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September 22, 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 Election Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Ardern v Collins: What to expect from the first leader debate of election 2020 José Barbosa (Spinoff): How to win an election debate: A simple 20-step guide 1News: Jacinda Ardern, ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 22 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/22/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-22-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 22 2020">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Wynn, Lead Economist, CSIRO Futures, CSIRO Over the next few years, science and technology will have a vital role in supporting Australia’s economy as it strives to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. At Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, we’ve identified opportunities that can help businesses drive ... <a title="Healthcare, minerals, energy, food: how adopting new tech could drive Australia’s economic recovery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/22/healthcare-minerals-energy-food-how-adopting-new-tech-could-drive-australias-economic-recovery-146410/" aria-label="Read more about Healthcare, minerals, energy, food: how adopting new tech could drive Australia’s economic recovery">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yun Jiang, Senior Research Officer, Australian National University Last month, the University of New South Wales came under harsh criticism after its media team deleted an article and tweet in which Elaine Pearson, the Australia director of Human Rights Watch, expressed concern over China’s curtailment of human ... <a title="Pro-China nationalists are using intimidation to silence critics. Can they be countered without stifling free speech?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/22/pro-china-nationalists-are-using-intimidation-to-silence-critics-can-they-be-countered-without-stifling-free-speech-145241/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-China nationalists are using intimidation to silence critics. Can they be countered without stifling free speech?">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theodore E. (Ted) Zorn, Professor of Organisational Communication and Head of Massey Executive Development, Massey University When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was named the “world’s most eloquent leader” last month it raised the question of just how important eloquence is within a politician’s arsenal. With ... <a title="Ardern versus Collins: ahead of their first TV debate, how much will charisma and eloquence matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/22/ardern-versus-collins-ahead-of-their-first-tv-debate-how-much-will-charisma-and-eloquence-matter-145840/" aria-label="Read more about Ardern versus Collins: ahead of their first TV debate, how much will charisma and eloquence matter?">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Collins, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle Coffee is regularly in the news for its potential health benefits and drawbacks. A review of the research found drinking a few cups of coffee a day was associated with a lower risk of dying from any ... <a title="Phytonutrients can boost your health. Here are 4 and where to find them (including in your next cup of coffee)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/22/phytonutrients-can-boost-your-health-here-are-4-and-where-to-find-them-including-in-your-next-cup-of-coffee-132100/" aria-label="Read more about Phytonutrients can boost your health. Here are 4 and where to find them (including in your next cup of coffee)">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bryan Fry, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland Funnel webs are considered one of Australia’s most fearsome spiders, but their ability to kill humans is by accident rather than design, our new research shows. In findings published today, we reveal how the highly ... <a title="‘I didn’t mean to hurt you’: new research shows funnel webs don’t set out to kill humans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/22/i-didnt-mean-to-hurt-you-new-research-shows-funnel-webs-dont-set-out-to-kill-humans-146406/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I didn’t mean to hurt you’: new research shows funnel webs don’t set out to kill humans">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracey Muir, Associate Professor in Mathematics Education, University of Tasmania Parents and carers were responsible for overseeing their children’s learning during the first wave of COVID restrictions in Australia. Many parents in Melbourne and some in regional Victoria will still be doing for some of term four. ... <a title="‘The workload was intense’: what parents told us about remote learning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/22/the-workload-was-intense-what-parents-told-us-about-remote-learning-146297/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The workload was intense’: what parents told us about remote learning">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marilyn Lake, Professorial Fellow in History, University of Melbourne Review: Vida: A Woman for Our Time, published by Penguin (Viking imprint) Australian women were not the first to win the right to vote in national elections. That world-historic distinction belongs to New Zealanders. But they were the ... <a title="Review: new biography shows Vida Goldstein’s political campaigns were courageous, her losses prophetic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/22/review-new-biography-shows-vida-goldsteins-political-campaigns-were-courageous-her-losses-prophetic-145691/" aria-label="Read more about Review: new biography shows Vida Goldstein’s political campaigns were courageous, her losses prophetic">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government will tell its refocused clean energy agencies and the clean energy regulator to give priority to investment in five low emissions technologies and report how they are accelerating them. The technologies are clean hydrogen, energy storage, low ... <a title="Morrison government lays down five technologies for its clean energy investment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/22/morrison-government-lays-down-five-technologies-for-its-clean-energy-investment-146584/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison government lays down five technologies for its clean energy investment">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Maguire, Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle The Jerusalem District Court has ruled Malka Leifer should be extradited to Australia. The former Melbourne headmistress faces 74 charges of child sexual abuse against three alleged victims. How is this ruling significant? Leifer’s ... <a title="Israeli court rules Malka Leifer should be extradited to Australia, but obstacles remain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/21/israeli-court-rules-malka-leifer-should-be-extradited-to-australia-but-obstacles-remain-146549/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli court rules Malka Leifer should be extradited to Australia, but obstacles remain">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex James, Associate professor, University of Canterbury New Zealand’s government today announced that after seven days of no new community cases linked to the Auckland cluster, most of the country will return to almost normal life, at alert level 1, from midnight. But restrictions in Auckland will ... <a title="New Zealand relaxes COVID-19 restrictions, except for Auckland. How much longer will the city have to wait?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/21/new-zealand-relaxes-covid-19-restrictions-except-for-auckland-how-much-longer-will-the-city-have-to-wait-146111/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand relaxes COVID-19 restrictions, except for Auckland. How much longer will the city have to wait?">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracey Varker, Senior research fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne Can psychoactive drugs be used to treat mental health problems? The idea has been around for years, and recently received some attention in the media. Interest in the potential of drugs such as MDMA (scientific name ... <a title="PTSD and psychoactive drugs: MDMA treatment shows potential, but others lack evidence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/21/ptsd-and-psychoactive-drugs-mdma-treatment-shows-potential-but-others-lack-evidence-146092/" aria-label="Read more about PTSD and psychoactive drugs: MDMA treatment shows potential, but others lack evidence">Read more</a>
