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November 16, 2025
Asia Pacific Report An Australian author whose award-winning book about Israel’s military and surveillance industry has swept the world is scathing about a controversial Gaza transit company. Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book about how Israel tests arms and surveillance technologies in the illegal occupation of Palestine, says the shadowy scheme carrying ... <a title="Australian author says shadow Gaza transit scheme company is operating ‘disaster capitalism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/16/australian-author-says-shadow-gaza-transit-scheme-company-is-operating-disaster-capitalism/" aria-label="Read more about Australian author says shadow Gaza transit scheme company is operating ‘disaster capitalism’">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto While Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian children in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the news broke in Aotearoa New Zealand that our government had been advised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) in September to recognise a Palestinian ... <a title="New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/new-zealand-backing-israel-over-two-state-solution-shows-galling-weak-leadership/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on November 15, 2025.
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November 15, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist “Political and ego manoeuvring” is happening behind the scenes at COP30 in Brazil, as Australia and Türkiye wrestle to host the United Nations climate event next year. Pacific Islands Forum’s climate adviser Karlos Lee Moresi, who is at the talks in Belém, said the negotiations for who would host ... <a title="COP30: ‘Ego manoeuvring’ behind scenes at UN climate talks, says Pacific delegate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/cop30-ego-manoeuvring-behind-scenes-at-un-climate-talks-says-pacific-delegate/" aria-label="Read more about COP30: ‘Ego manoeuvring’ behind scenes at UN climate talks, says Pacific delegate">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
Bob Howarth6 November 1944-13 November 2025 OBITUARY: By Robert Luke Iroga, editor and publisher of Solomon Business Magazine In June 2000, I travelled to Port Moresby for a journalism training course that changed my life in ways I did not expect. The workshop was about new technology—how to send large photo files by email, something ... <a title="Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/tribute-to-bob-howarth-he-touched-the-pacific-in-ways-words-can-barely-capture/" aria-label="Read more about Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Muireann Quigley, Professor, Law, Medicine and Technology, University of Birmingham LBeddoe/Shutterstock.com In clinical trials around the world, a surprising treatment is showing promise for people with terminal illnesses: psychedelic therapy. For many, the hardest part of dying isn’t physical pain but the fear, anxiety and sense of ... <a title="Psychedelics might help terminal patients find peace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/psychedelics-might-help-terminal-patients-find-peace-265915/" aria-label="Read more about Psychedelics might help terminal patients find peace">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Cushion, Professor, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University The Prescott memo was leaked to the Daily Telegraph. Steve Travelguide/Shutterstock The BBC has long weathered accusations of bias. So why did the latest scandal lead to the resignations of the BBC’s director general and ... <a title="BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/bbc-bias-the-prescott-memo-falls-well-short-of-the-standards-of-impartiality-it-demands-269576/" aria-label="Read more about BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Happer, Professor of Media Sociology, Director, Glasgow University Media Group, University of Glasgow ImageFlow/Shutterstock That trust in media is declining throughout the world is almost an unquestioned truth today. But researchers have found it hard to clearly demonstrate how we went from an era of high ... <a title="What a decade of research reveals about why people don’t trust media in the digital age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/what-a-decade-of-research-reveals-about-why-people-dont-trust-media-in-the-digital-age-264222/" aria-label="Read more about What a decade of research reveals about why people don’t trust media in the digital age">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Palau’s leader says the world needs to be working toward reducing emissions and “not dropping targets”, in response to New Zealand slashing its methane reduction goals. Last month, the New Zealand government announced it would cut biogenic methane reduction targets to 14-24 percent below 2017 levels by 2050. The ... <a title="Palau’s leader urges stronger climate action after New Zealand lowers methane targets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/14/palaus-leader-urges-stronger-climate-action-after-new-zealand-lowers-methane-targets/" aria-label="Read more about Palau’s leader urges stronger climate action after New Zealand lowers methane targets">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Musgrave, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide Alexander Sinn/Unsplash Australia’s regulator has suspended use of a common pesticide used on blueberries, raspberries and blackberries known as dimethoate. But this year-long suspension isn’t due to any new information about the pesticide itself. Rather, the Australian Pesticides ... <a title="Are berries safe to eat? How worried should I be about the pesticide dimethoate?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/14/are-berries-safe-to-eat-how-worried-should-i-be-about-the-pesticide-dimethoate-269691/" aria-label="Read more about Are berries safe to eat? How worried should I be about the pesticide dimethoate?">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Malos, Climateworks Centre Country Lead, Australia, Monash University On Thursday, the Liberals reversed their commitment to net zero by 2050. While it’s impossible to predict precisely what this decision means for climate action in Australia, the policies and laws already in place suggest momentum will continue. ... <a title="The Liberals dropped net zero. Will it make any difference to Australia’s climate response?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/14/the-liberals-dropped-net-zero-will-it-make-any-difference-to-australias-climate-response-269712/" aria-label="Read more about The Liberals dropped net zero. Will it make any difference to Australia’s climate response?">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brian Oliver, Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Natalia Alkema/Getty Multiple schools and early learning centres in the Australian Capital Territory have shut on Friday after asbestos was found in coloured sand used for children’s art and sensory play. At least one school in ... <a title="Asbestos has been found in children’s coloured sand. What’s the risk to kids?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/14/asbestos-has-been-found-in-childrens-coloured-sand-whats-the-risk-to-kids-269796/" aria-label="Read more about Asbestos has been found in children’s coloured sand. What’s the risk to kids?">Read more</a>
