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by Aaron van Delden

THOSE managing Gisborne city’s wastewater treatment plant upgrade faced a grilling yesterday from district councillors seeking answers over the project’s multimillion-dollar budget

blowout.In an exhaustive

two-hour debate, councillors wanted to know how the estimated project cost had jumped by more than $9 million from a budget of $24.4m based on a 2016

concept design.But in the end they unanimously agreed

to incorporate the larger budget of $33.5m in the council’s upcoming 2021-31 Long Term Plan.

“This is critical, essential infrastructure

for our city — we must have it,” councillor Amber Dunn said.

The plant’s upgrade will mean the city’s wastewater is clarified and disinfected before being pumped out to sea.

The additional treatment is a resource consent requirement with a December 2020 deadline.

The upgrade is not due to be commissioned until March 2022 so the

council will need to apply for an extension.Councillor Meredith Akuhata-Brown

said wastewater improvements needed to be prioritised. “Most of our community . . . simply want to see no more tutae (faeces) in the bay and rivers,” she said. “It’s a very basic ask.”

Deputy mayor Josh Wharehinga said the budget blowout was a reason in itself for the council to get a move on with the upgrade.

“That’s why pies no longer cost 50 cents . . . everything increases with time.”

There are no guarantees that even $33.5m will be enough.

With the new budget still based on a preliminary design, Gisborne District Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann said the project could end up costing 15 to 20 percent more.

$33.5m and countingWHAT BLEW THE BUDGET?

Additional costs identified in the preliminary design include —■ Filters required for clarification: $3.5m.■ Increased provisional and general costs: $3m.■ More UV equipment for disinfection: $1.5m.■ Shifting the project site to a vacant lot adjacent to (rather than attached to) the main treatment

plant on Banks Street: $1.5m.■ Enclosing dewatering equipment to minimise odour: $1.3m.■ Increased allowance for cost overruns: $1m.■ Disposal facility for septic tank waste: $0.8m.■ Work to enable wastewater to be recycled for treatment processes: $0.5m.

Refinements to the design, including a more condensed layout, helped pare back the increase to $9.1m.

In firing line over wastewater plant upgrade budget blowout

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LEVEL 2, DAY 1: People flocked back to places like The Warehouse (left), which was able to reopen in Alert Level 2 yesterday. The carpark was full and there were long queues at times over the day. The city centre resembled Boxing Day with large numbers of shoppers out in force. The change of level also means playgrounds are now open. Enjoying a spin at the Botanical Gardens, below, are Keylaine Scheirber, 9, and Ciahn Ebbett-Couper, 3. Pictures by Liam Clayton

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WHAT’S IN IT FOR US

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‘AMAZING’ SUPPORT FOR

LIVE MUSIC VENUES

BUDGET 2020

• City buzzes as businesses, services reopen

• New Zealanders stressed but resilient

• Denial US first in line for vaccine

COVID-19

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by Mark Peters

WITHIN 24 hours of launching its Save Our Venues campaign the Dome Bar reached its first target towards ensuring it can continue to host live acts.

Along with Smash Palace, the Dome Bar is one of Gisborne’s two main live music venues whose chances of survival post-lockdown have been given a boost through a Save Our Venues initiative.

Driven by a team of musicians and supporters, the Boosted Live arts crowdfunding platform initiative, Save Our Venues, aims to inspire nationwide support of New Zealand’s musical culture by encouraging people to support their venues.

“It was amazing,” Dome Bar owner Sally Shanks said of people’s financial

support for the venue. “Since then we’ve had many messages

of support. I knew we had the support but I didn’t know it was as huge as it has been.”

Many small venues face a similar struggle to continue after lockdown but venues are where New Zealand artists forge support for their talent, says Shanks.

“These venues are run on shoestring budgets by locals who are passionate about bringing culture to the small corners of the universe, while fostering the next music generation of stars.

“Without venues bands have nowhere to play. That has put things into focus. Bands and venues have to work together.

“We’re struggling but now we can function in a limited capacity. We’re

endlessly grateful and one day I’ll put on a great big party for Gisborne.”

Smash Palace’s Daryl Monteith said he and co-owner Kerry Donovan had seen the campaign was going well for Auckland live music venues Whammy Bar and The Wine Cellar but felt a bit weird about asking for money.

“Then the campaign committee approached us and said ‘would you like your venue to be part of this?’”

Smash Palace was nominated by Christchurch venue Blue Smoke. Nominees were required to nominate another venue so Mr Monteith and Ms Donovan nominated the Dome Bar.

Like the Dome, Smash Palace reached its target amount within a couple of days and has created a stretch target.

“The funding helps us climb out of the

hole Covid-19 put us in and puts us on a firmer footing,” says Mr Monteith.

“This is a huge lifeline and comments and feedback we have had about how much Smash means to people are really gratifying.”

■ TO make a donation, and to help ensure live acts continue to grow and perform at the Dome Bar and Smash Palace, go to www.boosted.org.nz/profile/5eaf4a9eda204c002348bacb or bit.ly/2X01VZ1, scroll down the page for the “we love the Dome” and “we love Smash” icons, then scroll down each of those pages to the red “donate” button. The deadline for both venues to reach their stretch goal of $20,000 is May 30. By this morning, Smash Palace had reached $11,200 towards its stretch target while the Dome Bar had reached $14,339.

SAVING OUR

VENUES

‘Amazing’ support gives lifeline to Smash, Dome

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS: An arts crowdfunding platform

has launched a Save Our Venues initiative to help

ensure live music venues — the Dome Bar and Smash

Palace — are able to continue to host acts such

as Gisborne heavy rock band Uni-Fi (pictured).

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LOOKING AHEAD

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FOCUS ON THE LAND

• The ‘Resilient Farmer’ Doug Avery talks about moving forward from a crisis like Covid-19.

• Sheep sales resumed at the Matawhero saleyards today with about 1600 head on offer.

• Alliance has distributed $4.5 million in loyalty payments to its shareholders.

WRAPPING AROUND OUR

COMMUNITY IN A CRISIS

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THERE is an impressive collaboration going on between Toitu Tairawhiti, Gisborne District Council’s Emergency Coordination Centre and 16 iwi, hapu and community hubs to get kai (food) parcels out to 1450 households across the rohe.

The Toitu Tairawhiti effort is the brainchild of communications operations lead Amohaere Houkamau, who says the packs have been customised for Tairawhiti iwi and will continue to be rolled out until the end of winter.

The 1450 households will receive packs designed to feed a family of four, meaning food for nearly 6000 people.

One-hundred-and-forty-six pallets were delivered to the Showgrounds Event Centre, where they were unpacked and split into four rohe zones — Whangara, Uawa, Waiapu and Matakaoa; Waipiro, Te Puia and Ruatoria; Muriwai, Turanga west and Rongowhakaata; and Kaiti.

The ECC team worked late into the night on Tuesday to ensure the first deliveries were set to head out at 5am on Wednesday.

ECC response manager Wiremu Tamati says it has been a team effort.

“There were plenty of things that had to line up to ensure the food was organised in readiness for

distribution around Tairawhiti,” said Mr Tamati.

“I am hugely proud of our team who have all worked long and hard to make sure everything was ready to go.”

The ECC will continue to help iwi partners, agencies and community groups over the coming weeks.

The Toitu Tairawhiti combined effort comes on the back of Civil Defence Emergency Management staff having delivered essential household items to more than 2000 pakeke (elderly), parents and children from all over the district who have been referred by agencies or called the council’s 0800 number for assistance.

These packs are provided by the National Emergency Management Centre.

Feedback to ECC about the kai parcels delivered during the Covid-19 pandemic response has been hugely positive, with many saying the items they received in their packs were well thought out and provided much-needed relief for them and whanau.

The latest kai packs will be distributed over the weekend.

Anyone who may need assistance or would like to refer those who are vulnerable can contact the council on 0800 653 800.

Kai food parcels feeding thousands

TEAM EFFORT: ECC’s logistics manager Phil Nickerson (left) and response manager Wiremu Tamati with a small part of the food consignment being sorted and sent out to thousands around the region as part of a collaborative initiative. Mr Tamati says it has been a team effort of which he is “hugely proud”. Picture by Diana Dobson/The Black Balloon

by Andrew Ashton and Matai O’Connor

THE future of Tairawhiti’s Maori communities, iwi housing initiatives and Gisborne’s tourism industry have been pointed to as those expected to benefit from yesterday’s Budget 2020 announcement.

The Government announced it will invest over $900 million in response to Covid-19 to support whanau, tamariki and all Maori to help rebuild communities.

“We know that the effects of Covid-19 have impacted on Maori and today’s announcement is about working with our people and our many providers to restart and repair our communities,” Minister of Maori Development Nanaia Mahuta said yesterday.

Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP Meka Whaitiri said she was already engaging with iwi leaders and Maori ministers to ensure Gisborne’s future was vastly improved by this “incredible” targeted investment in supporting our whanau.

“From Horouta Whanau Ora to kohanga reo like Te Putake Whakatupuranga and Te Whakaruruhau, some implications of today’s funding boosts are obvious,” Ms Whaitiri said yesterday.

“However, I see strong potential for the increased funding to our Maori and iwi housing initiative, and $200 million Maori Employment Package to really disrupt the status quo for our people and improve lives, too,” she said.

The Government is still finalising the regional breakdown of the targeted Maori spend.

“As Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP, I will be advocating hard to ensure Te Tairawhiti gets its share of the pie, if not one or two slices more,” Ms Whaitiri said.

“I am confident local families will really step forward under Budget 2020’s suite of initiatives, especially Maori.

“Covid-19 also showed the wellbeing of our local families and economy is dependent on our online connectivity.

“Gisborne will soon be better connected,

thanks to Tairawhiti Technology Trust receiving $400,000 in Budget 2020 for a new regional digital hub from the Provincial Growth Fund,” she said.

The $900 million-plus targeted Maori spend of Budget 2020 focuses on housing, health, jobs and education.

“Key areas where inequities and inequalities for our people have gone neglected for years,” Ms Whaitiri said.

“This unprecedented investment shows the power of having all seven Maori seats firmly at the table of government, as part of a 13-strong Labour Maori caucus that can highlight the need in these areas and, more importantly, be heard.”

“Finally, Maori need to keep in mind that this isn’t an and/or situation.

“Our people benefit from the targeted spend and the Budget’s wider initiatives, such as the 8000 more public houses, expansion to the wage subsidy scheme, and heavy investment in trades and apprenticeships training.”

Trust Tairawhiti tourism general manager Adam Hughes welcomed the inclusion of a tourism recovery package.

“Trust Tairawhiti welcomes the Government’s targeted $400 million tourism recovery package and the extension of the wage subsidy scheme announced.

“This support will help guide the visitor and hospitality industry across Aotearoa through the Covid-19 crisis.

“In Tairawhiti, the Budget package will support local tourism and hospitality businesses immediately with the extension of the wage subsidy.

“In the coming weeks and months the package will deliver support through a national domestic marketing campaign and targeted Maori tourism support. The marketing campaign is being led by Tourism New Zealand (TNZ) and Trust Tairawhiti will be working in partnership with TNZ to ensure our region benefits.

“Meanwhile, the $10 million fund for NZ Maori Tourism will support the critical Maori tourism sector. This aligns with our region’s growing visitor experiences and future direction.

“There is a long road ahead of hard work and tough decisions across the sector, but this next round of support and the promise of future support provides a strong pathway forward.

“This package, along with Trust Tairawhiti support, will give our local industries an opportunity to survive now while adapting to the new normal, the new future and the new opportunities to come.”

Disabled people of Tairawhiti will benefit from yesterday’s announcement that $1.7 billion will be invested into the disability sector, each year.

Yesterday’s Budget announcement included an additional $833 million to take pressure off disability support services and ensure access, $12 million to assess innovations that empower

people with disabilities and $4.4m to pay for in-between travel costs for disability carers, on top of existing funding.

“The disability sector has been underfunded by about 15 percent for many years so the announcement that they plan to spend $1706.6 million is a very welcome relief,” CCS Disability Action midland region general manager Colene Herbert said.

“What this means for the disabled people of Tairawhiti is that disability providers will be able to stay afloat and continue to provide services without worrying about how we are going to pay for it.

“This is $107.3 million more than they estimated they would spent last year.

“While it is welcome, it is also very long overdue.”

BUDGET 2020by Murray Robertson

GISBORNE-Wairoa Federated Farmers president Charlie Reynolds has welcomed parts of the Budget but not all of it.

Mr Reynolds said though it was nice to see farming receiving something positive out of a budget for once “it looks like farmers are still on their own again with the nationwide drought and feed supply dwindling”.

“The lack of cash and planning for water storage shows that wetlands are more important to this Government than rural families’ health and mental wellbeing.”

Out of the $1.6 billion dollars for trade training, agriculture receives $19.3 million or 1.2 percent.

“Of this some cash is for familiarisation courses — in other words, groups coming on to your farm to see if they like it or not.

“There will be cash for work training but what this training is like and who are the trainers are yet to be seen.”

Mr Reynolds said his biggest concern was there still seemed to be a complete lack of understanding around the amount of red tape and bureaucracy that holds back all sectors of agriculture.

Federated Farmers national vice-president

Andrew Hoggard said they were wary about the long-term plan for the primary industry’s contribution to New Zealand’s economic recovery.

“Farmers will be pleased with announcements of a $1.1 billion environmental jobs spend and specific mention of control of pests such as wallabies and wilding pines. Also positive is the increased support for biodiversity on private land through agencies like QEII and Landcare Trust.

“But as with so many aspects of the Budget announcements, the devil will be in the detail.”

Mr Hoggard said the Budget did include $500 million in initiatives that would ensure primary industries get supported.

“We look forward to seeing more detail on that. We appreciate it appears we’ve been listened to on many of the areas for potential work we’ve raised with the Government.”

The Budget’s investment of another $3 billion in infrastructure was also a big spend but the decisions on where the money will go were yet to be made, he said.

“We would hope enhanced rural connectivity, money for water storage and road maintenance are prime candidates for that investment, as both will help drive primary sector production and competitiveness.”

Major benefits for Maori, iwi housing, tourism

The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 NEWS 3

THIEVES stole large pieces of plastic sheeting from shade sails at the Kaiti Playcentre in Rutene Road — a theft that has upset and mystified those associated with the centre.

The sails covered an area where children played and rode their bikes.

“It must have happened during Alert Level 3 because the sails were still intact at the end of Level 4,” said Gisborne Playcentre support person Mary-Jane Dixon.

“The thieves cut the see-through plastic sheets off the sails and I cannot understand why someone would do it.”

It is hoped insurance will cover the cost of repairs.

“In the meantime, until we get the sails repaired or replaced, reopening the centre under Level 2 will be delayed.

“Understandably, the parents of the children who attend the centre are quite upset about what’s happened.”

Police have been notified.

Thefts delay opening of playcentre

by Aaron van Delden

TWO sections of the eastern Waipaoa River stopbank will remain on private land after failed bids by Gisborne District Council to buy them.

Council staff said the owners of one of the sections, near Ormond, were refusing to willingly sell their land over security and privacy concerns should a cycle trail be installed on top of the redeveloped stopbank.

The project to upgrade 64 kilometres of stopbank between Te Karaka and the river mouth got under way in February 2019 and is being done in 5-to-8km sections each summer.

When the upgrade is completed in 2031 at a cost of up to $35 million, the stopbank on both sides of the river will protect the Waipaoa floodplain, including Gisborne city, from a 100-year flood until 2090, accounting for climate change and a predicted 0.67-metre sea level rise.

For this, the original stopbank,

completed in 1969, needs to be widened from 1.5m to 4m and raised in some places by 1 to 2m.

Another section of the eastern stopbank, at the river mouth, is on Maori land that was part of a recent Treaty settlement.

In a report, council staff said the trustees of the land were not willing to alienate any part of it through a sale, although they supported the stopbank project and a potential cycle path.

At a meeting on May 14, district councillors chose to forgo the compulsory purchase of both sections of land and rely on the council’s statutory powers under the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941.

The act is deemed an adequate control mechanism for much of the western stopbank, giving the council the right to access private land to carry out maintenance and improvements.

But for the eastern stopbank, which protects the city side of the floodplain and therefore more residents plus critical facilities such as the airport and hospital, the council has sought full ownership.

The reason for this, as outlined in the staff report, is that with private ownership, there is a greater risk of a stopbank failure due to “questionable”

practices such as overstocking or installing pipes through the stopbank without council oversight.

Since June 2017, the council has bought 16 sections of stopbank land at a cost of $1,648,768.

It is also negotiating a $84,700 land purchase.

Once that deal is settled, the council will own all

eastern stopbank land, except for the two sections whose owners do not want to sell.

If the council pursued compulsory purchases under the Public Works Act 1981, objections could be heard in the Environment Court.

Land purchase snag over cycleway fears

GISBORNE airport will reopen to Air New Zealand flights on Monday but subject to strict guidelines laid down by the Government under Covid-19 Alert Level 2.

Airports around the country will operate “a new kind of normal” for safe flying as domestic travel and general aviation expands under Alert Level 2.

“It’s great to see flights and other forms of travel starting again, reconnecting Tairawhiti to the rest of New Zealand,” said Matt Todd, chief executive of airport operator Eastland Group.

“While the number of flights will be significantly reduced for now, this is an important step and we hope to see more flights gradually added to the schedule as demand increases.

“As well as enabling people to fly on business once again, or visit family and friends after a long time apart, this will also provide a boost to our local tourism industry.”

Mayor Rehette Stoltz said it was good news for the region.

“We are excited to see Air New Zealand’s first flights at Level 2 back into Gisborne on Monday.

“We look forward to settling back into our ‘new normal’. I know that our hotels, shops and tourist operators will be looking forward to welcoming visitors to our piece of paradise.”

Air New Zealand will be operating flights to and from Auckland and Wellington from Monday, May 18.

Sunair will resume direct flights to Tauranga and Hamilton from May 25.

Private charter flights will also be available from Air Gisborne and Air Napier.

In line with new guidance from government agencies, airports around New Zealand have additional measures in place to help travellers adhere to Covid-19 requirements.

These include physical distancing in terminals and high standards of hygiene and cleaning.

“The emphasis is on keeping travellers, staff and our community safe,” said Mr Todd.

At Gisborne Airport the terminal will be open to passengers an hour before their flight departs.

All visitors must use the main carpark. The temporary overflow area will be closed.

Only passengers and staff can enter the terminal.

Any passenger requiring special assistance should talk to the staff member at the front door.

Travellers must be farewelled outside the terminal.

The café will be open to serve passengers and staff only.

The seating inside the terminal, as well as the check-in and baggage claim areas, will be reconfigured to comply with physical distancing requirements.

Each airline is following strict protocols around hygiene and physical distancing on flights.

Government guidelines require travellers to keep records of what travel

services they use and who they come in contact with during the journey.

NZ Airport Association chief executive Kevin Ward said airports with general aviation activities such as flight schools, engineering services, aero club flying and

other related businesses have also put in place Covid-19 policies and processes and are working with their commercial tenants to meet new health requirements.

