GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – Locking down the Far North
Locking down the Far North
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Shut it down – but we don’t need to restart with the same old shit
It is inevitable as a country that we needed to rapidly move to level three and four in our response to be able to suffocate the spread of the virus.
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Our moment of history: Jacinda Ardern moves NZ into total lockdown over the next 48 hours
We are in unprecedented times and this represents the greatest disruption to civil society ever seen in recent modern history.
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Guam confirms Pacific’s first Covid-19 death, NZ infections top 66
As New Zealand draws deeper into uncharted waters over the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, spare a thought for our neighbours across the Pacific as infections and lockdowns spread rapidly across the region. My colleague Sri Krishnamurthi on the AUT Pacific Media Centre’s Pacific Media Watch project files this roundup.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – NOTHING TO LOSE – when rebellion breaks out.
When a section of communities says, “I’ve got nothing to lose”?
That is when rebellion will break out.
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To me dearest fellow New Zealanders – learning to live Kia Kaha in a time of Pandemic
If you are feeling frightened, anxious or depressed about the pandemic,
relax.
Those are perfectly natural & normal feelings because this is a frightening, anxious & depressing time!
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Bernard Hickey’s neutron bomb is what we need to fight the pandemic
The Government must put together an urgent blue sky task force of our best economists and economic thinkers to generate ideas, and they must do it now.
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Jacinda has prepared the country, today we need Level 3 NOT Level 4
Level 3 needs to be adopted today so that Level 4 will be acceptable before Friday so we avoid ‘Level 5’.
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Time to rethink everything especially super policy
When share markets crash, it becomes clear that shares are only ever a potential claim on resources. They have to be converted into money before they can command the basics of survival. When the music stops, few want to buy any more. Today’s share market crash reflects not just the bursting of a speculative bubble but also a loss of faith in the viability of the underlying businesses associated with tourism and travel.
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Tragic news today that coronavirus has reached the Gaza Strip – but you can do something to help!
Tragic News that coronavirus has reached Gaza.