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July 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Flora Hui, Research Fellow, Centre for Eye Research Australia and Honorary Fellow, Department of Surgery (Ophthalmology), The University of Melbourne Ground Picture/Shutterstock Have you ever gone to the optometrist for an eye test and were told your eye was shaped like a football? Or perhaps you’ve noticed ... <a title="What is astigmatism? Why does it make my vision blurry? And how did I get it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/17/what-is-astigmatism-why-does-it-make-my-vision-blurry-and-how-did-i-get-it-256235/" aria-label="Read more about What is astigmatism? Why does it make my vision blurry? And how did I get it?">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janelle K Johnstone, Associate Lecturer Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, PhD Candidate School of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University American gospel singer and guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe playing a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar on stage in 1957. Chris Ware/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images I’ve been playing a ... <a title="From Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Ronnie Yoshiko Fujiyama: how electric guitarists challenge expectations of gender" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/17/from-sister-rosetta-tharpe-to-ronnie-yoshiko-fujiyama-how-electric-guitarists-challenge-expectations-of-gender-254704/" aria-label="Read more about From Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Ronnie Yoshiko Fujiyama: how electric guitarists challenge expectations of gender">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phillipa C. McCormack, Future Making Fellow, Environment Institute, University of Adelaide Former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry has warned Australia’s global environmental reputation is at risk if the Albanese government fails to reform nature laws this term. In his speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday, Henry ... <a title="Ken Henry urges nature law reform after decades of ‘intergenerational bastardry’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/ken-henry-urges-nature-law-reform-after-decades-of-intergenerational-bastardry-261167/" aria-label="Read more about Ken Henry urges nature law reform after decades of ‘intergenerational bastardry’">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985 — less than two months before the bombing. Image: ©1985 David Robie/Eyes of Fire He accused the coalition government of being “too timid” and “afraid of offending President Donald Trump” to make a stand on the ... <a title="David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/david-robie-new-zealand-must-do-more-for-pacific-and-confront-nuclear-powers/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Occupied West Bank-based New Zealand journalist Cole Martin asks who are the peacemakers? BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin As a Kiwi journalist living in the occupied West Bank, I can list endless reasons why there is no peace in the “Holy Land”. I live in a refugee camp, alongside families who were expelled from their ... <a title="First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/first-hand-view-of-peacemaking-challenge-in-the-holy-land/" aria-label="Read more about First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government remains in complicated territory on the international stage. It has to tread carefully with China, despite the marked warming of the bilateral relationship. It is yet to find its line and length with the unpredictable Trump administration. ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Malcolm Turnbull on Australia’s ‘dumb’ defence debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/politics-with-michelle-grattan-malcolm-turnbull-on-australias-dumb-defence-debate-261178/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Malcolm Turnbull on Australia’s ‘dumb’ defence debate">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ali Mamouri, Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University Conflict in Syria has escalated with Israel launching bombing raids against its northern neighbour. It follows months of fluctuating tensions in southern Syria between the Druze minority and forces aligned with the new government in Damascus. Clashes erupted ... <a title="Why is Israel bombing Syria?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/why-is-israel-bombing-syria-261259/" aria-label="Read more about Why is Israel bombing Syria?">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist More than 400 candidates have put their hands up to contest the Bougainville general election in September, hoping to enter Parliament. Incumbent President Ishmael Toroama is among the 404 people lining up to win a seat. Bougainville is involved in the process of achieving independence from Papua New ... <a title="Bougainville election: More than 400 candidates vie for parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/bougainville-election-more-than-400-candidates-vie-for-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville election: More than 400 candidates vie for parliament">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mathieu Duval, Adjunct Senior Researcher at Griffith University and La Trobe University, and Ramón y Cajal (Senior) Research Fellow, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) 185,000-year-old human fossil jawbone from Misliya Cave, Israel. Gerhard Weber, University of Vienna, CC BY-ND Fossils are invaluable archives ... <a title="Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/scientists-could-be-accidentally-damaging-fossils-with-a-method-we-thought-was-safe-258827/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Riboldi, Lecturer in Social Impact and Social Change, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney Advance/Facebook Political lobby group Advance has been back in the headlines this week. It was revealed an organisation headed by the husband of the Special Envoy for Combatting Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, ... <a title="Right-wing political group Advance is in the headlines. What is it and what does it stand for?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/right-wing-political-group-advance-is-in-the-headlines-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-stand-for-261164/" aria-label="Read more about Right-wing political group Advance is in the headlines. What is it and what does it stand for?">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Winton, Senior Research Fellow in Climatology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Holly Winton, CC BY-SA Antarctica’s patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted us to explore how a Māori lunar and environmental calendar ... <a title="We travelled to Antarctica to see if a Māori lunar calendar might help track environmental change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/we-travelled-to-antarctica-to-see-if-a-maori-lunar-calendar-might-help-track-environmental-change-239583/" aria-label="Read more about We travelled to Antarctica to see if a Māori lunar calendar might help track environmental change">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Centaine Snoswell, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland Flystock/Shutterstock Drones can deliver pizza, and maybe one day your online shopping. So why not use them to deliver urgent medicines or other emergency health-care supplies? Trials in Australia and internationally have shown ... <a title="How a drone delivering medicine might just save your life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/how-a-drone-delivering-medicine-might-just-save-your-life-259904/" aria-label="Read more about How a drone delivering medicine might just save your life">Read more</a>
