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January 12, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rod McNaughton, Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images For decades, we have heard a familiar story about why New Zealand’s firms choose to stay small. Business owners prefer comfort, control and lifestyle over ambition, summed up in the old notion of the ... <a title="NZ’s low productivity is often blamed on businesses staying small. That could be a strength in 2026" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/nzs-low-productivity-is-often-blamed-on-businesses-staying-small-that-could-be-a-strength-in-2026-271177/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s low productivity is often blamed on businesses staying small. That could be a strength in 2026">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Penny Bailey, Lecturer in Japanese Studies, The University of Queensland A thrown tea bowl made by Hamada Shōji. Wikimedia, CC BY-SA On January 10 1926, Yanagi Sōetsu and the potters Hamada Shōji and Kawai Kanjirō sat talking excitedly late into the night at a temple on Mt ... <a title="Beauty in ordinary things: why this Japanese folk craft movement still matters 100 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/beauty-in-ordinary-things-why-this-japanese-folk-craft-movement-still-matters-100-years-on-269802/" aria-label="Read more about Beauty in ordinary things: why this Japanese folk craft movement still matters 100 years on">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania Graeme Thomas/Facebook After a weekend of extreme heat and windy conditions, more than 30 blazes were still burning in Victoria and New South Wales as of Sunday evening, including major fires in the Otways, near the ... <a title="Rain one minute, heatwave the next. How climate ‘whiplash’ drives unpredictable fire weather" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/rain-one-minute-heatwave-the-next-how-climate-whiplash-drives-unpredictable-fire-weather-273104/" aria-label="Read more about Rain one minute, heatwave the next. How climate ‘whiplash’ drives unpredictable fire weather">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Laurikainen Gaete, PhD Candidate, Wollongong Isotope Geochronology Laboratory, University of Wollongong Today, rock wallabies are seen as secretive cliff-dwellers that rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But the fossil record tells a very different story. New research suggests rock wallabies were once ... <a title="Modern rock wallabies seem to survive by sticking together in small areas. Fossils show they need to travel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/modern-rock-wallabies-seem-to-survive-by-sticking-together-in-small-areas-fossils-show-they-need-to-travel-272344/" aria-label="Read more about Modern rock wallabies seem to survive by sticking together in small areas. Fossils show they need to travel">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matteo Vergani, Associate Professor and Director of the Tackling Hate Lab, Deakin University What we currently know about antisemitism in Australia is pieced together from a fragmented body of information produced by community organisations, researchers and law enforcement. And it is largely interpreted and translated to the ... <a title="The antisemitism debate is already a political minefield. The royal commission must rise above it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/the-antisemitism-debate-is-already-a-political-minefield-the-royal-commission-must-rise-above-it-273018/" aria-label="Read more about The antisemitism debate is already a political minefield. The royal commission must rise above it">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kai Schweizer, PhD Candidate in Youth Mental Health, The University of Western Australia; The Kids Research Institute MDV Edwards/Getty When people picture someone with an eating disorder, many think of a thin, teenage girl with anorexia nervosa. This stereotype is so pervasive it can feel like a ... <a title="Why eating disorders are more common among LGBTQIA+ people and what can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/why-eating-disorders-are-more-common-among-lgbtqia-people-and-what-can-help-270268/" aria-label="Read more about Why eating disorders are more common among LGBTQIA+ people and what can help">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Sachinthanee Dissanayake, PhD Candidate, University of Wollongong Pressmaster/Getty Have you ever felt delighted (perhaps secretly) when something went wrong for someone else? We may not openly admit it, but many of us have probably felt this way – sometimes intentionally, sometimes unconsciously. This feeling has ... <a title="Is it okay to feel ‘schadenfreude’ at work? Here’s how to navigate this complex emotion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/is-it-okay-to-feel-schadenfreude-at-work-heres-how-to-navigate-this-complex-emotion-269181/" aria-label="Read more about Is it okay to feel ‘schadenfreude’ at work? Here’s how to navigate this complex emotion">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Klaus Dodds, Interim Dean, Faculty of Science & Technology, Middlesex University Donald Trump and his senior officials insist that Greenland must become part of the US. This is for national security purposes, they say, maintaining that Denmark, of which Greenland is a constituent part, is not investing ... <a title="As the Arctic warms up, the race to control the region is growing ever hotter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/10/as-the-arctic-warms-up-the-race-to-control-the-region-is-growing-ever-hotter-273118/" aria-label="Read more about As the Arctic warms up, the race to control the region is growing ever hotter">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Manners, Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University Shutterstock/Michal Balada European countries, and Denmark in particular, are scrambling to respond to threats from US officials over the future of Greenland. Having successfully taken out the leadership of Venezuela in a raid on January 3, an emboldened ... <a title="Four ways to understand what’s going on with the US, Denmark and Greenland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/10/four-ways-to-understand-whats-going-on-with-the-us-denmark-and-greenland-272873/" aria-label="Read more about Four ways to understand what’s going on with the US, Denmark and Greenland">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne The decision by the Adelaide Festival Board to exclude Palestinian Australian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers’ Week on the grounds of “cultural sensitivity” is based on a dangerously broad and vague ... <a title="As authors abandon Adelaide Writers’ Week after cancelling of Randa Abdel-Fattah, is free speech in tatters?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/10/as-authors-abandon-adelaide-writers-week-after-cancelling-of-randa-abdel-fattah-is-free-speech-in-tatters-273020/" aria-label="Read more about As authors abandon Adelaide Writers’ Week after cancelling of Randa Abdel-Fattah, is free speech in tatters?">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Prime Minister Anthony Albanese prides himself with being in tune with the public mood. But in holding out for weeks against a royal commission into antisemitism he misjudged that mood, making Thursday’s backdown on his hardline opposition a humiliation for ... <a title="View from The Hill: Albanese’s backflip on royal commission is a humiliating own goal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/09/view-from-the-hill-albaneses-backflip-on-royal-commission-is-a-humiliating-own-goal-272439/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Albanese’s backflip on royal commission is a humiliating own goal">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brian Oliver, Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney The distinctive smell of smoke in summer is often all you need to know there is a bushfire burning. Even if the fire is many kilometres away, the drop in air quality can be harmful for ... <a title="How to protect yourself from bushfire smoke" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/09/how-to-protect-yourself-from-bushfire-smoke-272065/" aria-label="Read more about How to protect yourself from bushfire smoke">Read more</a>
