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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Attwell, Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia When it comes to the future of childhood immunisations, all eyes are on Robert F. Kennedy Jr, US Secretary of Health and Human Services, and his audacious attempt to discredit vaccinations with misinformation and dodgy ... <a title="Can Florida really end vaccine mandates? What would this mean for the US and countries like Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/can-florida-really-end-vaccine-mandates-what-would-this-mean-for-the-us-and-countries-like-australia-264583/" aria-label="Read more about Can Florida really end vaccine mandates? What would this mean for the US and countries like Australia?">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Koplin, Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University & Honorary fellow, Melbourne Law School, Monash University Getty Images What do world leaders talk about when they think we’re not listening? This week it was the idea of living forever. Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi ... <a title="No, organ transplants won’t make you live forever, whatever Putin says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/no-organ-transplants-wont-make-you-live-forever-whatever-putin-says-264573/" aria-label="Read more about No, organ transplants won’t make you live forever, whatever Putin says">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Rudge, Lecturer in Law, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney The news of the largest-ever class action settlement in Australian history seems, in many ways, like the only fitting bookend to the awful ordeal of Robodebt. Some A$548 million (including legal and administrative costs) will be ... <a title="Robodebt compensation is a win for victims, but now we may never know the full story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/robodebt-compensation-is-a-win-for-victims-but-now-we-may-never-know-the-full-story-264587/" aria-label="Read more about Robodebt compensation is a win for victims, but now we may never know the full story">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liam Gillespie, Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Melbourne As the fallout from the so-called March For Australia rallies continues, many observers are saying Australia has reached a turning point, suggesting the weekend’s events signal a new era of far-right normalisation and political violence. Given the overt ... <a title="Blaming ‘extremists’ for March For Australia rallies lets ‘mainstream’ Australia off the hook" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/blaming-extremists-for-march-for-australia-rallies-lets-mainstream-australia-off-the-hook-264490/" aria-label="Read more about Blaming ‘extremists’ for March For Australia rallies lets ‘mainstream’ Australia off the hook">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kit MacFarlane, Lecturer, Creative Writing and Literature, University of South Australia Universal Pictures Andrew Lloyd Webber’s extravagant 1986 musical version of The Phantom of the Opera will celebrate its 40th anniversary at the Sydney Opera House in 2026. But an even more enduring anniversary takes place in ... <a title="Why Hollywood’s first iconic Phantom of the Opera film is still puzzling us, 100 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/why-hollywoods-first-iconic-phantom-of-the-opera-film-is-still-puzzling-us-100-years-on-262324/" aria-label="Read more about Why Hollywood’s first iconic Phantom of the Opera film is still puzzling us, 100 years on">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Draper, Professor, and Executive Director: Institute for International Trade, and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Trade and Environment, University of Adelaide The global trading system that promoted free trade and underpinned global prosperity for 80 years now stands at a crossroads. Recent trade policy ... <a title="As Trump abandons the rulebook on trade, does free trade have a future elsewhere?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/as-trump-abandons-the-rulebook-on-trade-does-free-trade-have-a-future-elsewhere-264338/" aria-label="Read more about As Trump abandons the rulebook on trade, does free trade have a future elsewhere?">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melek Cigdem-Bayram, Ronald Henderson Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Duncan Sanchez/Unsplash Following last month’s economic reform roundtable, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said all attendees agreed “higher living standards is the holy grail, and a more productive economy is how we deliver it”. This signalled the government’s ... <a title="We can’t fix what we don’t track. That’s why Australia needs an official poverty measure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/we-cant-fix-what-we-dont-track-thats-why-australia-needs-an-official-poverty-measure-263724/" aria-label="Read more about We can’t fix what we don’t track. That’s why Australia needs an official poverty measure">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ken M.P. Setiawan, Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies, The University of Melbourne Instagram/animals_hopeshelterindonesia During Indonesia’s recent mass protests, the looted homes of politicians in Jakarta revealed unexpected victims: cats reportedly left behind or stolen as their owners fled for safety. The cats have gone viral on social ... <a title="How MPs’ ‘abandoned’ cats became the unexpected symbol of Indonesia’s protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/how-mps-abandoned-cats-became-the-unexpected-symbol-of-indonesias-protests-264511/" aria-label="Read more about How MPs’ ‘abandoned’ cats became the unexpected symbol of Indonesia’s protests">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake Newman-Martin, PhD Candidate in Palaeontology, Curtin University An artist’s recreation of what the newly discovered (but extinct) species _Bettongia haoucharae_ may have looked like. Nellie Pease, CC BY-NC You are probably familiar with kangaroos. Wallabies too, and most likely quokkas as well. Less famous are their ... <a title="Australia has some new marsupial species – but they’re already extinct" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/australia-has-some-new-marsupial-species-but-theyre-already-extinct-261572/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has some new marsupial species – but they’re already extinct">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dragan Rangelov, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Swinburne University of Technology master1305 / Getty Images Imagine a game show where the host asks the contestant to randomly pick one option out of three: A, B or C. After the contestant chooses, say, option B, the ... <a title="What actually happens in your brain when you change your mind?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/what-actually-happens-in-your-brain-when-you-change-your-mind-263907/" aria-label="Read more about What actually happens in your brain when you change your mind?">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kali Middleby, Postdoctoral research fellow, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) Kali Middleby How do you cool yourself on a hot day? Perhaps you find shade, switch on a fan or retreat to air conditioning? But spare a thought for tropical forest trees. As the climate ... <a title="Some tropical trees cool their leaves to survive the heat — but not all species have ways to cope" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/some-tropical-trees-cool-their-leaves-to-survive-the-heat-but-not-all-species-have-ways-to-cope-264117/" aria-label="Read more about Some tropical trees cool their leaves to survive the heat — but not all species have ways to cope">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Melser, Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Buying a house is one of the most high-stakes decisions many people will make in their lives. Yet many households are investing millions without an adequate understanding of a property’s exposure to growing climate risks. In Australia, perhaps the starkest ... <a title="Insurers have detailed data on your home’s flood risk. So, why don’t you?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/05/insurers-have-detailed-data-on-your-homes-flood-risk-so-why-dont-you-264110/" aria-label="Read more about Insurers have detailed data on your home’s flood risk. So, why don’t you?">Read more</a>
