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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Conway, Senior Lecturer – Games and Interactivity, Swinburne University of Technology Two of the biggest tech companies in the world, Apple and Google, are launching cloud-based gaming services this year. Apple Arcade, due for release in two days, will ultimately go head-to-head with Google’s Stadia when ... <a title="Apple Arcade and Google Stadia aim to offer frictionless game streaming, if your NBN plan can handle it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/apple-arcade-and-google-stadia-aim-to-offer-frictionless-game-streaming-if-your-nbn-plan-can-handle-it-123359/" aria-label="Read more about Apple Arcade and Google Stadia aim to offer frictionless game streaming, if your NBN plan can handle it">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andy Marks, Assistant Vice-Chancellor, Strategy and Policy, Western Sydney University “How good is Gladys Berejiklian?” Prime Minister Scott Morrison asked a jubilant crowd of Liberal supporters on the evening of her March 23 2019 state election win. Only as good as her most recent legislative adventure, it ... <a title="NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian avoids a spill but remains in troubled waters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/nsw-premier-gladys-berejiklian-avoids-a-spill-but-remains-in-troubled-waters-123676/" aria-label="Read more about NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian avoids a spill but remains in troubled waters">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Charlson, Conjoint NHMRC Early Career Fellow, The University of Queensland This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. The Australian Medical Association (AMA) recently declared climate change a health emergency, ... <a title="The rise of ‘eco-anxiety’: climate change affects our mental health, too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/the-rise-of-eco-anxiety-climate-change-affects-our-mental-health-too-123002/" aria-label="Read more about The rise of ‘eco-anxiety’: climate change affects our mental health, too">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. Labour Party sexual assault allegations Richard Harman (Politik): Goodbye Labour – Hello Brand Jacinda Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Once bitten twice shy? Not the case for Labour Chris Trotter: Behind ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 17 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-17-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 17 2019">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has said she “regrets and strongly condemns” the Solomon Islands’ decision to establish diplomatic relations with China. The Solomons cabinet made the decision yesterday after which Taiwan terminated its 36-year relationship with the Pacific country. Tsai said China’s promises of financial assistance often come up “empty” and that ... <a title="Taiwan ‘regrets and condemns’ Solomons China switch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/taiwan-regrets-and-condemns-solomons-china-switch/" aria-label="Read more about Taiwan ‘regrets and condemns’ Solomons China switch">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Wilkes, Senior Research Geophysicist, CSIRO At some point in recent weeks, a once-in-a-lifetime event happened for people at Greenwich in the United Kingdom. Magnetic compasses at the historic London area, known as the home of the Prime Meridian, were said to have pointed directly at the ... <a title="Explainer: what happens when magnetic north and true north align?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/explainer-what-happens-when-magnetic-north-and-true-north-align-123265/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what happens when magnetic north and true north align?">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University Australia’s attempts to secure the release of an Australian national and two with joint UK-Australian citizenship from an Iranian prison have become vastly more complicated following the brazen attacks on Saudi oil facilities over the weekend. Room ... <a title="As pressure on Iran mounts, there is little room for quiet diplomacy to free detained Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/as-pressure-on-iran-mounts-there-is-little-room-for-quiet-diplomacy-to-free-detained-australians-123599/" aria-label="Read more about As pressure on Iran mounts, there is little room for quiet diplomacy to free detained Australians">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison McEwen, Head of Discipline of Genetic Counselling, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. Why are some twins identical and some not? – Chloe, age 12, Australia We have spent ... <a title="Curious Kids: why are some twins identical and some not?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/curious-kids-why-are-some-twins-identical-and-some-not-121435/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why are some twins identical and some not?">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Flannery, Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne In this age of rapidly melting glaciers, terrifying megafires and ever more puissant hurricanes, of acidifying and rising oceans, it is hard to believe that any further prod to climate action is needed. But the reality ... <a title="The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/the-gloves-are-off-predatory-climate-deniers-are-a-threat-to-our-children-123594/" aria-label="Read more about The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marc Hudson, Researcher, University of Manchester Paddy Manning’s excellent account of the Australian Greens will not be the last word on Australia’s most successful third party, but will doubtless remain important and influential for many years to come. Manning’s exhaustive (but never exhausting) Inside the Greens pulls ... <a title="Greens’ challenge aptly described by Paddy Manning, but with no solutions in sight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/greens-challenge-aptly-described-by-paddy-manning-but-with-no-solutions-in-sight-122050/" aria-label="Read more about Greens’ challenge aptly described by Paddy Manning, but with no solutions in sight">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Abby Mellick Lopes, Senior Lecturer in Design, Western Sydney University This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. A recent report by the Greater Sydney Commission singles out urban heat as ... <a title="Keeping the city cool isn’t just about tree cover – it calls for a commons-based climate response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/keeping-the-city-cool-isnt-just-about-tree-cover-it-calls-for-a-commons-based-climate-response-120491/" aria-label="Read more about Keeping the city cool isn’t just about tree cover – it calls for a commons-based climate response">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eve Vincent, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University “This is a bit controversial, we know that,” deputy prime minister Michael McCormick told the National Party’s federal council, which on the weekend voted for a national roll-out of cashless debit cards for anyone younger than 35 on the dole or ... <a title="‘An insult’ – politicians sing the praises of the cashless welfare card, but those forced to use it disagree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/an-insult-politicians-sing-the-praises-of-the-cashless-welfare-card-but-those-forced-to-use-it-disagree-123352/" aria-label="Read more about ‘An insult’ – politicians sing the praises of the cashless welfare card, but those forced to use it disagree">Read more</a>