“Travellers can expect to see a lot of reminders to allow some extra space between

themselves and other travellers they don’t know. New signs, floor markers and information announcements reflecting the Government’s official advice are now in place at terminals across the country,” he said.

“This will help passengers do the right thing.”

READY FOR TAKE-OFF: Gisborne Airport reopens on Monday with Air New Zealand flights to and from Auckland and Wellington. Sunair will resume direct flights to Tauranga and Hamilton on May 25. Private charter flights will also be available from Air Gisborne and Air Napier. File picture

‘ The emphasis is on keeping travellers, staff and our community safe ’ —Matt Todd

Air NZ flights start on Monday

Since June 2017, the council has bought 16 sections of stopbank land at a cost of $1,648,768.

LEACH, Rewi(Stuart). — Lovinghusband of Angela.Father of Juanita andDudley, Raewyn andChad, Brian Jnr andJess and Renata.Cherished Papa to allhis moko. Rewi is lying in stateat his family home untilhis final journey toWahakino Urupa,Whangara, on Monday18th May, 2020. Due tothe restrictions ofCovid-19, only 50persons are permitted toattend the service. Hisservice will be live-streamed for whanauand friends nationallyand internationally.Updates will follow.

McNAMARA, Gloria.— Died 12th May2020, at GisborneHospital. Funeral service to beheld at TaruheruCemetery at a later date.All inquiries ph 022417 1937.

TEESDALE,Ryan Peter

3.7.1983 - 15.5.2010

To us he was someonespecial. Someone set

apart. His memory willlive forever, engraved

within our hearts.

Love and miss youmate.

Mum, Dad, Holly,Mitchell, Kelsey,

Delia, and families

Deaths Deaths

FAMILY NOTICES

Deaths

Deaths

In Memoriam

JACK KURU

A LEGEND HAS FALLEN

My sweetie has gone to be with the Lord, on Tuesday the 12th of May 2020. He ran the race to win and now he has obtained the greatest reward.

Te Moananui Turoa Kuru (Jack) is a legend who leaves behind a legacy of hard work, faithfulness and generational blessing.We rejoice as he joins the great cloud of witnesses.A champion in the NZ forestry industry and a pioneer of roading development techniques in the East Coast region.Forever loved by his wife Susan, his children Rachelle and Matt, Ricky and Leanne, Hine and Terry, Arana and Runa, and Matthew and Sarn.Jack also lives on through his 16 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, there will be a memorial to celebrate Jack’s life. Date to be announced.

The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 20204 NEWS

DIFFERENT TIMES: The scene in Gladstone Road yesterday morning as businesses opened their doors to customers eager to be out and about on day one of Covid-19 Level 2. Below, the same view, taken in the middle of the lockdown.

Pictures by Paul Rickard

by Mark Peters

LOCKED down and working from home, Tauawhi Men’s Centre phone volunteers’ contact with people involved with family violence increased over the past few weeks.

Centre co-ordinator Tim Marshall said their work had increased indirectly, “partly through our relationship with the police team Whangaia Nga Pa Harakeke”.

Whangaia Nga Pa Harakeke is a police- sponsored initiative in which police and local iwi work in partnership to reduce family harm.

“With redeployment in other areas during the lockdown we understand that their team have been stretched,” Mr Marshall said.

“We have done a bit more to support their needs because they are down in numbers. We’ve had the odd case come directly to us but the increase has been more through our relationship with the police as we follow up with support of families they have connected with.

“Because our team has been working from home it’s been easier for us to follow up families by phone and other ways. During lockdown we increased our support role but I don’t think we’re alone in that.”

Although the team understands the spike in family violence during the lockdown was not as high as had been expected, it had the potential to increase when the nation moved into pandemic response alert level 2, Mr Marshall said.

“Now it’s been a few weeks, some of those stresses and pressures have built over that time. In Level 2 we can start seeing people face-to-face again but in a way that keeps people safe.

“It’s a tricky space to navigate.”Mr Marshall is unsure if any of the Government

funding of an extra $202 million aimed at strengthening family and sexual violence services over the next four years, will go Tauawhi’s way directly.

“The bulk of the funding announced is targeted at victim support and a much smaller amount to support for perpetrators of family violence.”

Tauawhi centre preparing for face-to-face support

DENTISTS are back at work but they advise patients to ring for an appointment first.

Tim Arness, New Zealand Dental Association,Gisborne branch president, said it was fantastic for dentists to back in operation, but with precautions to ensure safety for patients and staff.

Those precautions include social distancing and the availability of sanitiser.

Before the move to Alert Level 2, dentists were only open for

emergency work.Mr Arness said bookings

were now open, but there would always be vacancies for people who found themselves in acute pain.

New Zealand Dental Association president Katie Ayers said triage questions would still be asked over the phone as during Alert Level 3.

“Our members are delighted to be back at work to assist thousands of Kiwis every | day.”

Ring first say dentists

by Wynsley Wrigley

SHOPPING in pharmacies is now much easier, but Alert Level 2 gives an opportunity for the public to support all local businesses.

“That is the key to our community,” said Gisborne pharmacy spokesman Sean Shivnan.

Pharmacies remained open as an essential business under Levels 4 and 3.

“But it’s great to see other businesses open and trading,” Mr Shivnan saaid.

The public was adjusting to the “new normal”.

“The majority of the public understand there is a standard of behaviour that has to be adhered to.

“There’s been a good uptake of the new normal.”

Mr Shivnan said customers no longer had to enter singly, but each pharmacy’s permitted number of customers allowed to shop simultaneously would

depend on the size of the store.His pharmacy may allow five

or six customers in the store, including three sitting at well- spaced seats as they wait for prescriptions.

Social distancing remains and hand sanitiser would be available.

Ideally staff rather than customers would handle products and all pharmacies did deliveries.

People who felt unwell should remain at home.

Mr Shivnan said pharmacies preferred payments to be made by paywave as a first choice, or eftpos.

They were now accepting cash, but staff would use sanitiser if they had to handle cash.

Mr Shivnan said flu vaccines, now available to everyone aged 13 plus, were available at Bramwells Pharmacy, Gordon’s Pharmacy, Pharmacy 53 and his own pharmacy.

Vaccines have been give out in record numbers this year.

Pharmacies allow more customers

Time to open upGisborne welcomes Level 2

“This is not like a roading construction project where you know exactly how much it’s going to cost — where there’s a high degree of certainty and low degree of risk,” Ms Thatcher Swann said.

Beca engineer Garry Macdonald, a member of the project team, said the $33.5m budget was a middle ground but costs may increase due to the exchange rate and a potential post-Covid boom that could drive up the price of materials and construction.

A final design for the upgrade is due by October and will be priced up ahead of

the tendering process, providing the most accurate estimate of the project’s cost, Mr Macdonald said.

With councillors endorsing the increased budget yesterday, the wastewater upgrade project team will be able to progress contracts to purchase several pieces of equipment for the plant upgrade, including the clarifier and UV lamps for disinfection.

The equipment is expected to cost $5.25 million all up, although the initial outlay will be for a 5 to 10 percent deposit to lock in prices and ensure the items are manufactured in time for the upgrade to be completed by March 2022.

Cost could increaseFROM PAGE 1

by Wynsley Wrigley

“HOONS” speeding along the district’s beaches have raised the ire of Gisborne district councillor Pat Seymour and her constituents.

Mrs Seymour brought up the issue at yesterday’s council meeting, saying concerns about Anaura Bay, where threatened birds were nesting, Pouawa Beach and Makorori Beach, had been raised with

her. She asked if the matter could be included in a camping review issues and options paper, which will be presented to the Sustainable Tairawhiti Committee.

Mrs Seymour said some freedom campers drove their four-wheel bikes safely as they took their gear down to the beach.

“There are others who hoon along the beach.”

Council chief executive

Nedine Thatcher Swann said freedom camping was a national issue. The Department of Conservation had previously raised the issue of vehicles on beaches.

The matter required a “bylaw approach” and the council would have to look at the practicalities of the matter.

Any changes to the freedom camping bylaw are expected to be in place in time for the 2020-2021 peak camping season.

Beach ‘hoons’ issue raised

The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 NEWS 5

by Craig McCulloch, RNZ

WELLINGTON — A $50 billion rescue fund sits at the centre of 2020’s “once-in-a-generation Budget” as the country braces for the economic carnage promised by Covid-19.

The plan lays out the first $15.9 billion of investment including an extension of the wage subsidy scheme to the hardest hit businesses, free trades training, and a state house building programme.

Almost $14 billion has already been allocated to previously-announced initiatives, leaving about $20 billion unspent.

The hefty price tag promises to blow out debt to 53.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2023 and will leave the country in deficit for years to come.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson says the pandemic is a “one-in-100-year event”, which demands record spending.

“It is a once in a generation Budget. It is bold because the task we face is monumental,” he said.

And Treasury’s forecasts show just how tough that task could be, with unemployment predicted to more than double, surging to a peak 9.8 percent by September of this year.

“This is the rainy day we have been preparing for — now we must weather the global storm,” Robertson said.

Housing and Infrastructure

The Government has committed to rolling out a home building programme to build 8000 new state houses over the next four to five years.

Kainga Ora will borrow an estimated $5 billion to pay for the bulk of the houses and the Budget sets aside another $570m in rent support.

The homes will include about 6000 public houses and 2000 transitional homes.

The Budget also commits an addition $3 billion to fund “shovel-ready” infrastructure projects, on top of the $12 billion spend-up announced earlier this year.

Ministers have already received nearly 2000 applications for funding and will soon decide which projects to push ahead with after receiving advice from officials.

Investment in rail has also been bumped up $1.2 billion to

reach $4.6 billion.

Support for business

The 12-week wage subsidy scheme — set to expire in June — will be extended by another eight weeks for the worst-hit businesses.

From June 10, firms which can prove that their revenue has halved over the previous 30 days compared to the year before will be eligible.

The payment remains at $585 per full-time worker and will be paid to employers in a lump sum.

Up to $3.2 billion has been set aside for the extension.

A $150m short-term loan scheme will also be rolled out to incentivise businesses to continue research and development programmes which might otherwise be shut down.

NZ Trade and Enterprise is set for a $216m boost to increase the number of exporters it can support.

The Budget acknowledges Covid-19’s particular toll on the tourism sector with no end in sight for the country’s border closure.

An injection of $400m will fund a domestic tourism campaign and support businesses to plan their next steps.

A separate $1.1 billion package has been set up with the aim of

creating almost 11,000 jobs in the environment sector from pest control to wetland restoration.

Training and Education

Trades training for critical courses — such as building, construction and agriculture — will be made free for all ages over the next two years to help retrain people who have lost their jobs.

About $1.6 billion has been set aside for the entire Trades and Apprenticeships Training Package which will also help workplaces retain their trainees.

$276m of the fund will go towards setting up Workforce Development Councils and Skills Leadership Groups to monitor the job market around the country and plan for recovery.

Welfare

The Budget is notably absent of “helicopter cash” initiatives or further significant increases in welfare payments.

In March, the Government boosted most benefits by $25 a week. The 2020 Budget also increases the rates of foster-care allowance and orphan’s benefit by the same amount.

Almost $80m has been committed to social services, of which $32m will go towards foodbanks and other community food services.

A $36m fund has also been established to support community groups which support Maori, Pacific, refugee and migrant communities.

Tertiary students will also be able to apply for support from a $20m hardship fund to help them get through the next few months.

The “Warmer Kiwi Homes” scheme has also been expanded

to cover 90 percent of the costs of insulation or heating retrofit for low-income households.

The $56m investment is expected to cover an extra 9000 houses.

The Government is also spending $220m over two years to grow its current school lunch scheme from 8000 students to about 200,000 by the middle of next year.

DELIVERING THE BUDGET: From left, Deputy PM Winston Peters, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Green Party co-leader James Shaw head to the House to present the 2020 Budget yesterday. RNZ picture by Dom Thomas

‘Once-in-a-generation Budget’

by Charlie Dreaver, RNZ

WELLINGTON — The Government has unveiled a $50 billion recovery package as part of the Budget.

Some $13.9 billion of the fund has already been spent including on the wage subsidy scheme.

Another $15.9 billion worth of initiatives was revealed by Finance Minister Grant Robertson yesterday, on the immediate response to kickstart the economy and $20.2 billion put aside for future investment.

A breakdown of where the money is going:

Business support

An eight week extension to the wage subsidy scheme for businesses who have suffered a 50 percent reduction in turnover the 30 days prior to their application compared to last year, costing up to $3.2 billion

$400m Tourism sector relief package

Targeted sector support totalling $41.4m is being spent across three years in construction, digital and agritech sectors

Trades training support

■ $1.6 billon Trades and Apprenticeships Training Package■ $400m in Ministry of Social

Development Employment Support■ $121m for He Putama

Rangatahi■ $19.3m to place 10,000 people

in primary sector jobs

$1.1 billion environmental jobs package

■ The package is predicted to create almost 11,000 new jobs

$900 million to support Maori

■ Funding includes a $200m Maori employment package■ $400m increase to Maori

education

Housing

■ $56m increase to the government’s insulation and heating programme■ 8000 new public and

transitional homes, to be delivered by Kainga Ora, community housing providers and transitional housing providers■ Kainga Ora is anticipated to

borrow an additional $5 billion to fund its proportion of the houses

Extension of school lunch programme

■ $220.6m to be spent on expanding the free school lunch programme.■ An additional 200,000 children

will get a free lunch and is estimated to create an extra 2000 jobs

Other measures

■ An extra $833m to go towards disability support services■ An extra $3 billion has been put

aside to fund infrastructure projects, on top of the $12 billion dollars already announced■ $1 billion is being invested

to improve transport, including $667 million for rail infrastructure including tracks and new wagons and locomotives and $400 million to replace Interislander ferries■ $55.6m of aid spending for

Pacific Island nations■ $1.77 billion boost for Defence■ $280m for postal services,

made up of $130m from the Budget and $150m from the Covid-Response and Recovery fund■ $6.3 billion is being invested in

health■ Nearly $1 billion to support

education services.

$50b recovery package

by Derek Cheng, NZ Herald

WELLINGTON — National Party leader Simon Bridges is warning that the “tsunami” of debt in Budget 2020 will have to be repaid, either in higher taxes or by future generations.

But he is also welcoming the Government’s extension to the wage subsidy scheme.

“It’s well-intentioned, but overall it’s a heck of a lot of spending,” he said.

“All of that additional spend will result in more debt. That debt will result, I think under a Labour Government, in more tax, and if not, then a legacy for our children and grandchildren where they have to pay

it back. That’s very serious.”He said New Zealanders deserved

to have more clarity about the $50 billion Covid-19 recovery fund, the centrepiece of Budget 2020.

“There’s over $25 billion that the Minister of Finance can’t even say how he would spend right now.”

Grant Robertson said there was about $20 billion unallocated so far, and that may end up being targeted towards the most vulnerable.

National’s finance spokesman Paul Goldsmith said there was nothing specific in Budget 2020 about easing commercial rents for businesses, and small businesses in particular.

“They haven’t seen that. Instead

what we’ve seen is this big sum they may spend on whatever they like in the election campaign.”

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said work was still being done to see how to help ease the commercial rent pain.

Goldsmith said some debt was understandable in the extraordinary times, but $140 billion of forecast debt

by 2024 would be felt for generations.Bridges added that $400 million

for tourism, which employed 400,000 people directly or indirectly, seemed at odds with $1.2 billion for rail.

“That doesn’t seem to me to be getting priorities right.”

Act leader David Seymour said in his Budget speech in the House there was a lack of detail in the spending, also citing the $400m for tourism.

“The press release I would estimate is $1m a letter. There is so little detail.”

He called the $1.1 billion environment fund the “Barry Crump fund” that would see some people planting pine trees, others pulling down wilding pines, and others culling

a wallaby infestation caused by the Government’s ban on semi-automatic firearms.

The message to parents of children getting free lunches in schools was that they did not need to provide their kids with lunches, he said.

“They’re the children who are going to grow up in a New Zealand with triple the public debt — $140 billion (by 2024), borrowed by the Government in their name in this Budget.”

NZ First leader Winston Peters, meanwhile, used his Budget speech to tell Bridges to “get a haircut and get a real job”. He said the “new normal” in a Covid world was about focusing on New Zealand.

‘Tsunami of debt will cripple future generations’: BridgesBut Bridges was also welcoming the Government’s extension to the wage subsidy scheme.

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WELLINGTON — The wage subsidy scheme may be extended a third time as the Government strives to keep unemployment below 10 percent following the ravages of the Covid crisis.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson said today Treasury had painted three scenarios for unemployment — including coming down to 8 percent by the end of the year — but “I want to see it even lower”.

“We have to make sure it stays below 10,” he told Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking.

The unemployment rate for the March quarter was 4.2 percent — but that was before the full impact of Covid-19. One of Treasury’s scenarios has it rising to 9.8 percent, before coming back.

The Government yesterday unveiled an unprecedented $50 billion rescue and recovery Budget in a bid to save tens of thousands of jobs, as Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc on the world’s economy.

As part of the Budget, the wage subsidy scheme has been extended for a second time — a further eight weeks to businesses who have lost at least 50 percent of their revenue.

Asked by Hosking whether the scheme might be extended a third time, Robertson said: “We are going to be flexible. We will keep making sure it’s fit for purpose.”

He said the Government would be keeping an eye on specific sectors, including tourism and hospitality.

“We are now targeting this to industries that are struggling to get out and trade.”

While the tourism sector has been critical of the Budget, Robertson said details announced yesterday were only an initial contribution. Government would now be working with industry on future support packages and reimagination of the sector.

Meanwhile, he described the relationship with China as “very robust” following concerns it might retaliate over comments made by Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters, who wants Taiwan to be represented at the World Health Organisation.

“The relationship with China is strong. Export numbers for China are holding up much better than other countries,” said Robertson.

Yesterday’s Budget is the single biggest spending package in New Zealand’s history.

Although Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is confident her “rebuilding Budget” will prevent major economic carnage in New Zealand, she admits there is still pain ahead.

“It will be significant and it will be painful.”

Government debt is forecast to double to $200b and there will be deficits in the tens of billions of dollars for years to come.

And, according to Treasury, unemployment is expected to reach a whisker under 10 percent by September.

But Ardern was at pains to point out the Government was sparing no expense when it comes to saving as many jobs as it could.

She promised unemployment would fall back to 4.2 percent in two years’ time – roughly the level it is at now.

The Budget, as she told the House, was “relentlessly focused on jobs”.

In fact, she said it would save almost 140,000 jobs across the country and prevent the runaway unemployment which would have otherwise occurred, as a result of the pandemic.

And at the centre of her Government’s plan is an eight-week extension of the wage subsidy scheme, first announced in March.

The Government poured an additional $3.2 billion into the scheme yesterday, taking the fund’s total to $14 billion.

From June 10, businesses which have suffered, or are expecting to suffer, a 50 percent loss of revenue, will be eligible for the scheme’s extension.

And there are a number of other multi-billion dollar job creation and saving schemes included in the Budget, as well as a massive push for training and re-training.

There was $221m to bolster the free lunches in schools programme and an additional $1.2 billion for New Zealand’s railways.

