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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lara Herrero, Associate Professor and Research Leader in Virology and Infectious Disease, Griffith University VioletaStoimenova/Getty Images As we enter the colder months in Australia, COVID is making headlines again, this time due to the emergence of a new variant: NB.1.8.1. Last week, the World Health Organization designated ... <a title="There’s a new COVID variant driving up infections. A virologist explains what to know about NB.1.8.1" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/theres-a-new-covid-variant-driving-up-infections-a-virologist-explains-what-to-know-about-nb-1-8-1-257552/" aria-label="Read more about There’s a new COVID variant driving up infections. A virologist explains what to know about NB.1.8.1">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinea’s state broadcaster NBC wants shortwave radio reintroduced to achieve the government’s goal of 100 percent broadcast coverage by 2030. Last week, the broadcaster hosted a workshop on the reintroduction of shortwave radio transmission, bringing together key government agencies and other stakeholders. NBC had previously a ... <a title="Papua New Guinea seeks ‘fast track’ advice on resurrecting shortwave radio" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/papua-new-guinea-seeks-fast-track-advice-on-resurrecting-shortwave-radio/" aria-label="Read more about Papua New Guinea seeks ‘fast track’ advice on resurrecting shortwave radio">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philippa Collin, Professor of Political Sociology, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University James Dimas/Facebook It’s been 30 years since Natasha Stott Despoja became the youngest woman ever elected to the Australian Parliament. A 25-year-old Sarah Hanson-Young beat that record slightly in 2007. Just over a ... <a title="Australia has elected its youngest senator. With Gen Z wielding more political power, is it a sign of things to come?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/australia-has-elected-its-youngest-senator-with-gen-z-wielding-more-political-power-is-it-a-sign-of-things-to-come-257711/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has elected its youngest senator. With Gen Z wielding more political power, is it a sign of things to come?">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tegan Clark, PhD Candidate, College of Systems and Society, Australian National University A false-colour satellite showing dust as a pink cloud Himawari-9 satellite, CC BY-SA Much to the surprise of Sydney-siders, a dusty haze settled over the city on Tuesday morning after a week of heavy rain. ... <a title="Raining one week, dusty the next – how did a dust storm make it all the way to rainy Sydney?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/raining-one-week-dusty-the-next-how-did-a-dust-storm-make-it-all-the-way-to-rainy-sydney-251600/" aria-label="Read more about Raining one week, dusty the next – how did a dust storm make it all the way to rainy Sydney?">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa has advised Samoa’s head of state that it is necessary to dissolve Parliament so the country can move to an election. This follows the bill for the budget not getting enough support for a first reading on yesterday, and Fiame announcing she would therefore seek an early election. ... <a title="Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/samoan-pm-fiame-advises-dissolution-of-parliament-calls-for-snap-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Parker, Adjunct Fellow, Naval Studies at UNSW Canberra, and Expert Associate, National Security College, Australian National University Last week, Chinese coast guard vessels rammed and shot water cannon at Philippine ships in the South China Sea. The incident was well within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone ... <a title="Australia must not become complacent to China’s aggression in the South China Sea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/australia-must-not-become-complacent-to-chinas-aggression-in-the-south-china-sea-257328/" aria-label="Read more about Australia must not become complacent to China’s aggression in the South China Sea">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Edele, Hansen Professor in History and Deputy Dean, The University of Melbourne United States President Donald Trump was “not happy” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, this week. For three consecutive nights, from Friday to Sunday, Russia launched about 900 drones and scores of missiles at ... <a title="Is Vladimir Putin’s indiscriminate bombing of Ukrainian civilians ‘crazy’? It’s more a sign of impatience" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/is-vladimir-putins-indiscriminate-bombing-of-ukrainian-civilians-crazy-its-more-a-sign-of-impatience-257630/" aria-label="Read more about Is Vladimir Putin’s indiscriminate bombing of Ukrainian civilians ‘crazy’? It’s more a sign of impatience">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Brannelly, Senior Lecturer in One Health and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne Laura Brannelly, CC BY-NC-ND For a small frog, the alpine tree frog (Litoria verreauxii alpina) packs a lot of surprises. For one, this tree frog lives in snowy gullies and high mountain crags across ... <a title="This rare alpine frog is fighting against a lethal fungus – by breeding faster and faster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/this-rare-alpine-frog-is-fighting-against-a-lethal-fungus-by-breeding-faster-and-faster-256234/" aria-label="Read more about This rare alpine frog is fighting against a lethal fungus – by breeding faster and faster">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joo-Cheong Tham, Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne Frame stock footage/Shutterstock Australian employers are monitoring employees, frequently without workers’ knowledge or consent, according to a new report. And when workers do know about surveillance, there is little they can do about it. Laws have not ... <a title="Being monitored at work? A new report calls for tougher workplace surveillance controls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/being-monitored-at-work-a-new-report-calls-for-tougher-workplace-surveillance-controls-257352/" aria-label="Read more about Being monitored at work? A new report calls for tougher workplace surveillance controls">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Devon Polaschek, Professor of Psychology/Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato Getty Images Last week’s budget allocated NZ$472 million in new funding to deal with a growing prison population caused by greater use of prison remand and proposals to increase prison sentence lengths. The new funding comes ... <a title="‘Chaotic, sometimes dangerous places’ – why successful rehab for prisoners on remand will be hard to achieve" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/chaotic-sometimes-dangerous-places-why-successful-rehab-for-prisoners-on-remand-will-be-hard-to-achieve-256506/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Chaotic, sometimes dangerous places’ – why successful rehab for prisoners on remand will be hard to achieve">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nuhu Osman Attah, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy, Australian National University V Kulieva / Shutterstock / Anthropic When multibillion-dollar AI developer Anthropic released the latest versions of its Claude chatbot last week, a surprising word turned up several times in the accompanying “system card”: spiritual. Specifically, the ... <a title="AI models might be drawn to ‘spiritual bliss’. Then again, they might just talk like hippies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/ai-models-might-be-drawn-to-spiritual-bliss-then-again-they-might-just-talk-like-hippies-257618/" aria-label="Read more about AI models might be drawn to ‘spiritual bliss’. Then again, they might just talk like hippies">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hilde Tubex, Professor, The University of Western Australia For too many women, prison is “as good as it gets”. New research based on interviews with 80 female prisoners in Western Australia reveals most of these women were “criminalised” by circumstances outside their control before they became offenders. ... <a title="‘No support, no housing, no job’ – the vicious cycle pushing more women into prison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/no-support-no-housing-no-job-the-vicious-cycle-pushing-more-women-into-prison-257218/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No support, no housing, no job’ – the vicious cycle pushing more women into prison">Read more</a>
