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September 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato Christian Dala/Unsplash Food prices remain high even as inflation eases, and instant noodles are at the top of the list of cheap options. More than 100 billion servings of instant ramen are consumed each year, making ... <a title="Instant ramen: a short history of a long noodle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/19/instant-ramen-a-short-history-of-a-long-noodle-263271/" aria-label="Read more about Instant ramen: a short history of a long noodle">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Evans, Adjunct Researcher, English and Writing, University of Tasmania Liz Evans interviewing Ozzy Osbourne in Paris. In the 1990s, I was a rock journalist striving to assert myself as a young woman, working at the heart of the United Kingdom’s male-dominated music press. I loved my ... <a title="Friday essay: I loved being a ‘90s rock journalist, but sometimes it was a boys’ club nightmare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/19/friday-essay-i-loved-being-a-90s-rock-journalist-but-sometimes-it-was-a-boys-club-nightmare-256474/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: I loved being a ‘90s rock journalist, but sometimes it was a boys’ club nightmare">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ferdi Botha, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne The degree of bodily pain reported by Australians has grown over the last two decades, and this increase cannot be attributed only to an ageing population. Pain is a serious ... <a title="Australians are in more pain – and our new data shows it’s not just due to ageing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/19/australians-are-in-more-pain-and-our-new-data-shows-its-not-just-due-to-ageing-265294/" aria-label="Read more about Australians are in more pain – and our new data shows it’s not just due to ageing">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Pickles, Professor of History, University of Canterbury Kate Sheppard National Memorial, Christchurch. Michal Klajban via Wikimedia Political and social reformer Kate Sheppard is famous for leading the campaign that saw New Zealand women become first in the world to gain the right to vote on September ... <a title="Kate Sheppard’s kitchen: an old recipe sheds new light on the feminist pioneer’s life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/19/kate-sheppards-kitchen-an-old-recipe-sheds-new-light-on-the-feminist-pioneers-life-265463/" aria-label="Read more about Kate Sheppard’s kitchen: an old recipe sheds new light on the feminist pioneer’s life">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthias Vanmaercke, Associate professor BOF Faculty of Science, KU Leuven In fast-growing cities like some in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), heavy rains are carving huge scars into the land. Known as urban gullies, these deep erosion channels can swallow homes, destroy roads and displace entire ... <a title="Soil erosion is tearing DRC cities apart: what’s causing urban gullies, and how to prevent them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/19/soil-erosion-is-tearing-drc-cities-apart-whats-causing-urban-gullies-and-how-to-prevent-them-264497/" aria-label="Read more about Soil erosion is tearing DRC cities apart: what’s causing urban gullies, and how to prevent them">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government is hoping it can successfully juggle multiple audiences with its 2035 emissions reduction target. With a specific number, no single set of stakeholders could have been fully satisfied without alienating another. In opting for a range, and ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese government’s 2035 target range is aimed at multiple audiences" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/grattan-on-friday-albanese-governments-2035-target-range-is-aimed-at-multiple-audiences-265380/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese government’s 2035 target range is aimed at multiple audiences">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margarita Vladimirova, PhD in Privacy Law and Facial Recognition Technology, Deakin University Steve Christo – Corbis / Getty Images Today the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner found retail giant Kmart breached Australians’ privacy. The company had collected personal and sensitive information through a facial recognition technology ... <a title="Kmart broke privacy laws by scanning customers’ faces. What did it do wrong, and why?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/kmart-broke-privacy-laws-by-scanning-customers-faces-what-did-it-do-wrong-and-why-265576/" aria-label="Read more about Kmart broke privacy laws by scanning customers’ faces. What did it do wrong, and why?">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rod Sims, Professor in Public Policy and Antitrust, The University of Melbourne Hulton Archive/Getty Australia’s new emission reduction target of 62–70% by 2035 is meant to demonstrate we are doing our part to hold climate change well below 2°C. The new target can just about do this ... <a title="Cut emissions 70% by 2035? There’s only one policy that can get us there" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/cut-emissions-70-by-2035-theres-only-one-policy-that-can-get-us-there-264884/" aria-label="Read more about Cut emissions 70% by 2035? There’s only one policy that can get us there">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Neale, Professor and Senior Group Leader, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute Cavan Images/Kathleen Carney/Getty What does wearing SPF50+ sunscreen every day do to your vitamin D levels? Our study, recently published in the British Journal of Dermatology, provides some answers. We found using SPF50+ every day, ... <a title="If I use SPF50+ sunscreen every day do I need to take vitamin D?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/if-i-use-spf50-sunscreen-every-day-do-i-need-to-take-vitamin-d-265479/" aria-label="Read more about If I use SPF50+ sunscreen every day do I need to take vitamin D?">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ritu Trivedi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Health Sciences, University of Sydney Apple has announced a package of health features, alongside the launch of the new Apple Watch Series 11, including an alert that the wearer may have high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. Around 1.3 ... <a title="Could an Apple watch really tell you if you have high blood pressure?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/could-an-apple-watch-really-tell-you-if-you-have-high-blood-pressure-264987/" aria-label="Read more about Could an Apple watch really tell you if you have high blood pressure?">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Senior Lecturer School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University Lady Godiva – an icon of protest, myth and sensual defiance – has galloped through centuries of our cultural imagination. She is most widely known for the legend of her naked horse ride, in ... <a title="From a naked rider to icon of resistance, the legend of Lady Godiva lives on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/from-a-naked-rider-to-icon-of-resistance-the-legend-of-lady-godiva-lives-on-264347/" aria-label="Read more about From a naked rider to icon of resistance, the legend of Lady Godiva lives on">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University History’s path is never linear. But its turns can be very sharp. It is rare to be able to identify the moment when we can say “this is the point at which everything ... <a title="Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation is the latest sign we’re witnessing the end of US democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/jimmy-kimmels-cancellation-is-the-latest-sign-were-witnessing-the-end-of-us-democracy-265574/" aria-label="Read more about Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation is the latest sign we’re witnessing the end of US democracy">Read more</a>
