scholarly journals Pandemic Elections and the Covid-Safe Effect: Incumbents Re-elected in Six Covid-19 Safe Havens

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1(S)) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
John Paull
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Hand Washing ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
National State ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
The Status ◽  
Western Australian

The Antipodes have been amongst the safest places on the planet during the Covid-19 pandemic. The governments of Australia and New Zealand (national, state, and territory governments) have acted promptly, decisively, and cohesively in closing borders, quarantining incoming returnees, instigating rigorous contact tracing and extensive testing, social distancing, hand washing, masks, and occasional lockdowns. Antipodean governments and populations have long experience of awareness and compliance with biosecurity issues. Isolation and distance have long served to keep Australia and New Zealand free of many pests and diseases. Each Antipodean election held during the Covid-19 pandemic has returned the incumbent. During the first 14 months of the pandemic, six out of six incumbent governments facing elections during the Covid pandemic have been returned. Five returned incumbents were center-left while the sixth was center-right. Four of the elections have rewarded the incumbent government with an increased majority, the Northern Territory election returned a reduced majority, and the Tasmanian election returned the status quo with the narrowest of majorities maintained. The New Zealand election returned the Labor government to power in their own right and released them from the coalition. The Western Australian election saw Labor returned with a landslide result with an unprecedented, win of 53 out of 59 seats (90% of seats). The object of the present paper is to report the outcomes of the six antipodean elections conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic (to date) and to reflect on the Covid-safe effect on them if any.

‘The status quo is not an option’: Community impacts of school closure in South Taranaki, New Zealand

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin A. Kearns ◽  
Nicolas Lewis ◽  
Tim McCreanor ◽  
Karen Witten
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
School Closure ◽  
The Status ◽  
Community Impacts

scholarly journals A Clean, Green New Zealand? An In-Depth Look at the Personal Experiences of Animal Rights Activists

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Feigin ◽  
Richard Glynn Owens ◽  
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Insight Into

This study explored personal experiences of animal rights and environmental activists in New Zealand. The stories of participants provided insight into the challenges activists face in a country where the economy is heavily dependent on animal agriculture. A qualitative methodology was utilised and several major themes emerged: (1) emotional and psychological experiences, (2) group membership, (3) characteristics of activism and liberation, (4) the law and its agents, and (5) challenge to society. Participants of the study represent a group of individuals engaged in acts of altruistic offending triggered by exposure to the suffering of non-human animals. Their moral philosophy and conscience overrode all considerations for legal repercussions, and through their activism they not only challenged the status quo, but also called upon non-activist members of society to make meaningful contributions to the world around them.

scholarly journals COVID-19: Recent updates on SARS-CoV-2 and Preventing its Community Transmission in India by 21 Days Lockdown

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 921-929
Author(s):  
Satyajeet K. Pawar ◽  
Shivaji T. Mohite
Keyword(s):  
Hubei Province ◽  
Hand Washing ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
First Case ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
Almost All

The current pandemic of COVID-19 has caused havoc all over world since its emergence and rapid spread. Within three months the virus SARS-CoV-2 which was isolated from pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in late December 2019, has affected almost all countries. India reported its first case of COVID-19 from state of Kerala on January 30, 2020, a student returned from city of Wuhan. Till date in India the disease had affected 12759 patients with 420 deaths. With every passing day the mysterious virus is been uncovered with its unique characteristics enabling the researcher to unfold the various methods including hand washing and social distancing to curtail the pandemic. Measures like 21 days lockdown to certain extent are effective but considering asymptomatic spreaders, extended measured lockdowns will be useful in the long term war against COVID-19. Till the vaccine and therapeutic solutions are derived, answer to pandemic and SARS-CoV-2 lies in lockdown, social distancing, contact tracing and containment.

Time to agree on a conservation benchmark for Australia.

