ER Report: A Roundup of Significant Articles on EveningReport.nz for October 27, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on October 27, 2025.
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ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on October 27, 2025.

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Labor has a blowout lead in South Australia, with the election in March 2026. The federal party has also expanded its lead in a Morgan poll. The ... <a title="Labor has huge lead in a South Australian poll, 5 months from the election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/27/labor-has-huge-lead-in-a-south-australian-poll-5-months-from-the-election-267813/" aria-label="Read more about Labor has huge lead in a South Australian poll, 5 months from the election">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Pomeroy, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education, University of Canterbury Getty Images If the recent news of a new mathematics and statistics curriculum for years 0–10 felt familiar, that’s because it was. In term four last year, the Ministry of Education released a previous new maths (and ... <a title="A rushed new maths curriculum doesn’t add up. The right answer is more time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/27/a-rushed-new-maths-curriculum-doesnt-add-up-the-right-answer-is-more-time-268098/" aria-label="Read more about A rushed new maths curriculum doesn’t add up. The right answer is more time">Read more</a>

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By José-Miguel Bello y Villarino, Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney Beckett LeClair, CC BY A year ago, the Commonwealth government established a policy requiring most federal agencies to publish “AI transparency statements” on their websites by February 2025. These statements were meant to explain ... <a title="Most Australian government agencies aren’t transparent about how they use AI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/27/most-australian-government-agencies-arent-transparent-about-how-they-use-ai-266768/" aria-label="Read more about Most Australian government agencies aren’t transparent about how they use AI">Read more</a>

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Intifar Chowdhury, Lecturer in Government, Flinders University Australia is becoming increasingly unequal. The story is unmissably generational: young Australians today face a tougher reality than their parents and grandparents. Despite having greater access to education and information, they are more precarious, indebted, insecure and anxious than ever ... <a title="5 charts that show how young Australians are getting screwed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/27/5-charts-that-show-how-young-australians-are-getting-screwed-263257/" aria-label="Read more about 5 charts that show how young Australians are getting screwed">Read more</a>

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Milkins, Postdoctoral Researcher in Youth Trauma and Dissociation, The Kids Research Institute Australia You call your teen’s name, but they don’t respond. They’re staring past you. You call again, louder this time. Nothing – how rude. But what if they’re zoning out? For some teens, this ... <a title="‘Wait with me until it’s over’: what teens want you to know about dissociation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/27/wait-with-me-until-its-over-what-teens-want-you-to-know-about-dissociation-267634/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Wait with me until it’s over’: what teens want you to know about dissociation">Read more</a>

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Conrad Pilditch, Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Paul Caiger, CC BY-SA New Zealand’s first legislated marine reserve, established 50 years ago around Te Hāwere-a-Maki/Goat Island north of Auckland, was also among the very first in the world. During the decades since then, ... <a title="NZ’s first marine reserve is turning 50 – the lessons from its recovery are invaluable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/27/nzs-first-marine-reserve-is-turning-50-the-lessons-from-its-recovery-are-invaluable-268184/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s first marine reserve is turning 50 – the lessons from its recovery are invaluable">Read more</a>

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Walker-Munro, Senior Lecturer (Law), Southern Cross University Ross Tomei/ Getty Images When we think of spies, we may go to images of people in trench coats and dark glasses, trying to steal government papers. Or someone trying to tap the phone of a senior official. The ... <a title="Foreign spies are trying to steal Australian research. We should be doing more to stop them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/27/foreign-spies-are-trying-to-steal-australian-research-we-should-be-doing-more-to-stop-them-268185/" aria-label="Read more about Foreign spies are trying to steal Australian research. We should be doing more to stop them">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graham Greenleaf, Honorary Professor, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University Right now, more than 311,000 Australian Facebook users can apply for a slice of a A$50 million compensation fund from tech giant Meta – the largest ever payment for a breach of Australians’ privacy. But the clock is ... <a title="Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/27/were-you-on-facebook-10-years-ago-you-may-be-able-to-claim-part-of-this-50-million-payout-267327/" aria-label="Read more about Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payout">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sanné Mestrom, Senior Lecturer, DECRA Fellow, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney Children’s screams echo off concrete walls as they navigate bright-painted monkey bars. Families huddle around a sausage sizzle. Teenagers lounge on borrowed towels near a palm grove. Washing machines hum quietly in the ... <a title="The Art Gallery of NSW has transformed into a space to cook, play, do laundry and linger" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/27/the-art-gallery-of-nsw-has-transformed-into-a-space-to-cook-play-do-laundry-and-linger-265959/" aria-label="Read more about The Art Gallery of NSW has transformed into a space to cook, play, do laundry and linger">Read more</a>

The New Arab A Palestinian horror film inspired by folklore is moving forward, with journalist and author Plestia Alaqad joining the cast alongside American-born Kuwaiti-Palestinian journalist and media personality Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Titled The Visitor, the feature is written and directed by Palestinian-American filmmaker Rolla Selbak and produced by Black Poppy ... <a title="Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/26/gazas-plestia-alaqad-to-star-in-palestinian-horror-film-the-visitor/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor">Read more</a>

Pacific Media Watch Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf on We Used To Be Journos to unpack his time in Australia, including some fraught interactions with sections of the Australian media. The pair also discuss what he flew all this way to talk about — how Western journalists are betraying their colleagues ... <a title="Hedges slams hostile Australian interview, unpacks Press Club and Western media betraying Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/26/hedges-slams-hostile-australian-interview-unpacks-press-club-and-western-media-betraying-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Hedges slams hostile Australian interview, unpacks Press Club and Western media betraying Gaza">Read more</a>