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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne The recent Stonehaven school bus rollover in Victoria, in which 12-year-old Milla Killeen was killed and many others were injured, reminds us that bus crashes, though uncommon, can have devastating consequences. ... <a title="Bus seatbelts can save lives. How do we get more people to wear them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/bus-seatbelts-can-save-lives-how-do-we-get-more-people-to-wear-them-264112/" aria-label="Read more about Bus seatbelts can save lives. How do we get more people to wear them?">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Terry Goldsworthy, Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University A large-scale hunt is underway for Dezi Freeman, the so-called sovereign citizen who allegedly killed two Victorian Police officers while they were attempting to execute a search warrant. Freeman fled into the bushland surrounding the Porepunkah ... <a title="Treacherous terrain: the search for alleged police killer Dezi Freeman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/treacherous-terrain-the-search-for-alleged-police-killer-dezi-freeman-264034/" aria-label="Read more about Treacherous terrain: the search for alleged police killer Dezi Freeman">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Medicare, aged care and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) are all key parts of Australians’ lives. But for the federal government, each of these areas – especially growing demand and rising costs – remains a challenge. In a bid ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Health Minister Mark Butler on everything from Thriving Kids to aged care funding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/politics-with-michelle-grattan-health-minister-mark-butler-on-everything-from-thriving-kids-to-aged-care-funding-263436/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Health Minister Mark Butler on everything from Thriving Kids to aged care funding">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Medicare, aged care and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) are all key parts of Australians’ lives. But for the federal government, each of these areas – especially growing demand and rising costs – remains a challenge. In a bid ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Health Minister Mark Butler on kids on the NDIS through to aged care funding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/politics-with-michelle-grattan-health-minister-mark-butler-on-kids-on-the-ndis-through-to-aged-care-funding-263436/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Health Minister Mark Butler on kids on the NDIS through to aged care funding">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ryan Storr, Research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology It has been a challenging few weeks for both the AFL and LGBTQIA+ communities, with a sixth incident of homophobia in the men’s competition since the league’s crackdown on this damaging language. Read more: Australian sports media is compounding ... <a title="Mitch Brown’s bravery can change the score for LGBTIQA+ people – and the AFL’s fight against homophobia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/mitch-browns-bravery-can-change-the-score-for-lgbtiqa-people-and-the-afls-fight-against-homophobia-264033/" aria-label="Read more about Mitch Brown’s bravery can change the score for LGBTIQA+ people – and the AFL’s fight against homophobia">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Charwat, Senior Lecturer, Business Law and Taxation and Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching, Monash Business School, Monash University Until this week, thousands of Australian small businesses that exported to the United States relied on a simple system that had worked for decades. Parcels worth less ... <a title="Australia’s small business shipments are caught in the US-China trade war crossfire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/australias-small-business-shipments-are-caught-in-the-us-china-trade-war-crossfire-263943/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s small business shipments are caught in the US-China trade war crossfire">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy HoYuan Chan, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University Kateryna Kovarzh/Getty My travels with autism started long before my diagnosis at the age of three years and three months. My family noticed autistic features from around 15 months of age. I never ... <a title="I’m autistic and don’t speak. Here’s what I want you to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/im-autistic-and-dont-speak-heres-what-i-want-you-to-know-262198/" aria-label="Read more about I’m autistic and don’t speak. Here’s what I want you to know">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel You, Clinical Lecturer USYD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist FRANZCP, University of Sydney Cheng Xin/Getty Images News Within two days of launching its AI companions last month, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot app Grok became the most popular app in Japan. Companion chatbots are more powerful and seductive ... <a title="In a lonely world, widespread AI chatbots and ‘companions’ pose unique psychological risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/in-a-lonely-world-widespread-ai-chatbots-and-companions-pose-unique-psychological-risks-263615/" aria-label="Read more about In a lonely world, widespread AI chatbots and ‘companions’ pose unique psychological risks">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Gourlay, Teaching Associate in Politics & International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University A Turkish proverb – düştüğün yerden kalk – counsels that one should arise from where one has fallen. Ekrem İmamoğlu, the jailed mayor of Istanbul and main rival to President ... <a title="Polls suggest this man could become Turkey’s next president. Erdoğan is doing everything to stop him" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/polls-suggest-this-man-could-become-turkeys-next-president-erdogan-is-doing-everything-to-stop-him-263034/" aria-label="Read more about Polls suggest this man could become Turkey’s next president. Erdoğan is doing everything to stop him">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Espiner, Associate Professor, Department of Tourism, Sport & Society, Lincoln University, New Zealand Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto via Getty Images Recent calls from sections of the tourism industry to cut the international visitor levy (IVL) risk undermining one of the few bright spots in current government policies shaping ... <a title="Tourist trap: why charging entry fees at iconic NZ natural attractions could have hidden costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/tourist-trap-why-charging-entry-fees-at-iconic-nz-natural-attractions-could-have-hidden-costs-263609/" aria-label="Read more about Tourist trap: why charging entry fees at iconic NZ natural attractions could have hidden costs">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Nickl, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Culture, Literature and Translation, University of Sydney The Conversation, Ashby/TikTok, CC BY-SA Why do so many of the funniest things on social media make no sense at all? How about Ashby’s stunt scenes for a back brace infomercial on a white ... <a title="Why TikTok is the perfect home for absurdist comedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/why-tiktok-is-the-perfect-home-for-absurdist-comedy-263190/" aria-label="Read more about Why TikTok is the perfect home for absurdist comedy">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Drew Terasaki Hart, Ecologist, CSIRO The average seasonal growth cycles of Earth’s land-based ecosystems, estimated from 20 years of satellite imagery. Terasaki Hart et al. / Nature The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our ... <a title="See Earth’s seasons in all their complexity in a new animated map" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/see-earths-seasons-in-all-their-complexity-in-a-new-animated-map-262935/" aria-label="Read more about See Earth’s seasons in all their complexity in a new animated map">Read more</a>
