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March 23, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sergey Alexeev, Senior research fellow, University of Sydney; UNSW Sydney It’s a Friday evening and you pour a glass of wine while your teenager sits at the kitchen bench scrolling their phone. They barely look up. But they notice more than you think. My new study found ... <a title="Is it OK to drink in front of your kids? New research shows the age they’re most influenced" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/23/is-it-ok-to-drink-in-front-of-your-kids-new-research-shows-the-age-theyre-most-influenced-278667/" aria-label="Read more about Is it OK to drink in front of your kids? New research shows the age they’re most influenced">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angel Zhong, Professor of Finance, RMIT University Every few months, someone in the superannuation industry declares that Australians now “need” around A$1 million to retire comfortably. It’s a big, scary number. But consumer advocates say most people can retire with far less. Independent estimates suggest something closer ... <a title="How much do you really need to retire? It’s probably a lot less than $1 million" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/23/how-much-do-you-really-need-to-retire-its-probably-a-lot-less-than-1-million-276375/" aria-label="Read more about How much do you really need to retire? It’s probably a lot less than $1 million">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paula Lorgelly, Professor of Health Economics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau This time six years ago, as officials prepared to move New Zealand into lockdown, the public was suddenly introduced to the complex and somewhat bewildering world of pandemic modelling. These highly mathematical models mapped out ... <a title="In the next pandemic, NZ doesn’t need to choose between health and the economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/23/in-the-next-pandemic-nz-doesnt-need-to-choose-between-health-and-the-economy-277951/" aria-label="Read more about In the next pandemic, NZ doesn’t need to choose between health and the economy">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As he looks to his own coming wrestle with One Nation in the May 9 Farrer byelection, Angus Taylor can only take from Saturday’s South Australian result a sense of deep trepidation. One Nation drove a front-end loader through the ... <a title="View from The Hill: One Nation’s performance in SA will send shivers down Angus Taylor’s spine for Farrer campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/22/view-from-the-hill-one-nations-performance-in-sa-will-send-shivers-down-angus-taylors-spine-for-farrer-campaign-278787/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: One Nation’s performance in SA will send shivers down Angus Taylor’s spine for Farrer campaign">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle You can’t make this stuff up. The President of the United States, while sitting next to the Japanese Prime Minister in the Oval Office, just celebrated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. When asked by a Japanese reporter on Friday why the US didn’t consult with allies before launching the surprise ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Trump celebrates Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/22/eugene-doyle-trump-celebrates-japanese-attack-on-pearl-harbour/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Trump celebrates Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Sarah Leah Whitson In recent days, Israel and the United States have expressed outrage over the deliberate and indiscriminate targeting of civilians and civilian residences and infrastructure in Israel and the Gulf by Iranian forces. They have cited the illegality of such attacks, urged global condemnation, and demanded that human rights organisations speak ... <a title="No bigger hypocrisy in the world than Israel complaining about Iran’s ‘lawbreaking’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/22/no-bigger-hypocrisy-in-the-world-than-israel-complaining-about-irans-lawbreaking/" aria-label="Read more about No bigger hypocrisy in the world than Israel complaining about Iran’s ‘lawbreaking’">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Manwaring, Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University The tectonic plates of South Australian politics have fundamentally shifted. Peter Malinauskas’s Labor government has won a second term with a landslide win. The final count should see Labor win around 33 seats in the 47 seat ... <a title="One Nation’s surge and Liberal Party’s collapse in SA election reveal tectonic shifts in Australian politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/22/one-nations-surge-and-liberal-partys-collapse-in-sa-election-reveal-tectonic-shifts-in-australian-politics-278317/" aria-label="Read more about One Nation’s surge and Liberal Party’s collapse in SA election reveal tectonic shifts in Australian politics">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Crawford, Adjunct Lecturer at the Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology There was a lot of talk about winning trophies in the lead-up to the 2026 Women’s Asian Cup final, in which the Matildas were narrowly defeated by Japan 1–0 in Saturday night’s final. It ... <a title="The Women’s Asian Cup was a major success for Australian soccer, despite the Matildas’ heartbreaker" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/22/the-womens-asian-cup-was-a-major-success-for-australian-soccer-despite-the-matildas-heartbreaker-278661/" aria-label="Read more about The Women’s Asian Cup was a major success for Australian soccer, despite the Matildas’ heartbreaker">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2026
Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Global oil and natural gas prices are soaring after Israel bombed a massive natural gas reserve in Iran, the largest in the world. Iran retaliated by twice attacking the world’s largest liquid natural gas production facility, located in Qatar. ... <a title="End of the petrodollar? How Iran war is reshaping the global economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/22/end-of-the-petrodollar-how-iran-war-is-reshaping-the-global-economy/" aria-label="Read more about End of the petrodollar? How Iran war is reshaping the global economy">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2026
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 For today’s South Australian state election, The Poll Bludger’s results have Labor winning 31 of the 47 lower house seats, the Liberals four, One Nation one and ... <a title="Labor easily wins South Australian election with One Nation beating Liberals into second on primary votes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/22/labor-easily-wins-south-australian-election-with-one-nation-beating-liberals-into-second-on-primary-votes-278423/" aria-label="Read more about Labor easily wins South Australian election with One Nation beating Liberals into second on primary votes">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2026
Asia Pacific Report An exiled leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has condemned Indonesia’s “cruel and humiliating” arbitrary arrest of 12 West Papuan local farmers in Tambrauw Regency this week and has demanded their release. According to Human Rights Monitor, the arrests took place on March 18, after Indonesia conducted military ... <a title="Wenda condemns ‘cruel’ arbitrary arrests of West Papuans in Tambrauw" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/21/wenda-condemns-cruel-arbitrary-arrests-of-west-papuans-in-tambrauw/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda condemns ‘cruel’ arbitrary arrests of West Papuans in Tambrauw">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Marcus Alexander In a stunning resignation that has sent shockwaves through Washington, former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent has exposed what many have long suspected but few have dared to state publicly — Israel is systematically undermining peace in the Middle East to serve its own expansionist agenda. Joe Kent, a 20-year ... <a title="Israel – the parasite state sabotaging peace in the Middle East" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/21/israel-the-parasite-state-sabotaging-peace-in-the-middle-east/" aria-label="Read more about Israel – the parasite state sabotaging peace in the Middle East">Read more</a>
