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April 21, 2023
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby A senior Papua New Guinea police officer has called for mandatory drug tests because the National Capital District (NCD) and Central police command has been hard hit by “rogue” trade and consumption of methamphetamine among its ranks. NCD/Central divisional commander Anthony Wagambie Jr said this while confirming that the ... <a title="Senior PNG police officer calls for mandatory drug tests for all cops" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/senior-png-police-officer-calls-for-mandatory-drug-tests-for-all-cops/" aria-label="Read more about Senior PNG police officer calls for mandatory drug tests for all cops">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
RNZ Pacific A senior health practitioner in Fiji has warned that the exodus of nurses will put significant strain on the country’s health sector. According to orthopaedic surgeon Dr Eddie McCaig, nurses are leaving in droves, with more than 800 — more than a quarter of the workforce — migrating overseas in 2019 alone. Dr ... <a title="Surgeon warns Fiji nurses exodus will put strain on health sector" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/surgeon-warns-fiji-nurses-exodus-will-put-strain-on-health-sector/" aria-label="Read more about Surgeon warns Fiji nurses exodus will put strain on health sector">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Polynesia’s President Édouard Fritch has warned of “chaos”, should his party lose power to the pro-independence Tavini Huira’atira. In last Sunday’s first round of the territorial elections, his Tapura Huira’atira came second, winning 30 percent of the votes against Tavini’s 35 percent. Fritch’s Tapura has now joined forces ... <a title="Tahiti’s Fritch warns against ‘chaos’ if his anti-independence party loses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/tahitis-fritch-warns-against-chaos-if-his-anti-independence-party-loses/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti’s Fritch warns against ‘chaos’ if his anti-independence party loses">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Cross, Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology Facebook The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s latest Targeting Scams report indicates Australians reported more than A$3 billion lost to fraud in 2022. This is about a $1 ... <a title="Australians lost more than $3bn to scammers in 2022. Here are 5 emerging scams to look out for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/australians-lost-more-than-3bn-to-scammers-in-2022-here-are-5-emerging-scams-to-look-out-for-204018/" aria-label="Read more about Australians lost more than $3bn to scammers in 2022. Here are 5 emerging scams to look out for">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Crotty, Associate Professor in Australian History, The University of Queensland An Australian Imperial Force memorial card for Nicholas Permakoff, a Russian-born Australian private who deserted the AIF during WWI. Author provided Anzac Day continues to feature on the Australian calendar as a day for celebrating and ... <a title="Challenging the Anzac ideal: the tragic stories of two Australian deserters in WWI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/challenging-the-anzac-ideal-the-tragic-stories-of-two-australian-deserters-in-wwi-199516/" aria-label="Read more about Challenging the Anzac ideal: the tragic stories of two Australian deserters in WWI">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Dwyer, Research Director – Energy Futures, University of Technology Sydney Australia has long had a love affair with the internal combustion engine. Its first petrol-powered car was developed in 1901. (Admittedly, the engine was imported from Germany.) Roll forward 122 years and there’s now a registered ... <a title="Australia’s adoption of electric vehicles has been maddeningly slow, but we’re well placed to catch up fast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/australias-adoption-of-electric-vehicles-has-been-maddeningly-slow-but-were-well-placed-to-catch-up-fast-203923/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s adoption of electric vehicles has been maddeningly slow, but we’re well placed to catch up fast">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Today’s content PARLIAMENT PROTEST Claire Trevett (Herald): IPCA report on Parliament protests should leave Police top brass with red faces (paywalled) Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): A chaotic day in Wellington, a ‘distraction ... <a title="Newsletter: April 21 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/newsletter-april-21-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: April 21 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simone Celine Marshall, Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Otago Getty Images The COVID “lab leak” story clearly isn’t going away soon. The theory that the pandemic began with an accidental release of the virus from a lab in Wuhan recurs like clockwork – most recently in ... <a title="Plagues, poisons and magical thinking – how COVID lab leak hysteria could be straight from the Middle Ages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/plagues-poisons-and-magical-thinking-how-covid-lab-leak-hysteria-could-be-straight-from-the-middle-ages-204025/" aria-label="Read more about Plagues, poisons and magical thinking – how COVID lab leak hysteria could be straight from the Middle Ages">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charlotte Ganderton, Senior lecturer (Physiotherapy), Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock You might have seen media articles or fitness influencers online urging people to do “dead hangs”, where one hangs loosely from a bar – usually with feet off the floor. The goal is usually to improve upper-body ... <a title="What are dead hangs? What are the shoulder pain risks and how do I do them safely?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/what-are-dead-hangs-what-are-the-shoulder-pain-risks-and-how-do-i-do-them-safely-202346/" aria-label="Read more about What are dead hangs? What are the shoulder pain risks and how do I do them safely?">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rossana Ruggeri, Research Fellow in Cosmology, The University of Queensland ESA / Hubble & NASA Physicists believe most of the matter in the universe is made up of an invisible substance that we only know about by its indirect effects on the stars and galaxies we can ... <a title="New look at ‘Einstein rings’ around distant galaxies just got us closer to solving the dark matter debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/new-look-at-einstein-rings-around-distant-galaxies-just-got-us-closer-to-solving-the-dark-matter-debate-204109/" aria-label="Read more about New look at ‘Einstein rings’ around distant galaxies just got us closer to solving the dark matter debate">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeffrey McNeill, Senior Lecturer in Resource & Environmental Planning, Massey University Captured German trenches near Messines, June 1917. Daily Herald Archive / Getty Images It was observed […] that the English had slain wounded and captured German prisoners. So reads a disturbing war diary entry of the ... <a title="Less than illustrious: remembering the Anzacs means also not forgetting some committed war crimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/less-than-illustrious-remembering-the-anzacs-means-also-not-forgetting-some-committed-war-crimes-203043/" aria-label="Read more about Less than illustrious: remembering the Anzacs means also not forgetting some committed war crimes">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Francisco Perales, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Today’s men express their maleness in different ways. Some adhere to more traditional models of masculinity, characterised by beliefs in male superiority and endorsement of risky or violent behaviours. Others embrace more progressive ... <a title="Like father, like son: new research shows how young men ‘copy’ their fathers’ masculinity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/like-father-like-son-new-research-shows-how-young-men-copy-their-fathers-masculinity-203834/" aria-label="Read more about Like father, like son: new research shows how young men ‘copy’ their fathers’ masculinity">Read more</a>
