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October 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ama Samarasinghe, Lecturer, Financial Planning and Tax, RMIT University Navigating the money side of buying a home can be daunting – especially if it’s your first time. Unless you’ve recently come into a small fortune, you’ll need to have saved a deposit and take out a home ... <a title="How do banks assess you for a home loan? And how do you work out what you can afford?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/03/how-do-banks-assess-you-for-a-home-loan-and-how-do-you-work-out-what-you-can-afford-266389/" aria-label="Read more about How do banks assess you for a home loan? And how do you work out what you can afford?">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Towle, Research Fellow in Biological Anthropology, Monash University A Neanderthal molar. Nowaczewska et al., 2021 For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibres, or easing gum pain with ... <a title="‘Toothpick grooves’ in ancient fossil human teeth may not be from toothpicks after all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/03/toothpick-grooves-in-ancient-fossil-human-teeth-may-not-be-from-toothpicks-after-all-266485/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Toothpick grooves’ in ancient fossil human teeth may not be from toothpicks after all">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Rose, Senior Lecturer, William Angliss Institute Dan Meyers/Unsplash In 2023, a parliamentary inquiry into food security was held in Australia. This involves the government asking for public and expert advice on key issues to make better decisions. The inquiry drew 188 submissions from experts across the ... <a title="Australia’s new food security strategy: what’s on the table, and what’s missing?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/03/australias-new-food-security-strategy-whats-on-the-table-and-whats-missing-264791/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s new food security strategy: what’s on the table, and what’s missing?">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Getty Images In the controversy and debate following Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ announcement at the United Nations last week that New Zealand would not yet recognise Palestine as a state, it was easy to overlook ... <a title="Who wrote the cabinet paper recommending NZ not recognise a Palestinian state?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/03/who-wrote-the-cabinet-paper-recommending-nz-not-recognise-a-palestinian-state-266462/" aria-label="Read more about Who wrote the cabinet paper recommending NZ not recognise a Palestinian state?">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zora Simic, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW Sydney Content warning: readers are advised this article talks about sexual abuse and child sexual abuse. As a writer who has experienced the trauma of sexual violence – and who reads and writes about it – Jamie ... <a title="Friday essay: trauma memoirs can help us understand the unthinkable. They can also be art" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/03/friday-essay-trauma-memoirs-can-help-us-understand-the-unthinkable-they-can-also-be-art-257018/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: trauma memoirs can help us understand the unthinkable. They can also be art">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Daniel, Associate Lecturer in Communication, Western Sydney University Lisa Tomasetti In recent years, Australian TV has built a reputation for gritty, stylish crime thrillers that linger long after the credits roll. In series such as Mystery Road (2018–), Scrublands (2023–25) and Black Snow (2023–), intimate character ... <a title="Stan’s Watching You is elevated Australian noir – sexy, stylish and suspenseful" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/03/stans-watching-you-is-elevated-australian-noir-sexy-stylish-and-suspenseful-265068/" aria-label="Read more about Stan’s Watching You is elevated Australian noir – sexy, stylish and suspenseful">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily Brayshaw, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney Taylor Swift/Instagram The iconic feathered showgirl was born amid the chaos of the first world war, when the wealthy, global French superstar Gaby Deslys entertained Parisians and Allied soldiers in a 1917 show called Laissez-les ... <a title="Taylor Swift has branded herself a showgirl. These hardworking women have a long and bejewelled history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/03/taylor-swift-has-branded-herself-a-showgirl-these-hardworking-women-have-a-long-and-bejewelled-history-263188/" aria-label="Read more about Taylor Swift has branded herself a showgirl. These hardworking women have a long and bejewelled history">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura McKemmish, Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney An artist’s impression of a brown dwarf. NASA/JPL-Caltech Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren’t big enough to burn as hot and bright ... <a title="Mysterious molecule found on brown dwarf casts further doubt on potential signs of life on Venus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/03/mysterious-molecule-found-on-brown-dwarf-casts-further-doubt-on-potential-signs-of-life-on-venus-266242/" aria-label="Read more about Mysterious molecule found on brown dwarf casts further doubt on potential signs of life on Venus">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andonea Jon Dickson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh Under President Donald Trump, the United States is expanding its efforts to detain and deport non-citizens at an alarming rate. In recent months, the Trump administration made deals with a number of third states to receive deported non-citizens. ... <a title="Around the world, migrants are being deported at alarming rates – how did this become normalised?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/03/around-the-world-migrants-are-being-deported-at-alarming-rates-how-did-this-become-normalised-264790/" aria-label="Read more about Around the world, migrants are being deported at alarming rates – how did this become normalised?">Read more</a>
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October 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Should we have more federal politicians? One can anticipate the knee-jerk response from many sceptical voters. But Special Minister of State Don Farrell believes there’s a case, and has the parliamentary joint standing committee on electoral matters examining the arguments. ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: believe it or not, there would be a case for more federal politicians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/02/grattan-on-friday-believe-it-or-not-there-would-be-a-case-for-more-federal-politicians-265857/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: believe it or not, there would be a case for more federal politicians">Read more</a>
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October 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Papua New Guinea cabinet has cleared the way for the finalisation of a sweeping new defence treaty between PNG and Australia. The cabinet’s tick off for the treaty will be a relief to the Australian government after a glitch ... <a title="Defence treaty with PNG ready for signing after its cabinet gives it the tick" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/02/defence-treaty-with-png-ready-for-signing-after-its-cabinet-gives-it-the-tick-266610/" aria-label="Read more about Defence treaty with PNG ready for signing after its cabinet gives it the tick">Read more</a>
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October 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The federal opposition, embattled on many fronts, is trying to gain ground by establishing an alternative economic and fiscal narrative to that of the government. Labor boasts that the just-released budget outcome for last financial year is better than earlier ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: James Paterson on Andrew Hastie, Sussan Ley and himself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/02/politics-with-michelle-grattan-james-paterson-on-andrew-hastie-sussan-ley-and-himself-266580/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: James Paterson on Andrew Hastie, Sussan Ley and himself">Read more</a>
