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November 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mia Cobb, Research Fellow, Animal Welfare Science Centre, The University of Melbourne Have you ever seen a dog focused on nuzzling their expensive treat under a blanket, behind a couch cushion, or into a freshly dug hole in the backyard? You might think they are behaving like ... <a title="Your dog is not a doomsday prepper. Here’s why they hide food and toys" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/27/your-dog-is-not-a-doomsday-prepper-heres-why-they-hide-food-and-toys-268284/" aria-label="Read more about Your dog is not a doomsday prepper. Here’s why they hide food and toys">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Beck, Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University Two teenagers are taking the federal government to the High Court. They argue the ban on social media accounts for under-16s is unconstitutional because it interferes with free political communication. The ban is due to take effect on December ... <a title="Two teens have launched a High Court challenge to the under-16s social media ban. Will it make a difference?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/27/two-teens-have-launched-a-high-court-challenge-to-the-under-16s-social-media-ban-will-it-make-a-difference-270688/" aria-label="Read more about Two teens have launched a High Court challenge to the under-16s social media ban. Will it make a difference?">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Plum, Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Policy Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology Sandra Mu/Getty Images People of Māori descent account for just a fifth of Aotearoa’s population, but are overrepresented at every stage of the criminal justice system. They comprise 37% of people prosecuted by ... <a title="Māori face harsher sentences than NZ Europeans for similar drink-driving offences – with lasting consequences" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/27/maori-face-harsher-sentences-than-nz-europeans-for-similar-drink-driving-offences-with-lasting-consequences-269070/" aria-label="Read more about Māori face harsher sentences than NZ Europeans for similar drink-driving offences – with lasting consequences">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Garland, Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and Physics, Griffith University Milad Fakurian / Unsplash OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman – perhaps the most prominent face of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom that accelerated with the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 – loves scaling laws. These widely admired ... <a title="Can bigger-is-better ‘scaling laws’ keep AI improving forever? History says we can’t be too sure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/27/can-bigger-is-better-scaling-laws-keep-ai-improving-forever-history-says-we-cant-be-too-sure-270448/" aria-label="Read more about Can bigger-is-better ‘scaling laws’ keep AI improving forever? History says we can’t be too sure">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago Joe Raedle/Getty Images As the Christmas season looms, with its crowded end-of-year parties, family gatherings and busy travel schedules, many New Zealanders might be asking a now familiar question: should I get another COVID-19 booster? After nearly four ... <a title="Your risk of catching COVID is at its lowest since 2020 – but here’s why you should still get boosted for Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/27/your-risk-of-catching-covid-is-at-its-lowest-since-2020-but-heres-why-you-should-still-get-boosted-for-christmas-270271/" aria-label="Read more about Your risk of catching COVID is at its lowest since 2020 – but here’s why you should still get boosted for Christmas">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charlene Wright, Research Fellow, Equitable Cancer Outcomes across Rural and Remote Australia (ECORRA), Deakin University If you live in rural or remote Australia and are diagnosed with cancer, you’re less likely to survive than someone in the city with the same disease. Our research shows people in ... <a title="Rural Australians are 13% less likely to survive cancer. Here’s what needs to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/27/rural-australians-are-13-less-likely-to-survive-cancer-heres-what-needs-to-change-270360/" aria-label="Read more about Rural Australians are 13% less likely to survive cancer. Here’s what needs to change">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leonora Risse, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Canberra Men are earning on average A$9,753 more than women each year in the form of performance bonuses, allowances and overtime pay. That’s according to the latest gender pay gap data released on Thursday by the Workplace Gender Equality ... <a title="Men earn nearly $10,000 more than women in bonuses and overtime pay, fuelling the gender pay gap: new data" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/27/men-earn-nearly-10-000-more-than-women-in-bonuses-and-overtime-pay-fuelling-the-gender-pay-gap-new-data-270366/" aria-label="Read more about Men earn nearly $10,000 more than women in bonuses and overtime pay, fuelling the gender pay gap: new data">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vasso Apostolopoulos, Distinguished Professor, Professor of Immunology, RMIT University Lech Pierchala/Pexels On Tuesday, Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) announced a raft of changes to how products containing vitamin B6 are packaged and sold. The TGA decision is based on an extensive review, prompted by widespread concerns earlier ... <a title="Vitamin B6 products are set to be restricted. Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/vitamin-b6-products-are-set-to-be-restricted-heres-what-you-need-to-know-270656/" aria-label="Read more about Vitamin B6 products are set to be restricted. Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra Annual inflation rose to a 16-month high of 3.8% in October, adding to pressure on the government as it seeks to make savings across the public sector. When governments, whether Commonwealth, state or local, increase spending it adds to ... <a title="Inflation jumps in October, adding to pressure on government to make budget savings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/inflation-jumps-in-october-adding-to-pressure-on-government-to-make-budget-savings-270455/" aria-label="Read more about Inflation jumps in October, adding to pressure on government to make budget savings">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, John Curtin Distinguished Professor & ARC Future Fellow, Curtin University New national figures have reiterated what most already know: buying a home in Australia is more unaffordable than ever. The report from research group Cotality found home prices have risen by almost 50% since ... <a title="Will Help to Buy give first home buyers a leg up? Here’s what we can learn from the UK" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/will-help-to-buy-give-first-home-buyers-a-leg-up-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-the-uk-270168/" aria-label="Read more about Will Help to Buy give first home buyers a leg up? Here’s what we can learn from the UK">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The global civil society alliance Civicus has called on eight Pacific governments to do more to respect civic freedoms and strengthen institutions to protect these rights. It is especially concerned over the threats to press freedom, the use of laws to criminalise online expression, and failure to establish national human rights institutions ... <a title="Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/civicus-raps-8-pacific-countries-for-not-doing-enough-to-protect-civic-rights-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney Surrealists believed in the power of dreams. Inspired by Freud’s theories of the unconscious and dream-work, André Breton saw the irrationality of dreams as an artistic method capable of revealing new, revolutionary ways of ... <a title="AI ‘dreams’ up new realities. How does this impact the way we understand our own dreaming?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/ai-dreams-up-new-realities-how-does-this-impact-the-way-we-understand-our-own-dreaming-269595/" aria-label="Read more about AI ‘dreams’ up new realities. How does this impact the way we understand our own dreaming?">Read more</a>
