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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christine Lin, Professor, University of Sydney Planter Studio/Shutterstock This week’s ABC Four Corners episode Pain Factory highlighted that our health system is failing Australians with chronic pain. Patients are receiving costly, ineffective and risky care instead of effective, low-risk treatments for chronic pain. The challenge is considering ... <a title="Surgery won’t fix my chronic back pain, so what will?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/surgery-wont-fix-my-chronic-back-pain-so-what-will-227450/" aria-label="Read more about Surgery won’t fix my chronic back pain, so what will?">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cathy Sherry, Professor in Law, Macquarie University Shutterstock Nothing excites law students like the idea of a free house. Or alternatively, enrages them. It depends on their politics. As a result, academics condemned to teaching property law find it hard to resist the “doctrine of adverse possession”. ... <a title="If you squat in a vacant property, does the law give you the house for free? Well, sort of" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/if-you-squat-in-a-vacant-property-does-the-law-give-you-the-house-for-free-well-sort-of-227556/" aria-label="Read more about If you squat in a vacant property, does the law give you the house for free? Well, sort of">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Fujak, Senior Lecturer in Sport Management, Deakin University Shutterstock Watching sport on television and other screens is integral to the cultural lives of many Australians. This is why, in 1995, the anti-siphoning scheme was introduced to ensure sport “events of national importance and cultural significance” would ... <a title="How much sport will you be able to watch for free under proposed new Australian broadcast rules?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/how-much-sport-will-you-be-able-to-watch-for-free-under-proposed-new-australian-broadcast-rules-226499/" aria-label="Read more about How much sport will you be able to watch for free under proposed new Australian broadcast rules?">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Archana Koirala, Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist, University of Sydney Leszek Glasner/Shutterstock As we look towards the peak season for respiratory viruses, the announcement of new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) immunisation programs for children in a number of Australian states is welcome news. Last month Western Australia ... <a title="From RSV to meningococcal B, we must ensure equitable access to childhood immunisations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/from-rsv-to-meningococcal-b-we-must-ensure-equitable-access-to-childhood-immunisations-226392/" aria-label="Read more about From RSV to meningococcal B, we must ensure equitable access to childhood immunisations">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angela Wanhalla, Professor of History, University of Otago By the 1870s, photography was a ubiquitous presence in the colonial life of Aotearoa New Zealand. For Māori, however, it was also a colonising tool – part of the colonial practices of land alienation, war and propaganda that affected ... <a title="The past in a different light: how Māori embraced – and rejected – the colonial camera lens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/the-past-in-a-different-light-how-maori-embraced-and-rejected-the-colonial-camera-lens-225785/" aria-label="Read more about The past in a different light: how Māori embraced – and rejected – the colonial camera lens">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University Rhett Butler, Author provided One of Brazil’s top scientists, Eneas Salati, once said, “The best thing you could do for the Amazon rainforest is to blow up all the roads.” He wasn’t joking. And he had ... <a title="Roads of destruction: we found vast numbers of illegal ‘ghost roads’ used to crack open pristine rainforest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/roads-of-destruction-we-found-vast-numbers-of-illegal-ghost-roads-used-to-crack-open-pristine-rainforest-227222/" aria-label="Read more about Roads of destruction: we found vast numbers of illegal ‘ghost roads’ used to crack open pristine rainforest">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Sen Gupta, Senior Lecturer, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney Over the last year, our oceans have been hotter than any time ever recorded. Our instrumental record covers the last 150 years. But based on proxy observations, we can say our oceans are ... <a title="The heat is on: what we know about why ocean temperatures keep smashing records" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/the-heat-is-on-what-we-know-about-why-ocean-temperatures-keep-smashing-records-226115/" aria-label="Read more about The heat is on: what we know about why ocean temperatures keep smashing records">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mandy Hughes, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Science Course Co-ordinator, Southern Cross University The pursuit of the dream of classical music is not an equal playing field. My recent study looked at the inequalities rural and regional young classical musicians face, which are unknown to their ... <a title="‘It doesn’t matter where you come from’: regional youth orchestras help fight music education inequality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/it-doesnt-matter-where-you-come-from-regional-youth-orchestras-help-fight-music-education-inequality-223448/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It doesn’t matter where you come from’: regional youth orchestras help fight music education inequality">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Woodfield, HRC Clinical Research Training Fellow, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images New Zealand’s youth mental healthcare continues to experience a rolling crisis with long waiting times for services. There have been calls to expand the mental health workforce and to diversify the range ... <a title="NZ’s mental healthcare is in crisis – but research shows us how to shorten wait times and keep staff" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/nzs-mental-healthcare-is-in-crisis-but-research-shows-us-how-to-shorten-wait-times-and-keep-staff-225775/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s mental healthcare is in crisis – but research shows us how to shorten wait times and keep staff">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Collins, Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle Halfpoint/Shutterstock Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are taking drugs like Ozempic to lose weight. But what do we actually know about them? This month, The Conversation’s experts explore their rise, impact and potential consequences. Obesity ... <a title="No, taking drugs like Ozempic isn’t ‘cheating’ at weight loss or the ‘easy way out’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/no-taking-drugs-like-ozempic-isnt-cheating-at-weight-loss-or-the-easy-way-out-219116/" aria-label="Read more about No, taking drugs like Ozempic isn’t ‘cheating’ at weight loss or the ‘easy way out’">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Waghorn, Lecturer, School of Education, RMIT University Kampus Production/ Pexels, CC BY The winter sports season is about to begin. This means parents will soon find themselves on cold weekends, watching their kids on the sidelines of soccer, netball and footy matches. As they stamp their ... <a title="‘Watch the ball!’: here’s why some sideline remarks are probably less helpful to your kids than you think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/watch-the-ball-heres-why-some-sideline-remarks-are-probably-less-helpful-to-your-kids-than-you-think-227447/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Watch the ball!’: here’s why some sideline remarks are probably less helpful to your kids than you think">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Evidence that support for the Liberal Party is softening in its affluent inner-city homelands continues to accrue, while its hopes of capturing disgruntled voters in Labor seats in the suburbs and regions presume a historic shift in voting ... <a title="Why moving to the right could be wrong for Dutton and the Coalition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/why-moving-to-the-right-could-be-wrong-for-dutton-and-the-coalition-225574/" aria-label="Read more about Why moving to the right could be wrong for Dutton and the Coalition">Read more</a>
