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October 29, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A former National MP has launched a petition calling for “equality and respect” in New Zealand’s immigration visa treatment of Pacific Islanders, saying “many are shocked when they learn the truth”. In a full page advertisement in The New Zealand Herald newspaper today, Anae Arthur Anae condemned the New Zealand government’s visa ... <a title="Former MP Anae calls for ‘Pacific justice’ over immigration in petition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/former-mp-anae-calls-for-pacific-justice-over-immigration-in-petition/" aria-label="Read more about Former MP Anae calls for ‘Pacific justice’ over immigration in petition">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
RNZ Pacific Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has confirmed that his Finance Minister — and one of three deputies — has resigned after being charged by the country’s anti-corruption watchdog. Local media first reported that Professor Biman Prasad, the man in charge of government finances, had been charged with corruption-related offences under Fiji’s political party ... <a title="‘Political chaos’ – Fiji PM Rabuka confirms Biman Prasad’s resignation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/political-chaos-fiji-pm-rabuka-confirms-biman-prasads-resignation/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Political chaos’ – Fiji PM Rabuka confirms Biman Prasad’s resignation">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Silvia Mantovanini, PhD Candidate, Astronomy, Curtin University Silvia Mantovanini (ICRAR/Curtin) & the GLEAM-X Team The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of innumerable stars. But that’s just the visible light. Observing the ... <a title="New images reveal the Milky Way’s stunning galactic plane in more detail than ever before" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/new-images-reveal-the-milky-ways-stunning-galactic-plane-in-more-detail-than-ever-before-264688/" aria-label="Read more about New images reveal the Milky Way’s stunning galactic plane in more detail than ever before">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Bildagentur-online/Getty Beyond ghoulish costumes and mountains of lollies, Halloween is rooted in celebrating nature. It originated in the Celtic pagan tradition of Samhain, marking the bounty of the autumnal harvest and ... <a title="Let’s celebrate nature’s spookiest and freakiest animals this Halloween" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/lets-celebrate-natures-spookiest-and-freakiest-animals-this-halloween-267633/" aria-label="Read more about Let’s celebrate nature’s spookiest and freakiest animals this Halloween">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Melville, Senior Curator, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute Mountain Dragon (_Rankinia diemensis_). reiner/iNaturalist, CC BY-NC-SA In pockets of highlands across Australia’s east lives a shy and secretive lizard. It’s usually reddish grey in colour, with two pale strips running the length of its spiky back. ... <a title="Rare reptiles are moving up mountains as the world warms. They can’t keep doing it forever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/rare-reptiles-are-moving-up-mountains-as-the-world-warms-they-cant-keep-doing-it-forever-268192/" aria-label="Read more about Rare reptiles are moving up mountains as the world warms. They can’t keep doing it forever">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Phillips, Associate Professor, POLIS@ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University Australians are having fewer children than ever. At 1.5 babies per woman, the fertility rate is at a record low. Many attribute this to the cost of having and raising children. If this is ... <a title="How much does it really cost to raise a child? An expert does the maths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/how-much-does-it-really-cost-to-raise-a-child-an-expert-does-the-maths-266048/" aria-label="Read more about How much does it really cost to raise a child? An expert does the maths">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne Maskot/Getty Images A key commitment at May’s federal election was an A$8.5 billion promise to increase incentives for GPs to bulk bill patients. The ... <a title="GPs will soon get extra incentives to bulk bill. So will your doctor be free?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/gps-will-soon-get-extra-incentives-to-bulk-bill-so-will-your-doctor-be-free-266500/" aria-label="Read more about GPs will soon get extra incentives to bulk bill. So will your doctor be free?">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Thompson, Lecturer in History and Communications, University of Southern Queensland Charles Parker/ Pexels It is easy to see Halloween as an inappropriate time for children. With its mixture of bloody costumes and scary themes, it can often feel like it is luring kids into topics they ... <a title="Is Halloween too scary for kids?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/is-halloween-too-scary-for-kids-268216/" aria-label="Read more about Is Halloween too scary for kids?">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alasdair Macintyre, Associate lecturer visual arts, artist, PhD, Australian Catholic University On a crisp winter evening in 1985, a documentary went to air whose advance advertising promised to scare viewers out of their wits. It didn’t disappoint. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the broadcast of ... <a title="How this 1985 documentary ‘scared the pants’ off us – and sparked a paranormal TV craze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/how-this-1985-documentary-scared-the-pants-off-us-and-sparked-a-paranormal-tv-craze-264353/" aria-label="Read more about How this 1985 documentary ‘scared the pants’ off us – and sparked a paranormal TV craze">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato Andres Kudacki/Getty Images Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani looks increasingly like the one to beat at next week’s election. But he is up against more than the usual political challenges. US ... <a title="How a ‘sewer socialism’ revival could see Zohran Mamdani become New York’s next mayor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/how-a-sewer-socialism-revival-could-see-zohran-mamdani-become-new-yorks-next-mayor-268073/" aria-label="Read more about How a ‘sewer socialism’ revival could see Zohran Mamdani become New York’s next mayor">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor It was hardly a dream debut for Labour’s long-awaited, much-argued-over tax package for Aotearoa New Zealand. What was meant to be a carefully choreographed reveal of a capital gains tax (CGT) later this week instead arrived early — leaked to RNZ over the long weekend and ... <a title="Labour’s capital gains NZ tax gamble – from leak to launch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/labours-capital-gains-nz-tax-gamble-from-leak-to-launch/" aria-label="Read more about Labour’s capital gains NZ tax gamble – from leak to launch">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tahlia Norrish, MPhil Candidate (Sport Sciences), The University of Queensland When most people think of actors, they imagine the glamour of movies, television and the stage. Yet few people realise actors are more likely to experience anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance abuse and suicidal thoughts than the ... <a title="Sport and dance benefit from performance psychology – why does acting largely ignore it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/sport-and-dance-benefit-from-performance-psychology-why-does-acting-largely-ignore-it-263638/" aria-label="Read more about Sport and dance benefit from performance psychology – why does acting largely ignore it?">Read more</a>