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt W Hayward
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
National Park ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Conservation Management ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Inadequate Knowledge ◽  
Sydney Harbour ◽  
The Status

WELL defined goals are critical to successfully achieve outcomes and monitor the success of achieving them, yet conservation agencies rarely explicitly state the goals of their management activities with appropriate metrics. Here I use case studies on the conflicting conservation management focus of the Sydney Harbour National Park at North Head, the legislative impediments of bridled nailtail wallaby conservation management, the planning for broadscale habitat connectivity programmes such as Habitat 141, fire management for the conservation of the quokka and the broader Kimberley landscape, and mesopredator suppression using dingoes to highlight the problems with inappropriate conservation benchmarks. I compare these issues with activities from South Africa, India, New Zealand and Poland to illustrate the benchmarks other nations have. I conclude that Australia urgently needs an explicit conservation benchmark upon which to aim our conservation efforts and excuses of inadequate knowledge can no longer be accepted for maintaining the status quo.

Measures of Preventing Covid-19 Transmission

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 1000-1007
Author(s):  
Anam Aiysha Quazi ◽  
Manoj patil
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Sodium Hypochlorite ◽  
Hand Washing ◽  
Mass Gathering ◽  
Personal Protection ◽  
Surveillance Strategy ◽  
Travel History ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Hand Sanitizer

Limiting the spread of coronavirus requires individual, social and international efforts. Even though the virus is highly contagious, simple measures like hand washing with Soap for 20 seconds or with alcohol-based Hand Sanitizer kills the virus. Masks act as a barrier to prevent inhalation of droplets. Similarly, gloves are also protective barriers, and these gears are called Personal Protective Equipment's (PPE). Though personal protection is essential, it is not enough. Hence, others measures are required like social distancing, quarantine facilities, prohibiting international as well as Local travelling, mandatory screening of suspected cases and screening those who have a recent travel history from a corona affected region. With the countries trying hard to recover the loss from the pandemic, The Schools, Colleges, Malls, Theatres, Religious places and all the places where mass gathering occurs are shut down. According to the 30th of June 2020, almost 10.1 million covid-19 cases are almost 50 thousand deaths. Indians are the Italians of Asia & vice versa & now it's among the countries leading with 2,15,239 cases of active & the number is still increasing. India adopted a multi prolonged surveillance strategy. Nowadays as unlock 1 is being proceeded in India commonly used in India is a Walk-Through disinfectant Tunnel for covid-19 prevention, it has 1% Sodium hypochlorite. From mask to gloves to PPE, all are protective barriers. Other measures: Quarantine, mandatory screening of recent travel history from a corona affected region, with the countries trying hard to recover the loss from the pandemic. Then recently WHO says that pandemic is from over as daily cases hit a record high with the countries trying hard to recover the loss from the pandemic & New Zealand ends and it's COVID free.

A generational west coast gas shakeup looms

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
Saul Kavonic
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Domestic Market ◽  
Liquefied Natural Gas ◽  
The Status ◽  
Gas Market ◽  
Western Australian ◽  
Policy Targets

From record high prices, a decade ago, to record low prices more recently, Australia’s west coast gas market is heading towards a structural shakeup that will challenge the status quo for producers, buyers and policymakers. The Western Australian (WA) gas market has been soft recently but is poorly understood, and prices may materially tighten this decade in wake of uncertain new supply timing, liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer recalcitrance towards domestic market, lack of new discoveries (outside Perth Basin), upward pressure on US gas pricing and government policy flexibility towards the emergence of LNG ullage. We believe a bifurcated WA gas market could emerge, whereby policy targets cheap gas to underpin new manufacturing, while existing gas buyers are left to compete against much higher LNG netback parity pricing.

scholarly journals Teaching and the Phonics Debate: What Can We Learn?

