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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In a stark reminder of the strong Jewish backlash against the prime minister, Anthony Albanese was not invited to attend the Wednesday funeral of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, among the first of the Bondi massacre victims to be farewelled. Those present ... <a title="Albanese not invited to rabbi’s funeral, as Frydenberg calls for ban on ‘hate preachers’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/albanese-not-invited-to-rabbis-funeral-as-frydenberg-calls-for-ban-on-hate-preachers-271951/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese not invited to rabbi’s funeral, as Frydenberg calls for ban on ‘hate preachers’">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The mid-year budget update would normally be big news. But this week it’s been entirely overshadowed by the devastating Bondi terror attack. To discuss the government’s response to that deadly attack, as well as the outlook for Australia’s economy in ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on the Bondi terror attack and the mid-year budget update" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/politics-with-michelle-grattan-jim-chalmers-on-the-bondi-terror-attack-and-the-mid-year-budget-update-272253/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on the Bondi terror attack and the mid-year budget update">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute yingchao li/Unsplash What’s the cheapest way to power Australia? Every year, CSIRO researchers and modellers seek to answer this very large question in their GenCost report. On one level, the answer in the draft 2025–26 report is unsurprising: solar and ... <a title="Solar, onshore wind and gas backup is (still) the cheapest way to power Australia: new report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/solar-onshore-wind-and-gas-backup-is-still-the-cheapest-way-to-power-australia-new-report-272249/" aria-label="Read more about Solar, onshore wind and gas backup is (still) the cheapest way to power Australia: new report">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Bourke, Lecturer, The University of Western Australia Clint Hansen, CC BY-ND Indigenous people have coexisted with Australia’s vast and ancient groundwater systems for thousands of generations. Their knowledge extends back through deep time, before our current climate and waterways. It offers insights that Western science is ... <a title="How the myth of ‘aqua nullius’ still guides Australia’s approach to groundwater" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/how-the-myth-of-aqua-nullius-still-guides-australias-approach-to-groundwater-270374/" aria-label="Read more about How the myth of ‘aqua nullius’ still guides Australia’s approach to groundwater">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Marie Brennan, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Waikato Former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming after pleading guilty to eight charges in the Wellington District Court, November 6. Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via Getty Images The sentencing of former deputy police commissioner Jevon McSkimming represents not ... <a title="Jevon McSkimming sentencing: why a public inquiry into the police should be next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/jevon-mcskimming-sentencing-why-a-public-inquiry-into-the-police-should-be-next-272149/" aria-label="Read more about Jevon McSkimming sentencing: why a public inquiry into the police should be next">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chelsea Arnold, Clinical Psychologist and Research Fellow (Lead Clinician), Monash University Many hundreds of people were at Bondi beach on Sunday when 50-year-old Sajid Akram and his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 people. Many witnesses saw people be seriously injured ... <a title="If you witnessed the Bondi Hanukkah attack, here’s what you might be going through" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/if-you-witnessed-the-bondi-hanukkah-attack-heres-what-you-might-be-going-through-272054/" aria-label="Read more about If you witnessed the Bondi Hanukkah attack, here’s what you might be going through">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra The federal government’s mid-year budget update shows a modest improvement in the deficit forecast in 2025–26, but much of this comes from a larger-than-forecast tax take. The update, known as the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO), estimates a ... <a title="The budget update shows a slight improvement in the federal deficit, but it’s mostly due to good luck" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/the-budget-update-shows-a-slight-improvement-in-the-federal-deficit-but-its-mostly-due-to-good-luck-271934/" aria-label="Read more about The budget update shows a slight improvement in the federal deficit, but it’s mostly due to good luck">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Iain Davidson, Emeritus Professor, Department of Archaeology, Classics and History, University of New England Mrs Hansen telling stories about the art to Isabel’s husband, Ray, at the Mulligan art site crop Iain Davidson All over Australia, Songlines, or Dreaming tracks, connected First Nations people in one place ... <a title="Stories from traditional knowledge combined with archaeological work trace 2,300km of Songlines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/stories-from-traditional-knowledge-combined-with-archaeological-work-trace-2-300km-of-songlines-269400/" aria-label="Read more about Stories from traditional knowledge combined with archaeological work trace 2,300km of Songlines">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland Thirty years ago this week, the Dayton Accords were signed in Paris, bringing an end to the Bosnian war, the most destructive conflict Europe had witnessed since 1945. Weeks of intensive negotiations at ... <a title="This peace deal ended Europe’s last major war 30 years ago. It provides important lessons for today’s fractured world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/this-peace-deal-ended-europes-last-major-war-30-years-ago-it-provides-important-lessons-for-todays-fractured-world-270160/" aria-label="Read more about This peace deal ended Europe’s last major war 30 years ago. It provides important lessons for today’s fractured world">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rikke Louise Bundgaard-Nielsen, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne Cristina Gottardi/Unsplash Effective communication lies at the heart of human connection. It helps us collaborate with each other, solve problems and build relationships. And communicating clearly is a major consideration for most of ... <a title="Some words affect us more than others. It boils down to how they sound" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/some-words-affect-us-more-than-others-it-boils-down-to-how-they-sound-264677/" aria-label="Read more about Some words affect us more than others. It boils down to how they sound">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hinze Hogendoorn, Professor, Visual Time Perception, Queensland University of Technology Jean-Guillaume Starnini/Pexels How is it December already? What happened to 2025? And how did we suddenly jump from eating Easter eggs to putting up Christmas trees? To understand why our perception of time seems to bend and ... <a title="Why is time going so fast and how do I slow it down?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/why-is-time-going-so-fast-and-how-do-i-slow-it-down-268982/" aria-label="Read more about Why is time going so fast and how do I slow it down?">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cody Lindsay, Lecturer, Exercise and Sport Science, Flinders University If you’ve ever watched a batter get beaten by a ball that curved, jagged or dipped at the last moment, you’ve seen one of cricket’s great mysteries. Whether it’s a Mitchell Starc inswinger, a Josh Hazlewood delivery that ... <a title="How cricket balls move: the science behind swing, seam and spin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/how-cricket-balls-move-the-science-behind-swing-seam-and-spin-267965/" aria-label="Read more about How cricket balls move: the science behind swing, seam and spin">Read more</a>
