The Tuesday Wire: April 21, 2020

Following the Prime Minister's announcement yesterday, we have a brief reminder of what alert level 3 will look like.

Laura Kvigstad and Jessica Hopkins bring us with notes of today's parliamentary Epidemic Response Committee.

Bronnie talks about the Ministry for the Environment’s Our Freshwater 2020 report on Greendesk.

Oscar Perress spoke to Auckland Councillor Pippa Coom about tactical urbanism, infrastructure projects and procedures around Covid-19 as well as the Council’s budget on another episode of City Counselling.

Sherry Zhang talked to Green Party co-leader James Shaw about moving the country to alert level 3, guidance for business transitioning online and to contactless takeaways, unsafe living situations and the Green Party's financial challenges. 

International Desk reports on the current state of Chinese diplomacy during the pandemic.

Oscar has another chat with Samuel Miller McDonald on the relationship between the environment, politics and Coivd-19.