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March 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australia has failed to win an exemption from Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on aluminium and steel, but the government has vowed to fight on for a carve out. The White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, told Australian media in Washington “there ... <a title="Australia – like everyone else – fails to win exemption from Trump’s tariffs on aluminium and steel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/12/australia-like-everyone-else-fails-to-win-exemption-from-trumps-tariffs-on-aluminium-and-steel-251623/" aria-label="Read more about Australia – like everyone else – fails to win exemption from Trump’s tariffs on aluminium and steel">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2025
Opinion Analysis by Keith Rankin. This story, Germany to ease government debt limits in major step aimed at boosting economy, defense spending,AP, 6 March 2015, reflects my comments in Germany’s Election 2025. (And note Reforming the debt brake: Now or never! Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, 28 Feb 2025. And Germany’s election victor must ditch its debt rules—immediately, ... <a title="Opinion Analysis by Keith Rankin – Dodgy Democracy, the Fiscal Double Standard, and the application of the Domino Theory to Ukraine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/12/opinion-analysis-by-keith-rankin-dodgy-democracy-the-fiscal-double-standard-and-the-application-of-the-domino-theory-to-ukraine/" aria-label="Read more about Opinion Analysis by Keith Rankin – Dodgy Democracy, the Fiscal Double Standard, and the application of the Domino Theory to Ukraine">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Ryan, Postdoctoral CERC Fellow, Human Health, CSIRO Farknot Architect/Shutterstock The age-old saying “you are what you eat” rings true – diet quality affects our health from the inside out. While a healthy diet can improve health and wellbeing, a poor diet increases the risk of chronic ... <a title="Fresh fruit down, junk food up: our modelling suggests Australians’ diets will get worse by 2030" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/12/fresh-fruit-down-junk-food-up-our-modelling-suggests-australians-diets-will-get-worse-by-2030-250406/" aria-label="Read more about Fresh fruit down, junk food up: our modelling suggests Australians’ diets will get worse by 2030">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kerrie Sadiq, Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock For over a decade, there has been an increase in calls for multinational corporations to be forced to disclose tax information publicly. The idea is that enhanced transparency reduces tax ... <a title="‘Benevolent’ bosses are also more generous with their company tax information" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/12/benevolent-bosses-are-also-more-generous-with-their-company-tax-information-251372/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Benevolent’ bosses are also more generous with their company tax information">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Maisey, Postdoctoral research fellow, Research Centre for Future Landscapes, La Trobe University Miles Clifford Triniman/Shutterstock In wet forests of southeastern Australia, superb lyrebirds engage in extraordinary behaviour – tilling the soil to create habitats for their prey to flourish. The superb lyreird scratches through the leaf ... <a title="Australia’s superb lyrebirds ‘farm’ the forest floor to increase their prey – a behaviour rarely seen in nature" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/12/australias-superb-lyrebirds-farm-the-forest-floor-to-increase-their-prey-a-behaviour-rarely-seen-in-nature-247908/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s superb lyrebirds ‘farm’ the forest floor to increase their prey – a behaviour rarely seen in nature">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Tookey, Professor of Construction Management, Auckland University of Technology New Zealand is struggling to stay ahead of its vital infrastructure needs, and the numbers show it. The New Zealand Infrastructure Commission recently identified NZ$204 billion of required infrastructural spend, most of which is currently unfunded. At ... <a title="Hey big spenders: what foreign investors will really want from the infrastructure summit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/12/hey-big-spenders-what-foreign-investors-will-really-want-from-the-infrastructure-summit-251798/" aria-label="Read more about Hey big spenders: what foreign investors will really want from the infrastructure summit">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2025
By Jodesz Gavilan in Manila Paolo* was just 15 years old when he witnessed the Philippine National Police (PNP) mercilessly kill his father in 2016. Nearly nine years later, the scales are shifting as Rodrigo Duterte, the man who unleashed death upon his family and thousands of others, now faces the weight of justice before ... <a title="Drug war victims’ families celebrate Duterte’s arrest, vow to keep fighting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/12/drug-war-victims-families-celebrate-dutertes-arrest-vow-to-keep-fighting/" aria-label="Read more about Drug war victims’ families celebrate Duterte’s arrest, vow to keep fighting">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2025
By Terence Malapa in Port Vila Vanuatu’s media community was in mourning today following the death of Marc Neil-Jones, founder of the Trading Post Vanuatu, which later became the Vanuatu Daily Post, and also radio 96BuzzFM. He was 67. His fearless pursuit of press freedom and dedication to truth have left an indelible mark on ... <a title="Vanuatu mourns loss of iconic Pacific media pioneer Marc Neil-Jones" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/11/vanuatu-mourns-loss-of-iconic-pacific-media-pioneer-marc-neil-jones/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu mourns loss of iconic Pacific media pioneer Marc Neil-Jones">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naomi Smith, Lecturer in Sociology, University of the Sunshine Coast Last Monday, March 3, the Bureau of Meteorology warned residents of Queensland and New South Wales that Tropical Cyclone Alfred was coming their way. The storm was expected to hit the coast on Thursday or Friday. By ... <a title="Why conspiracy theories and misinformation spread in the long wait for Cyclone Alfred" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/11/why-conspiracy-theories-and-misinformation-spread-in-the-long-wait-for-cyclone-alfred-251899/" aria-label="Read more about Why conspiracy theories and misinformation spread in the long wait for Cyclone Alfred">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ali Mamouri, Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University Shortly after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, the new government led by rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa pledged to unite Syrians and establish a “civil peace” in the country. In recent days, this fragile peace has ... <a title="After mass killings in Syria, can a fragmented country stay united?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/11/after-mass-killings-in-syria-can-a-fragmented-country-stay-united-251903/" aria-label="Read more about After mass killings in Syria, can a fragmented country stay united?">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Keiran Hardy, Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University The recent discovery of a caravan full of explosives in Dural, in Sydney’s northwest, caused significant fear about the possibility of a mass casualty attack. On Monday, the Australian Federal Police declared it and 14 antisemitic attacks a ... <a title="Is ‘fake’ terrorism still terrorism? Here’s what the Sydney caravan incident tells us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/11/is-fake-terrorism-still-terrorism-heres-what-the-sydney-caravan-incident-tells-us-251908/" aria-label="Read more about Is ‘fake’ terrorism still terrorism? Here’s what the Sydney caravan incident tells us">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger Jones, Professorial Research Fellow, Victoria University Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred is the latest in a succession of extreme rainfall events to wreak havoc on coastal communities in New South Wales and Queensland. Over 500 kilometres of coastline has been affected, with extreme rainfall and flooding reaching inland ... <a title="In the wake of Alfred, how do we think about and measure the cost of catastrophes?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/11/in-the-wake-of-alfred-how-do-we-think-about-and-measure-the-cost-of-catastrophes-251704/" aria-label="Read more about In the wake of Alfred, how do we think about and measure the cost of catastrophes?">Read more</a>
