <a title="The conspiracy theorists who feel vindicated by the Epstein files" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/the-conspiracy-theorists-who-feel-vindicated-by-the-epstein-files-282816/" aria-label="Read more about The conspiracy theorists who feel vindicated by the Epstein files">Read more</a>