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November 4, 2025
William Faulkner was right: past events continue to inform and shape our world. With powerful forces gathering to reassert US dominance over not just Venezuela but the entire Western hemisphere, the vexed issue of local elites, for example Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado and her backers, enlisting an imperial power in domestic broils, is again top ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Venezuela and Trump’s war to save the Ancien Régime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/04/eugene-doyle-venezuela-and-trumps-war-to-save-the-ancien-regime/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Venezuela and Trump’s war to save the Ancien Régime">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stella Huangfu, Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has kept the cash rate steady at 3.6%. Its board unanimously agreed it was better to “remain cautious” on interest rates. While borrowers may have been hoping for rate ... <a title="RBA keeps interest rates on hold, leaving borrowers looking further ahead for relief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/04/rba-keeps-interest-rates-on-hold-leaving-borrowers-looking-further-ahead-for-relief-268876/" aria-label="Read more about RBA keeps interest rates on hold, leaving borrowers looking further ahead for relief">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Finlay Macdonald, New Zealand Editor, The Conversation Former New Zealand Herald journalist Jamie Morton has joined The Conversation New Zealand as Deputy Editor. Jamie comes to The Conversation with 20 years of experience in newsrooms, including 14 years at The New Zealand Herald, where he covered science, ... <a title="Jamie Morton joins The Conversation New Zealand as Deputy Editor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/04/jamie-morton-joins-the-conversation-new-zealand-as-deputy-editor-268985/" aria-label="Read more about Jamie Morton joins The Conversation New Zealand as Deputy Editor">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on November 4, 2025.
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November 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anish Purkayastha, Senior lecturer, University of Sydney Optus has promised its staff will be held accountable for September’s Triple Zero outage – but only after “the dust settles” on current investigations. Three deaths have been linked to the outage. On Monday, the first day of hearings for ... <a title="Even if heads roll at Optus, we may not know much about their executive payouts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/04/even-if-heads-roll-at-optus-we-may-not-know-much-about-their-executive-payouts-268487/" aria-label="Read more about Even if heads roll at Optus, we may not know much about their executive payouts">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Preuss, Professor of Structural Materials, Monash University; University of Manchester A view towards the particle injector of the Australian Synchrotron. Paul Moons/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA There has been much excitement since Australia signed a landmark agreement with the United States last month to expand cooperation on critical ... <a title="Cuts to key research facilities threaten Australia’s ability to be a global scientific leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/04/cuts-to-key-research-facilities-threaten-australias-ability-to-be-a-global-scientific-leader-268886/" aria-label="Read more about Cuts to key research facilities threaten Australia’s ability to be a global scientific leader">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A People’s Mission to Kanaky New Caledonia says the French Pacific territory remains in a fragile political and social transition nearly three decades after the signing of the Nouméa Accord. It says the pro-independence unrest in May last year has “left visible scars” — not only in a damaged economy but in ... <a title="People’s mission to Kanaky warns over ‘broken trust’ in France about decolonisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/04/peoples-mission-to-kanaky-warns-over-broken-trust-in-france-about-decolonisation/" aria-label="Read more about People’s mission to Kanaky warns over ‘broken trust’ in France about decolonisation">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phil Lester, Professor of Ecology and Entomology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington An Asian hornet (right) hunting honeybees as they emerge from the hive. Jean-Bernard Nadeau/Science Photo Library, CC BY-NC-ND The discovery of yellow-legged hornet nests in Auckland is frightening. There have been five ... <a title="A deadly European hornet has reached NZ – we can all help stop its spread" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/04/a-deadly-european-hornet-has-reached-nz-we-can-all-help-stop-its-spread-268874/" aria-label="Read more about A deadly European hornet has reached NZ – we can all help stop its spread">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University The Melbourne Cup, a 3,200–metre race for horses more than three years old, has long been called “the race that stops the nation”. Held each year on the first Tuesday in November at Flemington ... <a title="Is the Melbourne Cup losing its appeal? Here’s what the numbers reveal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/04/is-the-melbourne-cup-losing-its-appeal-heres-what-the-numbers-reveal-268653/" aria-label="Read more about Is the Melbourne Cup losing its appeal? Here’s what the numbers reveal">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gediminas Lipnickas, Lecturer in Marketing, University of South Australia Weichao Deng/Unsplash Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming commonplace, despite statistics showing that only approximately 7% to 13% (depending on size) of companies have incorporated AI into their regular business workflows. Adoption in specific business functions is far ... <a title="The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/04/the-doorman-fallacy-why-careless-adoption-of-ai-backfires-so-easily-268380/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christofer Clemente, Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biomechanics, University of the Sunshine Coast Every year on the first Tuesday of November, many Australians tune in to watch “the race that stops a nation”: the Melbourne Cup. Run at Flemington across 3,200 metres (two miles), the Melbourne Cup dates ... <a title="Could a cheetah win the Melbourne Cup?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/04/could-a-cheetah-win-the-melbourne-cup-267858/" aria-label="Read more about Could a cheetah win the Melbourne Cup?">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Moreau, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images Ever worried that skipping breakfast might leave you foggy at work? Or that intermittent fasting would make you irritable, distracted and less productive? Snack food ads warn us that “you’re not you when ... <a title="Does fasting dull your mental edge? We crunched the data for the best advice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/04/does-fasting-dull-your-mental-edge-we-crunched-the-data-for-the-best-advice-264019/" aria-label="Read more about Does fasting dull your mental edge? We crunched the data for the best advice">Read more</a>
