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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>
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September 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, 2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University Bank Phrom/Unsplash, The Conversation, CC BY-SA Twenty-one years after Facebook’s launch, Australia’s top 25 news outlets now have a combined 27.6 million followers on the platform. They rely on Facebook’s reach ... <a title="Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of misinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/24/facebook-data-reveal-the-devastating-real-world-harms-caused-by-the-spread-of-misinformation-265742/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of misinformation">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide IMDb Paul Thomas Anderson’s eagerly awaited new film, One Battle After Another, hits Australian screens tomorrow. The action-political thriller is Anderson’s first film in four years, and his first collaboration with actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The film is ... <a title="One Battle After Another is the latest film shot in VistaVision, a 1950s format making a big comeback" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/24/one-battle-after-another-is-the-latest-film-shot-in-vistavision-a-1950s-format-making-a-big-comeback-264979/" aria-label="Read more about One Battle After Another is the latest film shot in VistaVision, a 1950s format making a big comeback">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Ralph Olazo / Unsplash Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, today outlined an updated list of platforms that may fall under the social media age restrictions that will take effect later ... <a title="Social media age restrictions may go further than you thought. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/24/social-media-age-restrictions-may-go-further-than-you-thought-heres-how-265969/" aria-label="Read more about Social media age restrictions may go further than you thought. Here’s how">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Murray, Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, Swinburne University of Technology Tom Werner/Getty The popularity of matcha continues to boom. But recent videos on social media have suggested it could be bad for you if you have low iron. One Sydney woman recently told media she had “no idea” ... <a title="Is TikTok right? Should I avoid matcha if I have low iron?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/24/is-tiktok-right-should-i-avoid-matcha-if-i-have-low-iron-264261/" aria-label="Read more about Is TikTok right? Should I avoid matcha if I have low iron?">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alfio Leotta, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Media, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Georges Méliès, Story Of Animation/Youtube, The Conversation Talking monkeys vlogging from sacred sites, three-legged sharks wearing Nike sneakers, babies trapped in space… if you spend any time on social media ... <a title="Spectacle, weirdness and novelty: what early cinema tells us about the appeal of ‘AI slop’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/24/spectacle-weirdness-and-novelty-what-early-cinema-tells-us-about-the-appeal-of-ai-slop-265071/" aria-label="Read more about Spectacle, weirdness and novelty: what early cinema tells us about the appeal of ‘AI slop’">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Back in the day, Economics 101 students learned that trying to recover from a depressed economy using monetary policy alone was like ‘pushing on a string’. Easy monetary policy is supposed to work by getting people – households, businesses, and governments – to incur more debt; in a phrase, to borrow ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Pushing a String: Ineffective Monetary Policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/24/keith-rankin-analysis-pushing-a-string-ineffective-monetary-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Pushing a String: Ineffective Monetary Policy">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lister Staveley-Smith, Professor at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), The University of Western Australia A composite image shows a diffuse ‘bridge’ of gas linking two dwarf galaxies. ICRAR, N. Deg, Legacy Surveys (D.Lang / Perimeter Institute) Most of the ordinary matter in the universe ... <a title="What a newly discovered gas bridge between galaxies tells us about the cosmic cycle of matter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/24/what-a-newly-discovered-gas-bridge-between-galaxies-tells-us-about-the-cosmic-cycle-of-matter-265760/" aria-label="Read more about What a newly discovered gas bridge between galaxies tells us about the cosmic cycle of matter">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn Arianrhod, Affiliate, School of Mathematics, Monash University MirageC / Getty Images The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin’s Broome Bridge in 1843. But in his lifetime, Hamilton’s reputation ... <a title="100 years before quantum mechanics, one scientist glimpsed a link between light and matter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/24/100-years-before-quantum-mechanics-one-scientist-glimpsed-a-link-between-light-and-matter-261551/" aria-label="Read more about 100 years before quantum mechanics, one scientist glimpsed a link between light and matter">Read more</a>
