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Month: September 2025

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Canadian cities can prepare for climate change by building with nature

September 17, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Skoyles, PhD Candidate, School of Planning, University of Waterloo A tree-lined street in downtown Vancouver providing shade to pedestrians. (Adam Skoyles), CC BY The housing affordability crisis is top of mind for many around the world, including Canadians. Between 2019 and 2024, house prices in Toronto ... <a title="Canadian cities can prepare for climate change by building with nature" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/17/canadian-cities-can-prepare-for-climate-change-by-building-with-nature-263608/" aria-label="Read more about Canadian cities can prepare for climate change by building with nature">Read more</a>

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Opposition leader Sussan Ley commits to more targeted welfare, saying it shouldn’t go to high income households

September 17, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Opposition leader Sussan Ley says welfare should be targeted “to those who truly need it”, and people should be helped “off welfare and into self-reliance”. In her first major economic speech as leader, Ley on Wednesday will lay down some ... <a title="Opposition leader Sussan Ley commits to more targeted welfare, saying it shouldn’t go to high income households" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/17/opposition-leader-sussan-ley-commits-to-more-targeted-welfare-saying-it-shouldnt-go-to-high-income-households-265379/" aria-label="Read more about Opposition leader Sussan Ley commits to more targeted welfare, saying it shouldn’t go to high income households">Read more</a>

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Death Cap Murders portrays Erin Patterson as a woman who craved community – and would ‘stop at nothing’

September 16, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Cantrell, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Editing and Publishing, University of Southern Queensland Catherine Marciniak/Stan Last week, Erin Patterson was sentenced to life in prison, with a non-parole period of 33 years, for three counts of murder and one of attempted murder. Justice Christopher Beale acknowledged the media ... <a title="Death Cap Murders portrays Erin Patterson as a woman who craved community – and would ‘stop at nothing’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/16/death-cap-murders-portrays-erin-patterson-as-a-woman-who-craved-community-and-would-stop-at-nothing-264330/" aria-label="Read more about Death Cap Murders portrays Erin Patterson as a woman who craved community – and would ‘stop at nothing’">Read more</a>

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Charlie Kirk shooting suspect had ties to gaming culture and the ‘dark internet’. Here’s how they radicalise

September 16, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Australian Catholic University Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man suspected of having fatally shot right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, is reportedly not cooperating with authorities. Robinson was apprehended after a more than two-day manhunt and is being held without bail at the ... <a title="Charlie Kirk shooting suspect had ties to gaming culture and the ‘dark internet’. Here’s how they radicalise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/16/charlie-kirk-shooting-suspect-had-ties-to-gaming-culture-and-the-dark-internet-heres-how-they-radicalise-265279/" aria-label="Read more about Charlie Kirk shooting suspect had ties to gaming culture and the ‘dark internet’. Here’s how they radicalise">Read more</a>

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Keith Rankin Essay – Geopolitical rugby: Bad plays Evil, for the final World Cup

September 16, 2025

Essay by Keith Rankin. Today’s geopolitics is already coming very close to a war (mainly of words, so far) between Asia and Europe (both entities broadly and loosely defined). For geopolitical purposes we may call this a war of hubris and cant between East and West. Conveniently for the West, the words East and Evil ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Geopolitical rugby: Bad plays Evil, for the final World Cup" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/16/keith-rankin-essay-geopolitical-rugby-bad-plays-evil-for-the-final-world-cup/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Geopolitical rugby: Bad plays Evil, for the final World Cup">Read more</a>

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View from The Hill: Hastie refuses to accept that politics, like military service, requires some discipline

September 16, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Only a few months into her leadership, Sussan Ley is facing an extraordinary insurgency from Liberal frontbenchers. Last week she had to sack Jacinta Price for refusing to endorse her leadership. Now she is being warned, bluntly, that if the ... <a title="View from The Hill: Hastie refuses to accept that politics, like military service, requires some discipline" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/16/view-from-the-hill-hastie-refuses-to-accept-that-politics-like-military-service-requires-some-discipline-265011/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Hastie refuses to accept that politics, like military service, requires some discipline">Read more</a>

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Can Charlie Kirk really be considered a ‘martyr’? A Christianity historian explains

September 16, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan L. Zecher, Associate Professor, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University Charlie Kirk: white nationalist, conservative Christian, right-wing social media personality, shooting victim, and now, a “martyr”. That is, according to his supporters. Since Kirk’s death last week, a number of his followers from ... <a title="Can Charlie Kirk really be considered a ‘martyr’? A Christianity historian explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/16/can-charlie-kirk-really-be-considered-a-martyr-a-christianity-historian-explains-265283/" aria-label="Read more about Can Charlie Kirk really be considered a ‘martyr’? A Christianity historian explains">Read more</a>

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Australia needs more workers. These are the policy changes that would help get them

September 16, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aruna Sathanapally, Chief Executive, Grattan Institute Getty Despite the fear of Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking our jobs, we actually don’t have enough workers. The Baby Boomer generation is retiring and Australia’s workforce is ageing. The challenge of finding the workers we need will grow over the coming ... <a title="Australia needs more workers. These are the policy changes that would help get them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/16/australia-needs-more-workers-these-are-the-policy-changes-that-would-help-get-them-265191/" aria-label="Read more about Australia needs more workers. These are the policy changes that would help get them">Read more</a>

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Older Australians collect an average of 31 PBS scripts a year – new research

September 16, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hui Wen Quek, PhD candidate, Discipline of Pharmacy, The University of Western Australia SimpleImages/Getty Images Australians are living longer than ever before. While this is broadly good news, ageing well comes with a range of challenges. As people grow older, they’re more likely to develop multiple chronic ... <a title="Older Australians collect an average of 31 PBS scripts a year – new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/16/older-australians-collect-an-average-of-31-pbs-scripts-a-year-new-research-261271/" aria-label="Read more about Older Australians collect an average of 31 PBS scripts a year – new research">Read more</a>

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Details on how Australia’s social media ban for under-16s will work are finally becoming clear

September 16, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Richard Baker / Getty Images The Australian government today released regulatory guidance on the social media minimum age law, which comes into effect on December 10. The law will restrict individuals ... <a title="Details on how Australia’s social media ban for under-16s will work are finally becoming clear" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/16/details-on-how-australias-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-will-work-are-finally-becoming-clear-265323/" aria-label="Read more about Details on how Australia’s social media ban for under-16s will work are finally becoming clear">Read more</a>

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New climate report warns property prices face a $611 billion hit. What does that mean?

September 16, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher and Sustainable Future Lead, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Climate risks are hitting where Australians feel it most: at home. One of the headline-grabbing figures in a new climate risk assessment was that Australian property values could take a A$611 billion ... <a title="New climate report warns property prices face a $611 billion hit. What does that mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/16/new-climate-report-warns-property-prices-face-a-611-billion-hit-what-does-that-mean-265284/" aria-label="Read more about New climate report warns property prices face a $611 billion hit. What does that mean?">Read more</a>