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July 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bin Lu, Senior Research Fellow in Renewable Energy, Australian National University Leonid Andronov/Shutterstock As the electrification of transport and heating accelerates, many worry the increased demand could overload national power grids. In Australia, electricity consumption is expected to double by 2050. If everyone charges their car and ... <a title="How EVs and electric water heaters are turning cities into giant batteries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/how-evs-and-electric-water-heaters-are-turning-cities-into-giant-batteries-261369/" aria-label="Read more about How EVs and electric water heaters are turning cities into giant batteries">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leon Benade, Professor in the School of Education of Edith Cowan University (ECU), Perth, WA, Edith Cowan University skynesher/Getty Imaged The end of open-plan classrooms in New Zealand, recently announced by Education Minister Erica Stanford, marks yet another swing of the pendulum in school design. Depending on ... <a title="The end of open-plan classrooms: how school design reflects changing ideas in education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/the-end-of-open-plan-classrooms-how-school-design-reflects-changing-ideas-in-education-261359/" aria-label="Read more about The end of open-plan classrooms: how school design reflects changing ideas in education">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Dodd, Professor of Journalism, Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne If Rupert Murdoch becomes a white knight standing up to a rampantly bullying US president, the world has moved into the upside-down. This is, after all, the media mogul whose US ... <a title="Could Rupert Murdoch bring down Donald Trump? A court case threatens more than just their relationship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/could-rupert-murdoch-bring-down-donald-trump-a-court-case-threatens-more-than-just-their-relationship-261532/" aria-label="Read more about Could Rupert Murdoch bring down Donald Trump? A court case threatens more than just their relationship">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Frank and Bethine Church Endowed Chair of Public Affairs, Boise State University Congress’ cuts to public broadcasting will diminish the range and volume of the free press and the independent reporting it provides. MicroStockHub-iStock/Getty Images Plus Champions of the almost entirely party-line vote ... <a title="PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/pbs-and-npr-are-generally-unbiased-independent-of-government-propaganda-and-provide-key-benefits-to-us-democracy-261512/" aria-label="Read more about PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hanri Mostert, SARChI Chair for Mineral Law in Africa, University of Cape Town A US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda binds the two African nations to a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a superpower ... <a title="Africa’s minerals are being bartered for security: why it’s a bad idea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/africas-minerals-are-being-bartered-for-security-why-its-a-bad-idea-260594/" aria-label="Read more about Africa’s minerals are being bartered for security: why it’s a bad idea">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Havovi Chichger, Professor, Biomedical Science, Anglia Ruskin University Found in everything from protein bars to energy drinks, erythritol has long been considered a safe alternative to sugar. But new research suggests this widely used sweetener may be quietly undermining one of the body’s most crucial protective barriers ... <a title="A popular sweetener could be damaging your brain’s defences, says recent study" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/a-popular-sweetener-could-be-damaging-your-brains-defences-says-recent-study-261500/" aria-label="Read more about A popular sweetener could be damaging your brain’s defences, says recent study">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Jane Kelsey, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau While public attention has been focused on the domestic fast-track consenting process for infrastructure and mining, Associate Minister of Finance David Seymour has been pushing through another fast-track process — this time for foreign investment in New Zealand. But it has had almost no public ... <a title="Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had so little scrutiny?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/why-has-a-bill-to-relax-nz-foreign-investment-rules-had-so-little-scrutiny/" aria-label="Read more about Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had so little scrutiny?">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has called on the New Zealand government to immediately condemn Israel’s weaponisation of starvation and demand an end to the siege of Gaza. It has also called for a permanent ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian access to the besieged enclave. “All political parties and elected officials must break ... <a title="PSNA calls on NZ to urgently condemn Israeli weaponisation of starvation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/21/psna-calls-on-nz-to-urgently-condemn-israeli-weaponisation-of-starvation/" aria-label="Read more about PSNA calls on NZ to urgently condemn Israeli weaponisation of starvation">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The picture of Mark Latham on the caucus room gallery of Labor leaders will have an annotation under it saying he was expelled for life and his actions do not accord with Labor values. The first meeting of the new ... <a title="Labor to put disclaimer under Mark Latham’s caucus room picture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/21/labor-to-put-disclaimer-under-mark-lathams-caucus-room-picture-261097/" aria-label="Read more about Labor to put disclaimer under Mark Latham’s caucus room picture">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2025
By Mary Afemata, of PMN News and RNZ Pacific Porirua City Council is set to create a memorial for more than 1800 former patients of the local hospital buried in unmarked graves. But Pacific leaders are asking to be “meaningfully involved” in the process, including incorporating prayer, language, and ceremonial practices. More than 50 people ... <a title="Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/21/pacific-leaders-demand-respectful-involvement-in-memorial-for-unmarked-graves/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2025
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 With federal parliament to sit for the first time since the election on Tuesday, Newspoll gives Labor a 57–43 lead and Resolve a 56–44 lead. In Tasmania, ... <a title="Newspoll and Resolve give Labor big leads as parliament resumes after the election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/21/newspoll-and-resolve-give-labor-big-leads-as-parliament-resumes-after-the-election-261538/" aria-label="Read more about Newspoll and Resolve give Labor big leads as parliament resumes after the election">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tia Brullo, Research Fellow in Climate Change Adaptation, The University of Melbourne Australia’s climate is changing. To avoid catastrophic disruptions from successive supercharged disasters, society must adapt. But change takes time and it’s not always clear how much progress we’re making. We wanted to find out what ... <a title="How are Australians adapting to climate change? Here are 729 ways" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/21/how-are-australians-adapting-to-climate-change-here-are-729-ways-256446/" aria-label="Read more about How are Australians adapting to climate change? Here are 729 ways">Read more</a>
