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September 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amra Lee, PhD candidate in Protection of Civilians, Australian National University Aid workers face more difficult and dangerous conditions in carrying out their work than ever before. The United Nations declared 2024 the worst year on record, with 385 aid workers killed in 20 countries. That was, ... <a title="Aid workers around the world are in greater danger than ever. Will a new UN declaration protect them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/25/aid-workers-around-the-world-are-in-greater-danger-than-ever-will-a-new-un-declaration-protect-them-265861/" aria-label="Read more about Aid workers around the world are in greater danger than ever. Will a new UN declaration protect them?">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra International politics is centre stage again, with world leaders in New York this week for the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. On the forefront of the agenda has been the recognition of a Palestinian state. Australia joined ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: former diplomat Ian Parmeter on an Israel-led ‘one-state solution’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/25/politics-with-michelle-grattan-former-diplomat-ian-parmeter-on-an-israel-led-one-state-solution-265981/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: former diplomat Ian Parmeter on an Israel-led ‘one-state solution’">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elliot Varoy, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, University of Sydney S. Tsuchiya/Unsplash You’re neck-deep in IKEA assembly instructions. Furniture parts lie strewn across the floor. Your new purchase sits half-complete in front of you, mocking your fruitless hours. As an uninterested partner walks in, you let ... <a title="Stuck on a problem? Talking to a rubber duck might unlock the solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/25/stuck-on-a-problem-talking-to-a-rubber-duck-might-unlock-the-solution-261675/" aria-label="Read more about Stuck on a problem? Talking to a rubber duck might unlock the solution">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Stone, Professor of Housing & Social Policy, HHAUS Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology JulPo/Getty Images In the face of Australia’s housing crisis and current cost-of-living pressures, young people today continue to miss out on housing opportunities earlier generations could largely grasp. The ... <a title="Young people are saving on rent by staying at home longer, but ‘you pay with your mental health’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/25/young-people-are-saving-on-rent-by-staying-at-home-longer-but-you-pay-with-your-mental-health-263730/" aria-label="Read more about Young people are saving on rent by staying at home longer, but ‘you pay with your mental health’">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Niusha Shafiabady, Associate Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University Wang Dongming/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images For more than a century, global geopolitics has revolved around oil and gas. Countries with big fossil fuel reserves, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, have amassed significant wealth and ... <a title="Goodbye petrostates, hello ‘electrostates’: how the clean energy shift is reshaping the world order" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/25/goodbye-petrostates-hello-electrostates-how-the-clean-energy-shift-is-reshaping-the-world-order-264267/" aria-label="Read more about Goodbye petrostates, hello ‘electrostates’: how the clean energy shift is reshaping the world order">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Daniel, Associate Lecturer in Communication, Western Sydney University Embassy Pictures Corporation/Getty Images With Spinal Tap II: The End Continues hitting cinemas, now is the perfect moment to revisit its precursor, one of most influential and hilarious comedy films ever made, 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap. Directed ... <a title="Why This Is Spinal Tap remains the funniest rock satire ever made" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/25/why-this-is-spinal-tap-remains-the-funniest-rock-satire-ever-made-264591/" aria-label="Read more about Why This Is Spinal Tap remains the funniest rock satire ever made">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tingrei Tan, Sydney Horizon Fellow and ARC Future Fellow, Quantum Control Laboratory, University of Sydney dianaarturovna / Getty Images For almost a century, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle has stood as one of the defining ideas of quantum physics: a particle’s position and momentum cannot be known at the ... <a title="A new twist on Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle can sharpen quantum sensors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/25/a-new-twist-on-heisenbergs-uncertainty-principle-can-sharpen-quantum-sensors-265761/" aria-label="Read more about A new twist on Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle can sharpen quantum sensors">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole L. Asquith, Professor, University of Tasmania, Queensland University of Technology In the coming week, the Tasmanian parliament will consider two bills that will cement Tasmania as the Rainbow Isle. The laws, which have bipartisan support, will provide compensation for those historically convicted of homosexuality and cross-dressing ... <a title="Tasmania will compensate people for historical LGBTQIA+ convictions. Could others follow suit?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/25/tasmania-will-compensate-people-for-historical-lgbtqia-convictions-could-others-follow-suit-265956/" aria-label="Read more about Tasmania will compensate people for historical LGBTQIA+ convictions. Could others follow suit?">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeannie Marie Paterson, Professor of Law (consumer protections and credit law), The University of Melbourne A Federal Court judge on Wednesday ordered Optus to pay a A$100 million fine for its “appalling” high-pressure sales tactics over several years up to 2023. More than 400 people were pressured ... <a title="A $100 million fine for ‘appalling’ predatory sales practices caps a horror week for Optus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/24/a-100-million-fine-for-appalling-predatory-sales-practices-caps-a-horror-week-for-optus-265971/" aria-label="Read more about A $100 million fine for ‘appalling’ predatory sales practices caps a horror week for Optus">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With Anthony Albanese now having his long-awaited meeting with United States President Donald Trump locked in and announced by the White House, the prime ministerial attention will turn to managing an unpredictable encounter. Having the October 20 face-to-face in Washington ... <a title="View from The Hill: Albanese’s Trump meeting is in the diary – now it’s a matter of managing it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/24/view-from-the-hill-albaneses-trump-meeting-is-in-the-diary-now-its-a-matter-of-managing-it-265854/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Albanese’s Trump meeting is in the diary – now it’s a matter of managing it">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney In the wake of last week’s Optus network outage that left multiple people dead after they were unable to call Triple Zero for help, there has been much discussion about the need for a Triple ... <a title="How exactly would a Triple Zero custodian help prevent a repeat of the fatal Optus outage?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/24/how-exactly-would-a-triple-zero-custodian-help-prevent-a-repeat-of-the-fatal-optus-outage-265865/" aria-label="Read more about How exactly would a Triple Zero custodian help prevent a repeat of the fatal Optus outage?">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland Michelangelo, The Last Judgment (Fresco, Sistine Chapel Altar Wall), between 1536 and 1541. WIkimedia Commons If you believe that the end of the world is at hand, then you really need to ... <a title="What is the rapture, and why does TikTok believe the end is coming?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/24/what-is-the-rapture-and-why-does-tiktok-believe-the-end-is-coming-265748/" aria-label="Read more about What is the rapture, and why does TikTok believe the end is coming?">Read more</a>
