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May 8, 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 Democracy, lockdown legality Matthew Hooton (Herald): Government abusing lockdown powers (paywalled) Chris Trotter: The Safety Of The People Shall Be The Highest Law Peter Dunne: Cracks in the machinery of democracy Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Leaked ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 08 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-08-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 08 2020">Read more</a>
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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
By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ News Te Manu Korihi reporter Members of Parliament sitting on New Zealand’s Epidemic Response Committee say the chair, opposition National Party leader Simon Bridges, is to blame for the lack of Māori voices at the committee meetings. The committee is tasked with challenging the government’s response to the covid-19 coronavirus ... <a title="Bridges ‘ignored’ proposals for Māori at Epidemic Committee, MP says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/bridges-ignored-proposals-for-maori-at-epidemic-committee-mp-says/" aria-label="Read more about Bridges ‘ignored’ proposals for Māori at Epidemic Committee, MP says">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
The Samoa Observer media freedom video, Journalism Without Fear or Favour. By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s two daily newspapers – the PNG Post-Courier and The National – which dominate the market, demonstrated “overwhelming deference” to the office of former Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, says a new report about ... <a title="PNG media suffers ‘overwhelming deference’, says freedom report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/png-media-suffers-overwhelming-deference-says-freedom-report/" aria-label="Read more about PNG media suffers ‘overwhelming deference’, says freedom report">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
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch After nearly five weeks of alert level 4 covid-19 lockdown and a further week at level 3, there is only one voice most New Zealanders rely on – Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern. While there has been clamouring to get the economy going ... <a title="It’s all about trust – and why I trust Jacinda over the coronavirus action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/its-all-about-trust-and-why-i-trust-jacinda-over-the-coronavirus-action/" aria-label="Read more about It’s all about trust – and why I trust Jacinda over the coronavirus action">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 5, 2020
By RNZ News The sense of national unity felt during the Covid-19 lockdown may disappear as social isolation and economic costs hit home, a report by leading social scientists warns. Koi Tū: the Centre for Informed Futures from the University of Auckland has released a discussion paper outlining potential difficulties as restrictions lift. It argues ... <a title="Lockdown social cohesion likely to fall as ‘acute’ phase ends, say scientists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/lockdown-social-cohesion-likely-to-fall-as-acute-phase-ends-say-scientists/" aria-label="Read more about Lockdown social cohesion likely to fall as ‘acute’ phase ends, say scientists">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2020
By RNZ Pacific New Zealanders left behind in India are asking for additional repatriation flights to evacuate them, after the government did not have enough capacity to return everyone who wanted to come home in the face of the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. More than 700 citizens and permanent residents returned on the three flights from ... <a title="Stranded New Zealanders still hope for India flights – two new covid-19 cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/04/stranded-new-zealanders-still-hope-for-india-flights-two-new-covid-19-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Stranded New Zealanders still hope for India flights – two new covid-19 cases">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch The jailing of the Jakarta Six – five Papuans and the first Indonesian to be convicted for a Papuan protest – in Indonesia last month has focused global attention on the plight of political prisoners in the face of a failing struggle against the ... <a title="Jailing of Jakarta Six fuels virus fears over Papuan political prisoners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/03/jailing-of-jakarta-six-fuels-virus-fears-over-papuan-political-prisoners/" aria-label="Read more about Jailing of Jakarta Six fuels virus fears over Papuan political prisoners">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand has reported six new cases of covid-19 today – double the number yesterday – and one further death in the coronavirus pandemic, while two clusters have also closed. In a statement, the Ministry of Health said there were six new cases of covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed and ... <a title="Six new NZ coronavirus cases and one further death reported" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/02/six-new-nz-coronavirus-cases-and-one-further-death-reported/" aria-label="Read more about Six new NZ coronavirus cases and one further death reported">Read more</a>
