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November 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Edwards, Professor, Child and Youth Development and Longitudinal Studies, Australian National University An increasing number of Australian school students are applying for an early offer to university, before they have their exam results back. Last Thursday, nearly 16,000 students in New South Wales and the Australian ... <a title="‘I do get quite anxious’: why so many students are applying for early offers to uni" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/i-do-get-quite-anxious-why-so-many-students-are-applying-for-early-offers-to-uni-269511/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I do get quite anxious’: why so many students are applying for early offers to uni">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Rees-Lee, PhD Candidate, School of Design, RMIT University Julien’s Auctions On November 18 and 19 in Nashville, United States, auction house Julien’s will auction more than 450 items from the estate of Florian Schneider, the co-founder of German electronic band Kraftwerk. It is difficult to overstate ... <a title="Kraftwerk’s equipment defined electronic music. Now it’s on sale to the highest bidder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/kraftwerks-equipment-defined-electronic-music-now-its-on-sale-to-the-highest-bidder-268770/" aria-label="Read more about Kraftwerk’s equipment defined electronic music. Now it’s on sale to the highest bidder">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Eva, Research Fellow, POLIS: The Centre for Social Research and Policy, Australian National University Australia’s decade-old Indigenous Procurement Policy has been hailed by both sides of politics as a success in Indigenous economic policy. Started in 2015 as a way to address under-investment in Indigenous businesses ... <a title="Just 18 firms won 50% of federal Indigenous procurement spending: new study" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/just-18-firms-won-50-of-federal-indigenous-procurement-spending-new-study-269504/" aria-label="Read more about Just 18 firms won 50% of federal Indigenous procurement spending: new study">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Deslippe, Senior Lecturer in Plant Ecology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Department of Conservation, CC BY-NC-SA The sight of flames tearing across Tongariro National Park last week was heartbreaking for lovers of the landscape. It was also potentially disastrous for a world-renowned alpine ... <a title="The fire is out, but Tongariro is now at risk of losing its unique biological legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/the-fire-is-out-but-tongariro-is-now-at-risk-of-losing-its-unique-biological-legacy-269710/" aria-label="Read more about The fire is out, but Tongariro is now at risk of losing its unique biological legacy">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto Israeli prison guards punish the prisoners “by breaking their thumbs” said a released detainee as lawyers speak out about torture, abuse, rape, starving and killings in a notorious underground Israeli prison facility where detainees are held without sunlight, brutalised. And nobody in New Zealand says a word. Scores of detainees from ... <a title="Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet NZ remains silent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/israeli-torture-abuse-of-palestinian-prisoners-death-penalty-law-yet-nz-remains-silent/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet NZ remains silent">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Coalition parties on Sunday formally endorsed a joint policy on climate and energy that drops the commitment to net zero and gives priority to affordable power. But settling this contentious issue has failed to ease the pressure on Sussan ... <a title="View from The Hill: Coalition parties jointly cremate net zero, while leadership contenders circle Sussan Ley" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/16/view-from-the-hill-coalition-parties-jointly-cremate-net-zero-while-leadership-contenders-circle-sussan-ley-269396/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Coalition parties jointly cremate net zero, while leadership contenders circle Sussan Ley">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2025
Asia Pacific Report An Australian author whose award-winning book about Israel’s military and surveillance industry has swept the world is scathing about a controversial Gaza transit company. Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book about how Israel tests arms and surveillance technologies in the illegal occupation of Palestine, says the shadowy scheme carrying ... <a title="Australian author says shadow Gaza transit scheme company is operating ‘disaster capitalism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/16/australian-author-says-shadow-gaza-transit-scheme-company-is-operating-disaster-capitalism/" aria-label="Read more about Australian author says shadow Gaza transit scheme company is operating ‘disaster capitalism’">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto While Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian children in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the news broke in Aotearoa New Zealand that our government had been advised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) in September to recognise a Palestinian ... <a title="New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/new-zealand-backing-israel-over-two-state-solution-shows-galling-weak-leadership/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist “Political and ego manoeuvring” is happening behind the scenes at COP30 in Brazil, as Australia and Türkiye wrestle to host the United Nations climate event next year. Pacific Islands Forum’s climate adviser Karlos Lee Moresi, who is at the talks in Belém, said the negotiations for who would host ... <a title="COP30: ‘Ego manoeuvring’ behind scenes at UN climate talks, says Pacific delegate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/cop30-ego-manoeuvring-behind-scenes-at-un-climate-talks-says-pacific-delegate/" aria-label="Read more about COP30: ‘Ego manoeuvring’ behind scenes at UN climate talks, says Pacific delegate">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
Bob Howarth6 November 1944-13 November 2025 OBITUARY: By Robert Luke Iroga, editor and publisher of Solomon Business Magazine In June 2000, I travelled to Port Moresby for a journalism training course that changed my life in ways I did not expect. The workshop was about new technology—how to send large photo files by email, something ... <a title="Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/tribute-to-bob-howarth-he-touched-the-pacific-in-ways-words-can-barely-capture/" aria-label="Read more about Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Muireann Quigley, Professor, Law, Medicine and Technology, University of Birmingham LBeddoe/Shutterstock.com In clinical trials around the world, a surprising treatment is showing promise for people with terminal illnesses: psychedelic therapy. For many, the hardest part of dying isn’t physical pain but the fear, anxiety and sense of ... <a title="Psychedelics might help terminal patients find peace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/psychedelics-might-help-terminal-patients-find-peace-265915/" aria-label="Read more about Psychedelics might help terminal patients find peace">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Cushion, Professor, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University The Prescott memo was leaked to the Daily Telegraph. Steve Travelguide/Shutterstock The BBC has long weathered accusations of bias. So why did the latest scandal lead to the resignations of the BBC’s director general and ... <a title="BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/bbc-bias-the-prescott-memo-falls-well-short-of-the-standards-of-impartiality-it-demands-269576/" aria-label="Read more about BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands">Read more</a>
