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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra While the Liberals have been performing reasonbly well in Parliament lately, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley still finds herself in an unenviable position. Ley’s presiding over a party split over its political identity – and even who should be leading it. ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: pollster Tony Barry on why the Coalition can’t risk ‘lurching to the right’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/politics-with-michelle-grattan-pollster-tony-barry-on-why-the-coalition-cant-risk-lurching-to-the-right-267435/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: pollster Tony Barry on why the Coalition can’t risk ‘lurching to the right’">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gilles E. Gignac, Associate Professor of Psychology, The University of Western Australia As your youth fades further into the past, you may start to fear growing older. But research my colleague and I have recently published in the journal Intelligence shows there’s also very good reason to ... <a title="Worried about turning 60? Science says that’s when many of us actually peak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/worried-about-turning-60-science-says-thats-when-many-of-us-actually-peak-267215/" aria-label="Read more about Worried about turning 60? Science says that’s when many of us actually peak">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Mudgway, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury Getty Images In her final speech as Wellington mayor, Tory Whanau spoke candidly about the relentless online abuse she faced during her term, much of it racist and sexist. None of it would have been reassuring for hopeful ... <a title="Polls and trolls: is violent online abuse turning women off local politics?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/polls-and-trolls-is-violent-online-abuse-turning-women-off-local-politics-267225/" aria-label="Read more about Polls and trolls: is violent online abuse turning women off local politics?">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hastings Dunn, Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham Following the Middle East summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal has been compared in the media to the Good Friday agreement which brought an end ... <a title="Egypt peace summit showed that Donald Trump’s Gaza deal is more showbiz extravaganza than the ‘dawn of a new Middle East’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/egypt-peace-summit-showed-that-donald-trumps-gaza-deal-is-more-showbiz-extravaganza-than-the-dawn-of-a-new-middle-east-267472/" aria-label="Read more about Egypt peace summit showed that Donald Trump’s Gaza deal is more showbiz extravaganza than the ‘dawn of a new Middle East’">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colleen Murrell, Chair of the Editorial Board, and Full Professor in Journalism, Dublin City University The world’s media are currently busy recording the tales of released Israeli hostages, freed Palestinian prisoners and their families after a ceasefire came into effect for the war in Gaza. But they ... <a title="Israel is still not allowing international media back into Gaza, despite the ceasefire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/israel-is-still-not-allowing-international-media-back-into-gaza-despite-the-ceasefire-267356/" aria-label="Read more about Israel is still not allowing international media back into Gaza, despite the ceasefire">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joseph Mellors, Research Associate in Management and Marketing, University of Westminster icemanphotos/Shutterstock If you ask an AI service like ChatGPT or Google Gemini to recommend a destination for your next summer holiday, it will happily provide you with a list of attractive destinations. But many of them ... <a title="How to use AI to guide your holiday plans – by a tourism expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/how-to-use-ai-to-guide-your-holiday-plans-by-a-tourism-expert-267277/" aria-label="Read more about How to use AI to guide your holiday plans – by a tourism expert">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kai Li Lim, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia and Research Fellow in E-Mobility, The University of Queensland Rafael Ben-Ari/Getty More public electric vehicle (EV) chargers will be built across Australia through a A$40 million funding boost, according to a recent government announcement. The ... <a title="Blocked bays and failed handshakes: many public EV chargers are unusable – despite being ‘online’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/blocked-bays-and-failed-handshakes-many-public-ev-chargers-are-unusable-despite-being-online-239402/" aria-label="Read more about Blocked bays and failed handshakes: many public EV chargers are unusable – despite being ‘online’">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By T.J. Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University Andres Aleman/Unsplash How do computers see the world? It’s not quite the same way humans do. Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) make it possible to do more things with computer image processing. You ... <a title="AI systems and humans ‘see’ the world differently – and that’s why AI images look so garish" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/ai-systems-and-humans-see-the-world-differently-and-thats-why-ai-images-look-so-garish-260178/" aria-label="Read more about AI systems and humans ‘see’ the world differently – and that’s why AI images look so garish">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rhys Knapton-Lonsdale, PhD Candidate, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Murdoch University Earlier this month, former SAS soldier Oliver Schulz pleaded not guilty to the war crime of murder. Schulz’s prosecution is historic: he is the first Australian soldier to be charged with a war crime. ... <a title="The first Australian war crimes case in 30 years is going to trial. It raises big questions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/the-first-australian-war-crimes-case-in-30-years-is-going-to-trial-it-raises-big-questions-263801/" aria-label="Read more about The first Australian war crimes case in 30 years is going to trial. It raises big questions">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jialing Lin, Research fellow in Health Systems, International Centre for Future Health Systems, UNSW Sydney Jessie Casson/Getty Our new study highlights a crucial, but often hidden, aspect of child health – the mental health impact of living with two or more neurodevelopmental conditions. We found children with ... <a title="Our study of 267,000 kids reveals the hidden burden of multiple developmental conditions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/our-study-of-267-000-kids-reveals-the-hidden-burden-of-multiple-developmental-conditions-267114/" aria-label="Read more about Our study of 267,000 kids reveals the hidden burden of multiple developmental conditions">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natalie Peng, Lecturer in Accounting, The University of Queensland After months of vociferous pushback from the superannuation industry and wealthy investors, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has softened his proposed super tax reforms. The move is a pragmatic political compromise – but it also raises questions about policy consistency ... <a title="The government’s super retreat fixes some design flaws, but creates a new distortion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/the-governments-super-retreat-fixes-some-design-flaws-but-creates-a-new-distortion-267422/" aria-label="Read more about The government’s super retreat fixes some design flaws, but creates a new distortion">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nikita Vanderbyl, Honorary research fellow, Department Archaeology and History, La Trobe University William Barak, Figures in possum skin cloaks (1898) Wikimedia Esteemed ngurungaeta (headman) William Barak is well-known to Victorians as a leader and artist who witnessed the signing of the controversial Batman Treaty in 1835. William ... <a title="William Barak’s missing art: Wurundjeri Elders lead the search to reclaim lost cultural treasures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/william-baraks-missing-art-wurundjeri-elders-lead-the-search-to-reclaim-lost-cultural-treasures-266069/" aria-label="Read more about William Barak’s missing art: Wurundjeri Elders lead the search to reclaim lost cultural treasures">Read more</a>
