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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nisa Salim, Director, Swinburne-CSIRO National Testlab for Composite Additive Manufacturing, Swinburne University of Technology Dan Gold / Unsplash As the cold season ends and we fold away our favourite wool jumpers and silk scarves, some fascinating material science is about to unfold quietly in our wardrobes. Subtle ... <a title="Putting away your winter clothes? Science explains how to keep them safe over summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/putting-away-your-winter-clothes-science-explains-how-to-keep-them-safe-over-summer-271089/" aria-label="Read more about Putting away your winter clothes? Science explains how to keep them safe over summer">Read more</a>
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December 9, 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 Con Chronis/AAP, Esther Linder/AAP, Luke Jones/Unsplash, The Conversation The clock is ticking for the Commonwealth government to strike a new hospital funding deal with ... <a title="Hospitals in crisis: why state and federal governments are fighting about funding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/hospitals-in-crisis-why-state-and-federal-governments-are-fighting-about-funding-270285/" aria-label="Read more about Hospitals in crisis: why state and federal governments are fighting about funding">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melinda Hildebrandt, Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Year 12 Students across Australia will receive their ATARs this week and next. It’s a significant moment, with the ATAR often dominating media coverage of schooling at this time of year. But as the 2025 results come in, ... <a title="How important is the ATAR? 30% of Year 12s who go to uni don’t use it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/how-important-is-the-atar-30-of-year-12s-who-go-to-uni-dont-use-it-271091/" aria-label="Read more about How important is the ATAR? 30% of Year 12s who go to uni don’t use it">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rod McNaughton, Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images The government’s recently released Tertiary Education Strategy 2025–2030 signals a shift towards harnessing the sector to address New Zealand’s long-standing productivity issues. But the strategy and its goals aren’t necessarily aligned. Universities and polytechnics ... <a title="NZ needs more entrepreneurs. Will its new tertiary strategy reward real risk takers?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/nz-needs-more-entrepreneurs-will-its-new-tertiary-strategy-reward-real-risk-takers-271498/" aria-label="Read more about NZ needs more entrepreneurs. Will its new tertiary strategy reward real risk takers?">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Darling Downs Public Health Unit Most Australians have probably noticed the proliferation of tobacconists and “convenience stores” in the last few years. These stores aren’t making much from the limited offerings on public display. Rather, their profitability ... <a title="Illegal tobacco is messing up economic data. That won’t stop until it’s managed like alcohol" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/illegal-tobacco-is-messing-up-economic-data-that-wont-stop-until-its-managed-like-alcohol-271304/" aria-label="Read more about Illegal tobacco is messing up economic data. That won’t stop until it’s managed like alcohol">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Scroxton, Research Fellow, Palaeoclimate, National University of Ireland Maynooth _Homo floresiensis_ skull. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, ... <a title="The ‘hobbits’ mysteriously disappeared 50,000 years ago. Our new study reveals what happened to their home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/09/the-hobbits-mysteriously-disappeared-50-000-years-ago-our-new-study-reveals-what-happened-to-their-home-268668/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘hobbits’ mysteriously disappeared 50,000 years ago. Our new study reveals what happened to their home">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra There are two glaring lessons for politicians from the Anika Wells’ entitlements affair. First, don’t grab greedily at every generous entitlement MPs and especially ministers can get, even if “the rules” allow you to do so. Second, if you do ... <a title="View from The Hill: in awkward timing, government ends energy rebate as it defends Wells’ spendathon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/view-from-the-hill-in-awkward-timing-government-ends-energy-rebate-as-it-defends-wells-spendathon-270791/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: in awkward timing, government ends energy rebate as it defends Wells’ spendathon">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Greens have suffered a year of significant setbacks. The election saw their numbers go backwards, losing three of their four lower house seats, then one of their senators, Dorinda Cox, defected to Labor. But the year ended on a ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Sarah Hanson-Young on the social media ban as a risky ‘fake silver bullet’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/politics-with-michelle-grattan-sarah-hanson-young-on-the-social-media-ban-as-a-risky-fake-silver-bullet-271517/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Sarah Hanson-Young on the social media ban as a risky ‘fake silver bullet’">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Reforms to Australia’s nature laws have passed federal parliament. A longstanding exemption that meant federal environment laws did not apply to native logging has finally been removed from the Environment Protection and ... <a title="Australia has new laws to protect nature. Do they signal an end to native forest logging?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/australia-has-new-laws-to-protect-nature-do-they-signal-an-end-to-native-forest-logging-271203/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has new laws to protect nature. Do they signal an end to native forest logging?">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George Tian, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney In October, Australia signed an A$13 billion rare earths and critical minerals agreement with the United States. This is designed to boost supply of minerals vital to everything from military technology to clean energy. Australia has large ... <a title="Australia wants to be a critical minerals superpower – but processing is messy and dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/australia-wants-to-be-a-critical-minerals-superpower-but-processing-is-messy-and-dangerous-269799/" aria-label="Read more about Australia wants to be a critical minerals superpower – but processing is messy and dangerous">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University Installation view of Westwood | Kawakubo on display from December 7 2025 to April 19 2026, at NGV International, Melbourne. Photo: Sean Fennessy Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo are two fashion designers who redefined “the look” of ... <a title="How self-taught, self-made mavericks Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo redefined punk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/how-self-taught-self-made-mavericks-vivienne-westwood-and-rei-kawakubo-redefined-punk-269517/" aria-label="Read more about How self-taught, self-made mavericks Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo redefined punk">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rohan Best, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University Kindel Media/Pexels A federal government green energy program is subsidising unnecessarily large home batteries and blowing out in cost. The Labor government launched its A$2.3 billion Cheaper Home Batteries Program in July, with the aim of bringing down ... <a title="Australia’s $2.3 billion green energy program is funding oversized batteries and blowing out in cost" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/australias-2-3-billion-green-energy-program-is-funding-oversized-batteries-and-blowing-out-in-cost-271206/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s $2.3 billion green energy program is funding oversized batteries and blowing out in cost">Read more</a>
