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Month: October 2025

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Jim Chalmers unveils major retreat on controversial superannuation changes

October 13, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government has finally announced a major retreat on its proposed controversial superannuation changes. The plan to tax unrealised capital gains has been dumped altogether, and the proposed new $3 million threshold will be indexed, as well as a ... <a title="Jim Chalmers unveils major retreat on controversial superannuation changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/13/jim-chalmers-unveils-major-retreat-on-controversial-superannuation-changes-267220/" aria-label="Read more about Jim Chalmers unveils major retreat on controversial superannuation changes">Read more</a>

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The Shiralee brings a Shakespearean energy to the Aussie swag-man’s life

October 13, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kirk Dodd, Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney Prudence Upton/Sydney Theatre Company A lyrical homage to the spirit of the Australian bush, Sydney Theatre Company’s The Shiralee is set on the highways and byways of 1950s Australia, with brief visits to the urban squalor of ... <a title="The Shiralee brings a Shakespearean energy to the Aussie swag-man’s life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/13/the-shiralee-brings-a-shakespearean-energy-to-the-aussie-swag-mans-life-264976/" aria-label="Read more about The Shiralee brings a Shakespearean energy to the Aussie swag-man’s life">Read more</a>

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Trump’s ‘shock and awe’ foreign policy achieved a breakthrough in Gaza – but is it sustainable?

October 13, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lester Munson, Non-Resident Fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney US President Donald Trump will visit Israel and Egypt this week to oversee the initial implementation of his Gaza peace agreement, which many hope will permanently end the two-year war in the strip. Should the peace ... <a title="Trump’s ‘shock and awe’ foreign policy achieved a breakthrough in Gaza – but is it sustainable?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/13/trumps-shock-and-awe-foreign-policy-achieved-a-breakthrough-in-gaza-but-is-it-sustainable-267316/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s ‘shock and awe’ foreign policy achieved a breakthrough in Gaza – but is it sustainable?">Read more</a>

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Australia’s ‘ISIS brides’ have returned. Governments can do better at handling this situation

October 13, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kiriloi M. Ingram, Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Queensland In 2014, the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group declared a caliphate, a form of Islamic government headed by a caliph, considered to be a successor to the prophet Muhammad. This correlated with a global campaign of ... <a title="Australia’s ‘ISIS brides’ have returned. Governments can do better at handling this situation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/13/australias-isis-brides-have-returned-governments-can-do-better-at-handling-this-situation-267213/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s ‘ISIS brides’ have returned. Governments can do better at handling this situation">Read more</a>

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Your body can be a portable gym: how to ditch membership fees and expensive equipment

October 13, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan van den Hoek, Senior Lecturer, Clinical Exercise Physiology, University of the Sunshine Coast monika kabise JeCVBSpS xU unsplash Monika Kabise/Unsplash You don’t need a gym membership, dumbbells, or expensive equipment to get stronger. Since the beginning of time, we’ve had access to the one piece of ... <a title="Your body can be a portable gym: how to ditch membership fees and expensive equipment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/13/your-body-can-be-a-portable-gym-how-to-ditch-membership-fees-and-expensive-equipment-264036/" aria-label="Read more about Your body can be a portable gym: how to ditch membership fees and expensive equipment">Read more</a>

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What is gingivitis? How do I know if I have it?

October 13, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dileep Sharma, Professor and Head of Discipline – Oral Health, University of Newcastle Helena Lopes/Pexels Do your gums look red and often bleed when you brush them, but they’re not painful? If so, you could have the gum disease gingivitis. Gingivitis is one of the most common ... <a title="What is gingivitis? How do I know if I have it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/13/what-is-gingivitis-how-do-i-know-if-i-have-it-264335/" aria-label="Read more about What is gingivitis? How do I know if I have it?">Read more</a>

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Eugene Doyle: The Nobel Peace laureate who calls for US bombing of her own country

October 13, 2025

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Within hours of being named the Nobel Peace laureate for 2025, María Corina Machado called on President Trump to step up his military and economic campaign against her own country — Venezuela. The curriculum vitae of the opposition leader hardly lines up with what one would typically associate with a Peace ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: The Nobel Peace laureate who calls for US bombing of her own country" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/13/eugene-doyle-the-nobel-peace-laureate-who-calls-for-us-bombing-of-her-own-country/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: The Nobel Peace laureate who calls for US bombing of her own country">Read more</a>

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If government bailouts of companies are the new normal, we need a better strategic vision

October 13, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland The federal government’s announcement of a A$600 million rescue package for Glencore’s copper smelting and refining operations in Mount Isa and Townsville marks a definitive shift in Australia’s industry policy. The announcement follows the $2.4 billion rescue ... <a title="If government bailouts of companies are the new normal, we need a better strategic vision" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/13/if-government-bailouts-of-companies-are-the-new-normal-we-need-a-better-strategic-vision-267111/" aria-label="Read more about If government bailouts of companies are the new normal, we need a better strategic vision">Read more</a>

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Unusual red rocks in Australia are rewriting the rules on exceptional fossil sites

October 13, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tara Djokic, Scientific Officer, Palaeontology, Australian Museum; UNSW Sydney Fossilised fish from McGraths Flat. Salty Dingo Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia’s most extraordinary fossil sites – McGraths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million ... <a title="Unusual red rocks in Australia are rewriting the rules on exceptional fossil sites" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/13/unusual-red-rocks-in-australia-are-rewriting-the-rules-on-exceptional-fossil-sites-266904/" aria-label="Read more about Unusual red rocks in Australia are rewriting the rules on exceptional fossil sites">Read more</a>

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Why Trump is not a death knell for global climate action

October 13, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt McDonald, Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland GettyImages Rasid Necati Aslim/Getty In his rambling speech to the United Nations last month, United States President Donald Trump described climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”. Of course, this claim was ... <a title="Why Trump is not a death knell for global climate action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/13/why-trump-is-not-a-death-knell-for-global-climate-action-266350/" aria-label="Read more about Why Trump is not a death knell for global climate action">Read more</a>

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IFJ condemns Australian lobby censorship bids to ‘silence’ reporting on Gaza

October 13, 2025

Pacific Media Watch The global peak journalism body has condemned the targeting, harassment, and censorship by lobby groups of Australian journalists for reporting critically on Israel’s war on Gaza. The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Australian affiliate, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), said in a statement they were attempts to ... <a title="IFJ condemns Australian lobby censorship bids to ‘silence’ reporting on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/13/ifj-condemns-australian-lobby-censorship-bids-to-silence-reporting-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about IFJ condemns Australian lobby censorship bids to ‘silence’ reporting on Gaza">Read more</a>