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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Gardiner, PhD Candidate in Public Health, The University of Queensland Allgo/Unsplash “You look so great! Have you lost weight?” “Wow, you’re looking so healthy now! Good for you.” As fat people, we’ve heard comments like this for most of our lives. At the times when our ... <a title="5 reasons we shouldn’t ‘compliment’ people who lose weight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/5-reasons-we-shouldnt-compliment-people-who-lose-weight-264696/" aria-label="Read more about 5 reasons we shouldn’t ‘compliment’ people who lose weight">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A Victorian Resolve poll has Labor sliding back after a surge in August. Federal Labor had a 55–45 lead in Resolve and a 54–46 lead in Redbridge, ... <a title="Labor slides back in a Victorian Resolve poll; federal Labor still well on top" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/labor-slides-back-in-a-victorian-resolve-poll-federal-labor-still-well-on-top-267287/" aria-label="Read more about Labor slides back in a Victorian Resolve poll; federal Labor still well on top">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, University of South Australia Thomas Barwick/Getty Many of us go to the gym to bulk up. But how does it actually work? When you lift weights, it increases tension on the fibres in your muscles, and causes metabolic by-products (such as ... <a title="Should I increase weights at the gym? How often? And by how much?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/should-i-increase-weights-at-the-gym-how-often-and-by-how-much-263048/" aria-label="Read more about Should I increase weights at the gym? How often? And by how much?">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on October 15, 2025.
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine E. Wood, Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology Catherine Falls Commercial / Getty Images If you spend time around little kids, you may notice one topic seems to be more interesting and hilarious than any other. Children of all ages love to make ... <a title="Why do kids want to talk about bums and poos all the time?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/why-do-kids-want-to-talk-about-bums-and-poos-all-the-time-265395/" aria-label="Read more about Why do kids want to talk about bums and poos all the time?">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philipa Margaret Rothfield, Honorary Staff Member, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University; University of Southern Denmark Jan Martens, The Dog Days Are Over. Stefanie Nash/Lyon Dance Biennale There’s an intensity to festivals, a spillover effect where one event leads to another as if the ... <a title="Finding culture and community through dance at the 2025 Lyon Dance Biennale" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/finding-culture-and-community-through-dance-at-the-2025-lyon-dance-biennale-267228/" aria-label="Read more about Finding culture and community through dance at the 2025 Lyon Dance Biennale">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Baker, Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide Australia was once a nation where the great Australian dream was owning a home with ample space for a lawn and a garden. But by the 1990s, the dream had shifted, at least politically, with then prime minister ... <a title="The government wants more of us living in high rises. Here’s why Australians don’t want to" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/the-government-wants-more-of-us-living-in-high-rises-heres-why-australians-dont-want-to-265577/" aria-label="Read more about The government wants more of us living in high rises. Here’s why Australians don’t want to">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra While the Liberals have been performing reasonbly well in Parliament lately, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley still finds herself in an unenviable position. Ley’s presiding over a party split over its political identity – and even who should be leading it. ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: pollster Tony Barry on why the Coalition can’t risk ‘lurching to the right’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/politics-with-michelle-grattan-pollster-tony-barry-on-why-the-coalition-cant-risk-lurching-to-the-right-267435/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: pollster Tony Barry on why the Coalition can’t risk ‘lurching to the right’">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gilles E. Gignac, Associate Professor of Psychology, The University of Western Australia As your youth fades further into the past, you may start to fear growing older. But research my colleague and I have recently published in the journal Intelligence shows there’s also very good reason to ... <a title="Worried about turning 60? Science says that’s when many of us actually peak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/worried-about-turning-60-science-says-thats-when-many-of-us-actually-peak-267215/" aria-label="Read more about Worried about turning 60? Science says that’s when many of us actually peak">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Mudgway, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury Getty Images In her final speech as Wellington mayor, Tory Whanau spoke candidly about the relentless online abuse she faced during her term, much of it racist and sexist. None of it would have been reassuring for hopeful ... <a title="Polls and trolls: is violent online abuse turning women off local politics?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/polls-and-trolls-is-violent-online-abuse-turning-women-off-local-politics-267225/" aria-label="Read more about Polls and trolls: is violent online abuse turning women off local politics?">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hastings Dunn, Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham Following the Middle East summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal has been compared in the media to the Good Friday agreement which brought an end ... <a title="Egypt peace summit showed that Donald Trump’s Gaza deal is more showbiz extravaganza than the ‘dawn of a new Middle East’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/egypt-peace-summit-showed-that-donald-trumps-gaza-deal-is-more-showbiz-extravaganza-than-the-dawn-of-a-new-middle-east-267472/" aria-label="Read more about Egypt peace summit showed that Donald Trump’s Gaza deal is more showbiz extravaganza than the ‘dawn of a new Middle East’">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colleen Murrell, Chair of the Editorial Board, and Full Professor in Journalism, Dublin City University The world’s media are currently busy recording the tales of released Israeli hostages, freed Palestinian prisoners and their families after a ceasefire came into effect for the war in Gaza. But they ... <a title="Israel is still not allowing international media back into Gaza, despite the ceasefire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/israel-is-still-not-allowing-international-media-back-into-gaza-despite-the-ceasefire-267356/" aria-label="Read more about Israel is still not allowing international media back into Gaza, despite the ceasefire">Read more</a>
