ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on September 25, 2025.
Stuck on a problem? Talking to a rubber duck might unlock the solution
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elliot Varoy, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, University of Sydney S. Tsuchiya/Unsplash You’re neck-deep in IKEA assembly instructions. Furniture parts lie strewn across the floor. Your new purchase sits half-complete in front of you, mocking your fruitless hours. As an uninterested partner walks in, you let
Young people are saving on rent by staying at home longer, but ‘you pay with your mental health’
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Stone, Professor of Housing & Social Policy, HHAUS Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology JulPo/Getty Images In the face of Australia’s housing crisis and current cost-of-living pressures, young people today continue to miss out on housing opportunities earlier generations could largely grasp. The
Goodbye petrostates, hello ‘electrostates’: how the clean energy shift is reshaping the world order
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Niusha Shafiabady, Associate Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University Wang Dongming/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images For more than a century, global geopolitics has revolved around oil and gas. Countries with big fossil fuel reserves, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, have amassed significant wealth and
Why This Is Spinal Tap remains the funniest rock satire ever made
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Daniel, Associate Lecturer in Communication, Western Sydney University Embassy Pictures Corporation/Getty Images With Spinal Tap II: The End Continues hitting cinemas, now is the perfect moment to revisit its precursor, one of most influential and hilarious comedy films ever made, 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap. Directed
A new twist on Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle can sharpen quantum sensors
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tingrei Tan, Sydney Horizon Fellow and ARC Future Fellow, Quantum Control Laboratory, University of Sydney dianaarturovna / Getty Images For almost a century, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle has stood as one of the defining ideas of quantum physics: a particle’s position and momentum cannot be known at the
Tasmania will compensate people for historical LGBTQIA+ convictions. Could others follow suit?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole L. Asquith, Professor, University of Tasmania, Queensland University of Technology In the coming week, the Tasmanian parliament will consider two bills that will cement Tasmania as the Rainbow Isle. The laws, which have bipartisan support, will provide compensation for those historically convicted of homosexuality and cross-dressing
A $100 million fine for ‘appalling’ predatory sales practices caps a horror week for Optus
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeannie Marie Paterson, Professor of Law (consumer protections and credit law), The University of Melbourne A Federal Court judge on Wednesday ordered Optus to pay a A$100 million fine for its “appalling” high-pressure sales tactics over several years up to 2023. More than 400 people were pressured
View from The Hill: Albanese’s Trump meeting is in the diary – now it’s a matter of managing it
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With Anthony Albanese now having his long-awaited meeting with United States President Donald Trump locked in and announced by the White House, the prime ministerial attention will turn to managing an unpredictable encounter. Having the October 20 face-to-face in Washington
How exactly would a Triple Zero custodian help prevent a repeat of the fatal Optus outage?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney In the wake of last week’s Optus network outage that left multiple people dead after they were unable to call Triple Zero for help, there has been much discussion about the need for a Triple
What is the rapture, and why does TikTok believe the end is coming?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland Michelangelo, The Last Judgment (Fresco, Sistine Chapel Altar Wall), between 1536 and 1541. WIkimedia Commons If you believe that the end of the world is at hand, then you really need to
Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of misinformation
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, 2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University Bank Phrom/Unsplash, The Conversation, CC BY-SA Twenty-one years after Facebook’s launch, Australia’s top 25 news outlets now have a combined 27.6 million followers on the platform. They rely on Facebook’s reach
One Battle After Another is the latest film shot in VistaVision, a 1950s format making a big comeback
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide IMDb Paul Thomas Anderson’s eagerly awaited new film, One Battle After Another, hits Australian screens tomorrow. The action-political thriller is Anderson’s first film in four years, and his first collaboration with actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The film is
Social media age restrictions may go further than you thought. Here’s how
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Ralph Olazo / Unsplash Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, today outlined an updated list of platforms that may fall under the social media age restrictions that will take effect later
