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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>
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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>
