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March 22, 2020
The Government says it is “going hard and going early” to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic. But how true is this? Some public health experts and commentators do not believe the Government is being radical enough, and that the consequences, in terms of life and death, could be huge. Leading the charge for a more ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should the Government be locking the country down now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-should-the-government-be-locking-the-country-down-now/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should the Government be locking the country down now?">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The government says its second stimulus package – the second in ten days – is temporary and targeted, but that’s not really true. What it is is big, automatic, and infinitely increasable. The first package, ... <a title="Scalable without limit: how the government plans to get coronavirus support into our hands quickly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/scalable-without-limit-how-the-government-plans-to-get-coronavirus-support-into-our-hands-quickly-134353/" aria-label="Read more about Scalable without limit: how the government plans to get coronavirus support into our hands quickly">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon O’Connor, Associate Professor in American Politics at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney This is the age of the septuagenarian in US politics. The president is 73. His likely opponent in November’s election is 77. Even if Joe Biden is not the Democratic nominee, ... <a title="Coronavirus may end up being a major player in the US presidential election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/19/coronavirus-may-end-up-being-a-major-player-in-the-us-presidential-election-133759/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus may end up being a major player in the US presidential election">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
This chart shows the extent that the initial Chinese outbreak of Covid-19 was confined to Hubei province, a province with a population similar to that of Italy. And it shows that, while Hubei still has more recorded deaths per capita than Italy, Italy has more than twice as many active (unrecovered) cases per person. Italy’s ... <a title="Keith Rankin Graph Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: West is Worst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/keith-rankin-graph-analysis-covid-19-virus-west-is-worst/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Graph Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: West is Worst">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Lee, Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University The avalanche of coronavirus infections in the current pandemic has been accompanied by a similar avalanche of information, making it hard to sift reliable news from the noise. Among the most crucial questions ... <a title="The coronavirus looks less deadly than first reported, but it’s definitely not ‘just a flu’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/the-coronavirus-looks-less-deadly-than-first-reported-but-its-definitely-not-just-a-flu-133526/" aria-label="Read more about The coronavirus looks less deadly than first reported, but it’s definitely not ‘just a flu’">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Glen Peters, Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research – Oslo Stock markets around the world had some of their worst performance in decades this past week, well surpassing that of the global financial crisis in 2008. Restrictions in the free movement of people is ... <a title="How changes brought on by coronavirus could help tackle climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/how-changes-brought-on-by-coronavirus-could-help-tackle-climate-change-133509/" aria-label="Read more about How changes brought on by coronavirus could help tackle climate change">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced late today wide-ranging travel restrictions which mean as of midnight tomorrow anyone coming into New Zealand will have to self-isolate for 14 days. The only exemption is for people coming from the Pacific islands, but New Zealanders returning from overseas will not be exempt. The measures will ... <a title="New travel curbs require almost everyone entering NZ to self-isolate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/new-travel-curbs-require-almost-everyone-entering-nz-to-self-isolate/" aria-label="Read more about New travel curbs require almost everyone entering NZ to self-isolate">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2020
EDITOR’S NOTE: Click here for a previous chart analysis by Keith Rankin on this issue. Chart analysis by Keith Rankin This chart of deaths by coronavirus (March deaths in red) clearly shows just how much worse this epidemic is in Italy than anywhere else. And the vast majority of these deaths are in Northern Italy. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – UPDATE Covid-19 Virus: Deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/11/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-update-covid-19-virus-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – UPDATE Covid-19 Virus: Deaths">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2020
By Paul Spoonley of Massey University In the hours after the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15 last year, I wrote that I hoped New Zealand would finally stop believing it was immune to far-right extremist violence. A year on, I’m not sure enough has changed. I have researched far-right extremism for decades – and ... <a title="Far-right extremists still threaten NZ, a year on from Christchurch attacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/11/far-right-extremists-still-threaten-nz-a-year-on-from-christchurch-attacks/" aria-label="Read more about Far-right extremists still threaten NZ, a year on from Christchurch attacks">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government to end the “absurd situation” in which Australian investigative journalist Mary Ann Jolley is banned from visiting New Zealand because she was deported from Malaysia in 2015 in connection with her reporting. “I’m basically regarded by New Zealand as a ... <a title="RSF protests over ‘absurd’ ban on Australian journalist visiting NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/11/rsf-protests-over-absurd-ban-on-australian-journalist-visiting-nz/" aria-label="Read more about RSF protests over ‘absurd’ ban on Australian journalist visiting NZ">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2020
Chart analysis by Keith Rankin EDITOR’S NOTE: Click here for an updated chart and analysis dated March 11, 2020 – This chart update shows different measures of the problem than did my chart posted three days ago. Here we see the total number of recorded cases of Covid-19, per million of the worst affected countries’ ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: the Reality a week into March 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/09/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-the-reality-a-week-into-march-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: the Reality a week into March 2020">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has died. Her husband, Harry Parke, said the death was totally unexpected. “Yesterday morning she was out on the farm doing stuff, she had a bit of a fall and finally ended up in Thames Hospital where she had a massive stroke and died at 9.45pm last night – ... <a title="Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ‘lived her convictions’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/former-green-party-co-leader-jeanette-fitzsimons-lived-her-convictions/" aria-label="Read more about Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ‘lived her convictions’">Read more</a>
