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May 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor & Principal Fellow in Urban Risk & Resilience, The University of Melbourne At least ten people died in fatal crashes earlier this month in a single 48-hour period on Victorian roads. It was the latest tragic demonstration of the mounting road trauma in ... <a title="Australian roads are getting deadlier – pedestrians and males are among those at greater risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/australian-roads-are-getting-deadlier-pedestrians-and-males-are-among-those-at-greater-risk-256994/" aria-label="Read more about Australian roads are getting deadlier – pedestrians and males are among those at greater risk">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Rowe, Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University LBeddoe/Shutterstock Earlier this week, The Sydney Morning Herald reported one of Sydney’s top public high schools had more than 2,000 students for the first time, thanks to the booming population in the area. This follows similar reports of other ... <a title="There is a growing number of ‘super-sized’ schools. Does the number of students matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/there-is-a-growing-number-of-super-sized-schools-does-the-number-of-students-matter-257012/" aria-label="Read more about There is a growing number of ‘super-sized’ schools. Does the number of students matter?">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato An Oyster cellar in Leith John Burnet, 1819; National Galleries of Scotland, Photo: Antonia Reeve Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower classes ... <a title="From peasant fodder to posh fare: how snails and oysters became luxury foods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/from-peasant-fodder-to-posh-fare-how-snails-and-oysters-became-luxury-foods-254299/" aria-label="Read more about From peasant fodder to posh fare: how snails and oysters became luxury foods">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
We have been handed a long and protracted recession with few signs of growth and prosperity. Budget 2025 signals more of the same, writes Susan St John. ANALYSIS: By Susan St John With the coalition government’s second Budget being unveiled, we should question where New Zealand is heading. The 2024 Budget laid out the strategy. ... <a title="Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/govt-should-defuse-nzs-social-timebomb-but-wont/" aria-label="Read more about Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Pacific Media Watch A punitive defamation charge filed against one of Samoa’s most experienced and trusted journalists last week has sparked a flurry of criticism over abuse of power and misuse of a law that has long been heavily criticised as outdated. Talamua Online senior journalist Lagi Keresoma, who is also president of the Journalists ... <a title="Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/punitive-criminal-libel-charge-against-samoan-journalist-draws-flurry-of-criticism/" aria-label="Read more about Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Remember that cliche about the Nationals tail wagging the Liberal dog? That tail wagged very vigorously this week, and smashed a lot of crockery, as it sought to bring Liberal leader Sussan Ley to heel. In a gesture of overreach, ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: if Ley and Littleproud find a way to cohabit, it will be a tense household" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/grattan-on-friday-if-ley-and-littleproud-find-a-way-to-cohabit-it-will-be-a-tense-household-256457/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: if Ley and Littleproud find a way to cohabit, it will be a tense household">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Auckland University law academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law under which a prominent journalist has been charged should be repealed. Lagi Keresoma, the first female president of the Journalists Association of Samoa (JAWS) and editor of Talamua Online, was charged under the Crimes Act 2013 on Sunday ... <a title="Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/legal-academic-says-samoas-criminal-libel-law-should-go-after-charge/" aria-label="Read more about Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Piet Filet, Adjunct Industry Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University Heavy rain continues to fall across the Hunter and Mid North Coast of New South Wales. Rivers are bursting their banks and spreading over floodplains, leaving many areas on flood watch. And now, this emergency is heading ... <a title="The deluge in NSW sounds a warning to rural and regional communities elsewhere" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/the-deluge-in-nsw-sounds-a-warning-to-rural-and-regional-communities-elsewhere-256814/" aria-label="Read more about The deluge in NSW sounds a warning to rural and regional communities elsewhere">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
By Patrick Muuh in Port Moresby Journalists in Papua New Guinea are likely to face legal threats as powerful individuals and companies use court actions to silence public interest reporting, warns Media Council of PNG president Neville Choi. As co-chair of the second Community Coalition Against Corruption (CCAC) National Meeting, he said lawfare was likely ... <a title="PNG journalists warned over lawfare – ‘we don’t have any law to stop SLAPPs’, says Choi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/png-journalists-warned-over-lawfare-we-dont-have-any-law-to-stop-slapps-says-choi/" aria-label="Read more about PNG journalists warned over lawfare – ‘we don’t have any law to stop SLAPPs’, says Choi">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mitchell Sarkies, Senior Lecturer, Horizon Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the Sydney School of Health Sciences, University of Sydney Floodwaters have engulfed large parts of New South Wales, with at least one person dead and almost 50,000 evacuated after days of heavy rainfall in a ... <a title="Floods, fires and even terrorist attacks: how ready are our hospitals to cope when disaster strikes?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/floods-fires-and-even-terrorist-attacks-how-ready-are-our-hospitals-to-cope-when-disaster-strikes-257318/" aria-label="Read more about Floods, fires and even terrorist attacks: how ready are our hospitals to cope when disaster strikes?">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joyce Siette, Associate Professor | Deputy Director, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development, Western Sydney University And-One/Shutterstock A new study has found the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which causes cold sores, may be linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease. This idea is ... <a title="Could cold sores increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease? A new study is no cause for panic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/could-cold-sores-increase-the-risk-of-alzheimers-disease-a-new-study-is-no-cause-for-panic-257140/" aria-label="Read more about Could cold sores increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease? A new study is no cause for panic">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Wade, Lecturer in Social Inquiry, La Trobe University The RSPCA has announced this Sunday’s Million Paws Walk will be their last. The event has been celebrated across Australia since 1994, with more than 765,000 people and their 410,000 dogs having “laced up and leashed up” to ... <a title="As the Million Paws Walk takes its last lap, other charity fundraising events face serious challenges" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/as-the-million-paws-walk-takes-its-last-lap-other-charity-fundraising-events-face-serious-challenges-257125/" aria-label="Read more about As the Million Paws Walk takes its last lap, other charity fundraising events face serious challenges">Read more</a>
