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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute The federal government has announced a long-awaited climate change target for 2035, committing to a reduction in emissions of between 62% and 70% below 2005 levels. Environmentalists claim the target is a failure, while some business groups and the opposition ... <a title="The Albanese government has finally set a 2035 climate course – and it’s a mission Australia must accept" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/the-albanese-government-has-finally-set-a-2035-climate-course-and-its-a-mission-australia-must-accept-264885/" aria-label="Read more about The Albanese government has finally set a 2035 climate course – and it’s a mission Australia must accept">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 has announced Australia will commit to cutting emissions by between 62% and 70% on 2005 levels by 2035. The wide range seeks to straddle, to the extent possible, those in business pressing for the target to be ... <a title="Government announces 2035 target of 62–70% emissions reduction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/government-announces-2035-target-of-62-70-emissions-reduction-265381/" aria-label="Read more about Government announces 2035 target of 62–70% emissions reduction">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on September 18, 2025.
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Hurley, Lecturer in Criminology (police & policing). School of International Studies, Macquarie University Dezi Freeman has been on the run for four weeks, and police have been very careful to keep secret where and how they have been searching for him. This is standard policing practice ... <a title="The timelines and tough decisions police will be weighing up in the Dezi Freeman hunt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/the-timelines-and-tough-decisions-police-will-be-weighing-up-in-the-dezi-freeman-hunt-265382/" aria-label="Read more about The timelines and tough decisions police will be weighing up in the Dezi Freeman hunt">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Johnson, Lecturer, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University A screenshot of a video reportedly showing an airstrike on a boat. Donald Trump/Truth Social In the past few weeks, the United States military has been involved in multiple fatal strikes on boats in international waters ... <a title="US strikes on Venezuelan ‘drug boats’ have killed 14 people. What is Trump trying to do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/us-strikes-on-venezuelan-drug-boats-have-killed-14-people-what-is-trump-trying-to-do-265481/" aria-label="Read more about US strikes on Venezuelan ‘drug boats’ have killed 14 people. What is Trump trying to do?">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Hume, Senior Research Fellow in Materials Science, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images Solar power is now the cheapest form of electricity in most countries, including New Zealand, and its global uptake is growing exponentially. So far, New Zealand’s adoption of solar ... <a title="Solar power cuts electricity bills and carbon emissions – NZ needs to scale up faster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/solar-power-cuts-electricity-bills-and-carbon-emissions-nz-needs-to-scale-up-faster-264766/" aria-label="Read more about Solar power cuts electricity bills and carbon emissions – NZ needs to scale up faster">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Wilson, PhD Candidate in Emerging Technologies Governance, Institue for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney melanfolia/Unsplash Last month, courts on both sides of the Atlantic delivered a clear verdict: when classifying titanium dioxide as carcinogenic, regulatory agencies had overreached. These parallel legal defeats expose deeper questions ... <a title="Court rulings increasingly demand scientific certainty – but that’s not always possible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/court-rulings-increasingly-demand-scientific-certainty-but-thats-not-always-possible-264991/" aria-label="Read more about Court rulings increasingly demand scientific certainty – but that’s not always possible">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Thompson, Lecturer in Theatre, Australian Catholic University Studio Canal/John P The new Australian family film, Kangaroo, is a rare beast. It’s not just a movie for kids that adults can tolerate. It’s funny, heartfelt, emotionally authentic and ultimately uplifting. It’s been 25 years since director Kate ... <a title="Kate Woods’ new film Kangaroo is the heartwarming pick-me-up you didn’t know you needed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/kate-woods-new-film-kangaroo-is-the-heartwarming-pick-me-up-you-didnt-know-you-needed-261173/" aria-label="Read more about Kate Woods’ new film Kangaroo is the heartwarming pick-me-up you didn’t know you needed">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Debjani Ganguly, Professor of Literature, Australian Catholic University Photo: Mayank Austen Soofi “She was my shelter and my storm.” With these words in the opening pages of her memoir, Arundhati Roy unfurls a narrative of extraordinary filial bonds that renders trite those therapeutic memoirs of family dysfunction ... <a title="Magical alchemy: Arundhati Roy’s compelling memoir illuminates a ‘restless, unruly’ life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/magical-alchemy-arundhati-roys-compelling-memoir-illuminates-a-restless-unruly-life-262506/" aria-label="Read more about Magical alchemy: Arundhati Roy’s compelling memoir illuminates a ‘restless, unruly’ life">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ang Li, ARC DECRA and Senior Research Fellow, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne This year, ten days of extreme heat in Europe killed roughly 2,300 people, severe flooding on the New South Wales ... <a title="Heat, air quality, insurance costs: how climate change is affecting our homes – and our health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/heat-air-quality-insurance-costs-how-climate-change-is-affecting-our-homes-and-our-health-263278/" aria-label="Read more about Heat, air quality, insurance costs: how climate change is affecting our homes – and our health">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Art Jipson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton President Donald Trump is targeting left-wing organizations he incorrectly says promote political violence. Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist groups ... <a title="Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence − what the data shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/right-wing-extremist-violence-is-more-frequent-and-more-deadly-than-left-wing-violence-what-the-data-shows-265367/" aria-label="Read more about Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence − what the data shows">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Lu ShaoJi/Getty If you could, would you pay to live forever? Some Silicon Valley billionaires aren’t just making tech products – they’ve set their sights on immortality. Social media is flooded ... <a title="A booming longevity industry wants to sell us ‘immortality’. There could be hidden costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/a-booming-longevity-industry-wants-to-sell-us-immortality-there-could-be-hidden-costs-264879/" aria-label="Read more about A booming longevity industry wants to sell us ‘immortality’. There could be hidden costs">Read more</a>
