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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Gourlay, Teaching Associate in Politics & International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University A Turkish proverb – düştüğün yerden kalk – counsels that one should arise from where one has fallen. Ekrem İmamoğlu, the jailed mayor of Istanbul and main rival to President ... <a title="Polls suggest this man could become Turkey’s next president. Erdoğan is doing everything to stop him" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/polls-suggest-this-man-could-become-turkeys-next-president-erdogan-is-doing-everything-to-stop-him-263034/" aria-label="Read more about Polls suggest this man could become Turkey’s next president. Erdoğan is doing everything to stop him">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Espiner, Associate Professor, Department of Tourism, Sport & Society, Lincoln University, New Zealand Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto via Getty Images Recent calls from sections of the tourism industry to cut the international visitor levy (IVL) risk undermining one of the few bright spots in current government policies shaping ... <a title="Tourist trap: why charging entry fees at iconic NZ natural attractions could have hidden costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/tourist-trap-why-charging-entry-fees-at-iconic-nz-natural-attractions-could-have-hidden-costs-263609/" aria-label="Read more about Tourist trap: why charging entry fees at iconic NZ natural attractions could have hidden costs">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Nickl, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Culture, Literature and Translation, University of Sydney The Conversation, Ashby/TikTok, CC BY-SA Why do so many of the funniest things on social media make no sense at all? How about Ashby’s stunt scenes for a back brace infomercial on a white ... <a title="Why TikTok is the perfect home for absurdist comedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/why-tiktok-is-the-perfect-home-for-absurdist-comedy-263190/" aria-label="Read more about Why TikTok is the perfect home for absurdist comedy">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Drew Terasaki Hart, Ecologist, CSIRO The average seasonal growth cycles of Earth’s land-based ecosystems, estimated from 20 years of satellite imagery. Terasaki Hart et al. / Nature The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our ... <a title="See Earth’s seasons in all their complexity in a new animated map" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/see-earths-seasons-in-all-their-complexity-in-a-new-animated-map-262935/" aria-label="Read more about See Earth’s seasons in all their complexity in a new animated map">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqui Yoxall, Associate Professor & Chair of Discipline – Psychological and Social Health, Southern Cross University Queensland woman Amanda Maree Power has recently been jailed after faking cancer and fraudulently raising about A$24,000 from friends, family and strangers over several years – including to pay for holidays ... <a title="Why scammers fake illness for cash, according to a psychologist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/why-scammers-fake-illness-for-cash-according-to-a-psychologist-263264/" aria-label="Read more about Why scammers fake illness for cash, according to a psychologist">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Brueckner, Pro Vice Chancellor, Sustainability, Murdoch University Jason Edwards/Getty If miners, the media, policymakers and renewable energy companies are to be believed, Australia is in the midst of a green energy transition aimed at preventing the worst effects of climate change. This appealing narrative suggests we ... <a title="Getting rid of fossil fuels is really hard – and we’re not making much progress" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/getting-rid-of-fossil-fuels-is-really-hard-and-were-not-making-much-progress-262525/" aria-label="Read more about Getting rid of fossil fuels is really hard – and we’re not making much progress">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Canberra will be expelling the Iranian ambassador and legislating to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a “terrorist group”. Albanese says the move is because an assessment by the intelligence agency ASIO has ... <a title="21 questions about the claim that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/21-questions-about-the-claim-that-iran-orchestrated-antisemitic-attacks-in-australia/" aria-label="Read more about 21 questions about the claim that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Australia">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin Bergman, International Affairs Editor, The Conversation Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called Iran’s involvement in at least two antisemitic attacks in Australia last year “extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression”. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said it “crossed a line”. We asked Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Middle East ... <a title="Q&A with Kylie Moore-Gilbert: this is why Iran is instigating terrorism in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/27/qanda-with-kylie-moore-gilbert-this-is-why-iran-is-instigating-terrorism-in-australia-264032/" aria-label="Read more about Q&A with Kylie Moore-Gilbert: this is why Iran is instigating terrorism in Australia">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia Six years on from the Parliament House sexual assault allegations that spurred a public reckoning, the legal fallout continues. This time, a court has found former Western Australian Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds was defamed ... <a title="A court has found Brittany Higgins defamed Linda Reynolds. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/27/a-court-has-found-brittany-higgins-defamed-linda-reynolds-heres-why-235967/" aria-label="Read more about A court has found Brittany Higgins defamed Linda Reynolds. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Thomas, Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University With news Iran orchestrated two antisemitic attacks in Australia last year, the federal government has declared the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s Director-General Mike Burgess said the group, known as IRGC, ... <a title="What is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or the IRGC?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/27/what-is-the-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-or-the-irgc-264015/" aria-label="Read more about What is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or the IRGC?">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Coghlan, Associate Professor, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England Mr Squiggle, 1958, and Rocket, about 1975. National Museum of Australia If you grew up in Australia any time between the 1960s and the late 1990s, chances are you knew a little man from ... <a title="Mr Squiggle entertained Australia’s children for 40 years. Now, he’s back in the spotlight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/27/mr-squiggle-entertained-australias-children-for-40-years-now-hes-back-in-the-spotlight-263813/" aria-label="Read more about Mr Squiggle entertained Australia’s children for 40 years. Now, he’s back in the spotlight">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher and Sustainable Future Lead, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Luis Ascui/Getty Images Climate change is making home insurance costlier and, for some, harder to secure. According to one analysis, one in ten Australian properties will be uninsurable within a decade. Insurance ... <a title="Australia faces a home insurance reckoning – and we can learn from California’s bold move" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/27/australia-faces-a-home-insurance-reckoning-and-we-can-learn-from-californias-bold-move-263530/" aria-label="Read more about Australia faces a home insurance reckoning – and we can learn from California’s bold move">Read more</a>
