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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 15, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, government ministers and public service chief executives will take a 20 percent pay cut for the next six months. She said it acknowledged New Zealanders who were on wage subsidies, taking pay cuts, or losing their jobs due to the Covid-19 coronavirus. “We feel acutely the ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 21: 20% pay cut for PM, ministers and civil service bosses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/nz-lockdown-day-21-20-pay-cut-for-pm-ministers-and-civil-service-bosses/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 21: 20% pay cut for PM, ministers and civil service bosses">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. New Zealand now has sufficient case data to get a sense of its regional distribution of Covid19. Surprisingly, Auckland is not dominant, unlike the main business cities in other countries such as London, New York, Milan and Sydney. Certainly, internationally, Covid19 is very much a city disease. The New Zealand regional ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: New Zealand Cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-new-zealand-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: New Zealand Cases">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. Is David Clark the best possible Minister of Health to be leading New Zealand through the Coronavirus crisis? Confidence in Clark has plummeted with today’s revelation that the Health minister made another recreational trip during the lockdown that appears to breach the Government’s own rules. The Prime Minister has decided not ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Can David Clark really continue as Minister of Health?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-can-david-clark-really-continue-as-minister-of-health/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Can David Clark really continue as Minister of Health?">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suze Wilson, Senior Lecturer, Executive Development, Massey University Imagine, if you can, what it’s like to make decisions on which the lives of tens of thousands of other people depend. If you get things wrong, or delay deciding, they die. Your decisions affect the livelihoods of hundreds ... <a title="Three reasons why Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus response has been a masterclass in crisis leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/three-reasons-why-jacinda-arderns-coronavirus-response-has-been-a-masterclass-in-crisis-leadership-135541/" aria-label="Read more about Three reasons why Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus response has been a masterclass in crisis leadership">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Kang, Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney Young people in Australia are among the fastest-growing group to contract COVID19. According to the Department of Health, there are now more cases in Australia among people aged 20 – 29 years than any other age group. Our research ... <a title="Young people are anxious about coronavirus. Political leaders need to talk with them, not at them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/03/young-people-are-anxious-about-coronavirus-political-leaders-need-to-talk-with-them-not-at-them-135302/" aria-label="Read more about Young people are anxious about coronavirus. Political leaders need to talk with them, not at them">Read more</a>
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March 29, 2020
The South African ‘Don’t Panic Buy’ jingle. Video: ENCA/PickNSave PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a new Pacific Media Watch series. A South African celebrity jingle that has gone viral at the end of this week could easily have been a theme song for ... <a title="How Ardern’s coronavirus kindness theme can become contagious" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/29/how-arderns-coronavirus-kindness-theme-can-become-contagious/" aria-label="Read more about How Ardern’s coronavirus kindness theme can become contagious">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
Statement by Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, to Parliament. Mr Speaker, I wish to make a Ministerial Statement under Standing Order 347 in relation to the recent declaration of a State of National Emergency. Having considered the advice of the Director Civil Defence Emergency Management, the Minister of Civil Defence declared a State of ... <a title="New Zealand: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s statement on New Zealand Lockdown and State of National Emergency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/new-zealand-prime-minister-jacinda-arderns-statement-on-new-zealand-lockdown-and-state-of-national-emergency/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s statement on New Zealand Lockdown and State of National Emergency">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago Overjoyed. That’s not a word epidemiologists normally use, but that’s how I felt after hearing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s announcement about New Zealand’s COVID-19 shutdown of everything except essential services for at least four weeks from midnight on ... <a title="‘Overjoyed’: a leading health expert on New Zealand’s coronavirus shutdown, and the challenging weeks ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/24/overjoyed-a-leading-health-expert-on-new-zealands-coronavirus-shutdown-and-the-challenging-weeks-ahead-134395/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Overjoyed’: a leading health expert on New Zealand’s coronavirus shutdown, and the challenging weeks ahead">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. While the number of cases of Covid-19 remains very small relative to the world’s population, a number of prominent people have been caught up in it. It seems to be very much an international travellers’ disease, with people who travel the most being at highest risk. The highest incidences of Covid‑19 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: A Jetsetter Disease?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-a-jetsetter-disease/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: A Jetsetter Disease?">Read more</a>
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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 2, 2020
If there were any doubts about Jacinda Ardern’s ability to deliver the goods as a campaigner, then they were quashed by her masterful performance against Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday. Ardern made what is being reported as a “stunning attack” on the Australian Government, while standing alongside the Australian PM in a highly-orchestrated ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern’s masterful performance against Scott Morrison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-jacinda-arderns-masterful-performance-against-scott-morrison/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern’s masterful performance against Scott Morrison">Read more</a>
