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Using the Stats NZ population date and the Ministry of Health vaccination stats (as of 23 May) I’ve calculated how vaccinated New Zealand is. The data is: Ineligible 305,510 6.0% No doses 527,345 10.3% 1 dose 188,138 3.7% 2 doses 1,418,327 27.7% 3 doses 2,683,280 52.4% I think a 4th booster dose will be available […]

Showa Denko's Program to Develop 8-inch SiC Wafers for Next-generation Green Power Semiconductor Selected for NEDO's Green Innovation Fund Projects TOKYO, May 24, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - Showa Denko (SDK) (TOKYO: 4004) proposed its "Project to ...

Four Hawke’s teenagers have been selected for the New Zealand Blackbots team to represent the country at the October FIRST Global Robotics World Cup in Geneva, Switzerland. The innovative robotics inventors from Karamu and Havelock North High School were ...

Following a record quarter at the end of 2021, reports of cyber incidents and the associated financial losses have dropped back to roughly median levels, according to CERT NZ’s Cyber Security Insights report for Q1 2022. “The previous quarter ...

Press Release – New Zealand Rugby League Former New South Wales Womens Origin assistant Milton Dymock has been appointed Head Coach of the Mate Maa Tonga Womens side. He is partnered by former NRL and Mate Maa Tonga players Jim Dymock and Andrew Emelio. Milton Dymock is a well-regarded … Former New South Wales Women’s […]

News from Adam Portraiture Award Jessica Gurnsey from Auckland has been announced the winner of the 2022 Adam Portraiture Award and a $20,000 cash prize. Jessica’s work Lady Day, acrylic on canvas, was chosen as the winner today from an impressive 351 entries nationwide and 45 finalists at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga […]

Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs have become aware that a number of people have waited longer than the usual 60 working days from enrolment in the Breast Screen Central (BSC) service to being offered a mammogram appointment. BSC delivers ...

NZ’s worst landlord strikes once again. The Herald reports: A state house tenant has been awarded $5000 after having to live next to a neighbour from hell who had rowdy parties, was abusive and urinated on the fence. The Auckland tenant took Kāinga Ora to the Tenancy Tribunal after lodging more than 130 complaints against […]

Bowel Cancer New Zealand welcomes the news from the budget that the bowel screening age for Māori and Pasifika people will be lowered from 60 to 50 years old starting in 2023. The government initiative will be launched in selected regions this year ...

“We are hopeful the nearly decade long Liberal-led Government’s open warfare on safer nicotine products will end under Australia’s new Labor-led Government,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Co-ordinator of CAPHRA (Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco ...

Researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) have received $150,000 from the Health Research Council for a project in which they aim to transform our ability to understand, predict and ultimately ...

The Stroke Foundation of New Zealand says that Budget 2022 offers very little support to the hundreds of health-related NGOs struggling to provide services to people “falling through the cracks” within the New Zealand Health System. The funding of $102 million ...

A guest post by Cr Chris Milne: A great mystery of 2022 is how it came to be that the Upper Hutt and Lower Hutt Mayors formed polar opposite views on Three Waters. Three public opinion polls in the two cities have revealed strong resident opposition to the Labour Government’s centralisation of water management, including […]

Feedback from our consultation on the rules governing policyholder security in our insurance legislation will help to shape the final policy. An important purpose of New Zealand’s insurance legislation is to promote a financially sound insurance ...

Te Pāti Māori Co-leader and Health spokesperson Debbie Ngarewa-Packer is supporting the calls of patients and advocates who have been left stunned by the Government’s lack of action on breast cancer screening and Pharmac funding in Budget 2022. “Government ...

Environment Canterbury’s annual Warmer Cheaper campaign has begun. The campaign reminds Canterbury residents with wood burners to ‘burn smoke-free' by using dry wood, good wood burning techniques, and a modern, well-maintained wood burner.  ...

E tū/NZNO/PSA media release After rallying around Aotearoa for a better pay offer, care and support workers and their unions are delivering their messages to Parliament in a petition signed by thousands in just 10 days. They will hand over the petition, ...

Nelson Police appealing for information to assist them in identifying a man who did an indecent act on a walkway on Wednesday 11 May. The incident occurred on a walkway on Annesbrooke Drive, Nelson near the Annesbrooke roundabout around 8am that ...

“Jacinda Ardern’s visit comes immediately on the heels of Joe Biden’s trip to Japan for a meeting of the ‘Quad’ - the US, Australia, India and Japan - that intends to dramatically increase militarisation of the Pacific region. Ardern’s ...

News from NZ Government The development of sustainable, plant-based foods and meat alternatives is getting new government backing, with a Kapiti business receiving investment from a dedicated regional economic development fund. “The investment in Sustainable Foods Ltd is part of a wider government strategy to develop a low-emissions, highly-skilled economy that responds to global demands,” […]