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September 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia Australia’s worrying future under climate change was laid bare last week when the first National Climate Risk Assessment was released. It revealed extreme heat, fires, floods, droughts and coastal inundation already threatens lives and livelihoods – and will ... <a title="Dangerous climate change threatens Northern Australia’s big ‘food bowl’ dreams" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/23/dangerous-climate-change-threatens-northern-australias-big-food-bowl-dreams-265727/" aria-label="Read more about Dangerous climate change threatens Northern Australia’s big ‘food bowl’ dreams">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Richardson, Senior Lecturer in Culinary Arts & Gastronomy, Auckland University of Technology Oliver Rossi/Getty Images Come on, baby, light my fire. We can be pretty sure Jim Morrison wasn’t referring to BBQ when he wrote those famous lyrics – but he may as well have been. ... <a title="Women do the most cooking at home. So why do men get to hog the BBQ?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/23/women-do-the-most-cooking-at-home-so-why-do-men-get-to-hog-the-bbq-260419/" aria-label="Read more about Women do the most cooking at home. So why do men get to hog the BBQ?">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Pickles, Professor of History, University of Canterbury Jacinda Ardern with daughter Neve and partner Clarke Gayford in 2021. Fiona Goodall/Getty Images Jacinda Ardern’s second book released within four months, following her memoir, is a simple children’s story. Its title – Mum’s Busy Work – appears to ... <a title="In her new children’s book, Jacinda Ardern explores working ‘mum guilt’ through her daughter’s eyes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/23/in-her-new-childrens-book-jacinda-ardern-explores-working-mum-guilt-through-her-daughters-eyes-265465/" aria-label="Read more about In her new children’s book, Jacinda Ardern explores working ‘mum guilt’ through her daughter’s eyes">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Coppola, Visiting Researcher, Cambridge Neuroscience, University of Cambridge Where does consciousness come from? sun ok/Shutterstock What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ... <a title="Major theories of consciousness may have been focusing on the wrong part of the brain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/23/major-theories-of-consciousness-may-have-been-focusing-on-the-wrong-part-of-the-brain-264609/" aria-label="Read more about Major theories of consciousness may have been focusing on the wrong part of the brain">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dafydd Townley, Teaching Fellow in US politics and international security, University of Portsmouth Following the shooting of his political ally, the far-right activist and commentator Charlie Kirk, on September 10, Donald Trump has signalled his intention to pursue his political enemies – what he refers to as ... <a title="Going after ‘antifa’: Donald Trump’s plans to crush his political foes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/23/going-after-antifa-donald-trumps-plans-to-crush-his-political-foes-265686/" aria-label="Read more about Going after ‘antifa’: Donald Trump’s plans to crush his political foes">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Ball, Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland Abraham Gonzalez Fernandez/Getty Images “Cut out all dairy. Ditch gluten. Never touch sugar again.” More than 20 million people have watched TikTok videos listing these kinds of rules under the banner of “anti-inflammatory diets.” The ... <a title="Do TikTok ‘anti-inflammatory diets’ really work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/22/do-tiktok-anti-inflammatory-diets-really-work-265089/" aria-label="Read more about Do TikTok ‘anti-inflammatory diets’ really work?">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katy Bell, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney AnnaStills/Getty Images Medical imaging is one of the biggest contributors of a hospital’s energy use. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) are particularly carbon intensive, partly due to their need to ... <a title="CT scanners secretly waste more energy than used by a typical household – but there’s a fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/22/ct-scanners-secretly-waste-more-energy-than-used-by-a-typical-household-but-theres-a-fix-265582/" aria-label="Read more about CT scanners secretly waste more energy than used by a typical household – but there’s a fix">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Bird, Industry Fellow, Corporate Governance & Senior Lecturer, Swinburne Law School, Swinburne University of Technology Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images Asked today whether Optus’s chief executive should be considering his future after the “completely unacceptable” Triple Zero outage, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the ABC “I would ... <a title="Should the Optus chief quit? These 5 fixes would do far more to stop another 000 failure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/22/should-the-optus-chief-quit-these-5-fixes-would-do-far-more-to-stop-another-000-failure-265726/" aria-label="Read more about Should the Optus chief quit? These 5 fixes would do far more to stop another 000 failure">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Historian, Australian Catholic University John of Gaunt dining with the King of Portugal, Chronique d’Angleterre, vol 3, late 14 century. Wikimedia Commons In today’s world, we barely think about picking up a fork. It is part of a standard cutlery set, as essential ... <a title="The thousand-year story of how the fork crossed Europe, and onto your plate today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/22/the-thousand-year-story-of-how-the-fork-crossed-europe-and-onto-your-plate-today-260704/" aria-label="Read more about The thousand-year story of how the fork crossed Europe, and onto your plate today">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University Multiple people have died after a botched Optus network upgrade on Thursday prevented around 600 emergency calls to Triple Zero across Australia. The deaths currently linked to the outage – which Optus only revealed to the public, ... <a title="Optus Triple Zero outage has left multiple people dead. A telecommunications expert explains what went wrong – and how to fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/22/optus-triple-zero-outage-has-left-multiple-people-dead-a-telecommunications-expert-explains-what-went-wrong-and-how-to-fix-it-265692/" aria-label="Read more about Optus Triple Zero outage has left multiple people dead. A telecommunications expert explains what went wrong – and how to fix it">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Terence C. Cheng, Associate Professor, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University alvaro gonzalez/Getty Images If you’re one of the 45% of Australians with private health insurance, chances are the government pays, or has paid, a proportion of your premiums via rebates. Taxpayer spending on these private health ... <a title="Should we scrap private health insurance rebates and direct the funding to public hospitals?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/22/should-we-scrap-private-health-insurance-rebates-and-direct-the-funding-to-public-hospitals-258296/" aria-label="Read more about Should we scrap private health insurance rebates and direct the funding to public hospitals?">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rewi Newnham, Professor in Physical Geography, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images The latest projections suggest New Zealand could be heading into a neutral or La Niña summer, which would bring rainier conditions to the north and east of the country. While the ... <a title="Parts of NZ could be heading into a wetter summer – a blessing in disguise for allergy sufferers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/22/parts-of-nz-could-be-heading-into-a-wetter-summer-a-blessing-in-disguise-for-allergy-sufferers-251818/" aria-label="Read more about Parts of NZ could be heading into a wetter summer – a blessing in disguise for allergy sufferers">Read more</a>
