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December 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natalie Peng, Lecturer in Accounting, The University of Queensland vitaly gariev/Unsplash Too many superannuation funds are still failing to provide sufficient support to retirees, three years after being urged to lift standards, Australia’s top regulators have warned. This failure to prepare comes despite the massive demographic wave ... <a title="Many super funds are still failing retirees, even as millions prepare to stop work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/02/many-super-funds-are-still-failing-retirees-even-as-millions-prepare-to-stop-work-270786/" aria-label="Read more about Many super funds are still failing retirees, even as millions prepare to stop work">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexa Scarlata, Lecturer, Digital Communication, RMIT University Netflix, HBO, AppleTV, Stan, ABC, The Conversation From alien hive minds, to a Fremantle-based crime caper, and a festive heist, this month’s screen picks feature leading characters at their messiest and most spirited. Vince Gilligan’s Plur1bus offers a darkly comic ... <a title="Christmas capers, a creepy clown and war-time stories: what we’re watching in December" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/02/christmas-capers-a-creepy-clown-and-war-time-stories-what-were-watching-in-december-270879/" aria-label="Read more about Christmas capers, a creepy clown and war-time stories: what we’re watching in December">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ali Mirchi, Associate Professor of Water Resources Engineering, Oklahoma State University Iranians pray for rain in Tehran on Nov. 14, 2025. The city is experiencing its worst drought in decades. Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images Fall marks the start of Iran’s rainy season, but large parts of ... <a title="Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis – how Tehran got into water bankruptcy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/02/irans-president-calls-for-moving-its-drought-stricken-capital-amid-a-worsening-water-crisis-how-tehran-got-into-water-bankruptcy-270456/" aria-label="Read more about Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis – how Tehran got into water bankruptcy">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Defence Minister Richard Marles has confirmed Australia is monitoring a flotilla of Chinese Navy ships currently in the Philippine Sea but with its destination unknown. Marles volunteered the information while announcing a shakeup that will establish a new Defence Delivery ... <a title="Marles confirms Australia is monitoring Chinese ships, announces defence delivery shakeup" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/marles-confirms-australia-is-monitoring-chinese-ships-announces-defence-delivery-shakeup-270793/" aria-label="Read more about Marles confirms Australia is monitoring Chinese ships, announces defence delivery shakeup">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Ley, Deputy Books + Ideas Editor, The Conversation The end of the year means holiday celebrations, summer breaks … and for us, one important thing: best books lists. We asked 35 expert readers for their favourite picks, ranging from novelists to anthropologists, scientists to criminologists – ... <a title="Best books of 2025: our experts share their picks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/best-books-of-2025-our-experts-share-their-picks-268875/" aria-label="Read more about Best books of 2025: our experts share their picks">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Burgis-Kasthala, Professor of International Law, La Trobe University Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested a pardon in his long-running corruption trial – a move that has set off alarm bells among his critics that he’s trying to circumvent the rule of law. In a video ... <a title="What charges does Benjamin Netanyahu face, and what’s at stake if he is granted a pardon?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/what-charges-does-benjamin-netanyahu-face-and-whats-at-stake-if-he-is-granted-a-pardon-270970/" aria-label="Read more about What charges does Benjamin Netanyahu face, and what’s at stake if he is granted a pardon?">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Those wanting to chart who’s in the prime minister’s inner sanctum need go no further than the political guests invited to his Saturday wedding. The list of about 60 attendees for The Lodge nuptials of Albanese and Jodie Haydon included ... <a title="View from The Hill: Albanese’s wedding guestlist a mudmap to his inner power sanctum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/view-from-the-hill-albaneses-wedding-guestlist-a-mudmap-to-his-inner-power-sanctum-270789/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Albanese’s wedding guestlist a mudmap to his inner power sanctum">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia Rezan Soleh/AFP via Getty Images More than 900 people are dead, thousands more missing and millions affected by a band of cyclones and extreme monsoonal weather across southern Asia. Torrential rain has triggered the worst flooding in decades, ... <a title="Death and devastation: why a rare equatorial cyclone and other storms have hit southern Asia so hard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/death-and-devastation-why-a-rare-equatorial-cyclone-and-other-storms-have-hit-southern-asia-so-hard-270939/" aria-label="Read more about Death and devastation: why a rare equatorial cyclone and other storms have hit southern Asia so hard">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arthur Wyns, Research fellow, The University of Melbourne The United Nations’ global climate summit has finished for another year. Some progress was made in Brazil on climate finance and adaptation. But efforts to end reliance on fossil fuels were stymied by – you guessed it – fossil ... <a title="Are UN climate summits a waste of time? No, but they are in dire need of reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/are-un-climate-summits-a-waste-of-time-no-but-they-are-in-dire-need-of-reform-270457/" aria-label="Read more about Are UN climate summits a waste of time? No, but they are in dire need of reform">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olena Onishchenko, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Otago Getty Images For over a decade, cryptocurrency has been synonymous with a promise of freedom: access to a decentralised digital realm operating beyond the reach of traditional banks and governments. That promise is about to be broken. A ... <a title="A global tax crackdown is coming for crypto – including NZ trades worth billions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/a-global-tax-crackdown-is-coming-for-crypto-including-nz-trades-worth-billions-270785/" aria-label="Read more about A global tax crackdown is coming for crypto – including NZ trades worth billions">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Francesco Chirico, Professor of Strategy and Family Business, Macquarie University Maskot/Getty Earlier this year, the world watched with interest as the Murdoch family’s real-life Succession drama came to a close. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s children – eyeing an empire estimated to be worth more than US$20 billion ... <a title="Passing on a family business isn’t easy. Here’s why – and what factors predict success" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/passing-on-a-family-business-isnt-easy-heres-why-and-what-factors-predict-success-270063/" aria-label="Read more about Passing on a family business isn’t easy. Here’s why – and what factors predict success">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fergus Edwards, Lecturer in English, University of Tasmania Tom Stoppard, who has died at 88, was one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful playwrights of our age. He won his first Tony Award for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in 1968, and his last for ... <a title="‘It’s wanting to know that makes us matter’: how Tom Stoppard made us all philosophers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/its-wanting-to-know-that-makes-us-matter-how-tom-stoppard-made-us-all-philosophers-270952/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It’s wanting to know that makes us matter’: how Tom Stoppard made us all philosophers">Read more</a>
