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January 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Gardiner, Deputy Director, Griffith Institute For Tourism, Griffith University Shutterstock Working holidaymakers will be one of the first international visitor markets to return to Australia in 2022. But as global travel slowly resumes and many young people start thinking about working overseas again, global competition for ... <a title="Working holidaymakers bring in $3bn each year – so, how will Australia ensure they come back?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/03/working-holidaymakers-bring-in-3bn-each-year-so-how-will-australia-ensure-they-come-back-172771/" aria-label="Read more about Working holidaymakers bring in $3bn each year – so, how will Australia ensure they come back?">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raquel Peel, Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland shutterstock Summer is a time we associate with love. The longer days and warmer weather can lead to people feeling happier, more relaxed and in the mood for romance. This year in particular, Australians are longing for human connection ... <a title="Thinking about a summer fling? Read this article first" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/03/thinking-about-a-summer-fling-read-this-article-first-172615/" aria-label="Read more about Thinking about a summer fling? Read this article first">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Kate Barlow, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Shutterstock First published in 1972, The Joy of Sex styled itself as a sexual cookbook, with positions and predilections presented as loose recipes. As any good cookbook author knows, however, sometimes people really need a picture to ... <a title="50 years on, The Joy of Sex is outdated in parts but still a fun ‘unanxious’ romp" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/03/50-years-on-the-joy-of-sex-is-outdated-in-parts-but-still-a-fun-unanxious-romp-171930/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years on, The Joy of Sex is outdated in parts but still a fun ‘unanxious’ romp">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natasha Yates, Assistant Professor, General Practice, Bond University Adi Goldstein/Unsplash Haven’t had a health check in a while, or ever? You’re not alone. Most people wait until they’re sick to see a GP, so there’s not usually much time in a consultation to also talk about preventative ... <a title="I’m approaching a ‘milestone’ birthday. What health checks should I have at my age?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/03/im-approaching-a-milestone-birthday-what-health-checks-should-i-have-at-my-age-172047/" aria-label="Read more about I’m approaching a ‘milestone’ birthday. What health checks should I have at my age?">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Moseby, Associate Professor, UNSW Jannico Kelk, Author provided When we release a group of endangered animals into the wild, we always hope they will survive. They usually don’t. We find bilby carcasses under bushes, bettongs ripped apart by feral cats, and tufts of rock wallaby fur ... <a title="So you want to cat-proof a bettong: how living with predators could help native species survive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/03/so-you-want-to-cat-proof-a-bettong-how-living-with-predators-could-help-native-species-survive-170450/" aria-label="Read more about So you want to cat-proof a bettong: how living with predators could help native species survive">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2022
RNZ Pacific Pacific Island New Zealanders are now 90 percent fully vaccinated against covid-19, and a public health expert is urging them to keep up that momentum in the New Year. In a daily briefing, the Ministry of Health said 90 percent of eligible Pacific people in New Zealand had now had both vaccines. Associate ... <a title="Pasifika reach 90% vaccinated: ‘Keep going’ urges medical academic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/02/pasifika-reach-90-vaccinated-keep-going-urges-medical-academic/" aria-label="Read more about Pasifika reach 90% vaccinated: ‘Keep going’ urges medical academic">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2022
ANALYSIS: By David Robie in Auckland The Pacific year has closed with growing tensions over sovereignty and self-determination issues and growing stress over the ravages of covid-19 pandemic in a region that was largely virus-free in 2020. Just two days before the year 2021 wrapped up, Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama took the extraordinary statement of ... <a title="‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/02/secret-plots-sovereignty-and-covid-challenges-face-pacific-for-new-year/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2022
By Luke Nacei in Suva National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad has asked if the Fiji government inquiry into the Office of the Auditor-General will be held in public. Professor Prasad was responding to the announcement this week of a Commission of Inquiry into the OAG “to inquire into and report on: the conduct, ... <a title="Prasad warns Fiji government will end 2021 as ‘laughing stock’ over audit inquiry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/02/prasad-warns-fiji-government-will-end-2021-as-laughing-stock-over-audit-inquiry/" aria-label="Read more about Prasad warns Fiji government will end 2021 as ‘laughing stock’ over audit inquiry">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2022
By Ian Chute in Suva Unionists and political activists are among seven prominent women who have brought a lawsuit against the Fiji government challenging new electoral laws requiring them to use their birth certificate names to be registered as voters. The seven are former government minister Bernadette Rounds Ganilau, politicians Priscilla Singh and Seni Nabou, ... <a title="Seven women challenge Fiji electoral law ‘discrimination’ over name changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/01/seven-women-challenge-fiji-electoral-law-discrimination-over-name-changes/" aria-label="Read more about Seven women challenge Fiji electoral law ‘discrimination’ over name changes">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2022
RNZ News As some North Island regions moved to the orange traffic light setting at 11.59pm last night, New Zealand has now found two omicron cases that were briefly in the community, and close contacts are urgently being chased up. As a British DJ outed himself as the omicron community case identified yesterday, Covid-19 Response ... <a title="Urgent NZ search for DJ’s close contacts, second omicron case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/01/urgent-nz-search-for-djs-close-contacts-second-omicron-case/" aria-label="Read more about Urgent NZ search for DJ’s close contacts, second omicron case">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2022
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist A human rights advocate in Fiji says the country should be ashamed of the exile of the now dead celebrated academic professor Brij Lal and his family. Professor Lal was expelled from Fiji in 2009 after speaking out against coup leader Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama’s FijiFirst government. Lal died ... <a title="‘Shame on you, Fiji’, says human rights advocate over Professor Lal’s exile" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/01/shame-on-you-fiji-says-human-rights-advocate-over-professor-lals-exile/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Shame on you, Fiji’, says human rights advocate over Professor Lal’s exile">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2022
RNZ News New Zealand’s Ministry of Health has confirmed that a border-related case with the omicron variant was briefly active in the community in the Auckland CBD earlier this week. The case arrived on a flight from the United Kingdom via Doha on December 16 and is fully vaccinated with a mRNA vaccine. They completed ... <a title="Omicron case was briefly active in NZ community, Health Ministry confirms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/01/omicron-case-was-briefly-active-in-nz-community-health-ministry-confirms/" aria-label="Read more about Omicron case was briefly active in NZ community, Health Ministry confirms">Read more</a>