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July 29, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The following two tables show New Zealand and the 24 other economies in the world most easily and fruitfully compared to New Zealand. The countries are sorted with the worst-performing economies (in terms of economic growth per capita) listed at the top. Thus, taking four-year compounded growth for 2020, 2021, 2022 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – How did New Zealand compare in the first half of the 2020s?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/keith-rankin-analysis-how-did-new-zealand-compare-in-the-first-half-of-the-2020s/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – How did New Zealand compare in the first half of the 2020s?">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Fioritti, Lecturer in Politics, School of Social Sciences, Monash University As the fallout of the expulsion of Australian Greens co-founder Drew Hutton continues, Hutton and others have claimed the Greens have “lost their way” and are “in real trouble”. Do such claims stand up? Hutton’s expulsion ... <a title="The Greens’ expulsion of a co-founder is unlikely to jeopardise the party’s future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/the-greens-expulsion-of-a-co-founder-is-unlikely-to-jeopardise-the-partys-future-261768/" aria-label="Read more about The Greens’ expulsion of a co-founder is unlikely to jeopardise the party’s future">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Temple, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology, Western Sydney University As a molecular biologist, talking to the public about my work with DNA has often felt like trying to translate a foreign language. This got me thinking: could these scientific ideas be presented in an artistic way, ... <a title="Forget AI-generated music, this music was composed using DNA sequences" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/forget-ai-generated-music-this-music-was-composed-using-dna-sequences-261368/" aria-label="Read more about Forget AI-generated music, this music was composed using DNA sequences">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis Wesselbaum, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Otago It is late July, and New Zealand is slowly receiving economic data from the June quarter. Inflation has hit a 12-month high, for example, confirming what many already suspected. But the country is still nearly two months ... <a title="How real-time data can lead to better decisions on everything from NZ’s interest rates to business investment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/how-real-time-data-can-lead-to-better-decisions-on-everything-from-nzs-interest-rates-to-business-investment-261378/" aria-label="Read more about How real-time data can lead to better decisions on everything from NZ’s interest rates to business investment">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ming Gao, Research Fellow of East Asia Studies, Lund University Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images Japan’s embassy in Laos and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a rare and unusually direct advisory, warning Japanese men against “buying sex from children” in Laos. The move was sparked ... <a title="A rare, direct warning from Japan signals a shift in the fight against child sex tourism in Asia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/a-rare-direct-warning-from-japan-signals-a-shift-in-the-fight-against-child-sex-tourism-in-asia-261554/" aria-label="Read more about A rare, direct warning from Japan signals a shift in the fight against child sex tourism in Asia">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris F. Wright, Professor of Work and Labour Market Policy, University of Sydney Ron Lach/Pexels, CC BY The Albanese government is pushing ahead with new legislation to protect penalty rates and overtime for about 2.6 million workers under the award system. Those workers are more likely to ... <a title="Employers warn Labor’s push to lock in penalty rates is bad for business – but it’s not that simple" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/employers-warn-labors-push-to-lock-in-penalty-rates-is-bad-for-business-but-its-not-that-simple-261858/" aria-label="Read more about Employers warn Labor’s push to lock in penalty rates is bad for business – but it’s not that simple">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aditya Joshi, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney Emily Morter/Unsplash In 2018, my Australian co-worker asked me, “Hey, how are you going?”. My response – “I am taking a bus” – was met with a smirk. I had recently moved to Australia. Despite ... <a title="‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/are-you-joking-mate-ai-doesnt-get-sarcasm-in-non-american-varieties-of-english-254986/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
International trade expert Steven Okun has warned that the “era of uncertainty” in global trade set in motion by US President Donald Trump’s tariff policies is likely to be prolonged as there is no certainty now of a US return to pre-Trump trade policy era He has advised small economies like Fiji and Pacific countries ... <a title="Fiji and Pacific countries must ‘band together’ over Trump uncertainty, says trade expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/fiji-and-pacific-countries-must-band-together-over-trump-uncertainty-says-trade-expert/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji and Pacific countries must ‘band together’ over Trump uncertainty, says trade expert">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University In Australia, there is growing recognition that children and young people are not just witnesses to domestic, family and sexual violence, but victim-survivors in their own right. While we are getting better at understanding how coercive ... <a title="‘I was very fearful of my parents’: new research shows how parents can use coercive control on their children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/i-was-very-fearful-of-my-parents-new-research-shows-how-parents-can-use-coercive-control-on-their-children-261169/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I was very fearful of my parents’: new research shows how parents can use coercive control on their children">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Taliah Jade Prince, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Youth Mental Health and Neuroimaging, University of the Sunshine Coast Richard Drury/Getty Images You’re so ugly it hurts. Maybe if you lost some weight, someone would actually like you. No filter can fix that face. These are the sorts of ... <a title="‘No filter can fix that face’: how online body shaming harms teenage girls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/no-filter-can-fix-that-face-how-online-body-shaming-harms-teenage-girls-261362/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No filter can fix that face’: how online body shaming harms teenage girls">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew B. Watkins, Associate Research Scientist in Climate Science, Monash University Gallo Images/Getty This year, Australia has experienced record-breaking floods, tropical cyclones, heatwaves on land and in the ocean, drought, coral bleaching, coastal erosion and devastating algal blooms. Over the past five years, insured losses from extreme ... <a title="As US climate data-gathering is gutted, Australian forecasting is now at real risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/as-us-climate-data-gathering-is-gutted-australian-forecasting-is-now-at-real-risk-261747/" aria-label="Read more about As US climate data-gathering is gutted, Australian forecasting is now at real risk">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Celia Harris, Associate Professor in Cognitive Science, Western Sydney University CarrieCaptured/Getty As school returns, parents and teachers might each be faced with the familiar chorus of “I can’t find my school jumper” and “I left my hat at home”. For parents of older kids, the stakes may ... <a title="My child is always losing and forgetting things. How can I help – without making it worse?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/my-child-is-always-losing-and-forgetting-things-how-can-i-help-without-making-it-worse-261565/" aria-label="Read more about My child is always losing and forgetting things. How can I help – without making it worse?">Read more</a>
