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July 23, 2025
By Jamie Tahana in The Hague for RNZ Pacific In 2019, a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific, frustrated at the slow pace with which the world’s governments were moving to address the climate crisis, had an idea — they would take the world’s governments to court. They arranged a ... <a title="ICJ climate crisis ruling: Will world’s top court back Pacific-led call to hold governments accountable?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/icj-climate-crisis-ruling-will-worlds-top-court-back-pacific-led-call-to-hold-governments-accountable/" aria-label="Read more about ICJ climate crisis ruling: Will world’s top court back Pacific-led call to hold governments accountable?">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ashley Humphrey, Lecturer in Social Sciences, Monash University Now into its fourth year, the war that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has taken a devastating toll. An estimated 60,000 to 100,0000 Ukrainian lives have been lost and more than 10 million citizens displaced, and entire cities have ... <a title="‘Maybe this is the last minutes you are living’: how the war is impacting young Ukrainians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/maybe-this-is-the-last-minutes-you-are-living-how-the-war-is-impacting-young-ukrainians-260800/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Maybe this is the last minutes you are living’: how the war is impacting young Ukrainians">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images The recent report comparing Auckland to nine international peer cities delivered an uncomfortable truth: our largest city is falling behind, hampered by car dependency, low-density housing and “weak economic performance”. The Deloitte ... <a title="Auckland is NZ’s ‘primate city’ but its potential remains caged in by poor planning and vision" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/auckland-is-nzs-primate-city-but-its-potential-remains-caged-in-by-poor-planning-and-vision-261176/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland is NZ’s ‘primate city’ but its potential remains caged in by poor planning and vision">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Heffernan, Lecturer in Anthropology, Australian National University Almost half of all Australian properties are at risk of bushfire, while 17,500 face risk of coastal erosion. By 2030, more than 3 million will face riverine flood risk. Meanwhile, housing demand continues to outpace supply. With climate-related disasters ... <a title="Climate disasters are pushing people into homelessness – but there’s a lot we can do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/climate-disasters-are-pushing-people-into-homelessness-but-theres-a-lot-we-can-do-about-it-259149/" aria-label="Read more about Climate disasters are pushing people into homelessness – but there’s a lot we can do about it">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shannon Bosch, Associate Professor (Law), Edith Cowan University More than 100 people were arrested in the United Kingdom on the weekend for supporting Palestine Action, a protest group that opposes Britain’s support of Israel. Palestine Action was recently proscribed as a terrorist organisation, placing it in the ... <a title="UK bans Gaza protest group – could the same thing happen in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/uk-bans-gaza-protest-group-could-the-same-thing-happen-in-australia-261562/" aria-label="Read more about UK bans Gaza protest group – could the same thing happen in Australia?">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lachlan Goold, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Music, University of the Sunshine Coast Ozzy Osbourne photographed in London in 1991. Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images Ozzy Osbourne, the “prince of darkness” and godfather of heavy metal, has died aged 76, just weeks after he reunited with Black Sabbath bandmates for ... <a title="The incredible impact of Ozzy Osbourne, from Black Sabbath to Ozzfest to 30 years of retirement tours" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/the-incredible-impact-of-ozzy-osbourne-from-black-sabbath-to-ozzfest-to-30-years-of-retirement-tours-258820/" aria-label="Read more about The incredible impact of Ozzy Osbourne, from Black Sabbath to Ozzfest to 30 years of retirement tours">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Webb, Lecturer, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology Comet 3I/ATLAS International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Meech/Jen Miller/Mahdi Zamani, CC BY On July 1, astronomers spotted an unusual high-speed object zooming towards the Sun. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the surprising space traveller had one very special quality: its ... <a title="Could the latest ‘interstellar comet’ be an alien probe? Why spotting cosmic visitors is harder than you think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/could-the-latest-interstellar-comet-be-an-alien-probe-why-spotting-cosmic-visitors-is-harder-than-you-think-261656/" aria-label="Read more about Could the latest ‘interstellar comet’ be an alien probe? Why spotting cosmic visitors is harder than you think">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pandanus Petter, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University The government in the UK is introducing legislation into parliament to lower the voting age to 16. If passed, the new age rules will be in place for the next general election, expected ... <a title="Should Australia lower the voting age to 16 like the UK? We asked 5 experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/should-australia-lower-the-voting-age-to-16-like-the-uk-we-asked-5-experts-261469/" aria-label="Read more about Should Australia lower the voting age to 16 like the UK? We asked 5 experts">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Savulescu, Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, The University of Melbourne HRAUN/Getty A young woman needs an abortion and the reasons, while urgent, are not medical. A United States Navy ... <a title="Doctors shouldn’t be allowed to object to medical care if it harms their patients" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/doctors-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-object-to-medical-care-if-it-harms-their-patients-260003/" aria-label="Read more about Doctors shouldn’t be allowed to object to medical care if it harms their patients">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rowena Maguire, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre of Justice, Queensland University of Technology Ryan McVay/Getty For centuries, clothes were hard to produce and expensive. People wore them as long as possible. But manufacturing advances have steadily driven down the cost of production. These days, ... <a title="Ultra fast fashion could be taxed to oblivion in France. Could Australia follow suit?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/ultra-fast-fashion-could-be-taxed-to-oblivion-in-france-could-australia-follow-suit-259559/" aria-label="Read more about Ultra fast fashion could be taxed to oblivion in France. Could Australia follow suit?">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Simon, Adjunct Fellow in Economics, Macquarie University Olga Kashubin/Shutterstock In the United States, President Donald Trump has been pressuring the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, to slash interest rates. This is partly to ease the interest payments on the ballooning US government debt. ... <a title="Central bank independence and credibility matters. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/central-bank-independence-and-credibility-matters-heres-why-260198/" aria-label="Read more about Central bank independence and credibility matters. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ciara Smart, PhD Graduand in Australasian Irish History, University of Tasmania Love them or hate them, there’s no doubt Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap are having a moment. Their music – delivered in a powerful fusion of English and Irish – is known for its gritty lyrics about ... <a title="Kneecap’s stance on Gaza extends a long history of the Irish supporting other oppressed peoples" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/kneecaps-stance-on-gaza-extends-a-long-history-of-the-irish-supporting-other-oppressed-peoples-261261/" aria-label="Read more about Kneecap’s stance on Gaza extends a long history of the Irish supporting other oppressed peoples">Read more</a>
