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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominique Allen, Professor, Business Law & Taxation, Monash University A Sydney warehouse worker fired by text message within two weeks of telling her employer she was pregnant has won her job back, along with A$15,000 in backpay. The recent Fair Work Commission ruling about an Adecco contractor ... <a title="If you’re pregnant, do you have to tell your boss? And what are the rules for employers?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/if-youre-pregnant-do-you-have-to-tell-your-boss-and-what-are-the-rules-for-employers-271184/" aria-label="Read more about If you’re pregnant, do you have to tell your boss? And what are the rules for employers?">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) lives alone in a rickety Victorian house near London’s King’s Cross railway station. She rents a room to Professor Marcus (Alec Guinness), who claims to be a musician, and ... <a title="The Ladykillers at 70: how one film turned British whimsy into a darkly comic masterpiece" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/the-ladykillers-at-70-how-one-film-turned-british-whimsy-into-a-darkly-comic-masterpiece-250781/" aria-label="Read more about The Ladykillers at 70: how one film turned British whimsy into a darkly comic masterpiece">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Threats relating to technology, disinformation, economic security and foreign interference are overshadowing traditional security concerns in Australians’ minds, according to data released by the Australian National University National Security College. More than 12,000 people were asked across two surveys, in ... <a title="Australians see AI as leading threat to people and businesses: survey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/australians-see-ai-as-leading-threat-to-people-and-businesses-survey-270794/" aria-label="Read more about Australians see AI as leading threat to people and businesses: survey">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael J. Ostwald, Professor of Architectural Analytics, UNSW Sydney Architect Frank Gehry poses with miniatures of his designs in Los Angeles in 1989. Bonnie Schiffman/Getty Images In April 2005, The Simpsons featured an episode where Marge, embarrassed by her hometown’s reputation for being uneducated and uncultured, invites ... <a title="Frank Gehry, the architect of the unconventional, the accidental, and the inspiring, has died at 96" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/06/frank-gehry-the-architect-of-the-unconventional-the-accidental-and-the-inspiring-has-died-at-96-266250/" aria-label="Read more about Frank Gehry, the architect of the unconventional, the accidental, and the inspiring, has died at 96">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Rintoul, CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO Pete Harmsen, CC BY-ND Sometimes, we get lucky in science. In this case, an oceanographic float we deployed to do one job ended up drifting away and doing something else entirely. Equipped with temperature and salinity sensors, our Argo ocean float was ... <a title="What our missing ocean float revealed about Antartica’s melting glaciers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/06/what-our-missing-ocean-float-revealed-about-antarticas-melting-glaciers-271201/" aria-label="Read more about What our missing ocean float revealed about Antartica’s melting glaciers">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maggie Hall, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University The story lines of every episode of legal TV dramas, from Law & Order to Perry Mason, revolve around five key narrative moments: the crime, the arrest, the plea, the verdict, and the offender’s emotional ... <a title="It’s important for criminal sentences, but how do we know if someone’s remorseful?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/05/its-important-for-criminal-sentences-but-how-do-we-know-if-someones-remorseful-269939/" aria-label="Read more about It’s important for criminal sentences, but how do we know if someone’s remorseful?">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Lee, Postdoctoral Researcher, Dermatology Research Centre, The University of Queensland Kindel Media/Pexels Most of us know sunscreen is a key way to protect areas of our skin not easily covered by clothes from excessive ultraviolet (UV) radiation. But it’s been a rough year for sunscreens. In ... <a title="Worried after sunscreen recalls? Here’s how to choose a safe one" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/05/worried-after-sunscreen-recalls-heres-how-to-choose-a-safe-one-265667/" aria-label="Read more about Worried after sunscreen recalls? Here’s how to choose a safe one">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trevor Ryan, Indigenous Cultural Advisor, Centre for People Place and Planet & School of Education, Edith Cowan University The beach and foreshore near where Perth’s Swan River meets the sea was recently closed to swimming after a number of bull sharks were seen circling close to the ... <a title="How we created new Noongar song and dance for kworlak – the bull sharks of Perth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/05/how-we-created-new-noongar-song-and-dance-for-kworlak-the-bull-sharks-of-perth-268652/" aria-label="Read more about How we created new Noongar song and dance for kworlak – the bull sharks of Perth">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Siems, Professor in Cloud Microphysics, Monash University If you ever find yourself on Macquarie Island – a narrow, wind-lashed ridge halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica – the first thing you’ll notice is the wildlife. Elephant seals sprawl across dark beaches. King penguins march up mossy slopes. ... <a title="Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/05/storms-in-the-southern-ocean-are-producing-more-rain-and-the-consequences-could-be-global-270880/" aria-label="Read more about Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karen Scott, Professor in Law, University of Canterbury The International Court of Justice delivers its landmark advisory opinion on states’ legal obligations to address climate change, July 23. John Thys/AFP via Getty Images The New Zealand government’s decision this week to reject all of the Climate Change ... <a title="NZ’s rejection of emission targets fuels risk of international law breach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/05/nzs-rejection-of-emission-targets-fuels-risk-of-international-law-breach-271295/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s rejection of emission targets fuels risk of international law breach">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Associate Professor, Chair of Linguistics and Director of Language Lab, The University of Western Australia AzmanL / Getty Images “I asked it to call one of my sisters, and it then started calling an old boss that I don’t talk to any more.” —Amy, ... <a title="‘We gotta act white’: how voice recognition tech fails for Aboriginal English speakers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/05/we-gotta-act-white-how-voice-recognition-tech-fails-for-aboriginal-english-speakers-270983/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We gotta act white’: how voice recognition tech fails for Aboriginal English speakers">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mei-fen Kuo, Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Culture and History, Macquarie University Recently, a new documentary was screened across Australia about the late Taiwanese Australian professor Chwei-Liang Chiou, who dedicated his life to improving relations between Taiwan and Australia. At the Brisbane premiere, former federal MP Graham Perrett ... <a title="What is Taiwan and why is it important? A new study shows Australians struggle to answer these questions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/05/what-is-taiwan-and-why-is-it-important-a-new-study-shows-australians-struggle-to-answer-these-questions-269809/" aria-label="Read more about What is Taiwan and why is it important? A new study shows Australians struggle to answer these questions">Read more</a>
