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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Wilson, PhD Candidate in Emerging Technologies Governance, Institue for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney melanfolia/Unsplash Last month, courts on both sides of the Atlantic delivered a clear verdict: when classifying titanium dioxide as carcinogenic, regulatory agencies had overreached. These parallel legal defeats expose deeper questions ... <a title="Court rulings increasingly demand scientific certainty – but that’s not always possible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/court-rulings-increasingly-demand-scientific-certainty-but-thats-not-always-possible-264991/" aria-label="Read more about Court rulings increasingly demand scientific certainty – but that’s not always possible">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Thompson, Lecturer in Theatre, Australian Catholic University Studio Canal/John P The new Australian family film, Kangaroo, is a rare beast. It’s not just a movie for kids that adults can tolerate. It’s funny, heartfelt, emotionally authentic and ultimately uplifting. It’s been 25 years since director Kate ... <a title="Kate Woods’ new film Kangaroo is the heartwarming pick-me-up you didn’t know you needed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/kate-woods-new-film-kangaroo-is-the-heartwarming-pick-me-up-you-didnt-know-you-needed-261173/" aria-label="Read more about Kate Woods’ new film Kangaroo is the heartwarming pick-me-up you didn’t know you needed">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Debjani Ganguly, Professor of Literature, Australian Catholic University Photo: Mayank Austen Soofi “She was my shelter and my storm.” With these words in the opening pages of her memoir, Arundhati Roy unfurls a narrative of extraordinary filial bonds that renders trite those therapeutic memoirs of family dysfunction ... <a title="Magical alchemy: Arundhati Roy’s compelling memoir illuminates a ‘restless, unruly’ life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/magical-alchemy-arundhati-roys-compelling-memoir-illuminates-a-restless-unruly-life-262506/" aria-label="Read more about Magical alchemy: Arundhati Roy’s compelling memoir illuminates a ‘restless, unruly’ life">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ang Li, ARC DECRA and Senior Research Fellow, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne This year, ten days of extreme heat in Europe killed roughly 2,300 people, severe flooding on the New South Wales ... <a title="Heat, air quality, insurance costs: how climate change is affecting our homes – and our health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/heat-air-quality-insurance-costs-how-climate-change-is-affecting-our-homes-and-our-health-263278/" aria-label="Read more about Heat, air quality, insurance costs: how climate change is affecting our homes – and our health">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Art Jipson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton President Donald Trump is targeting left-wing organizations he incorrectly says promote political violence. Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist groups ... <a title="Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence − what the data shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/right-wing-extremist-violence-is-more-frequent-and-more-deadly-than-left-wing-violence-what-the-data-shows-265367/" aria-label="Read more about Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence − what the data shows">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Lu ShaoJi/Getty If you could, would you pay to live forever? Some Silicon Valley billionaires aren’t just making tech products – they’ve set their sights on immortality. Social media is flooded ... <a title="A booming longevity industry wants to sell us ‘immortality’. There could be hidden costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/a-booming-longevity-industry-wants-to-sell-us-immortality-there-could-be-hidden-costs-264879/" aria-label="Read more about A booming longevity industry wants to sell us ‘immortality’. There could be hidden costs">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Myra Williamson, Senior Lecturer in Law, Auckland University of Technology Political and diplomatic manoeuvring over Israel and Palestine has been moving fast recently. The question is whether it is fast enough, given the accelerating onslaught in Gaza. In New Zealand, large pro-Palestine protests have taken place, and ... <a title="A UN finding of genocide in Gaza adds pressure on NZ to recognise a Palestinian state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/18/a-un-finding-of-genocide-in-gaza-adds-pressure-on-nz-to-recognise-a-palestinian-state-265473/" aria-label="Read more about A UN finding of genocide in Gaza adds pressure on NZ to recognise a Palestinian state">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government this week released Australia’s first comprehensive National Climate Risk Assessment. This report details a shocking picture of the impact of climate change from now out to the 2090s, revealing heat-related deaths would soar, flooding would increase dramatically ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tony Wood on ‘politics trumping climate policy’ and the hard road ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/17/politics-with-michelle-grattan-tony-wood-on-politics-trumping-climate-policy-and-the-hard-road-ahead-265474/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tony Wood on ‘politics trumping climate policy’ and the hard road ahead">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Rudge, Lecturer in Law, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney Pexels Cosmetic injectables are more popular and socially accepted than ever. In 2024, the Australian market was estimated to be worth US$3.1 billion (A$4.6 billion) and growing fast. But these aren’t simple beauty treatments. They use ... <a title="Thinking of getting botox or filler? These are the laws for cosmetic injectables" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/17/thinking-of-getting-botox-or-filler-these-are-the-laws-for-cosmetic-injectables-265196/" aria-label="Read more about Thinking of getting botox or filler? These are the laws for cosmetic injectables">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Cooney, Lecturer in Lifestyle Journalism, Monash University Robert Redford at The Filmmakers’ Brunch during 2005 Sundance Film Festival. George Pimentel/WireImage When Robert Redford launched the Utah-based Sundance Institute in 1981, providing an independent support system for filmmakers named after his role in Butch Cassidy and the ... <a title="‘To my happy surprise, it grew beyond my imagination’: Robert Redford’s Sundance legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/17/to-my-happy-surprise-it-grew-beyond-my-imagination-robert-redfords-sundance-legacy-265478/" aria-label="Read more about ‘To my happy surprise, it grew beyond my imagination’: Robert Redford’s Sundance legacy">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Prime Minister Anthony Albanese put the best face on the situation after his plan to sign a major defence treaty with Papua New Guinea while in Port Moresby fell through. Albanese said he expected the signing of the treaty – ... <a title="Albanese leaves PNG with major defence treaty still a work in progress" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/17/albanese-leaves-png-with-major-defence-treaty-still-a-work-in-progress-265377/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese leaves PNG with major defence treaty still a work in progress">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melvin Barrientos Marzan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne Daniel Duarte/Pexels Where a woman lives can shape her health during pregnancy as much as her own medical history, our new study suggests. We looked at more than 163,000 pregnancies across Melbourne ... <a title="We studied over 160,000 pregnancies to show how your postcode affects you and your baby" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/17/we-studied-over-160-000-pregnancies-to-show-how-your-postcode-affects-you-and-your-baby-265075/" aria-label="Read more about We studied over 160,000 pregnancies to show how your postcode affects you and your baby">Read more</a>
