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February 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shane Rogers, Lecturer in Psychology, Edith Cowan University “Outrage culture” is pervasive in the digital age. It refers to our collective tendency to react, often with intense negativity, to developments around us. Usually this ire is directed at perceived transgressions. The internet wasted no time in raging ... <a title="Outrage culture is a big, toxic problem. Why do we take part? And how can we stop?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/outrage-culture-is-a-big-toxic-problem-why-do-we-take-part-and-how-can-we-stop-223645/" aria-label="Read more about Outrage culture is a big, toxic problem. Why do we take part? And how can we stop?">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michaela Estelle Okninski, Lecturer of Law, University of Adelaide Daxiao Productions/Shutterstock Voluntary assisted dying is now lawful in every Australian state and will soon begin in the Australian Capital Territory. However, it’s illegal to discuss it via telehealth. That means people who live in rural and remote ... <a title="Voluntary assisted dying is different to suicide. But federal laws conflate them and restrict access to telehealth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/voluntary-assisted-dying-is-different-to-suicide-but-federal-laws-conflate-them-and-restrict-access-to-telehealth-223863/" aria-label="Read more about Voluntary assisted dying is different to suicide. But federal laws conflate them and restrict access to telehealth">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tobias Loetscher, Associate Professor, University of South Australia Unai Huizi Photography/Shutterstock People in palliative care are dealing with serious, non-curable illness. Every day can be filled with severe physical, psychological and emotional pain. Palliative care staff work hard to help make patients as comfortable as possible and ... <a title="We gave palliative care patients VR therapy. More than 50% said it helped reduce pain and depression symptoms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/we-gave-palliative-care-patients-vr-therapy-more-than-50-said-it-helped-reduce-pain-and-depression-symptoms-223186/" aria-label="Read more about We gave palliative care patients VR therapy. More than 50% said it helped reduce pain and depression symptoms">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist Fa’anānā Efeso Collins is being remembered as a pillar of the Pacific community with a “big heart of service”, who loved being a husband and father. The 49-year-old Samoan-Tokelauan leader and Greens MP has been described as someone who embodied the Samoan proverb: “o le ala i le pule ... <a title="Pasifika leaders remember ‘stand-out community leader’ Fa’anānā Efeso Collins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/pasifika-leaders-remember-stand-out-community-leader-faanana-efeso-collins/" aria-label="Read more about Pasifika leaders remember ‘stand-out community leader’ Fa’anānā Efeso Collins">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Poulton, Senior Lecturer, Brain Mind Centre Nepean, University of Sydney Colleen Weisner/Shutterstock Imagine you or your child has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and after several weeks, or even months, you’ve found a dose of medication you’re happy with. The problems you previously experienced with ADHD ... <a title="ADHD drug shortages: what to expect if you take Vyvanse and can’t access your usual dose" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/adhd-drug-shortages-what-to-expect-if-you-take-vyvanse-and-cant-access-your-usual-dose-223430/" aria-label="Read more about ADHD drug shortages: what to expect if you take Vyvanse and can’t access your usual dose">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robin Smit, Adjunct Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney Australian passenger vehicles are emitting 50% more carbon dioxide (CO₂) than the average of the world’s major markets. And the real-world situation is even worse than official figures show. That’s the finding of ... <a title="Australian passenger vehicle emission rates are 50% higher than the rest of the world – and it’s getting worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/australian-passenger-vehicle-emission-rates-are-50-higher-than-the-rest-of-the-world-and-its-getting-worse-222398/" aria-label="Read more about Australian passenger vehicle emission rates are 50% higher than the rest of the world – and it’s getting worse">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Bernard Spragg/Flickr They can recover from fire. Grow back from a bare stump. Shrug aside bark loss that would kill a lesser tree. Endure drought and floods. Eucalypts are not interested in ... <a title="Hard to kill: here’s why eucalypts are survival experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/hard-to-kill-heres-why-eucalypts-are-survival-experts-222743/" aria-label="Read more about Hard to kill: here’s why eucalypts are survival experts">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leonora Risse, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Canberra Shutterstock More of us have been in paid work this past year than ever before. A big part of that is because more of us have been able to work from home than ever before. The proportion of ... <a title="Working from home is producing economic benefits return-to-office rules would quash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/working-from-home-is-producing-economic-benefits-return-to-office-rules-would-quash-223091/" aria-label="Read more about Working from home is producing economic benefits return-to-office rules would quash">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Kelsey, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay will be one of three deputy chairs (alongside ministers from Panama and Cameroon) at the 13th ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Abu Dhabi next week. ... <a title="Privilege or poisoned chalice? As deputy chair at next week’s WTO meeting, NZ confronts an organisation in crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/privilege-or-poisoned-chalice-as-deputy-chair-at-next-weeks-wto-meeting-nz-confronts-an-organisation-in-crisis-223849/" aria-label="Read more about Privilege or poisoned chalice? As deputy chair at next week’s WTO meeting, NZ confronts an organisation in crisis">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Richardson, Visiting Fellow, Centre for European Studies, Australian National University As its two-year anniversary approaches, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been pushed into the background of public attention by the war in Gaza. The intense focus on Gaza has prompted comparisons between the two conflicts ... <a title="Unmarked graves, violent repression and cultural erasure: the devastating human toll of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/unmarked-graves-violent-repression-and-cultural-erasure-the-devastating-human-toll-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-223337/" aria-label="Read more about Unmarked graves, violent repression and cultural erasure: the devastating human toll of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naomi Smith, Lecturer in Sociology, University of the Sunshine Coast With Taylor Swift pulling in over half-a-million audience members on her Australian tour, we’ve been thinking a lot about fans. In this series, our academics dive into fan cultures: how they developed, how they operate, and how ... <a title="The power and pleasure – and occasional backlash – of celebrity conspiracy theories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/the-power-and-pleasure-and-occasional-backlash-of-celebrity-conspiracy-theories-221754/" aria-label="Read more about The power and pleasure – and occasional backlash – of celebrity conspiracy theories">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
RNZ Pacific Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama says the country’s intervention at the International Court of Justice over Israel’s occupation of Palestine betrays Fiji’s legacy as peacekeepers. Paul Reichler, an attorney representing Palestine at the ICJ revealed this week that Fiji and the United States were the only nations to defend Israel’s occupation of ... <a title="Bainimarama slams Fiji’s support for Israeli occupation of Palestine as ‘disturbing’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/bainimarama-slams-fijis-support-for-israeli-occupation-of-palestine-as-disturbing/" aria-label="Read more about Bainimarama slams Fiji’s support for Israeli occupation of Palestine as ‘disturbing’">Read more</a>
