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June 5, 2025
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Three staffers from Papua New Guinea’s peak anti-corruption body are embroiled in a standoff that has brought into question the integrity of the organisation. Police Commissioner David Manning has confirmed that he received a formal complaint. Commissioner Manning said that initial inquiries were underway to inform the “sensitive ... <a title="Internal tensions throw PNG anti-corruption body into crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/internal-tensions-throw-png-anti-corruption-body-into-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Internal tensions throw PNG anti-corruption body into crisis">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hortle, Deputy Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania Tasmania’s Liberal government and its premier, Jeremy Rockliff, have come under huge pressure since the state budget was handed down last week. It’s culminated in the Tasmanian House of Assembly voting to pass a motion of no ... <a title="Tasmania could go to an election just 16 months after its last one. What’s going on?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/tasmania-could-go-to-an-election-just-16-months-after-its-last-one-whats-going-on-258180/" aria-label="Read more about Tasmania could go to an election just 16 months after its last one. What’s going on?">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese loves a trophy, especially a human one. He prides himself on his various “captain’s pick” candidates – good campaigners he has steered into seats. Way back in the Gillard days, he was key in persuading discontented Liberal Peter ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese will need some nuance in facing a female opposition leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/grattan-on-friday-albanese-will-need-some-nuance-in-facing-a-female-opposition-leader-257338/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese will need some nuance in facing a female opposition leader">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2025
RNZ News Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament has confirmed the unprecedented punishments proposed for opposition indigenous Te Pāti Māori MPs who performed a haka in protest against the Treaty Principles Bill. Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi will be suspended for 21 days, and MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke suspended for seven days, taking effect ... <a title="Punishment for Te Pāti Māori over Treaty haka stands – but MPs ‘will not be silenced’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/punishment-for-te-pati-maori-over-treaty-haka-stands-but-mps-will-not-be-silenced/" aria-label="Read more about Punishment for Te Pāti Māori over Treaty haka stands – but MPs ‘will not be silenced’">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rico Merkert, Professor in Transport and Supply Chain Management and Deputy Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney Petr Podrouzek/Shutterstock It is finally happening. After five years of being a private company, Virgin Australia will relist on the ... <a title="Virgin Australia is coming back to the share market. Here’s what this new chapter could mean" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/virgin-australia-is-coming-back-to-the-share-market-heres-what-this-new-chapter-could-mean-258179/" aria-label="Read more about Virgin Australia is coming back to the share market. Here’s what this new chapter could mean">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelsey Hegarty, Professor of Family Violence Prevention, The University of Melbourne Domestic violence is increasing in Australia. A new report shows one in three men have ever made a partner feel frightened or anxious. One in 11 have used physical violence when angry. And one in 50 ... <a title="GPs asking men about their behaviour in relationships could help reduce domestic violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/gps-asking-men-about-their-behaviour-in-relationships-could-help-reduce-domestic-violence-258075/" aria-label="Read more about GPs asking men about their behaviour in relationships could help reduce domestic violence">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University François Brassard The Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory contains an extensive, awe-inspiring expanse of tropical savanna landscapes. It includes well-known and much-loved regions such as Darwin, Kakadu National Park, Arnhem ... <a title="The Top End’s tropical savannas are a natural wonder – but weak environment laws mean their future is uncertain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/the-top-ends-tropical-savannas-are-a-natural-wonder-but-weak-environment-laws-mean-their-future-is-uncertain-241893/" aria-label="Read more about The Top End’s tropical savannas are a natural wonder – but weak environment laws mean their future is uncertain">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Kidson, Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, Australian Catholic University Getty Images/ Javier Zayaz When does a school’s responsibility for student behaviour end? Is it at 3pm when the bell goes? Or does a school still have to respond to harmful behaviour after hours? The Victorian government ... <a title="Victorian principals will soon be able to expel students for out-of-school behaviour – is this a good idea?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/victorian-principals-will-soon-be-able-to-expel-students-for-out-of-school-behaviour-is-this-a-good-idea-258188/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian principals will soon be able to expel students for out-of-school behaviour – is this a good idea?">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger Benjamin, Professor in Art History, University of Sydney Installation view of 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art, Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, 2025. Photography by Christian Capurro In the late 1970s, when I was a fine arts student, the Melbourne University ... <a title="The Potter Museum of Art relaunches with the outstanding 65,000 Years, a Short History of Australian Art" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/the-potter-museum-of-art-relaunches-with-the-outstanding-65-000-years-a-short-history-of-australian-art-257640/" aria-label="Read more about The Potter Museum of Art relaunches with the outstanding 65,000 Years, a Short History of Australian Art">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Speck, Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, University of Adelaide Jack Ball with Heavy Grit in Ramsay Art Prize 2025, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Photo: Saul Steed Jack Ball, a Sydney-based trans artist, was awarded the 2025 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery ... <a title="Jack Ball wins the Ramsay Art Prize among a who’s who of Australian young contemporary artists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/jack-ball-wins-the-ramsay-art-prize-among-a-whos-who-of-australian-young-contemporary-artists-257326/" aria-label="Read more about Jack Ball wins the Ramsay Art Prize among a who’s who of Australian young contemporary artists">Read more</a>
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June 5, 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 almost all primary votes now counted to two-party preferred (as I explained on May 29), Labor has won the national two-party vote by a 55.3–44.7 margin, ... <a title="Final counting shows polls understated Labor in 2025 election almost as much as they overstated it in 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/final-counting-shows-polls-understated-labor-in-2025-election-almost-as-much-as-they-overstated-it-in-2019-256981/" aria-label="Read more about Final counting shows polls understated Labor in 2025 election almost as much as they overstated it in 2019">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Mudgway, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury Getty Images The sudden resignation this week of one of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s senior press secretaries was politically embarrassing, but also raises questions about how New Zealand law operates in such cases. A Stuff investigation revealed the ... <a title="Resignation of PM’s press secretary highlights gaps in NZ law on covert recording and harassment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/resignation-of-pms-press-secretary-highlights-gaps-in-nz-law-on-covert-recording-and-harassment-258274/" aria-label="Read more about Resignation of PM’s press secretary highlights gaps in NZ law on covert recording and harassment">Read more</a>
