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October 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Coral Gartner, Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University of Queensland Australian Border Force Reports of illegal tobacco crimes have sharply increased in Australia in recent years. Organised crime syndicates believed to be behind tobacco smuggling operations have also infiltrated the ... <a title="Queensland landlords could soon face jail for ignoring illegal tobacco. What are other states doing?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/08/queensland-landlords-could-soon-face-jail-for-ignoring-illegal-tobacco-what-are-other-states-doing-266895/" aria-label="Read more about Queensland landlords could soon face jail for ignoring illegal tobacco. What are other states doing?">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Shackell, Sessional Academic, School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology A crowd gathers outside the New York Stock Exchange following the ‘Great Crash’ of October 1929. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, US Library of Congress The electrification boom of the 1920s ... <a title="Today’s AI hype has echoes of a devastating technology boom and bust 100 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/08/todays-ai-hype-has-echoes-of-a-devastating-technology-boom-and-bust-100-years-ago-265492/" aria-label="Read more about Today’s AI hype has echoes of a devastating technology boom and bust 100 years ago">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Qiang Tang, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Sydney Joan Gammell/Unsplash Nowadays data breaches aren’t rare shocks – they’re a weekly drumbeat. From leaked customer records to stolen source code, our digital lives keep spilling into the open. Git services are especially vulnerable to cybersecurity threats. These ... <a title="The world’s most sensitive computer code is vulnerable to attack. A new encryption method can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/08/the-worlds-most-sensitive-computer-code-is-vulnerable-to-attack-a-new-encryption-method-can-help-266236/" aria-label="Read more about The world’s most sensitive computer code is vulnerable to attack. A new encryption method can help">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amit Arora, Associate Professor in Public Health, Western Sydney University Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images Thousands of residents in Dubbo and Wellington, in western New South Wales, haven’t had fluoride added to their tap water for nearly seven years. After a public outcry, the council’s fluoridation equipment is ... <a title="Some towns are cutting fluoride from water supplies. Here’s what this means for locals’ teeth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/08/some-towns-are-cutting-fluoride-from-water-supplies-heres-what-this-means-for-locals-teeth-266501/" aria-label="Read more about Some towns are cutting fluoride from water supplies. Here’s what this means for locals’ teeth">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leslie Baird, Associate Professor, CQUniversity Australia Every year, we hear the same story about addressing Indigenous disadvantage. Closing the Gap targets remain unmet, incarceration and suicide rates continue to rise, and children are removed from families at alarming rates. Despite these persistent failures, governments continue to fund ... <a title="We’ve tried and failed to Close the Gap for 15 years. Research shows what actually works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/08/weve-tried-and-failed-to-close-the-gap-for-15-years-research-shows-what-actually-works-264690/" aria-label="Read more about We’ve tried and failed to Close the Gap for 15 years. Research shows what actually works">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Hume, Lecturer In Theatre (Voice), Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne Particle6 Productions Tilly Norwood officially launched her acting career this month at the Zurich Film Festival. She first appeared in the short film AI Commissioner, released in July. Her producer, Eline Van ... <a title="Would you watch a film with an AI actor? What Tilly Norwood tells us about art – and labour rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/08/would-you-watch-a-film-with-an-ai-actor-what-tilly-norwood-tells-us-about-art-and-labour-rights-266476/" aria-label="Read more about Would you watch a film with an AI actor? What Tilly Norwood tells us about art – and labour rights">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan St John, Honorary Associate Professor, Economic Policy Centre, Auckland Business School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Social Development Minister Louise Upston Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images When the government announced in its May budget that it would tighten eligibility for young New Zealanders getting Jobseeker benefits, there ... <a title="Jobseeker changes turn young adults into dependent children – and squeeze households further" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/08/jobseeker-changes-turn-young-adults-into-dependent-children-and-squeeze-households-further-266785/" aria-label="Read more about Jobseeker changes turn young adults into dependent children – and squeeze households further">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Two years ago, who would have imagined the police and the Palestine Action Group (PAG) would be fighting in court over whether demonstrators should be allowed to rally outside the Sydney Opera House? Indeed, 24 months ago, who would have ... <a title="View from The Hill: Two years of a distant war have brought much damage to Australian society" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/07/view-from-the-hill-two-years-of-a-distant-war-have-brought-much-damage-to-australian-society-265858/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Two years of a distant war have brought much damage to Australian society">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Two years ago, Snowy Hydro announced a reset for its troubled Snowy 2.0 giant pumped hydro project amid cost blowouts. The supposed final cost was A$12 billion. Last week, Snowy Hydro acknowledged this figure was no ... <a title="Snowy 2.0 cost blowouts might be OK if the scheme stored power more cheaply than batteries. But it won’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/07/snowy-2-0-cost-blowouts-might-be-ok-if-the-scheme-stored-power-more-cheaply-than-batteries-but-it-wont-266776/" aria-label="Read more about Snowy 2.0 cost blowouts might be OK if the scheme stored power more cheaply than batteries. But it won’t">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robin Shields, Professor of Education and Head of School, The University of Queensland Klaus Vedfelt/ Getty Images Australian teachers are more likely to be using artificial intelligence than their counterparts around the world, according to a new international survey. The OECD’s latest Teaching and Learning International Survey ... <a title="Australian teachers are some of the highest users of AI in classrooms around the world – new survey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/07/australian-teachers-are-some-of-the-highest-users-of-ai-in-classrooms-around-the-world-new-survey-266894/" aria-label="Read more about Australian teachers are some of the highest users of AI in classrooms around the world – new survey">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angela Rintoul, Principal Research Fellow – Gambling and Suicide, The University of Melbourne Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images Monday night’s ABC Four Corners’ investigation highlighted major issues with the regulation of online gambling in Australia. Regulators are responsible for safeguarding the public from serious gambling harms. However, ... <a title="Australia’s gambling harm is likely underreported – and authorities are still failing to act" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/07/australias-gambling-harm-is-likely-underreported-and-authorities-are-still-failing-to-act-266773/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s gambling harm is likely underreported – and authorities are still failing to act">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Weismueller, Lecturer, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia Medy Siregar/Unsplash There’s been a striking decline in public confidence in social media platforms, according to the 2025 Ethics Index published by the Governance Institute of Australia. One in four Australians now rate social media as ... <a title="People trust podcasts more than social media. But is the trust warranted?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/07/people-trust-podcasts-more-than-social-media-but-is-the-trust-warranted-266791/" aria-label="Read more about People trust podcasts more than social media. But is the trust warranted?">Read more</a>
