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November 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barbara Brookes, Professor Emerita of History, University of Otago Portrait of Sir Truby King by Mary Tripe, circa 1935. Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images Four days after Plunket founder Sir Truby King’s funeral on February 12 1938, the Auckland Weekly News printed a montage of photographs ... <a title="Did Plunket founder Truby King really believe in eugenics? History isn’t that simple" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/did-plunket-founder-truby-king-really-believe-in-eugenics-history-isnt-that-simple-269187/" aria-label="Read more about Did Plunket founder Truby King really believe in eugenics? History isn’t that simple">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ronnie Das, Associate Professor in Data Science, Sports Analytics and AI, The University of Western Australia; Audencia The Ashes is one of cricket’s fiercest rivalries and dates back to 1882, when England lost to Australia for the first time on home soil. So outraged were English cricket ... <a title="The ‘Bazball’ game style has revolutionised English cricket. Australia should be nervous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/the-bazball-game-style-has-revolutionised-english-cricket-australia-should-be-nervous-267864/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘Bazball’ game style has revolutionised English cricket. Australia should be nervous">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University Layland Masuda/Getty Images If you’re looking on social media for information and experiences of giving birth at home, you’ll find widely varied content. On the one hand, you’ll find women who ... <a title="What’s the difference between a home birth and a free birth?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/whats-the-difference-between-a-home-birth-and-a-free-birth-268883/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between a home birth and a free birth?">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniele Fulvi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Western Sydney University Yuji Sakai/Getty As the climate crisis accelerates, there’s a desperate need to rapidly reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, both by slashing emissions and by pulling carbon out of the air. Synthetic biology has emerged as a particularly ... <a title="Engineered microbes could tackle climate change – if we ensure it’s done safely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/engineered-microbes-could-tackle-climate-change-if-we-ensure-its-done-safely-266584/" aria-label="Read more about Engineered microbes could tackle climate change – if we ensure it’s done safely">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Way, Associate Professor in Primary and Early Childhood Mathematics Education, University of Sydney Sydney Bourne/ AAP If you ask a small child a simple maths question, such as 4+2, they may count on their fingers to work it out. Should we encourage young children to do ... <a title="A new study shows little kids who count on their fingers do better at maths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/a-new-study-shows-little-kids-who-count-on-their-fingers-do-better-at-maths-270259/" aria-label="Read more about A new study shows little kids who count on their fingers do better at maths">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Head, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra The Australian Capital Territory and Queensland have won bragging rights for having the fastest growing economies in Australia in 2024-25. Their growth was highlighted in annual data on gross state product (GSP), released by the Australian Bureau ... <a title="New data shows the ACT and Queensland economies are beating the rest of the nation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/new-data-shows-the-act-and-queensland-economies-are-beating-the-rest-of-the-nation-270068/" aria-label="Read more about New data shows the ACT and Queensland economies are beating the rest of the nation">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney Criterion Collection Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom is turning 50. One of cinema’s most notorious films, Salò continues to be approached with trepidation – if approached at all. Adapted from ... <a title="Cinema’s most notorious film: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò turns 50" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/cinemas-most-notorious-film-pier-paolo-pasolinis-salo-turns-50-267432/" aria-label="Read more about Cinema’s most notorious film: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò turns 50">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Entrepreneurs, professionals, families and community leaders from across Aotearoa New Zealand came together last night for the inaugural Fiji Business Awards NZ, reports Webfit News. Hosted by the Fiji Business Network (NZ) at Auckland’s Remuera Club and backed by platinum sponsor Bunnings Trade, the evening was a reminder that many Fiji businesses ... <a title="Fiji Business Awards celebrate big achievements from humble beginnings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/fiji-business-awards-celebrate-big-achievements-from-humble-beginnings/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Business Awards celebrate big achievements from humble beginnings">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell appeared last week in a Melbourne court for a bail hearing, after jail time over the attack on an Indigenous camp, his supporters were there in force. A lawyer in the building at the time ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Combatting the neo-Nazis is a ‘wicked problem’ for governments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/grattan-on-friday-combatting-the-neo-nazis-is-a-wicked-problem-for-governments-269393/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Combatting the neo-Nazis is a ‘wicked problem’ for governments">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Christopher Warren There’s been skillful work in journalism’s dark arts on display in the UK this past week, as the nasty British right-wing media pack tore down two senior BBC executives. The right-wing culture warriors will be celebrating big time. They reckon they’ve put a big dent in Britain’s most trusted and most ... <a title="Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It won’t save the ABC either" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/bending-over-backwards-for-the-right-isnt-saving-the-bbc-it-wont-save-the-abc-either/" aria-label="Read more about Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It won’t save the ABC either">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders has called on the Samoan Prime Minister to lift the ban preventing the daily newspaper Samoa Observer from attending government press conferences. “The measure is totally unacceptable — it comes after one of its journalists filed a complaint over violence committed by the ... <a title="RSF calls on Samoan PM to lift ‘unacceptable’ ban on Samoa Observer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/rsf-calls-on-samoan-pm-to-lift-unacceptable-ban-on-samoa-observer/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls on Samoan PM to lift ‘unacceptable’ ban on Samoa Observer">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eliza Northrop, Director UNSW Centre for Sustainable Development Reform, UNSW Sydney After a long and deadlocked bidding process for Australia and Pacific Island nations to co-host the UN climate summit (COP31), the event will now be hosted by Turkey. Australia’s Climate Minister, Chris Bowen, will reportedly take ... <a title="Turkey will host COP31, Australia will play a role. So where does that leave the Pacific?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/turkey-will-host-cop31-australia-will-play-a-role-so-where-does-that-leave-the-pacific-270280/" aria-label="Read more about Turkey will host COP31, Australia will play a role. So where does that leave the Pacific?">Read more</a>
