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March 26, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kimberley Reis, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Griffith University Most of our food travels many thousands of kilometres across Australia to reach our kitchens. We are highly dependent on a vast web of long-haul trucks to move food between growers, massive food ... <a title="Time to buy local: war fuel price shocks reveal the folly of a long food supply chain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/time-to-buy-local-war-fuel-price-shocks-reveal-the-folly-of-a-long-food-supply-chain-278786/" aria-label="Read more about Time to buy local: war fuel price shocks reveal the folly of a long food supply chain">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Baidawi, Associate professor, Monash University Across Australia, there is growing concern about young people not offending independently but allegedly being recruited, coerced and manipulated by adults into committing crime. Recent examples include: In Australia, data on child criminal exploitation remains absent. However, it’s a problem governments ... <a title="What can Australia do about reports of child criminal exploitation?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/what-can-australia-do-about-reports-of-child-criminal-exploitation-277093/" aria-label="Read more about What can Australia do about reports of child criminal exploitation?">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda George, Assistant Professor (Psychology), University of Canberra Deaths on Australian roads have increased every year since 2020. This is despite the Australian government’s commitment to Vision Zero – having zero deaths or serious injuries on our roads by 2050. Unfortunately, 1,317 road deaths were recorded in ... <a title="More people are dying on Australian roads. This program could make drivers safer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/more-people-are-dying-on-australian-roads-this-program-could-make-drivers-safer-276970/" aria-label="Read more about More people are dying on Australian roads. This program could make drivers safer">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney Social media platforms Instagram and YouTube have a design defect which means they are addictive, a jury in the United States has ruled. The Los Angeles jury took nearly nine days to reach its verdict ... <a title="Meta and Google just lost a landmark social media addiction case. A tech law expert explains the fallout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/meta-and-google-just-lost-a-landmark-social-media-addiction-case-a-tech-law-expert-explains-the-fallout-278409/" aria-label="Read more about Meta and Google just lost a landmark social media addiction case. A tech law expert explains the fallout">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Kellie Tranter The actions of the Trump administration and its AIPAC-Israeli donors have reached new levels of immorality, illegality and unprecedented venality. It is almost universally accepted that the US-Israel attack on Iran had no justification under international law: it was simply a war of aggression and thus the commission of perhaps the ... <a title="Epstein cabal play games with human lives in Iran while grasping for unearned riches" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/epstein-cabal-play-games-with-human-lives-in-iran-while-grasping-for-unearned-riches/" aria-label="Read more about Epstein cabal play games with human lives in Iran while grasping for unearned riches">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bamo Nouri, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City St George’s, University of London The language of power often reveals more than it intends. In a rare moment of candour on March 7, the US president, Donald Trump, described the confrontation with Iran as “a big ... <a title="Donald Trump’s ‘new’ 15-point plan is the biggest sign yet that Washington fears it is losing this war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/donald-trumps-new-15-point-plan-is-the-biggest-sign-yet-that-washington-fears-it-is-losing-this-war-279001/" aria-label="Read more about Donald Trump’s ‘new’ 15-point plan is the biggest sign yet that Washington fears it is losing this war">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Smith, Honorary Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge It is impossible to capture seven decades of formidable intellect, wrapped into some 14,000 books and articles, in less than a thousand words. Yet German philosopher Jürgen Habermas staked his career on the power of dialogue and deliberation, ... <a title="Jürgen Habermas: a philosopher whose hopes for a better future are more important than ever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/jurgen-habermas-a-philosopher-whose-hopes-for-a-better-future-are-more-important-than-ever-279020/" aria-label="Read more about Jürgen Habermas: a philosopher whose hopes for a better future are more important than ever">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2026
RNZ Pacific Tributes are pouring in from across the region for “fearless” and “formidable” Vanuatu journalist Dan McGarry, who died on Wednesday. McGarry, 62, fell ill after a trip to Papua New Guinea earlier this month, from where he had to be evacuated to Brisbane to undergo a heart bypass. But he faced complications during ... <a title="‘He will never be replaced’ – tributes flow for ‘fearless’ Vanuatu journalist Dan McGarry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/he-will-never-be-replaced-tributes-flow-for-fearless-vanuatu-journalist-dan-mcgarry/" aria-label="Read more about ‘He will never be replaced’ – tributes flow for ‘fearless’ Vanuatu journalist Dan McGarry">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Turnbull, Honorary Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of Wollongong Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of the Commonwealth of Virginia, made her fictional debut in Patricia Cornwell’s first crime novel, Postmortem, published in 1990. Cornwell had been both a police reporter and a morgue ... <a title="Kay Scarpetta led the trend for serial killer hunters. I love crime heroines – but she leaves me cold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/kay-scarpetta-led-the-trend-for-serial-killer-hunters-i-love-crime-heroines-but-she-leaves-me-cold-277377/" aria-label="Read more about Kay Scarpetta led the trend for serial killer hunters. I love crime heroines – but she leaves me cold">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Kelsey, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau With the global rules-based order collapsing, the United Nations faces an existential crisis as the United States leads other countries in defunding and withdrawing from key agencies such as the World Health Organization. The World ... <a title="A crucial meeting aims to remake the WTO to fit the new global order" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/a-crucial-meeting-aims-to-remake-the-wto-to-fit-the-new-global-order-278963/" aria-label="Read more about A crucial meeting aims to remake the WTO to fit the new global order">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia When I was a doctoral candidate at Oxford, I spent much of my time working in the papyrology rooms. Usually, my only company was the curator, a kind and learned Sardinian woman who is ... <a title="Ancient texts and marital breakdown: Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody descends into implausibility" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/ancient-texts-and-marital-breakdown-yann-martels-son-of-nobody-descends-into-implausibility-276857/" aria-label="Read more about Ancient texts and marital breakdown: Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody descends into implausibility">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney This is the point of absurdity we have reached: on March 15, US President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post, asserted that American news organisations were running AI-generated Iranian propaganda, and should be ... <a title="Trump is remaking the US media in his own image – and smashing accountability with it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/26/trump-is-remaking-the-us-media-in-his-own-image-and-smashing-accountability-with-it-279107/" aria-label="Read more about Trump is remaking the US media in his own image – and smashing accountability with it">Read more</a>
