Nearly half of recent Māori university graduates are the first in their immediate family to attend university, one third are parents and the majority (70%) are female, new research from the National Centre for Lifecourse Research shows.
A national hunter’s organisation has rejected a call by the Department of Conservation (DOC) for more 1080 aerial drops because the department suspects a possible beech seed masting year again next summer.
COURSE RECORD AND BACK TO BACK WINNER IN QUEENSTOWN A new course record for a new men’s winner and back to back victories in the women’s race were the features of the Air New Zealand Queenstown International Marathon today. The second running ...
Te Pou, Auckland’s Maori Theatre will play host to the first ‘Puawai Festival’ from 26 November to raise the spirits and break down barriers about AIDS and HIV.
Beneficiary advocate Kay Brereton is expecting Monday 23 November to be the last day on which people can 'claim back their day from W&I.'
Auckland's Ricky “The Ghost” Murphy was successful last night for his first New Zealand Professional Boxing Association (NZPBA) Super Welterweight Title Defence at North Shore Event Centre, against Credentialed Kickboxer Ben Sisam.
This Thursday morning animal rights activists and locals from the community of Patumahoe will unite to show joint opposition to a proposal to build one of New Zealand’s largest caged chicken farms.
A Centre for Education Leadership Excellence is to be established to build leadership across the education system, Education Minister Hekia Parata announced today.
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I would like to join with our Prime Minister John Key in condemning last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, and expressing my heartfelt condolences to the French people.
The government needs to urgently prepare for the impact of rising sea levels, both in New Zealand and in Pacific Island nations, says Catholic social justice agency Caritas.
Stuff reports: New Zealand’s ambassador to the United States, Mike Moore, will leave his post next month and return to New Zealand. Moore, a former Prime Minister who went on to be World Trade Organisation director-general, suffered what was described as a “minor stroke” in April of this year. In a statement to embassy staff […]
New Zealand’s wildlife and wild places need a target of at least 40% emissions reduction by 2030 and a bold plan for achieving those reductions, says Geoff Keey, Forest & Bird’s Climate Change Advocate.
IEA Ministerial meeting signals solidarity with France, opens doors to broader engagement with emerging economies
In 1971 Richard Nixon declared a War on Drugs. But it wasn’t until a man named William Bennett became the first ever ‘Drug Czar’, that the conflict took off. Bennett, with his policies driven by fear and moral conservatism, turned America’s law enforcement apparatus into a machine for chewing up human — mainly Black and Latin — lives.
The Drug Policy Alliance’s Executive Director Ethan Nadelman, reminded us of this in his moving address to the plenary session of the Reform Conference in Washington DC. Читать дальше...
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Andrew Little is expected to announce his reshuffle this afternoon. Claire Trevett says it is critical for his creidbility: His team is small and he needs his performers to perform. There are precious few of those. Those who got opportunities and made the most of them will do the best, such as Kelvin Davis and […]
Tomorrow the Auckland Transport Board meet and as usual I’ve picked through the main reports looking for any bits of information that I find interesting. First up the items in the closed session
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Press Release – New Zealand Defence Force More than 2,000 military personnel supported by an array of naval, land, and air assets have spent the past month conducting a fictional military campaign across the top of the South Island as part of Exercise Southern Katipo 2015 (SK15). SK15 …23 November 2015 Exercise Successfully Tests Capabilities […]
Press Release – Caritas Aotearoa The government needs to urgently prepare for the impact of rising sea levels, both in New Zealand and in Pacific Island nations, says Catholic social justice agency Caritas.CARITAS AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND MEDIA RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 November 2015 Government needs to urgently prepare for rising seas The government […]
New Zealand telecommunications went from state-owned to a competitive market in a generation. Now the government is back in the telecoms business. Not as a direct player, but sponsoring and calling the shots for a national urban fibre roll out. Government also imposed an extra tax on telcos to pay for rural service upgrades. It […]
Phil Goff has today announced his decision to stand as an Independent candidate for Mayor of Auckland next year.
Auckland mayoral candidate Phil Goff’s political philosophy and policies will be no different to Len Brown’s and in fact probably even more expensive,” says Auckland Councillor for Orakei, Cameron Brewer.
The Guardian reports: Jeremy Corbyn may have misgivings about shoot to kill, but few of his own MPs seem to share them. Sitting next to the leader of the opposition for the prime minister’s statement on the G20 summit and the Paris attacks was Hilary Benn. The normally mild-mannered shadow foreign secretary gave every impression […]
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is welcoming the Labour Party’s decision to put up a strong candidate in Phil Goff to replace its existing Mayor in Auckland, but note that no ratepayer group was invited to today’s announcement.