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August 26, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The first chart shows the three largest western countries: United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. The solid line plots represent quarterly average rates of excess death. It is clear that the United Kingdom copped Covid19 very early and very hard. The mid-June peak represents the period from mid-March to mid-June. It is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Excess Deaths in New Zealand and Comparator Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-excess-deaths-in-new-zealand-and-comparator-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Excess Deaths in New Zealand and Comparator Countries">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Vaccine rollout Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Ministry of Health confirms another possible vaccine mistake RNZ: Bloomfield: Ministry of Health always intended ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 26 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/26/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-26-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 26 2021">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2021
A View from Afar: In the first half of this week’s podcast Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan will be joined by Dr David Robie to examine instability in the Pacific’s Polynesian region – specifically to identify what’s going on in: New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa. In the second half, Buchanan and Manning analyse the latest on ... <a title="Live Recording: Pacific Instability + Afghanistan Deadline Looms – Buchanan + Manning + Robie" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/25/livemidday-thursday-pacific-instability-afghanistan-deadline-looms-buchanan-manning-robie/" aria-label="Read more about Live Recording: Pacific Instability + Afghanistan Deadline Looms – Buchanan + Manning + Robie">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Government management of outbreak, expert advice Max Rashbrooke (Guardian): Why we’re happy hobbits in Jacinda’s ‘mysterious socialist hermit kingdom’ ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 25 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/25/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-25-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 25 2021">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2021
Opinion by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana. Over the past two decades, the Asia-Pacific region has made remarkable progress in managing disaster risk. But countries can never let down their guard. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its epicentre now in Asia, and all its tragic consequences, has exposed the frailties of human societies in the face of powerful ... <a title="Op-Ed: Asia Pacific – Resilience in a riskier world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/25/op-ed-asia-pacific-resilience-in-a-riskier-world/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Asia Pacific – Resilience in a riskier world">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Elimination strategy Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Time to eliminate elimination? David Williams (Newsroom): Opening up: Should NZ break with Australia? ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 24 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/24/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-24-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 24 2021">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. Jacinda Ardern’s Government was judged to have handled the first outbreak of Covid in 2020 extremely well. In 2021 there are signs that the Government is being judged differently. Highly competent lockdown decisions and communications with the public are one thing, but questions are being raised about whether the Government has ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Government’s Covid preparedness under scrutiny" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-governments-covid-preparedness-under-scrutiny/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Government’s Covid preparedness under scrutiny">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Government management of outbreak, expert advice Gordon Campbell: On our polarised attitudes to the Covid response Andrea Vance (Stuff): Failings ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 23 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-23-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 23 2021">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2021
EVENING REPORT: On Friday August 20 the Reserve Bank of New Zealand governor Adrian Orr told Bloomberg that a fundamental imbalance in the New Zealand economy is a lack of supply within the residential housing market. But will a supply correction alone resolve New Zealand’s affordable housing crisis? Stephen Minto analyses this question.
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August 20, 2021
Covid-Delta, Science, and the Problem of Known Unknowns – Analysis by Keith Rankin. It’s a known known that the late Donald Rumsfeld’s principal legacy to the world is the following quote: “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – the dangers of Delta, versus the dangers of reduced community immunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/20/keith-rankin-analysis-the-dangers-of-delta-versus-the-dangers-of-reduced-community-immunity/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – the dangers of Delta, versus the dangers of reduced community immunity">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Alert level decision, expert advice Anneka Smith (RNZ): Lockdown extension likely for entire country, experts say Luke Malpass (Stuff): Why ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 20 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/20/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-20-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 20 2021">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2021
Opinion by Najib Hedayat, courtesy of MakeLemonade.nz. EDITOR’S NOTE: Najib Hedayat came to New Zealand as an Afghan teenage refugee, and later graduated with a master’s commerce degree at the University of Canterbury. He completed much of his postgraduate thesis in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), a unit created ... <a title="OP-ED: Reasons for the Afghan government collapse – Najib Hedayat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/20/op-ed-reasons-for-the-afghan-government-collapse-najib-hedayat/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Reasons for the Afghan government collapse – Najib Hedayat">Read more</a>
