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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government has announced 20,000 home care packages will be brought forward to be delivered before the end of October – immediately after opposing doing so in the Senate. The Coalition, Greens and crossbenchers passed an amendment to aged ... <a title="Albanese government to bring forward home care packages in major backdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/albanese-government-to-bring-forward-home-care-packages-in-major-backdown-263912/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese government to bring forward home care packages in major backdown">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stella Huangfu, Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney Diego Fedele/Getty Images The Australian economy picked up strength in the June quarter as consumers opened their wallets, boosted by interest rate cuts earlier in the year. New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed gross ... <a title="Australia’s economy shows best result in two years as consumer spending picks up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/australias-economy-shows-best-result-in-two-years-as-consumer-spending-picks-up-264277/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s economy shows best result in two years as consumer spending picks up">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Turlington, PhD Candidate, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University Airam Dato-on/Pexels Scientists have long used sound to study wildlife. Bird calls, bat echolocation and whale songs, for example, have provided valuable insights for decades. But listening to entire ecosystems is a much newer frontier. Listening to rivers ... <a title="Australia’s rivers play secret symphonies. Click to hear what this underwater world is telling us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/australias-rivers-play-secret-symphonies-click-to-hear-what-this-underwater-world-is-telling-us-264262/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s rivers play secret symphonies. Click to hear what this underwater world is telling us">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Lindsey, Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne For many Indonesians, the violent riots currently wracking Jakarta and other cities across the archipelago are eerily reminiscent of the riots of 1998 that ... <a title="What’s behind the rioting in Indonesia? And will the much-loathed political elite back down?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/whats-behind-the-rioting-in-indonesia-and-will-the-much-loathed-political-elite-back-down-264470/" aria-label="Read more about What’s behind the rioting in Indonesia? And will the much-loathed political elite back down?">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Immigration has once again become a hot button issue, from weekend protests featuring neo-Nazis to a new A$408 million deal with Nauru to accept former immigration detainees Australia cannot legally deport back to their own countries. The federal government has ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Abul Rizvi on how silence and stalling stoke anti-migrant fears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/politics-with-michelle-grattan-abul-rizvi-on-how-silence-and-stalling-stoke-anti-migrant-fears-264351/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Abul Rizvi on how silence and stalling stoke anti-migrant fears">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on September 3, 2025.
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ger Post, Lecturer Neuroscience, PhD student collaborative reasoning, The University of Melbourne With the AFL finals approaching, discussions about the league’s clutch players – those who excel under pressure – will soon appear in the media and be debated among fans. Last year, Gold Coast captain Noah ... <a title="So-called ‘clutch’ athletes might be more hype than nerveless match-winners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/so-called-clutch-athletes-might-be-more-hype-than-nerveless-match-winners-263111/" aria-label="Read more about So-called ‘clutch’ athletes might be more hype than nerveless match-winners">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Collins, Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle If you follow wellness content on social media or in the news, you’ve probably heard that processed food is not just unhealthy, but can cause serious harm. Eating a diet dominated by highly processed foods means ... <a title="Not all processed foods are bad for you. Here’s what you can tell from reading the label" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/not-all-processed-foods-are-bad-for-you-heres-what-you-can-tell-from-reading-the-label-260818/" aria-label="Read more about Not all processed foods are bad for you. Here’s what you can tell from reading the label">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Murray, Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, Swinburne University of Technology lakshmiprasad S/Getty Images The hype around protein intake doesn’t seem to be going away. Social media is full of people urging you to eat more protein, including via supplements such as protein shakes. Food companies have also started ... <a title="What happens if I eat too much protein?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/what-happens-if-i-eat-too-much-protein-261849/" aria-label="Read more about What happens if I eat too much protein?">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sanné Mestrom, Senior Lecturer, DECRA Fellow, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney Maja Baska Photography Walk into most art galleries with children, and you’ll hear the familiar refrain “look but don’t touch”. This instruction reveals something troubling about how cultural institutions understand learning. Museums have ... <a title="Touch reveals what eyes can’t see – so museums should embrace interactivity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/touch-reveals-what-eyes-cant-see-so-museums-should-embrace-interactivity-257325/" aria-label="Read more about Touch reveals what eyes can’t see – so museums should embrace interactivity">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
The colleagues of these Palestinian journalists in the Western press broadcast from the border fence with Gaza decked out in flak jackets and helmets, where they have as much chance of being hit by shrapnel or a bullet as being struck by an asteroid. They scurry like lemmings to briefings by Israeli officials. They are ... <a title="Chris Hedges: The betrayal of Palestinian journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/chris-hedges-the-betrayal-of-palestinian-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Chris Hedges: The betrayal of Palestinian journalists">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Medbury, Lecturer in Intelligence and Security, Edith Cowan University Cyber crime group ShinyHunters has received global attention after Google urged 2.5 billion users to tighten their security following a data breach via Salesforce, a customer management platform. Unlike data breaches where hackers directly break into databases ... <a title="What are ShinyHunters, the hackers that attacked Google? Should we all be worried?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/03/what-are-shinyhunters-the-hackers-that-attacked-google-should-we-all-be-worried-264271/" aria-label="Read more about What are ShinyHunters, the hackers that attacked Google? Should we all be worried?">Read more</a>
