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December 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Coghlan, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne Kriegman et al./PNAS In 2020, scientists made global headlines by creating “xenobots” – tiny “programmable” living things made of several thousand frog stem ... <a title="Will self-replicating ‘xenobots’ cure diseases, yield new bioweapons, or simply turn the whole world into grey goo?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/will-self-replicating-xenobots-cure-diseases-yield-new-bioweapons-or-simply-turn-the-whole-world-into-grey-goo-173244/" aria-label="Read more about Will self-replicating ‘xenobots’ cure diseases, yield new bioweapons, or simply turn the whole world into grey goo?">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thea van de Mortel, Professor, Nursing and Deputy Head (Learning & Teaching), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University Shutterstock Not many more sleeps until Christmas, and all those long lunches and get-togethers with family and friends. If you’re hosting a gathering and want to avoid a ... <a title="Planning a Christmas get-together? 8 tips to avoid a super-spreader event" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/planning-a-christmas-get-together-8-tips-to-avoid-a-super-spreader-event-172857/" aria-label="Read more about Planning a Christmas get-together? 8 tips to avoid a super-spreader event">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathalie Collins, Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock A Melbourne bookshop worker shoved down an escalator. Another scalded by a cup of hot coffee thrown at them. A trolley thrown at yet another. These are three of the more shocking incidents in what Australian retailers and unions ... <a title="Content from confrontation: how the attention economy helps stoke aggression towards retail workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/content-from-confrontation-how-the-attention-economy-helps-stoke-aggression-towards-retail-workers-173062/" aria-label="Read more about Content from confrontation: how the attention economy helps stoke aggression towards retail workers">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND This article is part of the “Who would win?” series, where wildlife experts dream up hypothetical battles between predators (all in the ... <a title="Ever wondered who would win in a fight between a dingo and a wolf? An expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/ever-wondered-who-would-win-in-a-fight-between-a-dingo-and-a-wolf-an-expert-explains-158312/" aria-label="Read more about Ever wondered who would win in a fight between a dingo and a wolf? An expert explains">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific A late legal bid to postpone Sunday’s independence referendum in New Caledonia has reportedly failed. A leading anti-independence leader and president of New Caledonia’s Southern Province, Sonia Backes, said the highest French administrative court had rejected an urgent submission to defer the third and final independence referendum until next year. The submission was ... <a title="Paris court clears way for Sunday’s New Caledonia referendum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/paris-court-clears-way-for-sundays-new-caledonia-referendum/" aria-label="Read more about Paris court clears way for Sunday’s New Caledonia referendum">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific Malaita province in Solomon Islands is planning to poll people on self-determination. It comes two weeks after a Malaitan-led protest against the national government in Honiara degenerated into a violent riot. The Malaita Premier, Daniel Suidani, said he was seeking the help of the United Nations in the referendum, which he hoped to ... <a title="Malaita plans self-determination poll to see if it’s ‘still in the mind’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/malaita-plans-self-determination-poll-to-see-if-its-still-in-the-mind/" aria-label="Read more about Malaita plans self-determination poll to see if it’s ‘still in the mind’">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific A pro-independence delegation from New Caledonia has left for New York to raise its opposition to the independence referendum due this Sunday with the United Nations. New Caledonia has been on the UN decolonisation list since 1986. Because of the pandemic, the pro-independence parties say they will neither take part in the vote, ... <a title="Pro-independence delegation seeks UN backing over New Caledonia vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/pro-independence-delegation-seeks-un-backing-over-new-caledonia-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-independence delegation seeks UN backing over New Caledonia vote">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
By Bea Cupin in Manila Journalist and publisher Maria Ressa has called on tech and social media giants to practise “enlightened self-interest” amid a global call for platforms to step up in the fight against disinformation. “The world that you’ve created has already shown that we must change it. I continue to appeal for enlightened ... <a title="Nobel laureate Ressa: How the information ecosystem has been poisoned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/nobel-laureate-ressa-how-the-information-ecosystem-has-been-poisoned/" aria-label="Read more about Nobel laureate Ressa: How the information ecosystem has been poisoned">Read more</a>
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December 9, 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 Foreign Affairs and Defence Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Stormy seas ahead in Indo-Pacific – ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 09 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-09-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 09 2021">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ron Levy, Associate professor, Australian National University Much has been written about why Indigenous recognition is important. Such recognition would be a legal change to address the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands and rights, and the widescale damage to Indigenous lives and culture. At the ... <a title="Our research shows public support for a First Nations Voice is not only high, it’s deeply entrenched" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/our-research-shows-public-support-for-a-first-nations-voice-is-not-only-high-its-deeply-entrenched-172851/" aria-label="Read more about Our research shows public support for a First Nations Voice is not only high, it’s deeply entrenched">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Martin, Professor of Medicine and Chair of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle Shutterstock The rise of Omicron, the latest SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern, reminds us how quickly things can change during the pandemic. Only a few weeks ago, we were hearing about a range of potential ... <a title="Can Prozac treat COVID? Perhaps, but a related drug may be better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/can-prozac-treat-covid-perhaps-but-a-related-drug-may-be-better-172608/" aria-label="Read more about Can Prozac treat COVID? Perhaps, but a related drug may be better">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Áine Kelly-Costello, University of Gothenburg Christopher Furlong/Getty Images During last month’s COP26 summit, climate change was a ubiquitous story. News hooks abounded, from unpacking the flurry of non-binding pledges to reporting on the failure of rich nations to honour demands of countries at the frontline, criticising the ... <a title="Why climate change must stay on the news agenda beyond global summits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/why-climate-change-must-stay-on-the-news-agenda-beyond-global-summits-171845/" aria-label="Read more about Why climate change must stay on the news agenda beyond global summits">Read more</a>
