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November 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sophie Smit, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sydney Sebastian Dumitru / Unsplash Touch is fundamental to how we perceive our own bodies and connect with others. A gentle brush stroke on our body can feel soothing, while a pinch or cut can be painful. ... <a title="When we see someone being touched, our brains automatically simulate how it feels" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/when-we-see-someone-being-touched-our-brains-automatically-simulate-how-it-feels-268892/" aria-label="Read more about When we see someone being touched, our brains automatically simulate how it feels">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nial Wheate, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University agrobacter/Getty For many men the gradual thinning of hair is about more than just their appearance. Finasteride, a drug widely prescribed for the treatment of male pattern baldness has been used effectively for many years for this deeply ... <a title="How does the hair-loss drug finasteride work? Can it affect my mental health?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/how-does-the-hair-loss-drug-finasteride-work-can-it-affect-my-mental-health-269902/" aria-label="Read more about How does the hair-loss drug finasteride work? Can it affect my mental health?">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson How shall we speak and act now? For six years, Alternative Jewish Voices has spoken in an aspirational voice. This is intentional. Research shows, the voice that mobilises new political engagement is a voice of moral clarity which invites others to join the work of making a better world. We ground ... <a title="Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/marilyn-garson-how-shall-we-speak-now-since-the-gaza-ceasefire/" aria-label="Read more about Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer They say the march toward authoritarian rule begins with one simple act: taking control of the narrative and silencing the independent press. Yesterday, Samoa witnessed a step in that direction. Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt, elected by the people to serve them, has already moved to weaken one of democracy’s ... <a title="Samoa Observer: The PM’s wish and our promise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/samoa-observer-the-pms-wish-and-our-promise/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: The PM’s wish and our promise">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucinda Grummitt, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney Tanya Gorelova/Pexels Some 42% of Australians experience a traumatic event before turning 18 – and it affects their health decades later. Our study, released today, analysed data from ... <a title="New study finds 2 in 5 Australians experience traumatic events as children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/new-study-finds-2-in-5-australians-experience-traumatic-events-as-children-266893/" aria-label="Read more about New study finds 2 in 5 Australians experience traumatic events as children">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
By Renate Rivers of PMN News Samoa’s Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt has banned the country’s only daily newspaper, the Samoa Observer, from all ministerial press conferences. The move has raised serious concerns among industry stakeholders about media freedom as he faces growing political and legal pressure. La’aulialemalietoa announced the ban on Monday at ... <a title="Samoan PM bans nation’s only newspaper from government access" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/samoan-pm-bans-nations-only-newspaper-from-government-access/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan PM bans nation’s only newspaper from government access">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stan Karanasios, Professor in Information Systems, The University of Queensland Burst/Unsplash Over the past few years, we have repeatedly been told artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for our jobs. In May last year, the International Monetary Fund warned the technology was hitting labour markets like a “tsunami”. ... <a title="Australian businesses have actually been slow to adopt AI, survey finds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/australian-businesses-have-actually-been-slow-to-adopt-ai-survey-finds-269812/" aria-label="Read more about Australian businesses have actually been slow to adopt AI, survey finds">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elliott Logan, Lecturer in Film, Screen, and Culture, Monash University Apple TV Viewers of Apple TV’s new science fiction series, Plur1bus, have been quick to point out eerie similarities with modern concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) – even if that’s not what it’s maker intended. Writer and ... <a title="Vince Gilligan’s sci-fi series Plur1bus taps into our greatest fears about AI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/vince-gilligans-sci-fi-series-plur1bus-taps-into-our-greatest-fears-about-ai-269497/" aria-label="Read more about Vince Gilligan’s sci-fi series Plur1bus taps into our greatest fears about AI">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah-Kay Coulter, Lecturer in Indigenous Studies, The University of Melbourne John Bryers Ruddock was born in Australia but is a New Zealand citizen by descent through his Māori mother. However, his children are not citizens under the current law because they were born in the United States. ... <a title="Strangers in their own land: how a new citizenship category could avoid a trap for Indigenous children born overseas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/strangers-in-their-own-land-how-a-new-citizenship-category-could-avoid-a-trap-for-indigenous-children-born-overseas-269389/" aria-label="Read more about Strangers in their own land: how a new citizenship category could avoid a trap for Indigenous children born overseas">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elena Collinson, Senior Project and Research Officer, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney Australians remain supportive of the US alliance, but they are viewing it much more critically than before. And many are more concerned about American behaviour under the Trump administration, while softening their views ... <a title="Australians are markedly more worried about the US, still wary about China: new poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/australians-are-markedly-more-worried-about-the-us-still-wary-about-china-new-poll-268209/" aria-label="Read more about Australians are markedly more worried about the US, still wary about China: new poll">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Asma Aziz, Senior Lecturer in Power Engineering, Edith Cowan University Unsplash/The Conversation, CC BY-SA If you follow news about climate change, you’ve probably seen the term “primary energy”. This phrase refers to the raw energy in fuels and natural resources – the energy content of oil in ... <a title="This widely used chart makes the clean energy switch seem much harder than it actually is" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/this-widely-used-chart-makes-the-clean-energy-switch-seem-much-harder-than-it-actually-is-264322/" aria-label="Read more about This widely used chart makes the clean energy switch seem much harder than it actually is">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In 2015, soon after he had rolled Tony Abbott to become prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull was heckled when, with a straight face, he told New South Wales Liberals, “We are not run by factions”. Once, there had been a contrast, ... <a title="View from The Hill: The Liberals may fell Sussan Ley but she won’t make it easy for Taylor and Hastie" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/view-from-the-hill-the-liberals-may-fell-sussan-ley-but-she-wont-make-it-easy-for-taylor-and-hastie-269914/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: The Liberals may fell Sussan Ley but she won’t make it easy for Taylor and Hastie">Read more</a>
