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December 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew J. Martin, Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW Sydney Yevhenii Ometsynskyi/Unsplash For the class of 2025, exams are done and results are coming in. Attention is turning to plans for next year. With the benefit of a bit more free time and brain space, ... <a title="Not sure you picked the right uni or TAFE course? 6 ways to help you think it through" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/not-sure-you-picked-the-right-uni-or-tafe-course-6-ways-to-help-you-think-it-through-271311/" aria-label="Read more about Not sure you picked the right uni or TAFE course? 6 ways to help you think it through">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rawan Nimri, Lecturer in Tourism and Hospitality, Griffith University Vincent Gerbouin/Pexels More of us than ever are trying to make environmentally responsible travel choices. Sustainable travel is now less niche and more mainstream, with 93% of travellers in one survey saying they would consider sustainable choices. Accordingly, ... <a title="Planning your next holiday? Here’s how to spot and avoid greenwashing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/planning-your-next-holiday-heres-how-to-spot-and-avoid-greenwashing-270977/" aria-label="Read more about Planning your next holiday? Here’s how to spot and avoid greenwashing">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matteo Vergani, Associate Professor and Director of the Tackling Hate Lab, Deakin University In the wake of the Bondi terror attack, the government is under pressure to do more to address antisemitism in Australia. Many have raised a report by antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal as holding the ... <a title="The special envoy’s report doesn’t hold all the answers for defeating antisemitism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/the-special-envoys-report-doesnt-hold-all-the-answers-for-defeating-antisemitism-272167/" aria-label="Read more about The special envoy’s report doesn’t hold all the answers for defeating antisemitism">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In a stark reminder of the strong Jewish backlash against the prime minister, Anthony Albanese was not invited to attend the Wednesday funeral of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, among the first of the Bondi massacre victims to be farewelled. Those present ... <a title="Albanese not invited to rabbi’s funeral, as Frydenberg calls for ban on ‘hate preachers’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/albanese-not-invited-to-rabbis-funeral-as-frydenberg-calls-for-ban-on-hate-preachers-271951/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese not invited to rabbi’s funeral, as Frydenberg calls for ban on ‘hate preachers’">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The mid-year budget update would normally be big news. But this week it’s been entirely overshadowed by the devastating Bondi terror attack. To discuss the government’s response to that deadly attack, as well as the outlook for Australia’s economy in ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on the Bondi terror attack and the mid-year budget update" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/politics-with-michelle-grattan-jim-chalmers-on-the-bondi-terror-attack-and-the-mid-year-budget-update-272253/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on the Bondi terror attack and the mid-year budget update">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute yingchao li/Unsplash What’s the cheapest way to power Australia? Every year, CSIRO researchers and modellers seek to answer this very large question in their GenCost report. On one level, the answer in the draft 2025–26 report is unsurprising: solar and ... <a title="Solar, onshore wind and gas backup is (still) the cheapest way to power Australia: new report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/solar-onshore-wind-and-gas-backup-is-still-the-cheapest-way-to-power-australia-new-report-272249/" aria-label="Read more about Solar, onshore wind and gas backup is (still) the cheapest way to power Australia: new report">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Bourke, Lecturer, The University of Western Australia Clint Hansen, CC BY-ND Indigenous people have coexisted with Australia’s vast and ancient groundwater systems for thousands of generations. Their knowledge extends back through deep time, before our current climate and waterways. It offers insights that Western science is ... <a title="How the myth of ‘aqua nullius’ still guides Australia’s approach to groundwater" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/how-the-myth-of-aqua-nullius-still-guides-australias-approach-to-groundwater-270374/" aria-label="Read more about How the myth of ‘aqua nullius’ still guides Australia’s approach to groundwater">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Marie Brennan, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Waikato Former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming after pleading guilty to eight charges in the Wellington District Court, November 6. Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via Getty Images The sentencing of former deputy police commissioner Jevon McSkimming represents not ... <a title="Jevon McSkimming sentencing: why a public inquiry into the police should be next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/jevon-mcskimming-sentencing-why-a-public-inquiry-into-the-police-should-be-next-272149/" aria-label="Read more about Jevon McSkimming sentencing: why a public inquiry into the police should be next">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chelsea Arnold, Clinical Psychologist and Research Fellow (Lead Clinician), Monash University Many hundreds of people were at Bondi beach on Sunday when 50-year-old Sajid Akram and his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 people. Many witnesses saw people be seriously injured ... <a title="If you witnessed the Bondi Hanukkah attack, here’s what you might be going through" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/if-you-witnessed-the-bondi-hanukkah-attack-heres-what-you-might-be-going-through-272054/" aria-label="Read more about If you witnessed the Bondi Hanukkah attack, here’s what you might be going through">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra The federal government’s mid-year budget update shows a modest improvement in the deficit forecast in 2025–26, but much of this comes from a larger-than-forecast tax take. The update, known as the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO), estimates a ... <a title="The budget update shows a slight improvement in the federal deficit, but it’s mostly due to good luck" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/the-budget-update-shows-a-slight-improvement-in-the-federal-deficit-but-its-mostly-due-to-good-luck-271934/" aria-label="Read more about The budget update shows a slight improvement in the federal deficit, but it’s mostly due to good luck">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Iain Davidson, Emeritus Professor, Department of Archaeology, Classics and History, University of New England Mrs Hansen telling stories about the art to Isabel’s husband, Ray, at the Mulligan art site crop Iain Davidson All over Australia, Songlines, or Dreaming tracks, connected First Nations people in one place ... <a title="Stories from traditional knowledge combined with archaeological work trace 2,300km of Songlines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/stories-from-traditional-knowledge-combined-with-archaeological-work-trace-2-300km-of-songlines-269400/" aria-label="Read more about Stories from traditional knowledge combined with archaeological work trace 2,300km of Songlines">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland Thirty years ago this week, the Dayton Accords were signed in Paris, bringing an end to the Bosnian war, the most destructive conflict Europe had witnessed since 1945. Weeks of intensive negotiations at ... <a title="This peace deal ended Europe’s last major war 30 years ago. It provides important lessons for today’s fractured world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/this-peace-deal-ended-europes-last-major-war-30-years-ago-it-provides-important-lessons-for-todays-fractured-world-270160/" aria-label="Read more about This peace deal ended Europe’s last major war 30 years ago. It provides important lessons for today’s fractured world">Read more</a>
