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Jan 16, 2025 | 
zuken.com | Amy Clements
As our technology becomes increasingly complex, machines, appliances, and tools are expanding their capability at the expense of usability. At the same time, labor and expertise are becoming more difficult to find and sustain. To overcome these challenges, smart robotics are being recognized as a powerful solution, as they foster the ability to simplify our lives. Robotic automation applies to much more than automotive manufacturing and vacuum cleaners.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thedlist.co.nz | Lucy Croft |Amy Clements
The scenes describing the aftermath of Moth’s attack were particularly abrupt for me. As Moth recovers in hospital, she writes “Do I look like a monster?”. I felt equally sad and angry for Moth and what she endured – and also shock too. Shock from the cruelty of the attack, and also shock at seeing someone with a different face on screen.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
thedlist.co.nz | Amy Clements |Chris Ford
9) The Savage Coloniser by Tusiata AviaTusiata Avia is a poet and author who won the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Arts in 2024. In Here we are, read us: Women, disability and writing, she says: “Epilepsy is not what I would choose if I was ordering what to have in my life, but it is what I have.” However, writing helps her express that “epilepsy is not shameful”. Her 2020 book The Savage Coloniser explores the histories of violence and she offers many voices that offer hope.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
thedlist.co.nz | Amy Clements |Chris Ford |Eda Tang
This year has been particularly challenging for the disability community, marked by significant changes in funding. But amid these challenges, we’ve also seen moments of joy. Most importantly, we’ve seen the disability community present in lots of spaces - whether at hīkoi, protests or community events - coming together in solidarity and mutual support. Out of every day in the year, today is our day to share disabled joy, to honour our struggles and to stand - or sit - together.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
thedlist.co.nz | Amy Clements |Chris Ford |Eda Tang |William J. Sangster
Read the transcript to this podcast below. Amy: Kia ora, I'm your host Amy and you're listening to ‘Disabled on Dating Apps: To Disclose or Not to Disclose’, a podcast episode brought to you by The D*List. Abdulla: Kia ora everyone, my name's Abdulla, I'm 29, I'm also a youth facilitator in the disability sector, I live in Auckland and I've had pretty interesting experiences with dating apps.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thedlist.co.nz | Eda Tang |William J. Sangster |Amy Clements
This weekend, local disabled writers are speaking at Verb Wellington to explore the topic of villains from literature, theatre, and screen. The disabled villain trope has long been used to portray or explain a character’s evilness or immorality. So we challenged the writers to reframe this narrative and asked them: What makes a cool, disabled villain? Alice ManderI want a badass disabled female villain. She’s sick of misogyny, ableism, and the tyranny of violence against her community.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thedlist.co.nz | Eda Tang |William J. Sangster |Amy Clements
While Three Feet Under is an absurd comedy about two girls burying a body in their backyard, The God of Unborn Children strikes a little closer to home for Fletcher. The play is about the things that may stop people from being able to have children such as infertility and miscarriages, and the alternative narratives around it that don’t speak of it as a taboo.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
perthnow.com.au | Rhiannon Lewin |Amy Clements
A Wollongong woman has shared heartstopping details of how she was rescued from floodwaters by a brave SES crew. Soad Khaled was driving to work during the wild weather that lashed the Illawarra region in April when she made a decision that nearly turned deadly. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Young woman’s split-second decision in floodwaters saved her lifeOne morning in early April, about 6am, Khaled was making her way through Dapto when she came across rising floodwaters.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
7news.com.au | Amy Clements |Sarah Keszler
A Western Sydney tradesman is celebrating earning his first million dollars by going back to the school where it all began. David Chahine, 27, was expelled from eight schools before ending up at The Waratah Centre in Telopea, a school that assists in meeting complex educational needs. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Tradie reveals secret to success after earning first million. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today It was at this school, Chahine said his life began to turn around.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
zuken.com | Amy Clements
The manufacturing industry is undergoing significant changes due to a slew of emerging technologies. Amongst these technologies, digital twins are revolutionizing smart manufacturing by bridging the physical and digital worlds. By creating digital replicas of physical systems, digital twins provide the manufacturing sector with unprecedented abilities like real-time insights, predictive maintenance, and efficiency enhancements.
