ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on November 17, 2025.
School exemptions to discrimination law leave religious LGBTQIA+ teens unprotected
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Gardiner, Research Associate, Western Sydney University It’s a common misconception that religion and gender and sexuality diversity are at odds with one another. There’s good reason for this. Some LGBTQIA+ people have had very difficult experiences in religious settings. But in reality, many LGBTQIA+ people hold
Some women start menopause after surgery or medical treatment. Here’s how it’s different
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn Ee, Senior Research Fellow, NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University MomentoJpeg/Getty Images For most women, menopause occurs naturally around the age of 49. In the lead up to menopause, the quality and quantity of eggs declines over time. Then the ovaries stop releasing eggs completely.
Plane and car crash testing is still designed to keep men safe. That puts women in danger
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natasha Heap, Program Director for the Bachelor of Aviation, University of Southern Queensland Karl Baron/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY The next time you board a commercial flight and are told how to sit in the brace position for an emergency landing, consider this: did you know that international
Samoan PM back home as journalist alleges assault outside his residence
RNZ Pacific Samoan Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has returned home after an eight-week absence for medical treatment in New Zealand. La’aulialemalietoa departed Apia for Auckland on a private jet just days after being sworn in as Samoa’s eighth prime minister on September 16. The Samoan government had previously said he was expected to return
Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development and democracy
Pacific Media University of the South Pacific’s Associate Professor Shailendra Singh, who edited the inaugural edition of Pacific Media journal along with co-editor Dr Amit Sarwal, has responded to the publication with a Q and A. The new journal has replaced the Pacific Journalism Review, which was founded by Professor David Robie at the University
By delaying a decision on using Russia’s frozen assets for Ukraine, Europe is quietly hedging its bets
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Korolev, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, UNSW Sydney As Russia continues its grinding offensive and Ukraine braces for another winter of war, the European Union remains paralysed over a seemingly straightforward decision: whether to use 140 billion euros (A$250 billion) in frozen Russian assets
How do you fire someone into the Sun?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael J. I. Brown, Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University SpaceX/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the Sun. It sounds easy enough. The Sun is unbelievably massive, with gravity
By delaying decision on using Russia’s frozen assets for Ukraine, Europe is quietly hedging its bets
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Korolev, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, UNSW Sydney As Russia continues its grinding offensive and Ukraine braces for another winter of war, the European Union remains paralysed over a seemingly straightforward decision: whether to use 140 billion euros (A$250 billion) in frozen Russian assets
Australian drug driving deaths have surpassed drink driving. Here’s how to tackle it
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne Australia has made major progress in curbing drink driving. Decades of random breath testing, enforcement and powerful social media campaigns have cut alcohol-related road deaths significantly. Yet new data show more
Parents of neurodivergent kids need support. But those who need it most often wait longer
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelsie Boulton, Senior Research Fellow in Child Neurodevelopment, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney Parenting any young child is full of highs and lows. In addition to these, parents and caregivers of children with neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more
‘I do get quite anxious’: why so many students are applying for early offers to uni
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Edwards, Professor, Child and Youth Development and Longitudinal Studies, Australian National University An increasing number of Australian school students are applying for an early offer to university, before they have their exam results back. Last Thursday, nearly 16,000 students in New South Wales and the Australian
Kraftwerk’s equipment defined electronic music. Now it’s on sale to the highest bidder
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Rees-Lee, PhD Candidate, School of Design, RMIT University Julien’s Auctions On November 18 and 19 in Nashville, United States, auction house Julien’s will auction more than 450 items from the estate of Florian Schneider, the co-founder of German electronic band Kraftwerk. It is difficult to overstate
Just 18 firms won 50% of federal Indigenous procurement spending: new study
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Eva, Research Fellow, POLIS: The Centre for Social Research and Policy, Australian National University Australia’s decade-old Indigenous Procurement Policy has been hailed by both sides of politics as a success in Indigenous economic policy. Started in 2015 as a way to address under-investment in Indigenous businesses
The fire is out, but Tongariro is now at risk of losing its unique biological legacy
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Deslippe, Senior Lecturer in Plant Ecology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Department of Conservation, CC BY-NC-SA The sight of flames tearing across Tongariro National Park last week was heartbreaking for lovers of the landscape. It was also potentially disastrous for a world-renowned alpine
Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet NZ remains silent
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto Israeli prison guards punish the prisoners “by breaking their thumbs” said a released detainee as lawyers speak out about torture, abuse, rape, starving and killings in a notorious underground Israeli prison facility where detainees are held without sunlight, brutalised. And nobody in New Zealand says a word. Scores of detainees from
View from The Hill: Coalition parties jointly cremate net zero, while leadership contenders circle Sussan Ley
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Coalition parties on Sunday formally endorsed a joint policy on climate and energy that drops the commitment to net zero and gives priority to affordable power. But settling this contentious issue has failed to ease the pressure on Sussan