And the Government revealed it would borrow $5 billion in the next four to five years to build 8000 state and transitional houses in

partnership with housing providers.

However, given Covid-19-related spending was the Government’s priority, some previously-announced policies were put on ice.

For example, the expansion of the fees-free tertiary education scheme appears to have been shelved — when asked about the future of the policy Ardern refused to be drawn.

Big-ticket items of the budget include:

■ A $3.2 billion extension of the wage subsidy scheme

■ A $1.2 billion railway package

■ A $3 billion infrastructure investment package

■ A $1.6 billion trades and training scheme

■ A $220 million expansion of the school lunches initiative

■ A $400 million targeted tourism support fund

■ A $830 million disability support package.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson described yesterday’s Budget as “the most significant financial commitment by a New Zealand Government in modern history”.

However, National leader Simon Bridges was critical of a number of areas within the Budget, notably the expected increase in Government debt.

Treasury forecasts show by 2024, the Government would have borrowed close to $200 billion – that’s up from the current $90 billion already owed. That figure was $65 billion just two months ago.

This is, according to Bridges, a “tsunami of debt”.

But Ardern said Covid-19 was the “rainy day” the Government had been saving for.

“To say that a rainy day demands of us that we shelter and protect New Zealand to weather the storm,” she said.

“Rather than argue about who gets to hold the umbrella, I hope the Opposition steps away from business as usual, and votes for this Budget and the jobs it will create.”

Although National did not move the traditional “no confidence” vote in the Budget, Bridges confirmed his party would vote against it.

He was also worried about the upcoming Government deficits — averaging $28b a year over the next two years — reaching as high as $30b next year.

The Government is not expected to return to surplus until at least 2028.

“I’m disappointed because I don’t see a plan for jobs and growth,” he said in the House.

He pointed out that there was a lack of detail in some of the announcements, such as the $400m earmarked for the tourism sector.

“Spending money is the easy part but Grant Robertson doesn’t even know today how he would spend it all. Much is unallocated and it all needs to be paid back.”

The $50 billion is over four years — $16 billion announced yesterday and $14b announced before the Budget.

The remaining $20 billion is yet to be allocated.

The Government has signalled that a funding package for arts and sports will be unveiled in the coming days and more money for New Zealand’s media sector will also be announced soon. But a number of stakeholders have already begun lobbying the Government to use that yet-to-be-announced $20b to save their sectors. — NZ Herald

Budget biggest spending package in NZ’s historyWage subsidy may be extended a third time

‘REBUILDING TOGETHER’: Finance Minister Grant Robertson with copies of his Budget 2020 on Parliament steps in Wellington. New Zealand Herald picture by Mark Mitchell

WELLINGTON — The Government is being warned that many more families will fall into poverty if it doesn’t boost support for people losing their jobs because of Covid-19.

Beneficiary advocates and groups working with the country’s poorest said it was disappointing yesterday’s Budget did not include further increases to benefits or reform of the welfare system.

Treasury is forecasting unemployment to hit 10 percent by September, and the number of people on the main unemployment benefit to double.

Prior to the pandemic, the Government appeared to be tracking towards achieving its child poverty reduction targets.

But child poverty is now also expected to rise — with material hardship rates expected to rise sharply.

Council of Christian Social Services executive officer Trevor McGlinchey said more needed to be done to stop people falling into hardship.

“Families are suffering now,” he said.“There will be a wave of people coming

off those (wage) subsidies and going on to unemployment benefits and the benefits are just not sufficient to survive on.

“There is going to be a very strong response to that, I think, from people who start to experience that level of poverty, often for the first time.”

If the Government does not do more to support those on the lowest incomes, by raising benefits and lifting the minimum wage, McGlinchey said child poverty “will most definitely blow out”.

The Child Poverty Action Group, the Salvation Army, Lifewise and Auckland Action Against Poverty have also expressed disappointment in the Budget’s failure to address benefit levels.

Back in March, as part of the Government’s initial response to Covid-19, benefits were increased by $25 a week and the winter energy payment was doubled for this year.

However, the organisations said that did not go far enough and benefits were too low for families to cover their essential costs like rent, bills and food.

They hoped some of the $20 billion the Government has not yet allocated will be used to remedy this.

Liz Davies, general manager of SociaLink in the Western Bay of Plenty told Morning Report there was significant poverty in the region and it was often overlooked because it was thought of as a prosperous area.

It was 1700 short on the number of social houses it needed and social services had seen a sharp drop in funding from gaming trusts and donations, since the Covid-19 crisis began.

Mariameno Kapi-Kingi of Te Runanga o Whaingaroa said the numbers in the Budget were “bedazzling” but for the 8000 projected new state houses it mentions, it was hard to know what it would mean for her region, Tai Tokerau.

She hoped it meant more housing for the area but those hoping to build on Maori land in Northland still faced “a mire” of regulations to make it a reality.

While Finance Minister Grant Robertson had referred to the Covid-19 pandemic as “an opportunity” to build back better, Kapi-Kingi said not enough detail had been provided.

“That’s for us to decide if it’s an opportunity and I did not get that.”

Scott Figenshow, CEO of Community Housing Aotearoa, said the Budget was a great start but would deliver only about half of what was needed.

Delivering more permanent, affordable housing was vital, he said.

Davies said some good things had come out of the way people worked together during the lockdown, and she hoped Budget funds could be spent strategically to strengthen the social sector and work with their whanau and other communities to greatest effect. — Radio New Zealand

Social welfare groups say current benefits ‘not sufficient to survive on’

The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 7

by Ben Leahy, NZ Herald

AUCKLAND — Two more Auckland cell phone towers have gone up in flames overnight in suspicious circumstances.

There has been a series of arson attacks on phone towers in recent weeks, including a fire at a Spark tower in Mangere on Tuesday.

The latest fires took place in Otahuhu and Favona overnight, acting Detective Inspector Shaun Vickers said.

“At around 2.38am, a police unit spotted smoke on Todd Place, Otahuhu, and on further inspection the cell tower has been located on fire.

“Police were also called to another incident on Savill Drive, Favona, at around 3.44am.”

He said police were investigating the fires.

“Scene examinations have been conducted at both sites and we are treating these as suspicious.”

One of the wildest conspiracy theories to emerge on social media recently has been that the introduction of 5G wireless technology had caused the Covid-19 outbreak.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was asked about it in early April and said it was totally false.

“I almost hesitate to even speak to it on this platform. It is just not true,” she said.

The Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield also raised eyebrows at the suggestion.

Anti-5G protesters have been linked to at least two cell-tower attacks recently.

This included the destruction of a new 4G cell tower in the Far North last month, just before it was due to be switched on, and an arson attack on a cell site in Manurewa — whose protagonists posted a video of their efforts on Facebook.

Telecommunications companies were said to be privately fuming about the repeated threats made against towers.

Geoff Thorn, head of the Telecommunications Forum, which represents the major telcos, told the NZ Herald in early April: “We know that damage to mobile networks in other countries has been linked to groups opposed to 5G.”

After Tuesday’s attack on a tower in Mangere, a Spark spokeswoman said the telecommunication company was in close contact with police.

“We think that acts of vandalism against critical infrastructure like cell towers is outrageous, particularly during a pandemic — a time when connectivity is more important than ever,” she said.

“Spark has been working with police about threats made to some of our cell sites, as well as some instances of arson.

“Generally, damage has been fairly negligible, but this is the second event which has caused an outage in the surrounding area.”

In the UK, there have been about 80 incidents of cell-tower arson or vandalism since the start of the outbreak.

Vodafone UK chief executive Nick Jeffery described attacks on 5G towers as a “matter of national security”, and said police and counter-terrorism authorities were investigating the attacks, which Mr Jeffery labelled the work of “deluded conspiracy theorists”.

Police said their inquiries in last night’s attacks in South Auckland were ongoing and they were treating the matters seriously.

Cell phone towers go up in flames amid 5G-related conspiracy threats

QUEENSTOWN — Tourism got a $400 million funding boost in Budget 2020, but industry leaders say it is not enough to keep them afloat and does not provide a clear plan.

The Tourism Recovery package includes funding for a domestic tourism campaign, a programme to advise businesses on their futures, and funding to identify and protect strategic tourism attractions.

The wage subsidy has been extended for eight more weeks, and a task force is being established to come up with ideas for future tourism in New Zealand.

However, tourism industry leaders are asking if the initiatives are enough to make up for the country’s border being closed indefinitely.

Tourist hotspot Queenstown has been reeling from thousands of job losses, with more than 5500 people requesting welfare in the area since late March.

“I’m devastated, absolutely devastated, and underwhelmed,” Pan Pacific Travel managing director Matt Brady told Checkpoint.

“We were very clear on what we needed. The borders have been closed to international visitors for potentially a very, very long time. We needed certainty, and we were saying if you extend the wage subsidy to cover the core staff for the duration of the closure, we would have probably applauded that. We’ve been given an eight-week extension.”

Budget Day has come too late for many tourism and accommodation providers, who without certainty about what help was coming have made staff redundant, he said.

He would like to have seen the wage subsidy covering tourism staff for the length of New Zealand’s border closure.

“We’re being told we’ve got this wonderful $400 million package. I note with interest recently racing, who somehow managed to be given a bit of a lifeline before the announcement of the Budget, have been given $72 million.

“I think at best they’re claiming $1.6 billion in contribution to the economy.

“Tourism — $17 billion contribution to the economy — gets $400 million.

“And most of that will be spent on a task force telling the sector how they actually pivot themselves to get into domestic or trans-Tasman. That’s like telling the kiwifruit industry to start pivoting into growing broccoli. There’s no comparison.”

For most of the inbound travel industry, the domestic tourism campaign will not mean anything, Brady said.

“We have no confidence in the current Minister of Tourism. We’ve got a Prime Minister who is covered by the global press, we’re going into recovery mode. Here’s a brilliant opportunity for our PM to step up, take over the role and lead from the front, because right now the

industry is feeling a complete and utter lack of support.”

However, Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis told Checkpoint the Government had moved quickly to provide economic relief, which the tourism sector has been eligible for.

“We listened to what they had to say. Their number one concern was the extension of the wage subsidy scheme. We’ve listened to that, we’ve extended the wage subsidy scheme for eight more weeks.

“We have to be honest that we can’t tie workers to jobs that will not be there in the future . . . We won’t have the same tourism industry that we had previously, but we will have the bones of it, and we will come out stronger on the other side.”

He said it is “way too soon” to be making predictions about when international borders will reopen.

The $400m fund included a plan to protect “strategic tourism assets”. Davis said they were businesses that have positive spinoff effects to a community or region.

“If we don’t support those strategic tourism assets then what they’ll have is an effect to other regions. Take

something like Kaikoura whale watch. It brings tourists to Kaikoura and if it wasn’t there, then it would have a huge impact, flow-on effect to the rest of the area and we’d have more job losses.”

Active Adventures chief executive Wendy van Lieshout said the $400m tourism package was “a little bit lacking for those of us who already have pivoted and made a change in our businesses.”

Her customers have been 100 percent international, so the business is very quickly moving to attract New Zealanders and Australians, if the trans-Tasman border opens.

Her business has been running for 23 years.

“We have been profitable and we do have reserves, that’s why we’ve been able to retain our staff to date.

“Our job is to bring people to New Zealand, to enjoy the entire country. We have brought hundreds of millions of export dollars — income, taxpayer money — into New Zealand over the last 23 years.

“If people like us don’t exist, who is going to bring those people (to NZ)?” — RNZ

Budget funding not good enough: tourism leaders

TOURISM ONCE A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO NZ ECONOMY: Above, tourists cycle the Alps 2 Ocean cycle trail in Canterbury in 2016. Tourism New Zealand promotional file picture

by Kurt Bayer, NZ Herald

CHRISTCHURCH — Prince William has dialled in Down Under to check on Christchurch’s Muslim community a year after the mosque shootings, which claimed 51 lives.

The Duke of Cambridge used Zoom to speak to the imams of Masjid Al Noor and Linwood Islamic Centre, along with prominent Muslim Association of Canterbury members and local MP Dr Megan Woods, last night.

Gamal Fouda, imam of Masjid Al Noor, told the NZ Herald that he had been expecting the call all week.

The Duke said he was reconnecting with the people he met during his visit to Christchurch in the weeks after the terror attack.

During the 40-minute

conversation, the group spoke about grief and healing, as well as the continuing effects that March 15 has had on their community. They also talked to the Duke about Covid-19 and how they have adapted to continue supporting their community during New Zealand’s lockdown.

Currently Muslim communities around the world are observing Ramadan, which this year began on April 23 and will end on May 23.

Prince William spoke with the community after iftar — the evening meal that breaks the fast.

He finished the call by reflecting on the 2019 attacks and saying: “I’m really proud of all of you, the whole community and the New Zealand Government for how you have all dealt with such an atrocity. You are a role model for how something so tragic can be negotiated with the utmost grace and dignity.”

The man behind the March 15, 2019, terror attack pleaded guilty on the first day of New

Zealand’s nationwide Alert Level 4 lockdown and is in custody awaiting to be sentenced.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Jacinda

Ardern said yesterday that the Christchurch Call, an initiative set up after the attacks that brought governments and tech companies together in Paris with a single goal to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online, has made significant progress.

On its first anniversary of the Christchurch Call to Action, Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron as the founding leaders reaffirmed their commitment to the move and commended supporters’ efforts so far. “If an attack like we saw on March 15 last year happened again, we have an international network of governments and tech companies ready to mobilise and work against the forces that boosted the viral spread of content from Christchurch . . . ”

Royal reconnects with victims of Chch mosque attacks

The Duke of Cambridge,

Prince William Zoom image via Kensington Palace

Tourism industry leaders are asking if the initiatives are enough.

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WELLINGTON — New Zealand shares fell as a warning of slow economic recovery from the US Federal Reserve prompted a global retreat from equity markets.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index fell 0.4 percent to 10,745.16. Within the index, 27 stocks fell, 18 rose and were five unchanged. Turnover was $148 million.

Overnight, investors heeded US Fed chair Jerome Powell’s warning of an “extended period” of weak economic growth, triggering a correction in markets pricing in a swifter recovery.

Wall Street tumbled following the webcast speech, the S&P 500 down 1.8 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 2.2 percent.

Asian markets followed the negative lead, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropping 1.1 percent, Shanghai’s Composite falling 0.5 percent and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 declining 1.1 percent.

“The recovery rally we saw in April has moderated with people like Jerome Powell out there warning of the risks to the future,” Milford Asset Management portfolio manager, Sam Trethewey, said.

The New Zealand government yesterday revealed a budget with a $50 billion Covid-19 recovery fund to soften, but not prevent, the coming recession.

Trethewey said spending announced in the budget takes some time to be implemented and flow through to companies listed on the NZX, so rarely has a bearing on daily share price movements.

Instead, with offshore ownership making up half of the free-floating market, global sentiment was driving price action today, Trethewey said.

Mercury NZ led the market lower, falling 4.5 percent to $4.70. Meridian Energy fell 2.7 percent to $4.71, while Contact Energy edged

0.3 percent higher to $6.23 and Genesis Energy rose 0.2 percent to $2.82. Sky Network Television continued to slip backwards after a rally earlier in the week, falling 2.8 percent to 35 cents.

Synlait Milk declined 2.8 percent to $7.02, but on a light volume of just 27,000 shares.

Z Energy dropped 1.3 percent to $3.00 drifting closer to its capital raising offer price of $2.90. The company plans to raise up to a further $60 million through a share purchase plan at $2.90 or less.

Trethewey said the capital raise would have soaked up many of the available buyers and would tend to put downward pressure on a share price.

Tourism Holdings fell 1.9 percent to $1.59 with investors finding no encouragement in the $400 million earmarked to support the tourism industry in the budget.

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group declined 1.1 percent to $16.40 and Westpac Banking Corp slipped 1.5 percent to $16.14, although both on light volumes.

Fletcher Building posted the day’s biggest gain, rising 5.9 percent to $3.39. Trethewey said Fletcher was experiencing a recovery rally after being sold off yesterday when it was dropped from the New Zealand MCSI index.

The MCSI index tracks the eight largest stocks, but was cut down to seven yesterday, causing many investors to reallocate their holdings.

Pushpay rose 4.6 percent to $6.85, taking its gain since the start of the year to 71 percent.

The outbreak accelerated a shift towards digital giving in cash orientated US society, by church-goers who found online giving to be the only way to donate money with stay-at-home orders in place.

Freightways has increased its banking facilities by $50 million to ensure the firm can cope with the weaker economy. Groupwide, total revenue dropped by an average of 32 percent in April but had improved during that time both in terms of volume and type of activity. Its rose 3.6 percent to $6.89. — BusinessDesk

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY

WELLINGTON — Business groups have welcomed the Government’s focus on supporting jobs but union representatives say it could have gone further.

The Budget includes $3.2 billion for an eight-week extension of the wage subsidy scheme, as well as $1.6 billion for trades and training.

Kirk Hope, chief executive of Business New Zealand, said extending the wage scheme was appropriate.

“Supporting the wages of employees has been a successful strategy in the Government’s Covid response so far, and it is good to see this strategy continue.”

The Government’s existing 12-week wage subsidy ends next month, having already paid out $10.7 billion

to help keep 1.7 million Kiwis in jobs through the lockdown and subsequent restrictions.

From June 10, businesses that have, or expect to, suffer a 50 percent hit to revenue will be eligible for an extension to the subsidy, which will be open to applications for a 12-week period and paid as an eight-week lump sum at the same rates as the existing scheme.

Kirk said expanding the subsidy to include research and development start-ups and pre-revenue R&D start ups that are recognised by Callaghan Innovation was a smart way of boosting new and innovative firms that would aid New Zealand’s growth in the medium term.

Leeann Watson, chief executive of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce

said businesses would welcome the extension of the wage subsidy.

“It will be quite some time for businesses to return to normal and we need to recognise that. Just because businesses can open, does not mean they will be at full capacity for quite some time to come, based on demand, social-distancing and general behaviours of consumers.”

Watson said only time would tell if the eight-week extension would be enough to keep them going. She said the 50 percent revenue drop criteria was “about right”.

Bruce Bernacchi, KPMG head of financial services, said the announcements gave a very strong signal to business that the Government was there to protect jobs and provide

additional support. He said the wage subsidy extension

would most help tourism, bricks and mortar retail and hospitality businesses although tourism could need a further extension.

Of the $50 billion spending package $20b remained unallocated.

“Bernacchi said the worst of the economic shock was still to come and it was prudent for the Government to hold the $20b in reserve for now given the uncertainty and the potential for a second wave of the virus.

But Andrea Black, an economist at the Council of Trade Unions, said while the Government was heading down the right path it needed to go further, faster.

“While the targeted wage subsidy

— particularly to high growth firms; free trades training; increased health spending; the investment in environment jobs as well as increased focus on research and development is great, it would have been good to have seen greater emphasis on a general pathway to higher value, higher wage employment for the economy as a whole.”

