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May 23, 2025
We have been handed a long and protracted recession with few signs of growth and prosperity. Budget 2025 signals more of the same, writes Susan St John. ANALYSIS: By Susan St John With the coalition government’s second Budget being unveiled, we should question where New Zealand is heading. The 2024 Budget laid out the strategy. ... <a title="Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/govt-should-defuse-nzs-social-timebomb-but-wont/" aria-label="Read more about Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Pacific Media Watch A punitive defamation charge filed against one of Samoa’s most experienced and trusted journalists last week has sparked a flurry of criticism over abuse of power and misuse of a law that has long been heavily criticised as outdated. Talamua Online senior journalist Lagi Keresoma, who is also president of the Journalists ... <a title="Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/punitive-criminal-libel-charge-against-samoan-journalist-draws-flurry-of-criticism/" aria-label="Read more about Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Remember that cliche about the Nationals tail wagging the Liberal dog? That tail wagged very vigorously this week, and smashed a lot of crockery, as it sought to bring Liberal leader Sussan Ley to heel. In a gesture of overreach, ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: if Ley and Littleproud find a way to cohabit, it will be a tense household" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/grattan-on-friday-if-ley-and-littleproud-find-a-way-to-cohabit-it-will-be-a-tense-household-256457/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: if Ley and Littleproud find a way to cohabit, it will be a tense household">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Auckland University law academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law under which a prominent journalist has been charged should be repealed. Lagi Keresoma, the first female president of the Journalists Association of Samoa (JAWS) and editor of Talamua Online, was charged under the Crimes Act 2013 on Sunday ... <a title="Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/legal-academic-says-samoas-criminal-libel-law-should-go-after-charge/" aria-label="Read more about Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Piet Filet, Adjunct Industry Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University Heavy rain continues to fall across the Hunter and Mid North Coast of New South Wales. Rivers are bursting their banks and spreading over floodplains, leaving many areas on flood watch. And now, this emergency is heading ... <a title="The deluge in NSW sounds a warning to rural and regional communities elsewhere" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/the-deluge-in-nsw-sounds-a-warning-to-rural-and-regional-communities-elsewhere-256814/" aria-label="Read more about The deluge in NSW sounds a warning to rural and regional communities elsewhere">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
By Patrick Muuh in Port Moresby Journalists in Papua New Guinea are likely to face legal threats as powerful individuals and companies use court actions to silence public interest reporting, warns Media Council of PNG president Neville Choi. As co-chair of the second Community Coalition Against Corruption (CCAC) National Meeting, he said lawfare was likely ... <a title="PNG journalists warned over lawfare – ‘we don’t have any law to stop SLAPPs’, says Choi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/png-journalists-warned-over-lawfare-we-dont-have-any-law-to-stop-slapps-says-choi/" aria-label="Read more about PNG journalists warned over lawfare – ‘we don’t have any law to stop SLAPPs’, says Choi">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mitchell Sarkies, Senior Lecturer, Horizon Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the Sydney School of Health Sciences, University of Sydney Floodwaters have engulfed large parts of New South Wales, with at least one person dead and almost 50,000 evacuated after days of heavy rainfall in a ... <a title="Floods, fires and even terrorist attacks: how ready are our hospitals to cope when disaster strikes?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/floods-fires-and-even-terrorist-attacks-how-ready-are-our-hospitals-to-cope-when-disaster-strikes-257318/" aria-label="Read more about Floods, fires and even terrorist attacks: how ready are our hospitals to cope when disaster strikes?">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joyce Siette, Associate Professor | Deputy Director, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development, Western Sydney University And-One/Shutterstock A new study has found the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which causes cold sores, may be linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease. This idea is ... <a title="Could cold sores increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease? A new study is no cause for panic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/could-cold-sores-increase-the-risk-of-alzheimers-disease-a-new-study-is-no-cause-for-panic-257140/" aria-label="Read more about Could cold sores increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease? A new study is no cause for panic">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Wade, Lecturer in Social Inquiry, La Trobe University The RSPCA has announced this Sunday’s Million Paws Walk will be their last. The event has been celebrated across Australia since 1994, with more than 765,000 people and their 410,000 dogs having “laced up and leashed up” to ... <a title="As the Million Paws Walk takes its last lap, other charity fundraising events face serious challenges" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/as-the-million-paws-walk-takes-its-last-lap-other-charity-fundraising-events-face-serious-challenges-257125/" aria-label="Read more about As the Million Paws Walk takes its last lap, other charity fundraising events face serious challenges">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. On 11 April 2025, AP noted that the two-year-old Civil War in Sudan is regarded by the United Nations as “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis”, though it is grossly underreported (see Wake up: The Worst Humanitarian Crisis on Earth is in Sudan, by Shirley Martey Hargis and Mike Sexton, Third Way ... <a title="Keith Rankin on the War in Sudan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/keith-rankin-on-the-war-in-sudan/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on the War in Sudan">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Vella, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney Rose Marinelli/Shutterstock Around 4 million Australians experience back problems and people are increasingly calling ambulances and presenting to emergency departments to manage back pain. Yet most of these cases of back pain don’t require emergency ... <a title="Too many people with back pain call ambulances or visit the ED. Here’s why that’s a problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/too-many-people-with-back-pain-call-ambulances-or-visit-the-ed-heres-why-thats-a-problem-255776/" aria-label="Read more about Too many people with back pain call ambulances or visit the ED. Here’s why that’s a problem">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Smith, Associate Professor and Discipline Lead (Paramedicine), La Trobe University As unprecedented flooding inundates towns and leaves residents stranded in parts of New South Wales, local first responders have rescued hundreds of people from floodwaters and rooftops. Volunteering Australia estimates more than 400,000 people volunteer as ... <a title="In a flood, first responders balance helping others while their own families are at risk. It’s an impossible choice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/in-a-flood-first-responders-balance-helping-others-while-their-own-families-are-at-risk-its-an-impossible-choice-257313/" aria-label="Read more about In a flood, first responders balance helping others while their own families are at risk. It’s an impossible choice">Read more</a>
