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October 9, 2022
Media execs and concerned citizens alike aired their fears about the government’s public media plan — and the commercial clout TVNZ will bring to the new entity — in parliamentary hearings this week. Mediawatch talks to TVNZ’s Simon Power about that, and the culture clash symbolised by this week’s FBoy Island controversy. The Herald on ... <a title="TVNZ’s media marriage at first sight – ending in tears or Heartbreak Island?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/09/tvnzs-media-marriage-at-first-sight-ending-in-tears-or-heartbreak-island/" aria-label="Read more about TVNZ’s media marriage at first sight – ending in tears or Heartbreak Island?">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2022
Analysis by Dr Paul G Buchanan. Systemic Realignment and the Long Transition. – 36th Parallel Assessments The last few decades have seen a world in increasing turmoil. Technological advances, climate deterioration, sharpening domestic and international political conflict and global pandemics are just some of the hallmarks of the contemporary world moment. In this essay I ... <a title="Paul Buchanan Essay – Systemic Realignment and the Long Transition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/09/systemic-realignment-and-the-long-transition/" aria-label="Read more about Paul Buchanan Essay – Systemic Realignment and the Long Transition">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2022
RNZ News Wellington’s Tory Whanau has convincingly won the mayoralty race for Te Whanganui-a-Tara in a triumph for diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand’s local government elections. She said getting the call to say she had won was “pretty wild”. Whanau ran as an independent, but was a Green Party chief of staff and digital director ... <a title="Win for diversity in Wellington, defeat in Auckland as NZ votes local" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/08/win-for-diversity-in-wellington-defeat-in-auckland-as-nz-votes-local/" aria-label="Read more about Win for diversity in Wellington, defeat in Auckland as NZ votes local">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Raymond, Lecturer, Australian National University At least 37 people were killed on Thursday by a lone assailant at a day care centre in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Nongbua Lamphu, local police say. Among the dead are at least 24 children, while the alleged gunman also killed ... <a title="Tragic Thai massacre raises issues of mental health, drug use and gun control ahead of next year’s election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/07/tragic-thai-massacre-raises-issues-of-mental-health-drug-use-and-gun-control-ahead-of-next-years-election-192087/" aria-label="Read more about Tragic Thai massacre raises issues of mental health, drug use and gun control ahead of next year’s election">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Javier Leon, Senior lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast Australians along the east cost are bracing for yet another round of heavy rainfall this weekend, after a band of stormy weather soaked most of the continent this week. The Bureau of Meteorology has alerted southern inland Queensland, ... <a title="The wild weather of La Niña could wipe out vast stretches of Australia’s beaches and sand dunes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/07/the-wild-weather-of-la-nina-could-wipe-out-vast-stretches-of-australias-beaches-and-sand-dunes-191941/" aria-label="Read more about The wild weather of La Niña could wipe out vast stretches of Australia’s beaches and sand dunes">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Mude, Public Health Lecturer, CQUniversity Australia Around 60 Australian women and children are reported to be living in Syrian detention camps, most of them children under six years of age. This week, the federal government announced plans to rescue these Australians – family members of slain ... <a title="For the traumatised Australian children escaping Syrian detention camps, help here will be life-changing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/07/for-the-traumatised-australian-children-escaping-syrian-detention-camps-help-here-will-be-life-changing-191856/" aria-label="Read more about For the traumatised Australian children escaping Syrian detention camps, help here will be life-changing">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Sciberras, Associate Professor, Deakin University SHVETS production/Pexels, CC BY-SA ADHD coaching has been in the news this week, with the release of new guidelines for diagnosing and managing attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. The evidence-based clinical guidelines recommend ADHD coaching could be considered for adolescents and adults as ... <a title="What is ADHD coaching and do I really need it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/07/what-is-adhd-coaching-and-do-i-really-need-it-191948/" aria-label="Read more about What is ADHD coaching and do I really need it?">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Pomeroy, Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Canterbury Getty Images Aotearoa New Zealand’s high school teachers’ union recently approved a policy to end streaming – also known as “ability grouping” – in New Zealand high schools by 2030. The primary teachers’ union NZEI Te Riu ... <a title="NZ’s key teacher unions now reject classroom streaming. So what’s wrong with grouping kids by perceived ability?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/07/nzs-key-teacher-unions-now-reject-classroom-streaming-so-whats-wrong-with-grouping-kids-by-perceived-ability-192007/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s key teacher unions now reject classroom streaming. So what’s wrong with grouping kids by perceived ability?">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2022
By Jonty Dine, RNZ News reporter The race for the Auckland mayoralty ends this weekend in the Aotearoa New Zealand local elections and polls indicate that either Pacific contender Fa’anānā Efeso Collins or Wayne Brown will claim the chains. RNZ News spoke to some prominent Aucklanders about who they believe should get the city’s top ... <a title="NZ local elections: A Pacific mayor possible for biggest city Auckland?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/07/nz-local-elections-a-pacific-mayor-possible-for-biggest-city-auckland/" aria-label="Read more about NZ local elections: A Pacific mayor possible for biggest city Auckland?">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Evans, Lecturer, The University of Queensland Daniels Joffe / Unsplash The Nobel Prize in physics this year has been awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. Read more: Nobel prize: physicists share prize for insights into ... <a title="How philosophy turned into physics – and reality turned into information" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/07/how-philosophy-turned-into-physics-and-reality-turned-into-information-191940/" aria-label="Read more about How philosophy turned into physics – and reality turned into information">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Freyja Watters, PhD candidate, University of Adelaide Este Kotze/AP Global demand for exotic pets is increasing, a trend partly caused by social media and a shift from physical pet stores to online marketplaces. The United States is one of the biggest markets for the wildlife trade. And ... <a title="‘Astonishing’: global demand for exotic pets is driving a massive trade in unprotected wildlife" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/07/astonishing-global-demand-for-exotic-pets-is-driving-a-massive-trade-in-unprotected-wildlife-188971/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Astonishing’: global demand for exotic pets is driving a massive trade in unprotected wildlife">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darshana Sedera, Associate Dean (Research), Southern Cross University kkssr/Shutterstock As data storage has become more accessible than ever, the amount of digital “stuff” we all have stashed away is on the rise, too – for many of us, it’s becoming more unwieldy by the day. In a ... <a title="With seemingly endless data storage at our fingertips, ‘digital hoarding’ could be an increasing problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/07/with-seemingly-endless-data-storage-at-our-fingertips-digital-hoarding-could-be-an-increasing-problem-190356/" aria-label="Read more about With seemingly endless data storage at our fingertips, ‘digital hoarding’ could be an increasing problem">Read more</a>
