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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Reforms to Australia’s nature laws have passed federal parliament. A longstanding exemption that meant federal environment laws did not apply to native logging has finally been removed from the Environment Protection and ... <a title="Australia has new laws to protect nature. Do they signal an end to native forest logging?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/australia-has-new-laws-to-protect-nature-do-they-signal-an-end-to-native-forest-logging-271203/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has new laws to protect nature. Do they signal an end to native forest logging?">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George Tian, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney In October, Australia signed an A$13 billion rare earths and critical minerals agreement with the United States. This is designed to boost supply of minerals vital to everything from military technology to clean energy. Australia has large ... <a title="Australia wants to be a critical minerals superpower – but processing is messy and dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/australia-wants-to-be-a-critical-minerals-superpower-but-processing-is-messy-and-dangerous-269799/" aria-label="Read more about Australia wants to be a critical minerals superpower – but processing is messy and dangerous">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University Installation view of Westwood | Kawakubo on display from December 7 2025 to April 19 2026, at NGV International, Melbourne. Photo: Sean Fennessy Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo are two fashion designers who redefined “the look” of ... <a title="How self-taught, self-made mavericks Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo redefined punk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/how-self-taught-self-made-mavericks-vivienne-westwood-and-rei-kawakubo-redefined-punk-269517/" aria-label="Read more about How self-taught, self-made mavericks Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo redefined punk">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on December 8, 2025.
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rohan Best, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University Kindel Media/Pexels A federal government green energy program is subsidising unnecessarily large home batteries and blowing out in cost. The Labor government launched its A$2.3 billion Cheaper Home Batteries Program in July, with the aim of bringing down ... <a title="Australia’s $2.3 billion green energy program is funding oversized batteries and blowing out in cost" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/australias-2-3-billion-green-energy-program-is-funding-oversized-batteries-and-blowing-out-in-cost-271206/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s $2.3 billion green energy program is funding oversized batteries and blowing out in cost">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Pauline Hanson/X Barnaby Joyce has finally made the jump to One Nation and will lead its New South Wales Senate ticket for the 2028 federal election. Pauline Hanson said on social media: “It’s official! We have made our announcement on ... <a title="Barnaby Joyce joins One Nation to run as NSW Senate candidate in 2028" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/barnaby-joyce-joins-one-nation-to-run-as-nsw-senate-candidate-in-2028-270792/" aria-label="Read more about Barnaby Joyce joins One Nation to run as NSW Senate candidate in 2028">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Scott Webb/Unsplash When people think of gym goers using steroids, the picture that comes to mind is often of a man pumping iron, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, or modern day shirtless masculinity ... <a title="More women are using steroids – and many don’t know the risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/more-women-are-using-steroids-and-many-dont-know-the-risks-271183/" aria-label="Read more about More women are using steroids – and many don’t know the risks">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Sasson, Scientia Senior Lecturer in Medicine (Immunology), UNSW Sydney National Cancer Institute/Unsplash The terms tumour and cancer can refer to different types of lumps and bumps. But the terms are often confused and misused – by the general public and even health professionals. For instance, doctors ... <a title="What’s the difference between a tumour and cancer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/whats-the-difference-between-a-tumour-and-cancer-266363/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between a tumour and cancer?">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trudie Walters, Senior Lecturer in Leisure and Event Studies, Lincoln University, New Zealand Team New Zealand at the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin, 2023. Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images One of New Zealand’s biggest sporting events of this year, at least in terms of ... <a title="Empowerment and joy: NZ’s Special Olympics Summer Games remind us what sport is about" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/empowerment-and-joy-nzs-special-olympics-summer-games-remind-us-what-sport-is-about-269069/" aria-label="Read more about Empowerment and joy: NZ’s Special Olympics Summer Games remind us what sport is about">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zareh Ghazarian, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Monash University From this week, Australians aged under 16 will not be able to hold an account on many social media platforms. In anticipation of the ban, some social media companies have already begun ... <a title="The under-16s social media ban will damage young people’s political education. Teachers need better support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/the-under-16s-social-media-ban-will-damage-young-peoples-political-education-teachers-need-better-support-271389/" aria-label="Read more about The under-16s social media ban will damage young people’s political education. Teachers need better support">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Rintoul, CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO Pete Harmsen, CC BY-ND Sometimes, we get lucky in science. In this case, an oceanographic float we deployed to do one job ended up drifting away and doing something else entirely. Equipped with temperature and salinity sensors, our Argo ocean float was ... <a title="What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarctica’s melting glaciers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/what-our-missing-ocean-float-revealed-about-antarcticas-melting-glaciers-271201/" aria-label="Read more about What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarctica’s melting glaciers">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Bennett, Disability Program Director, Grattan Institute The pathway to reforming the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is littered with obstacles. Among the biggest challenges is the federal and state governments agreeing on responsibility and funding for “foundational supports”. These are disability-specific services for people who don’t ... <a title="Most people with disabling mental health conditions can’t access the NDIS. Here’s a better way to provide support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/most-people-with-disabling-mental-health-conditions-cant-access-the-ndis-heres-a-better-way-to-provide-support-270957/" aria-label="Read more about Most people with disabling mental health conditions can’t access the NDIS. Here’s a better way to provide support">Read more</a>
