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May 20, 2025
New Zealand has joined 22 other countries and the European Union in calling for Israel to allow a full resumption of aid into Gaza immediately. The partners also said Israel must enable the United Nations and humanitarian organisations to work independently and impartially “to save lives, reduce suffering, and maintain dignity.” Israel imposed a blockade ... <a title="NZ joins call for Israel to allow full resumption of aid to Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/nz-joins-call-for-israel-to-allow-full-resumption-of-aid-to-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about NZ joins call for Israel to allow full resumption of aid to Gaza">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Henning, PhD Candidate in Feline Behaviour, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Shawn Rain/Unsplash Cats have a long history with humans, going back more than 9,000 years. Attracted to human settlements by the rodents that plagued (sometimes literally) our ancestors, cats ingratiated themselves ... <a title="Can cats drink milk? Despite the stereotypes, it’s actually a bad idea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/can-cats-drink-milk-despite-the-stereotypes-its-actually-a-bad-idea-255227/" aria-label="Read more about Can cats drink milk? Despite the stereotypes, it’s actually a bad idea">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Kennedy, Youth Mental Health Researcher, University of the Sunshine Coast We have all experienced boredom – that feeling of waning interest or decreased mental stimulation. Eventually we lose focus, we disengage. Time seems to pass slowly, and we may even start to feel restless. Whether it ... <a title="Boredom gets a bad rap. But science says it can actually be good for us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/boredom-gets-a-bad-rap-but-science-says-it-can-actually-be-good-for-us-255767/" aria-label="Read more about Boredom gets a bad rap. But science says it can actually be good for us">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pat McGorry, Professor of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne The death of former AFL footballer Adam Selwood, less than four months after the death by suicide of his twin Troy, is an unfathomable tragedy for the Selwood family. The devastating news has sent shockwaves through the AFL ... <a title="15 years ago, I urged the AFL to launch a mental health round. Now it’s time for action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/15-years-ago-i-urged-the-afl-to-launch-a-mental-health-round-now-its-time-for-action-256995/" aria-label="Read more about 15 years ago, I urged the AFL to launch a mental health round. Now it’s time for action">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Macaskill, Senior Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images Conventional wisdom suggests memories of past experiences can help us navigate problems in the present. For example, if a friend told you they were having a disagreement with their partner, ... <a title="Does drawing on memory help us solve problems? Our experiment gave some surprising answers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/does-drawing-on-memory-help-us-solve-problems-our-experiment-gave-some-surprising-answers-255105/" aria-label="Read more about Does drawing on memory help us solve problems? Our experiment gave some surprising answers">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the May 19, 2000, coup led by renegade businessman George Speight. The deposed Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, says Speight’s motive had less to do with indigenous rights and a lot more to do with power, greed, and access to the millions likely to accrue from Fiji’s mahogany plantation. On ... <a title="Speight’s Fiji coup had more to do with power, greed than iTaukei rights, says Chaudhry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/speights-fiji-coup-had-more-to-do-with-power-greed-than-itaukei-rights-says-chaudhry/" aria-label="Read more about Speight’s Fiji coup had more to do with power, greed than iTaukei rights, says Chaudhry">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deanna D’Alessandro, Professor & Director, Net Zero Institute, University of Sydney Daniel Sone/National Cancer Institute In the wake of Labor’s resounding victory in Australia’s federal election earlier this month, there has been much talk about flailing productivity in Australia. In fact, last week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ... <a title="The federal government wants to boost productivity. Science can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/the-federal-government-wants-to-boost-productivity-science-can-help-256567/" aria-label="Read more about The federal government wants to boost productivity. Science can help">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scarlett Howard, Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University VixtorPhoto / Shutterstock Did you know goldfish can learn to drive cars? Have you heard bumblebees can learn to pull on a string? Would you believe some primates can perform calculations with Arabic numerals? These tasks seem ... <a title="Fish driving cars and chimps doing maths: what teaching animals ‘irrelevant’ skills reveals about our own minds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/fish-driving-cars-and-chimps-doing-maths-what-teaching-animals-irrelevant-skills-reveals-about-our-own-minds-253938/" aria-label="Read more about Fish driving cars and chimps doing maths: what teaching animals ‘irrelevant’ skills reveals about our own minds">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Auricht, Visiting Research Fellow in Natural Resources Management, University of Adelaide Yundi Nature Conservancy, CC BY-NC-ND South Australia is famously the driest state on the driest inhabited continent. But even for South Australia, the current drought is extreme. Rainfall has been the lowest on record across ... <a title="Surviving swamps on South Australia’s parched Fleurieu Peninsula are a lifeline to wildlife – and farmers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/surviving-swamps-on-south-australias-parched-fleurieu-peninsula-are-a-lifeline-to-wildlife-and-farmers-256238/" aria-label="Read more about Surviving swamps on South Australia’s parched Fleurieu Peninsula are a lifeline to wildlife – and farmers">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christina Ho, Associate professor in Social and Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney MNStudio/ Shutterstock Every year, thousands of New South Wales students sit a test to determine places for highly sought-after selective high schools. These are academically selective public schools often associated with high Year 12 ... <a title="‘No pain, no gain’: why some primary students are following intense study routines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/no-pain-no-gain-why-some-primary-students-are-following-intense-study-routines-256815/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No pain, no gain’: why some primary students are following intense study routines">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Tenbensel, Professor of Health Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Health Minister Simeon Brown. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Minister of Health Simeon Brown claimed earlier this year that health funding in New Zealand has never been higher and that suggestions of underfunding are “fake news”. On ... <a title="NZ Budget 2025: anything less than a 5% increase in health funding amounts to merely standing still" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/nz-budget-2025-anything-less-than-a-5-increase-in-health-funding-amounts-to-merely-standing-still-255593/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2025: anything less than a 5% increase in health funding amounts to merely standing still">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Netflix/Untold: The Liver King A new Netflix documentary about a shirtless supplement salesman who claimed to be “natural” and was exposed as a fraud might seem like a punchline. But Untold: ... <a title="From the Liver King to ultramarathons, fitness influencers are glorifying extreme masculinity where ‘pain is the point’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/from-the-liver-king-to-ultramarathons-fitness-influencers-are-glorifying-extreme-masculinity-where-pain-is-the-point-256817/" aria-label="Read more about From the Liver King to ultramarathons, fitness influencers are glorifying extreme masculinity where ‘pain is the point’">Read more</a>
