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October 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ed Harrison, PhD Candidate, Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour, University of Bath Last September, Reform leader Nigel Farage dismissed a policy of mass deportations as a “political impossibility”. Now, a year on, the party has pledged to deport up to 600,000 illegal migrants and retrospectively strip ... <a title="Inside the far-right social media ecosystem normalising extremist ideas in UK politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/17/inside-the-far-right-social-media-ecosystem-normalising-extremist-ideas-in-uk-politics-266948/" aria-label="Read more about Inside the far-right social media ecosystem normalising extremist ideas in UK politics">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It was a classic “old bull” versus “young bull” struggle, and the old bull showed he had life in him yet. Paul Keating was only one among many critics of the controversial aspects of Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ proposed superannuation tax ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Master communicator vs master tactician, the race between Chalmers and Burke" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/grattan-on-friday-master-communicator-vs-master-tactician-the-race-between-chalmers-and-burke-267221/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Master communicator vs master tactician, the race between Chalmers and Burke">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Hole, Professor, Mathematical Sciences Institute and School of Computing, Australian National University The ITER fusion reactor under construction in 2021. Jean-Marie Hosatte / Getty Images Over the past five years, private-sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is approaching US$10 billion (A$15 billion), ... <a title="Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/billions-in-private-cash-is-flooding-into-fusion-power-will-it-pay-off-266354/" aria-label="Read more about Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off?">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia whitebalance.space/Getty Images This week, the United States non-profit Consumer Reports released its investigation testing 23 protein powders and ready-to-drink shakes from popular brands to see if they contained heavy metals. More ... <a title="Some US protein powders contain high levels of lead. Can I tell if mine is safe?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/some-us-protein-powders-contain-high-levels-of-lead-can-i-tell-if-mine-is-safe-267541/" aria-label="Read more about Some US protein powders contain high levels of lead. Can I tell if mine is safe?">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hamish Clarke, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne We’ve all seen the alarming images. Smoke belching from the thick forests of the Amazon. Spanish firefighters battling flames across farmland. Blackened celebrity homes in Los Angeles and smoked out regional towns in Australia. If you felt like ... <a title="The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/the-climate-crisis-is-fuelling-extreme-fires-across-the-planet-267626/" aria-label="Read more about The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne The rate of unemployment in Australia is on the rise again. Official labour force data released on Thursday shows that in the month to September, Australia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate jumped from 4.3% to 4.5%. That’s the highest ... <a title="What a surprise spike in the unemployment rate means for interest rates and the economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/what-a-surprise-spike-in-the-unemployment-rate-means-for-interest-rates-and-the-economy-267624/" aria-label="Read more about What a surprise spike in the unemployment rate means for interest rates and the economy">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geetanjali (Tanji) Lamba, Public Health Physician, Medical Advisor and PhD Candidate, Monash University Felix Cesare/Getty Voluntary assisted dying is being debated in the Northern Territory (NT) parliament this week. The NT is now the last jurisdiction in Australia without voluntary assisted dying laws. But it wasn’t always ... <a title="How voluntary assisted dying in the NT would be different to down south" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/how-voluntary-assisted-dying-in-the-nt-would-be-different-to-down-south-267429/" aria-label="Read more about How voluntary assisted dying in the NT would be different to down south">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwyn McClelland, Senior Lecturer, Japanese Studies, University of New England At first, there might not seem to be any immediate similarities between a devastated Nagasaki after the US atomic bombing in 1945 and Gaza today, aside from massive destruction. But in considering Gaza’s recovery from war – ... <a title="As Gaza starts to rebuild, what lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/as-gaza-starts-to-rebuild-what-lessons-can-be-learned-from-nagasaki-in-1945-267437/" aria-label="Read more about As Gaza starts to rebuild, what lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Houlihan, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast Willie B. Thomas/Getty If you regularly scroll health and wellness content online, you’ve no doubt heard of optimising. Optimisation usually means striving to make something the best it can be – the “optimal” version. A ... <a title="Optimising is just perfectionism in disguise. Here’s why that’s a problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/optimising-is-just-perfectionism-in-disguise-heres-why-thats-a-problem-263260/" aria-label="Read more about Optimising is just perfectionism in disguise. Here’s why that’s a problem">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland In a series of four lectures, Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel has been opining on the Antichrist. Thiel’s amateur riffing identifies the Antichrist with anyone or any institution that he dislikes ... <a title="Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg could be the Antichrist. Here’s how three religions actually describe him" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/peter-thiel-thinks-greta-thunberg-could-be-the-antichrist-heres-how-three-religions-actually-describe-him-267439/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg could be the Antichrist. Here’s how three religions actually describe him">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross University A 2 million-year-old tooth of an early human ancestor. Fiorenza and Joannes-Boyau When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes. But our new study, published today ... <a title="Human ancestors were exposed to lead millions of years ago, and it shaped our evolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/human-ancestors-were-exposed-to-lead-millions-of-years-ago-and-it-shaped-our-evolution-267318/" aria-label="Read more about Human ancestors were exposed to lead millions of years ago, and it shaped our evolution">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shannon Brincat, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast On October 16, 1975, five journalists were killed in the remote Timorese town of Balibo. To this day, no one has been charged with their deaths. Known as the “Balibo Five”, the men ... <a title="It’s been 50 years since the Balibo 5 were killed in Timor-Leste. No one’s been held accountable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/its-been-50-years-since-the-balibo-5-were-killed-in-timor-leste-no-ones-been-held-accountable-266145/" aria-label="Read more about It’s been 50 years since the Balibo 5 were killed in Timor-Leste. No one’s been held accountable">Read more</a>
