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March 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Park, Judith and David Coffey Chair in Sustainable Agriculture, Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney Shutterstock Some 70% of the World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island has been closed to non-essential visitors in response to a recurrence of the plant disease myrtle rust. Myrtle rust, native to ... <a title="What is myrtle rust and why has this disease closed Lord Howe Island to visitors?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/what-is-myrtle-rust-and-why-has-this-disease-closed-lord-howe-island-to-visitors-202045/" aria-label="Read more about What is myrtle rust and why has this disease closed Lord Howe Island to visitors?">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suranga Seneviratne, Senior Lecturer – Security, University of Sydney Shutterstock Are you tired of receiving SMS scams pretending to be from Australia Post, the tax office, MyGov and banks? You’re not alone. Each year, thousands of Australians fall victim to SMS scams. And losses have surged in ... <a title="Scammers can slip fake texts into legitimate SMS threads. Will a government crackdown stop them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/scammers-can-slip-fake-texts-into-legitimate-sms-threads-will-a-government-crackdown-stop-them-200644/" aria-label="Read more about Scammers can slip fake texts into legitimate SMS threads. Will a government crackdown stop them?">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Misha Ketchell, Editor, The Conversation Thanks in no small part to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), today few people would be foolish enough to dispute the scientific consensus on the climate crisis. But as recently as a decade ago that wasn’t the ... <a title="Introducing Fear and Wonder: The Conversation’s new climate podcast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/introducing-fear-and-wonder-the-conversations-new-climate-podcast-200066/" aria-label="Read more about Introducing Fear and Wonder: The Conversation’s new climate podcast">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eric Windholz, Senior Lecturer and Associate, Monash Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies, Monash University Inadequate, inequitable, and in some cases possibly in breach of workers’ compensation laws. That’s how bad the current insurance arrangements are for Australia’s professional sports people, who get less support for ... <a title="Why sports stars get less support than other injured workers – and how we can fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/why-sports-stars-get-less-support-than-other-injured-workers-and-how-we-can-fix-it-200702/" aria-label="Read more about Why sports stars get less support than other injured workers – and how we can fix it">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Kingsford, Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney Bill Ormonde, Author provided Millions of dead fish float on the surface of the river. Native bony herring and introduced young carp, as well as a few mature Murray cod and golden perch. History is ... <a title="How did millions of fish die gasping in the Darling – after three years of rain?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/how-did-millions-of-fish-die-gasping-in-the-darling-after-three-years-of-rain-202125/" aria-label="Read more about How did millions of fish die gasping in the Darling – after three years of rain?">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter McNeil, Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney Sydney World Pride and Mardi Gras 2023 were a huge success. Sydney was activated in a way rarely seen – block and street parties, cultural festivals and dance parties for all tastes. Now that the ... <a title="‘A place to dance and a place to cry’: Pride (R)evolution is an authentic exhibition for queer communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/a-place-to-dance-and-a-place-to-cry-pride-r-evolution-is-an-authentic-exhibition-for-queer-communities-201659/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A place to dance and a place to cry’: Pride (R)evolution is an authentic exhibition for queer communities">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Pawson, Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Pandemic-generated pressures have left our rental housing market reeling. Australia-wide, vacancy rates are at rock-bottom levels. Rents are soaring at record rates. Queensland has been at the epicentre of the ... <a title="The post-COVID crisis hit Queensland hardest. With 100,000 households needing low-cost housing, here’s how it can recover" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/the-post-covid-crisis-hit-queensland-hardest-with-100-000-households-needing-low-cost-housing-heres-how-it-can-recover-199514/" aria-label="Read more about The post-COVID crisis hit Queensland hardest. With 100,000 households needing low-cost housing, here’s how it can recover">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Dan Himbrechts/Paul Braven/AAP The New South Wales state election will be held on Saturday. I had a preview of both the lower and upper houses last week. ... <a title="NSW Resolve poll has narrow lead for Labor five days before election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/nsw-resolve-poll-has-narrow-lead-for-labor-five-days-before-election-201944/" aria-label="Read more about NSW Resolve poll has narrow lead for Labor five days before election">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lynne Chepulis, Associate Professor Health Sciences, University of Waikato Getty Images The controversial 2021 decision by the government drug-buying agency Pharmac to prioritise Māori and Pacific patients in its funding of two game-changing new diabetes drugs appears to have paid off. At the time, Pharmac wanted to ... <a title="Pharmac prioritised Māori and Pacific patients for access to new diabetes drugs – did they get it right?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/pharmac-prioritised-maori-and-pacific-patients-for-access-to-new-diabetes-drugs-did-they-get-it-right-201759/" aria-label="Read more about Pharmac prioritised Māori and Pacific patients for access to new diabetes drugs – did they get it right?">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2023
Analysis by By Geoffrey Miller. Political Roundup: NZ’s Middle East strategy, 20 years after the Iraq War This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War. While it strongly opposed the US-led invasion, New Zealand’s then Labour-led government led by Prime Minister Helen Clark did deploy military engineers to try to help rebuild Iraq in mid-2003. With violence soaring, ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: NZ’s Middle East strategy, 20 years after the Iraq War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/geoffrey-millers-political-roundup-nzs-middle-east-strategy-20-years-after-the-iraq-war/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: NZ’s Middle East strategy, 20 years after the Iraq War">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leah Ruppanner, Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne pexels/tara winstead, CC BY-SA You’ve probably heard about the “great resignation” which saw large numbers of people resigning from their jobs in the US in 2021 and 2022. We ... <a title="The ‘great resignation’ didn’t happen in Australia, but the ‘great burnout’ did" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/the-great-resignation-didnt-happen-in-australia-but-the-great-burnout-did-201173/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘great resignation’ didn’t happen in Australia, but the ‘great burnout’ did">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Beckett, Senior Lecturer (Food Science and Human Nutrition), School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle Shutterstock You’ve probably heard about the medication Ozempic, used to manage type 2 diabetes and as a weight loss drug. Ozempic (and the similar drug Wegovy) has had more ... <a title="Ozempic helps weight loss by making you feel full. But certain foods can do the same thing – without the side-effects" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/ozempic-helps-weight-loss-by-making-you-feel-full-but-certain-foods-can-do-the-same-thing-without-the-side-effects-201870/" aria-label="Read more about Ozempic helps weight loss by making you feel full. But certain foods can do the same thing – without the side-effects">Read more</a>
