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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janine Dixon, Director, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University New data show wages have risen by a bit more than inflation, but overall real wages are still languishing near 2011 levels. Over the year to September, wages rose 3.4% in seasonally adjusted terms. That’s according to the ... <a title="Real wages have grown – just – over the past year. But they’re still down near 2011 levels" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/real-wages-have-grown-just-over-the-past-year-but-theyre-still-down-near-2011-levels-270141/" aria-label="Read more about Real wages have grown – just – over the past year. But they’re still down near 2011 levels">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Awni Etaywe, Lecturer in Linguistics | Forensic Linguist Analysing Cyber Terrorism, Threatening Communications and Incitement | Media Researcher Investigating How Language Shapes Peace, Compassion and Empathy, Charles Darwin University Words are powerful tools. Violent extremists know this well, often choosing their phrasing extremely carefully to build loyalty ... <a title="Violent extremists wield words as weapons. New study reveals 6 tactics they use" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/violent-extremists-wield-words-as-weapons-new-study-reveals-6-tactics-they-use-266053/" aria-label="Read more about Violent extremists wield words as weapons. New study reveals 6 tactics they use">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Budiman Minasny, Professor in Soil-Landscape Modelling, University of Sydney Meaghan Skinner Photography/Getty Producing and distributing food is responsible for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. But food systems are highly vulnerable to the droughts, floods, fires and heatwaves made more intense by climate change. Agriculture ... <a title="Nature, carbon, nutrition: 3 ways farming can shift from climate culprit to solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/nature-carbon-nutrition-3-ways-farming-can-shift-from-climate-culprit-to-solution-268204/" aria-label="Read more about Nature, carbon, nutrition: 3 ways farming can shift from climate culprit to solution">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Online gaming giant Roblox has just announced it will start checking users’ ages from early December in an attempt to stop children and teenagers talking with adults. In what the company ... <a title="Roblox set to start checking people’s ages. But it will need to do more to keep kids safe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/roblox-set-to-start-checking-peoples-ages-but-it-will-need-to-do-more-to-keep-kids-safe-270138/" aria-label="Read more about Roblox set to start checking people’s ages. But it will need to do more to keep kids safe">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ismail Albayrak, Professor of Islam and Catholic Muslim Relations, Australian Catholic University The Mosque at Hergott Springs, photographed around 1884. State Library South Australia From 1860 to 1930, an estimated 3,000 people came to Australia from Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Punjab, Sindh and the northern part of Pakistan. Still ... <a title="How Australia’s first outback mosque was built 600km north of Adelaide, 150 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/how-australias-first-outback-mosque-was-built-600km-north-of-adelaide-150-years-ago-261853/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia’s first outback mosque was built 600km north of Adelaide, 150 years ago">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martyn Kirk, Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University If people eat food grown with contaminated water, PFAS chemicals can accumulate in their blood. Karola G/Pexels When we talk about the health effects of PFAS, we commonly think about any physical effects on ... <a title="Living with PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ can be distressing. Not knowing if they’re making you sick is just the start" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/living-with-pfas-forever-chemicals-can-be-distressing-not-knowing-if-theyre-making-you-sick-is-just-the-start-268981/" aria-label="Read more about Living with PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ can be distressing. Not knowing if they’re making you sick is just the start">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ciaran Doolin, PhD candidate, School of Science in Society, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Haast’s 1866 watercolour painting of the Lyell Glacier. Alexander Turnbull Library (A-149-003), CC BY-NC-ND Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea ... <a title="NZ’s earliest climate change debate: the 150-year-old feud over glacial retreat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/nzs-earliest-climate-change-debate-the-150-year-old-feud-over-glacial-retreat-254289/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s earliest climate change debate: the 150-year-old feud over glacial retreat">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phillip Baker, ARC Future Fellow and Sydney Horizon Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, University of Sydney Tanya Barrow/Unsplash Ultra-processed foods are displacing traditional foods and meals globally, degrading diet quality, and contributing to the rise of diet-related chronic diseases. And despite the combined advertising ... <a title="The ultra-processed foods problem is driven by commercial interests, not individual weakness. Here’s how to fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/the-ultra-processed-foods-problem-is-driven-by-commercial-interests-not-individual-weakness-heres-how-to-fix-it-269401/" aria-label="Read more about The ultra-processed foods problem is driven by commercial interests, not individual weakness. Here’s how to fix it">Read more</a>
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November 19, 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 One Nation surges to a new record 18% in a federal Redbridge poll as the Coalition falls to 24%, but Labor dominates with 38%. In Victoria, the ... <a title="One Nation’s surge continues in Redbridge poll, but Labor dominant" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/one-nations-surge-continues-in-redbridge-poll-but-labor-dominant-269593/" aria-label="Read more about One Nation’s surge continues in Redbridge poll, but Labor dominant">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colin Klein, Professor, School of Philosophy, Australian National University Merlin Lightpainting/Pexels You might think a honey bee foraging in your garden and a browser window running ChatGPT have nothing in common. But recent scientific research has been seriously considering the possibility that either, or both, might be ... <a title="Are animals and AI conscious? We’ve devised new theories for how to test this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/are-animals-and-ai-conscious-weve-devised-new-theories-for-how-to-test-this-269803/" aria-label="Read more about Are animals and AI conscious? We’ve devised new theories for how to test this">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aude Bernard, Associate Professor, Queensland Centre for Population Research, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland Immigration has become a hot-button issue in Australia, particularly amid specious claims it is responsible for the housing crisis and straining the economy. Recent anti-immigration rallies across the country have ... <a title="Yes, migration to Australia is up. But new figures show most migrants do not become citizens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/yes-migration-to-australia-is-up-but-new-figures-show-most-migrants-do-not-become-citizens-267731/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, migration to Australia is up. But new figures show most migrants do not become citizens">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Breadon, Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute State and territory governments have reacted angrily to a letter from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in September asking them to rein in hospital spending. This comes amid negotiations for the next five-year funding agreement to determine the ... <a title="Hospitals are under pressure. These changes could save $1.2 billion a year – and fund 160,000 extra hospital visits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/hospitals-are-under-pressure-these-changes-could-save-1-2-billion-a-year-and-fund-160-000-extra-hospital-visits-269492/" aria-label="Read more about Hospitals are under pressure. These changes could save $1.2 billion a year – and fund 160,000 extra hospital visits">Read more</a>
