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October 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jan Lanicek, Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW Sydney In November 2025, cinemas worldwide will release Nuremberg, a courtroom drama directed by James Vanderbilt. The film focuses on the International Military Tribunal against 24 major Nazi war criminals (though two were ultimately not ... <a title="Friday essay: the Nuremberg Trials at 80 – could such a reckoning ever happen again?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/17/friday-essay-the-nuremberg-trials-at-80-could-such-a-reckoning-ever-happen-again-267313/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: the Nuremberg Trials at 80 – could such a reckoning ever happen again?">Read more</a>
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October 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Beattie, Lecturer, Media and Communication, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images A wave of proposed social media bans for young people has swept the globe recently, fuelled by mounting concern about the apparent harm the likes of TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat can ... <a title="As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/17/as-social-media-age-restrictions-spread-is-the-internet-entering-its-victorian-era-267610/" aria-label="Read more about As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era?">Read more</a>
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October 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Lockey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Business School Richard Drury/Getty Have you ever used artificial intelligence (AI) in your job without double-checking the quality or accuracy of its output? If so, you wouldn’t be the only one. Our global research shows a staggering two-thirds (66%) of employees ... <a title="AI ‘workslop’ is creating unnecessary extra work. Here’s how we can stop it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/17/ai-workslop-is-creating-unnecessary-extra-work-heres-how-we-can-stop-it-267110/" aria-label="Read more about AI ‘workslop’ is creating unnecessary extra work. Here’s how we can stop it">Read more</a>
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October 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Tookey, Professor of Construction Management, Auckland University of Technology The Gaza Strip is a tortured piece of land that is about 40km long and 11km wide. Some 2.3 million souls are crammed into a space of around 360 square kilometres. This is barely larger than central ... <a title="With 83% of its buildings destroyed, Gaza needs more than money to rebuild" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/17/with-83-of-its-buildings-destroyed-gaza-needs-more-than-money-to-rebuild-267431/" aria-label="Read more about With 83% of its buildings destroyed, Gaza needs more than money to rebuild">Read more</a>
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October 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ed Harrison, PhD Candidate, Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour, University of Bath Last September, Reform leader Nigel Farage dismissed a policy of mass deportations as a “political impossibility”. Now, a year on, the party has pledged to deport up to 600,000 illegal migrants and retrospectively strip ... <a title="Inside the far-right social media ecosystem normalising extremist ideas in UK politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/17/inside-the-far-right-social-media-ecosystem-normalising-extremist-ideas-in-uk-politics-266948/" aria-label="Read more about Inside the far-right social media ecosystem normalising extremist ideas in UK politics">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It was a classic “old bull” versus “young bull” struggle, and the old bull showed he had life in him yet. Paul Keating was only one among many critics of the controversial aspects of Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ proposed superannuation tax ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Master communicator vs master tactician, the race between Chalmers and Burke" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/grattan-on-friday-master-communicator-vs-master-tactician-the-race-between-chalmers-and-burke-267221/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Master communicator vs master tactician, the race between Chalmers and Burke">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Hole, Professor, Mathematical Sciences Institute and School of Computing, Australian National University The ITER fusion reactor under construction in 2021. Jean-Marie Hosatte / Getty Images Over the past five years, private-sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is approaching US$10 billion (A$15 billion), ... <a title="Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/billions-in-private-cash-is-flooding-into-fusion-power-will-it-pay-off-266354/" aria-label="Read more about Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off?">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia whitebalance.space/Getty Images This week, the United States non-profit Consumer Reports released its investigation testing 23 protein powders and ready-to-drink shakes from popular brands to see if they contained heavy metals. More ... <a title="Some US protein powders contain high levels of lead. Can I tell if mine is safe?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/some-us-protein-powders-contain-high-levels-of-lead-can-i-tell-if-mine-is-safe-267541/" aria-label="Read more about Some US protein powders contain high levels of lead. Can I tell if mine is safe?">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hamish Clarke, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne We’ve all seen the alarming images. Smoke belching from the thick forests of the Amazon. Spanish firefighters battling flames across farmland. Blackened celebrity homes in Los Angeles and smoked out regional towns in Australia. If you felt like ... <a title="The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/the-climate-crisis-is-fuelling-extreme-fires-across-the-planet-267626/" aria-label="Read more about The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne The rate of unemployment in Australia is on the rise again. Official labour force data released on Thursday shows that in the month to September, Australia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate jumped from 4.3% to 4.5%. That’s the highest ... <a title="What a surprise spike in the unemployment rate means for interest rates and the economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/what-a-surprise-spike-in-the-unemployment-rate-means-for-interest-rates-and-the-economy-267624/" aria-label="Read more about What a surprise spike in the unemployment rate means for interest rates and the economy">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geetanjali (Tanji) Lamba, Public Health Physician, Medical Advisor and PhD Candidate, Monash University Felix Cesare/Getty Voluntary assisted dying is being debated in the Northern Territory (NT) parliament this week. The NT is now the last jurisdiction in Australia without voluntary assisted dying laws. But it wasn’t always ... <a title="How voluntary assisted dying in the NT would be different to down south" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/how-voluntary-assisted-dying-in-the-nt-would-be-different-to-down-south-267429/" aria-label="Read more about How voluntary assisted dying in the NT would be different to down south">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwyn McClelland, Senior Lecturer, Japanese Studies, University of New England At first, there might not seem to be any immediate similarities between a devastated Nagasaki after the US atomic bombing in 1945 and Gaza today, aside from massive destruction. But in considering Gaza’s recovery from war – ... <a title="As Gaza starts to rebuild, what lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/as-gaza-starts-to-rebuild-what-lessons-can-be-learned-from-nagasaki-in-1945-267437/" aria-label="Read more about As Gaza starts to rebuild, what lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?">Read more</a>