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Thompson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Teaching Culture ◽  
The Status ◽  
Teaching Cultures

There is debate about whether New Zealand practices for teaching reading should include “more phonics”. With the focus on the first two years of school instruction, the status quo of receptive phonics and the teaching culture in which it is embedded are described and compared with the productive phonics practices of other teaching cultures. The response of New Zealand children to this practice is relatively faster reading procedures. However, there is much that remains to be learnt to sharpen New Zealand receptive phonics teaching practices to meet the successive developmental purposes of phonics; and also to reduce repetitive teaching rituals, as in practices to prompt for meaning.

scholarly journals Judicial Recusal in New Zealand: Looking to Procedure as the Principled

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 415
Author(s):  
Chamika Gajanayaka
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Civil Litigation ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
The Status ◽  
Procedural Safeguards

The well-documented Wool Board Disestablishment Co v Saxmere Co litigation thrust the often dormant issue of conflicts of interest between a judge and a litigant into the limelight. Now that the dust has settled on the controversy that culminated in Wilson J's resignation, it is pertinent to question the status quo and investigate the potential cause of these events. More importantly, it is critical to consider whether measures need to be taken to prevent, or at least to reduce the likelihood of, another such occurrence.This article takes a principled approach to analysing judicial recusal law in New Zealand, with a particular focus on procedure. In doing so, a mismatch between process theory and the reality of haphazard self-regulation highlights the procedural shortcomings of the current judicial recusal paradigm. To remedy this, the author applies aspects of process theory to reform judicial recusal procedure and bring it in line with general civil litigation practice. The proposed reform instils some fundamental practices that are presently absent in recusal procedure. To contextualise the article's findings, the author revisits the Saxmere saga first to posit that a lack of procedural safeguards may have contributed to the saga and secondly, to suggest that, had the procedural safeguards proposed by this article been in place, the controversy could have been mitigated, if not avoided.

scholarly journals The Emplementation of Health Protocol Facilities through Handwashing and Social Distancing Education in The Tourism Area of Pecel Kampong, Ngerangan Village Klaten Regency

2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 742-747
Author(s):  
Novia Sari Ristianti ◽  
Nurhadi Bashit ◽  
Desyta Ulfiana ◽  
Grandy Loranessa Wungo ◽  
Fauzi Janu Amarrohman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Death Rate ◽  
Hand Washing ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The Status ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Entire World

The COVID-19 pandemic has plagued the entire world, including Indonesia. The step to breaking the spread chain of COVID-19 is to apply health protocols such as handwashing and social distancing. The Covid-19 case in Klaten Regency Central Java for ten weeks until early February 2021 with the status of the Red Zone and death rate is 14.1 percent. Ngerangan Tourism Village has a thematic kampong with culinary and nature attractions, such as Pecel Kampong. The number of visitors reaches 600 tourists per day. This causes tourist sites to be clusters most prone to the spread of COVID-19 and must be equipped with adequate health protocols. Therefore, this service aims to implement health protocols during the Covid 19 pandemic through hand washing and social distancing. The service method has three stages, namely information, guidance, and habitual independence. The output of this service is in the form of technology that is socialized and donated in handwashing behavior in the form of 3 portable footstep sinks, four jerry cans of handwashing soap, one hand washing educational banner, and one banner for implementing health protocols. Meanwhile, the technology that was socialized and granted in the implementation of Social Distancing was in the form of 1 banner for implementing social distancing and 20 stickers indicating the implementation of social distancing.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic and the Digital Revolution in Academia and Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wadim Strielkowski
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Creative Destruction ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Status ◽  
Final Exams

COVID-19 pandemic instigated a digital revolution in academia and higher education. Social distancing, months-long quarantine, as economic shutdown will help the majority of people working in academia and higher education not only to complete their personal transition to the fully functional and operational online tuition, but also to understand that online defences, online entrance and final exams, as well as online academic jobs are as effective and meaningful as those conducted “in real life”. Due to the crisis induced by the coronavirus epidemic, innovations in academia and higher education that would have normally taken several years due to the various contradictory administrative regulations are now introduced promptly in a matter of days. This is a clear example of the Schumpeterian ‘creative destruction’ in making that will forever change the status quo in academia and higher education.

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