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May 7, 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 Government, lockdown legality Branko Marcetic (Democracy Project): The prime minister should listen to her own mantra: “Be kind” RNZ: Was Covid-19 lockdown legal? Professor Claudia Geiringer explains Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Legal challenge over coronavirus ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 07 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-07-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 07 2020">Read more</a>
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May 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 Move to Level 2 1News: Modelling expert ‘a little bit nervous’ that unknown Covid-19 cases will spread if we burst our bubbles Gordon Purdie, Nick Wilson, Michael Baker (Public Health Expert): What we ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 06 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-06-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 06 2020">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Surviving the Black Flu It has been interesting for me to look back and investigate the Black Flu pandemic of 1918. The 1918 pandemic is widely regarded to have been the world’s worst pandemic since the Black Death of the late 1340s. (It was commonly known as the ‘Spanish Flu’, but this ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Smart Treatments in a Pandemic; Lessons from the Black Flu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/keith-rankin-analysis-smart-treatments-in-a-pandemic-lessons-from-the-black-flu/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Smart Treatments in a Pandemic; Lessons from the Black Flu">Read more</a>
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May 5, 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 Economy Robert MacCulloch (Herald): A time for trickle-up economics (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Sir Roger Douglas – Let big firms ‘fend for themselves’ Bruce Munro (ODT): Recovery for all Simon Wilson (Herald): Is this the ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 05 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-05-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 05 2020">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. At the end of this week, I have represented the latest summary charts with a log 10 scale, rather than the previous log 2 scale. This means that, as well as accurately showing the exponential growth pattern, the charts now emphasise ten-fold increases of Covid19 fatalities. At the top of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: April Summary Charts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/01/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-april-summary-charts/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: April Summary Charts">Read more</a>
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May 1, 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 Economy, recovery, UBI Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The List Candidate: Winston Peters and the Looming Covid-19 Depression Chris Trotter: If The Answer Is “Treasury”, Then Ask Another Question Matthew Hooton (Herald): Into the future ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 01 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/01/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-01-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 01 2020">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
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 Winston Peters is back, Ministry of Health proposed complete border shutdown Jane Patterson (RNZ): Winston Peters back on his podium with Covid-19 border closure bombshell Henry Cooke (Stuff): Peters takes on officialdom Barry ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 30 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/30/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-30-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 30 2020">Read more</a>
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April 29, 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 Pandemic preparedness, “eliminating” Covid-19, contact tracing Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Long read: NZ wasn’t ready for a pandemic Gordon Campbell: On living at Level Three with residual anxiety Emma Russell (Herald): New Zealand ‘currently eliminated’ ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 29 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-29-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 29 2020">Read more</a>
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April 28, 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 Eliminating Covid-19 Derek Cheng (Herald): Eliminating Covid 19 coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern’s trailblazing mission that we may have already won (paywalled) Andrea Vance (Stuff): Why the hero-worship of Jacinda Ardern is unhealthy Bryce Edwards (Democracy ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 28 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-28-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 28 2020">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
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 Government Phil Pennington (RNZ): Controversial tech firm Palantir had talks with govt on Covid-19 Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Officials pitched OIA suspension during lockdown Chris Trotter: Long Live The People’s Dictatorship! RNZ: Study investigates NZ reaction ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 24 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/24/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-24-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 24 2020">Read more</a>
