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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brett Montgomery, Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Western Australia Shutterstock Last week, without warning, the federal government significantly restricted the subsidy for an important and safe asthma medicine for children. A short document explained to prescribers what had changed, but gave no reasons. The ... <a title="New asthma medicine restrictions will hurt the poorest children the most" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/new-asthma-medicine-restrictions-will-hurt-the-poorest-children-the-most-203424/" aria-label="Read more about New asthma medicine restrictions will hurt the poorest children the most">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meg Elkins, Senior Lecturer with School of Economics, Finance and Marketing and Behavioural Business Lab Member, RMIT University Shutterstock TikTok allows video up to 10 minutes, but says surveys show almost half its users are stressed by anything longer than a minute. An Instagram video can be ... <a title="Why reading books is good for society, wellbeing and your career" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/why-reading-books-is-good-for-society-wellbeing-and-your-career-200447/" aria-label="Read more about Why reading books is good for society, wellbeing and your career">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Poropat, Research associate, Curtin University In May and June of 2018, Australia’s first near-complete skull of a sauropod – a group of long-tailed, long-necked, small-headed dinosaurs – was found on a sheep station northwest of Winton in Queensland. I was part of the dig team from ... <a title="First near-complete sauropod dinosaur skull found in Australia hints at ancient links between continents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/first-near-complete-sauropod-dinosaur-skull-found-in-australia-hints-at-ancient-links-between-continents-203405/" aria-label="Read more about First near-complete sauropod dinosaur skull found in Australia hints at ancient links between continents">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andreas Zametzer, PhD Candidate at Timescales of Mineral Systems Group, Curtin University Shutterstock Meteorite impacts can be cataclysmic events in the history of a planet, melting rock, changing atmospheric chemistry, and wreaking general havoc. However, impacts may also have created Earth’s continents, supported ecological niches that kick-started ... <a title="How the world’s oldest known meteorite impact structure changed the chemistry of Earth’s crust" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/how-the-worlds-oldest-known-meteorite-impact-structure-changed-the-chemistry-of-earths-crust-201228/" aria-label="Read more about How the world’s oldest known meteorite impact structure changed the chemistry of Earth’s crust">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Naeni, PhD candidate at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Atomic Energy Organization of Iran/AP The on-again, off-again talks between Iran and western powers over Tehran’s nuclear program have stalled yet again due to disagreements between the two sides. US Secretary of State ... <a title="With Iran purportedly capable of making a nuclear bomb in a matter of months, what will its leaders do next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/with-iran-purportedly-capable-of-making-a-nuclear-bomb-in-a-matter-of-months-what-will-its-leaders-do-next-202234/" aria-label="Read more about With Iran purportedly capable of making a nuclear bomb in a matter of months, what will its leaders do next?">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University Australia is currently experiencing the longest break between infection peaks since Omicron arrived in late 2021 and community-wide transmission took off. With winter looming, it’s worth taking stock of where we are with COVID and what we might expect over ... <a title="Another COVID winter is coming. Is this the calm before another peak?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/another-covid-winter-is-coming-is-this-the-calm-before-another-peak-203149/" aria-label="Read more about Another COVID winter is coming. Is this the calm before another peak?">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Bennett, Adjunct Professor in Ecology, La Trobe University Shutterstock When faced with uncertainty, we often look for predictions by experts: from election result forecasts, to the likely outcomes of medical treatment. In nature conservation, we turn to expert opinion to assess extinction risk, or predict the ... <a title="We rely on expert predictions to guide conservation. But even experts have biases and blind spots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/we-rely-on-expert-predictions-to-guide-conservation-but-even-experts-have-biases-and-blind-spots-202733/" aria-label="Read more about We rely on expert predictions to guide conservation. But even experts have biases and blind spots">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anita Wreford, Professor Applied Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand Fiona Goodall/Getty Images The recent report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscores the urgency of emissions reductions. For Aotearoa New Zealand, where 50% of emissions come from agriculture in the form of methane and ... <a title="NZ farmers worry about ‘carbon leakage’ if they have to pay for emissions, but they could benefit from playing the long game" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/nz-farmers-worry-about-carbon-leakage-if-they-have-to-pay-for-emissions-but-they-could-benefit-from-playing-the-long-game-202839/" aria-label="Read more about NZ farmers worry about ‘carbon leakage’ if they have to pay for emissions, but they could benefit from playing the long game">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute No one likes spending cuts and tax hikes, but on our estimate the government will soon need more of them if they are going to make a dent in looming A$70 billion a year budget deficits. A new Grattan Institute ... <a title="Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to fill it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/treasurer-chalmers-has-a-70-billion-a-year-budget-hole-weve-found-13-ways-to-fill-it-203331/" aria-label="Read more about Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to fill it">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The decision of Julian Leeser, who has resigned from the opposition frontbench to campaign for a yes vote on the Voice to parliament, is both principled and pragmatic. Principled because only rarely in politics do we see people make a ... <a title="View from The Hill: Julian Leeser shifts his own dial in the Liberal Party" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/view-from-the-hill-julian-leeser-shifts-his-own-dial-in-the-liberal-party-203574/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Julian Leeser shifts his own dial in the Liberal Party">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis Altman, VC Fellow LaTrobe University, La Trobe University Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong joined 50,000 people to march in support of queer rights across the Sydney Harbour Bridge for World Pride in early March. A week earlier, Albanese became the first sitting ... <a title="There’s a growing gap between countries advancing LGBTQ+ rights, and those going backwards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/theres-a-growing-gap-between-countries-advancing-lgbtq-rights-and-those-going-backwards-203329/" aria-label="Read more about There’s a growing gap between countries advancing LGBTQ+ rights, and those going backwards">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne Australia’s health system is under significant pressure. The Labor government has inherited a system with declining bulk-billing rates for GP visits. These fell from almost 90% of ... <a title="What if Medicare was restricted to GPs who bulk billed? This kind of reform is possible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/what-if-medicare-was-restricted-to-gps-who-bulk-billed-this-kind-of-reform-is-possible-203543/" aria-label="Read more about What if Medicare was restricted to GPs who bulk billed? This kind of reform is possible">Read more</a>
