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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Dunn, Professor of Urban Design, Lancaster University Nighttime in Jakarta, Indonesia. Akhnaffauzi/Shutterstock For billions of years, life has depended on Earth’s rhythm of day and night. DNA codifies body clocks in all animals and plants, which helps their cells act according to this cycle of light ... <a title="‘Darkening’ cities is as important for wildlife as greening them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/darkening-cities-is-as-important-for-wildlife-as-greening-them-252259/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Darkening’ cities is as important for wildlife as greening them">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government has decided to include YouTube accounts in its ban on access to social media for those under the age of 16. The decision will be controversial with many social media users, especially young people, and face resistance ... <a title="Albanese government to include YouTube in social media ban for under-16s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/albanese-government-to-include-youtube-in-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-262124/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese government to include YouTube in social media ban for under-16s">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese will recall well when another Labor prime minister was feeling the heat over Palestinian status. It was 2012 and then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard was forced into a corner over the stand Australia should take on a motion to ... <a title="View from The Hill: Albanese wants international cover before Australia recognises Palestine as a state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/view-from-the-hill-albanese-wants-international-cover-before-australia-recognises-palestine-as-a-state-262028/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Albanese wants international cover before Australia recognises Palestine as a state">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Isaac, Research Fellow, Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney The Magis Bell Chair, made from recycled plastic, saves energy during production and transport and produces less waste for recycling or disposal at end of life. Magis What springs to mind when you’re asked to ... <a title="From futuristic design icon to environmental villain – the 80-year history of the plastic chair" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/from-futuristic-design-icon-to-environmental-villain-the-80-year-history-of-the-plastic-chair-257470/" aria-label="Read more about From futuristic design icon to environmental villain – the 80-year history of the plastic chair">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amra Lee, PhD candidate in Protection of Civilians, Australian National University Israel partially lifted its aid blockade of Gaza this week in response to intensifying international pressure over the man-made famine in the devastated coastal strip. The United Arab Emirates and Jordan airdropped 25 tonnes of food ... <a title="Air-dropping food into Gaza is a ‘smokescreen’ – this is what must be done to prevent mass starvation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/air-dropping-food-into-gaza-is-a-smokescreen-this-is-what-must-be-done-to-prevent-mass-starvation-262053/" aria-label="Read more about Air-dropping food into Gaza is a ‘smokescreen’ – this is what must be done to prevent mass starvation">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Fioritti, Lecturer in Politics, School of Social Sciences, Monash University As the fallout of the expulsion of Australian Greens co-founder Drew Hutton continues, Hutton and others have claimed the Greens have “lost their way” and are “in real trouble”. Do such claims stand up? Hutton’s expulsion ... <a title="The Greens’ expulsion of a co-founder is unlikely to jeopardise the party’s future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/the-greens-expulsion-of-a-co-founder-is-unlikely-to-jeopardise-the-partys-future-261768/" aria-label="Read more about The Greens’ expulsion of a co-founder is unlikely to jeopardise the party’s future">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Temple, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology, Western Sydney University As a molecular biologist, talking to the public about my work with DNA has often felt like trying to translate a foreign language. This got me thinking: could these scientific ideas be presented in an artistic way, ... <a title="Forget AI-generated music, this music was composed using DNA sequences" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/forget-ai-generated-music-this-music-was-composed-using-dna-sequences-261368/" aria-label="Read more about Forget AI-generated music, this music was composed using DNA sequences">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis Wesselbaum, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Otago It is late July, and New Zealand is slowly receiving economic data from the June quarter. Inflation has hit a 12-month high, for example, confirming what many already suspected. But the country is still nearly two months ... <a title="How real-time data can lead to better decisions on everything from NZ’s interest rates to business investment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/how-real-time-data-can-lead-to-better-decisions-on-everything-from-nzs-interest-rates-to-business-investment-261378/" aria-label="Read more about How real-time data can lead to better decisions on everything from NZ’s interest rates to business investment">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ming Gao, Research Fellow of East Asia Studies, Lund University Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images Japan’s embassy in Laos and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a rare and unusually direct advisory, warning Japanese men against “buying sex from children” in Laos. The move was sparked ... <a title="A rare, direct warning from Japan signals a shift in the fight against child sex tourism in Asia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/a-rare-direct-warning-from-japan-signals-a-shift-in-the-fight-against-child-sex-tourism-in-asia-261554/" aria-label="Read more about A rare, direct warning from Japan signals a shift in the fight against child sex tourism in Asia">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris F. Wright, Professor of Work and Labour Market Policy, University of Sydney Ron Lach/Pexels, CC BY The Albanese government is pushing ahead with new legislation to protect penalty rates and overtime for about 2.6 million workers under the award system. Those workers are more likely to ... <a title="Employers warn Labor’s push to lock in penalty rates is bad for business – but it’s not that simple" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/employers-warn-labors-push-to-lock-in-penalty-rates-is-bad-for-business-but-its-not-that-simple-261858/" aria-label="Read more about Employers warn Labor’s push to lock in penalty rates is bad for business – but it’s not that simple">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aditya Joshi, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney Emily Morter/Unsplash In 2018, my Australian co-worker asked me, “Hey, how are you going?”. My response – “I am taking a bus” – was met with a smirk. I had recently moved to Australia. Despite ... <a title="‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/are-you-joking-mate-ai-doesnt-get-sarcasm-in-non-american-varieties-of-english-254986/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University In Australia, there is growing recognition that children and young people are not just witnesses to domestic, family and sexual violence, but victim-survivors in their own right. While we are getting better at understanding how coercive ... <a title="‘I was very fearful of my parents’: new research shows how parents can use coercive control on their children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/29/i-was-very-fearful-of-my-parents-new-research-shows-how-parents-can-use-coercive-control-on-their-children-261169/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I was very fearful of my parents’: new research shows how parents can use coercive control on their children">Read more</a>
