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December 14, 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 Speaker Trevor Mallard’s rape allegations Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Trevor Mallard should never have been appointed as Speaker Barry Soper (Herald): Why House Speaker Trevor Mallard should resign Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): How can Labour preach kindness, yet ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 14 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-14-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 14 2020">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Miranda Kaye, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney As federal parliament heads off on its Christmas break, a cloud of uncertainty hangs over the legal community and the Australians who use the family law system. Amid a busy final sitting week, the Morrison government’s ... <a title="The government still wants a Family Court merger — new research shows why this is not the answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/the-government-still-wants-a-family-court-merger-new-research-shows-why-this-is-not-the-answer-151481/" aria-label="Read more about The government still wants a Family Court merger — new research shows why this is not the answer">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Smerdon, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Unlike the wildly popular Netflix chess-themed series The Queen’s Gambit, female players have struggled to climb to the top of the real-life chess world. Just 37 of the more than 1,600 international chess grandmasters are women. ... <a title="What’s behind the gender imbalance in top-level chess?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/whats-behind-the-gender-imbalance-in-top-level-chess-150637/" aria-label="Read more about What’s behind the gender imbalance in top-level chess?">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Once upon a time, there was a happy land that had no need of heroes. It had its problems, of course, but there were very few whose solution could not be put ... <a title="The king, the fires and the fever: a fairytale finish to 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/the-king-the-fires-and-the-fever-a-fairytale-finish-to-2020-149971/" aria-label="Read more about The king, the fires and the fever: a fairytale finish to 2020">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Roman, Postdoctoral Researcher, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO How do we save whales and other marine animals from plastic in the ocean? Our new review shows reducing plastic pollution can prevent the deaths of beloved marine species. Over 700 marine species, including half of the world’s cetaceans ... <a title="These are the plastic items that most kill whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/these-are-the-plastic-items-that-most-kill-whales-dolphins-turtles-and-seabirds-151200/" aria-label="Read more about These are the plastic items that most kill whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh, Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University Results from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 testing round were released last week. They showed Australia had improved in Year 8 maths and science, and Year 4 science, from the previous testing cycles. The ... <a title="From power battles to education theatre: the history of standardised testing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/from-power-battles-to-education-theatre-the-history-of-standardised-testing-151216/" aria-label="Read more about From power battles to education theatre: the history of standardised testing">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University How could they not have known? That was the question on everyone’s lips after leaders of the Australian defence force claimed not to have known about the atrocities committed by special forces in Afghanistan. It is now being ... <a title="Juukan Gorge: how could they not have known? (And how can we be sure they will in future?)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/juukan-gorge-how-could-they-not-have-known-and-how-can-we-be-sure-they-will-in-future-151580/" aria-label="Read more about Juukan Gorge: how could they not have known? (And how can we be sure they will in future?)">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Turnbull, Senior Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of Wollongong In a new series, writers pay tribute to fictional detectives on the page and on screen. Vera stands on a windswept headland contemplating the disgruntled North Sea. She’s clad in her usual garb; the battered ... <a title="My favourite detective: why Vera is so much more than a hat, mac and attitude" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/my-favourite-detective-why-vera-is-so-much-more-than-a-hat-mac-and-attitude-149530/" aria-label="Read more about My favourite detective: why Vera is so much more than a hat, mac and attitude">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University When Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the formation of five working groups of employers, unions and government officials in June 2020, he signalled an unexpected twist to industrial relations reform. Some observers anticipated ... <a title="Chance for genuine industrial relations reform thrown under the omnibus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/13/chance-for-genuine-industrial-relations-reform-thrown-under-the-omnibus-151754/" aria-label="Read more about Chance for genuine industrial relations reform thrown under the omnibus">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mahmoud Elkhodr, Lecturer in Information and Communication Technologies, CQUniversity Australia New Zealand’s coronavirus contact-tracing app COVID Tracer was revamped yesterday. It now uses the Bluetooth-based Google/Apple exposure notification (GAEN) framework. This allows Android and Apple (iOS) devices to communicate via a contact-tracing mechanism built into the devices’ ... <a title="An Australia–NZ travel bubble needs a unified COVID contact-tracing app. We’re not there." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/an-australia-nz-travel-bubble-needs-a-unified-covid-contact-tracing-app-were-not-there-151761/" aria-label="Read more about An Australia–NZ travel bubble needs a unified COVID contact-tracing app. We’re not there.">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University The federal government’s industrial relations “reform” bill offers a new definition of “casual” employment that creates more problems than it solves. It effectively defines a casual job as anything described that way by ... <a title="The truth about much ‘casual’ work: it’s really about permanent insecurity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/the-truth-about-much-casual-work-its-really-about-permanent-insecurity-151687/" aria-label="Read more about The truth about much ‘casual’ work: it’s really about permanent insecurity">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pep Canadell, Chief research scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Global emissions are expected to decline by about 7% in 2020 (or 2.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide) compared to 2019 — an unprecedented drop due to the ... <a title="Global emissions are down by an unprecedented 7% — but don’t start celebrating just yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/global-emissions-are-down-by-an-unprecedented-7-but-dont-start-celebrating-just-yet-151757/" aria-label="Read more about Global emissions are down by an unprecedented 7% — but don’t start celebrating just yet">Read more</a>
