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August 17, 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 Election date Graeme Edgeler (Spinoff): The confidence conundrum: Why the election date drama is more political than constitutional Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Decision day looms for Jacinda Ardern as Winston Peters threatens retaliation if ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 17 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-17-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 17 2020">Read more</a>
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August 14, 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 National Party suspicions around Govt response, conspiracy theories Danyl Mclauchlan (Spinoff): The ruthless electoral politics behind National’s Covid conspiracy-baiting David Farrier (Stuff): ‘I’m just outlining facts’: watching New Zealand getting red-pilled, in freal ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 14 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-14-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 14 2020">Read more</a>
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August 13, 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 Election date, parliament Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Judith Collins’ dangerous constitutional game Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern holds all the cards in Covid election (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Let’s delay the election Claire Robinson ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 13 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-13-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 13 2020">Read more</a>
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August 12, 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 Community transmission Ben Thomas (Spinoff): What the Covid resurgence means for the election campaign Luke Malpass (Stuff): In this new lockdown, Labour competence will be key Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): NZ’s bubble bursts as Covid ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 12 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-12-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 12 2020">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. “I think you have to recognise money comes from somewhere. It doesn’t just come from a big money tree.” Judith Collins 2020 “Someone has to pay the bill – there aren’t little pixies at the bottom of the garden printing cash.” John Key 2009 These messages from two different National Party ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Money: Where Does it Come From, Where Does it Go?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/keith-rankin-analysis-money-where-does-it-come-from-where-does-it-go/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Money: Where Does it Come From, Where Does it Go?">Read more</a>
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August 11, 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 Auckland Central Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Senior National Party figure accused of using secret alter ego ‘Merv’ to derail Auckland Central candidate RIchard Harman (Politik): “Merv” upsets Nats’ Auckland Central selection Luke Kirkness (Herald): National ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 11 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-11-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 11 2020">Read more</a>
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August 10, 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 Labour Party Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour launch an extremely centrist campaign Audrey Young (Herald) Labour launch is a deliberately understated affair from Jacinda Ardern (paywalled) Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern’s decision to ditch Labour manifesto ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 10 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-10-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 10 2020">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The known incidences of Covid19 in Spain, Belgium and Sweden are similar, although Sweden lagged for a while before overtaking the other two. In deaths, Sweden is slightly lower than Spain and about 30% lower than Belgium. Belgium, after little San Marino, is still the country with the highest deaths per ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Comparing Australian Outbreak with High Incidence European Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-covid19-comparing-australian-outbreak-with-high-incidence-european-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Comparing Australian Outbreak with High Incidence European Countries">Read more</a>
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August 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 Election Simon Wilson (Herald): Election diary: Stimulus or austerity? (paywalled) Tim Watkin (RNZ): This election is brought to you by the letter C Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup – Where is the contest of ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 07 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-07-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 07 2020">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Money as an Unfortunate Metaphor for Cost Especially but not only in election years, when any new policy is proposed by a major party, a ubiquitous refrain follows: “what will it cost?”; “where will the money come from?”. The context is that cost is the spending of ‘coin’. Indeed I once ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Counting the Cost of Government Action and Inaction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/keith-rankin-analysis-counting-the-cost-of-government-action-and-inaction/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Counting the Cost of Government Action and Inaction">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards Can we postpone this year’s election? Quite frankly, the political parties don’t seem ready for it, and aren’t about to offer voters the necessary policy choices for the unprecedented times we’re in. We’ve ended up with a campaign focused on scandal, personality and leadership, with a policy void that’s worse ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Where is the contest of ideas in the election campaign?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-where-is-the-contest-of-ideas-in-the-election-campaign/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Where is the contest of ideas in the election campaign?">Read more</a>
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August 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 Election John Armstrong (1News): To win, Judith Collins needs to pull off NZ’s biggest upset since politics began Claire Trevett (Herald): The light at the end of National’s tunnel moves further away (paywalled) Ben ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 06 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-06-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 06 2020">Read more</a>
