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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Houlihan, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast Dima Berlin/Shutterstock Can you only start a boring admin task once your house is clean? Do you leave the trickiest emails to the end of the day? Delaying a goal or task – usually to ... <a title="Why do I procrastinate? And can I do anything about it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/why-do-i-procrastinate-and-can-i-do-anything-about-it-255770/" aria-label="Read more about Why do I procrastinate? And can I do anything about it?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Clarke, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Tasmania Mirrorscape (detail), 2025, Théo Mercier. Photo credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artist and the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The first impulse is to kick it. After all, it’s a sand sculpture. ... <a title="A sculpture made from 80 tonnes of sand, Mirrorscape is remarkable – but too much is left unsaid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/a-sculpture-made-from-80-tonnes-of-sand-mirrorscape-is-remarkable-but-too-much-is-left-unsaid-256813/" aria-label="Read more about A sculpture made from 80 tonnes of sand, Mirrorscape is remarkable – but too much is left unsaid">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Cover, Professor of Digital Communication and Director of the RMIT Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University In its most recent battle with authorities in Australia, X (formerly Twitter) has launched legal action in the Federal Court, seeking an exemption from a new safety standard aimed at ... <a title="What’s the obscure Australian online safety standard Elon Musk’s X is trying to dodge in court? An expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/whats-the-obscure-australian-online-safety-standard-elon-musks-x-is-trying-to-dodge-in-court-an-expert-explains-257222/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the obscure Australian online safety standard Elon Musk’s X is trying to dodge in court? An expert explains">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ama Samarasinghe, Lecturer, Financial Planning and Tax, RMIT University doublelee/Shutterstock On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia cut the target cash rate by 0.25 percentage points. It now sits at 3.85% – the lowest since May 2023. Australia’s big four banks were all quick to announce they ... <a title="Interest rates are coming down. Here’s what homeowners should know about refinancing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/interest-rates-are-coming-down-heres-what-homeowners-should-know-about-refinancing-257116/" aria-label="Read more about Interest rates are coming down. Here’s what homeowners should know about refinancing">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Editor’s Note: I’m pleased to say my old friend Martyn ‘Bomber’ Bradbury has launched his new programme and podcast titled The Bradbury Group. Martyn needs no introduction to New Zealanders. Under his handle ‘Bomber’ he’s been at the forefront of political debate, especially from a left perspective, for decades. What is particularly refreshing about this ... <a title="EDITOR’S NOTE: New Podcast The Bradbury Group Launches in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/editors-note-new-podcast-the-bradbury-group-launches-in-nz/" aria-label="Read more about EDITOR’S NOTE: New Podcast The Bradbury Group Launches in NZ">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
RNZ News New Zealand has joined 23 other countries calling out Israel and demanding a full supply of foreign aid be allowed into the territory. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters told RNZ Morning Report today it was “intolerable” that Israel had blocked any aid reaching residents for many weeks. The UN is warning that 14,000 ... <a title="NZ ‘running out of patience’ – Peters lashes Israel over Gaza aid blockade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/nz-running-out-of-patience-peters-lashes-israel-over-gaza-aid-blockade/" aria-label="Read more about NZ ‘running out of patience’ – Peters lashes Israel over Gaza aid blockade">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Raw, Lecturer, Sport Management, Swinburne University of Technology Bratislav Kostic/Shutterstock Australia’s underwhelming performance at the 2024 Paris Paralympics has raised serious questions about how well our adaptive sport system is working. The Paris games returned our lowest medal tally since 1988, from our smallest team since ... <a title="Australian para sport has issues everywhere – here’s what must be fixed ahead of the Brisbane Paralympics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/australian-para-sport-has-issues-everywhere-heres-what-must-be-fixed-ahead-of-the-brisbane-paralympics-256450/" aria-label="Read more about Australian para sport has issues everywhere – here’s what must be fixed ahead of the Brisbane Paralympics">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Murray, Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, Swinburne University of Technology bodnar.photo/Shutterstock If you’re browsing the supermarket fridge for reduced-fat milk, it’s easy to be confused by the many different types. You can find options labelled skim, skimmed, skinny, no fat, extra light, lite, light, low fat, reduced fat, ... <a title="What’s the difference between skim milk and light milk?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/whats-the-difference-between-skim-milk-and-light-milk-255608/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between skim milk and light milk?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn Locke, Associate Researcher in Digital Disability, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University Chansom Pantip/Shutterstock Since the recent explosion of widely available generative artificial intelligence (AI), it now seems that a new AI tool emerges every week. With varying success, AI offers solutions for productivity, creativity, ... <a title="AI is now used for audio description. But it should be accurate and actually useful for people with low vision" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/ai-is-now-used-for-audio-description-but-it-should-be-accurate-and-actually-useful-for-people-with-low-vision-256808/" aria-label="Read more about AI is now used for audio description. But it should be accurate and actually useful for people with low vision">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Gaston, Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Shutterstock/Olivier Le Queinec A lack of strategy and research funding – by both the current and previous governments – has been well documented, most comprehensively in the first report ... <a title="NZ Budget 2025: science investment must increase as a proportion of GDP for NZ to innovate and compete" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/nz-budget-2025-science-investment-must-increase-as-a-proportion-of-gdp-for-nz-to-innovate-and-compete-255591/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2025: science investment must increase as a proportion of GDP for NZ to innovate and compete">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jeremy Rose Reading an NBC News report a couple of days ago about a Trump administration plan to relocate 1 million Gazans to Libya reminded me of a conversation between the legendary Warsaw Ghetto leader Marek Edelman and fellow fighter and survivor Simcha Rotem that took place more than quarter of a ... <a title="Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/starvation-of-gaza-a-distressing-continuation-of-a-decades-old-plan/" aria-label="Read more about Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Spotify was started, according to its official claims, because its founders “love music and piracy was killing it”. In Mood Machine, music journalist Liz Pelly argues this is rewriting history. In fact, she ... <a title="Spotify continues to change music. What’s next – will AI musicians replace music made by humans?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/spotify-continues-to-change-music-whats-next-will-ai-musicians-replace-music-made-by-humans-253630/" aria-label="Read more about Spotify continues to change music. What’s next – will AI musicians replace music made by humans?">Read more</a>
