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February 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephane Bouchoucha, Associate Professor in Nursing and Associate Head of School (International), Deakin University In May 2023 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID was no longer a public health emergency of international concern. For many, this signalled the pandemic was over. But the virus continues to ... <a title="Vaccination, testing, clean air: COVID hasn’t gone away – here’s where Australia needs to do better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/12/vaccination-testing-clean-air-covid-hasnt-gone-away-heres-where-australia-needs-to-do-better-222889/" aria-label="Read more about Vaccination, testing, clean air: COVID hasn’t gone away – here’s where Australia needs to do better">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vinuli Withanarachchie, PhD candidate, College of Health, Massey University As of January this year, Aotearoa New Zealand became just the second country (after Canada) to adopt a groundbreaking new procedure for patients experiencing cardiac arrest. Known as “double sequential external defibrillation” (DSED), it will change initial emergency ... <a title="A new emergency procedure for cardiac arrests aims to save more lives – here’s how it works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/12/a-new-emergency-procedure-for-cardiac-arrests-aims-to-save-more-lives-heres-how-it-works-221979/" aria-label="Read more about A new emergency procedure for cardiac arrests aims to save more lives – here’s how it works">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Lindsey, Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne Ambitious and mercurial, with a dark past, former army general Prabowo Subianto has spent a lifetime vying for the ultimate prize in Indonesian politics. ... <a title="Cute grandpa or authoritarian in waiting: who is Prabowo Subianto, the favourite to win Indonesia’s presidential election?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/12/cute-grandpa-or-authoritarian-in-waiting-who-is-prabowo-subianto-the-favourite-to-win-indonesias-presidential-election-221858/" aria-label="Read more about Cute grandpa or authoritarian in waiting: who is Prabowo Subianto, the favourite to win Indonesia’s presidential election?">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Spillias, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CSIRO Shutterstock As wild fish and other marine species get scarcer from overfishing and demand for ‘blue foods’ grows around the world, farming of the ocean is growing rapidly. Fish, kelp, prawns, oysters and more are now widely farmed. The world now ... <a title="Permaculture showed us how to farm the land more gently. Can we do the same as we farm the sea?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/12/permaculture-showed-us-how-to-farm-the-land-more-gently-can-we-do-the-same-as-we-farm-the-sea-222514/" aria-label="Read more about Permaculture showed us how to farm the land more gently. Can we do the same as we farm the sea?">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger Wilkins, Professorial Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock The latest HILDA survey shows Australia’s gender gap in employment continuing to close, with progress beginning on the earnings gap. Remarkably, the progress has ... <a title="HILDA data show women’s job prospects improving relative to men’s, and the COVID changes might have helped" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/12/hilda-data-show-womens-job-prospects-improving-relative-to-mens-and-the-covid-changes-might-have-helped-222897/" aria-label="Read more about HILDA data show women’s job prospects improving relative to men’s, and the COVID changes might have helped">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Daniel, Associate Lecturer in Communications, Western Sydney University Universal Pictures “I was really going to be something by the age of 23,” says Lelaina Pierce, played by the radiant Winona Ryder in the 1994 Gen X classic Reality Bites. She was voicing an anxiety many would ... <a title="Reality Bites at 30: why the Gen X classic still stands up today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/12/reality-bites-at-30-why-the-gen-x-classic-still-stands-up-today-223185/" aria-label="Read more about Reality Bites at 30: why the Gen X classic still stands up today">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anika Stobart, Senior Associate, Grattan Institute When you send your child to school, you expect they will learn how to read. But according to 2023 NAPLAN results, about one-third of Australian school students can’t read at their grade level. For Indigenous students, students from disadvantaged families, and ... <a title="If we want more Australian students to learn to read, we need regular testing in the early primary years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/11/if-we-want-more-australian-students-to-learn-to-read-we-need-regular-testing-in-the-early-primary-years-223180/" aria-label="Read more about If we want more Australian students to learn to read, we need regular testing in the early primary years">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Rudge, Law lecturer, University of Sydney Ground Picture/Shutterstock Over the past decade, reports of sexual misconduct by Australian health practitioners against patients have increased. While various reforms have tried to curtail “sexual boundary violations”, none has worked. Now, Australian health ministers have agreed to consider three ... <a title="Choosing a new doctor? Their sexual misconduct may soon be on the record" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/09/choosing-a-new-doctor-their-sexual-misconduct-may-soon-be-on-the-record-223082/" aria-label="Read more about Choosing a new doctor? Their sexual misconduct may soon be on the record">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Rudge, Law lecturer, University of Sydney Ground Picture/Shutterstock Over the past decade, reports of sexual misconduct by Australian health practitioners against patients have increased. While various reforms have tried to curtail “sexual boundary violations”, none has worked. Now, Australian health ministers have agreed to consider three ... <a title="Choosing a new doctor? Their sexual misconduct will soon be on the record" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/09/choosing-a-new-doctor-their-sexual-misconduct-will-soon-be-on-the-record-223082/" aria-label="Read more about Choosing a new doctor? Their sexual misconduct will soon be on the record">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Shutterstock Half a century on from its creation, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) continues to attract millions of players across demographics. The tabletop role-playing game truly has cemented its position in an ... <a title="50 years on, Dungeons & Dragons is still a gaming staple. What’s behind its monumental success?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/09/50-years-on-dungeons-and-dragons-is-still-a-gaming-staple-whats-behind-its-monumental-success-223085/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years on, Dungeons & Dragons is still a gaming staple. What’s behind its monumental success?">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2024
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 The global superstar Taylor Swift is bringing her Eras tour to Australia later this month, with sold-out shows in Sydney and Melbourne. With Swifties numbering in the thousands, ... <a title="Desperate for Taylor Swift tickets? Here are cybersecurity tips to stay safe from scams" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/09/desperate-for-taylor-swift-tickets-here-are-cybersecurity-tips-to-stay-safe-from-scams-223086/" aria-label="Read more about Desperate for Taylor Swift tickets? Here are cybersecurity tips to stay safe from scams">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University US Secretary of State Antony Blinken looked exhausted at his media conference in Israel this week as he tried to remain optimistic about prospects for a truce in the Gaza war. Despite Israeli Prime ... <a title="Israel-Gaza war: why did the ceasefire negotiations collapse – and can they be revived?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/09/israel-gaza-war-why-did-the-ceasefire-negotiations-collapse-and-can-they-be-revived-223175/" aria-label="Read more about Israel-Gaza war: why did the ceasefire negotiations collapse – and can they be revived?">Read more</a>
