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April 6, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Public health strategy Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): How hard, how early? The numbers behind New Zealand’s quick lockdown David Fisher (Herald): Coronavirus data of New Zealand cases missing and inconsistent – scientist says good ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 06 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-06-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 06 2020">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 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hewson, Professor and Chair, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Climate deniers have been hanging out for the United Nations’ next big summit to fail. In a sense, the coronavirus and its induced policy responses have more than satisfied ... <a title="Sorry to disappoint climate deniers, but coronavirus makes the low-carbon transition more urgent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/sorry-to-disappoint-climate-deniers-but-coronavirus-makes-the-low-carbon-transition-more-urgent-135419/" aria-label="Read more about Sorry to disappoint climate deniers, but coronavirus makes the low-carbon transition more urgent">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Giancaspro, Lecturer in Law, University of Adelaide You’ve lost income because of the coronavirus crisis and finding it hard to pay the bills. What if you can’t pay your rent? The short answer, if you live in Australia, is that rules changes give you more time ... <a title="What if I can’t pay my rent? These are the options for rent relief in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/what-if-i-cant-pay-my-rent-these-are-the-options-for-rent-relief-in-australia-135312/" aria-label="Read more about What if I can’t pay my rent? These are the options for rent relief in Australia">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron Burton, Lecturer in Media Arts, University of Wollongong Being in isolation might be a great time to try something new. In this series, we get the basics on hobbies and activities to start while you’re spending more time at home. Isolation is a common theme in ... <a title="Great time to try: 5½ ways to make movie masterpieces at home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/great-time-to-try-5-ways-to-make-movie-masterpieces-at-home-134907/" aria-label="Read more about Great time to try: 5½ ways to make movie masterpieces at home">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2020
By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it’s too early to claim success against the spread of Covid-19 but 11 days into lockdown, New Zealand has made a good start. At today’s media briefing, Ardern was reluctant to draw too many conclusions from the number of new positive tests ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 11: Nation has ‘made a good start’, says PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/05/nz-lockdown-day-11-nation-has-made-a-good-start-says-pm/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 11: Nation has ‘made a good start’, says PM">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2020
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS News in Brisbane Refugees and asylum seekers in Brisbane have begun daily protests urging for their release after doctors and human rights lawyers flagged fears that a repurposed hotel could become a coronavirus infection hotspot. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the UN Human Rights Commissioner this week issued a ... <a title="Refugees, asylum seekers flag fears over possible Brisbane virus hotspot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/05/refugees-asylum-seekers-flag-fears-over-possible-brisbane-virus-hotspot/" aria-label="Read more about Refugees, asylum seekers flag fears over possible Brisbane virus hotspot">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2020
By RNZ Pacific The number of people with Covid-19 in the Pacific continues to climb with French Polynesia hitting 40 cases, Guam now over 90 and the US state of Hawai’i suffering its third coronavirus death. In the past day, another person tested positive for Covid-19 in French Polynesia. However the number of carriers in ... <a title="Pacific coronavirus: Cases rise in Tahiti, Guam and Hawai’i" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/05/pacific-coronavirus-cases-rise-in-tahiti-guam-and-hawaii/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific coronavirus: Cases rise in Tahiti, Guam and Hawai’i">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie A rather beautiful Guåhan legend is rather poignant in these stressed pandemic times. It is one about survival and cooperation. In ancient times, goes the story, a giant fish was eating great chunks out of this western Pacific island. The men used muscle and might with spears and slings ... <a title="Creeping authoritarianism in Pacific not the answer to virus pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/04/creeping-authoritarianism-in-pacific-not-the-answer-to-virus-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Creeping authoritarianism in Pacific not the answer to virus pandemic">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Haiqing Yu of RMIT University and Michael Keane of Curtin University China has gradually emerged out of its shadow of despair as the epicentre where the coronavirus pandemic started. Now, there is face saving required – as well as agenda-setting in the global power play. China played a decisive role in combating the ... <a title="Masking power in the age of contagion: China’s two faces over coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/04/masking-power-in-the-age-of-contagion-chinas-two-faces-over-coronavirus/" aria-label="Read more about Masking power in the age of contagion: China’s two faces over coronavirus">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2020
Every day at 1pm New Zealand’s Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield announces precise figures on the number of confirmed and probable cases of Covid-19 in the country. He is working on the best information available, and during this week the level of community transmission was put at around 1 percent. But Sir David Skeggs, ... <a title="NZ lockdown – Day 9: How many Covid-19 cases does nation really have?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/03/nz-lockdown-day-9-how-many-covid-19-cases-does-nation-really-have/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – Day 9: How many Covid-19 cases does nation really have?">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Deery, Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, University of Melbourne “Stupid coronavirus!” I heard my six-year-old mumble while talking in her sleep. Earlier that day her swimming and basketball lessons were cancelled, a birthday party postponed, and she had to race with me between several meetings before ... <a title="‘Stupid coronavirus!’ In uncertain times, we can help children through mindfulness and play" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/03/stupid-coronavirus-in-uncertain-times-we-can-help-children-through-mindfulness-and-play-135317/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Stupid coronavirus!’ In uncertain times, we can help children through mindfulness and play">Read more</a>
