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June 17, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The above chart shows my estimates for the actual infection rates of Covid19 for all countries with an (estimated) infection rate of above four percent of their population. Plus, Australia and New Zealand. The principal method of estimation is to use the testing ‘positivity rate’. If the average positivity rate over the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Estimates of Covid19 Incidence as of mid-June 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-estimates-of-covid19-incidence-as-of-mid-june-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Estimates of Covid19 Incidence as of mid-June 2020">Read more</a>
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June 17, 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 Health and Disability System Review, hospital stocktake Henry Cooke (Stuff): Health system overhaul would be a gigantic fight. Is the Government up for it? Ben Heather (Stuff): Why we should be sceptical about ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 17 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-17-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 17 2020">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Foreign lives matter, especially (but by no means only) when they are our foreigners. As intimated on 15 March 2019, our foreigners include all non New Zealand citizens in New Zealand, at a given point in time (the ‘present’). And our foreigners include all non New Zealand citizens normally resident in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Foreign Lives Matter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/keith-rankin-analysis-foreign-lives-matter/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Foreign Lives Matter">Read more</a>
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June 16, 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 Labour Party list Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern rebrands the post-coronavirus Labour Party with her first real party list Jamie Ensor and Lydia Lewis (Newshub): Dr Ayesha Verrall’s experience could prove ‘helpful’ to ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 16 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-16-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 16 2020">Read more</a>
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June 15, 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 Colonial statues, place names, Black Lives Matter Cherie Howie (Herald): Race relations commissioner Meng Foon calls for dialogue on colonisation-linked statues, place names Jason Walls (Herald): NZ First Leader Winston Peters: Getting rid of ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 15 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-15-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 15 2020">Read more</a>
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June 12, 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 Election, cannabis referendum Jack Vowles (The Conversation): An election like no other: with 100 days to go, can Jacinda Ardern maintain her extraordinary popularity? Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Absent Friends – Labour knows ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 12 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-12-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 12 2020">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Imagery: Metaphors, Symbols, Analogies As a species, people use symbols to facilitate understandings of the complexities of the world. In the last millennium in Europe, the highest subjects of learning were ‘classical studies’ and ‘theology’. It was because almost all of the principal explanatory stories of human life – as the priestly ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Goldmining as our Metaphor for Economic Activity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/11/keith-rankin-analysis-goldmining-as-our-metaphor-for-economic-activity/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Goldmining as our Metaphor for Economic Activity">Read more</a>
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June 11, 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 Police Duncan Garner (Newshub): Why I don’t believe Andrew Coster when he says he wants an unarmed police service Jordan Bond (RNZ): The Detail: Why Armed Response Teams struck the wrong note in ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 11 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-11-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 11 2020">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These charts plot seven-day rolling averages. It means that the most recent death and case incidences of Covid19 is the average of new cases for the seven days ended 9 June 2020. The New Zealand data looks incomplete, but that’s because it is now zero; New Zealand is recovered, not recovering. Contrast ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Cases and Deaths over Time for Recovering and High-Incidence Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-cases-and-deaths-over-time-for-recovering-and-high-incidence-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Cases and Deaths over Time for Recovering and High-Incidence Countries">Read more</a>
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June 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 Police Zane Small (Newshub): Celebration or failed consultation? Police Association still at odds with Greens on armed cops Vita Molyneux (Newshub): Green Party overjoyed at police decision to dump Armed Response Teams RNZ: Petitioner ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 10 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-10-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 10 2020">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. How many current pandemics? The word ‘pandemic’ is not entirely defined on narrow public health criteria. (Likewise, an economic depression has no technical definition.) In an important sense it is a word of history, a word to describe significant health events of the past that had substantial diffusion beyond any particular locality. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – A Plague of Pandemics, including a Pandemic of Plague" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/09/keith-rankin-analysis-a-plague-of-pandemics-including-a-pandemic-of-plague/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – A Plague of Pandemics, including a Pandemic of Plague">Read more</a>
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June 9, 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 Alert Level 1 move, recovery Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Psychologists reveal New Zealand’s political shift during lockdown Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Hooray for level 1. Now what? (paywalled) Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Ardern earns brief dance, but hard ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 9 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/09/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-9-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 9 2020">Read more</a>
