Analysis: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on June 10, 2025.
MIL-Evening Report: Keith Rankin Analysis – Remembering New Zealand’s Missing Tragedy
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Keith Rankin, trained as an economic historian, is a retired lecturer in Economics and Statistics. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Every country has its tragedies. A few are highly remembered. Most are semi-remembered. Others are almost entirely forgotten. Sometimes the loss of memory is due to these tragedies being to […]
MIL-Evening Report: A 10-fold increase in rocket launches would start harming the ozone layer – new research
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Revell, Associate Professor in Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Canterbury Han Jiajun/VCG via Getty Images The international space industry is on a growth trajectory, but new research shows a rapid increase in rocket launches would damage the ozone layer. Several hundred rockets are launched globally each year […]
MIL-OSI Global: Can Israel still claim self-defence to justify its Gaza war?
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Donald Rothwell, Professor of International Law, Australian National University On October 7 2023, more than 1,000 Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel and went on a killing spree, murdering 1,200 men, women and children and abducting another 250 people to take back to Gaza. It was the […]
MIL-Evening Report: For the first time, fossil stomach contents of a sauropod dinosaur reveal what they really ate
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Poropat, Research Associate, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University Artist’s reconstruction of Judy. Travis Tischler Since the late 19th century, sauropod dinosaurs (long-necks like Brontosaurus and Brachiosaurus) have been almost universally regarded as herbivores, or plant eaters. However, until recently, no direct evidence – […]
MIL-Evening Report: The Racial Discrimination Act at 50: the bumpy, years-long journey to Australia’s first human rights laws
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Azadeh Dastyari, Director, Research and Policy, Whitlam Institute, Western Sydney University On June 11, Australia marks 50 years since the Racial Discrimination Act became law. This important legislation helps make sure people are treated equally no matter their race, skin colour, background, or where they come from. […]
MIL-Evening Report: Some economists have called for a radical ‘global wealth tax’ on billionaires. How would that work?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Venkat Narayanan, Senior Lecturer – Accounting and Tax, RMIT University Rudy Balasko/Shutterstock Earlier this year, I attended a housing conference in Sydney. The event’s opening address centred on the way Australia seems to be becoming like 18th-century England – a country where inheritance largely determines one’s opportunities […]
MIL-Evening Report: Fake news and real cannibalism: a cautionary tale from the Dutch Golden Age
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers, attributed to Jan de Baen, c. 1672-1675. Rijksmuseum The Dutch Golden Age, beginning in 1588, is known for the art of Rembrandt, the invention of the microscope, and the […]
MIL-Evening Report: As livestock numbers grow, wild animal populations plummet. Giving all creatures a better future will take a major rethink
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clive Phillips, Adjunct Professor in Animal Welfare, Curtin University Toa55/Shutterstock As a teenager in the 1970s, I worked on a typical dairy farm in England. Fifty cows grazed on lush pastures for most of their long lives, each producing about 12 litres of milk daily. They were […]
MIL-Evening Report: Australia’s whooping cough surge is not over – and it doesn’t just affect babies
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Niall Johnston, Conjoint Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney Tomsickova Tatyana/Shutterstock Whooping cough (pertussis) is always circulating in Australia, and epidemics are expected every three to four years. However, the numbers we’re seeing with the current surge – which started in 2024 – are higher than […]
MIL-OSI Global: Ultra-processed foods are everywhere — and they’re quietly raising health risks
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Angelina Baric, PhD Student, Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University It’s not exactly news that junk food isn’t healthy. What may be surprising is exactly how pervasive ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have become and what harm they’re doing. This includes some foods that are specifically labelled and marketed as having […]
MIL-OSI Global: Keir Starmer says migrants should learn English to integrate. Is he being fair?
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Huw Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Aberystwyth University Pressmaster/Shutterstock The UK government’s proposed immigration reforms emphasise the need for migrants to learn English in order to integrate successfully. Some of the new measures announced include raising the level of English language skills required from migrants that wish to […]
MIL-OSI Global: Shoemaker Clarks is turning 200. Its Quaker roots made it a pioneer of ethical business
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicholas Burton, Professor, Department of Leadership and Human Resource Management, Northumbria University, Newcastle DELBO ANDREA/Shutterstock For many, the Clarks brand is a byword for sturdy school shoes and functional footwear for those of more mature years. The manufacturing and retailing company was set up two centuries ago in […]
MIL-OSI Global: Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anna Jon-And, Director of Centre for Cultural Evolution, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese, Stockholm University No matter how much you want to believe it … Patrick Rolands Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don’t? It’s one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind […]
MIL-OSI Global: Diverticular disease: the surprisingly common gut condition you’ve probably never heard of
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sophie Davies, Lecturer in Nutrition & Dietetics, Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University It’s not something people often talk about at the dinner table, but your gut health plays a huge role in your overall wellbeing. And one of the most common conditions affecting […]
MIL-OSI Global: Trump’s use of the national guard against LA protesters defies all precedents
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sinead McEneaney, Senior Lecturer in History, The Open University Violence has erupted on the streets of cities across southern California over the weekend, as protesters clashed with agents from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency detaining people they suspected to be illegal immigrants. The US president, […]
MIL-OSI Global: Edmund White was my friend – I know first-hand why his writing meant so much to queer readers
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Hugh Stevens, Senior Lecturer Department of English Language & Literature, UCL When I was 19 years old, I visited New York for ten days on the way to London. I was flying from New Zealand, that small island nation in the South Pacific where all sexual acts between […]
MIL-OSI Global: Why wind farm developers are pulling out at the last minute
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Thomas York, Postgraduate Researcher in Human Geography, University of Leicester ShutterDesigner/Shutterstock The UK government’s strategy for tackling climate change received a major blow in May when Danish developer Ørsted announced that adverse economic developments had halted its 2.4 gigawatt (GW) Hornsea 4 wind farm in the North Sea. […]
MIL-OSI Global: Hedgehog poo could hold important secrets about local biodiversity
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Research fellow in Ecology and Conservation, University of Oxford Jayne Morgan Biodiversity, the rich variety of life found on Earth, is vanishing. I’m a conservation scientist keen to monitor this loss to better understand where efforts to reverse it will be most effective. And I […]
MIL-OSI Global: The food affordability crisis is one reason governments need to step up for school food
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Tina Moffat, Professor, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University Despite the hard work and dedication of hundreds of local grassroots organizations across the country to deliver student nutrition programs, there are, too often, not enough funds to purchase the food to meet student needs. As described in a study […]
MIL-OSI Global: Wildfire smoke can harm your brain, not just your lungs
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Dr Bhavini Gohel, Clinical Associate Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary Wildfires are already burning in parts of Canada, and as they do, many communities are already facing the familiar thick haze as smoke drifts in. Smoke from wildfires has already led Environment Canada to issue […]