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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Darling Downs Public Health Unit Most Australians have probably noticed the proliferation of tobacconists and “convenience stores” in the last few years. These stores aren’t making much from the limited offerings on public display. Rather, their profitability ... <a title="Illegal tobacco is messing up economic data. That won’t stop until it’s managed like alcohol" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/illegal-tobacco-is-messing-up-economic-data-that-wont-stop-until-its-managed-like-alcohol-271304/" aria-label="Read more about Illegal tobacco is messing up economic data. That won’t stop until it’s managed like alcohol">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Scroxton, Research Fellow, Palaeoclimate, National University of Ireland Maynooth _Homo floresiensis_ skull. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, ... <a title="The ‘hobbits’ mysteriously disappeared 50,000 years ago. Our new study reveals what happened to their home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/the-hobbits-mysteriously-disappeared-50-000-years-ago-our-new-study-reveals-what-happened-to-their-home-268668/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘hobbits’ mysteriously disappeared 50,000 years ago. Our new study reveals what happened to their home">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra There are two glaring lessons for politicians from the Anika Wells’ entitlements affair. First, don’t grab greedily at every generous entitlement MPs and especially ministers can get, even if “the rules” allow you to do so. Second, if you do ... <a title="View from The Hill: in awkward timing, government ends energy rebate as it defends Wells’ spendathon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/view-from-the-hill-in-awkward-timing-government-ends-energy-rebate-as-it-defends-wells-spendathon-270791/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: in awkward timing, government ends energy rebate as it defends Wells’ spendathon">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Greens have suffered a year of significant setbacks. The election saw their numbers go backwards, losing three of their four lower house seats, then one of their senators, Dorinda Cox, defected to Labor. But the year ended on a ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Sarah Hanson-Young on the social media ban as a risky ‘fake silver bullet’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/politics-with-michelle-grattan-sarah-hanson-young-on-the-social-media-ban-as-a-risky-fake-silver-bullet-271517/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Sarah Hanson-Young on the social media ban as a risky ‘fake silver bullet’">Read more</a>
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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>
