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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Melville, Senior Curator, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute Mountain Dragon (_Rankinia diemensis_). reiner/iNaturalist, CC BY-NC-SA In pockets of highlands across Australia’s east lives a shy and secretive lizard. It’s usually reddish grey in colour, with two pale strips running the length of its spiky back. ... <a title="Rare reptiles are moving up mountains as the world warms. They can’t keep doing it forever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/rare-reptiles-are-moving-up-mountains-as-the-world-warms-they-cant-keep-doing-it-forever-268192/" aria-label="Read more about Rare reptiles are moving up mountains as the world warms. They can’t keep doing it forever">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Phillips, Associate Professor, POLIS@ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University Australians are having fewer children than ever. At 1.5 babies per woman, the fertility rate is at a record low. Many attribute this to the cost of having and raising children. If this is ... <a title="How much does it really cost to raise a child? An expert does the maths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/how-much-does-it-really-cost-to-raise-a-child-an-expert-does-the-maths-266048/" aria-label="Read more about How much does it really cost to raise a child? An expert does the maths">Read more</a>
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October 29, 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 Maskot/Getty Images A key commitment at May’s federal election was an A$8.5 billion promise to increase incentives for GPs to bulk bill patients. The ... <a title="GPs will soon get extra incentives to bulk bill. So will your doctor be free?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/gps-will-soon-get-extra-incentives-to-bulk-bill-so-will-your-doctor-be-free-266500/" aria-label="Read more about GPs will soon get extra incentives to bulk bill. So will your doctor be free?">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Thompson, Lecturer in History and Communications, University of Southern Queensland Charles Parker/ Pexels It is easy to see Halloween as an inappropriate time for children. With its mixture of bloody costumes and scary themes, it can often feel like it is luring kids into topics they ... <a title="Is Halloween too scary for kids?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/is-halloween-too-scary-for-kids-268216/" aria-label="Read more about Is Halloween too scary for kids?">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alasdair Macintyre, Associate lecturer visual arts, artist, PhD, Australian Catholic University On a crisp winter evening in 1985, a documentary went to air whose advance advertising promised to scare viewers out of their wits. It didn’t disappoint. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the broadcast of ... <a title="How this 1985 documentary ‘scared the pants’ off us – and sparked a paranormal TV craze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/how-this-1985-documentary-scared-the-pants-off-us-and-sparked-a-paranormal-tv-craze-264353/" aria-label="Read more about How this 1985 documentary ‘scared the pants’ off us – and sparked a paranormal TV craze">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato Andres Kudacki/Getty Images Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani looks increasingly like the one to beat at next week’s election. But he is up against more than the usual political challenges. US ... <a title="How a ‘sewer socialism’ revival could see Zohran Mamdani become New York’s next mayor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/how-a-sewer-socialism-revival-could-see-zohran-mamdani-become-new-yorks-next-mayor-268073/" aria-label="Read more about How a ‘sewer socialism’ revival could see Zohran Mamdani become New York’s next mayor">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tahlia Norrish, MPhil Candidate (Sport Sciences), The University of Queensland When most people think of actors, they imagine the glamour of movies, television and the stage. Yet few people realise actors are more likely to experience anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance abuse and suicidal thoughts than the ... <a title="Sport and dance benefit from performance psychology – why does acting largely ignore it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/sport-and-dance-benefit-from-performance-psychology-why-does-acting-largely-ignore-it-263638/" aria-label="Read more about Sport and dance benefit from performance psychology – why does acting largely ignore it?">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Paterson, Teaching Associate in International Relations , Monash University The idea of “getting away from it all” has long carried romantic connotations. In extremist circles, however, the idea of retreating to the land has been repurposed into a political strategy. It’s one that offers extremist actors ... <a title="Far-right extremists are setting up rural enclaves around the world. We need to counter the threat they pose" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/far-right-extremists-are-setting-up-rural-enclaves-around-the-world-we-need-to-counter-the-threat-they-pose-267857/" aria-label="Read more about Far-right extremists are setting up rural enclaves around the world. We need to counter the threat they pose">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joel Williams, Research Associate in Marine Ecology, University of Tasmania In the middle of the Southern Indian Ocean lies a vast underwater volcanic ridge known as the Kerguelen Plateau. At its centre sits Australia’s most remote territory: Heard Island and McDonald Islands. These icy outposts about 4,100km ... <a title="Fish species off icy Heard Island bounced back when illegal fishing stopped and sustainable fishing continued" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/fish-species-off-icy-heard-island-bounced-back-when-illegal-fishing-stopped-and-sustainable-fishing-continued-267866/" aria-label="Read more about Fish species off icy Heard Island bounced back when illegal fishing stopped and sustainable fishing continued">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Uri Gal, Professor in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Last week, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a web browser that promises to revolutionise how we interact with the internet. The company’s CEO, Sam Altman, described it as a “once-a-decade opportunity” to rethink how we browse the web. ... <a title="OpenAI’s Atlas browser promises ultimate convenience. But the glossy marketing masks safety risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/openais-atlas-browser-promises-ultimate-convenience-but-the-glossy-marketing-masks-safety-risks-268296/" aria-label="Read more about OpenAI’s Atlas browser promises ultimate convenience. But the glossy marketing masks safety risks">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Zenker, Associate Professor, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University An early stage embryo. Dr Azelle Hawdon, Zenker Lab, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as “miracle” cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell ... <a title="Stem cells sound magical, but they’re not all created equal. Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/stem-cells-sound-magical-but-theyre-not-all-created-equal-heres-what-you-need-to-know-265870/" aria-label="Read more about Stem cells sound magical, but they’re not all created equal. Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philippa Collin, Professor of Political Sociology, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Climate change is the biggest issue of our time. 2024 marked both the hottest year on record and the highest levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the past two million years. Global ... <a title="Climate change is a crisis of intergenerational justice. It’s not too late to make it right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/climate-change-is-a-crisis-of-intergenerational-justice-its-not-too-late-to-make-it-right-263347/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change is a crisis of intergenerational justice. It’s not too late to make it right">Read more</a>
