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April 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As we enter the final days of campaigning, Labor leads with its nose in front on most polls, but the devil is in the detail of particular seats. To help get a read on what the voters are feeling at ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: pollster Kos Samaras on how voters are leaving the major parties behind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/29/politics-with-michelle-grattan-pollster-kos-samaras-on-how-voters-are-leaving-the-major-parties-behind-255421/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: pollster Kos Samaras on how voters are leaving the major parties behind">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2025
Communities in Vanuatu are learning to grow climate resilient crops, 18 months after Cyclone Lola devastated the country. The category 5 storm struck in October 2023, generating wind speeds of up to 215 kmph, which destroyed homes, schools, plantations, and left at least four people dead. It was all the worse for following twin cyclones ... <a title="Vanuatu communities growing climate resilience in wake of Cyclone Lola" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/28/vanuatu-communities-growing-climate-resilience-in-wake-of-cyclone-lola/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu communities growing climate resilience in wake of Cyclone Lola">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government has dug out last-minute savings of more than A$7 billion, to ensure its election commitments are more than offset in every year of the forward estimates. Its costings, released Monday, include savings of $6.4 billion from further reducing ... <a title="Election Diary: Labor to slash more consultant costs and increase visa charges to pay for fresh election commitments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/28/election-diary-labor-to-slash-more-consultant-costs-and-increase-visa-charges-to-pay-for-fresh-election-commitments-255386/" aria-label="Read more about Election Diary: Labor to slash more consultant costs and increase visa charges to pay for fresh election commitments">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra The federal budget will be stronger than suggested in last month’s budget, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers who released Labor’s costings on Monday. Many of the policies included in the costings were already detailed in either the 2025 Budget ... <a title="Big and small spending included in Labor costings, but off-budget items yet to be revealed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/28/big-and-small-spending-included-in-labor-costings-but-off-budget-items-yet-to-be-revealed-255425/" aria-label="Read more about Big and small spending included in Labor costings, but off-budget items yet to be revealed">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra With the May 3 federal election less than a week away, voters have only just received Labor’s costings and are yet to hear from the Coalition. At the 2022 election, the costings were not released for nearly two months ... <a title="How much do election promises cost? And why have we had to wait so long to see the costings?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/28/how-much-do-election-promises-cost-and-why-have-we-had-to-wait-so-long-to-see-the-costings-255104/" aria-label="Read more about How much do election promises cost? And why have we had to wait so long to see the costings?">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nial Wheate, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University WPixz/Shutterstock An antidepressant containing a form of the drug ketamine has been added to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), making it much cheaper for the estimated 30,000 Australians with treatment-resistant depression. This is when a patient has tried ... <a title="A ketamine nasal spray will be subsidised for treatment-resistant depression. Here’s what you need to know about Spravato" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/28/a-ketamine-nasal-spray-will-be-subsidised-for-treatment-resistant-depression-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-spravato-255403/" aria-label="Read more about A ketamine nasal spray will be subsidised for treatment-resistant depression. Here’s what you need to know about Spravato">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne In front of a crowd of party faithful last weekend, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton referred to the ABC, Guardian Australia and other news platforms as “hate media”. The language was extreme, the inference being ... <a title="Peter Dutton calling the ABC and the Guardian ‘hate media’ rings alarm bells for democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/28/peter-dutton-calling-the-abc-and-the-guardian-hate-media-rings-alarm-bells-for-democracy-255412/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Dutton calling the ABC and the Guardian ‘hate media’ rings alarm bells for democracy">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mohan Yellishetty, Professor, Co-Founder, Critical Minerals Consortium, and Australia-India Critical Minerals Research Hub, Monash University RHJPhtotos/Shutterstock The world needs huge quantities of critical minerals to make batteries, electric vehicles, wind turbines, mobile phones, computers and advanced weaponry. Many of these minerals lie under Australian soil. Australia is ... <a title="Plans to stockpile critical minerals will help Australia weather global uncertainty – and encourage smaller miners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/28/plans-to-stockpile-critical-minerals-will-help-australia-weather-global-uncertainty-and-encourage-smaller-miners-255320/" aria-label="Read more about Plans to stockpile critical minerals will help Australia weather global uncertainty – and encourage smaller miners">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2025
PodTalk.live After a successful beta-launch this month, PodTalk.live has now called for people to register as foundation members — it’s free to join the post and podcast social platform. The foundation membership soft-launch is a great opportunity for founders to help shape a brand new, vibrant, algorithm-free, info discussion and debate social platform. “PodTalk.live has ... <a title="PodTalk.live ushers in new ‘indie’ information and debate era" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/28/podtalk-live-ushers-in-new-indie-information-and-debate-era/" aria-label="Read more about PodTalk.live ushers in new ‘indie’ information and debate era">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Angus, Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology In the lead-up to the 2025 Australian federal election, political advertising is seemingly everywhere. We’ve been mapping the often invisible world of digital political advertising across Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. ... <a title="What political ads are Australians seeing online? Astroturfing, fake grassroots groups, and outright falsehoods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/28/what-political-ads-are-australians-seeing-online-astroturfing-fake-grassroots-groups-and-outright-falsehoods-255225/" aria-label="Read more about What political ads are Australians seeing online? Astroturfing, fake grassroots groups, and outright falsehoods">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Intifar Chowdhury, Lecturer in Government, Flinders University Unsplash As was widely predicted, the cost of living has dominated the federal election campaign. Soaring rents, grocery bills and energy prices have squeezed household budgets. But these pressures aren’t new. In 2022, voter frustration over living costs helped Labor ... <a title="Young women are among those who care most about the cost of living. It could be bad for the major parties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/28/young-women-are-among-those-who-care-most-about-the-cost-of-living-it-could-be-bad-for-the-major-parties-254988/" aria-label="Read more about Young women are among those who care most about the cost of living. It could be bad for the major parties">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra With the May 3 federal election less than a week away, voters still have little reliable information on the costs of Labor or Coalition policies. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has said Labor’s policy costings will be released imminently. At the ... <a title="How much do election promises cost? And why haven’t we seen the costings yet?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/28/how-much-do-election-promises-cost-and-why-havent-we-seen-the-costings-yet-255104/" aria-label="Read more about How much do election promises cost? And why haven’t we seen the costings yet?">Read more</a>
