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May 8, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Ogden, Associate Professor in Global Studies, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau After weeks of blockades by Iran and the United States in the Strait of Hormuz, it’s clear the narrow waterway is now pivotal to the outcome of the conflict. The US has begun to ... <a title="Iran wants oil tariffs paid in Chinese yuan – is the power of the US petrodollar in decline?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/08/iran-wants-oil-tariffs-paid-in-chinese-yuan-is-the-power-of-the-us-petrodollar-in-decline-281858/" aria-label="Read more about Iran wants oil tariffs paid in Chinese yuan – is the power of the US petrodollar in decline?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Miriam Eve Mora, Managing Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, University of Michigan The gesture may lack the explosive drama of a rooftop fight or the tension of a car chase, but on May 11, 2026, a street sign honoring a legendary comics creator will be unveiled ... <a title="Lower East Side street named for ‘King of Comics’ Jack Kirby, a nod to one of the countless kids of immigrants who shaped the genre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/08/lower-east-side-street-named-for-king-of-comics-jack-kirby-a-nod-to-one-of-the-countless-kids-of-immigrants-who-shaped-the-genre-279716/" aria-label="Read more about Lower East Side street named for ‘King of Comics’ Jack Kirby, a nod to one of the countless kids of immigrants who shaped the genre">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2026
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle New Zealander Jay O’Connor had finished a long but satisfying day as a crew member aboard Eros 1, one of dozens of vessels that formed the Global Sumud Flotilla that was heading to besieged Gaza to open a humanitarian aid corridor. What Jay wanted was a well-deserved rest, not a ... <a title="‘We’re under attack!’ – the night the Israelis struck the Global Sumud Flotilla" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/07/were-under-attack-the-night-the-israelis-struck-the-global-sumud-flotilla/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re under attack!’ – the night the Israelis struck the Global Sumud Flotilla">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lain Dare, Professor, Centre for Environmental Governance, University of Canberra In Australia’s regional heartland, something unusual is happening — and voters know it. For decades, elections in regional seats such as Farrer have followed a familiar script: predictable outcomes, entrenched party loyalties, and little sense that individual ... <a title="‘Fed up, fired up, and finally heard’: inside the political earthquake brewing in Farrer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/07/fed-up-fired-up-and-finally-heard-inside-the-political-earthquake-brewing-in-farrer-282396/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Fed up, fired up, and finally heard’: inside the political earthquake brewing in Farrer">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The run-up to a budget always sees a degree of chaos. But this year it has looked like one of those willy willies that blow up in outback Australia when the wind stirs a storm of dust. A Middle East ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: The Farrer result will set off a willy willy. The budget already has" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/07/grattan-on-friday-the-farrer-result-will-set-off-a-willy-willy-the-budget-already-has-282268/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: The Farrer result will set off a willy willy. The budget already has">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Richardson, Visiting Fellow, Centre for European Studies, Australian National University Russia has dramatically scaled back its annual Victory Day parade in Red Square on May 9, with no heavy military hardware for the first time in 20 years. There will also be fewer foreign or Russian ... <a title="Russia doesn’t have much to celebrate on Victory Day, as Ukraine brings the war home to Putin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/07/russia-doesnt-have-much-to-celebrate-on-victory-day-as-ukraine-brings-the-war-home-to-putin-282254/" aria-label="Read more about Russia doesn’t have much to celebrate on Victory Day, as Ukraine brings the war home to Putin">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Morrison, Industry Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Producers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) on Australia’s east coast will have to set aside 20% of their gas exports to be sold to domestic users from July next year. The long-awaited gas reservation plan, ... <a title="Australian gas exporters will be forced to set aside local supply for domestic users" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/07/australian-gas-exporters-will-be-forced-to-set-aside-local-supply-for-domestic-users-282366/" aria-label="Read more about Australian gas exporters will be forced to set aside local supply for domestic users">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Prince Taofeek Ajibade The signals are now coming from both sides of the negotiating table. American sources confirm it. Pakistani mediators confirm it. The end of the US-Iran war is near, and the terms of that ending will echo across the international order for decades. Let us be precise about what has happened ... <a title="Iran war almost over . . . and the end of an era – a Global South perspective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/07/iran-war-almost-over-and-the-end-of-an-era-a-global-south-perspective/" aria-label="Read more about Iran war almost over . . . and the end of an era – a Global South perspective">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bianca Williams, PhD Candidate in the History Program, La Trobe University; The University of Melbourne Colonisation in this country has always been carried on the bodies of Aboriginal women. Many of these women, our grandmothers and aunties, were forced into domestic service in the homes of wealthy ... <a title="Game. Set. Match. is a love letter to truth-telling. It is nothing short of brilliant" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/07/game-set-match-is-a-love-letter-to-truth-telling-it-is-nothing-short-of-brilliant-281323/" aria-label="Read more about Game. Set. Match. is a love letter to truth-telling. It is nothing short of brilliant">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Lycett, Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Deakin University This week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released its refreshed General Social Survey. It tells a story economic indicators can’t capture. On almost every measure of how Australians experience their lives – trust, connection, cultural openness, financial ... <a title="Less trusting, more financially stressed: new data show how Australians feel about their lives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/07/less-trusting-more-financially-stressed-new-data-show-how-australians-feel-about-their-lives-282055/" aria-label="Read more about Less trusting, more financially stressed: new data show how Australians feel about their lives">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Sir David Attenborough turns 100 this week. Very few people have the good fortune to live for a century. Fewer still achieve so much and touch so many lives. Across his ... <a title="From fossicking for fossils to a champion for life on Earth: Sir David Attenborough at 100" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/07/from-fossicking-for-fossils-to-a-champion-for-life-on-earth-sir-david-attenborough-at-100-281229/" aria-label="Read more about From fossicking for fossils to a champion for life on Earth: Sir David Attenborough at 100">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Dalton, Conjoint Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle The cruise ship cluster of hantavirus cases continues to grow. The World Health Organization reports that as of May 6 there were eight cases, three of whom are confirmed by laboratory testing as ... <a title="I’ve investigated a hantavirus outbreak. Here’s what I can tell you about the cruise ship cluster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/07/ive-investigated-a-hantavirus-outbreak-heres-what-i-can-tell-you-about-the-cruise-ship-cluster-282365/" aria-label="Read more about I’ve investigated a hantavirus outbreak. Here’s what I can tell you about the cruise ship cluster">Read more</a>
