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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Badenhorst, Senior Lecturer, Massey University New Zealand girls and young women, as well as nonbinary persons who bleed every month, have a limited understanding of menstruation. This lack of knowledge about their own bodies is affecting their overall health and wellbeing. Our ongoing research, currently under ... <a title="There is a knowledge gap around menstruation in NZ – and this puts people at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/there-is-a-knowledge-gap-around-menstruation-in-nz-and-this-puts-people-at-risk-224257/" aria-label="Read more about There is a knowledge gap around menstruation in NZ – and this puts people at risk">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laure Poncet, Research officer, UNSW Sydney Japan Meteorological Agency, Himawari-8, Author provided Fire. Flood. Fire and flood together. Double-whammy storms. Unprecedented rainfall. Heatwaves. Climate change is making some of Australia’s weather more extreme. In 2023, the country was hit by a broad range of particularly intense events, ... <a title="What we know about last year’s top 10 wild Australian climatic events – from fire and flood combos to cyclone-driven extreme rain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/what-we-know-about-last-years-top-10-wild-australian-climatic-events-from-fire-and-flood-combos-to-cyclone-driven-extreme-rain-224614/" aria-label="Read more about What we know about last year’s top 10 wild Australian climatic events – from fire and flood combos to cyclone-driven extreme rain">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Treadwell, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Auckland University of Technology If journalism in Western democracies has been on a roller coaster in recent decades, in Aotearoa New Zealand this week it threatened to come right off the rails. Today’s shocking announcement by owners Warner Bros Discovery of ... <a title="With the end of Newshub, the slippery slope just got steeper for NZ journalism and democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/with-the-end-of-newshub-the-slippery-slope-just-got-steeper-for-nz-journalism-and-democracy-224625/" aria-label="Read more about With the end of Newshub, the slippery slope just got steeper for NZ journalism and democracy">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania Victorians were braced for the worst on Wednesday amid soaring temperatures and gusty winds, creating the state’s worst fire conditions in years. Authorities have declared a “catastrophic” fire risk in some parts of the state. At ... <a title="Victoria’s fire alert has knocked Australians out of complacency. Under climate change, catastrophic bushfires can strike any time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/victorias-fire-alert-has-knocked-australians-out-of-complacency-under-climate-change-catastrophic-bushfires-can-strike-any-time-224636/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s fire alert has knocked Australians out of complacency. Under climate change, catastrophic bushfires can strike any time">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland If you believe Newspoll and the Australian Financial Review, Australia wants to go nuclear – as long it’s small. Newspoll this week suggests a majority of us are in favour of building small modular nuclear reactors. A poll ... <a title="Dutton wants a ‘mature debate’ about nuclear power. By the time we’ve had one, new plants will be too late to replace coal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/dutton-wants-a-mature-debate-about-nuclear-power-by-the-time-weve-had-one-new-plants-will-be-too-late-to-replace-coal-224513/" aria-label="Read more about Dutton wants a ‘mature debate’ about nuclear power. By the time we’ve had one, new plants will be too late to replace coal">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Blythe Worthy, PhD Candidate, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney Madman Entertainment In Justine Triet’s French legal drama Anatomy of a Fall, novelist Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) is on trial for murdering her husband, Samuel (Samuel Theis), after he falls to his death from the attic ... <a title="What is the role of the mother? At the heart of Anatomy of a Fall is a critique of anti-feminist backlash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/what-is-the-role-of-the-mother-at-the-heart-of-anatomy-of-a-fall-is-a-critique-of-anti-feminist-backlash-224139/" aria-label="Read more about What is the role of the mother? At the heart of Anatomy of a Fall is a critique of anti-feminist backlash">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Maxwell, Associate Professor in Performance Studies, University of Sydney Brett Boardman/Griffin Theatre Company Over five engaging and enjoyable hours, the Lewis Trilogy, three works by Lewis Nowra, works insistently to convince its audience it is about love. Love that overcomes, that transcends, that is everything. And ... <a title="The Lewis Trilogy is ultimately about a love for theatre: the sharing of stories in a strange little room" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/the-lewis-trilogy-is-ultimately-about-a-love-for-theatre-the-sharing-of-stories-in-a-strange-little-room-222153/" aria-label="Read more about The Lewis Trilogy is ultimately about a love for theatre: the sharing of stories in a strange little room">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily O’Hara, Senior Lecturer, Spatial Design + Temporary Practices, Auckland University of Technology If you find it intriguing that February 28 will be followed this week by February 29, rather than March 1 as it usually is, spare a thought for those alive in 1582. Back then, ... <a title="Leap of imagination: how February 29 reminds us of our mysterious relationship with time and space" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/leap-of-imagination-how-february-29-reminds-us-of-our-mysterious-relationship-with-time-and-space-224503/" aria-label="Read more about Leap of imagination: how February 29 reminds us of our mysterious relationship with time and space">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne Orlando, Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University Aleksandra Suzi/Shutterstock Smartphone ownership among younger children is increasing rapidly. Many primary school children now own smartphones and they have become the norm in high school. Parents of younger children may occasionally (or routinely) look at ... <a title="Should you be checking your kid’s phone? How to know when your child is ready for ‘phone privacy’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/should-you-be-checking-your-kids-phone-how-to-know-when-your-child-is-ready-for-phone-privacy-223190/" aria-label="Read more about Should you be checking your kid’s phone? How to know when your child is ready for ‘phone privacy’">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Newshub, one of the key media companies in Aotearoa New Zealand, is to close its newsroom on June 30, reports RNZ News. Staff were told of the closure at an emergency meeting today. Newshub is owned by US-based global entertainment giant Warner Bros Discovery which also owns Eden, Rush, HGTV and Bravo. ... <a title="NZ media people react with ‘shock’ over plan to close Newshub in June" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/nz-media-people-react-with-shock-over-plan-to-close-newshub-in-june/" aria-label="Read more about NZ media people react with ‘shock’ over plan to close Newshub in June">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yee-Fui Ng, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University Independent MP for Indi Helen Haines has introduced a private member’s bill to crack down on pork-barrelling. Haines has argued pork-barrelling is happening right now ahead of the Dunkley byelection on March 2, where Labor is splashing out ... <a title="Independent MP Helen Haines has a plan to stamp out pork-barrelling. Would it work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/independent-mp-helen-haines-has-a-plan-to-stamp-out-pork-barrelling-would-it-work-224514/" aria-label="Read more about Independent MP Helen Haines has a plan to stamp out pork-barrelling. Would it work?">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Peterie, Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney Shutterstock Have you ever felt a sudden pang of sadness? A bird seems to stop and look you in the eye. A photo drops out of a messy drawer from long ago, in the mundanity ... <a title="We talked to dozens of people about their experience of grief. Here’s what we learned (and how it’s different from what you might think)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/we-talked-to-dozens-of-people-about-their-experience-of-grief-heres-what-we-learned-and-how-its-different-from-what-you-might-think-223848/" aria-label="Read more about We talked to dozens of people about their experience of grief. Here’s what we learned (and how it’s different from what you might think)">Read more</a>
