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April 16, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling freeze on funding for the World Health Organisation at a time when many countries are pulling together for a global response to the coronavirus pandemic has surely earned him the ... <a title="How the ‘chief covidiot’ has blocked world health unity with WHO freeze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/how-the-chief-covidiot-has-blocked-world-health-unity-with-who-freeze/" aria-label="Read more about How the ‘chief covidiot’ has blocked world health unity with WHO freeze">Read more</a>
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April 16, 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 Lockdown, government Peter Dunne (Newsroom): End this Orwellian version of NZ John Edwards (Spinoff): Even in extraordinary times, the right to privacy remains Grant Duncan (The Conversation): New Zealand’s coronavirus elimination strategy has united ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 16 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-16-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 16 2020">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch The thin veneer of a seemingly robust New Zealand media was ripped off like a plaster on a scab in front of Parliament’s Epidemic Response Committee today exposing its frailties. The heads of all New Zealand’s media companies appeared via Zoom and all spoke of the ... <a title="NZ media chiefs warn desperate times ahead faced with advertising nadir" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/nz-media-chiefs-warn-desperate-times-ahead-faced-with-advertising-nadir/" aria-label="Read more about NZ media chiefs warn desperate times ahead faced with advertising nadir">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 15, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw of Massey University New Zealand’s general election is currently set for September 19. Under ordinary circumstances, campaigning for the election and two referenda that will take place alongside would be heating up by now, but the country is three quarters of the way through a comprehensive level 4 four-week lockdown. ... <a title="Trust in government is high in NZ, but will it last until this year’s elections?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/trust-in-government-is-high-in-nz-but-will-it-last-until-this-years-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Trust in government is high in NZ, but will it last until this year’s elections?">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2020
By John Gerritsen, education correspondent of RNZ News The second term of New Zealand’s school year starts today, but nobody is going to class. Schools are in lockdown along with the rest of the country and more than 800,000 teachers and students are now starting two weeks of remote learning. The curriculum leader for Year ... <a title="Term of digital distance learning begins for NZ teachers and pupils" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/term-of-digital-distance-learning-begins-for-nz-teachers-and-pupils/" aria-label="Read more about Term of digital distance learning begins for NZ teachers and pupils">Read more</a>
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April 15, 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 Virginia Fallon and Bridie Whitton (Stuff): Call for return to normal life puts tens of thousands at risk Derek Cheng (Herald): Cabinet urged not to play ‘Russian roulette’ with New ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 15 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-15-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 15 2020">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2020
By RNZ News Four more people have died from Covid-19 in New Zealand in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry has confirmed. Nine people have now died in the country from the coronavirus, with six of them being residents of the Rosewood Rest Home in Christchurch. It is the highest number of Covid-19 deaths ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 20: Four more Covid-19 deaths, 17 new cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/14/nz-lockdown-day-20-four-more-covid-19-deaths-17-new-cases/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 20: Four more Covid-19 deaths, 17 new cases">Read more</a>
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April 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 Government, parliament Andrea Vance (Stuff): How Jacinda Ardern is using soft propaganda to beat Covid-19 Graeme Edgeler (Democracy Project): On being sure of your legal footing Sam Hurley (Herald): Law Society calls for greater ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 14 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-14-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 14 2020">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand’s Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield today confirmed the Health Ministry is “actively looking” at the rules around people visiting dying family members in the Ciovid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Dr Bloomfield confirmed this in a Q+A session on Facebook this afternoon to talk about masks, bubbles, testing and clusters. Earlier this ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 19: Health Ministry ‘looking at visit rules’ after fifth death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/13/nz-lockdown-day-19-health-ministry-looking-at-visit-rules-after-fifth-death/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 19: Health Ministry ‘looking at visit rules’ after fifth death">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. The lockdown breaches over the Easter weekend shows the number of self-entitled and selfish people flouting the rules in New Zealand and Fiji as reports have suggested. On self-isolation day 18 yesterday – ... <a title="Selfish lockdown breaches cause headaches in Fiji, NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/13/selfish-lockdown-breaches-cause-headaches-in-fiji-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Selfish lockdown breaches cause headaches in Fiji, NZ">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand has had two further deaths because of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, doubling the death toll to four, says Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay. “New Zealand now has four deaths associated with Covid-19. As we have said previously, this can be a very serious disease, particularly for elderly people ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 17: Coronavirus death toll rises to four, 442 recover" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/11/nz-lockdown-day-17-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-to-four-442-recover/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 17: Coronavirus death toll rises to four, 442 recover">Read more</a>
