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March 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Clubs, pubs, movie theatres and gyms will be closed and restaurants will only be able to provide takeaways in draconian measures to fight the spread of coronavirus announced by Scott Morrison late Sunday night. But schools will stay open, after ... <a title="View from The Hill: Entertainment venues closed in draconian measures to fight the virus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/23/view-from-the-hill-entertainment-venues-closed-in-draconian-measures-to-fight-the-virus-134360/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Entertainment venues closed in draconian measures to fight the virus">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Kent, Research Fellow, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney The coronavirus pandemic is already affecting Australians’ daily travel, with suspension of public transport services a possibility as the number of COVID-19 cases grows. A common goal underpinning containment strategies in pandemic-like conditions is that the ... <a title="Who’s most affected on public transport in the time of coronavirus?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/23/whos-most-affected-on-public-transport-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-133429/" aria-label="Read more about Who’s most affected on public transport in the time of coronavirus?">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. While the number of cases of Covid-19 remains very small relative to the world’s population, a number of prominent people have been caught up in it. It seems to be very much an international travellers’ disease, with people who travel the most being at highest risk. The highest incidences of Covid‑19 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: A Jetsetter Disease?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-a-jetsetter-disease/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: A Jetsetter Disease?">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
The Government says it is “going hard and going early” to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic. But how true is this? Some public health experts and commentators do not believe the Government is being radical enough, and that the consequences, in terms of life and death, could be huge. Leading the charge for a more ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should the Government be locking the country down now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-should-the-government-be-locking-the-country-down-now/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should the Government be locking the country down now?">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi Guam’s government has confirmed a 68-year-old woman died of Covid-19 early today – the first coronavirus-related death in the Pacific. Dr Mike Cruz, the government official leading the coronavirus response, said the woman was a relative of a person who recently returned to the territory with Covid-19. He said the woman had ... <a title="Guam confirms Pacific’s first Covid-19 death, NZ infections top 66" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/guam-confirms-pacifics-first-covid-19-death-nz-infections-top-66/" aria-label="Read more about Guam confirms Pacific’s first Covid-19 death, NZ infections top 66">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The government says its second stimulus package – the second in ten days – is temporary and targeted, but that’s not really true. What it is is big, automatic, and infinitely increasable. The first package, ... <a title="Scalable without limit: how the government plans to get coronavirus support into our hands quickly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/scalable-without-limit-how-the-government-plans-to-get-coronavirus-support-into-our-hands-quickly-134353/" aria-label="Read more about Scalable without limit: how the government plans to get coronavirus support into our hands quickly">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nik Dawson, PhD candidate, University of Technology Sydney The economic impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus will be enormous. Only blind optimism can deny the dark realities of the moment. Policy responses are escalating by the hour. Markets have plummeted to GFC levels. Food staples are being regulated ... <a title="Coronavirus infecting Australian jobs: vacancy rates down since early February" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/coronavirus-infecting-australian-jobs-vacancy-rates-down-since-early-february-134234/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus infecting Australian jobs: vacancy rates down since early February">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
By Anumita Kaur in Hagåtña Guam medical authorities have announced the first Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic-related death during a press conference today. The person died at 1.30 am at Guam Memorial Hospital, said Dr Mike Cruz. The 68-year-old woman arrived at the hospital with fever, chills and shortness of breath. READ MORE: RNZ coronavirus updates She ... <a title="First coronavirus death on Guam as Pacific Daily News calls for more info" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/first-coronavirus-death-on-guam-as-pacific-daily-news-calls-for-more-info/" aria-label="Read more about First coronavirus death on Guam as Pacific Daily News calls for more info">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Most Australians – Indigenous people under the protection acts were an exception – have long taken for granted their right to cross state borders. They have treated them much as they do ... <a title="How Australia’s response to the Spanish flu of 1919 sounds warnings on dealing with coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/how-australias-response-to-the-spanish-flu-of-1919-sounds-warnings-on-dealing-with-coronavirus-134017/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia’s response to the Spanish flu of 1919 sounds warnings on dealing with coronavirus">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney Movement of people and goods across state borders in Australia is guaranteed by the Constitution. Section 92 of the Constitution says trade, commerce, and intercourse among the States, whether by means of internal carriage or ocean navigation, shall ... <a title="States are shutting their borders to stop coronavirus. Is that actually allowed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/states-are-shutting-their-borders-to-stop-coronavirus-is-that-actually-allowed-134354/" aria-label="Read more about States are shutting their borders to stop coronavirus. Is that actually allowed?">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra NSW and Victoria are shutting down non-essential services and activities over the next 48 hours, and the federal government has announced it will widen eligibility and increase income support as the coronavirus crisis escalates. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the NSW ... <a title="NSW and Victoria announce ‘shutdowns’, as federal government widens and ramps up income support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/nsw-and-victoria-announce-shutdowns-as-federal-government-widens-and-ramps-up-income-support-134355/" aria-label="Read more about NSW and Victoria announce ‘shutdowns’, as federal government widens and ramps up income support">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Small and medium-sized businesses will get up to $100,000 in cash payments in the government’s second stage of emergency assistance, worth a huge $66 billion, to cushion businesses and individuals as the coronavirus cuts a swathe through Australia’s economy. The ... <a title="Government’s new $66 billion package will take coronavirus economic life support to $189 billion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/governments-new-66-billion-package-will-take-coronavirus-economic-life-support-to-189-billion-134331/" aria-label="Read more about Government’s new $66 billion package will take coronavirus economic life support to $189 billion">Read more</a>