“This Budget has delivered a massive boost and is good for working people, but given the scale of the challenge we face, it could have gone even further. We look forward to the Government’s future plans and direction for the rest of the Covid Response and Recovery Fund so that the quality of life can be improved for all working Kiwis.” — NZ Herald

Focus on jobs welcomed, but unions look for moreon

BUDGET2020

Spending

Borrowing

Red ink

Infrastructure& transport

Upbyabout $50b,includingmeasuresalready announcedand those to come.Includes $3.2b toextendwage subsidyscheme, $1.6b fortrades and training,$400msupport fundfor tourism,$150mfor R&D support, andfunding for 8000newstate-ownedhomes.

Initial$3b contingencypackage for infrastruc-ture,with speciicprojects yet to bedecided, on topof $12ballocated in January.And $1.2b for rail,about a third of it forinter-island ferries.

Core Crown revenueexpected to fall from30.8%of GDP in2018-19 to 28.8%by 2021-22.

Unemploymentforecast to peak at9.8%. By 2022,Treasury forecasts,thatwill fall to 4.2%.

Govt debt rising from$58b in 2019 to some

$200bby 2024.Forecast 2020-21

bondprogramme isnow set at $60b vs$10b expected inDecember. In the

following year, bondprogrammehas been

lited to $40b, then$35b in June 2023year and $30b to

June 2024.

Deicit balloons to$9.6b this year and

$10bnext year.Forecast to track

back towardssurplus by 2028.

Tax revenue

Growth

Jobs

Last year’s Budgetforecast 3%GDPgrowth for 2020.

This year’s expectsthe economy to

shrink by 4.6% in2020, and to keep

shrinking untilJune 2022, though

growth is forecast tosoar from then.

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COMMENT by Fran O’Sullivan, NZ Herald

GRANT Robertson’s Budget is a “rolling maul on steroids” which does a superb job in arresting the extent of the Covid-19 economic carnage to date, and (at the same time) niftily sets up Labour for the September 19 election.

Robertson unashamedly borrowed the rugby analogy from Sir Bill English who described initiatives in his 2009 post-GFC Budget as a “rolling maul”. It was deliberate.

The rugby-mad Robertson knew the concept would be immediately obvious to New Zealand’s sporting public.

Robertson holds the dual portfolios of finance and sport so you can expect much more in this vein from him and likewise with Jacinda Ardern and her “team of five million” sloganeering over the Covid-19 health threat.

Robertson ruled out company tax cuts to incentivise business (and confirmed any other taxation response would be up to the elected parties after the election). Instead, the focus is on direct business assistance.

The centrepiece of Robertson’s third Budget is the $50 billion Covid Response and Recovery Fund which was formalised by Cabinet on April 6. Much is already spent, starting with the $12.1b initial wage subsidy scheme which will be extended from June

10 for eight weeks for firms whose revenue has fallen by 50 percent in a preceding month.

This will give comfort to sectors like retail which are expecting revenue to remain down by around at least 30 percent even as New Zealanders return to their workplace under Level 2.

If revenues slump to 50 percent, the extension will give firms time to decide whether they do have a business left if consumer confidence fails to return within the eight-week period and people keep their wallets closed. It is a stop-gap solution at best.

Robertson has leveraged the crisis to migrate to a new “Future of Work” paradigm. Intriguingly, the dynamic shifts have not sprung from the impact of AI and robotics on industries — as he predicted in his own seminal commission — but from the impact of a pandemic on immigration and tourism.

The farming sector has lost thousands of workers on

temporary visas who headed home and tourism is not expected to resurge to previous heights even with the return of domestic flights.

The major packages to create jobs in the environmental and farming sectors are a worthwhile investment and will mop up some excess unemployment provided people migrate to where the new jobs are.

There is an element of pure tribalism to the Budget as you would expect from a Labour minister. But Robertson will be cautious about paying out too much more of the residual $20.2b left from the Covid Fund ahead of the September 19 election lest he is open to charges of being a fiscal spendthrift. But he does expect it to be spent over a four-year period.

Sports and arts (and media) are sectors which can expect assistance in weeks ahead and even ‘helicopter cash’ payments for people in need. There will also be more detail

on the so-called “shovel-ready” infrastructure projects which will get a nudge.

Economic pessimists will point to the explosion in red ink. Net Crown debt is projected to explode to $200.8b (53.6 percent of GDP by June 30, 2024). But the debt is sustainable at today’s interest rates and well below that of many economies in percentage terms.

The Treasury economic forecasts seem somewhat heroic with unemployment to peak at 9.8 percent by September and be back to current levels of 4.2 percent in 2022. The Government has to face the risk a vaccine will not be found to end the pandemic, as a World Health Organisation official cautioned yesterday. If so, the $55 million this Budget votes for contact tracing may well be a line item for years to come.

This Budget marks the 40th I have covered. Sir Roger Douglas’ radical budgets in the mid-80s changed the economic landscape; Ruth Richardson’s harsh “mother of all budgets” cut spending to arrest a fiscal crisis and Sir Michael Cullen and Sir Bill English faced huge challenges dealing with the GFC and earthquakes.

Robertson’s third Budget is unprecedented in its size. But for the rolling maul to survive in political terms, the players must pass the ball nicely. That is the challenge as the election nears.

‘Rolling maul on steroids’Robertson’s $50b plan sets Labour up for election

Finance Minister Grant Robertson in the House delivering Budget 2020. NZ Herald picture

The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 BUSINESS 9

Re: Time Gwynne Dyer quit? May 7 letter and responses.

Lara, are you so keen to join the hate-fest that you willingly swallow any lie? In fact, like the heads of a hydra, you even mass produce the BS more and more. You are a good little storm trooper aren’t you.

Yes, I am partly outraged at mainstream media turning into bald-faced liars and propagandists, but also bored with the laziness and obviousness of their non-stop prattle. Clue: over 90 percent of the press coverage of Trump is negative — doesn’t that one fact make you stop and think? It bloody well should do. Come on Lara, wake that brain of yours up! Please provide at least one link to your claim of Mr T “virus is a hoax” claim to help your case.

TIM STEWART

As narcissistic and bombastic as Trump is, he did not say coronavirus was a hoax, even as much as we’d like to believe it.

What he said at the February 28 campaign rally in South Carolina, and expressed as badly as ever, was the Democrats were politicising coronavirus. The hoax comment was off the back of the impeachment trial in which Trump had called the charges a hoax.

Here is what he said at that press briefing. The full quote can be found on YouTube footage and online fact-checker Snopes.

“Now the Democrats are politicising the

coronavirus. You know that, right? Coronavirus. They’re politicising it . . . . They tried the impeachment hoax . . . . And this is their new hoax. But you know, we did something that’s been pretty amazing. We’re 15 people (cases of coronavirus infection) in this massive country. And because of the fact that we went early, we went early, we could have had a lot more than that.”

In fact, there were a lot more than 15 cases in the US by that day. CDC’s National Centre for Immunisation and Respiratory Diseases director Nancy Messonnier confirmed 62 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in the US by February 28. That number was made up of 44 people who were aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, three people repatriated from China — and 15 US cases.

MARK PETERS

It sounds like you watch Fox News Tim.The thing I like about Gwynne Dyer’s

articles is he cuts through the fake news and conspiracy theories we get bombarded with and writes a logical and evidence-backed article.

I also notice he doesn’t let politics dictate his opinion, but exposes incompetents whoever they are.

Fox News attacks the Democrats, CNN attacks the Republicans — Gwynne Dyer steps back and says “look at these morons!”

ANDREW DAVIS, Hamilton

Hi again Tim,Perhaps 90 percent of the press coverage of

Trump is negative because 90 percent of what he says and does is nonsensical.

In my opinion, and I am entitled to it, he is unreliable, untruthful, faithless, feckless and seemingly pretty stupid.

He can’t string a sentence, promotes conspiracy theories and seems to tweet rubbish when he should be working.

Every time he opens his mouth to speak, I am shocked at how silly he sounds. This is the chosen leader of America and his election speaks to the stupidity of those who voted him in. Did you know that most voters choose someone who is only slightly more intelligent than themselves? That tells me a lot about his “base”.

He has surrounded himself with people seemingly as shady as he is.

He lacks empathy, even despite the shockingly awful tidal wave of illness and death sweeping over America.

The sideshow of General Flynn and who did what to whom, the politics of distraction, is not appropriate at this time.

If Trump is the saint some people consider him to be, let’s see him get on with the job of leadership, not blowing up Twitter with childish insults.

You can like him all you want, I see a very foolish, old, racist misogynist. I haven’t seen him do or say anything to change my mind yet. Still waiting . . .

LARA MEYER

On Trump news, virus ‘hoax’ and Fox News

For the past seven years I have had the pleasure and privilege of entertaining at all our rest homes plus a variety of other organisations such as the Blind Foundation, Senior Citizens, the Sherwood Club and other facilities. I have also busked to raise money for groups and organisations. This is not a task, it is an absolute pleasure.

It is now seven weeks since I have been able to entertain my friends and I wonder when the limitations thrust upon me by Covid-19 will end.

When I entertain, I sit no closer than 15 feet from my audiences and

feel that surely I will in no way be a danger. I live alone sharing my home with my cat, and I miss visitations more than most will understand.

This is probably the only thing that I can give back to my community. I cannot wait for each engagement to come around and I have no less than 12-14 bookings each month. The fact that I cannot presently visit my many beloved friends is, honestly, driving me to distraction. My greatest concern is that when I go back, some of my friends will no longer be around.

I have spent the past six weeks of lockdown learning some amazing

new songs and now have a repertoire of over 900 (roll on 1000), and it’s such a shame that I cannot share some of the ballads, lyrics and serenades with the people I love.

While I appreciate that the rest homes are a most risky environment, I think the current performances of our local institutions is a credit to all staff and management. I am also in that “elderly” category but would do anything to continue on my venture. I miss my friends so much.

MIKE MULROONEY

Tough not being able to entertain friends

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Finance Minister Grant Robertson yesterday delivered a one-in-100-year “Rebuilding Together” Budget with a $50 billion Covid-19 response and recovery fund as its centrepiece — focused on economic recovery and investing in jobs — that keeps $20.2bn in reserve, to be allocated as the needs from coronavirus fallout become clearer.

This vast vault of dry powder is the most controversial Budget item, potentially leaving wide scope for the Government to burnish its credentials heading into an election in September. Robertson will have to be cautious on the optics of new Covid-related spending this year, and has said he expects the extra $20bn to be spent over four years.

Covid relief initiatives announced in the Budget include extending the wage subsidy for businesses suffering a more-than 50 percent decline in revenue, investing more in infrastructure and offering free trades training, for additional spending of $15.9bn on top of the $26bn of Covid support already announced; total funding for Covid relief now comes to $62.1bn.

Just how much more we are spending as a nation than we earn is outlined in Treasury forecasts of a $28.3bn deficit this financial year, $29.6bn in 2020/21 and $27.2bn in 2021/22, before falling to $16.5bn then a $4.9bn deficit in 2023/24.

Net core Crown debt is forecast to rise from $58bn to $201bn by mid-2024, or 53.6 percent of GDP, and only get back to 42 percent of GDP by 2034. With both National and Labour governments having prudently kept Crown debt in a 5-25 percent range since the late 1990s, these figures show just how significant the Covid crisis and response is — easily eclipsing the costs of responding to the Global Financial Crisis and the Christchurch and Kaikoura earthquakes.

On the jobs impact and recovery front, Treasury sees unemployment peaking at 9.8 percent in September then falling back to current levels of about 4.2 percent by 2022.

Obviously there are big unknowns in all this, and that is why the unorthodox decision to set aside $20bn of uncommitted funding makes sense. Robertson has also said taxation responses to our new deficit reality will be up to elected parties after September.

The Budget included an “initial allocation” of $3bn for the “shovel-ready” infrastructure projects put forward around the country (2000 of them), with announcements in “coming weeks and months” set to deliver the biggest Budget bang — or fizzle — for this region and in particular our council.

Covid costs to run on for years . . .

Re: Diversified, May 14 response.

Dave, that’s what I am saying — use these investment returns to fix up these stuff-ups. Don’t pile it back on to the rates.

Like you say, if they make sound investments that earn good returns, that can help fund priorities here.

REX HOLDSWORTH

Yes, reinvest

Re: Stick to the rules police tell gathering at tangi on Coast, April 18 story.

False news! There was no tangi at the

marae! The marae was closed and remains closed.

The whanau were at the urupa (cemetery) only, burying their loved one.

The police arrived after observing the family (yes, several vehicles) taking the tupapaku from the family home to the urupa.

WHANAU

Whanau at urupa, marae was closed

Re: More tributes for Henry Maxwell, May 13 story.

Taku hoa kura haere atu ra.Henry was a gentleman, had

the shiniest shoes, was always neat in his appearance and a great leader at GBHS. Yes, a great all-rounder in all that he did – and he led by example.

A very good friend who looked after me at school. Thanks my mate for all the good times and for being a mate.

E kore e mitimiti a tatau aroha mohou me te aroha nui ki a Christine me to whanau.

MENG FOON

Gentleman and a leader

Re: Bridge cost could double, May 14 story.

Rather than build 1000-year walkway to ?, the community would be better served by a flyover from Hirini Street to

take logging trucks to the log yard off SH35 and decongest the petrol station corner. This is a matter of community safety.

DAREN COULSTON

Truck flyover insteadMany thanks to the kind

person who left a lovely old photo of our house by the front door during Level 4. The writing on the back says it was taken in 1906, and it’s amazing how little the house has changed in 114 years. I can’t help but wonder if it was taken by well-known photographic identity of the time, William Crawford.

Let us know if you would like it back . . . otherwise it will be framed. Thank you again.

B. & J. WHEELER

Very kind

The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 202010 OPINION

The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 11

Playing it safe at Alert Level 2

Find out more at Covid19.govt.nz

We are now at Alert Level 2. This lifts many

restrictions, but means we all now have more

responsibility too. It’s up to all of us to ‘play it safe’

so we can stop the virus from spreading again.

Keep track of where you goHealth services use contact tracing to reach

people quickly when there is a risk they have

been exposed to a case of COVID-19. This helps

stop any further spread.

To help them do this efectively you should keep track of the three

Ws: Where you went, When you went there, and Who you met.

Socialise small You can now socialise with up to 10 friends and

whānau. All groups should be 10 people or less,

whether you’re catching up at home, or out

and about.

Make the spaceKeep a 2-metre distance from anyone you

don’t know in public or in retail stores including

supermarkets. Keeping people separated in

this way helps stop any new transmission.

You should also keep a 1-metre distance from other groups when

you’re in an environment where further controls are in place –

such as work, or a café or cinema. Further controls might include

contact recording, limits to the numbers of people allowed on

the premises, and other public health measures.

Allow extra time Allowing extra time for your journeys is

very important.

More people will be travelling again, and more

cars will be on the road. Public transport has reduced capacity

as people try to keep their distance, so stay calm and be kind.

If you can, try to take public transport at of-peak times, and make

a note of the service you were on and where you were sitting.

As we all work together to ‘make the space’ around us, there may

be queues at places where you didn’t need to queue before –

including public places like libraries. Remember to remain patient.

Plan ahead as much as possible and allow extra time if you can.

Thanks for playing it safe New Zealand Now is the time to inish the job we’ve started. If we all play our part,

we’ll lower our chances of spreading the virus again.

WASHINGTON — Republican Senator Richard Burr temporarily stepped aside as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday after the FBI served a search warrant for his cellphone as part of an investigation into a well-timed sale of stocks tied to the coronavirus pandemic.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the move, saying he and Burr had agreed that it was in the committee’s best interests. As he ducked into a Senate Republican lunch, Burr told reporters at the Capitol that he thought it was “the right thing to do”.

“This is a distraction to the hard work of the committee and the members, and I think that the security of the country is too important to have a distraction,” Burr said.

Burr, from North Carolina, said he would serve out the remainder of his term, which ends in 2023. He is not running for re-election.

FBI officials showed up at Burr’s home with the warrant on Wednesday, two people familiar with the investigation said, marking a significant escalation into the Justice Department’s investigation into whether Burr exploited advance information when he unloaded as much as $1.7 million in stocks in the days before the coronavirus caused markets to plummet. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The search warrant was served on a lawyer for Burr, and FBI agents went to the senator’s home in the Washington area to retrieve the cellphone, a senior Justice Department official said. The decision to obtain the warrant, which must be authorised by a judge, was approved at the highest levels of the department, the official said.

Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House before travelling to Pennsylvania on Thursday, said he was unaware that Burr was leaving his intelligence post.

“I know nothing about it — never discussed it with anybody,” Trump said. “That’s too bad.”

The Justice Department declined to comment. Burr’s attorney did not respond to phone and email messages but said in a statement last month that the law is clear that any senator can participate in stock market trading based on public information “as Senator Burr did”. The attorney, Alice Fisher, had said that Burr welcomed a review of the stock sales, “which will establish that his actions were appropriate”.

Burr has denied wrongdoing but has also requested an ethics review of the stock sales. His decision on Thursday appeared to surprise some members of the committee, where Burr has been a popular chairman and has often worked on a bipartisan basis.

“Oh, wow,” said Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, upon learning that Burr had temporarily stepped aside. “I don’t know what to say. I truly didn’t know about it. He’s been an excellent chairman of the committee.”

Texas Senator John Cornyn, another Republican on the intelligence panel, said he respects Burr’s decision, adding that “he’s entitled to a presumption of innocence just like anybody else”.

Senate records show that Burr and his wife sold between roughly $600,000 and $1.7 million in more than 30 transactions in late January and mid-February, just before the market began to nosedive and government health officials began to sound alarms about the virus. Several of the stocks were in companies that own hotels.

Burr has acknowledged selling the stocks because of the coronavirus but said he relied “solely on public news reports”, specifically CNBC’s daily health and science reporting out of Asia,

to make the financial decisions.Burr was not the only lawmaker

whose stock sales around the same time made headlines.

Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler, a new senator from Georgia up for re-election this year, sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock in late January and February, as senators began to get briefings on the virus, according to records. She subsequently said that she would liquidate her stock portfolio and move the money to investment funds after coming under scrutiny for the transactions.

Senators did receive a closed-door briefing on the virus on January 24, which was public knowledge. A separate briefing was held February 12 by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, of which Burr is a member. It’s unclear if he attended either session.

He was first elected to the Senate in 2004 and chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee as the panel conducted its own investigation into Russian election interference in the 2016 presidential election. The committee recently issued a report supporting the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia had interfered on Trump’s behalf.

It is unclear who will take Burr’s place. The next several Republican members in seniority are already chairmen of other committees, although they could choose to switch.

Next in seniority is Idaho Senator James Risch, who told reporters on Thursday that he didn’t know if he would keep his current perch as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee or move to the intelligence panel.

Following him is Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who heads the Senate Small Business Committee. He said that he wasn’t aware that Burr was stepping aside and that the decision on who takes over the panel was up to McConnell.

Collins, chairwoman of the Senate Aging Committee, is third in line.

The Los Angeles Times first reported the search warrant. — AP

Senate intelligence chief steps down amid FBI probe

MICRONESIA — Two of three Marshall Islands fishermen lost at sea since April 2 washed into a tiny atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia, weak but alive after a 42-day drift on the open ocean.

