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May 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nic Geard, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne; Senior Research Fellow, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne By international standards, Australia has had considerable success in containing the COVID-19 outbreak. As the number of new cases continues to decline, ... <a title="What is sentinel surveillance and how might it help in the fight against coronavirus?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/01/what-is-sentinel-surveillance-and-how-might-it-help-in-the-fight-against-coronavirus-136845/" aria-label="Read more about What is sentinel surveillance and how might it help in the fight against coronavirus?">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2020
By RNZ News An immigration consultant is warning an entrenched underclass of unlawful workers will emerge unless the government provides emergency benefits to unemployed immigrants. About one in ten of the workforce is an overseas worker on a temporary visa. The Ministry of Social Development has previously signalled that those who have lost their jobs ... <a title="Jobless immigrants face exploitation, poverty due to virus, says NZ adviser" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/30/jobless-immigrants-face-exploitation-poverty-due-to-virus-says-nz-adviser/" aria-label="Read more about Jobless immigrants face exploitation, poverty due to virus, says NZ adviser">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Fact Checking On Mondays – or Tuesdays after public holidays – National Radio’s Kathryn Ryan runs a session called ‘Political Commentators’. On 28 April, from the right was regular commentator Matthew Hooton. From the left was Neal Jones who is listed as: “Chief of Staff to Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern, and prior ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Universal Income Flat Tax: the Mechanism that Makes the Necessary Possible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/30/keith-rankin-analysis-universal-income-flat-tax-the-mechanism-that-makes-the-necessary-possible/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Universal Income Flat Tax: the Mechanism that Makes the Necessary Possible">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, La Trobe University To understand the spread of COVID-19, the pandemic is more usefully viewed as a series of distinct local epidemics. The way the virus has spread in different countries, and even in particular states or regions within them, has been quite ... <a title="6 countries, 6 curves: how nations that moved fast against COVID-19 avoided disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/30/6-countries-6-curves-how-nations-that-moved-fast-against-covid-19-avoided-disaster-137333/" aria-label="Read more about 6 countries, 6 curves: how nations that moved fast against COVID-19 avoided disaster">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2020
By Max Towle, Worldwatch reporter of RNZ News The World Health Organisation (WHO) says New Zealand has been world-leading in its response to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. But at the same time, a top official for the organisation is warning against complacency. Western Pacific incident manager Abdi Mahamud said the WHO had been particularly impressed ... <a title="NZ’s coronavirus response ‘one of the strongest’, says WHO" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/nzs-coronavirus-response-one-of-the-strongest-says-who/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s coronavirus response ‘one of the strongest’, says WHO">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. At the end of last month I published a chart showing the main features of Covid19 deaths in the United States. Today I publish an update, which has most of the same American places. At the end of last month, New Orleans (125 deaths per million people) had the worst outbreak, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United States’ Update" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-united-states-update/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United States’ Update">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Predictions It is dangerous to predict how pandemics will pan out. In Covid19 by the Numbers, Anatole Kaletsky (writing for Project Syndicate on 10 March 2020) used what looked like advanced analysis to conclude that at most 750,000 outside of China would contract Covid19. (He admitted he was wide of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Will Covid-19 remain a First-World Disease?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/keith-rankin-analysis-will-covid-19-remain-a-first-world-disease/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Will Covid-19 remain a First-World Disease?">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mahmoud Elkhodr, Lecturer in Information and Communication Technologies, CQUniversity Australia About 1.13 million people had downloaded the federal government’s COVIDSafe app by 6am today, just 12 hours after its release last night, said Health Minister Greg Hunt. The government is hoping at least 40% of the population ... <a title="COVIDSafe tracking app reviewed: Australian Government delivers on data security, but other issues remain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/27/covidsafe-tracking-app-reviewed-the-government-delivers-on-data-security-but-other-issues-remain-137249/" aria-label="Read more about COVIDSafe tracking app reviewed: Australian Government delivers on data security, but other issues remain">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger Patulny, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wollongong COVID-19 has forced us into social distancing, isolation and quarantine. These conditions are likely fostering widespread anxiety and loneliness in our cities. However, they’ve also made the need for socially connected, vibrant public spaces obvious to all. We ... <a title="Reconnecting after coronavirus – 4 key ways cities can counter anxiety and loneliness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/27/reconnecting-after-coronavirus-4-key-ways-cities-can-counter-anxiety-and-loneliness-136606/" aria-label="Read more about Reconnecting after coronavirus – 4 key ways cities can counter anxiety and loneliness">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Today’s Anzac Day Smithometer Chart shows the fatal impact in New Zealand of World War 1 battles at Gallipoli and on the Somme in France. (Earlier this week the Smithometer showed the impact of 1917 WW1 battles in Belgium – Messines and Passchendaele – and the dramatic, though short-lived, impact of ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Smithometer: New Zealand’s World War 1 Mortality Peaks 1915-16" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/24/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-smithometer-new-zealands-world-war-1-mortality-peaks-1915-16/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Smithometer: New Zealand’s World War 1 Mortality Peaks 1915-16">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Adelaide Australia has done better with COVID-19 than anyone dared hope. This opens up the prospect of a progressive relaxation of restrictions later this year. Organisations that could participate in an economic stimulus program will need to be in ... <a title="Why the focus of stimulus plans has to be construction that puts social housing first" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/24/why-the-focus-of-stimulus-plans-has-to-be-construction-that-puts-social-housing-first-136519/" aria-label="Read more about Why the focus of stimulus plans has to be construction that puts social housing first">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The System – The Whole Good systemic behaviour is acting for the good of all, not by making altruistic sacrifices but by following the golden rule (“behave towards others as you would have them behave towards you”). Or put another way, by acting to strengthen the whole, in the process we ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Systemic Behaviour, and the Challenges of the 2020s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/23/keith-rankin-analysis-systemic-behaviour-and-the-challenges-of-the-2020s/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Systemic Behaviour, and the Challenges of the 2020s">Read more</a>
