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October 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jill Sheppard, Senior Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University Sussan Ley’s challenge as opposition leader is to keep her party united and ready to govern in the event that the government loses public favour. That is, they need to be a ready alternative ... <a title="Competence and vision: how to be a successful opposition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/09/competence-and-vision-how-to-be-a-successful-opposition-266888/" aria-label="Read more about Competence and vision: how to be a successful opposition">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Rose, Adjuct Lecturer, University of Adelaide Two decades after Timor-Leste gained its independence, the country is a complicated and qualified success story. Poverty and deep economic problems persist, but the country boasts a thriving democracy. Its ascension to the ASEAN regional bloc will come later this ... <a title="Organised crime may be infiltrating Timor-Leste’s government. One minister is sounding the alarm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/09/organised-crime-may-be-infiltrating-timor-lestes-government-one-minister-is-sounding-the-alarm-265879/" aria-label="Read more about Organised crime may be infiltrating Timor-Leste’s government. One minister is sounding the alarm">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne-Marie Laslett, Professor, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University SeventyFour/Getty Globally, up to one in three women who live with a male partner report he is a heavy drinker. Evidence shows men’s drinking increases the severity and frequency of violence towards women and harms to ... <a title="Women and kids often pay a heavy price when men drink. Our gender violence plan should reflect this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/09/women-and-kids-often-pay-a-heavy-price-when-men-drink-our-gender-violence-plan-should-reflect-this-266372/" aria-label="Read more about Women and kids often pay a heavy price when men drink. Our gender violence plan should reflect this">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eli Levenson-Falk, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Electrical and Computer Engineering, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The quantum behavior of superconducting circuits like the small white square above was a major discovery. K. Cicak and R. Simmonds/NIST Quantum mechanics describes the weird ... <a title="Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/09/nobel-prize-in-physics-awarded-for-ultracold-electronics-research-that-launched-a-quantum-technology-266979/" aria-label="Read more about Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emery Schubert, Professor, Empirical Musicology Laboratory, School of the Arts and Media, UNSW Sydney If you’ve watched the movie KPop Demon Hunters and see the word “golden”, what happens? Pause and think about it for a moment. For those unfamiliar, nothing will come to mind. But if ... <a title="Why do some songs get stuck in our heads so easily? The science of earworms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/09/why-do-some-songs-get-stuck-in-our-heads-so-easily-the-science-of-earworms-265863/" aria-label="Read more about Why do some songs get stuck in our heads so easily? The science of earworms">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher K. Woolley, Post-doctoral Researcher in Ecology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington James Reardon/Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA New Zealand’s land animals are not well protected when land is developed for new uses. Recent and proposed policy changes ... <a title="NZ’s native lizards are at risk from land development – future policy must ensure better protection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/09/nzs-native-lizards-are-at-risk-from-land-development-future-policy-must-ensure-better-protection-264765/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s native lizards are at risk from land development – future policy must ensure better protection">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Reihana Mohideen, Principal Advisor, Just Energy Transition and Health, Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne Commuters pass a new solar array in the Maldives. Ishara S. Kodikara/Getty For the first time, renewables have toppled coal as the world’s leading source of electricity, in keeping ... <a title="Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/09/renewables-have-now-passed-coal-globally-and-growth-is-fastest-in-countries-like-bhutan-and-nepal-263047/" aria-label="Read more about Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marg Rogers, Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Education; Post Doctoral Fellow, Manna Institute, University of New England Thomas Barwick/ Getty Images Imagine living in a town where three or more families are competing for a single early learning place. This is the reality for many families in regional, ... <a title="‘I was 170th on their list’. What are the health impacts for families who can’t access daycare?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/09/i-was-170th-on-their-list-what-are-the-health-impacts-for-families-who-cant-access-daycare-266673/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I was 170th on their list’. What are the health impacts for families who can’t access daycare?">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Cook, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Newcastle Achieving the so-called “Australian dream” of home ownership is increasingly difficult for members of younger generations. Census data shows that rates of home ownership have fallen from 64% in 1971 to 50% in 2021 among 30–34-year-olds, and from ... <a title="Buying with a sibling or rentvesting: some unorthodox approaches to buying a first home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/09/buying-with-a-sibling-or-rentvesting-some-unorthodox-approaches-to-buying-a-first-home-265571/" aria-label="Read more about Buying with a sibling or rentvesting: some unorthodox approaches to buying a first home">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruari Elkington, Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries & Chief Investigator at QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology Sony Pictures Famed Australian director Bruce Beresford loves opera. If you weren’t aware of this before watching his new film, The Travellers, you most likely will ... <a title="Bruce Beresford’s The Travellers blends opera and the outback in a heartfelt story about homecoming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/09/bruce-beresfords-the-travellers-blends-opera-and-the-outback-in-a-heartfelt-story-about-homecoming-266586/" aria-label="Read more about Bruce Beresford’s The Travellers blends opera and the outback in a heartfelt story about homecoming">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2025
New Zealanders deserve to know how the country’s foreign policy is made, writes John Hobbs. ANALYSIS: By John Hobbs The New Zealand government remains unwilling to support Palestinian statehood recognition at the United Nations General Assembly. This is a disgraceful position which gives support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and seriously undermines our standing. Of ... <a title="John Hobbs: Why New Zealand’s repugnant stance over Palestine damages our global standing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/08/john-hobbs-why-new-zealands-repugnant-stance-over-palestine-damages-our-global-standing/" aria-label="Read more about John Hobbs: Why New Zealand’s repugnant stance over Palestine damages our global standing">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Social cohesion in Australia has been under serious pressure in the last few years. The deadly October 7 attacks on Israel two years ago and the ensuing war in Gaza have pulled at the fabric of Australian society. Added to ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Jakubowicz on repairing our ‘fragile’ multicultural nation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/08/politics-with-michelle-grattan-andrew-jakubowicz-on-repairing-our-fragile-multicultural-nation-266990/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Jakubowicz on repairing our ‘fragile’ multicultural nation">Read more</a>
