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September 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, University of South Australia Natalia Lebendinskaia/Getty “Microdosing” originally meant taking tiny amounts of psychedelics (such as mushrooms) to enhance mood or performance, with fewer side effects. But the term has taken off to mean anything where you incorporate a much lower ... <a title="Can you ‘microdose’ exercise?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/15/can-you-microdose-exercise-263049/" aria-label="Read more about Can you ‘microdose’ exercise?">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis Wesselbaum, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Otago Getty Images Most New Zealanders are feeling the effects of a seemingly relentless rise in the cost of living – at the supermarket, the petrol pump and in their household energy bills. For some, however, this tips ... <a title="Around 900,000 Kiwis experience food insecurity: it’s a quiet crisis that needs urgent attention" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/15/around-900-000-kiwis-experience-food-insecurity-its-a-quiet-crisis-that-needs-urgent-attention-264467/" aria-label="Read more about Around 900,000 Kiwis experience food insecurity: it’s a quiet crisis that needs urgent attention">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ehsan Nabavi, Senior Lecturer in Technology and Society, Responsible Innovation Lab, Australian National University Jorg Greuel/Getty “This is a game changer”. That’s how Paul Scully, New South Wales Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, described the state government’s launch of a tender for an artificial intelligence (AI) ... <a title="Politicians are pushing AI as a quick fix to Australia’s housing crisis. They’re risking another Robodebt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/15/politicians-are-pushing-ai-as-a-quick-fix-to-australias-housing-crisis-theyre-risking-another-robodebt-265062/" aria-label="Read more about Politicians are pushing AI as a quick fix to Australia’s housing crisis. They’re risking another Robodebt">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Keating, Lecturer, UnISQ College, University of Southern Queensland Fifty years ago this week, Papua New Guinea became independent from Australia. This anniversary gives both nations cause to reflect on our shared histories, as both colony and coloniser. Once separate territories under Australian administration, Papua and New ... <a title="Papua New Guinea has played an important role in Australian history – it’s time we acknowledged that" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/15/papua-new-guinea-has-played-an-important-role-in-australian-history-its-time-we-acknowledged-that-264785/" aria-label="Read more about Papua New Guinea has played an important role in Australian history – it’s time we acknowledged that">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brad Underhill, Research fellow, Deakin University On April 20 1972, 100 newly elected parliamentarians gathered in Port Moresby for the opening of the Third House of Assembly, Papua New Guinea’s legislative body. Many of these members were young and some were new to politics: Chief Minister (later ... <a title="50 years without coups or dictators: how PNG built a durable democracy based on dignity and fairness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/15/50-years-without-coups-or-dictators-how-png-built-a-durable-democracy-based-on-dignity-and-fairness-264484/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years without coups or dictators: how PNG built a durable democracy based on dignity and fairness">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Larsen, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of New England Maskot/Getty Images So far, 2025 has been a horror year for early education and care. Much of the recent media and political coverage about childcare has focused on safety. This is understandable, given the numerous, shocking allegations ... <a title="Despite improvements to early education, more children are starting school developmentally behind. What’s going on?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/15/despite-improvements-to-early-education-more-children-are-starting-school-developmentally-behind-whats-going-on-264770/" aria-label="Read more about Despite improvements to early education, more children are starting school developmentally behind. What’s going on?">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brad Elphinstone, Lecturer in psychology, Swinburne University of Technology Over the next decade, Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire. The Tesla board recently proposed a US$1 trillion (A$1.5 trillion) compensation plan, if Musk can meet a series of ambitious growth targets. Australia’s corporate pay packets ... <a title="How much money do you need to be happy? Here’s what the research says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/15/how-much-money-do-you-need-to-be-happy-heres-what-the-research-says-265184/" aria-label="Read more about How much money do you need to be happy? Here’s what the research says">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Power, Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University Kamonwan Wankaew/Getty Parents play an important role in teaching their children about sex and relationships. But our new report shows many parents – fathers in particular – find it mortifying. Our ... <a title="6 ways to talk to your teens about sex without the cringe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/15/6-ways-to-talk-to-your-teens-about-sex-without-the-cringe-263639/" aria-label="Read more about 6 ways to talk to your teens about sex without the cringe">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janet Hoek, Professor in Public Health, University of Otago Andrej Ivanov/AFP via Getty Images Large pictorial warning labels on smoked tobacco products typically feature confronting images of the harmful health outcomes of smoking. Pictures of diseased lungs, gangrene and mouth decay aim to elicit strong emotional responses ... <a title="Graphic warnings on tobacco products are losing their impact – here are 5 ways to improve them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/15/graphic-warnings-on-tobacco-products-are-losing-their-impact-here-are-5-ways-to-improve-them-263415/" aria-label="Read more about Graphic warnings on tobacco products are losing their impact – here are 5 ways to improve them">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Bentley, Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Olga Rolenko/Getty Images Housing is a key determinant of physical health. Housing conditions can increase or reduce ... <a title="Eradicating mould would save millions in health-care costs: how our homes affect our health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/15/eradicating-mould-would-save-millions-in-health-care-costs-how-our-homes-affect-our-health-260311/" aria-label="Read more about Eradicating mould would save millions in health-care costs: how our homes affect our health">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin Keith Rankin – One of our least-discussed discriminatory ‘isms’ is what I call ‘lookism’. Discrimination on the basis of a person’s or a group’s appearance, noting in particular features of ancestry, age, and culture. Discrimination based on how individuals and peoples look to other people. Discrimination on the basis of the presence ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Lookism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/14/keith-rankin-on-lookism/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Lookism">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maurizio Valsania, Professor of American History, Università di Torino Punishment by tar and feather of Thomas Ditson, who purchased a gun from a British soldier in Boston in March 1775. Interim Archives/Getty Images The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at ... <a title="Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/14/yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence-265171/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence">Read more</a>
