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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoe Doubleday, Marine Ecologist and ARC Future Fellow, University of South Australia Great Southern Reef Foundation, CC BY-SA Every year off the South Australian coast, giant Australian cuttlefish come together in huge numbers to breed. They put on a technicolour display of blue, purple, green, red and ... <a title="The giant cuttlefish’s technicolour mating display is globally unique. The SA algal bloom could kill them all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/the-giant-cuttlefishs-technicolour-mating-display-is-globally-unique-the-sa-algal-bloom-could-kill-them-all-262108/" aria-label="Read more about The giant cuttlefish’s technicolour mating display is globally unique. The SA algal bloom could kill them all">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tamara Lewit, Honorary Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne Photo by Engin Akyurt/Pexels If you slipped back through time to taste a dish from the Roman Empire, you’d likely be sampling some fermented fish sauce. Surviving Roman recipes add this to anything ... <a title="Take fish, salt in vats, leave in sun for months: why ancient Romans loved fermented fish sauces like garum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/take-fish-salt-in-vats-leave-in-sun-for-months-why-ancient-romans-loved-fermented-fish-sauces-like-garum-260808/" aria-label="Read more about Take fish, salt in vats, leave in sun for months: why ancient Romans loved fermented fish sauces like garum">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christoph Nedopil, Director Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University CUHRIG/Getty Australia has flourished as an export powerhouse for decades. Much of this prosperity has been driven by the nation’s natural endowment with two important raw products for producing steel the traditional way: iron ore and metallurgical coal. Worth ... <a title="China’s greening steel industry signals an economic reality check for Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/chinas-greening-steel-industry-signals-an-economic-reality-check-for-australia-261863/" aria-label="Read more about China’s greening steel industry signals an economic reality check for Australia">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Jane Archer, Senior Lecturer, Communication, Edith Cowan University Narong Khueankaew/Shutterstock The Austalian government has confirmed video-sharing platform YouTube will be included in the upcoming social media ban for children aged 16 and under. In recent days, the platform – owned by Google – attempted to persuade ... <a title="Should YouTube be included in Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16? We asked 5 experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/should-youtube-be-included-in-australias-social-media-ban-for-kids-under-16-we-asked-5-experts-262046/" aria-label="Read more about Should YouTube be included in Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16? We asked 5 experts">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edward C. Holmes, NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Professor of Virology, University of Sydney peterschreiber.media/Getty Images In late June, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group of independent experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), published an assessment of the origins ... <a title="How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/how-conspiracy-theories-about-covids-origins-are-hampering-our-ability-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic-261475/" aria-label="Read more about How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heather McGinness, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Heather McGinness/CSIRO, CC BY-NC-ND Every year, nomadic Australian waterbirds fly vast distances to find food and the perfect nesting site. They have to be good at finding not just water, but the right kind of water. But across much of Australia, ... <a title="We used tiny sensors in backpacks to discover the extraordinary ways birds migrate to find water" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/we-used-tiny-sensors-in-backpacks-to-discover-the-extraordinary-ways-birds-migrate-to-find-water-259988/" aria-label="Read more about We used tiny sensors in backpacks to discover the extraordinary ways birds migrate to find water">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marianne Fenech, Professor, Early Childhood Governance, University of Sydney Pancake Pictures/ Getty Images Federal parliament is debating the Albanese government’s bill to strip funding from childcare centres if they are unsafe. It follows a string of recent reports and allegations of significant safety and abuse problems in ... <a title="The new childcare bill relies on something going wrong to keep kids ‘safe’. Here’s what else we should do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/the-new-childcare-bill-relies-on-something-going-wrong-to-keep-kids-safe-heres-what-else-we-should-do-261851/" aria-label="Read more about The new childcare bill relies on something going wrong to keep kids ‘safe’. Here’s what else we should do">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stagecoach 1965, a trending new song by TikTok sensation and country music rebel Jessie Murph, is prompting heated online conversation about the status of women in the ... <a title="Women’s rights in the US are in real danger of going back to 1965 – so Jessie Murph’s new song is no laughing matter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/womens-rights-in-the-us-are-in-real-danger-of-going-back-to-1965-so-jessie-murphs-new-song-is-no-laughing-matter-261862/" aria-label="Read more about Women’s rights in the US are in real danger of going back to 1965 – so Jessie Murph’s new song is no laughing matter">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Treasa Dunworth, Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Bashar Taleb / Getty Images Is the tide turning over the crisis in Gaza? International pressure and condemnation of Israel’s actions has been increasing, with news and images of malnourished and starving Palestinians now hard to ... <a title="NZ is prepared to take ‘further action’ over the Gaza crisis – here are 5 options" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/nz-is-prepared-to-take-further-action-over-the-gaza-crisis-here-are-5-options-262023/" aria-label="Read more about NZ is prepared to take ‘further action’ over the Gaza crisis – here are 5 options">Read more</a>
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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>
