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September 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suzy Freeman-Greene, Books + Ideas Editor, The Conversation Goodreads, Penguin Books The first sentence of Anna Karenina is now a literary cliche, yet contains a nub of truth. “All happy families,” writes Leo Tolstoy, “resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Literature ... <a title="Who are the worst mothers in literature? Our experts weigh in" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/26/who-are-the-worst-mothers-in-literature-our-experts-weigh-in-263816/" aria-label="Read more about Who are the worst mothers in literature? Our experts weigh in">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth Barton, Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin The recent death of Robert Redford was a reminder of just how much All the President’s Men unsettled old certainties about American democracy. An exposé of the Watergate scandal of 1972 (when members of the campaign to re-elect ... <a title="One Battle After Another: this insane movie about leftwing radicals and rightwing institutions is a powerful exploration of US today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/26/one-battle-after-another-this-insane-movie-about-leftwing-radicals-and-rightwing-institutions-is-a-powerful-exploration-of-us-today-265818/" aria-label="Read more about One Battle After Another: this insane movie about leftwing radicals and rightwing institutions is a powerful exploration of US today">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Iliana Medina, Lecturer in Ecology, The University of Melbourne The animal world is incredibly colourful, and behind this colour palette is a constant game of survival. Most animals use camouflage, covering themselves in stealthy patterns to hide from predators. Others display bright and bold colours to warn ... <a title="Warn, hide or stand out? How colour in the animal world is a battle for survival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/26/warn-hide-or-stand-out-how-colour-in-the-animal-world-is-a-battle-for-survival-265670/" aria-label="Read more about Warn, hide or stand out? How colour in the animal world is a battle for survival">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Armin Alimardani, Senior Lecturer in Law and Emerging Technologies, Western Sydney University In the classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, astronaut Dave Bowman asks the ship’s artificial intelligence, HAL 9000, to open the pod bay doors to let him back into the spaceship. HAL refuses: “I’m sorry, ... <a title="AI systems can easily lie and deceive us – a fact researchers are painfully aware of" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/26/ai-systems-can-easily-lie-and-deceive-us-a-fact-researchers-are-painfully-aware-of-263531/" aria-label="Read more about AI systems can easily lie and deceive us – a fact researchers are painfully aware of">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Sutherland, Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Lisa Maree Williams/Stringer/Getty People who use drugs are increasingly trying to reduce harm – by obtaining the life-saving drug naloxone and testing their drugs – according to new data. But they’re doing this in an ... <a title="People who use drugs are trying to stay safe in a politicised world, our surveys show" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/26/people-who-use-drugs-are-trying-to-stay-safe-in-a-politicised-world-our-surveys-show-265958/" aria-label="Read more about People who use drugs are trying to stay safe in a politicised world, our surveys show">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra France, Lecturer in Marketing, The University of Queensland Optus finds itself in a perilous situation once again. Last week’s 13-hour Triple Zero network outage left about 480 customers unable to call for emergency help. Three deaths linked to the outage are being investigated. That outage wasn’t ... <a title="The Optus brand is in tatters. How can it even begin to rebuild customers’ trust?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/26/the-optus-brand-is-in-tatters-how-can-it-even-begin-to-rebuild-customers-trust-265983/" aria-label="Read more about The Optus brand is in tatters. How can it even begin to rebuild customers’ trust?">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Will Brehm, Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education, University of Canberra Champa Kingdom, Avalokiteshvara Padmapani, Vajrapani and Avalokiteshvara Padmapani, 9th–11th century, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, Acquired 2011, deaccessioned 2021, repatriated 2023, On loan from the Kingdom of Cambodia, 2023–2026 In late July, during a visit ... <a title="Repatriation or political theatre? How the return of stolen artefacts can distort history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/26/repatriation-or-political-theatre-how-the-return-of-stolen-artefacts-can-distort-history-265290/" aria-label="Read more about Repatriation or political theatre? How the return of stolen artefacts can distort history">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia Collins, Associate Professor, Queen’s University, Ontario Many Canadians over the age of 40 likely remember spending their childhoods playing on the street and moving around their communities on their own or with friends. And, according to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 11, cities should in ... <a title="Cars versus kids: How resistance to change limits children’s right to the city" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/26/cars-versus-kids-how-resistance-to-change-limits-childrens-right-to-the-city-263254/" aria-label="Read more about Cars versus kids: How resistance to change limits children’s right to the city">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra After the work was over, Anthony Albanese went to the Australian-owned and themed “Old Mates Pub”, in Lower Manhattan, and poured the beers. He felt his week had been mission accomplished. In international politics, dodging the negatives can be as ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: As the government rejects Trump’s stands, Liberal leadership aspirant Andrew Hastie sounds decidedly Trumpian" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/25/grattan-on-friday-as-the-government-rejects-trumps-stands-liberal-leadership-aspirant-andrew-hastie-sounds-decidedly-trumpian-265860/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: As the government rejects Trump’s stands, Liberal leadership aspirant Andrew Hastie sounds decidedly Trumpian">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Duygu Yengin, Associate Professor of Economics; President, Economic Society of Australia (SA); Deputy Chair, Women in Economics Network, University of Adelaide If we act now and move with common purpose, then we can do more than just guard against the very worst. We can protect our environment ... <a title="Indigenous Australians are crucial to hitting our 2035 climate targets. That transition has to be fairer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/25/indigenous-australians-are-crucial-to-hitting-our-2035-climate-targets-that-transition-has-to-be-fairer-265980/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous Australians are crucial to hitting our 2035 climate targets. That transition has to be fairer">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Wood, Professor, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School and Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Sydney Cavan Images/Getty United States President Donald Trump this week claimed children should not be vaccinated against hepatitis B until they are 12 years old, rather than at birth. He ... <a title="Babies can get hepatitis B at birth. Here’s why Trump is wrong about delaying the vaccine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/25/babies-can-get-hepatitis-b-at-birth-heres-why-trump-is-wrong-about-delaying-the-vaccine-265970/" aria-label="Read more about Babies can get hepatitis B at birth. Here’s why Trump is wrong about delaying the vaccine">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Wellings, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University Fresh from his time at the UN General Assembly in New York, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s world tour now takes him to London. There he will be primed to give some political advice to his beleaguered ... <a title="Albanese and Starmer to meet for a frank exchange of views (and possibly some political advice)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/25/albanese-and-starmer-to-meet-for-a-frank-exchange-of-views-and-possibly-some-political-advice-265751/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese and Starmer to meet for a frank exchange of views (and possibly some political advice)">Read more</a>
