{"id":17678,"date":"2020-04-29T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/you-cant-compare-new-zealand-looks-on-australias-loose-lockdown-with-envy-and-horror"},"modified":"2020-04-29T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T03:24:09","slug":"you-cant-compare-new-zealand-looks-on-australias-loose-lockdown-with-envy-and-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17678","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You can&#8217;t compare&#8217;: New Zealand looks on Australia&#8217;s loose lockdown with envy &ndash; and horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both countries have flattened the curve, but Kiwis wonder if they have paid too high a price compared with Australians<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking across the Tasman at their nearest neighbour\u2019s Covid-19 elimination measures during their own strict lockdown of the past month, New Zealanders were torn: some complained that Australians were allowed to buy takeaway coffees and get haircuts under some more permissive lockdown measures. Others shuddered at pictures on social media of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/mar\/21\/bondi-beach-closed-down-after-crowds-defy-ban-on-gatherings-of-more-than-500-people\">Sydney beachfronts thronged with people<\/a>, saying the images made them \u201cstressed\u201d and \u201canxious\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the topic of Australia\u2019s more relaxed lockdown \u2013 and whether it would prove an economic saviour or a breeding ground for the virus \u2013 has never been far from the lips of opposition politicians, commentators or New Zealanders stuck at home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/you-cant-compare-new-zealand-looks-on-australias-loose-lockdown-with-envy-and-horror\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both countries have flattened the curve, but Kiwis wonder if they have paid too high a price compared with AustraliansCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLooking across the Tasman at their nearest neighbour\u2019s Covid-19 eliminatio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,43,1069,268,56,386,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-scott-morrison","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17678","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17679,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17678\/revisions\/17679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}