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April 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Farah Houdroge, Mathematical Modeller, Burnet Institute ChameleonsEye/Shutterstock Needle and syringe programs are a proven public health intervention that provide free, sterile injecting equipment to people who use drugs. By reducing needle sharing, these programs help prevent the spread of blood-borne viruses such as hepatitis C and HIV ... <a title="Prison needle programs could save double what they cost – our new modelling shows how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/21/prison-needle-programs-could-save-double-what-they-cost-our-new-modelling-shows-how-254592/" aria-label="Read more about Prison needle programs could save double what they cost – our new modelling shows how">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Lucigerma/Shutterstock Caring for a new puppy can be wonderful, but it can also bring feelings of depression, extreme stress and exhaustion. This is sometimes referred to as “the puppy blues”, and can begin anytime ... <a title="‘Puppy blues’: how to cope with the exhaustion and stress of raising a puppy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/21/puppy-blues-how-to-cope-with-the-exhaustion-and-stress-of-raising-a-puppy-247328/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Puppy blues’: how to cope with the exhaustion and stress of raising a puppy">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Kent, Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Wollongong StoryTime Studio/ Shutterstock Being a university student has long been associated with eating instant noodles, taking advantage of pub meal deals and generally living frugally. But for several years, researchers have been tracking how students are ... <a title="A survey of Australian uni students suggests more than half are worried about food or don’t have enough to eat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/21/a-survey-of-australian-uni-students-suggests-more-than-half-are-worried-about-food-or-dont-have-enough-to-eat-254603/" aria-label="Read more about A survey of Australian uni students suggests more than half are worried about food or don’t have enough to eat">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Harrison, Director, Master of Business Administration Program (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University Justin Sullivan/Getty You may have seen them around town or in the news. Bumper stickers on Teslas broadcasting to anyone who looks: “I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy.” You ... <a title="Low effort, high visibility: what bumper stickers say about our values and identity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/21/low-effort-high-visibility-what-bumper-stickers-say-about-our-values-and-identity-254581/" aria-label="Read more about Low effort, high visibility: what bumper stickers say about our values and identity">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Hooker, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney A new state-of-the-art tube fishway technology called the “Fishheart” has been launched at Menindee Lakes, located on the Baaka-Darling River, New South Wales. The technology – part of the NSW government’s Restoring the Darling-Baaka ... <a title="How a new ‘Fishheart’ project is combining science, community and Indigenous art to restore life in the Baaka-Darling River" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/21/how-a-new-fishheart-project-is-combining-science-community-and-indigenous-art-to-restore-life-in-the-baaka-darling-river-254594/" aria-label="Read more about How a new ‘Fishheart’ project is combining science, community and Indigenous art to restore life in the Baaka-Darling River">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As it seeks to gain some momentum for its campaign, the Coalition on Monday will focus on law and order, announcing $355 million for a National Drug Enforcement and Organised Crime Strike Team to fight the illicit drug trade. A ... <a title="Election Diary: Coalition makes ‘law-and-order’ pitch, with plan to invest proceeds of drug crime into communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/21/election-diary-coalition-makes-law-and-order-pitch-with-plan-to-invest-proceeds-of-drug-crime-into-communities-254588/" aria-label="Read more about Election Diary: Coalition makes ‘law-and-order’ pitch, with plan to invest proceeds of drug crime into communities">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2025
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 With less than two weeks to go now until the federal election, the polls continue to favour the government being returned. Newspoll was steady at 52–48 to ... <a title="Newspoll steady as both leaders’ ratings fall; Labor surging in poll of marginal seats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/21/newspoll-steady-as-both-leaders-ratings-fall-labor-surging-in-poll-of-marginal-seats-254715/" aria-label="Read more about Newspoll steady as both leaders’ ratings fall; Labor surging in poll of marginal seats">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University Darryl Fonseka/Shutterstocl What do you think of when it comes to extra terrestrial life? Most popular sci-fi books and TV shows suggest humanoid beings could live on other planets. But when astronomers are searching for extra-terrestrial life, it ... <a title="Indicators of alien life may have been found – astrophysicist explains what the new research means" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/indicators-of-alien-life-may-have-been-found-astrophysicist-explains-what-the-new-research-means-254843/" aria-label="Read more about Indicators of alien life may have been found – astrophysicist explains what the new research means">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2025
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as “a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women”. That would probably not fly these days — but as ... <a title="Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/mediawatch-jailed-australian-foreign-correspondents-life-spread-across-the-big-screen/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Peaceful protesters in Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest city Auckland held an Easter prayer vigil honouring Palestinian political prisoners and the sacrifice of thousands of innocent lives as relentless Israeli bombing of displaced Gazans in tents killed at least 92 people in two days. Organisers of the rally for the 80th week since ... <a title="Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/palestinian-solidarity-vigil-at-easter-in-nz-as-israeli-bombing-rages-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages in Gaza">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces in April 1975. They are being commemorated very differently; after all, there’s nothing to celebrate in Cambodia. Its capital Phnom Penh was ... <a title="Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/did-australia-back-the-wrong-war-in-the-1960s-now-putins-russia-is-knocking-on-the-door/" aria-label="Read more about Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2025
By Gujari Singh in Washington The Trump administration has issued a new executive order opening up vast swathes of protected ocean to commercial exploitation, including areas within the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. It allows commercial fishing in areas long considered off-limits due to their ecological significance — despite overwhelming scientific consensus that marine ... <a title="Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/trump-executive-orders-roll-back-ocean-fisheries-protections-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific">Read more</a>
