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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Subhadra Evans, Associate Professor, Psychology, Deakin University Shutterstock Around half of teenage girls experience moderate to severe period pain. The mechanical force of the uterus contracting and inflammatory chemicals such as prostaglandins contribute to this pain. Moderate to severe period pain has a significant impact on daily ... <a title="Girls with painful periods are twice as likely as their peers to have symptoms of anxiety or depression" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/girls-with-painful-periods-are-twice-as-likely-as-their-peers-to-have-symptoms-of-anxiety-or-depression-256232/" aria-label="Read more about Girls with painful periods are twice as likely as their peers to have symptoms of anxiety or depression">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maarten De Brauwer, Senior Research Scientist in Marine and Estuarine Ecology, Southern Cross University Maarten De Brauwer Rivers up and down the north coast of New South Wales have been hammered again, just three years after devastating floods hit the Northern Rivers and Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley. The events ... <a title="From surprise platypus to wandering cane toads, here’s what we found hiding in NSW estuaries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/from-surprise-platypus-to-wandering-cane-toads-heres-what-we-found-hiding-in-nsw-estuaries-257123/" aria-label="Read more about From surprise platypus to wandering cane toads, here’s what we found hiding in NSW estuaries">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Whitington, Associate Professor in Education Futures (Adjunct), University of South Australia One of the Albanese government’s headline election policies was a “three-day guarantee” for childcare. From January 5 2026, all eligible Australian families will be able to access at least three days of subsidised early education ... <a title="The ‘3 day guarantee’ for childcare starts next year. The challenge could be finding quality care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/the-3-day-guarantee-for-childcare-starts-next-year-the-challenge-could-be-finding-quality-care-256905/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘3 day guarantee’ for childcare starts next year. The challenge could be finding quality care">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fei Gao, Lecturer in Taxation, Discipline of Accounting, Governance & Regulation, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney Tada Images/Shutterstock Tech giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix make billions of dollars from Australian users every year. But most of those profits are not taxed here. To address ... <a title="Australia could tax Google, Facebook and other tech giants with a digital services tax – but don’t hold your breath" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/australia-could-tax-google-facebook-and-other-tech-giants-with-a-digital-services-tax-but-dont-hold-your-breath-257251/" aria-label="Read more about Australia could tax Google, Facebook and other tech giants with a digital services tax – but don’t hold your breath">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Xiaoying Qi, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, Australian Catholic University During fieldwork in cities in China I came across a new marital practice, locally described as liang-tou-dun, literally “two places to stay”. A bride and groom, each an only child of their respective family, receive ... <a title="One couple, two apartments, different surnames for the children: how ‘two places to stay’ is shaping families in China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/one-couple-two-apartments-different-surnames-for-the-children-how-two-places-to-stay-is-shaping-families-in-china-255877/" aria-label="Read more about One couple, two apartments, different surnames for the children: how ‘two places to stay’ is shaping families in China">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Oli Wilson, Professor & Associate Dean Research, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Getty Images New Zealand Music Month turned 25 this year, and there’s been plenty to celebrate – whether it be Mokotron’s Taite Prize-winning Waerea, Lorde’s recent return (though not to New Zealand – ... <a title="Discovering new NZ music in the streaming age is getting harder – what’s the future for local artists?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/discovering-new-nz-music-in-the-streaming-age-is-getting-harder-whats-the-future-for-local-artists-257449/" aria-label="Read more about Discovering new NZ music in the streaming age is getting harder – what’s the future for local artists?">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deyanira Nevárez Martínez, Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University Model Cities staff in front of a Baltimore field office in 1971. Robert Breck Chapman Collection, Langsdale Library Special Collections, University of Baltimore, CC BY-NC-ND In cities across the U.S., the housing crisis has ... <a title="Could a bold anti-poverty experiment from the 1960s inspire a new era in housing justice?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/could-a-bold-anti-poverty-experiment-from-the-1960s-inspire-a-new-era-in-housing-justice-253706/" aria-label="Read more about Could a bold anti-poverty experiment from the 1960s inspire a new era in housing justice?">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
RNZ Pacific A United Nations committee is being urged to act over human rights violations committed by illegal loggers in Papua New Guinea. Watchdog groups Act Now! and Jubilee Australia have filed a formal request to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to consider action at its next meeting in August. “We ... <a title="Plea for UN intervention over illegal PNG loggers ‘stealing forests’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/plea-for-un-intervention-over-illegal-png-loggers-stealing-forests/" aria-label="Read more about Plea for UN intervention over illegal PNG loggers ‘stealing forests’">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. People of a certain age will be aware that the 1962 Cuba Missile Crisis was, for the world as a whole, the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. The 1962 ‘Battle of Cuba’ was a ‘cold battle’ in the same sense that the Cold War was a ‘cold war’. (Only ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Using Cuba 1962 to explain Trump’s brinkmanship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/27/keith-rankin-analysis-using-cuba-1962-to-explain-trumps-brinkmanship/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Using Cuba 1962 to explain Trump’s brinkmanship">Read more</a>
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May 27, 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 Buttons have been pressed to electronically distribute preferences for the Senate in South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. Labor gained a seat from the Liberals in ... <a title="Labor gains a Senate seat from the Liberals in South Australia, while Jacqui Lambie is re-elected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/27/labor-gains-a-senate-seat-from-the-liberals-in-south-australia-while-jacqui-lambie-is-re-elected-257532/" aria-label="Read more about Labor gains a Senate seat from the Liberals in South Australia, while Jacqui Lambie is re-elected">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor & Principal Fellow in Urban Risk & Resilience, The University of Melbourne Hundreds of thousands of Liverpool Football Club fans packed the centre of Liverpool on Monday to celebrate the club’s English Premier League title. Shortly after 6pm local time, a grey Ford ... <a title="Most car-ramming incidents aren’t terrorism – but they’re becoming more common and crowds need better protection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/27/most-car-ramming-incidents-arent-terrorism-but-theyre-becoming-more-common-and-crowds-need-better-protection-257628/" aria-label="Read more about Most car-ramming incidents aren’t terrorism – but they’re becoming more common and crowds need better protection">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Millicent Kennelly, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Event Management, Griffith University Brisbane was awarded the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games nearly four years ago under a reformed host selection process. The process aims to reduce games costs, improve sustainability and ensure lasting community benefits. Read more: Looking ... <a title="The fast-tracking of Brisbane’s Olympic infrastructure plans could backfire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/27/the-fast-tracking-of-brisbanes-olympic-infrastructure-plans-could-backfire-257005/" aria-label="Read more about The fast-tracking of Brisbane’s Olympic infrastructure plans could backfire">Read more</a>
