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May 13, 2020
COMMENT: By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Was New Zealand media giants NZME trying to pull a “fast one” when the company sought urgent approval to help to buy out rival media company Stuff for $1. The New Zealand Herald owners filed an urgent Commerce Commission application at on Monday for the ... <a title="Media monopoly: Was NZME trying to pull a ‘fast one’ over Stuff?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/media-monopoly-was-nzme-trying-to-pull-a-fast-one-over-stuff/" aria-label="Read more about Media monopoly: Was NZME trying to pull a ‘fast one’ over Stuff?">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Income in an Economy The chart above shows how income is distributed in an economy. It shows three major sectors: Government, Business and Households. Households are the principal sector; governments and businesses serve households, and are accountable to households. The chart is a pie chart, representing the economic pie. (For now, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – National Income: the Pie Chart" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-national-income-the-pie-chart/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – National Income: the Pie Chart">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Bisley, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, La Trobe University Even before the COVID-19 crisis upended the world, US-China relations had entered a particularly mistrustful and combative period. While the mutual antagonism predated the Trump administration – ... <a title="US-China relations were already heated. Then coronavirus threw fuel on the flames" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/us-china-relations-were-already-heated-then-coronavirus-threw-fuel-on-the-flames-137886/" aria-label="Read more about US-China relations were already heated. Then coronavirus threw fuel on the flames">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today a staggered move for New Zealand into alert level 2 starting on Thursday, with schools and bars reopening later and groups limited to 10 people. She said retail, malls, cafes, restaurants, cinemas and other public spaces including playgrounds and gyms would be able to reopen on ... <a title="Ardern unveils staggered NZ move to alert level 2 – but warns ‘take care’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/ardern-unveils-staggered-nz-move-to-alert-level-2-but-warns-take-care/" aria-label="Read more about Ardern unveils staggered NZ move to alert level 2 – but warns ‘take care’">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Today’s chart shows (in grey) the estimated impact of Covid-19 on mortality rates in the selected countries. For most of these countries, the ‘excess death’ procedure provides an estimate of underreporting in underreporting countries compared to those with the most comprehensive reporting. Some of these extra deaths may have occurred as ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Estimating the true death tolls from Covid19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-estimating-the-true-death-tolls-from-covid19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Estimating the true death tolls from Covid19">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rosemary Jean Kennedy, Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Queensland University of Technology Retirement villages – walled, gated and separate seniors’ enclaves – have had their day. The word “retirement” is redundant and engagement between people of all ages is high. That’s how participants in ... <a title="Retire the retirement village – the wall and what’s behind it is so 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/11/retire-the-retirement-village-the-wall-and-whats-behind-it-is-so-2020-135953/" aria-label="Read more about Retire the retirement village – the wall and what’s behind it is so 2020">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This chart shows four recovering countries, including two of the first major outbreaks after China (South Korea and Italy), and the putative Australasian bubble. The chart shows daily average new cases, using seven-day rolling averages. Thus Italy is approaching 2000 new cases a day per 100 million people. Because Italy has ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Long Tail and Long Head" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-covid19-long-tail-and-long-head/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Long Tail and Long Head">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology As New Zealand approaches the end of its strictest lockdown period, a debate has begun about whether it was legal in the first place. This is important because people are being prosecuted for breaching the lockdown. Naturally, lawyers ... <a title="Was New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown legal? One week might make all the difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/was-new-zealands-coronavirus-lockdown-legal-one-week-might-make-all-the-difference-138203/" aria-label="Read more about Was New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown legal? One week might make all the difference">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics, University of South Australia Compared to many other countries around the world, Australia and New Zealand have done an exceptional job controlling COVID-19. As of May 7, there were 794 active cases of COVID-19 in Australia. Only 62 were in hospital. The ... <a title="We may well be able to eliminate coronavirus, but we’ll probably never eradicate it. Here’s the difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/we-may-well-be-able-to-eliminate-coronavirus-but-well-probably-never-eradicate-it-heres-the-difference-137991/" aria-label="Read more about We may well be able to eliminate coronavirus, but we’ll probably never eradicate it. Here’s the difference">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. “We are borrowing tens of billions of dollars from our children and grandchildren to get us through the Covid crisis…”. (James Shaw in interview on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon, 23 April 2020) Debtors and Creditors Literally, for me to be in debt to somebody means that the ‘somebody’ (the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Can our Grandchildren be our Creditors?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/07/keith-rankin-analysis-can-our-grandchildren-be-our-creditors/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Can our Grandchildren be our Creditors?">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Jin Kang, Lecturer, Computig and Security, Edith Cowan University The Australian government’s COVIDSafe app has been up and running for almost a fortnight, with more than five million downloads. Unfortunately, since its release many users – particularly those with iPhones – have been in the dark ... <a title="How safe is COVIDSafe? What you should know about the app’s issues, and Bluetooth-related risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/07/how-safe-is-covidsafe-what-you-should-know-about-the-apps-issues-and-bluetooth-related-risks-137894/" aria-label="Read more about How safe is COVIDSafe? What you should know about the app’s issues, and Bluetooth-related risks">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ News Te Manu Korihi reporter Members of Parliament sitting on New Zealand’s Epidemic Response Committee say the chair, opposition National Party leader Simon Bridges, is to blame for the lack of Māori voices at the committee meetings. The committee is tasked with challenging the government’s response to the covid-19 coronavirus ... <a title="Bridges ‘ignored’ proposals for Māori at Epidemic Committee, MP says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/bridges-ignored-proposals-for-maori-at-epidemic-committee-mp-says/" aria-label="Read more about Bridges ‘ignored’ proposals for Māori at Epidemic Committee, MP says">Read more</a>
