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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Webb, Dean, Graduate Research, University of Canberra Tara June Winch’s The Yield has won the fiction category of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. I wrote an enthusiastic review of this novel earlier in 2020, and my admiration has not abated in the months since it won ... <a title="Prime Minister’s Literary Awards: The Yield and The Lost Arabs throw fragile lines across cultural and linguistic divides" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/prime-ministers-literary-awards-the-yield-and-the-lost-arabs-throw-fragile-lines-across-cultural-and-linguistic-divides-151848/" aria-label="Read more about Prime Minister’s Literary Awards: The Yield and The Lost Arabs throw fragile lines across cultural and linguistic divides">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A Pacific Climate Warrior today told of personal struggles that impact on island people in the region and how this inspires them to take action for climate justice. But Wellington coordinator of the Pacific warriors Mary Moeono-Kolio appealed to politicians and policy leaders to take real action fast – before it ... <a title="Pacific Climate Warriors win global award as struggle gets ‘personal’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/pacific-climate-warriors-win-global-award-as-struggle-gets-personal/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Climate Warriors win global award as struggle gets ‘personal’">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
PNG Prime Minister James Marape … Parliament appears evenly split. Image: PNG govt/RNZ By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape has rejected opposition leader Belden Namah’s call for him to resign. Namah’s call came after the Supreme Court yesterday ordered Parliament to sit next Monday, quashing the government’s recent ... <a title="Pressure builds on PNG’s Marape as Parliament showdown looms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/pressure-builds-on-pngs-marape-as-parliament-showdown-looms/" aria-label="Read more about Pressure builds on PNG’s Marape as Parliament showdown looms">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Walker, Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer the stuff of science fiction. In the form of machine learning tools and decision-making algorithms, it’s all around us. AI determines what news you get served up on the internet. It plays a key role ... <a title="Upheaval at Google signals pushback against biased algorithms and unaccountable AI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/upheaval-at-google-signals-pushback-against-biased-algorithms-and-unaccountable-ai-151768/" aria-label="Read more about Upheaval at Google signals pushback against biased algorithms and unaccountable AI">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kirsty Wilson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine this week became the first major COVID vaccine candidate to have efficacy results from phase 3 trials published in a peer-reviewed journal. The vaccine, AZD1222, is a viral vector vaccine. Researchers took an adenovirus from chimpanzees and ... <a title="The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is the first to publish peer-reviewed efficacy results. Here’s what they tell us — and what they don’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/the-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-is-the-first-to-publish-peer-reviewed-efficacy-results-heres-what-they-tell-us-and-what-they-dont-151755/" aria-label="Read more about The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is the first to publish peer-reviewed efficacy results. Here’s what they tell us — and what they don’t">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt McDonald, Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland Today, the Morrison government released updated projections of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, which indicate Australia is on track to meet 2030 Paris targets without using “carryover” credits earned from the Kyoto Protocol period. Australia’s plan to ... <a title="3 reasons meeting climate targets and dumping Kyoto credits won’t salvage Australia’s international reputation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/3-reasons-meeting-climate-targets-and-dumping-kyoto-credits-wont-salvage-australias-international-reputation-151836/" aria-label="Read more about 3 reasons meeting climate targets and dumping Kyoto credits won’t salvage Australia’s international reputation">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marilyn Campbell, Professor Faculty of Education, School of Cultural and Professional Learning, Queensland University of Technology Last week, South Australia announced a mobile phone ban in primary schools. Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan endorsed the ban, saying: Data shows a correlation between the uptake of mobile phones ... <a title="No, Education Minister, we don’t have enough evidence to support banning mobile phones in schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/no-education-minister-we-dont-have-enough-evidence-to-support-banning-mobile-phones-in-schools-151574/" aria-label="Read more about No, Education Minister, we don’t have enough evidence to support banning mobile phones in schools">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan Carroll, Senior research officer, Australian Institute of Family Studies COVID-19 has brought about big changes in Australia and across the world, with much attention focused on the way governments are responding to the health and economic challenges of the pandemic. Interactions with family and friends have ... <a title="The good, the bad and the lonely: how coronavirus changed Australian family life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/the-good-the-bad-and-the-lonely-how-coronavirus-changed-australian-family-life-151688/" aria-label="Read more about The good, the bad and the lonely: how coronavirus changed Australian family life">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, University of Melbourne Review: Daniel Thomas, recent past: writing Australian art, edited by Hannah Fink and Stephen Miller (Thames & Hudson Australia) In 1958, when ... <a title="‘Wild enchantment’: how Daniel Thomas’s writings conveyed the joy of art to Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/wild-enchantment-how-daniel-thomass-writings-conveyed-the-joy-of-art-to-australians-150737/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Wild enchantment’: how Daniel Thomas’s writings conveyed the joy of art to Australians">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Baka, Senior Lecturer, College of Sport & Exercise Science, Victoria University Surfing, skateboarding, karate and sport climbing will be the new sports included in the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games, with BMX freestyle (think halfpipe snowboarding but on bikes) and 3×3 basketball (teams of three playing on ... <a title="Breakdancing in the Olympics? The Games have a long history of taking chances, from pesapallo (yes, it’s a sport) to kite flying" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/breakdancing-in-the-olympics-the-games-have-a-long-history-of-taking-chances-from-pesapallo-yes-its-a-sport-to-kite-flying-151750/" aria-label="Read more about Breakdancing in the Olympics? The Games have a long history of taking chances, from pesapallo (yes, it’s a sport) to kite flying">Read more</a>
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December 10, 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 Jason Walls (Herald): MPs challenge House Speaker Trevor Mallard over timing of his false rape accusation apology Zane Small (Newshub): Speaker Trevor Mallard comes under fire from National, ACT over ‘rape’ comments Anna ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 10 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-10-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 10 2020">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Zic, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University, CSIRO If you look up in the southern sky you can see the “pointer” stars, pointing towards the Southern Cross. One of these pointers is Alpha Centauri, which is actually a pair of Sun-like stars that are too close ... <a title="Bad space weather may make life impossible near Proxima Centauri" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/bad-space-weather-may-make-life-impossible-near-proxima-centauri-150979/" aria-label="Read more about Bad space weather may make life impossible near Proxima Centauri">Read more</a>
