CoveragePost
December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hinze Hogendoorn, Professor, Visual Time Perception, Queensland University of Technology Jean-Guillaume Starnini/Pexels How is it December already? What happened to 2025? And how did we suddenly jump from eating Easter eggs to putting up Christmas trees? To understand why our perception of time seems to bend and ... <a title="Why is time going so fast and how do I slow it down?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/why-is-time-going-so-fast-and-how-do-i-slow-it-down-268982/" aria-label="Read more about Why is time going so fast and how do I slow it down?">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cody Lindsay, Lecturer, Exercise and Sport Science, Flinders University If you’ve ever watched a batter get beaten by a ball that curved, jagged or dipped at the last moment, you’ve seen one of cricket’s great mysteries. Whether it’s a Mitchell Starc inswinger, a Josh Hazlewood delivery that ... <a title="How cricket balls move: the science behind swing, seam and spin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/how-cricket-balls-move-the-science-behind-swing-seam-and-spin-267965/" aria-label="Read more about How cricket balls move: the science behind swing, seam and spin">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Dat, Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University Carlina Teteris/Getty Christmas in Australia is a great time to spend enjoying the outdoors, with plenty of good food and drink. But such a combination contributes to this time of year being the peak ... <a title="Christmas is peak kidney stone season. Blame dehydration, the heat and all that food" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/christmas-is-peak-kidney-stone-season-blame-dehydration-the-heat-and-all-that-food-271093/" aria-label="Read more about Christmas is peak kidney stone season. Blame dehydration, the heat and all that food">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Choi, Senior lecturer in Education (Additional Languages), The University of Melbourne Kamaji Ogino/ Pexels About 5.7 million Australians speak a language other than English at home. Most multilingual children spend their school days speaking English and during term-time, home languages often take a back seat. So ... <a title="Leave notes, play games, go shopping: how to boost your child’s multilingual skills these holidays" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/leave-notes-play-games-go-shopping-how-to-boost-your-childs-multilingual-skills-these-holidays-271840/" aria-label="Read more about Leave notes, play games, go shopping: how to boost your child’s multilingual skills these holidays">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sanjoy Paul, Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney This week, the federal government announced a ban on supermarket price gouging, aiming to get “a fairer go for families in their weekly shop”. From July 1 2026, the new ... <a title="Supermarket price gouging will be banned from July. Will consumers actually end up better off?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/supermarket-price-gouging-will-be-banned-from-july-will-consumers-actually-end-up-better-off-272060/" aria-label="Read more about Supermarket price gouging will be banned from July. Will consumers actually end up better off?">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Cantrell, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Editing and Publishing, University of Southern Queensland The Terror of War, commonly known as “Napalm Girl”, is one of the most enduring and influential images of the 20th century. Captured on June 8 1972, the photograph shows nine-year-old Kim Phúc running naked ... <a title="Who really photographed Napalm Girl? The famous war photo is now contested history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/who-really-photographed-napalm-girl-the-famous-war-photo-is-now-contested-history-267440/" aria-label="Read more about Who really photographed Napalm Girl? The famous war photo is now contested history">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato The Bondi terror attack on Sunday has seen Australian federal, state and territory governments agree to the biggest overhaul of firearms regulations since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. For New Zealanders, with memories of the horrific 2019 Christchurch terror ... <a title="What NZ needs to watch as Australia reforms gun laws after the Bondi terror attack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/what-nz-needs-to-watch-as-australia-reforms-gun-laws-after-the-bondi-terror-attack-272170/" aria-label="Read more about What NZ needs to watch as Australia reforms gun laws after the Bondi terror attack">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Wednesday’s budget update will project a deficit of $36.8 billion for this financial year, which is $5.4 billion better than forecast in the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO) issued before the May election. The update projects deficits that are ... <a title="Mid-year budget update will project deficit of nearly $37 billion for current financial year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/mid-year-budget-update-will-project-deficit-of-nearly-37-billion-for-current-financial-year-271946/" aria-label="Read more about Mid-year budget update will project deficit of nearly $37 billion for current financial year">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania In 1830, the Palawa people were in the midst of their guerilla war against the British colonists taking their land in what is now Tasmania. After flaring in the mid-1820s, intensifying violence had claimed hundreds of ... <a title="Hidden clues in colonial journals reveal why Tasmania’s remote west keeps burning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/hidden-clues-in-colonial-journals-reveal-why-tasmanias-remote-west-keeps-burning-271623/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden clues in colonial journals reveal why Tasmania’s remote west keeps burning">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Henry Maher, Lecturer in Politics, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney US President Donald Trump has signalled in an interview with the Wall Street Journal he is close to announcing his pick for the next chair of the US Federal Reserve. With inflation again ... <a title="Trump is close to naming the new Federal Reserve chief. His choice could raise the risk of stagflation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/trump-is-close-to-naming-the-new-federal-reserve-chief-his-choice-could-raise-the-risk-of-stagflation-272052/" aria-label="Read more about Trump is close to naming the new Federal Reserve chief. His choice could raise the risk of stagflation">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia Luis Alvarez/Getty COVID rarely rates a mention in the news these days, yet it hasn’t gone away. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, is still with us. It continues to infect thousands of Australians each month, ... <a title="Is there much COVID around? Do I need the new booster shot LP.8.1?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/is-there-much-covid-around-do-i-need-the-new-booster-shot-lp-8-1-271933/" aria-label="Read more about Is there much COVID around? Do I need the new booster shot LP.8.1?">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yao-Tai Li, Senior Lecturer of Sociology and Social Policy, UNSW Sydney This week, after a 156-day trial, the Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner and media tycoon Jimmy Lai was convicted of sedition and collusion with foreign or external forces. Now facing life in prison, Lai was convicted under ... <a title="Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher convicted of sedition, in major blow to press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/hong-kong-pro-democracy-publisher-convicted-of-sedition-in-major-blow-to-press-freedom-272079/" aria-label="Read more about Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher convicted of sedition, in major blow to press freedom">Read more</a>
