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December 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Scott, Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University Every other week there seems to be more bad news for private hospitals. The sale of Healthscope, hospital and maternity ward closures, and fights with private health insurers about funding, ... <a title="Private hospitals are in trouble. Here’s what this means for public hospitals – and taxpayer dollars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/11/private-hospitals-are-in-trouble-heres-what-this-means-for-public-hospitals-and-taxpayer-dollars-270287/" aria-label="Read more about Private hospitals are in trouble. Here’s what this means for public hospitals – and taxpayer dollars">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sadaf Sagheer, Marketing Academic, RMIT University Getty Images Parents the world over have begun the task of negotiating Christmas lists written by their children. But buying the right presents for kids can feel like a minefield, with an ever-growing list of choices and factors to consider. Among ... <a title="The toy aisle is still full of gender bias. Here’s how to navigate it these holidays" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/11/the-toy-aisle-is-still-full-of-gender-bias-heres-how-to-navigate-it-these-holidays-270462/" aria-label="Read more about The toy aisle is still full of gender bias. Here’s how to navigate it these holidays">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland Peak of the Geminids in 2017. Dai Jianfeng/IAU OAE, CC BY Where many other meteor showers are often over-hyped, the Geminids are the real deal: far and away the best shower of the year, peaking on December 14–15 in ... <a title="The year’s best meteor shower is about to start – here’s how to see it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/11/the-years-best-meteor-shower-is-about-to-start-heres-how-to-see-it-270809/" aria-label="Read more about The year’s best meteor shower is about to start – here’s how to see it">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie Wescott, Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences, Monash University There’s a lot of debate around the extent to which the manosphere is playing out in young people’s lives and relationships. Some suggest claims about its malevolence are misplaced. Others think just because something happens on the ... <a title="From violence to sexism, the manosphere is doing real-world harm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/11/from-violence-to-sexism-the-manosphere-is-doing-real-world-harm-262205/" aria-label="Read more about From violence to sexism, the manosphere is doing real-world harm">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Penny Van Bergen, Associate Professor in the Psychology of Education, Macquarie University Cottonbro Studio/ Pexels For the class of 2025, the next week may be particularly nerve wracking, as ATAR or Australian Tertiary Admission Rank results are released online. Victoria is the first state to release results ... <a title="Year 12 results are being released. What if you don’t want to share your ATAR with friends and family?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/11/year-12-results-are-being-released-what-if-you-dont-want-to-share-your-atar-with-friends-and-family-271608/" aria-label="Read more about Year 12 results are being released. What if you don’t want to share your ATAR with friends and family?">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Myles McGregor-Lowndes, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Business & Law, Queensland University of Technology For Australia’s charity sector, December is the critical frontline month of the year. Demand for social services reaches its peak, with people who are hungry, homeless, friendless or victims of family violence all requiring ... <a title="How charitable are Australians? 3 charts show how much we give" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/11/how-charitable-are-australians-3-charts-show-how-much-we-give-271204/" aria-label="Read more about How charitable are Australians? 3 charts show how much we give">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australia recorded in 2024–25 the largest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979–80, when monitoring began under the National Deaths in Custody Program. In the 2024–25 year, 33 of the 113 deaths in custody were Aboriginal or Torres Strait ... <a title="Number of Indigenous deaths in custody at record high" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/number-of-indigenous-deaths-in-custody-at-record-high-271759/" aria-label="Read more about Number of Indigenous deaths in custody at record high">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vera Xia, Lecturer in Design and Urban Technology, University of Sydney Sydney, like many other Australian cities, has a long history of urban farming. Market gardens, oyster fisheries and wineries on urban fringe once supplied fresh food to city markets. As suburbs expanded, many farms in and ... <a title="Can smart greenhouses bring back food production in cities?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/can-smart-greenhouses-bring-back-food-production-in-cities-265375/" aria-label="Read more about Can smart greenhouses bring back food production in cities?">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres, PhD Candidate, Political Science, International Relations and Constitutional Law, University of the Sunshine Coast Two centuries ago, US President James Monroe declared the Western Hemisphere off-limits to European powers in what would became known in history books as the “Monroe Doctrine”. The proclamation ... <a title="Why is Trump so obsessed with Venezuela? His new security strategy provides some clues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/why-is-trump-so-obsessed-with-venezuela-his-new-security-strategy-provides-some-clues-271530/" aria-label="Read more about Why is Trump so obsessed with Venezuela? His new security strategy provides some clues">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karen Cummings, Lecturer in Singing, University of Sydney Alex Vaughan Music and theatre can bring into the world places and stories that exist only in the imagination. Can music and theatre also change hearts and minds? This question is at the heart of Cowbois, a new music ... <a title="Cowbois reimagines Hollywood’s Wild West – with a wonderful queer twist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/cowbois-reimagines-hollywoods-wild-west-with-a-wonderful-queer-twist-271611/" aria-label="Read more about Cowbois reimagines Hollywood’s Wild West – with a wonderful queer twist">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Denny, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tasmania Yan Krukov/Pexels An extensive government review of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) in 2023 made 51 specific recommendations to enable “an RBA fit for the future”. But the narrow terms of reference confined the review to an economic ... <a title="As the population ages, the RBA’s interest rate policy is no longer fit for purpose" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/as-the-population-ages-the-rbas-interest-rate-policy-is-no-longer-fit-for-purpose-271098/" aria-label="Read more about As the population ages, the RBA’s interest rate policy is no longer fit for purpose">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tama Leaver, Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University Roxy Aln / Unsplash The Australian Federal government’s Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act, commonly referred to as the “social media ban”, is now in effect. In the months leading up to the ban, there have been ... <a title="Australia’s social media ban won’t stop cyberbullying" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/10/australias-social-media-ban-wont-stop-cyberbullying-271541/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s social media ban won’t stop cyberbullying">Read more</a>
