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March 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Ho, Associate Professor and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University Shutterstock We all get hiccups from time to time, and sometimes they just won’t seem to go away. Hiccups are involuntary contractions of the diaphragm – the muscle separating your chest from your abdomen, which plays ... <a title="What causes hiccups and how can you get rid of them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/what-causes-hiccups-and-how-can-you-get-rid-of-them-196557/" aria-label="Read more about What causes hiccups and how can you get rid of them?">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Shutterstock A new report card on Australia’s environment reveals 2022 was a bumper year for our rivers and vegetation – but it wasn’t enough to reverse the long-term decline in ... <a title="2022 was a good year for nature in Australia – but three nasty problems remain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/2022-was-a-good-year-for-nature-in-australia-but-three-nasty-problems-remain-201778/" aria-label="Read more about 2022 was a good year for nature in Australia – but three nasty problems remain">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darcy Watchorn, PhD Candidate, Deakin University Discoveries of albino animals have a unique ability to capture the public imagination, often leading to flurries of social media and news coverage. (Think Migaloo, the famous white humpback whale.) It’s easy to see why albino animals are so fascinating. Their ... <a title="Ghost rodents: get ready to fall in love with Australia’s albino rats and mice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/ghost-rodents-get-ready-to-fall-in-love-with-australias-albino-rats-and-mice-201458/" aria-label="Read more about Ghost rodents: get ready to fall in love with Australia’s albino rats and mice">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brian Moore, Lecturer, Educational Psychology & Child Development, School of Education, Charles Sturt University Shutterstock Schools are an obvious place to do mental health work with young people. This is important, as about one in seven young Australians are diagnosed with a mental illness. This includes issues ... <a title="Students’ mental health is a big issue for schools – but teachers should only be part of the solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/students-mental-health-is-a-big-issue-for-schools-but-teachers-should-only-be-part-of-the-solution-200993/" aria-label="Read more about Students’ mental health is a big issue for schools – but teachers should only be part of the solution">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Dumay, Professor – Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, Macquarie University Pxfuel What distinguishes a company that makes “good” chocolate (chocolate untainted by child labour, modern slavery, deforestation and the overuse of agrichemicals) from one that merely makes chocolate? Our annual Chocolate Scorecard investigation, which is ... <a title="At chocolate time, we’ve discovered what the brands that score best on child labour and the environment and have in common" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/at-chocolate-time-weve-discovered-what-the-brands-that-score-best-on-child-labour-and-the-environment-and-have-in-common-201682/" aria-label="Read more about At chocolate time, we’ve discovered what the brands that score best on child labour and the environment and have in common">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle de Souza, Lecturer in Law, University of New England Binge British comedy Romantic Getaway recently dropped on streaming service Binge. The show stars Katherine Ryan and Romesh Ranganathan as Alison and Deacon, a couple desperate for a child. Alison and Deacon have been unable to conceive ... <a title="IVF heist: Romantic Getaway on Binge explores the desperation couples can feel during the costly IVF journey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/ivf-heist-romantic-getaway-on-binge-explores-the-desperation-couples-can-feel-during-the-costly-ivf-journey-201172/" aria-label="Read more about IVF heist: Romantic Getaway on Binge explores the desperation couples can feel during the costly IVF journey">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2023
A joint force of Indonesian military and police are claiming to have shot dead a member of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) in Central Papua Province on Wednesday last week. Jubi TV Papua reports the joint force was conducting aerial surveillance after a motorcycle taxi driver had been shot dead by someone who ... <a title="West Papua Liberation Army fighter shot dead, claims Indonesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/west-papua-liberation-army-fighter-shot-dead-claims-indonesia/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua Liberation Army fighter shot dead, claims Indonesia">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2023
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist The Fiji government is signalling that it will not completely tear down the country’s controversial media law which, according to local newsrooms and journalism commentators, has stunted press freedom and development for more than a decade. Ahead of the 2022 general elections last December, ... <a title="Repeal ‘draconian’ MIDA Act, urge Fiji media and journalism stakeholders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/repeal-draconian-mida-act-urge-fiji-media-and-journalism-stakeholders/" aria-label="Read more about Repeal ‘draconian’ MIDA Act, urge Fiji media and journalism stakeholders">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2023
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby The production and trafficking of methamphetamine (meth), cocaine and now heroin is on the rise with Pacific countries now becoming what many are calling the “Pacific drug highway”. And Papua New Guinea has over three years seen a plane crash, a hotel laboratory, a shipment in postal services, arrival ... <a title="PNG a key transit point for ‘Pacific drug highway’ to Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/png-a-key-transit-point-for-pacific-drug-highway-to-australia/" aria-label="Read more about PNG a key transit point for ‘Pacific drug highway’ to Australia">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Labor and the Greens have reached a compromise on the safeguard mechanism after months of tense negotiations, giving the government the numbers it needs to pass the bill into law. Greens leader Adam Bandt on Monday announced his party ... <a title="Greens will back Labor’s safeguard mechanism without a ban on new coal and gas. That’s a good outcome" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/greens-will-back-labors-safeguard-mechanism-without-a-ban-on-new-coal-and-gas-thats-a-good-outcome-202444/" aria-label="Read more about Greens will back Labor’s safeguard mechanism without a ban on new coal and gas. That’s a good outcome">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Headline: The return to Big Wars. – 36th Parallel Assessments After the Cold War the consensus among Western military strategists was that the era of Big Wars, defined as peer conflict between large states with full spectrum military technologies, was at an end, at least for the foreseeable future. The strategic emphasis shifted to so-called ... <a title="The return to Big Wars." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/the-return-to-big-wars/" aria-label="Read more about The return to Big Wars.">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert G. Patman, Professor of International Relations, University of Otago Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Getty Images Russia’s invasion of Ukraine appears to be a defining moment in the evolution of the post-Cold War world. In particular, it is highlighting problems that do not respect borders, such as ... <a title="The environmental impact of Russia’s invasion goes beyond Ukraine – how do we deal with ‘problems without passports’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/the-environmental-impact-of-russias-invasion-goes-beyond-ukraine-how-do-we-deal-with-problems-without-passports-202505/" aria-label="Read more about The environmental impact of Russia’s invasion goes beyond Ukraine – how do we deal with ‘problems without passports’?">Read more</a>
