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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jordana Hunter, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute On a typical school day in Australia this year, about 11% of students were absent. In 2014, the figure was 7%. Two in five students now miss about a day of school each fortnight on average. This makes improving ... <a title="On a typical school day, 11% of students are absent. How can Australia fix this?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/on-a-typical-school-day-11-of-students-are-absent-how-can-australia-fix-this-271514/" aria-label="Read more about On a typical school day, 11% of students are absent. How can Australia fix this?">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Walker, Senior Lecturer (Organisational Behaviour), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington SolStock/Getty For some Indigenous peoples around the world, a day at work can mean experiencing repression, racism and regular reminders that we’re minorities in our own lands. Yet for others, work can be ... <a title="Research finds Indigenous peoples face unique challenges at work – but also reveals what can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/research-finds-indigenous-peoples-face-unique-challenges-at-work-but-also-reveals-what-can-help-271380/" aria-label="Read more about Research finds Indigenous peoples face unique challenges at work – but also reveals what can help">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kat Nelligan, Lecturer in Music Industry, RMIT University Getty Images Lady Gaga has arrived in Australia for her long-awaited Mayhem Ball Tour – her first time performing here in more than ten years. Gaga is playing five shows across Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Fans are beyond excited, ... <a title="Lady Gaga’s Mayhem tour marks a powerful return to the darkness that defined her" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/lady-gagas-mayhem-tour-marks-a-powerful-return-to-the-darkness-that-defined-her-271300/" aria-label="Read more about Lady Gaga’s Mayhem tour marks a powerful return to the darkness that defined her">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joel Scanlan, Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity and Privacy, University of Tasmania Marcin Kempa/Unsplash The tech industry’s unofficial motto for two decades was “move fast and break things”. It was a philosophy that broke more than just taxi monopolies or hotel chains. It also constructed a digital world ... <a title="Banning kids from social media doesn’t make online platforms safer. Here’s what will do that" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/banning-kids-from-social-media-doesnt-make-online-platforms-safer-heres-what-will-do-that-271103/" aria-label="Read more about Banning kids from social media doesn’t make online platforms safer. Here’s what will do that">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janet Hoek, Professor in Public Health, University of Otago Getty Images It is now clear the government has failed to meet New Zealand’s smokefree goal of fewer than 5% of people from all population groups smoking by the end of this year. According to the latest New ... <a title="8 reasons the government should not introduce oral nicotine pouches to NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/8-reasons-the-government-should-not-introduce-oral-nicotine-pouches-to-nz-271604/" aria-label="Read more about 8 reasons the government should not introduce oral nicotine pouches to NZ">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In a move that will enable her to avoid detailed media questioning about her use of entitlements, embattled minister Anika Wells has referred herself to the authority that oversees parliamentarians’ expenses. Wells, the Minister for Communications, who is also the ... <a title="Anika Wells refers herself to independent watchdog over expenses affair" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/anika-wells-refers-herself-to-independent-watchdog-over-expenses-affair-270796/" aria-label="Read more about Anika Wells refers herself to independent watchdog over expenses affair">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stella Huangfu, Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has ended the year with a steady hand, keeping the cash rate at 3.6% at its final meeting of 2025. The decision was widely expected, but the real story is in ... <a title="The RBA is stuck in a tug-of-war, as it holds rates steady" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/the-rba-is-stuck-in-a-tug-of-war-as-it-holds-rates-steady-271512/" aria-label="Read more about The RBA is stuck in a tug-of-war, as it holds rates steady">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Saikal, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University Lebanon faces a grave predicament. Israel wants the Hezbollah militant group based in the country to be disarmed. Hezbollah has refused to give up its arms as long as ... <a title="With a deadline looming, Lebanon is under pressure to disarm Hezbollah or risk another war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/with-a-deadline-looming-lebanon-is-under-pressure-to-disarm-hezbollah-or-risk-another-war-271523/" aria-label="Read more about With a deadline looming, Lebanon is under pressure to disarm Hezbollah or risk another war">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Helene Nolan, Associate Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Dozens of bushfires raged over the weekend as far afield as the mid-north coast of New South Wales and Tasmania’s east coast. A NSW firefighter tragically lost his life, 16 homes burned down in ... <a title="Primed to burn: what’s behind the intense, sudden fires burning across New South Wales and Tasmania" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/primed-to-burn-whats-behind-the-intense-sudden-fires-burning-across-new-south-wales-and-tasmania-271499/" aria-label="Read more about Primed to burn: what’s behind the intense, sudden fires burning across New South Wales and Tasmania">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic McAfee, Postdoctoral researcher, marine ecology, University of Adelaide Manny Katz, EyreLab, CC BY-ND South Australians are suddenly hearing a lot about oyster reefs — from government, on the news and in conversations, both online and in person. It’s not accidental. Their state is grappling with an ... <a title="How eating oysters could help restore South Australia’s algal-bloom ravaged coast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/how-eating-oysters-could-help-restore-south-australias-algal-bloom-ravaged-coast-271399/" aria-label="Read more about How eating oysters could help restore South Australia’s algal-bloom ravaged coast">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on December 9, 2025.
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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan Willis, Associate Professor, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University As Christmas approaches, many of us are busy making plans to spend the day with family – organising travel, buying presents and looking forward to (or perhaps dreading) long-held traditions. For others, this time ... <a title="How to get through the festive season when you’re estranged from your parents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/how-to-get-through-the-festive-season-when-youre-estranged-from-your-parents-269909/" aria-label="Read more about How to get through the festive season when you’re estranged from your parents">Read more</a>
