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March 18, 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 Coronavirus – govt rescue package & reaction, economy Brad Olsen (Guardian): New Zealand’s coronavirus stimulus leaves the working poor most exposed Hamish Rutherford (Herald): A massive, economy-wide wage subsidy shows how serious the ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 18 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/18/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-18-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 18 2020">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
This chart shows the extent that the initial Chinese outbreak of Covid-19 was confined to Hubei province, a province with a population similar to that of Italy. And it shows that, while Hubei still has more recorded deaths per capita than Italy, Italy has more than twice as many active (unrecovered) cases per person. Italy’s ... <a title="Keith Rankin Graph Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: West is Worst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/keith-rankin-graph-analysis-covid-19-virus-west-is-worst/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Graph Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: West is Worst">Read more</a>
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March 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 Coronavirus – government Chris Trotter (Interest): “We are all socialists now.” Tim Watkin (Pundit): Pulling Together In A Crisis: The Coalition’s Biggest Test. And Opportunity Luke Malpass (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s biggest task, heroic yet ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 17 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-17-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 17 2020">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Pacific countries have further tightened border measures to try to keep the coronavirus from gaining a foothold in the islands. Six cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in the Pacific so far – the first three in French Polynesia and, last night, three were confirmed in Guam. Health officials have made no ... <a title="Pacific borders tightened further in bid to keep out coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/16/pacific-borders-tightened-further-in-bid-to-keep-out-coronavirus/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific borders tightened further in bid to keep out coronavirus">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2020
By RNZ News Health officials have ramped up their presence at airports in New Zealand as tougher travel restrictions came into force today. From 1am today all travellers who enter the country, except from Pacific Island countries, must go into isolation for 14 days. Since the announcement of the new restrictions airlines have been overwhelmed ... <a title="New travel restrictions in force in NZ, chaos at airports in the US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/16/new-travel-restrictions-in-force-in-nz-chaos-at-airports-in-the-us/" aria-label="Read more about New travel restrictions in force in NZ, chaos at airports in the US">Read more</a>
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March 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 Coronavirus John Armstrong (1News): Bold measures in face of coronavirus could be Jacinda Ardern’s finest hour Luke Malpass (Stuff): Why this will be the most important week of Jacinda Ardern’s prime ministership Richard ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 16 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-16-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 16 2020">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2020
By RNZ News Some travellers trying to beat the New Zealand deadline early today for self-isolations to prevent the Covid-19 coronavirus spreading have been turned away by airlines that are stretched to capacity. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Saturday that from midnight Sunday, all passengers arriving from overseas, except those from Pacific Island countries, ... <a title="Some travellers trying to beat NZ’s coronavirus deadline turned away" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/16/some-travellers-trying-to-beat-nzs-coronavirus-deadline-turned-away/" aria-label="Read more about Some travellers trying to beat NZ’s coronavirus deadline turned away">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced late today wide-ranging travel restrictions which mean as of midnight tomorrow anyone coming into New Zealand will have to self-isolate for 14 days. The only exemption is for people coming from the Pacific islands, but New Zealanders returning from overseas will not be exempt. The measures will ... <a title="New travel curbs require almost everyone entering NZ to self-isolate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/new-travel-curbs-require-almost-everyone-entering-nz-to-self-isolate/" aria-label="Read more about New travel curbs require almost everyone entering NZ to self-isolate">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2020
By Sela Jane Hopgood of RNZ Pacific The cancellation of this year’s New Zealand Pasifika Festival in Auckland because of coronavirus fears is expected to be a huge financial blow for some stallholders. Dutchie Low, from Hawaiian Pineapple Hut, said he found out about the cancellation on Facebook, which was then followed by a few ... <a title="NZ’s canned Pasifika Festival a financial blow for stallholders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/13/nzs-canned-pasifika-festival-a-financial-blow-for-stallholders/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s canned Pasifika Festival a financial blow for stallholders">Read more</a>
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March 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 Coronavirus Kate MacNamara (Stuff): The Government’s business continuity plan should include the wage cost of self-isolation Shamubeel Eaqub (RNZ): Don’t panic – a recession may not be what you think Press Editorial: Who pays ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 12 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-12-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 12 2020">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2020
By Paul Spoonley of Massey University In the hours after the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15 last year, I wrote that I hoped New Zealand would finally stop believing it was immune to far-right extremist violence. A year on, I’m not sure enough has changed. I have researched far-right extremism for decades – and ... <a title="Far-right extremists still threaten NZ, a year on from Christchurch attacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/11/far-right-extremists-still-threaten-nz-a-year-on-from-christchurch-attacks/" aria-label="Read more about Far-right extremists still threaten NZ, a year on from Christchurch attacks">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government to end the “absurd situation” in which Australian investigative journalist Mary Ann Jolley is banned from visiting New Zealand because she was deported from Malaysia in 2015 in connection with her reporting. “I’m basically regarded by New Zealand as a ... <a title="RSF protests over ‘absurd’ ban on Australian journalist visiting NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/11/rsf-protests-over-absurd-ban-on-australian-journalist-visiting-nz/" aria-label="Read more about RSF protests over ‘absurd’ ban on Australian journalist visiting NZ">Read more</a>
