{"id":16323,"date":"2020-03-25T09:21:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T00:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/clarity-and-compassion-what-australia-can-learn-from-new-zealands-coronavirus-response"},"modified":"2020-03-25T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T00:21:26","slug":"clarity-and-compassion-what-australia-can-learn-from-new-zealands-coronavirus-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16323","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Clarity and compassion&#8217;: what Australia can learn from New Zealand&#8217;s coronavirus response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison government\u2019s contradictory messages have confused many, while the Ardern government has been clear and unequivocal<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Laney McLean, 65, and her husband, Murray, who is 70, fly home to New Zealand. They have lived on the Gold Coast for a decade, and their son and daughter-in law \u2013 a police officer and a GP \u2013 urged them to leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty hard to argue when your kids are in tears,\u201d says McLean.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/clarity-and-compassion-what-australia-can-learn-from-new-zealands-coronavirus-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison government\u2019s contradictory messages have confused many, while the Ardern government has been clear and unequivocalOn Wednesday, Laney McLean, 65, and her husband, Murray, who is 70, fly home to New Zealand. They have lived on the Gold Coas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,324,531,1069,415,346,914,268,56,386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-boris-johnson","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-scott-morrison"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16343,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323\/revisions\/16343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}