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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kay Cook, Professor and Associate Dean Research, School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education, Swinburne University of Technology Tar Pichet/Shutterstock The Commonwealth ombudsman has released his long-awaited report into the “weaponisation” of the child support program. He has identified widespread financial abuse throughout the system. This ... <a title="‘Unfair and unreasonable’ – report finds $1.9 billion in unpaid child support in system rife with financial abuse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/unfair-and-unreasonable-report-finds-1-9-billion-in-unpaid-child-support-in-system-rife-with-financial-abuse-258063/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Unfair and unreasonable’ – report finds $1.9 billion in unpaid child support in system rife with financial abuse">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Sansom, Research Associate, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University; Research Associate, Centre for Healthy Ageing, Murdoch University Maria Korneeva/Getty Images Have you ever noticed how some people bounce out of bed after just a few hours of sleep, while others can barely function without ... <a title="Why do some people need less sleep than others? A gene variation could have something to do with it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/why-do-some-people-need-less-sleep-than-others-a-gene-variation-could-have-something-to-do-with-it-256342/" aria-label="Read more about Why do some people need less sleep than others? A gene variation could have something to do with it">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Habib Moghimi, Academic, University of Sydney Iranian director Jafar Panahi has spent his career turning barriers into creative inspiration. Working under travel bans, house arrests and periodic detention, he had made powerful films that show everyday life in Iran through quiet moments, daily struggles, and small talk ... <a title="Censorship into art: why Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s subversive stories are getting the world’s attention" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/censorship-into-art-why-iranian-director-jafar-panahis-subversive-stories-are-getting-the-worlds-attention-255221/" aria-label="Read more about Censorship into art: why Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s subversive stories are getting the world’s attention">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Meyer, Senior Lecturer, Anatomy and Pathology in the College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University His gaze softens as he draws closer to you. With one hand around your waist and the other cradling your jaw, he pulls you in. You look into his eyes, ... <a title="Why do our pupils dilate when we’re aroused? Anatomy experts explain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/why-do-our-pupils-dilate-when-were-aroused-anatomy-experts-explain-257452/" aria-label="Read more about Why do our pupils dilate when we’re aroused? Anatomy experts explain">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jim Arrowsmith, Professor, School of Management, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Cuts to the public service, the decision to halt all pay equity claims, and the tight 2025 budget mean public service workers are facing an uncertain future. Nowhere is this more ... <a title="As government cuts bite, public service unions can use ‘soft power’ as well as strikes to win support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/as-government-cuts-bite-public-service-unions-can-use-soft-power-as-well-as-strikes-to-win-support-257006/" aria-label="Read more about As government cuts bite, public service unions can use ‘soft power’ as well as strikes to win support">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Relations, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images Imagine getting a positive pregnancy test and then – just a few days later – learning you’ll be prime minister. In hindsight, being willing and able to deal with the ... <a title="In her memoir, Jacinda Ardern shows a ‘different kind of power’ is possible – but also has its limits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/in-her-memoir-jacinda-ardern-shows-a-different-kind-of-power-is-possible-but-also-has-its-limits-257944/" aria-label="Read more about In her memoir, Jacinda Ardern shows a ‘different kind of power’ is possible – but also has its limits">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By T.J. Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University HomeArt/Shutterstock Last month, Google announced SynthID Detector, a new tool to detect AI-generated content. Google claims it can identify AI-generated content in text, image, video or audio. But there are some caveats. One of them ... <a title="Google’s SynthID is the latest tool for catching AI-made content. What is AI ‘watermarking’ and does it work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/googles-synthid-is-the-latest-tool-for-catching-ai-made-content-what-is-ai-watermarking-and-does-it-work-257637/" aria-label="Read more about Google’s SynthID is the latest tool for catching AI-made content. What is AI ‘watermarking’ and does it work?">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fanny Kuhlin, PhD candidate in Sport Management (Sport Science), Örebro University Ron Alvey/Shutterstock From the horrific Larry Nassar abuse scandal in United States gymnastics to the “environment of fear” some volleyball athletes endured at the Australian Institute of Sport, abuse in sport has been well documented in ... <a title="What parents and youth athletes can do to protect against abuse in sport" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/what-parents-and-youth-athletes-can-do-to-protect-against-abuse-in-sport-255614/" aria-label="Read more about What parents and youth athletes can do to protect against abuse in sport">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruby Wright, Forrest Fellow in Astrophysics, The University of Western Australia Luc Viatour / Wikimedia, CC BY-SA For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbour. This merger – expected in about 5 billion years ... <a title="Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. Now they’re not so sure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/astronomers-thought-the-milky-way-was-doomed-to-crash-into-andromeda-now-theyre-not-so-sure-257825/" aria-label="Read more about Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. Now they’re not so sure">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yuting Zhang, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne lightpoet/Shutterstock Toowong Private Hospital in Brisbane is the latest hospital to succumb to financial pressures and will close its doors next week. The industry association attributes the psychiatric hospital’s closure to insufficient payments from and delayed funding ... <a title="Is the private hospital system collapsing? Here’s what the sector’s financial instability means for you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/is-the-private-hospital-system-collapsing-heres-what-the-sectors-financial-instability-means-for-you-257886/" aria-label="Read more about Is the private hospital system collapsing? Here’s what the sector’s financial instability means for you">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott French, Senior Lecturer in Economics, UNSW Sydney Shestakov Dymytro/Shutterstock Just one day after the US Court of Appeals temporarily reinstated the Trump Administration’s Liberation Day tariffs of between 10% and 50% on nearly every country in the world, Trump announced tariffs on all US imports of ... <a title="Trump’s steel tariffs are unlikely to have a big impact on Australia. But we could be hurt by what happens globally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/trumps-steel-tariffs-are-unlikely-to-have-a-big-impact-on-australia-but-we-could-be-hurt-by-what-happens-globally-257959/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s steel tariffs are unlikely to have a big impact on Australia. But we could be hurt by what happens globally">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Murphy, Visiting Fellow, Economics (modelling), Australian National University fizkes/Shutterstock The federal government has proposed an additional tax of 15% on the earnings made on super balances of over A$3 million, the so-called Division 296 tax. This has set off a highly politicised debate that has often ... <a title="Tax concessions on super need a rethink. These proposals would bring much needed reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/tax-concessions-on-super-need-a-rethink-these-proposals-would-bring-much-needed-reform-257716/" aria-label="Read more about Tax concessions on super need a rethink. These proposals would bring much needed reform">Read more</a>
