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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Laurence, Professor of Ancient History, Macquarie University A detail of the neatly aligned ceramic roof tiles and tuff blocks in a newly excavated site in Pompeii, documenting the storage of building materials during renovation. Archaeological Park of Pompeii Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It’s among ... <a title="A 2,000-year-old building site reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/a-2-000-year-old-building-site-reveals-the-raw-ingredients-for-ancient-roman-self-healing-concrete-271405/" aria-label="Read more about A 2,000-year-old building site reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Sanket Mishra/Unsplash After months of anticipation and debate, Australia’s social media ban is now in force. Young Australians under 16 must now come to grips with the new reality of being ... <a title="Australia’s social media ban is now in force. Other countries are closely watching what happens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/australias-social-media-ban-is-now-in-force-other-countries-are-closely-watching-what-happens-271407/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s social media ban is now in force. Other countries are closely watching what happens">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vivian Gerrand, Associate Lecturer, Australian National University; Deakin University The manosphere is big business today. Once a niche network lurking on the margins of the internet, this diverse community of male supremacist cultures has grown into a transnational profit-making enterprise. Our new review of the growing body ... <a title="Hustle, muscle and grift: how the manosphere has grown into a money-making machine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/hustle-muscle-and-grift-how-the-manosphere-has-grown-into-a-money-making-machine-262432/" aria-label="Read more about Hustle, muscle and grift: how the manosphere has grown into a money-making machine">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Smith, Senior Lecturer of Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne Cavan Images/Getty Thriving Kids is a planned national program for children aged eight and under with developmental delay or autism who are assessed as having low to moderate support needs. The idea is to move these ... <a title="If parents designed the new ‘Thriving Kids’ program, it’d look like this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/if-parents-designed-the-new-thriving-kids-program-itd-look-like-this-271182/" aria-label="Read more about If parents designed the new ‘Thriving Kids’ program, it’d look like this">Read more</a>
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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>
