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August 19, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Plans for spending NZ$5.3 on construction of the Fiji Prime Minister’s new office should be diverted to people affected by the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, civil society groups say. The groups, which form the Civil Society Organisation Alliance for Covid-19 Humanitarian Response, said requests they had received for assistance from families prompted them ... <a title="Fiji government urged to reconsider NZ$5.3 million office for PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/fiji-government-urged-to-reconsider-nz5-3-million-office-for-pm/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji government urged to reconsider NZ$5.3 million office for PM">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
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 Border Michael Morrah (Newshub): Senior quarantine whistleblower says staff were refused regular testing programme despite pleas Derek Cheng (Herald): Horrible sense of déjà vu over Government border blunders (paywalled) Jenna Lynch (Newshub): As officials hunt ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 19 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-19-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 19 2020">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Ireland, Research Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre., CSIRO Many attempts to develop artificial intelligence are powered by powerful systems of mathematical logic. They tend to produce results that make logical sense to a computer program — but the result is not very human. In ... <a title="Aristotle and the chatbot: how ancient rules of logic could make artificial intelligence more human" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/aristotle-and-the-chatbot-how-ancient-rules-of-logic-could-make-artificial-intelligence-more-human-142811/" aria-label="Read more about Aristotle and the chatbot: how ancient rules of logic could make artificial intelligence more human">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato There is no death penalty in New Zealand, unlike the United States. But Christchurch terrorist Brenton Tarrant, due for sentencing next week, will be going to jail for a very long time. A minimum of 17 years is required ... <a title="Jailing the Christchurch terrorist will cost New Zealand millions. A prisoner swap with Australia would solve more than one problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/jailing-the-christchurch-terrorist-will-cost-new-zealand-millions-a-prisoner-swap-with-australia-would-solve-more-than-one-problem-144199/" aria-label="Read more about Jailing the Christchurch terrorist will cost New Zealand millions. A prisoner swap with Australia would solve more than one problem">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Cross, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Fraudsters are ruthless and will use any means necessary to gain financial advantage. Earlier this year, as Australians were battling the devastating bushfires, fraudsters were tailoring their approaches to exploit the ... <a title="Fake COVID-19 testing kits and lockdown puppy scams: how to protect yourself from fraud in a pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/fake-covid-19-testing-kits-and-lockdown-puppy-scams-how-to-protect-yourself-from-fraud-in-a-pandemic-144060/" aria-label="Read more about Fake COVID-19 testing kits and lockdown puppy scams: how to protect yourself from fraud in a pandemic">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Mitchell, Conjoint Clinical Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University Although most hospitals are coping right now, COVID-19 has brought up many questions about how health-care resources should be rationed during a pandemic. Ideally, every unwell person should get anything they ... <a title="In Victoria, whether you get an ICU bed could depend on the hospital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/in-victoria-whether-you-get-an-icu-bed-could-depend-on-the-hospital-144209/" aria-label="Read more about In Victoria, whether you get an ICU bed could depend on the hospital">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brad Ridoutt, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Agriculture, CSIRO Croplands are a valuable, yet scarce natural resource. To guard against serious and potentially irreversible environmental harm, croplands should not extend beyond 15% of the earth’s ice-free surface. Croplands are mainly used for food production. So it’s important to ... <a title="We each get 7 square metres of cropland per day. Too much booze and pizza makes us exceed it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/we-each-get-7-square-metres-of-cropland-per-day-too-much-booze-and-pizza-makes-us-exceed-it-141361/" aria-label="Read more about We each get 7 square metres of cropland per day. Too much booze and pizza makes us exceed it">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ann McGrath, Professor, Australian National University The bushfire royal commission is examining ways Indigenous land and fire management could improve Australia’s resilience to national disasters. On the face of it, this offers an opportunity to embrace Indigenous ways of knowing. But one traditional practice unlikely to be ... <a title="‘All things will outlast us’: how the Indigenous concept of deep time helps us understand environmental destruction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/all-things-will-outlast-us-how-the-indigenous-concept-of-deep-time-helps-us-understand-environmental-destruction-132201/" aria-label="Read more about ‘All things will outlast us’: how the Indigenous concept of deep time helps us understand environmental destruction">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pnina Levine, Lecturer in Law, Curtin Law School, Curtin University Questions about the purpose of universities have been highly topical lately. Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has suggested the purpose of universities is to produce job-ready graduates – preferably in STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) rather than ... <a title="What are universities for? If mainly teaching, can they sack academics for not meeting research targets?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/what-are-universities-for-if-mainly-teaching-can-they-sack-academics-for-not-meeting-research-targets-143091/" aria-label="Read more about What are universities for? If mainly teaching, can they sack academics for not meeting research targets?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Lennox, Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS), Victoria University For most of us the experience of working from home this year has, on balance, been positive – enough that it may well become the norm after the COVID-19 crisis ends. But modelling by Victoria ... <a title="More urban sprawl while jobs cluster: working from home will reshape the nation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/more-urban-sprawl-while-jobs-cluster-working-from-home-will-reshape-the-nation-144409/" aria-label="Read more about More urban sprawl while jobs cluster: working from home will reshape the nation">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University To live through a pandemic, Albert Camus wrote, is to be made to live as an exile. Lovers are parted from lovers, (grand)parents from children, families from their dead. And we are exiled from many things we enjoy: freedom ... <a title="What would Seneca say? Six Stoic tips for surviving lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/what-would-seneca-say-six-stoic-tips-for-surviving-lockdown-144346/" aria-label="Read more about What would Seneca say? Six Stoic tips for surviving lockdown">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The federal government has signed a letter of intent with the United Kingdom-based drug company AstraZeneca to supply a University of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to Australia, and entered a contract with the American company Becton Dickinson for the supply of ... <a title="Morrison government promises all Australians will get free COVID vaccine – if there is one" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/morrison-government-promises-all-australians-will-get-free-covid-vaccine-if-there-is-one-144694/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison government promises all Australians will get free COVID vaccine – if there is one">Read more</a>
