More than 5,500 people felt so aggrieved by the controversial parts of the Fisheries Amendment Bill, they wrote unique submissions opposing it. The bill has massive implications for fisheries sustainability in New Zealand The new legislation would force through ...
New Zealand’s iconic New Year’s festival, Northern Bass , is back and ready to make up for their unplanned year off in 2021, by dropping the entire 2022 line-up in one go! Tickets on sale now Taking a second run at holding their 11th festival, ...
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Billy Matara is a second striker. He attempted to murder a man by shooting him with a shotgun. The victim was lucky to survive. That was Matara’s second strike offence. Ironically the attempted murder took place at a hostel for prisoner rehabilitation! His first strike was an aggravated robbery in which he and another offender […]
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“Only this government could hire thousands of bureaucrats to take money from New Zealanders and then hundreds more to work out how to give the money back,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government was dragged kicking and screaming to ...
Following a recent funding round raising $8.8 million, Auckland biotech company Pictor today announced it has received confirmation of CE registration for its PictArray™ SARS-CoV-2 IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) antibody test as per In ...
Volunteering is at the heart of a New Zealand experience for a group of students from Hong Kong studying with the English Language Academy (ELA), the language school at the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau. It’s National Volunteer week ...
The Documentary New Zealand Trust presents THE DOCUMENTARY EDGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022 (DOC EDGE) 1 June – 10 July 2022 Doc Edge held their annual awards as part of their 2022 festival at The Civic this evening to honour the incredible ...
An independent Māori-led research team has been awarded $1.5M by the Ministry of Health and Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) to track the implementation and progress of the government’s Whakamaua Māori Health Action Plan 2020–2025. ...
With the full tautoko/support of the Cooper whānau and Te Rarawa elders, Riqi Harawira ‘Creative Native’ presents his new waiata alongside the music video ‘ Whina - Walk of Freedom’ . Dame Whina Cooper (Te Rarawa) was known as ‘Te Whaea o Te ...
Press Release – Air New Zealand Air New Zealand is gearing up for the busiest July in two years with the relaunch of 14 international routes in 16 days. With these routes back in action, the airline will be operating 60 percent of its international capacity – the most international … Air New Zealand is […]
Press Release – NRHCC Over 1,400 people accessed free GP care and hundreds more took advantage of free pain relief for children at pharmacies across Counties Manukau last weekend, prompting more health providers to step in and help this Matariki weekend. Around 30 general … Over 1,400 people accessed free GP care and hundreds more […]
Cure Kids’ annual State of Child Health Report released today confirmed very high rates of costly, yet often preventable, diseases in Aotearoa. Yet as a country we could protect children from these diseases with better policies. "Poor living ...
Press Release – Commonwealth Secretariat 22 June 2022 Australian Government committed to being a more constructive and ambitious partner on climate change Leaders and senior officials from across the Commonwealth have voiced their robust support for a non-binding charter on climate change, biodiversity … 22 June 2022 Australian Government committed to being a more constructive […]
Otago Museum has announced an exhibition for Otago’s gamers, digital natives, and technophiles, Code Breakers: Women in Games, set to open on Saturday 2 July. This free exhibition is made by ACMI and transforms the Museum into an immersive ...
Care and support workers deserve much better than the pay rates Labour is pushing through Parliament today. “Care and support workers are essential to the long-term wellbeing of our families, our communities and our country as a whole – and they ...
An exclusive performance with leading Māori artist, Troy Kingi, will be streamed live from Whakaata Māori tonight. ‘AFTERHOURS TARI TAKE-OVER WITH TROY KINGI’ will come live from the newsroom of Whakaata Māori at 8.00 PM. Troy Kingi will perform ...
Press Release – UN Women New data from seven countries in the Asia-Pacific region shows that, since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, more women than men have left their paid jobs to provide essential services to their families, such as cleaning, caring for the sick and home-schooling … New data from seven countries in […]
GFS is pleased to announce it has acquired the rights to take Ewan Wilson’s bestselling autobiographical book Dogfight: The Inside Story of the Kiwi Airlines Collapse to the screen. GFS CEO Julian Grimmond says “The book is a wonderful story about the ...
Current City Councillor with local government management experience, stretching beyond thirty years, says enough is enough, it’s time for change in our city’s elected leadership and culture. Napier [City] has a proud and prominent history, ...
The New Zealand Food Network (NZFN) celebrated National Volunteer Week 2022 with the launch of its new Selwyn Operation. Earlier this week, the NZFN and Volunteering Canterbury hosted the first volunteer group at the new warehouse facility, which ...
At the recent Global Forum on Nicotine - #GFN22 - in Warsaw, Poland, the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) made the case that regional advocacy works and is delivering remarkable results for vaping in Asia Pacific. With ...
For its 150th birthday next year, the University of Canterbury has created new scholarships for hundreds of lower decile school-leavers who may not have considered university as part of their future. To help mark its sesquicentennial, the University of Canterbury ...
Tala Pasifika, a national Pacific voice for tobacco control in Aotearoa, commend Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall, her team, Pacific communities and everyone who have taken action to progress this legislative work with the Smokefree Bill that has been introduced ...
Labour has blocked National’s motion to extend the select committee process on Three Waters, doubling down on their commitment to ram it through Parliament with as little scrutiny as possible, National’s Local Government spokesperson Simon ...