The small outboard engine boat washed up at Namoluk, the smallest atoll in Micronesia, on Thursday morning.

Details about their health and their 1600km drift were not immediately available from the isolated atoll.

“They were skinny and weak as you would expect after 40 days at sea,” said Marshall Islands Health Secretary Jack Niedenthal, after he was advised by a FSM government public health official that the two men had been found.

Three men left Ebeye Island on a fishing trip on April 2, developed engine trouble and drifted out of Kwajalein’s lagoon during a period of high winds and rough seas.

A search by the US Army, Coast Guard and Marshall Islands Sea Patrol came up empty.

The two are Godfrey Capelle and Thomas Benjamin, according to a preliminary report received from Chuuk.

The third man who went with Capelle and Benjamin was Junior Joram, 32, reported the Marshall Islands Journal when the men were initially lost at sea in early April.

They were in a 6-metre outboard engine boat with a single 40hp engine.

No details were available about what happened to Joram except that he was not with Capelle and Benjamin when Namoluk islanders found them on Thursday morning.

A request from the island reportedly went to the FSM national sea patrol vessel to pick up the men and bring them to Weno, the capital of Chuuk, for medical attention and onward repatriation to the Marshall Islands. — RNZ

Fishermen found after 42-day ocean drift

WASHINGTON — Despite White House claims, the US still lacks a comprehensive battle plan against the coronavirus in critical areas including masks, testing, treatments and vaccines, whistleblower Rick Bright warned on Thursday in testimony before a House committee. “Our window of opportunity is closing,” he declared.

The nation could face “the darkest winter in modern history” if the virus rebounds, the Government vaccine scientist told lawmakers. Bright’s appearance came after his ouster last month as head of a Health and Human Services biodefence agency, an action he alleges was retaliation by the Trump administration.

“We still need a comprehensive plan, and everyone across the Government and everyone in America needs to know what that plan is, and what role they play,” he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “There are critical steps that we need to do to prepare . . . we do not have enough personal protective equipment to manage our healthcare workers . . . we still do not have the supply chains ramped up for the drugs and vaccines, and we still don’t have plans in place for how we distribute those drugs and vaccines. We still do not have a comprehensive testing strategy.”

At the White House, President Donald Trump said Bright looked like an “angry, disgruntled employee”, and Bright’s boss, HHS Secretary Alex Azar, said, “Everything he is complaining about was achieved.”

Trump said that the US is ramping up production of Covid-related items and that “my goal is to produce everything America needs for ourselves and then

export to the world, including medicines”.Bright spoke in measured tones and

rarely raised his voice during five hours of questioning.

Asked by Representative Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., if administration officials have prepared the country for the “moment we are in” and the months ahead, Bright responded: “I think we have a lot of work to do to be prepared.”

Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., asked if he should be concerned that Americans will have problems getting access to a vaccine when it’s available, Bright responded, “Absolutely, Sir.”

Bright, a career official, alleges he was removed as head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority after repeatedly warning higher-ups the virus outbreak was going to be worse than the public was being led to believe.

He said the breaking point came when he opposed a White House directive to allow widespread access to hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug that Trump was touting as an effective treatment.

The FDA has recently warned against its use for Covid-19, except in limited circumstances. But at the White House on Thursday, the president was still bullish. “We’ve had tremendous response to the hydroxy,” Trump said. “So, a lot of people have sworn by it, and we’ll see.”

Nearly 85,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the US, representing more than one-fourth of global deaths and the world’s highest toll, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide more than 4.4 million have been infected and about 300,000 have died. — AP

‘Darkest winter’ if virus rebounds

‘WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY IS CLOSING’: Rick Bright has testified to Congress that the threat of a coronavirus rebound is real, and without a plan, the US will struggle. AP picture

Richard Burr

Former health official says US is ‘unprepared’ for second wave

The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 202012 WORLD

PARIS — French pharmaceutical group Sanofi promised on Thursday that it would make its Covid-19 vaccine, when ready, available in all countries, hours after the company’s CEO said the United States will get first access.

Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson’s comments that a vaccine would go first to the US prompted an angry reaction from the French government.

“Equal access for all to the vaccine is not negotiable,” French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said in a tweet.

French President Emmanuel Macron was described by his office as also being “upset” by Hudson’s comments.

Macron is pushing for vaccines to be considered a “common good” for humanity that must not be subject to market pressures.

Philippe said he spoke to Serge Weinberg, chairman of the Sanofi board, about the vaccine and received “all the necessary assurances” that it would be distributed in France.

There will be a follow-up meeting with Sanofi officials at Macron’s office next week.

Hudson told the Bloomberg news agency that the US government has the right to the largest pre-order of an eventual Covid-19 vaccine “because it’s invested in taking the risk”.

But Sanofi then walked back from that position in a statement on Thursday that said “we have always been committed in these unprecedented circumstances to make our vaccine accessible to everyone.”

At the same time, Sanofi also appealed for the European Union

to make it easier to get a vaccine to market.

The president of Sanofi France, Olivier Bogillot, told broadcaster France Info that the US is accelerating regulatory requirements to develop and produce a vaccine.

Commission health spokesman Stefan De Keersmaecker said the EU’s executive arm is “fully engaged to . . . advance research on promising vaccines”.

“The vaccine against Covid-19 should be a global public good,” he said. “Its access should be equitable and

universal.”Sanofi said its cooperation with US

agency BARDA allows the company “to initiate production as early as possible”.

Sanofi pushed for “similar measures” from the EU.

“We are having very constructive conversations with the EU institutions and the French and German government among others,” it said.

Dozens of vaccine candidates in earlier stages of development are being pursued around the world, yet a vaccine is likely to be a year or more away. — AP

France resists idea of US getting vaccine first

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on Thursday the lifting of a coronavirus state of emergency ahead of schedule in most of the country except for eight high-risk areas.

Abe lifted the measure in 39 of the country’s 47 prefectures. It remains in effect in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hokkaido and four other prefectures.

Abe declared a month-long state of emergency on April 7 in Tokyo and six other urban prefectures and later extended it to the whole country through to May 31.

He said experts will meet next week to decide if the measure can be lifted in the remaining areas and pledged to bring the coronavirus outbreak under control by the end of May.

With signs of infections slowing, Abe is seeking to balance disease prevention

and the economy.“Today is a new beginning for our

daily lives — a new normal,” Abe said. He warned of a possible resurgence of infections and urged people to adopt “new lifestyles” and continue social-distancing measures such as working from home and avoiding out-of-town trips.

Abe said the world economy is “facing a once-in-a-century crisis”, and pledged to compile another economic package to help businesses.

His government approved a $240 billion extra budget last month to partially fund a stimulus package worth $1.1 trillion.

The state of emergency gives local leaders the legal basis to request social-distancing measures but does not impose penalties.

Japan has more than 16,000 confirmed cases, including about 680 deaths. — AP

Japan eases state of emergency

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits jumped by almost 3 million last week as virus shutdowns continue to weigh on the US economy.

The filings brought the total number of new jobless claims since the middle of March to more than 36 million.

That amounts to nearly a quarter of the American workforce.

The weekly figures have been falling since the end of March but remain massive by historic standards, eclipsing the prior record of 700,000.

“Today’s unemployment claims continue their epic ascent on a cumulative weekly basis; not since the Great Depression has the US job market been in such a sorry state,” said Richard Flynn, UK managing director at Charles Schwab.

The head of America’s central bank warned this week that the economic recovery is likely to be slower than initially hoped.

In April, employers cut more than 20 million jobs, sending the unemployment rate to 14.7 percent and erasing nearly a decade of job gains.

While the losses have fallen hardest on minority and low-income households, they have touched every part of the economy.

However, economists said they believe hiring will start to pick up as more states ease restrictions on activity.

The increase in the number of people receiving unemployment benefits in the week ended May 9 was “relatively modest”, noted Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics.

“With most states only beginning to ease their lockdowns over the last 10 days, we expect a much bigger swing in hiring versus firing over the next couple of weeks, which suggests the unemployment rate will begin to drop back,” he said. — BBC

One in four US workers claiming jobless benefits

INFECTIONS SLOWING: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced the lifting of a state of emergency, two weeks ahead of schedule in most of the country except for eight high-risk areas. AP picture

BACKTRACK: French pharmaceutical group Sanofi assured that it will make its Covid-19 vaccine, when ready, available in all countries, hours after the company’s CEO said the United States will get first access. AP picture

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MADISON, Wisconsin — Cats can spread the new coronavirus to other cats without any of them ever having symptoms, a lab experiment suggests.

Scientists who led the work say it shows the need for more research into whether the virus can spread from people to cats to people again.

Health experts have downplayed that possibility. The American Veterinary Medical Association said in a new statement that just because an animal can be deliberately infected in a lab “does not mean that it will easily be infected with that same virus under natural conditions.”

Anyone concerned about that risk should use “common sense hygiene,” said virus expert Peter Halfmann. Don’t kiss your pets and keep surfaces clean to cut the chances of picking up any virus an animal might shed, he said.

He and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine led the lab experiment and published results on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Federal grants paid for the work.

Researchers took coronavirus from a human patient and infected three cats with it. Each cat was then housed with another cat that was free of infection. Within five days, coronavirus was found in all three of the newly exposed animals.

None of the six cats ever showed any symptoms.

“There was no sneezing, no coughing, they never had a high body temperature or lost any weight,” Halfmann said. “If a pet owner looked at them . . . they wouldn’t have noticed anything.”

Last month, two domestic cats in different parts of New York state tested positive for the coronavirus after mild respiratory illnesses.

They were thought to have picked it up from people in their homes or neighbourhoods.

Some tigers and lions at the Bronx Zoo also have tested positive for the virus, as have a small number of other animals around the world.

Those cases and the new lab experiment show “there is a public health need to recognise and further investigate the potential chain of human-cat-human

transmission,” the authors wrote. Guidelines from the

US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

say that based on the limited information available so far, the risk of pets spreading coronavirus to people “is considered to be low.”

The veterinary medicine group says,

“there is no evidence to suggest that animals,

including pets, that may be incidentally infected by humans are playing a role in the spread of the Covid-19.” It stressed that person-to-person transmission was driving the global pandemic.

However, the group noted that many diseases spread between pets and people, so hygiene is always important: Wash your hands before and after touching pets, and keep your pet and its food and water bowls clean.

Halfmann, whose two cats sleep near him, said the worry may be greater for animal shelters, where one infected animal could pass the virus to many others. — AP

Can cats spread Covid-19?

The pandemic has disrupted conservation work and funding, with potential repercussions for years to come, according to conservation groups.

But we can seize the opportunity to push for stronger action to protect the natural world, say Dr Diogo Veríssimo and Dr Nisha Owen from campaign group On The Edge Conservation.

The pandemic struck in what was meant to be a landmark year for biodiversity. New goals for protecting the natural world are due to be agreed in October.

While lockdown has been linked to a number of positive environmental changes, including wildlife reclaiming urban spaces, we know very little about how large areas of the world that host vast quantities of biodiversity have been faring, said Dr Owen.

“There’s reports coming in of illegal activities happening on the ground that are not being patrolled for or monitored or counted because of the effects of coronavirus lockdown or reduced staff or reduced funds,” she said.

“We’re not going to know the scale of what that impact may have been on wildlife and biodiversity until we’re able to systematically assess that, and that’s probably not going to be until we come out of lockdown.”

Loss of funding for

conservation work is a growing concern, particularly for lesser-known endangered species, such as pangolins, which already receive a “smaller slice of the cake”.

“It is not just the case that organisations in far flung places are feeling difficulties,” said Dr Veríssimo, who is also a scientist at the University of Oxford. “It is also right here in the UK where environmental charities are being gravely affected by all the changes that Covid-19 is producing.”

The Wildlife and Countryside Link, a coalition of more than 50 environment and wildlife groups in England, recently warned in a report that UK environment charities are facing a dramatic loss of income, which will have an impact on their ability to care for our land, protect wildlife and tackle climate change and nature’s decline for years to come.

It comes in what was set to be a “Super Year for Biodiversity”, as coined by the UN, culminating in a global biodiversity conference in October, where new goals for tackling biodiversity over the next decade were due to be drawn up.

Though the timetable has changed, this is a key opportunity for world leaders to set strong goals and highlight that biodiversity is integral to human health and wellbeing, and the planet that we live on, said Dr Owen.

Dr Veríssimo added, “This pandemic had its biological source in a wild animal. It’s about our relationship with nature, and how we have now put animals in contexts and situations where these types of diseases are more likely to not only cross species within wildlife but also cross to humans.” — BBC

Landmark year for nature hit by virus

CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY: New goals to protect the natural world are due to be agreed in October. Many nature reserves are suffering financial trouble due to the spread of Covid-19. AP picture

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AUCKLAND — New Zealand has recorded no new cases or deaths from coronavirus for the third successive day, the Ministry of Health has revealed.

While there was no Covid-19 briefing from Parliament yesterday due to the Budget announcement, updated figures on the ministry’s website showed the total number of cases remains at 1497. Of these, 1147 are confirmed and 350 probable.

The death toll from the virus remains at 21.Nine more people have recovered from the

coronavirus in New Zealand, taking the total number of recoveries to 1411 — 94 percent of all cases.

There were still two people receiving hospital-level care for Covid-19, one of which was in Auckland Hospital and the other at Middlemore.

Neither were in intensive care.The figures followed the processing of 6568

tests on Wednesday, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 209,613.

There are still 16 significant clusters — and while four of these were previously defined as closed, that had now changed.

The Ministry of Health received new advice on how it should define a cluster closure, and is

now retrospectively applying that new criteria.“We had previously closed four clusters as

they met our definition of two full transmission periods (the equivalent of 28 days) since their last case was notified,” a press release read.

“In the meantime, we have received and accepted advice that we will use an improved definition of a closed cluster.

“This is that there should be two full transmission periods since the last case completed their isolation period.

“We are now using that definition. It’s important to note that there has been no new disease activity in these clusters.”

Under the updated definition, the Ministry of Health said it was unlikely that any clusters would close in the month of May.

From a public health point of view, the Ministry of Health said the change makes it easier for public health unit staff to retain appropriate health measures like isolation while they continue to learn all they can from the different clusters.

From the point of view of the public, however, the ministry said it would mean “only minor changes to the information on our website”.

— Newshub.

Three in a rowNZ records another day of no new Covid-19 cases

by Eleisha Foon, RNZ

HAMILTON — A Covid-19 mental health survey suggests New Zealanders are feeling stressed but have the strength to overcome the challenges ahead.

Psychologists from the University of Waikato launched an online survey in April asking more than 1000 New Zealanders about their thoughts and feelings during the lockdown and pandemic.

University of Waikato senior lecturer Dr Carrie Barber said that three-quarters of people did not consider themselves vulnerable to the virus; however, they were concerned about the health of others and the financial impact of the pandemic.

“Through this initial restrictive phase of New Zealand’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, we would describe our participants as stressed but resilient,” she said.

Many people said they had dramatically changed their lifestyle — particularly with work, transport and family life.

Most people were worried, especially about infecting others or losing loved ones,

with more than 30 percent experiencing high levels of anxiety and/or depression.

“In spite of this challenging situation, participants described using mostly positive, effective coping strategies.

“They have connected with whanau and friends, engaged in new and old hobbies and activities, and exercised, often with a walk around the neighbourhood.”

About 60 percent of people reported financial impact, and 14 percent were seriously affected.

She said the survey also showed the importance of the media in staying informed with quality information.

“Most people said they rely on New Zealand-based online news sources and Government websites for information, and many listed the daily news briefings as a positive source of coping and support.

“They were overwhelmingly positive about the amount and quality of information available to them.”

Many answers also focused on being grateful to live in New Zealand, and echoed the values of being kind and protecting the vulnerable members of the community.

Mental health survey shows Kiwis stressed but resilient

NAPIER — The fate of the National Aquarium in Napier hangs in the balance after the Government declined to fund an extra $500,000 towards a business case for a multimillion dollar revamp of the facility.

Napier City Council expanded the project last year after it came to light that a much bigger aquarium was needed, as the current facility was no longer fit for purpose due to animal welfare concerns.

The Provincial Growth Fund had already contributed half of the $700,000 cost of the business case for the original proposal, but has refused a request from the council for an additional $500,000 towards a new $1.45 million business case.

The council had hoped to secure between $15m to $35m from the PGF towards the $77.5m cost of the new aquarium, with Napier ratepayers contributing $10m and the rest coming from corporate sponsorship.

However, that idea appears dead in the water as the council indicated it would not be making another funding bid from the PGF.

Napier MP Stuart Nash said the plan was always going to be a hard sell to Napier ratepayers given the high cost of running the facility, which would be borne by the council.

“This was going to cost Napier ratepayers $2m to $4m a year to run,

and getting corporate sponsors to foot operational costs in this environment would be close to impossible.

“I don’t know if, in a business-as-usual environment, Napier ratepayers would have been prepared to stump up millions of dollars to build this, and millions of dollars a year to keep it running.”

While the concept of a new aquarium would have been good for Napier and Hawke’s Bay “the reality

is that it would have cost us a significant amount of money that in this environment we can’t afford”, Nash said.

All capital projects would be revisited in the coming months to “assess their viability and benefits” to the city, a Napier City Council spokesperson said.

“Nothing can be certain now that

Covid-19 has changed the economic landscape.

“The existing National Aquarium of NZ has a range of challenges in its current state. The ongoing budget required for the National Aquarium to address these issues requires careful consideration and management to ensure we can meet and maintain minimum standards for animal welfare and health and safety.

“We understand the aquarium is a much-loved facility by many local residents and any future decisions would be subject to a special consultative procedure with our community.” — RNZ

Uncertain future for National Aquarium

Napier City Council expanded the project last year after it came to light that a much bigger aquarium was needed.

AUCKLAND — Thousands of Kiwi kids will receive medals for completing backyard triathlons, after their races were cancelled during the coronavirus lockdown.

The annual Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon series was one of many sporting events that fell victim to the Covid-19 lockdown, with races at Palmerston North, Hibiscus Coast, New Plymouth and Bay of Islands called off.

However, almost 3000 entrants still carried out their swimming/cycling/running journeys within their bubbles.

Many of them provided video evidence of their

efforts, along with their ingenuity.

Some completed the swim in bathtubs or splashed buckets of water over themselves as they swam on the ground.

“We were blown away by their ability to adapt to the situation and take the initiative for their own event, and thought we’d

better stick to the tradition of providing them with a medal,” said Sanitarium spokesman Peter Davis.

“The TRYathlon events have always been a place where families come together and these DIY triathlons have shown that if you have a great attitude, you can achieve whatever you set out to.

“We are so impressed with the motivation of these children, but also the wonderful support that their parents have given them too.”

Organisers may now include a ‘virtual’ category in future editions of the series, now entering its 29th year. — Newshub.

Kiwi kids rewarded for backyard triathlon efforts during lockdown

The Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon series was one of the many sporting events that fell victim to the Covid-19 lockdown.

