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September 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Graffam-O’Meara, PhD Candidate in Theatre, Monash University Cameron Grant It’s an enticing proposition for a play: an aged barkeep shares snatches of memories as the small, inner-city Melbourne pub she’s inhabited since birth is slated for demolition. Daniel Keene’s new play The Lark centres 75-year-old Rose ... <a title="Noni Hazlehurst stars in world premiere of The Lark, a play that fails to take flight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/08/noni-hazlehurst-stars-in-world-premiere-of-the-lark-a-play-that-fails-to-take-flight-262221/" aria-label="Read more about Noni Hazlehurst stars in world premiere of The Lark, a play that fails to take flight">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia Erin Patterson, having been convicted in the Supreme Court of Victoria two months ago on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, has today received a life sentence from the trial ... <a title="Four victims, no remorse: Erin Patterson given a life sentence for mushroom murders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/08/four-victims-no-remorse-erin-patterson-given-a-life-sentence-for-mushroom-murders-264128/" aria-label="Read more about Four victims, no remorse: Erin Patterson given a life sentence for mushroom murders">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dat Tien Doan, Senior Lecturer, School of Future Environments, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images The government’s proposed shake-up of New Zealand’s building consent system will be the biggest reform in the sector since 2004. Essentially, the changes will spread liability for building failures across all involved ... <a title="Building consent reform: how digital technology can make new liability rules watertight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/08/building-consent-reform-how-digital-technology-can-make-new-liability-rules-watertight-264190/" aria-label="Read more about Building consent reform: how digital technology can make new liability rules watertight">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stanislav Roudavski, Founder of Deep Design Lab and Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design, The University of Melbourne For wildlife, not all trees are equal. Large old trees have many horizontal and dead limbs for perching, and many fissures or hollows for sheltering. By contrast, younger trees ... <a title="Making younger trees age faster could create more homes for wildlife – and it can be done without chainsaws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/08/making-younger-trees-age-faster-could-create-more-homes-for-wildlife-and-it-can-be-done-without-chainsaws-262522/" aria-label="Read more about Making younger trees age faster could create more homes for wildlife – and it can be done without chainsaws">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Edwards, Professor, Child and Youth Development and Longitudinal Studies, Australian National University Westend61/ Getty Images The federal government wants to increase the number of Australians who complete tertiary study from 60% to 80% by 2050. To do this we will need more young people going to ... <a title="New research shows Year 12 students face many pressures – far beyond study and exams" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/08/new-research-shows-year-12-students-face-many-pressures-far-beyond-study-and-exams-264580/" aria-label="Read more about New research shows Year 12 students face many pressures – far beyond study and exams">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Levon Ellen Blue, Associate Professor, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland Aaron Burden/Unsplash, CC BY If you’re a non-Indigenous Australian, when you hit the age of 67, you’ll typically have another 15 years of long, hopefully happy retirement to look forward to. ... <a title="Too many Indigenous Australians die before getting to claim the age pension. We need to make retirement fairer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/08/too-many-indigenous-australians-die-before-getting-to-claim-the-age-pension-we-need-to-make-retirement-fairer-261854/" aria-label="Read more about Too many Indigenous Australians die before getting to claim the age pension. We need to make retirement fairer">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan Moon, PhD Candidate, Department of Media, University of Adelaide Korean pop music, or K-pop, is now a certified cultural phenomenon that has captivated millions worldwide, including in Australia. But beyond the soft power spectacle lies something closer to home: Australian K-pop stars. From BLACKPINK’s Rosé to ... <a title="How Australians are slowly dominating the K-pop music industry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/08/how-australians-are-slowly-dominating-the-k-pop-music-industry-263924/" aria-label="Read more about How Australians are slowly dominating the K-pop music industry">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joel Gayford, PhD Candidate, Department of Marine Biology, James Cook University Michael Worden/Unsplash When you picture a shark, you probably think of a large, powerful predator cruising the open ocean. Species such as the great white shark, tiger shark and bull shark dominate popular media, with stories ... <a title="Sharks now roam the open ocean. But for 200 million years, they only lived near the sea floor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/08/sharks-now-roam-the-open-ocean-but-for-200-million-years-they-only-lived-near-the-sea-floor-264265/" aria-label="Read more about Sharks now roam the open ocean. But for 200 million years, they only lived near the sea floor">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meg Keen, Head of Pacific Research Program, Australian National University It’s been a testing time for Pacific regional unity. So far this year, there have been rifts between Cook Islands and New Zealand over security arrangements with China; New Caledonia and France over independence for the French ... <a title="With global powers barred, can Pacific nations find unity at their annual summit?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/08/with-global-powers-barred-can-pacific-nations-find-unity-at-their-annual-summit-264331/" aria-label="Read more about With global powers barred, can Pacific nations find unity at their annual summit?">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allen Cheng, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University olia danilevich/Pexels Australia is a step closer to having its own national agency to inform and co-ordinate public health responses – a permanent Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC). Long-awaited draft legislation was tabled in parliament last week to ... <a title="Australia will soon have its own ‘centre for disease control’. Let’s not repeat the chaos of the US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/08/australia-will-soon-have-its-own-centre-for-disease-control-lets-not-repeat-the-chaos-of-the-us-264475/" aria-label="Read more about Australia will soon have its own ‘centre for disease control’. Let’s not repeat the chaos of the US">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Simpson, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University; Senior Lecturer, International Studies, University of South Australia Thai politics is often chaotic. But this past week has been especially tumultuous, even by Thailand’s standards. In a matter of days, Thailand has seen one ... <a title="Thailand has another new prime minister and an opening for progress. But will anything change?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/thailand-has-another-new-prime-minister-and-an-opening-for-progress-but-will-anything-change-264332/" aria-label="Read more about Thailand has another new prime minister and an opening for progress. But will anything change?">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Essay by Keith Rankin. The failing nation-states of Western Europe are not peacemakers. They are warmongers, the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ – the Coalition of Sanctimony and Hypocrisy. They are trying to frame the current geopolitical struggle between a unipolar versus a multipolar world order as a struggle of the ‘Democratic’ Axis of Good against ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – The Coalition of Sanctimony and Hypocrisy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/keith-rankin-essay-the-coalition-of-sanctimony-and-hypocrisy/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – The Coalition of Sanctimony and Hypocrisy">Read more</a>
