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August 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Spies-Butcher, Associate professor, Macquarie University It’s the defining technology of an era. But just how artificial intelligence (AI) will end up shaping our future remains a controversial question. For techno-optimists, who see the technology improving our lives, it heralds a future of material abundance. That outcome ... <a title="If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/18/if-ai-takes-most-of-our-jobs-money-as-we-know-it-will-be-over-what-then-262338/" aria-label="Read more about If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney The power of the war photograph is that it won’t let you look away. And nowhere is this proving truer than in Gaza. One recent example portrayed a skeletal boy, Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, ... <a title="Images from Gaza have shocked the world – but the ‘spectacle of suffering’ is a double-edged sword" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/18/images-from-gaza-have-shocked-the-world-but-the-spectacle-of-suffering-is-a-double-edged-sword-262693/" aria-label="Read more about Images from Gaza have shocked the world – but the ‘spectacle of suffering’ is a double-edged sword">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Smith, Senior Lecturer of Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne Thurtell/Getty Images One student was routinely punished for her “ADHD behaviours” at school, another was locked in a classroom, while another was sent home 85 times in a single year. These are just some of the ... <a title="‘Several teachers didn’t believe in ADHD’: families speak about how students with disability are bullied and excluded" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/18/several-teachers-didnt-believe-in-adhd-families-speak-about-how-students-with-disability-are-bullied-and-excluded-263052/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Several teachers didn’t believe in ADHD’: families speak about how students with disability are bullied and excluded">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University The bizarre summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska should sway all but the most credulous doubters that the White House is more interested in friendly relations ... <a title="Putin got the red-carpet treatment from Trump. Where does this leave Ukraine?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/17/putin-got-the-red-carpet-treatment-from-trump-where-does-this-leave-ukraine-260922/" aria-label="Read more about Putin got the red-carpet treatment from Trump. Where does this leave Ukraine?">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne The Liberals won 14 of the 35 lower house seats at the July 19 Tasmanian state election, Labor ten, the Greens five, independents five and the Shooters, ... <a title="Greens may be a problem for Labor in next week’s Tasmanian no-confidence vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/greens-may-be-a-problem-for-labor-in-next-weeks-tasmanian-no-confidence-vote-262869/" aria-label="Read more about Greens may be a problem for Labor in next week’s Tasmanian no-confidence vote">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian A. Wright, Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Nico De Pasquale Photography/Getty Images One of the world’s most dangerous water-borne microorganisms, commonly called a “brain-eating amoeba”, has recently been detected in two drinking water supplies in south-west Queensland. Both affected towns are about 750 ... <a title="A rare ‘brain-eating amoeba’ has been detected in Queensland water. Can I catch it by drinking tapwater? Or in the shower?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/a-rare-brain-eating-amoeba-has-been-detected-in-queensland-water-can-i-catch-it-by-drinking-tapwater-or-in-the-shower-263110/" aria-label="Read more about A rare ‘brain-eating amoeba’ has been detected in Queensland water. Can I catch it by drinking tapwater? Or in the shower?">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Ho, Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University Kira auf der Heide/Unsplash When you order a coffee, do you ask for it to be “extra hot”? Whether you enjoy tea, coffee or something else, hot drinks are a comforting and often highly personal ritual. ... <a title="Do hot drinks really give you cancer? A gut expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/do-hot-drinks-really-give-you-cancer-a-gut-expert-explains-261256/" aria-label="Read more about Do hot drinks really give you cancer? A gut expert explains">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland Raphael, Sistine Madonna (detail), between c. 1512 and c. 1513. Wikimedia Commons We are all familiar with cherubs – small, winged children that have a status in Western art history as angels. ... <a title="Not quite angels: why we should stop calling these small winged children ‘cherubs’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/not-quite-angels-why-we-should-stop-calling-these-small-winged-children-cherubs-261163/" aria-label="Read more about Not quite angels: why we should stop calling these small winged children ‘cherubs’">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie MacGregor, ARC Future Fellow and Matthew Flinders Fellow in Chemistry, Flinders University Progress towards a legally binding global treaty on plastics pollution stalled and went into reverse this week. The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, ran overtime. It’s likely to conclude this ... <a title="The global plastics treaty process has fallen flat. Here’s what went wrong, and how you can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/the-global-plastics-treaty-process-has-fallen-flat-heres-what-went-wrong-and-how-you-can-help-263189/" aria-label="Read more about The global plastics treaty process has fallen flat. Here’s what went wrong, and how you can help">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Buchanan, Professor in Working Life, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney In the 1850s, when Melbourne stonemasons won the eight-hour day, employers of the day prophesied economic ruin. These standardised hours then flowed into other industries. Far from ruin, ... <a title="Australia used to lead the world on shorter work hours – we could do it again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/australia-used-to-lead-the-world-on-shorter-work-hours-we-could-do-it-again-263120/" aria-label="Read more about Australia used to lead the world on shorter work hours – we could do it again">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Townsend, Lecturer in History, UNSW Sydney Eighty years ago this week, Japan surrendered after nearly four years of war in the Asia-Pacific. For Australia, this meant the end of not only the war in the Pacific, but also the second world war that had begun six ... <a title="New research shows WWII dominates Australians’ knowledge of military history. But big gaps remain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/new-research-shows-wwii-dominates-australians-knowledge-of-military-history-but-big-gaps-remain-262711/" aria-label="Read more about New research shows WWII dominates Australians’ knowledge of military history. But big gaps remain">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Guzyal Hill, Research fellow, The University of Melbourne Australian workers are secretly using generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tools – without knowledge or approval from their boss, a new report shows. The “Our Gen AI Transition: Implications for Work and Skills” report from the federal government’s Jobs ... <a title="Many Australians secretly use AI at work, a new report shows. Clearer rules could reduce ‘shadow AI’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/many-australians-secretly-use-ai-at-work-a-new-report-shows-clearer-rules-could-reduce-shadow-ai-263043/" aria-label="Read more about Many Australians secretly use AI at work, a new report shows. Clearer rules could reduce ‘shadow AI’">Read more</a>
