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July 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shannon Brincat, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast We’re just a few months into US president Donald Trump’s second term but his rule has already been repeatedly compared to tyranny. This may all feel very new to Americans, and to the ... <a title="Tyranny is an ever-present threat to civilisations. Here’s how Classical Greece and China dealt with it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/tyranny-is-an-ever-present-threat-to-civilisations-heres-how-classical-greece-and-china-dealt-with-it-259680/" aria-label="Read more about Tyranny is an ever-present threat to civilisations. Here’s how Classical Greece and China dealt with it">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Jeffries, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University Corona Borealis Studio/Shutterstock A person in Arizona has died from the plague, local health officials reported on Friday. This marks the first such death in this region in 18 years. But it’s a stark reminder that this historic ... <a title="A person in the US has died from pneumonic plague. It’s not just a disease of history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/a-person-in-the-us-has-died-from-pneumonic-plague-its-not-just-a-disease-of-history-261088/" aria-label="Read more about A person in the US has died from pneumonic plague. It’s not just a disease of history">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Wardle, Professor of Public Health, Southern Cross University Australians have long been some of the highest users of herbal and nutritional supplements that claim to boost mood or ease depression. These include omega-3s (found in fish oil), St John’s wort, probiotics and vitamin D. In fact, ... <a title="Supermarket treatments for depression don’t require a prescription. But do they work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/supermarket-treatments-for-depression-dont-require-a-prescription-but-do-they-work-261010/" aria-label="Read more about Supermarket treatments for depression don’t require a prescription. But do they work?">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shannon Brincat, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast Panasevich/Getty Images We’re just a few months into US president Donald Trump’s second term but his rule has already been repeatedly compared to tyranny. This may all feel very new to Americans, and ... <a title="Tyranny is an ever-present threat to civilisations. Here’s how Ancient Greece and China dealt with it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/tyranny-is-an-ever-present-threat-to-civilisations-heres-how-ancient-greece-and-china-dealt-with-it-259680/" aria-label="Read more about Tyranny is an ever-present threat to civilisations. Here’s how Ancient Greece and China dealt with it">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katrina Raynor, Director of the Centre for Equitable Housing, Per Capita and Research Associate, The University of Melbourne When the Albanese government announced the A$10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund in 2023, the news reverberated through the housing sector. A new funding facility to help build 30,000 ... <a title="After a hopeful start, Labor’s affordable housing fund is proving problematic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/after-a-hopeful-start-labors-affordable-housing-fund-is-proving-problematic-260085/" aria-label="Read more about After a hopeful start, Labor’s affordable housing fund is proving problematic">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthias Dehling, Researcher, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Matthias Dehling The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at the South Pole. In fact, the Antarctic is the only place on ... <a title="The southern hemisphere is full of birds found nowhere else on Earth. Their importance has been overlooked" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/the-southern-hemisphere-is-full-of-birds-found-nowhere-else-on-earth-their-importance-has-been-overlooked-260828/" aria-label="Read more about The southern hemisphere is full of birds found nowhere else on Earth. Their importance has been overlooked">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Logan, Senior Lecturer Above the Bar, Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury Getty Images New Zealand 2050: On the morning of February 27, the sea surged through the dunes south of the small town of Te Taone, riding on the back of Cyclone Harita’s ... <a title="A warning from the future: the risk if NZ gets climate adaptation policy wrong today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/a-warning-from-the-future-the-risk-if-nz-gets-climate-adaptation-policy-wrong-today-260912/" aria-label="Read more about A warning from the future: the risk if NZ gets climate adaptation policy wrong today">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael J. Socolow, Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine Will settlements by news companies with President Donald Trump turn journalists into puppets? MARHARYTA MARKO/iStock Getty Images Plus It was a surrender widely foreseen. For months, rumors abounded that Paramount would eventually settle the seemingly frivolous ... <a title="ABC’s and CBS’s settlements with Trump are a dangerous step toward the commander in chief becoming the editor-in-chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/abcs-and-cbss-settlements-with-trump-are-a-dangerous-step-toward-the-commander-in-chief-becoming-the-editor-in-chief-261006/" aria-label="Read more about ABC’s and CBS’s settlements with Trump are a dangerous step toward the commander in chief becoming the editor-in-chief">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aarushi Bhandari, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College Hate and mental illness fester online because love and healing seem to be incompatible with profits. Ihor Lukianenko/iStock via Getty Images In 2001, social theorist bell hooks warned about the dangers of a loveless zeitgeist. In “All About Love: ... <a title="Is there any hope for the internet?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/is-there-any-hope-for-the-internet-259251/" aria-label="Read more about Is there any hope for the internet?">Read more</a>
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July 15, 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 A new Tasmanian DemosAU poll gives the Liberals a 34.9–24.7 statewide vote lead over Labor, implying the Liberals will win the most seats but be short of ... <a title="Hung parliament still likely outcome of Tasmanian election, with Liberals well ahead of Labor in new poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/hung-parliament-still-likely-outcome-of-tasmanian-election-with-liberals-well-ahead-of-labor-in-new-poll-261073/" aria-label="Read more about Hung parliament still likely outcome of Tasmanian election, with Liberals well ahead of Labor in new poll">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist New Zealand will not send top government representation to the Cook Islands for its 60th Constitution Day celebrations in three weeks’ time. Instead, Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro will represent Aotearoa in Rarotonga. On August 4, Cook Islands will mark 60 years of self-governance in free association with New Zealand. ... <a title="Luxon and Peters to miss Cook Islands’ 60th Constitution Day celebrations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/luxon-and-peters-to-miss-cook-islands-60th-constitution-day-celebrations/" aria-label="Read more about Luxon and Peters to miss Cook Islands’ 60th Constitution Day celebrations">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Yesterday I listened to RNZ’s political commentators. The principal topic was an aspect of the recently released May 2025 international migration. Kathryn Ryan starts by reminding us of the “old saying, would the last person to leave New Zealand please turn out the lights” (a saying which has been used in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Reporting International Migration: Less than the Truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/keith-rankin-analysis-reporting-international-migration-less-than-the-truth/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Reporting International Migration: Less than the Truth">Read more</a>