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by Sarah Hoglepublished by Little, Brown Book Group

Naomi Westfield and her perfect fiance, Nicholas Rose, are just a few short months away from walking down the aisle. But there’s one big flaw in their

seemingly idyllic relationship: She hates him.Naomi is an underachiever who works at

a local junk store that’s on its last legs. She isn’t close to her family, her only friends are her ragtag bunch of co-workers, and she is so run down by her fiance’s overbearing mother that she has all but checked out of her own life. But when she discovers that Nicholas is just as tired of her as she is of him, Naomi decides to wage war in the form of petty pranks, mind games, and general sabotage to get Nicholas to call off the wedding.

Nicholas, the upstanding dentist who nevertheless cowers in the shadow of his mother’s expectations, responds by buying a house in the woods, convinced the move would save their relationship, but Naomi is dubious.

Naomi is so utterly convinced of Nicholas’ hatred and lack of interest (despite all evidence to the contrary) and responds so cruelly based on her convictions that it is difficult to understand why Nicholas would want to marry her at all.

Although self-centered Naomi eventually realises that she has been ignoring the realities of her relationship, it’s a revelation that arrives far too late — all the romance in this overlong rom-com is relegated to the last few pages.

There are glimmers of meaningful discussions about mental illnesses like anxiety and depersonalisation, but they never go past the surface level, a lost opportunity to elevate the text. — AP

REFRESHINGLY DIFFERENT

THE GLASS HOTEL

by Emily St. John Mandelpublished by HarperCollins

How does one follow up a National Book Award nominee? With something completely different, of course.

Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel is more grounded in reality and smaller in scope than Station Eleven, which imagined a theatre troupe travelling across America 15 years after a mysterious flu killed most of the world’s population. (That book is being talked about again because of the coronavirus pandemic.)

The Glass Hotel tells the story of Vincent, a young woman whose fate we know from the first sentence — “Begin at the end: plummeting down the side of the ship . . . ” — but it’s the title that inspires the novel’s central theme.

The Glass Hotel is a more descriptive name for The Hotel Caiette, an isolated establishment on the northern end of Vancouver Island. Vincent moves there with her mother as a teenager, wandering the woods and eventually working as the hotel bartender.

The clientele pay top dollar to stay in this remote and luxurious place, “a glass-and-cedar palace at twilight”,

where, as general manager Raphael says to a prospective employee, “there’s a sense of being outside of time and space”.

An ephemeral quality permeates the novel. Many of the characters are haunted and most of the story is told in flashbacks to various times in Vincent’s life. As Mandel writes in the mind of Vincent: “It is possible to leave so much out of any given story.”

The thrill of The Glass Hotel is that the pieces do eventually connect, from Vancouver to the glittering skyscrapers of New York.

Characters are introduced at different times and collide throughout the novel to complete a portrait of Vincent’s life and sketch their own stories too. There’s Jonathan, an investor who Vincent seduces and lives with as a trophy wife back in New York; Vincent’s brother, Paul, whose journey takes him from heroin addiction to an

artistic career, kick-started by using his sister’s videos without permission; and Walter, who never leaves the hotel, working as the property’s caretaker for a decade after it closes.

There are no heroes here and only a couple of characters who inspire much sympathy, but the unique structure keeps you turning the pages. At times, you’ll find yourself flipping back to a chapter heading to find out if what you’re reading happened in 1999 or 2004, but it’s a thrill when the puzzle pieces start to fit

together. Or, as Paul expresses near the end: “The smallness of the world never ceases to amaze me.”

The final chapter is haunting, taking readers full circle to those words spoken by Raphael about time and space ceasing to exist.

It’s a sense readers will enjoy as well when they lose themselves in Mandel’s novel. — AP

A tragic tale for the times

LOU GEHRIG: THE LOST MEMOIR

by Alan D. Gaffpublished by Simon & Schuster

In the pre-television and internet era, it’s hard to imagine the wattage a star player such as Lou Gehrig created or the emotion generated

by his famous 1939 farewell speech at Yankee Stadium.

Decades later, as the Baltimore Orioles’ Cal Ripken closed in on the consecutive games record Gehrig had held since Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis took him out of the lineup, the ghost of Gehrig visited that 1995 season, reminding us again of the man of uncommon decency and grace and a body built to drive baseballs out of stadiums.

Early in his career, Gehrig was persuaded to write a series of newspaper essays about baseball life. How much editing took place is unclear, but Gehrig was a student at Columbia University when the Yankees took note of his baseball skills. So presumably, Gehrig could string together some coherent thoughts.

And the pieces — all reproduced in this book — mesh with the polite, reserved, determined and humble son of German immigrants superbly painted in Jonathan Eig’s definitive Gehrig biography, The Luckiest Man.

Imagine essays today by a sports superstar absent of any revelations to shock and ignite social media. Gehrig, however, finds goodness in all his teammates and competitors, even perhaps the roughest player ever — Ty Cobb.

ALS remains an “orphan” disease, not afflicting enough people to draw significant research attention and funding as does cancer, for example. Now most commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, it relentlessly punishes its victims, robbing them of their muscle coordination and their ability to speak as their neuro-muscular systems break down.

Someday ALS will be conquered and that will revive debate about how much longer Gehrig might have played. He was just 37 when he died, and he was showing symptoms four years earlier.

Ever since he played, the narrative on Gehrig mostly follows his baseball achievements and his consecutive games record that stood for half a century — one of the most iconic feats in all of sports.

Gaff astutely crafts a biography to accompany Gehrig’s columns and focuses on details that parallel Gehrig’s generosity of spirit.

Perhaps most movingly, Gaff revisits the Yankee great’s post-baseball career. Despite the ravages of ALS, Gehrig worked for the parole board, counselling young men who had taken a wrong turn in life. “Even when he could barely sit in his office chair, he came to work every day,” Gaff writes of Gehrig.

Hundreds of those young men filed past Gehrig’s coffin the day after he died. One of Gehrig’s last visitors was Ed Barrow, Yankees’ general manager from 1921 to 1927. Gaff reports that by then, Gehrig could not walk, dress or feed himself. Yet as Barrow left, Gehrig said: “I’ll beat it, boss.”

What would you expect from a man who never gave up? — AP

Spirit of generosity shines in new novel

HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD

by Robert Kolkerpublished by Quercus Publishing

One family’s history reveals the mystery of schizophrenia. In a riveting and disquieting narrative, Kolker, author of Lost

Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery, interweaves a biography of the Galvin family with a chronicle of medicine’s treatment of, and research into, schizophrenia.

Don and Mimi Galvin had 12 children — 10 boys and two girls — born between 1945 and 1965. Religious beliefs — both parents were Catholic — were not the only reason for their fecundity.

Mimi seemed to crave the distinction of “being known as a mother who could easily accomplish such a thing.” In addition, Kolker speculates, the children may have assuaged an abiding feeling of abandonment, including by a husband more focused on his career than his family.

Mimi was a perfectionist who controlled every aspect of the children’s lives: chores, enriching after-school activities, and feelings, which she

believed should best be repressed. Insisting that they were raising a

model family, the Galvins refused to acknowledge problems, such as violent fights among the older brothers, which the parents dismissed as merely roughhousing.

The eldest, Donald, was the first to exhibit signs of schizophrenia, with bizarre behaviour that repeatedly landed him in mental hospitals; soon, five brothers followed, all with the same diagnosis, manifested somewhat differently, including sibling sexual abuse.

Meanwhile, Mimi pretended everything was normal — until she could not hide the family’s suffering. With each diagnosis, “she became more of a prisoner — confined by secrets, paralysed by the power that the stigma of mental illness held over her”.

Kolker deftly follows the psychiatric, chemical, and biological theories proposed to explain schizophrenia and the various treatments foisted upon the brothers.

Most poignantly, he portrays the impact on the unafflicted children of the brothers’ illness, an oppressive emotional

atmosphere, and the family’s festering secrets. By the 1980s, the Galvins became subjects of researchers investigating a genetic basis for the illness; those extensive medical records inform this compelling tale. — AP

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8.30 Escape To The Chateau

9.30 Gardeners’ World

10.35 American Pickers

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1.20 Hollywood Medium With

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New South Wales races at Rosehill Saturday Jetbet 11 TAB doubles 1-2, 4-5, 8-9 Trebles 3-4-5, 7-8-9 Quaddie 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 Place6 4-9

1 TAB Highway Handicap 1.35 $67,500, 3yo & up Class 3, 1500m

1 26357 Luna Mia (4) 59.5 96 N Rawiller 2 17424 Hemmerle w (12) 58.5 99 T Berry 3 23335 Perfect Pitch t (9) 57.5 100 J Bowman

4 — Black Wand SCRATCHED

5 s5s31 Laughing Or Crying dw (10) 56 97 J Van Overmeire (a1.5) 6 4s411 Shamusu Sho w (17) 56 95 J Mc Donald 7 26112 Cyborg w (18) 55.5 94 S Clipperton 8 24931 Banjo’s Voice d (1) 55 98 G Boss 9 2211 Shelby Sixtysix w (2) 55 98 B Avdulla 10 29s11 Leg Work w (13) 54.5 97 K Mc Evoy 11 93540 Fusca w (5) 54 96

12 70026 Tower Road w (11) 54 96 Ms R King 13 s2702 Nashian w (8) 54 96 R Dolan (a1.5) 14 76146 Rent A Rock w (6) 54 99 G Schofield 15 67332 Radiant Choice tb (14) 54 94 B Spriggs 16 21s25 Without Risk wb (7) 54 97 T Clark 17 84s48 Lord Desanimaux (15) 54 94 J Collett 18 68s05 Maui Princess (16) 54 90

2 Segenhoe Stud Handicap 2.10 $100,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 78, 2400m

1 22231 Costello twh (2) 60.5 100 N Rawiller 2 3s662 Fanciful Toff dw (14) 60 95 J Bowman 3 s6029 Humbolt Current c (8) 59.5 89 J Mc Donald 4 91429 Kaapfever dw (6) 59 95 R Dolan (a1.5) 5 30608 Shock Alert t (12) 58.5 93 A Hyeronimus 6 25933 Monsieur Sisu wb (5) 56 94 J Collett 7 41167 Loves To Rock w (13) 54 92 J Van Overmeire (a1.5) 8 s7960 Re Edit wh (15) 54 93 S Clipperton 9 s9563 Terwilliker dw (7) 54 91 T Berry 10 7s436 Harpo Marx dwb (9) 54 97 T Clark 11 s8082 He Runs Away h (3) 54 89 B Avdulla 12 1s425 La Grisa tb (10) 53 92 G Boss 13 s6514 Wild Impact w (11) 52.5 94 Ms R King 14 74s81 Curata Princess dw (4) 52 92 B Spriggs EMERGENCY: 15 32135 Lord Tropicana w (1) 54 89

3 Yarraman Park Woodlands Stks 2.45 $112,000, 2yo Fillies Quality Listed, 1100m

1 11 Macroura w (1) 58 98 J Mc Donald 2 1s07 Sancy c (2) 57.5 90 T Berry 3 3s11 Zeftabrook dw (4) 57.5 94 J Bowman 4 11 Marboosha dw (11) 57 95 Ms R King 5 25s21 Mrs Maisel dw (3) 57 93 R Dolan (a) 6 9s1 Bellevue Star (10) 56.5 100 T Clark 7 4s1 Panna Cotta dw (9) 56.5 97 S Clipperton 8 3 Newsreader (5) 56 98 B Avdulla 9 1s Superbellaa h (8) 56 88 N Rawiller

10 Karauna (7) 55.5 88 G Schofield 11 4 Cross The Rubicon (6) 55.5 90 G Boss

4 Inglis Guineas 3.20 $200,000, 3yo Restricted Listed SW, 1400m

1 6s281 Dawn Passage tc (4) 56.5 100 A Hyeronimus 2 33762 True Detective tbh (1) 56.5 91 J Mc Donald 3 121s4 Bandersnatch tdwbh (3) 56.5 88 B Avdulla 4 51s11 Masked Crusader wh (6) 56.5 96 T Berry 5 21s81 Rocha Clock d (5) 54.5 88 G Boss 6 — Baroda SCRATCHED

7 441 Air To Air (7) 54.5 77 J Collett

5 Vinery Stud Handicap 3.55 $100,000, Benchmark 78, 1100m

1 3809s Akasaki dw (3) 62 92 J Bowman 2 6s74s Ljungberg wn (4) 60 95 S Clipperton 3 1140s Lashes cdw (2) 59.5 93 K Mc Evoy 4 06s01 Golden Tycoon (7) 59.5 95 J Van Overmeire (a1.5) 5 1255s Broken Arrows d (8) 59 90 T Berry 6 300s4 After All That dw (10) 58 86 J Collett 7 — Burning Crown SCRATCHED

8 61015 Snowzone dw (6) 56.5 90 B Avdulla 9 112s2 Adelong db (5) 55 98 J Mc Donald 10 12s22 L’cosmo (9) 54 98 T Clark 11 89s00 Ragged Rascal d (12) 54 89 R Dolan (a1.5) 12 647s8 Oneness w (1) 54 89 G Schofield

6 TAB Luskin Star Stakes 4.35 $112,000, Quality Listed, 1300m

1 440s4 Graff tdw (5) 59 97 K Mc Evoy 2 80s99 Brave Song n (10) 57.5 90 J Mc Donald 3 210s1 Ranier tw (8) 56.5 96 J Bowman 4 09s64 Lanciato td (11) 55.5 96 Ms R King 5 9s0s0 Tato Key h (2) 55.5 79 B Avdulla

6 736s8 Sambro wh (7) 55 90 T Clark 7 0s80s My Nordic Hero twh (6) 54.5 84 G Boss 8 8s98s Special Missile tdwh (1) 54 92 S Clipperton 9 32s57 Eleven Eleven w (4) 54 100 T Berry 10 s1092 Trumbull w (9) 54 93 J Collett 11 s5029 Sir Bacchus twn (3) 53 90 R Dolan (a)

7 Coolmore Denise’s Joy Stks 5.15 $112,000, 3yo Fillies Quality Listed, 1100m

1 55s22 Wayupinthesky dw (1) 58 90 B Avdulla 2 — Blazing Miss SCRATCHED

3 1312s Enfleurage tdwn (11) 55 88 J Bowman 4 1123s Aquitaine cd (12) 54.5 87 K Mc Evoy 5 117s1 Fituese dwn (3) 54.5 100 Ms R King 6 16136 Iconic Star w (7) 54 96 J Collett 7 s2130 Intrepidacious dwn (6) 54 88 S Clipperton 8 — Zac Attack SCRATCHED

9 31841 Satin Socks w (8) 54 91 T Clark 10 111s3 Military Magic bn (13) 54 87 J Mc Donald 11 17s10 Bring The Ransom w (14) 54 89 G Schofield 12 153s1 Sally’s Day dwh (2) 54 86 T Berry 13 20s0s Bella Rosa w (17) 53 80 G Boss 14 5223s Switched d (16) 53 84 EMERGENCIES: 15 99s11 Monetizing w (10) 53 85 J Innes Jnr 16 — Hyannis Port SCRATCHED

17 66611 Mouse Almighty w (15) 54 80 18 12s22 L’cosmo (4) 54 89

8 Emirates Pk Dark Jewel Classic 5.55 $160,000, F&M Quality Group 3, 1400m

1 6s391 Amangiri twh (8) 59 100 T Berry 2 11s30 Teleplay dw (18) 59 95 N Rawiller 3 82624 Miss Fabulass d (19) 58 90 K Mc Evoy 4 64501 Sweet Scandal twh (6) 57.5 96 G Boss 5 74284 Irithea cdw (20) 57 98 J Parr

6 s5338 Bangkok tdw (4) 56 91 Ms R King

7 52064 Delectation Girl w (10) 56 91 J Bowman

8 20s97 Moss Trip dwn (5) 56 92 T Clark

9 07s83 Dyslexic t (9) 55.5 93 J Innes Jnr

10 380s0 Ready To Prophet (14) 54 86

A Hyeronimus

11 3561s Sure Knee dwhn (11) 54 93 G Schofield

12 0431s Romani Girl wh (16) 54 89 B Avdulla

13 82s25 Improvement dwn (13) 54 94

14 9s008 Nicci’s Gold tcdw (17) 54 90 J Collett

15 277s6 Strome cdw (12) 54 93

J Van Overmeire (a)

16 518s4 Into The Abyss dw (2) 53 94 R Dolan (a)

EMERGENCIES:

17 22107 Asharani dw (15) 54 90

18 9s141 Oakfield Missile tdw (7) 54 96

S Clipperton

19 12s16 Tricky Gal dw (1) 54 96

20 s4062 So Taken wh (3) 54 92

9 Arrowfield Ortensia Stakes 6.35 $112,000, Quality Listed, 1100m

1 s389s Bon Amis cw (2) 59 97 J Bowman

2 1s087 Soothing cdw (10) 58.5 97 J Mc Donald

3 3s162 Villami cdwbh (3) 57 100 T Clark

4 s1053 God Of Thunder cwh (7) 57 99 B Avdulla

5 3s189 Handle The Truth twn (8) 57 96

N Rawiller

6 79235 Spending To Win cdw (6) 56.5 96

K Mc Evoy

7 0800s Jonker d (14) 55.5 94 G Boss

8 4300s Noble Boy tw (5) 55.5 96 J Collett

9 30s82 Prophet’s Thumb db (12) 54 99

S Clipperton

10 6397s In Good Time dw (11) 54 91 R Dolan (a)

11 5s015 Star Boy dw (4) 54 99 G Schofield

12 54811 Dirty Work dwh (1) 54 100 T Berry

13 — Golden Tycoon SCRATCHED

14 368s8 Albumin tcdwh (13) 53 97 J Innes Jnr

SelectionsRace 1: LEG WORK, LUNA MIA, SHAMUSU SHO

Race 2: HARPO MARX, FANCIFUL TOFF, LA GRISA

Race 3: NEWSREADER, MACROURA, MARBOOSHA

Race 4: MASKED CRUSADER, DAWN PASSAGE,

BANDERSNATCH

Race 5: LASHES, BROKEN ARROWS, AKASAKI

Race 6: SPECIAL MISSILE, GRAFF, ELEVEN ELEVEN

Race 7: WAYUPINTHESKY, FITUESE, AQUITAINE

Race 8: DYSLEXIC, DELECTATION GIRL, AMANGIRI

Race 9: VILLAMI, DIRTY WORK, PROPHET’S THUMB

Legend: T – Won at track. C – Won at this distance on this course. D – Won at this distance on another course. M – Won in slow or heavy going. B – Beaten favourite at last start. H – Trained on track. N – Won at night. S – Spell of three months. F – Fell. P – Pulled up. L – Lost rider. TV – Featured on Trackside TV.

