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April 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Verna Smith, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington It is rare to get excited about institutional reform, but the government’s announcement of wholesale changes to the health system has the potential to be transformative. The restructure comes in response to ... <a title="With closer ties to GPs, NZ’s new central health agency could revolutionise treatment of major diseases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/with-closer-ties-to-gps-nzs-new-central-health-agency-could-revolutionise-treatment-of-major-diseases-159434/" aria-label="Read more about With closer ties to GPs, NZ’s new central health agency could revolutionise treatment of major diseases">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury This review contains spoilers for the first three episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale season four. Dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale is at a crossroads. Four years on from its critically acclaimed debut, and well past ... <a title="Gory or glory? The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 walks a fine line between dystopia and torture porn" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/gory-or-glory-the-handmaids-tale-season-4-walks-a-fine-line-between-dystopia-and-torture-porn-159336/" aria-label="Read more about Gory or glory? The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 walks a fine line between dystopia and torture porn">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rowan Light, Lecturer / Project Curator – University of Auckland / Auckland Museum, University of Auckland While economists and politicians have celebrated the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble and its promised relief for struggling businesses, it’s also a reminder of something we’ve missed for more than a ... <a title="Solidarity and difference — how Anzac Day reflects an ever-changing New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/solidarity-and-difference-how-anzac-day-reflects-an-ever-changing-new-zealand-159210/" aria-label="Read more about Solidarity and difference — how Anzac Day reflects an ever-changing New Zealand">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Georgia McWhinney, Honorary Postdoctoral Associate, Macquarie University We think we know a lot about Australian and New Zealand soldiers’ health in the first world war. Many books, novels and television programs speak of wounds and war doctors, documenting the work of both Anzac nations’ medical corps. Often ... <a title="Endless itching: how Anzacs treated lice in the trenches with poetry and their own brand of medicine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/endless-itching-how-anzacs-treated-lice-in-the-trenches-with-poetry-and-their-own-brand-of-medicine-155140/" aria-label="Read more about Endless itching: how Anzacs treated lice in the trenches with poetry and their own brand of medicine">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Navid Constantinou, Research Fellow, Australian National University Scientists already know the oceans are rapidly warming and sea levels are rising. But that’s not all. Now, thanks to satellite observations, we have three decades’ worth of data on how the speeds of ocean surface currents are also changing ... <a title="Satellites reveal ocean currents are getting stronger, with potentially significant implications for climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/satellites-reveal-ocean-currents-are-getting-stronger-with-potentially-significant-implications-for-climate-change-159461/" aria-label="Read more about Satellites reveal ocean currents are getting stronger, with potentially significant implications for climate change">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Norman, Professor of Reproductive and Periconceptual Medicine, The Robinson Institute, University of Adelaide An expensive IVF technique, routinely offered in fertility clinics around the world, offers no extra benefits to standard IVF in the vast majority of cases, our new research shows. The technique, known as ... <a title="Standard IVF is fine for most people. So why are so many offered an expensive sperm injection they don’t need?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/standard-ivf-is-fine-for-most-people-so-why-are-so-many-offered-an-expensive-sperm-injection-they-dont-need-158227/" aria-label="Read more about Standard IVF is fine for most people. So why are so many offered an expensive sperm injection they don’t need?">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona McLeod, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland The revival of interest in Anzac since the 1980s has depended in part on the repositioning of soldiers as victims. We rarely celebrate their martial virtues, and instead note their resilience, fortitude and suffering. This shift in emphasis opens ... <a title="‘I want to scream and scream’: Australian nurses on the Western Front were also victims of war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/i-want-to-scream-and-scream-australian-nurses-on-the-western-front-were-also-victims-of-war-158624/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I want to scream and scream’: Australian nurses on the Western Front were also victims of war">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, The University of Melbourne On Anzac Day each year, Australians remember those who served and died in wars and conflicts. We may attend a dawn service, go to a march or lay a wreath at a war memorial. But across Australia lie ... <a title="The years condemn: Australia is forgetting the sacred trees planted to remember our war dead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/the-years-condemn-australia-is-forgetting-the-sacred-trees-planted-to-remember-our-war-dead-159426/" aria-label="Read more about The years condemn: Australia is forgetting the sacred trees planted to remember our war dead">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Adams, Professor at the Centre of Policy Studie, Victoria University The European Union has committed to very significant emission cuts — 55% on 1990 levels by 2030, and zero net emissions by 2050. To help it get there without too much disruption, the president of the ... <a title="Australia’s economy can withstand the proposed European Union carbon tariff — here’s what we find" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/australias-economy-can-withstand-the-proposed-european-union-carbon-tariff-heres-what-we-find-159062/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s economy can withstand the proposed European Union carbon tariff — here’s what we find">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Breaking down the old boys’ club in business, government and other organisations is intrinsically important. Ensuring greater diversity in organisations – on gender, racial, ethnic and other lines – is, simply put, the right thing to do. But some advocates of ... <a title="Vital Signs: the pros and cons of diversity in organisations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/vital-signs-the-pros-and-cons-of-diversity-in-organisations-159524/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: the pros and cons of diversity in organisations">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Véronique Duché, A.R. Chisholm Professor of French, The University of Melbourne Modern warfare produces both trauma and boredom in equal measure. During the first world war, one way troops found solace was by writing and reading magazines created by soldiers, for soldiers. Throughout the war, these magazines ... <a title="The comfort of reading in WWI: the bibliotherapy of trench and hospital magazines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/the-comfort-of-reading-in-wwi-the-bibliotherapy-of-trench-and-hospital-magazines-158880/" aria-label="Read more about The comfort of reading in WWI: the bibliotherapy of trench and hospital magazines">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By David VineFrom Washington DC Amid renewed fear mongering about an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border, this week’s 175th anniversary of the 1846–1848 war the U.S. government instigated with Mexico is a reminder that throughout U.S. history, invasions have gone almost exclusively from north to south, not vice ... <a title="175 Years of Border Invasions: The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/175-years-of-border-invasions-the-anniversary-of-the-u-s-war-on-mexico-and-the-roots-of-northward-migration/" aria-label="Read more about 175 Years of Border Invasions: The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration">Read more</a>
