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If the controversial Netflix documentary Seaspiracy is to be believed, we should all give up eating fish now. He s interviewed scientists, activists and conservationists to reach a conclusion that our oceans are in huge trouble, and the commercial fishing industry is largely to blame. Today,
The Detail looks at the state of New Zealand fisheries with NIWA s chief scientist for fisheries Dr Richard O Driscoll, and does some fact checking on the
Seaspiracy claims. “They drew a conclusion which was simple and wrong,” says O Driscoll.
Seaspiracy has raised global awareness of the state of the oceans, but it is unfortunate, he says, that it took a tabloid programme – he refuses to call it a documentary – that oversimplifies the issues, and where people make extreme claims, to get the conversation started.
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The Stella Prize 2021 shortlist spotlights the best books by Australian women and non-binary writers
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The Stella Prize prize emerged from discussions around gender disparity in the Australian literary landscape.
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The shortlist for the 2021 Stella Prize brings together key strands of angst and anxiety from the past 12 months pandemics, sexual violence and misogyny, race, the environment.
Two of the books deal with the scourge of sexual violence against women in very different ways: Louise Milligan s Witness is a journalistic survey of sexual assault trials, while Evie Wyld s novel The Bass Rock imagines the lives of women in different eras who are each affected by sexual violence.