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April 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Perry, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Baylor University Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s conservative evangelical religious beliefs drew attention even before his confirmation hearings in January 2025. He is a member of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches – CREC – whose beliefs have been influenced by a ... <a title="What is CREC and how does it shape Pete Hegseth’s religious rhetoric?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/what-is-crec-and-how-does-it-shape-pete-hegseths-religious-rhetoric-279637/" aria-label="Read more about What is CREC and how does it shape Pete Hegseth’s religious rhetoric?">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Efron, Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne In the past ten years or so there has been a lot of interest to see if medicinal cannabis can help children with emotional and behavioural problems – the ones associated with conditions such as autism, ... <a title="Can medicinal cannabis help kids’ autism, ADHD or Tourette’s? Here’s what we know so far" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/can-medicinal-cannabis-help-kids-autism-adhd-or-tourettes-heres-what-we-know-so-far-271088/" aria-label="Read more about Can medicinal cannabis help kids’ autism, ADHD or Tourette’s? Here’s what we know so far">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Fairman, Forest and fire scientist, The University of Melbourne The tall alpine ash forests in Australia’s high country have lived in a delicate relationship with fire for tens of thousands of years. Intensifying fire seasons are threatening this balance to the extent the Federal Government has ... <a title="Australia’s alpine ash forests are now officially endangered. Can we save them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/australias-alpine-ash-forests-are-now-officially-endangered-can-we-save-them-279099/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s alpine ash forests are now officially endangered. Can we save them?">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Lensen, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington For New Zealanders, artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming as much a part of everyday life as smartphones and social media did before it. According to the recently released 2026 InternetNZ Internet ... <a title="Could NZ’s next Christchurch Call be a push for fairer, safer AI?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/could-nzs-next-christchurch-call-be-a-push-for-fairer-safer-ai-279085/" aria-label="Read more about Could NZ’s next Christchurch Call be a push for fairer, safer AI?">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katja Hanewald, Associate Professor in Risk & Actuarial Studies, UNSW Sydney For many Australians, most of their retirement wealth is tied up in their home. A simple, well-designed program to tap into those trillions in home equity could help boost their retirement incomes. Such a program exists. ... <a title="This little-known government scheme can help retirees tap into $3 trillion of housing wealth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/this-little-known-government-scheme-can-help-retirees-tap-into-3-trillion-of-housing-wealth-279084/" aria-label="Read more about This little-known government scheme can help retirees tap into $3 trillion of housing wealth">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney Nighttime. A dim and dingy car park. Woefully inadequate fluorescent lights flicker and buzz overhead. Two men stand in half-shadow. One is barely visible, his face almost entirely swallowed by darkness. His voice is low ... <a title="All The President’s Men at 50: one of the finest films about investigative journalism ever made" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/all-the-presidents-men-at-50-one-of-the-finest-films-about-investigative-journalism-ever-made-279451/" aria-label="Read more about All The President’s Men at 50: one of the finest films about investigative journalism ever made">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Breunig, Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia is a global success story. The structural reforms in the 1980s and ‘90s of liberalising trade, floating the dollar and reducing government involvement in the economy ... <a title="By avoiding means testing, the government is giving handouts to the rich" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/by-avoiding-means-testing-the-government-is-giving-handouts-to-the-rich-278660/" aria-label="Read more about By avoiding means testing, the government is giving handouts to the rich">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, and Founder of Popsicule, ANU’s Science in Popular Culture and Entertainment Hub, Australian National University The relationship between science and pop culture often looks like a one-way street: scientific ... <a title="From Jurassic Park to dreams of AI doom, pop culture shapes science more than we like to admit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/from-jurassic-park-to-dreams-of-ai-doom-pop-culture-shapes-science-more-than-we-like-to-admit-279245/" aria-label="Read more about From Jurassic Park to dreams of AI doom, pop culture shapes science more than we like to admit">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2026
ANALYSIS: Introduced by Robert Reich From time to time, I post transcripts I’ve come across of particularly insightful conversations. Here’s one that’s particularly relevant to the US “No Kings” Day protests at the weekend. Recently, The Conversation hosted a webinar in which executive editor and general manager Beth Daley interviewed John Shattuck, professor of practice ... <a title="‘No kings’: What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism movements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/no-kings-what-americans-can-learn-from-other-nonviolent-civil-activism-movements/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No kings’: What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism movements">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2026
The war in Iran is in its second month. A war started by a criminal defendant, a convicted felon, and a blackmail network that explains everything Western leaders won’t say. Michael West Media reports. COMMENTARY: By Andrew Brown Two men are mainly responsible for the war on Iran. And then there are those — such ... <a title="Monsters of war – the men who have put the world at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/monsters-of-war-the-men-who-have-put-the-world-at-risk/" aria-label="Read more about Monsters of war – the men who have put the world at risk">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
Asia Pacific Report Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has appealed to Foreign Minister Winston Peters to stress to the Palestine genocide “open wound” in his meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington this week. Co-chair Maher Nazzal of PSNA said in a statement the international crisis in West Asia “must be reined in” ... <a title="NZ’s Peters called on to stress Palestine ‘open wound’ with Rubio" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/nzs-peters-called-on-to-stress-palestine-open-wound-with-rubio/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Peters called on to stress Palestine ‘open wound’ with Rubio">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A rift within French Polynesia’s ruling party Tavini Huiraatira deepened during Easter weekend with a mass resignation from a group of 14 members. The resignation was tendered by a group of young members of the local Territorial Assembly. In their resignation letter, the members of the ... <a title="Mass Easter resignations within Tahiti’s pro-independence ruling party" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/mass-easter-resignations-within-tahitis-pro-independence-ruling-party/" aria-label="Read more about Mass Easter resignations within Tahiti’s pro-independence ruling party">Read more</a>