Queensland races at Gold Coast Saturday Jetbet 14 TAB doubles 1-2, 4-5, 8-9 Trebles 3-4-5, 7-8-9 Quaddie 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 Place6 4-9

1 Darby McCarthy Plate 1.19 $35,000, Class 3 SW, 1200m

1 12s41 Desert Knight tdh (5) 60 94 L R Dittman 2 s4132 Heritage Sash cdh (3) 60 100 N Keal (a2) 3 98824 Oriental Runner dwh (1) 60 95 R Maloney 4 728s3 Pure Pulse tw (6) 60 94 5 3s124 Fisticuffs dbh (12) 59.5 98 6 — Plenty SCRATCHED

7 113s4 Stylish Saga db (20) 58.5 92 8 — Dream Big SCRATCHED

9 — Ruuca SCRATCHED

10 113 Sea Raider cwh (11) 58 94 G Colless 11 22s1 All To Do w (4) 56.5 91 J Bayliss 12 — Final Declaration SCRATCHED

13 110s3 Lady Appleton t (18) 56 94 M Cahill 14 s411s Purroni d (9) 56 92 J Byrne 15 — Ready Babe SCRATCHED

16 — Write The Rules SCRATCHED

EMERGENCIES: 17 — King Of The Desert SCRATCHED

18 74128 Ocean Waves cdw (2) 60 93 19 4s143 Decisive Heart cdwh (10) 56.5 92 R Fradd 20 71636 Hekansplit dw (8) 60 91 N Day 21 92161 Swan Island wn (13) 56 90 22 6s174 She Za Boss db (15) 58 88

2 Heineken Handicap 1.54 $65,000, Open, 2200m

1 20433 Le Juge wh (4) 60 96 M Cahill 2 52516 Mawaany Machine cwh (2) 59.5 96 C Bayliss (a2) 3 33s94 Fighting Teo cw (8) 58.5 95 A Thompson (a2) 4 57s50 Saunter Boy wh (7) 58.5 91 A Mallyon 5 56721 Lota Creek Gold th (6) 58 93 Ms B Ainsworth 6 78512 Mongolian Wolf cwbh (3) 57 97 R Fradd 7 18865 Akage twh (5) 55 90 A Spinks 8 71152 Quality Seeker d (1) 55 100 M Mc Gillivray 9 16741 Romakash tcdwn (9) 55 92 L V Cassidy

3 Bundaberg Rum Handicap 2.29 $35,000, C,H&G’s Benchmark 72, 1400m

1 — Scathing SCRATCHED

2 16442 Glen Ord tdw (11) 60 95 C Taylor 3 0s00s Prometheus d (1) 60 85 B Stewart 4 1s441 Pay With Cash tch (12) 59.5 95 L R Dittman 5 828s0 Stardome whn (8) 59.5 93 N Keal (a2) 6 0s791 Yaba Dabl Doya tcdw (9) 58 91 G Colless 7 340s1 He’s Imposing w (3) 57 96 J Huxtable (a2) 8 6414s El Chaparro bn (6) 55.5 88 J Murphy (a2) 9 98006 Sir Magic tw (10) 55.5 87 Ms M Wishart (a3) 10 22233 Staying Black wn (13) 55.5 93 J Orman 11 17s63 The Golden Hind dwb (7) 55.5 97 B Thornton 12 514 The Chosen One tbh (5) 55 93 M Cahill 13 26007 Sidetrip tcwh (2) 55 86 S Galloway

4 XXXX Dry Handicap 3.04 $35,000, F&M Benchmark 72, 1400m

1 4s214 Amicitia d (3) 60.5 100 J Byrne 2 595s7 Barefoot tcw (9) 60 96 N Fazackerley (a3) 3 55135 Lashoni (15) 59 99 B Nothdurft (a) 4 37236 Tziporah th (6) 58 100 R Fradd 5 — Nordic Show SCRATCHED

6 80060 Shijin cwh (16) 57.5 98 Ms M Wishart (a3) 7 162s8 Special Thing d (2) 57.5 94 C Bayliss (a2) 8 33367 Seles wh (14) 57 98 R Maloney 9 79s07 Round Mountain Gem tdw (10) 56.5 95 J Murphy (a2) 10 6s174 She Za Boss b (5) 56.5 96 M Mc Gillivray 11 20s98 Lope For Joya dw (1) 56 99 M R Du Plessis 12 516s1 Merlin’s Magic ch (12) 56 98 A Mallyon 13 86451 Zoulou Dancer tdwh (8) 56 98 M Hellyer 14 24321 Iconista (11) 55 99 J Huxtable (a2) 15 83051 Flaunt n (7) 55 95 S Galloway 16 5s423 Got My Thrills wn (13) 55 93 J Bayliss EMERGENCY: 17 34800 Golden Lily dh (4) 55 95

5 We Are Gold Coast Plate 3.39 $50,000, Class 6 SW, 1200m

1 — Valario SCRATCHED

2 4220s Right Or Wrong dw (12) 58.5 89 R Maloney 3 — Love You Lucy SCRATCHED

4 11158 Winter Passage tdw (6) 58 87 5 26s12 Maslow tdhn (1) 57 95 J Byrne 6 45124 Mountbatten tdw (9) 57 87 J Orman 7 232s1 Soxagon cdw (3) 57 100 B Stewart 8 0s935 Carry On Ringo dh (10) 56.5 86 J Guthmann-Chester 9 7200s Nordic Show twh (7) 56.5 74 N Fazackerley (a3) 10 — Tardis SCRATCHED

11 14s75 The Pines dwhn (8) 56.5 91 R Fradd 12 33811 Thine Is The Power cw (11) 55 94 A Mallyon 13 s0401 Yeahnah dwn (4) 55 87 J Bayliss

6 TAB Ken Russell Mem. Classic 4.19 $125,000, 2yo Group 3 SW, 1200m

1 414s1 Wisdom Of Water tch (2) 57 100 R Fradd 2 20s44 Kavak (11) 57 86 J Huxtable (a) 3 311 Spokesman whn (4) 57 92 M Mc Gillivray 4 51 Saffiano h (5) 57 86 R Maloney 5 43s2 Tick Tock Boom b (6) 57 81 J Bayliss 6 61s Bangers And Mayo d (10) 57 77 J Orman 7 51 Superare d (9) 57 82 B Stewart 8 5 Fox Terrier (1) 57 76 N Keal (a) 9 Daring Man h (3) 57 82 L R Dittman 10 331 Neutron t (12) 57 85 J Guthmann-Chester 11 311 Minjee d (7) 55 95 M Cahill 12 2 Always On Show h (8) 55 83 A Mallyon

7 James Squire Handicap 4.59 $50,000, Class 6, 1800m

1 04243 Gresham wh (13) 62 93 N Keal (a2) 2 1s554 Oink w (2) 62 94 J Murphy (a2) 3 12344 Raqeeq hn (3) 58.5 98 R Maloney 4 6s932 Milk Man wb (12) 58 100 M Mc Gillivray 5 s3321 Kings Full cwn (1) 57 98 J Guthmann-Chester 6 69s07 Endless Days tw (14) 55.5 94 M Hellyer 7 66371 Calibration hn (10) 55 94 A Mallyon 8 86s87 Brains w (8) 55 97 A Thompson (a2) 9 9s427 Light Up The Room tw (7) 55 98 B Nothdurft (a) 10 37982 High Power w (11) 55 94 R Fradd 11 0s609 Blue Comet tdwh (9) 55 95 J Bayliss 12 36019 Certain Doubt dwn (6) 55 93 13 9s767 Ipso Nem Felek (5) 55 90 S Cormack 14 10s65 Joy’s Reward dn (4) 55 92 J Byrne

8 Brandons DC Guineas 5.39 $125,000, 3yo Group 3 SW, 1200m

1 48111 The Odyssey cdw (14) 57 99 Ms S Thornton (a) 2 214s1 Hightail dw (8) 57 100 R Maloney 3 32314 Stampe cdb (1) 57 99 S Cormack 4 17s8s Bellevue Hill w (2) 57 82 M Cahill 5 50s22 Garibaldi (4) 57 98 J Byrne

6 10s42 Ruuca dwbhn (7) 57 92 B Stewart 7 23s11 Scathing dw (6) 57 95 J Huxtable (a) 8 1112 Command’n’conquer b (10) 57 92 J Orman 9 — Fisticuffs SCRATCHED

10 2753s Exhilarates tcdw (15) 55 98 R Fradd 11 — Niedorp SCRATCHED

12 11131 Baroda ch (13) 55 94 A Mallyon 13 70s15 Zac Attack tdwh (5) 55 93 B Nothdurft (a) 14 92161 Swan Island wn (16) 55 84 15 1s12 Ready Babe n (17) 55 90 16 4s241 Elegant Grace dh (12) 55 87 L V Cassidy EMERGENCY: 17 1 Final Declaration th (3) 57 86 J Guthmann-Chester

9 Attwood Marshall Silk Stocking 6.19 $85,000, F&M Quality Listed, 1200m

1 442s5 Multaja dw (6) 58 100 R Fradd 2 4s080 Fiesta dwh (1) 57.5 93 M Cahill 3 72458 River Racer cdw (19) 57.5 90 M Mc Gillivray 4 s8376 Resin dw (10) 56 95 L V Cassidy 5 71705 Manaya tcdh (21) 55.5 88 B Stewart 6 0s350 Grey Shadow dw (18) 55 90 J Orman 7 — Pennino SCRATCHED

8 83s9s Krone dw (11) 54 94 J Byrne 9 8387s Star Reflection tdwh (17) 54 89 R Wiggins 10 2331s Frangipani Moon dw (9) 54 89 J Bayliss 11 116s2 Jen Rules dw (15) 54 90 D Smith 12 21096 Ice Frost c (12) 54 90 A Spinks 13 1s262 Love You Lucy tn (14) 54 88 M R Du Plessis 14 24s11 Niedorp dw (16) 54 94 B Nothdurft (a) 15 16554 Clockwise cdwn (7) 54 89 N Evans 16 7s333 Tardis cdwhn (3) 54 87 Ms S Thornton (a)EMERGENCIES: 17 33811 Thine Is The Power cw (2) 54 92 18 14s75 The Pines dwhn (5) 54 91 19 22528 Intrinsic wh (13) 54 87 20 70s15 Zac Attack tdwh (4) 54 89 21 01755 Bold Arial d (8) 54 86

SelectionsRace 1: FISTICUFFS, LADY APPLETON, STYLISH SAGA

Race 2: QUALITY SEEKER, ROMAKASH, LE JUGE

Race 3: HE’S IMPOSING, PROMETHEUS, YABA DABL DOYA

Race 4: ZOULOU DANCER, MERLIN’S MAGIC, SHE ZA BOSS

Race 5: THINE IS THE POWER, YEAHNAH, SOXAGON

Race 6: SAFFIANO, MINJEE, WISDOM OF WATER

Race 7: KINGS FULL, CALIBRATION, MILK MAN

Race 8: COMMAND’N’CONQUER, SCATHING, BARODA

Race 9: NIEDORP, KRONE, LOVE YOU LUCY

Victoria races at Flemington Saturday Jetbet 12 TAB doubles 1-2, 4-5, 8-9 Trebles 3-4-5, 7-8-9 Quaddie 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 Place6 4-9

1 Vale Darby McCarthy OAM 1.45 $100,000, F&M Benchmark 84, 1200m

1 — Mystery Love SCRATCHED

2 2s103 Gododdin dwh (5) 60 100 B Rawiller

3 85553 Queen Annabel dwn (4) 59.5 94

L King (a2)

4 9s401 Lankan Star n (2) 58.5 95 D Stackhouse

5 55s21 Atlantica dw (11) 57.5 99 R Bayliss

6 s272s O’ So Hazy dw (1) 56.5 94 C Newitt

7 7s988 Cath’s Village dwn (7) 56 95 B Mertens

8 2s411 Jamaican Hurry cd (9) 56 99 M Dee

9 s2524 Mrs O’Malley dwn (6) 56 96

L German (a3)

10 2145s Loolwah wh (8) 56 94 D Oliver

11 30125 Journeygirl dwn (3) 56 92 T Nugent (a2)

2 AAMI Next Generation Sprint 2.20 $100,000, 2yo SW+P, 1000m

1 2 Nantucket h (4) 58 100 J Bowditch 2 52s Ultimate Man (7) 58 83 J McNeil 3 Better Kick h (9) 58 83 D Oliver 4 Crystal Chief h (10) 58 82 D Stackhouse 5 Sandhill (5) 58 84 C Newitt 6 Yulong Command (8) 58 84 M Zahra 7 101 Chrome Angel dwh (11) 57 98 Ms J Kah 8 40s15 Divine Caprice dw (2) 56 97 L Nolen 9 6s Miss Bosetti h (6) 56 85 R Bayliss 10 Kotys h (1) 56 87 C Williams 11 Pentangili h (3) 56 88 D Dunn

3 G.H.Mumm Mile 2.55 $108,000, 3yo Fillies Benchmark 78, 1600m

1 38512 Florent d (8) 60.5 92 H Grace (a3) 2 16385 Flandersrain d (13) 58.5 92 F W Kersley 3 2s113 Top Pins wn (4) 58 94 T Stockdale (a2) 4 11s5 Merited (5) 57.5 90 M Dee 5 79s19 Charleise (9) 57 99 M Zahra 6 3s217 November Dreaming dwbhn (7) 57 94 C Williams 7 s1469 Oriental Lily whn (14) 57 96 B Mertens 8 s4251 Librate dw (12) 56.5 100 D Oliver 9 37347 Don’ttelltheboss w (11) 56 94 B Prebble 10 2s110 Edinburgh dwh (3) 56 91 L Nolen 11 00s61 Fiorente’s Girl dh (2) 56 90 D Stackhouse 12 7s71 Delightful Hustler n (10) 56 88 L Nolen 13 1s043 Sandsation wbn (1) 56 95 J McNeil 14 s2321 Thee One dwhn (6) 56 93 W Egan EMERGENCY: 15 73615 Chloe’s Day dn (15) 56 86 B Park

4 Kennedy Mile 3.30 $60,000, Benchmark 78, 1600m

1 s6159 Black Sail dw (9) 62.5 90 T Nugent (a2) 2 1113s Tavirun w (12) 62.5 93 M Aitken (a2) 3 0218s Creedence dhn (4) 62 89 M Poy (a1.5)

4 86s34 Reserve Street db (13) 61.5 91 Ms J Eaton (a2) 5 0s721 Salorsci w (5) 60 91 L King (a2) 6 46s01 Secret Vega wn (1) 59.5 94 J Bowditch 7 49s12 Duke Of Plumpton dwb (11) 58.5 95 W Egan 8 8s922 Main Stage tdw (7) 58.5 96 T Stockdale (a2) 9 34s62 Sikorsky d (10) 58.5 97 D Oliver 10 s1212 Diplomatic Measure wbh (6) 57.5 92 L German (a3) 11 54292 Villa Sarchi tb (8) 57.5 93 B Mertens 12 23661 Ammoudi Bay w (16) 56.5 96 C Williams 13 s6331 Orleans Rock dw (3) 56.5 100 B Melham 14 194s6 Ridgewood Drive th (14) 56.5 90 D Bates EMERGENCIES: 15 24s39 Paremuus Boy dwn (15) 56 89 D Yendall 16 0s022 Adversary d (2) 56 91 J Childs

5 Furphy Dash 4.10 $100,000, Open, 1000m

1 7s793 Malibu Style tcdw (10) 62 89 T Nugent (a2) 2 s37s0 Eduardo dw (3) 61.5 92 H Grace (a3) 3 30s04 Milwaukee twhn (7) 59.5 92 L German (a3) 4 33001 Prezado cdwh (6) 59 100 Ms J Kah 5 100s0 From Within dwh (11) 57.5 90 C Williams 6 s1348 Wagner dw (5) 56.5 95 T Stockdale (a2) 7 5440s All Over Bosanova dw (9) 56 91 J Childs 8 32348 Causeway Girl tdw (4) 56 89 D Oliver 9 2515s King Of Hastings tdwhn (8) 56 91 M Poy (a1.5) 10 9s66s Ray’s Dream dw (2) 56 89 D Stackhouse 11 s4325 Sam’s Image dbn (1) 56 88 M Zahra

6 The Andrew Ramsden 4.50 $320,000, 3, 4 & 5yo Listed WFA, 2800m

1 81712 Runaway cwbh (11) 58.5 90 B Rawiller 2 9s211 King Of Leogrance twh (5) 58.5 92 D Oliver

3 20334 Skelm (4) 58.5 92 B Melham 4 71243 Good Idea wn (8) 58.5 92 B Thompson 5 60116 Jack Regan w (12) 58.5 91 T Stockdale (a) 6 1s783 Norway h (3) 58 97 D Dunn 7 13111 Too Close The Sun wn (2) 58 100 D Bates 8 6s497 Surrey Thunder wh (10) 58 93 L Nolen 9 21141 Dark Alley w (6) 58 93 C Williams 10 s7542 Sopressa wb (7) 56.5 95 J McNeil 11 1s414 Super Girl w (9) 56.5 92 W Egan 12 s0751 Oceanex tw (1) 56 99 M Zahra

7 Lexus Trophy 5.30 $108,000, 3yo & up, 2000m

1 45s02 Carzoff cdwh (8) 62 96 L German (a3) 2 8s810 Kentucky Breeze tdwh (12) 61 95 Ms J Kah 3 08s06 Kaonic twh (16) 59 90 M Zahra 4 21s11 Rupture td (3) 59 98 J Childs 5 9s433 Super Titus dw (9) 59 94 L Nolen 6 0s093 Mahamedeis cdwn (10) 58 91 R Mc Leod 7 7795s Alfarris tdwh (7) 57 92 C Williams 8 81P4s Killarney Kid cdw (4) 56.5 86 Ms T Hope (a2) 9 20s50 Masculino tcdw (1) 56.5 100 D Oliver 10 33383 Fidelia tw (11) 56 92 C Newitt 11 s111s Schabau tcd (5) 56 90 D Bates 12 946s4 Valac wn (14) 56 92 T Nugent (a2) 13 36s95 Chapada h (6) 56 92 D Stackhouse 14 232s0 Berisha tw (15) 56 87 B Mertens EMERGENCIES: 15 1s1s0 Dadoozdart dwbh (13) 56 93 D Dunn 16 64s18 Starcaster dwb (2) 56 98 J McNeil

8 Seppelt Wines Handicap 6.10 $100,000, Open, 1400m

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9 TAB Trophy 6.45 $108,000, 3yo, 1400m

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SelectionsRace 1: LOOLWAH, O’ SO HAZY, MRS O’MALLEY

Race 2: CHROME ANGEL, BETTER KICK, MISS BOSETTI

Race 3: NOVEMBER DREAMING, LIBRATE, TOP PINS

Race 4: ORLEANS ROCK, SIKORSKY, DUKE OF PLUMPTON

Race 5: ALL OVER BOSANOVA, KING OF HASTINGS,

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Race 6: KING OF LEOGRANCE, DARK ALLEY,

TOO CLOSE THE SUN

Race 7: RUPTURE, STARCASTER, SCHABAU

Race 8: ICONOCLASM, SIRIUS SUSPECT, MANOLO BLAHNIQ

Race 9: BEEHUNTER, BROADWAYANDFOURTH, FINAL MAN

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SAILING by Adrian Warren, AAP

SYDNEY — Organisers of the Sydney to Hobart are resigned to a small overseas contingent for this year’s race and fewer of the dominant line-honours-chasing supermaxis.

The Australian ocean racing sailing schedule for this year has already been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, with the Sydney to Noumea race postponed and the Sydney to Gold Coast event rescheduled from July to October.

