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January 12, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania Graeme Thomas/Facebook After a weekend of extreme heat and windy conditions, more than 30 blazes were still burning in Victoria and New South Wales as of Sunday evening, including major fires in the Otways, near the ... <a title="Rain one minute, heatwave the next. How climate ‘whiplash’ drives unpredictable fire weather" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/rain-one-minute-heatwave-the-next-how-climate-whiplash-drives-unpredictable-fire-weather-273104/" aria-label="Read more about Rain one minute, heatwave the next. How climate ‘whiplash’ drives unpredictable fire weather">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Laurikainen Gaete, PhD Candidate, Wollongong Isotope Geochronology Laboratory, University of Wollongong Today, rock wallabies are seen as secretive cliff-dwellers that rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But the fossil record tells a very different story. New research suggests rock wallabies were once ... <a title="Modern rock wallabies seem to survive by sticking together in small areas. Fossils show they need to travel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/modern-rock-wallabies-seem-to-survive-by-sticking-together-in-small-areas-fossils-show-they-need-to-travel-272344/" aria-label="Read more about Modern rock wallabies seem to survive by sticking together in small areas. Fossils show they need to travel">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matteo Vergani, Associate Professor and Director of the Tackling Hate Lab, Deakin University What we currently know about antisemitism in Australia is pieced together from a fragmented body of information produced by community organisations, researchers and law enforcement. And it is largely interpreted and translated to the ... <a title="The antisemitism debate is already a political minefield. The royal commission must rise above it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/the-antisemitism-debate-is-already-a-political-minefield-the-royal-commission-must-rise-above-it-273018/" aria-label="Read more about The antisemitism debate is already a political minefield. The royal commission must rise above it">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kai Schweizer, PhD Candidate in Youth Mental Health, The University of Western Australia; The Kids Research Institute MDV Edwards/Getty When people picture someone with an eating disorder, many think of a thin, teenage girl with anorexia nervosa. This stereotype is so pervasive it can feel like a ... <a title="Why eating disorders are more common among LGBTQIA+ people and what can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/why-eating-disorders-are-more-common-among-lgbtqia-people-and-what-can-help-270268/" aria-label="Read more about Why eating disorders are more common among LGBTQIA+ people and what can help">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Sachinthanee Dissanayake, PhD Candidate, University of Wollongong Pressmaster/Getty Have you ever felt delighted (perhaps secretly) when something went wrong for someone else? We may not openly admit it, but many of us have probably felt this way – sometimes intentionally, sometimes unconsciously. This feeling has ... <a title="Is it okay to feel ‘schadenfreude’ at work? Here’s how to navigate this complex emotion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/is-it-okay-to-feel-schadenfreude-at-work-heres-how-to-navigate-this-complex-emotion-269181/" aria-label="Read more about Is it okay to feel ‘schadenfreude’ at work? Here’s how to navigate this complex emotion">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2026
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week announced a Royal Commission into the Bondi Beach Attack and antisemitism. Andrew Brown weighs the evidence on Australia’s “antisemitism crisis” for Michael West Media. ANALYSIS: By Andrew Brown Australia is being told it faces an unprecedented wave of antisemitism — a crisis requiring extraordinary measures, including a Royal ... <a title="Australia’s ‘antisemitism crisis’ – examining what’s real and what isn’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/11/australias-antisemitism-crisis-examining-whats-real-and-what-isnt/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s ‘antisemitism crisis’ – examining what’s real and what isn’t">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell There is much to understand from the dramatic kidnapping — abduction is perhaps a better word — of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores last weekend by the United States armed forces, combined with the military attack on the country’s capital Caracas. This understanding is greatly helped by ... <a title="Ian Powell: The Nicolás Maduro kidnapping, US imperialist expansion and implications for New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/10/ian-powell-the-nicolas-maduro-kidnapping-us-imperialist-expansion-and-implications-for-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Ian Powell: The Nicolás Maduro kidnapping, US imperialist expansion and implications for New Zealand">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Klaus Dodds, Interim Dean, Faculty of Science & Technology, Middlesex University Donald Trump and his senior officials insist that Greenland must become part of the US. This is for national security purposes, they say, maintaining that Denmark, of which Greenland is a constituent part, is not investing ... <a title="As the Arctic warms up, the race to control the region is growing ever hotter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/10/as-the-arctic-warms-up-the-race-to-control-the-region-is-growing-ever-hotter-273118/" aria-label="Read more about As the Arctic warms up, the race to control the region is growing ever hotter">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Manners, Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University Shutterstock/Michal Balada European countries, and Denmark in particular, are scrambling to respond to threats from US officials over the future of Greenland. Having successfully taken out the leadership of Venezuela in a raid on January 3, an emboldened ... <a title="Four ways to understand what’s going on with the US, Denmark and Greenland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/10/four-ways-to-understand-whats-going-on-with-the-us-denmark-and-greenland-272873/" aria-label="Read more about Four ways to understand what’s going on with the US, Denmark and Greenland">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne The decision by the Adelaide Festival Board to exclude Palestinian Australian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers’ Week on the grounds of “cultural sensitivity” is based on a dangerously broad and vague ... <a title="As authors abandon Adelaide Writers’ Week after cancelling of Randa Abdel-Fattah, is free speech in tatters?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/10/as-authors-abandon-adelaide-writers-week-after-cancelling-of-randa-abdel-fattah-is-free-speech-in-tatters-273020/" aria-label="Read more about As authors abandon Adelaide Writers’ Week after cancelling of Randa Abdel-Fattah, is free speech in tatters?">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2026
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally bowed to pressure from the Murdoch News Corp’s relentless media campaign and advocacy by political critics and victim’s families to announce a royal commission of inquiry into “antisemitism and social cohesion”. The commission advocates were seeking his political downfall over last month’s Bondi ... <a title="Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism remains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/10/albanese-bows-to-relentless-pressure-for-bondi-royal-commission-but-scepticism-remains/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism remains">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Prime Minister Anthony Albanese prides himself with being in tune with the public mood. But in holding out for weeks against a royal commission into antisemitism he misjudged that mood, making Thursday’s backdown on his hardline opposition a humiliation for ... <a title="View from The Hill: Albanese’s backflip on royal commission is a humiliating own goal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/09/view-from-the-hill-albaneses-backflip-on-royal-commission-is-a-humiliating-own-goal-272439/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Albanese’s backflip on royal commission is a humiliating own goal">Read more</a>
