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November 12, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Opinion polls, Parliament, Government Matthew Hooton: Poll slide a warning to PM Jacinda ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 12 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-12-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 12 2021">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. Right-wing political commentator Matthew Hooton recently tweeted to say that his favourite New Zealand leftwing politicians of recent times have been Laila Harré and Sue Bradford. He explained: “they are highly intelligent, have a clear ideology, went into politics to do things they believed would make a positive difference for their ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Brace yourself for ugly and intolerant politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-brace-yourself-for-ugly-and-intolerant-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Brace yourself for ugly and intolerant politics">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Ireland, Senior Research Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre., CSIRO Shutterstock While the art of conversation in machines is limited, there are improvements with every iteration. As machines are developed to navigate complex conversations, there will be technical and ethical challenges in how they detect ... <a title="We studied suicide notes to learn about the language of despair – and we’re training AI chatbots to do the same" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/we-studied-suicide-notes-to-learn-about-the-language-of-despair-and-were-training-ai-chatbots-to-do-the-same-169828/" aria-label="Read more about We studied suicide notes to learn about the language of despair – and we’re training AI chatbots to do the same">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chloe Yap, MD-PhD candidate, The University of Queensland Shutterstock There has been much speculation that the community of bacteria living in the gut – known as the microbiome – may be different among people on the autism spectrum than the wider population. This has led some researchers ... <a title="Gut bacteria don’t cause autism. Autistic kids’ microbiome differences are due to picky eating" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/gut-bacteria-dont-cause-autism-autistic-kids-microbiome-differences-are-due-to-picky-eating-170366/" aria-label="Read more about Gut bacteria don’t cause autism. Autistic kids’ microbiome differences are due to picky eating">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Flannery, Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne AP At COP26 in Glasgow, the announcements came so fast there was barely time to give each proper scrutiny before the next arrived. I’ve attended many United Nations climate change conferences, but this fortnight felt ... <a title="‘Try harder. Try harder’: Today, COP26 negotiators will fight to save life on Earth. The next decade will reveal if they succeeded" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/try-harder-try-harder-today-cop26-negotiators-will-fight-to-save-life-on-earth-the-next-decade-will-reveal-if-they-succeeded-171661/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Try harder. Try harder’: Today, COP26 negotiators will fight to save life on Earth. The next decade will reveal if they succeeded">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn Eckersley, Professor of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne Ray Noble/AP/AAP As the COP26 climate talks wind up in Glasgow, Australia has again proved itself a climate laggard on the world stage. Prime Minister Scott Morrison might be a marketing ... <a title="‘The Australian way’: how Morrison trashed brand Australia at COP26" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/the-australian-way-how-morrison-trashed-brand-australia-at-cop26-171670/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The Australian way’: how Morrison trashed brand Australia at COP26">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dot Dumuid, Senior Research Fellow, Allied Health & Human Performance, University of South Australia Shutterstock For students, as for all of us, life is a matter of balance, trade-offs and compromise. Studying for hours on end is unlikely to lead to best academic results. And it could ... <a title="How much time should you spend studying? Our ‘Goldilocks Day’ tool helps find the best balance of good grades and well-being" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/how-much-time-should-you-spend-studying-our-goldilocks-day-tool-helps-find-the-best-balance-of-good-grades-and-well-being-171399/" aria-label="Read more about How much time should you spend studying? Our ‘Goldilocks Day’ tool helps find the best balance of good grades and well-being">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW This week the prime minister entered full marketing mode. Scott Morrison’s topic was climate change and his plans to get to net-zero. At the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday, he tried out a few slogans. Among those he ... <a title="Vital Signs: Marketing is getting in the way of markets that could get us to net-zero" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/vital-signs-marketing-is-getting-in-the-way-of-markets-that-could-get-us-to-net-zero-171602/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Marketing is getting in the way of markets that could get us to net-zero">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jarrod Hore, Co-Director & Postdoctoral Fellow, New Earth Histories Research Program, UNSW Anson Brothers Studio, Fern Tree Gully, Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1887. Albumen print. Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Colonial history overflows with commodities. From the early 1800s, wool generated extraordinary wealth for ... <a title="Friday essay: beautiful, available and empty – how landscape photographers reinvented the colonial project in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/friday-essay-beautiful-available-and-empty-how-landscape-photographers-reinvented-the-colonial-project-in-australia-169945/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: beautiful, available and empty – how landscape photographers reinvented the colonial project in Australia">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It seemed remarkable chutzpah that Scott Morrison, back from Glasgow where Australia remains a criticised laggard despite its embrace of a 2050 target, would hit the trail to campaign on climate policy. Alternatively, as some suggest, perhaps the prime minister ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison has a bingle or two on the campaign trail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/grattan-on-friday-scott-morrison-has-a-bingle-or-two-on-the-campaign-trail-171678/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison has a bingle or two on the campaign trail">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bridget Harris, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology Dragana Gordic / Shutterstock Mobile phones and online technologies are frequently used by perpetrators of domestic and family violence to coerce, control and restrict the freedoms of victims and survivors. Recent death reviews have found that stalking by technology ... <a title="Technology-enabled abuse: how ‘safety by design’ can reduce stalking and domestic violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/11/technology-enabled-abuse-how-safety-by-design-can-reduce-stalking-and-domestic-violence-170636/" aria-label="Read more about Technology-enabled abuse: how ‘safety by design’ can reduce stalking and domestic violence">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christina N. Zdenek, Lab Manager/Post-doc at the Venom Evolution Lab, The University of Queensland Palm cockatoo breeding pair at the nesting hollow. Female on left, male on the right. Christina N. Zdenek Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this ... <a title="The ‘Ringo Starr’ of birds is now endangered – here’s how we can still save our drum-playing palm cockatoos" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/11/the-ringo-starr-of-birds-is-now-endangered-heres-how-we-can-still-save-our-drum-playing-palm-cockatoos-169534/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘Ringo Starr’ of birds is now endangered – here’s how we can still save our drum-playing palm cockatoos">Read more</a>