Cruising Yacht Club of Australia commodore Paul Billingham was confident the Sydney to Hobart would proceed as usual on Boxing Day, but said a final decision wouldn’t have to be made before October at the earliest.

“We are planning for Hobart as usual, the Notice of Race comes out in two or three weeks,” Billingham told AAP.

“Obviously the big impact on Hobart would be if for some reason the Tasmanian border was still closed; that and this social-distancing interpretation would be an issue.

“But we can’t see on the current trajectory of what’s happening any complications for running the Hobart race as planned.

“I guess the down side is going to be the prospect of international entries other than New Zealand being very slim,” Billingham said.

“We are aware of several international entries that were coming who have postponed and they will come down the following year.

“We have a lot of international crew members come in as well as international boats, so that will have an impact this year.”

The 75th edition of the race last year attracted five supermaxis, but there will be fewer in 2020 and beyond, according to Billingham, with 2019 line-honours winner Comanche not expected to defend the title.

“I think the Hobart race will be changing in the coming years,” Billingham said.

“We’ve had the period of the supermaxis, they are still around but we may not get five together again in our lifetime, with Comanche and Black Jack both going to Europe.”

There will be at least one innovation for this year’s race.

‘We have got the two-handed division coming in,” Billingham said.

“That’s been happening in Europe and adds an extra degree of interest.”

Fewer big boats expected for 2020 Sydney to Hobart

CRICKET by Rob Forsaith, AAP

SYDNEY — The Adelaide Oval is perfectly equipped to be Cricket Australia’s safety net and ensure a lucrative series against India is staged this summer, according to test vice-captain Travis Head.

Hope is growing that Virat Kohli’s team will not only arrive for a much-anticipated test series but play additional ODIs that would boost CA’s revenue.

Nonetheless, uncertainty clouds the schedule. The level of Covid-19 restrictions that will be required at the end of this year is a mystery.

South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) chairman Andrew Sinclair and chief executive Keith Bradshaw have been pitching Adelaide Oval’s credentials as a biosecurity bubble to CA.

The construction of an on-site hotel means India could fly into Adelaide and serve their quarantine period at the ground.

Adelaide Oval could also hypothetically host multiple matches, given the likely absence of crowds and potential challenges of interstate travel, a ploy that would reduce broadcasters’ costs.

Head believes his home ground is one of few that could handle the on-field issues associated with consecutive tests.

“It’d be nice to stay at home for the whole summer,” the South Australia (SA) skipper said.

“Adelaide Oval is such a good ground. It’s unique. If it comes down to that, I know it will definitely be able to cope and withstand back-to-back test matches.

“We’ve had instances where there’ll be A-League games, rugby league or concerts going on. Houghy (curator Damian Hough) has been able to prepare a Shield wicket and drop it in the middle of the square, on the day of the game or two days out from the game.

“And you wouldn’t even notice as a player.”Josh Hazlewood has already suggested Adelaide

is comfortably the best pitch in Australia and the ideal oval if CA decides a test-cricket bubble is required for all or part of the series.

The absence of AFL games at the venue has hit the SACA’s bottom line, partly prompting a wave of redundancies and stalling the search for a new men’s coach.

“It is disappointing,” Head said.“I’ve had a lot of mates in SA hurt by that . . . the

people who work inside SACA are at times way more important than what we are.”

Head, who has kept busy doing running sessions with Alex Carey, will start official SA pre-season training this month.

Head puts case for Adelaide Oval to be test-match hub

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AFL by Shayne Hope, AAP

MELBOURNE — AFL players are poised to celebrate a big win, with immediate family members set to join them in Queensland team hubs ahead of the 2020 season restart next month.

Players being kept away from their families for long periods of time was a major sticking point when the AFL put a “worst-case” hub scenario to the AFL Players’ Association (AFLPA) last month.

But the easing of some state government coronavirus restrictions since then means that only four clubs — West Coast, Fremantle, Adelaide and Port Adelaide — will be required to enter hubs in order to restart the season.

In a deal struck between the AFL and AFLPA, players from those clubs should learn today that their families are also welcome in those hubs.

“I think the AFL will probably come to the party on that,” Eagles captain Luke

Shuey, a father of one, said last night.“I don’t see why not. The AFL have

been reasonable throughout the whole process.

“So if we have to go away, I think that’s looking likely, which is a good thing.”

The cost of players taking families into Queensland hubs will be funded by the AFL, which will not put a limit on the number of players clubs send.

It remains to be seen if the clubs from Western Australia and South Australia will be housed together or in separate hubs.

Despite the temporary relocation presenting another hurdle to West Coast in their premiership hunt, Shuey said the Eagles were prepared to do what they had to for the sake of the competition.

“As a playing group, we owe a lot to the game,” he said.

“No one is bigger than the game and this is our opportunity to give back to the game and get it back on its feet and get the competition going again.”

Players’ families set to enter Queensland hubs

RUGBY LEAGUE by Murray Wenzel, AAP

BRISBANE — Bryce Cartwright has avoided the flu shot and a club ban thanks to an 11th-hour medical exemption from the Queensland government.

The Gold Coast NRL player and teammate Brian Kelly had been given until yesterday to agree to take the shot that would enable them to train and play, in line with state government policy.

Kelly was vaccinated yesterday but Cartwright, whose wife and children are not, held firm.

The club confirmed last night he had lodged medical documentation to seek an exemption that was granted by chief medical officer Jeannette Young.

Cartwright was reportedly facing a $450,000 salary hit if he was stood down by the club for refusing the shot on non-medical grounds.

The avenue is at odds with his previously stated moral opposition to the vaccine.

It was a viewpoint shared by wife Shanelle, who questioned on social media yesterday afternoon why Cartwright’s NRL colleagues weren’t supporting him.

While it clears every Queensland-based NRL player to train and play in the state, it is understood six NRL players have declined the flu shot on non-medical grounds.

Canberra trio Josh Papalii, Joe Tapine and Sia Soliola, Manly’s Dylan Walker and Addin Fonua-Blake and Canterbury’s Sione Katoa are the others who would be able to train and play in New South Wales and ACT, but not Queensland.

The NRL is scheduled to restart on May 28, more than two months after it was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Yesterday, Brisbane coach Anthony Seibold said it would be unfair and that the NRL would be “kidding themselves” to cave in to the minority and make the three Queensland clubs travel for “home” games in NSW.

Cartwright avoids the flu shot on medical grounds

RUGBY LEAGUE by Matt Encarnacion and Pamela Whaley, AAP

SYDNEY — ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys has slammed the referees union after the governing body made a complaint with the Fair Work Commission over the NRL’s new one-referee system.

The situation threatens to turn ugly just two weeks out from the start of the revised season.

Professional Rugby League Match Officials (PRLMO) yesterday claimed the league had no right to change the officiating model under the current enterprise agreement.

They have engaged the services of Harmers Workplace Lawyers with the goal of finding a resolution before the competition resumes on May 28, but won’t rule out strike action.

V’landys has launched a passionate defence of the decision, saying PRLMO chairman Silvio Del Vecchio is not helping referees.

“It’s totally ludicrous and I don’t think his confrontational and misleading approach is helping his association,” V’landys said.

“We’ve done nothing wrong. All the 21 referees that are full-time will be kept.”

Del Vecchio told AAP they were confident of getting the NRL to overturn Wednesday’s decision and go back to using two on-field referees.

The PRLMO says that under the terms of the four-year agreement, which began in 2019, the governing body must persist with the two-referee system.

In a letter sent to the ARL Commission the union presented reasons why any rule change required more consultation.

They included duty of care to players and match officials, best interests of fans and sponsors, and potential errors in calculation of financial savings.

Cost saving has been a reason given by V’landys to move back to one referee, while he also says it has the backing of fans.

The NRL points to a survey conducted in 2019, where fans were asked what rule innovation they would like to see to make the game more unpredictable and entertaining.

Around 18,000 people responded, and V’landys says the second highest response behind changes to scrums was reverting to one referee.

AAP has requested a copy of the survey results.

Del Vecchio calculated that even if the NRL terminated all eight of its casual whistleblowers, the savings amounts to less than $300,000 a year.

“We’ve done the maths. When you average it out over the course of the remaining games of the year, it equates to $20 per minute of each game.” he said.

“It’s just peanuts. It’s unnecessary.”

Referees dig their toes in

FOOTBALL

LONDON — England soccer captain Harry Kane has bought the shirt sponsorship to League Two Leyton Orient’s 2020/21 kit.

The Tottenham striker, who enjoyed his first taste of senior football on loan at Orient in 2011, has taken the front-of-shirt sponsorship for Orient’s three kits following approval from the Premier League, English Football League and Football Association.

Kane has donated the sponsorship to three causes, with the home shirt donning a thank-you message to the frontline heroes of the coronavirus pandemic, the away shirt showing

Haven House Children’s Hospice’s logo and the third kit donated to mental health charity Mind.

Kane, who scored five goals in 18 games for east London side Orient, said: “I was born and brought up only at a couple of miles from the stadium and I am really happy to have the opportunity to give back to the club that gave me my first professional start.

“This also gives me a platform to be able to say a big thank you to the many frontline heroes and charities out there who provide care and support during these challenging times.”

Orient chief executive Danny Macklin added: “When we

discussed with the England captain Harry Kane and his team at CK66, we all decided that we wanted this to be unique.

“We wanted to say thank you for the exceptional hard work and dedication of the frontline heroes during this pandemic and also bring attention to the other charities out there who have all been suffering financial loss due to the pandemic.

“Thank you, Harry, for your amazing support and generosity — you are a true role model for the modern game.”

Orient will give 10 percent of all shirt sales back to Kane’s nominated charities. — PA

Harry Kane to sponsor Orient shirts to honour good causes

HARRY KANE: Honouring good causes. AP picture

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MOTORSPORT by Jerome Pugmire, AP

PARIS — Carlos Sainz Jr will drive for Formula One team Ferrari next season and Daniel Ricciardo will replace the Spaniard at McLaren.

The 25-year-old Sainz Jr will join Ferrari on a two-year deal starting next year, the Italian team said in a statement yesterday, shortly after McLaren announced Ricciardo’s arrival from Renault.

“I am very happy that I will be driving for Ferrari in 2021 and I’m excited about my future with the team,” Sainz Jr said.

“I still have an important year ahead with McLaren Racing and I’m really looking forward to going racing again with them this season.”

The first 10 races of the season have either been postponed or cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Sainz Jr, the son of two-time world rally champion Carlos Sainz, will replace Sebastian Vettel. The four-time F1 champion is leaving Ferrari at the end of his contract.

Vettel struggled at times to compete against Charles Leclerc, even though Leclerc was only in his first season with Ferrari and his second in F1. The 22-year-old

Leclerc is contracted to Ferrari until the end of 2024 and, with Vettel gone, is now the team’s No.1 driver.

Despite not having a world champion behind the wheel — like Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen, or Fernando Alonso before them — Ferrari hope a younger driver pairing has a galvanising effect.

“We’ve embarked on a new cycle with the aim of getting back to the top in Formula 1,” Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto said.

“It will be a long journey, not without its difficulties, especially given the current financial and regulatory situation.

“A driver pairing with the talent and personality of Charles and Carlos, the youngest in the past 50 years of the Scuderia, will be the best possible combination to help us.”

Both drivers will be hungry: Leclerc to challenge for the world title, Sainz Jr to show he can compete alongside him.

Sainz Jr drove consistently well last season, securing the first podium finish of his career and helping McLaren finish fourth in the constructors’ championship.

“I also want to pay tribute to Carlos for the excellent job he has been doing for McLaren in helping our performance recovery plan,” McLaren chief executive Zak

Brown said.“He is a real team player and

we wish him well for his future.”Ricciardo will drive alongside

20-year-old British driver Lando Norris next season.

“Signing Daniel is another step forward in our long-term plan and will bring an exciting new dimension to the team, alongside Lando,” Brown said.

“This is good news for our team, partners and, of course, our fans.”

Despite his lack of experience, Norris has shown a cool head under pressure on race day.

Renault have not yet said who will replace Ricciardo next year.

The 30-year-old Australian had a difficult time last season, his first with the French manufacturer after making a surprise move from Red Bull. He managed only one fourth-place finish and placed a lowly ninth in the standings.

But Ricciardo showed strong form during his stint with Red Bull, winning seven races and consistently securing podium finishes.

Among those touted to replace Ricciardo are Nico Hulkenberg, who lost his Renault seat this year to Esteban Ocon, Alonso, and Vettel.

Although Alonso is 38 years old, the Spanish driver won his two world titles with Renault.

Ricciardo fills vacancy left by Sainz

TEAM CHANGES: In this March file photo, Spanish driver Carlos Sainz Jr arrives at the track for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne. Ferrari have signed Sainz Jr for a two-year deal starting in 2021. Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo will move from Renault to take the place left vacant by Sainz at McLaren.

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MOTORSPORT INSIDEFOOTBALL

FOOTBALL by Tales Azzoni, AP

BUENOS AIRES — There will be no more kissing the ball for good luck in South American football.

Also, forget about exchanging jerseys — and even spitting or blowing noses on the field.

The governing body of football in the region has released a series of specific regulations amid the coronavirus pandemic to protect everyone’s health when the Copa Libertadores — the continent’s biggest club competition — eventually resumes.

There is no date set for when the tournament will restart, and it may not be until September as South American nations continue to struggle to contain the virus.

The Copa Libertadores and the second-tier Copa Sudamericana were suspended in March.

The South American Football Confederation has approved several changes to its regulations to adapt to the pandemic, adding the requirement to test players and others involved in matches.

It will create a “medical registry” to keep track of results, and those who

refuse to be tested won’t be allowed to compete. Clubs that don’t co-operate can be fined.

Among the additions to the regulations is the prohibition for “players and officials to kiss the ball before, during and after the match”.

They also won’t be allowed to spit or blow their noses while on the field or on the benches.

Their body temperatures will be checked before the matches, and everyone on the bench will be required to wear masks at all times.

Players will be “prohibited to exchange

or give away their shirts or any piece of their uniform to opposing players, teammates or any other person”.

The traditional exchange of pennants between team captains before matches also won’t be allowed.

The Copa Libertadores — the South American equivalent of the Champions League — was suspended early in its group stage. The Copa Sudamericana had stopped after its first phase.

The first round of World Cup qualifying could not be completed because of the pandemic. It is also expected to start some time in September.

‘Kissing ball’ out of order in South American game

TENNIS by Darren Walton, AAP

SYDNEY — Tennis enigma Goran Ivanisevic wants the naughty Nick Kyrgios to reconcile with the outrageously gifted Nick Kyrgios to ensure he becomes a grand slam champion.

Ivanisevic remains the only player in history to win Wimbledon as a wildcard, having famously harnessed the talents of “good Goran with bad Goran” for his historic march to the 2001 title.

Three-times a Wimbledon runner-up before breaking through with a titanic victory over Pat Rafter, Ivanisevic was ranked a lowly 125th in the world when he finally prevailed at The All England Club.

Tellingly, the Croatian hot-head said

that was the first time he’d felt at peace on court, having struggled to control his emotions during a truly turbulent career.

“I was able to separate these two things: good Goran and bad Goran and they were helping each other for the first time,” Ivanisevic told the Australian Open YouTube.

“Usually they were against each other and they created a lot of bad losses, a lot of stupid losses.

“I lost so many matches especially against big players — Pete (Sampras), Andre (Agassi), Jim (Courier) — tight matches but they always waited for me to make some stupid, crazy mistakes.

“But in that two weeks they (good Goran and bad Goran) were friends — enemies

but friends — and they helped each other a lot.”

Almost 20 years on and now part of Novak Djokovic’s coaching team after guiding countryman Marin Cilic to 2014 US Open glory, Ivanisevic sees a lot of himself in Kyrgios.

And he believes the new and improved Kyrgios showed enough during his cool run to the Australian Open fourth round to suggest the 25-year-old is also on the way to parlaying his enviable potential into grand slam spoils.

“He has some issues deep down — he is the worst for himself and I know how he feels,” Ivanisevic said.

“He is fighting with 100 people, sometimes he wants to prove something

that is impossible to prove.“But there is no sense to talk about his

talent because he is one of the biggest talents. He is the guy who can win grand slams. He can beat anybody any day.

“He is, for me, the best server in the game. He can do whatever with the ball.”

But, as Ivanisevic says, Kyrgios “has his demons”.

“He is getting better and better and he will honestly regret one day if he’s kind of not able to change. Because the guy’s so talented, to not be able to win a grand slam would be a shame for tennis.

“Hopefully he can change and do it because deep down he’s a good guy and tennis needs Nick Kyrgios and Nick Kyrgios needs tennis.”

Ivanisevic backs Kyrgios to win grand slam glory

CRICKET

WELLINGTON — South African-born batsman Devon Conway has been included on New Zealand Cricket’s list of contracted players for the 2020-21 season three months before becoming eligible to play for the Black Caps.

The 28-year-old Johannesburg-born player, now playing for Wellington province, was the leading scorer in New Zealand domestic cricket last season across all the formats, scoring more than 1800 runs.

Conway moved to New Zealand from South Africa in 2017 and becomes eligible for international selection in August. He is one of three newcomers on the contracts list announced today by New Zealand coach Gary Stead and selector Gavin Larsen.

Tall fast bowler Kyle Jamieson, who made an outstanding start to his international career in test and white-ball matches last season, and spinner Ajaz Patel are the other newly contracted players.

Leg-spinner Todd Astle, who has retired from test cricket, hard-hitting white-ball batsman Colin Munro and test opener Jeet Raval are the players omitted from last season’s list. Raval’s omission follows his spectacular loss of form last season. Tom Blundell has since taken over Raval’s place at the top of the order.

Left-hander Conway bats at

No.3 for Wellington and likely will challenge Henry Nicholls for a place in the New Zealand top order.

“Devon’s form with the bat across all three formats these past two seasons made him impossible to ignore and he’s going to be a great option to add to the batting mix,” Larsen said.

“Kyle’s performances against India were nothing short of outstanding and at 25 years of age he’s got a big future.

“We see Ajaz as the incumbent test spinner at present and he’ll be looking to stamp his mark on that spot after some strong efforts with the ball in the subcontinent.”

In compiling the list, the selectors rank players from 1 to 20 on the likelihood of them featuring in international matches in the coming season, with tests carrying a higher weighting than one-day or Twenty20 internationals. Players on the list receive retainers of between $243,000 for the top-ranked player to $103,000 for No.20.

Captain Kyle Williamson usually takes the No.1 ranking.

New Zealand contracted players: Tom Blundell, Trent Boult, Devon Conway, Colin de Grandhomme, Lockie Ferguson, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Tom Latham, Henry Nicholls, Jimmy Neesham, Ajaz Patel, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Neil Wagner, BJ Watling, Kane Williamson, Will Young. — AP

Three added to the fold

IN THE FOLD: Tall fast bowler Kyle Jamieson is one of three newly contracted cricketers announced today by New Zealand coach Gary Stead and selector Gavin Larsen. The others are batsman Devon Conway and spin bowler Ajaz Patel. AP picture