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April 20, 2020
Analysis by Bryce Edwards How healthy is democracy at the moment in New Zealand? Criticisms are mounting about the state of the political system under the Coronavirus crisis, with complaints that things aren’t as democratic as they should be. I wrote for the Guardian last week about some of these political problems – see: New Zealand’s ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How healthy is our democracy under the Coronavirus crisis?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-how-healthy-is-our-democracy-under-the-coronavirus-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How healthy is our democracy under the Coronavirus crisis?">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin University What began as a global health crisis in the form of COVID-19 is now also an economic crisis of historic proportions. Much of the housing policy focus during the pandemic has rightly centred ... <a title="As coronavirus widens the renter-owner divide, housing policies will have to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/as-coronavirus-widens-the-renter-owner-divide-housing-policies-will-have-to-change-135808/" aria-label="Read more about As coronavirus widens the renter-owner divide, housing policies will have to change">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Today’s first chart looks at death rates for six major countries. We see that Spain has overtaken Italy, and that France and United Kingdom are likely to catch up with these in a week. We also note that United Kingdom death rates, as reported have been understated; these are basically hospital ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Weekly Summary Charts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/17/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-covid19-weekly-summary-charts/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Weekly Summary Charts">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
It was only a matter of time before politicians took a pay cut. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has done the right thing in announcing she will cut the pay of her own ministers and departmental chief executives – see Eleanor Ainge Roy’s Jacinda Ardern and ministers take pay cut in solidarity with those hit by ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A Powerful but tiny gesture from leaders under pressure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-a-powerful-but-tiny-gesture-from-leaders-under-pressure/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A Powerful but tiny gesture from leaders under pressure">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Smith, Senior Lecturer in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney In absolute numbers, the United States is suffering the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreak. How did this happen in a country with such vast resources? There is plenty of blame to go ... <a title="Donald Trump blames everyone but himself for the coronavirus crisis. Will voters agree?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/donald-trump-blames-everyone-but-himself-for-the-coronavirus-crisis-will-voters-agree-135205/" aria-label="Read more about Donald Trump blames everyone but himself for the coronavirus crisis. Will voters agree?">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Today’s first chart looks at three Nordic countries: Iceland, Norway and Sweden. These give us a basis for analysis of underreporting of Covid19, in the main due to limited testing. Yesterday, Norway was shown as a high incidence ‘recovering country’, even though it was less recovering than South Korea. Iceland, however, ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Nordic Comparisons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-covid19-nordic-comparisons/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Nordic Comparisons">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Assistant Professor, School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra In a normal year we would be weeks away from the May budget and the official forecasts for the financial year ahead. This year there will be no official forecasts until October 6, the ... <a title="How will the coronavirus recession compare with the worst in Australia’s history?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/how-will-the-coronavirus-recession-compare-with-the-worst-in-australias-history-136379/" aria-label="Read more about How will the coronavirus recession compare with the worst in Australia’s history?">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw of Massey University New Zealand’s general election is currently set for September 19. Under ordinary circumstances, campaigning for the election and two referenda that will take place alongside would be heating up by now, but the country is three quarters of the way through a comprehensive level 4 four-week lockdown. ... <a title="Trust in government is high in NZ, but will it last until this year’s elections?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/trust-in-government-is-high-in-nz-but-will-it-last-until-this-years-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Trust in government is high in NZ, but will it last until this year’s elections?">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2020
Today’s chart looks at four countries recovering from Covid19: South Korea, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. Except for us (NZ), the other countries started early and are on the ‘finishing straight’ or thereabouts. Note that this chart uses a smoothing technique; seven-day rolling averages. Thus, for each day shown, the data value represents the average ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Recovering from Covid19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/14/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-recovering-from-covid19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Recovering from Covid19">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tambri Housen, Epidemiologist | Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University As the coronavirus pandemic stretches on, a small proportion of Australians infected have now died, while most have either recovered, or are likely to recover over the next few weeks. ... <a title="How long are you infectious when you have coronavirus?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/13/how-long-are-you-infectious-when-you-have-coronavirus-135295/" aria-label="Read more about How long are you infectious when you have coronavirus?">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Today’s chart shows the per capita level of testing performed in a number of countries. While the highest testing rate shown is Norway, we should note that Iceland has tested over eight percent of its population; too high to show on this chart. A high level of testing minimises a country’s ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Testing for Covid19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/09/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-testing-for-covid19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Testing for Covid19">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand has recorded just 29 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, but the prime minister says a decision on changing the alert level will only be made two days before the lockdown ends. It is the fourth day in a row there has been a day-on-day drop. Director-General ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 15: Number of new coronavirus cases plummets to 29" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/09/nz-lockdown-day-15-number-of-new-coronavirus-cases-plummets-to-29/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 15: Number of new coronavirus cases plummets to 29">Read more</a>
