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July 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Uri Gal, Professor in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Imaginima / Getty Images AI is on the agenda in Canberra. In August, the Productivity Commission will release an interim report on harnessing data and digital technology such as AI “to boost productivity growth, accelerate innovation and ... <a title="Big tech says AI could boost Australia’s economy by $115 billion a year. Does the evidence stack up?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/31/big-tech-says-ai-could-boost-australias-economy-by-115-billion-a-year-does-the-evidence-stack-up-260705/" aria-label="Read more about Big tech says AI could boost Australia’s economy by $115 billion a year. Does the evidence stack up?">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madeleine Pugin, Research Fellow, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University The Productivity Commission’s latest data on Closing the Gap progress represents an unsurprisingly grim overview of the socioeconomic inequalities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Closing the Gap is the plan federal and ... <a title="Progress on Closing the Gap is stagnant or going backwards. Here are 3 things to help fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/31/progress-on-closing-the-gap-is-stagnant-or-going-backwards-here-are-3-things-to-help-fix-it-262042/" aria-label="Read more about Progress on Closing the Gap is stagnant or going backwards. Here are 3 things to help fix it">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle H. Lim, Associate Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney Oliver Rossi/Getty Images Loneliness is not a word often associated with young people. We tend to think of our youth as a time spent with family, friends and being engaged with school and work ... <a title="More than 2 in 5 young Australians are lonely, our new report shows. This is what could help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/31/more-than-2-in-5-young-australians-are-lonely-our-new-report-shows-this-is-what-could-help-261260/" aria-label="Read more about More than 2 in 5 young Australians are lonely, our new report shows. This is what could help">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shea X. Fan, Associate Professor, Human Resource Management, Deakin University Odua Images/Shutterstock Too often, it’s anti-immigration sentiment dominating headlines in Australia. But a quieter story is going untold. Migrants are not just fitting into Australian society, they’re actively reshaping it through entrepreneurship. Starting a business is difficult ... <a title="How migrant business owners turn their identity into an asset, despite some bumps along the way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/31/how-migrant-business-owners-turn-their-identity-into-an-asset-despite-some-bumps-along-the-way-261948/" aria-label="Read more about How migrant business owners turn their identity into an asset, despite some bumps along the way">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Ferris, Senior Lecturer, Media Arts & Production, University of Technology Sydney LMPC via Getty Images A cinematic firecracker of a film exploded onto international screens 50 years ago this week, blending martial arts mayhem, Bond-esque set pieces, casual racism – and a distinctly Australian swagger. From ... <a title="The Man from Hong Kong at 50: how the first ever Australian–Hong Kong co-production became a cult classic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/31/the-man-from-hong-kong-at-50-how-the-first-ever-australian-hong-kong-co-production-became-a-cult-classic-260306/" aria-label="Read more about The Man from Hong Kong at 50: how the first ever Australian–Hong Kong co-production became a cult classic">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martien Lubberink, Associate Professor of Accounting and Capital, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Andrew MacDonald/Getty Images The recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision on climate action marked a significant step forward in formalising an idea many already accept: climate inaction is not merely ... <a title="Rules for calculating climate risk in financial reporting by NZ businesses need revisiting – new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/31/rules-for-calculating-climate-risk-in-financial-reporting-by-nz-businesses-need-revisiting-new-research-262024/" aria-label="Read more about Rules for calculating climate risk in financial reporting by NZ businesses need revisiting – new research">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
By Vahefonua Tupola in Suva The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global legal victory with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivering a historic opinion last week affirming that states have binding legal obligations to protect the environment from human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. The case, hailed as a ... <a title="Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/climate-justice-victory-at-the-icj-the-student-journey-from-usp-lectures-to-the-hague/" aria-label="Read more about Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dee Ninis, Earthquake Scientist, Monash University Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the country’s far east. Originating at a depth of roughly 20 kilometres, today’s powerful earthquake – among the ten strongest in recorded ... <a title="Kamchatka earthquake is among top 10 strongest ever recorded. Here’s what they have in common" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/kamchatka-earthquake-is-among-top-10-strongest-ever-recorded-heres-what-they-have-in-common-262223/" aria-label="Read more about Kamchatka earthquake is among top 10 strongest ever recorded. Here’s what they have in common">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne Last night, one of the ten largest earthquakes ever recorded struck Kamchatka, the sparsely populated Russian peninsula facing the Pacific. The magnitude 8.8 quake had its epicentre in the sea just ... <a title="Tsunami warnings are triggering mass evacuations across the Pacific – even though the waves look small. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/tsunami-warnings-are-triggering-mass-evacuations-across-the-pacific-even-though-the-waves-look-small-heres-why-262224/" aria-label="Read more about Tsunami warnings are triggering mass evacuations across the Pacific – even though the waves look small. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Larsen, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of New England Rawpixel/ Getty Images The latest round of NAPLAN results are out, along with a string of news reports about “students falling behind” and “failing”, and experts sounding the “alarm” about school progress. In March, all Australian students ... <a title="NAPLAN is just one test. Here’s what to do if your child’s results were in the bottom bands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/naplan-is-just-one-test-heres-what-to-do-if-your-childs-results-were-in-the-bottom-bands-262212/" aria-label="Read more about NAPLAN is just one test. Here’s what to do if your child’s results were in the bottom bands">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stella Huangfu, Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney Doublelee/Shutterstock Inflation is moving in the right direction, but new figures released today may not be soft enough to trigger a cut in official interest rates in August. The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the June quarter ... <a title="Inflation slows again — but is it enough for the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/inflation-slows-again-but-is-it-enough-for-the-reserve-bank-to-cut-interest-rates-262039/" aria-label="Read more about Inflation slows again — but is it enough for the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates?">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Donald Rothwell, Professor of International Law, Australian National University One of the smallest and most exclusive clubs in the world belongs to states. The US Department of State puts the number of independent recognised states at 197, while others count 200. The United Nations, meanwhile, has 193 ... <a title="With the UK and France moving toward recognising Palestine, will Australia now follow suit?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/with-the-uk-and-france-moving-toward-recognising-palestine-will-australia-now-follow-suit-262201/" aria-label="Read more about With the UK and France moving toward recognising Palestine, will Australia now follow suit?">Read more</a>
