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February 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne Labor yesterday foreshadowed a major Medicare change to address the falling rate of bulk billing, with an A$8.5 billion election announcement. The government said ... <a title="Labor and the Coalition have pledged to raise GP bulk billing. Here’s what the Medicare boost means for patients" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/23/labor-and-the-coalition-have-pledged-to-raise-gp-bulk-billing-heres-what-the-medicare-boost-means-for-patients-250604/" aria-label="Read more about Labor and the Coalition have pledged to raise GP bulk billing. Here’s what the Medicare boost means for patients">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Peter Dutton has launched a game of one-upmanship after Anthony Albanese at the weekend unveiled Labor’s $8.5 billion health policy that promises near universal bulk billing for GP visits by 2030. Dutton wants to neutralise health as an election battleground. ... <a title="View from The Hill: Dutton tries to nautralise health issue by saying, ‘we’ll do just what Labor does’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/23/view-from-the-hill-dutton-tries-to-nautralise-health-issue-by-saying-well-do-just-what-labor-does-250606/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Dutton tries to nautralise health issue by saying, ‘we’ll do just what Labor does’">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone A new narrative is being aggressively pushed by Israel and its apologists to justify resuming the Gaza genocide, conveniently just as an important deadline for ceasefire negotiations draws near. The Israeli “Defence” Force (IDF) is now claiming that the Israeli children Kfir ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Israel pushes new atrocity narrative just as ceasefire deadline approaches" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/23/caitlin-johnstone-israel-pushes-new-atrocity-narrative-just-as-ceasefire-deadline-approaches/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Israel pushes new atrocity narrative just as ceasefire deadline approaches">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2025
PNG Post-Courier Prime Minister James Marape has issued a strong appeal to all young men and boys in Papua New Guinea — stop abusing girls, mothers, and sisters. He made the plea yesterday before flying to Australia, emphasising the importance of respecting women and children in society. Marape urged young men to take their issues ... <a title="Marape’s message to PNG men, boys: ‘Stop the violence against women’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/23/marapes-message-to-png-men-boys-stop-the-violence-against-women/" aria-label="Read more about Marape’s message to PNG men, boys: ‘Stop the violence against women’">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government on Sunday will pledge $8.5 billion for Medicare, declaring this would enable all Australians to have access to bulk billing by 2030. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will announce the policy at a rally in Tasmania, where the ... <a title="Albanese pledge: nine in ten GP visits bulk billed by 2030, in $8.5 billion Medicare injection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/23/albanese-pledge-nine-in-ten-gp-visits-bulk-billed-by-2030-in-8-5-billion-medicare-injection-249948/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese pledge: nine in ten GP visits bulk billed by 2030, in $8.5 billion Medicare injection">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2025
By Gizem Nisa Cebi The BBC has removed its documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone from iPlayer after it was revealed that its teenage narrator is the son of a Hamas official. The broadcaster stated that it was conducting “further due diligence” following mounting scrutiny. The film, which aired on BBC Two last Monday, ... <a title="Critics condemn ‘cowardly’ BBC for pulling Gaza warzone youth survival documentary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/22/critics-condemn-cowardly-bbc-for-pulling-gaza-warzone-youth-survival-documentary/" aria-label="Read more about Critics condemn ‘cowardly’ BBC for pulling Gaza warzone youth survival documentary">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – OPEN LETTER: By Hassan Abo Qamar Dear Mr Trump, I am writing to you as a Palestinian and a survivor of genocide, who was born and raised in Gaza — a city of love and resilience. I have read your statements about Gaza and frankly, I ... <a title="Open letter: No, Mr Trump, we will not be ‘happy’ and ‘safe’ elsewhere" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/22/open-letter-no-mr-trump-we-will-not-be-happy-and-safe-elsewhere/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter: No, Mr Trump, we will not be ‘happy’ and ‘safe’ elsewhere">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2025
Pacific Media Watch One of the leading Middle East’s leading political and media analysts, Marwan Bishara, has accused President Donald Trump of applying a doctrine of ‘strategic coercion” and “economic blackmail” in his approach to the Gaza ceasefire. Bishara, senior political analyst of the Doha-based Al Jazeera global television network, was responding to the news ... <a title="Media analyst criticises Trump for applying ‘strategic coercion, economic blackmail’ policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/22/media-analyst-criticises-trump-for-applying-strategic-coercion-economic-blackmail-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Media analyst criticises Trump for applying ‘strategic coercion, economic blackmail’ policy">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack K. Clegg, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, The University of Queensland A thin crystal is bent elastically when pressed with a metal probe. UQ/QUT We are all familiar with elastic materials – just think of a rubber band which can return to its original shape after being ... <a title="Crystals can’t bend – or can they? New research sheds light on elusive ‘flexible crystals’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/22/crystals-cant-bend-or-can-they-new-research-sheds-light-on-elusive-flexible-crystals-248141/" aria-label="Read more about Crystals can’t bend – or can they? New research sheds light on elusive ‘flexible crystals’">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Changlong Wang, Research fellow in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Monash University D.Alimkin, Shutterstock Hydrogen was once sold as a universal climate fix — a clean, green wonder fuel for cars, homes, power grids and even global export. But reality has cooled that buzz. This week, the South ... <a title="The promise of green iron, steel and ammonia is keeping the green hydrogen dream alive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/21/the-promise-of-green-iron-steel-and-ammonia-is-keeping-the-green-hydrogen-dream-alive-250410/" aria-label="Read more about The promise of green iron, steel and ammonia is keeping the green hydrogen dream alive">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, University of South Australia gpointstudio/Shutterstock Imagine you have just finished a workout. Your legs are like jelly, your lungs are burning and you just want to collapse on the couch. But instead, you pick yourself up and go for a brisk ... <a title="‘Active recovery’ after exercise is supposed to improve performance – but does it really work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/21/active-recovery-after-exercise-is-supposed-to-improve-performance-but-does-it-really-work-250068/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Active recovery’ after exercise is supposed to improve performance – but does it really work?">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mia Schaumberg, Associate Professor in Physiology, School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast You may have noticed that changes in weight are sometimes accompanied by changes in your period. But what does one really have to do with the other? Maintaining a healthy weight is key ... <a title="I lost weight and my period stopped. How are weight and menstruation linked?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/21/i-lost-weight-and-my-period-stopped-how-are-weight-and-menstruation-linked-244401/" aria-label="Read more about I lost weight and my period stopped. How are weight and menstruation linked?">Read more</a>
