News from Wellington City Council Let’s Get Wellington Moving has today announced that its preferred option includes mass rapid transit to the south coast, a new tunnel through Mt Victoria, and sorting out traffic around the Basin Reserve. Mayor Andy Foster says today’s announcement by Transport Minister Michael Wood and Infrastructure Minister Grant Robertson is […]
News from Wellington Airport Wellington Airport is welcoming progress on Wellington’s transport network with the Government announcing a preferred option today. “It’s good to see progress being made and a clear pathway forward,” says Wellington Airport chief executive Matt Clarke. “A new four lane tunnel through Mt Victoria is much needed and should add capacity […]
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News from Save The Basin While Save the Basin (STB) welcomes the government’s green light for developing the business case for a light rail system for Wellington, it does not believe the option that’s been chosen is best for the city’s future. The government has opted to support the business case for LGWM’s Option 1 […]
TVNZ reports: New statistics have revealed the failure of KiwiBuild to increase home ownership rates for Māori and Pasifika New Zealanders. Figures released to Q+A with Jack Tame under the Official Information Act show just 4.8% of KiwiBuild buyers who gave their ethnicity on their application forms are Māori, and 4.4% are Pasifika. These figures […]
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GENEVA (28 June 2022) – The UN Child Rights Committee today expressed deep concern over the information it has received about the use of violence against children by the Ecuadorian security forces during recent protests and strikes led by indigenous ...
Geneva, 28 June 2022 “I want to pay tribute to Colombia’s Truth Commission at a historic moment as it presents its final report today. I would also like to pay tribute to the victims, whose courage and persistence were the basis for the Commission’s ...
Toi Tangata is looking to the future by reconnecting with its whakapapa as the Māori health agency moves its base to the Heart Foundation offices in Ellerslie. A dawn service led by mana whenua, Ngāti Whātua, to bless the building will be held on ...
The prestigious Museum Medals were presented at a ceremony hosted at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum last night (28 June). The Museum Medals recognise excellence and innovation in the study of our cultural and natural heritage. The ...
“The Road to Sustainable Aquaculture”: ASC’s side event at the UN Ocean Conference and evaluation of its contribution to the SDGs Tuesday 28 June 2022 As part of the UN Ocean Conference 2022 in Lisbon, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council ...
GENEVA (28 June 2022) – A UN human rights expert today urged banks and other financial institutions around the world to stop over-complying with sanctions regimes imposed by various countries, saying the practice was inadvertently leading to human rights ...
GENEVA (28 June 2022) – The UN Human Rights Office today published a report that, following rigorous assessment and statistical analysis of available data on civilian casualties, estimates that 306,887 civilians* were killed between 1 March 2011 and ...
New Zealand must start recognising biotech as a key technology for the future success of New Zealand’s technology, BiotechNZ executive director Dr Zahra Champion says. Because of the massive global importance of biotechnology March 22-23 next year will ...
From 2024, Air New Zealand will offer a new Business Premier Luxe suite, a new Business Premier seat and the world's first Skynest It will offer the most choice of any airline in its three cabins to get the best sleep in the sky The airline has responded to ...
Hudson Mohawke officially returns to announce his forthcoming album, Cry Sugar due August 12th via Warp Records . With the announcement arriving alongside new single " Bicstan ", plus an accompanying kingcon2k11 -directed Megamix visualizer, ...
New Zealanders are seeing harmful content and it worries them, says a new research report by Te Mana Whakaatu – Classification Office, released today. Acting Chief Censor Rupert Ablett-Hampson said the research, based on a nationally representative ...
New University of Otago research suggests the brain function of otherwise-healthy individuals exposed to event trauma has the ability to “bounce back” over time once the threat resolves. Researchers led by Dr Katie Douglas at the University of ...
To Provost Muniz, to the Organisers at the Instituto de Empresa buenas tardes and as we would say in New Zealand, kia ora kotou katoa. To colleagues from the State Department, from Academia, and Civil Society Groups, to all our distinguished guests ...
On June 28, 2022, a meeting took place in Madrid between the President of the Government of the Kingdom of Spain, Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, and the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, who was visiting Spain to participate in the Summit ...
A six-fold increase in the Aotearoa New Zealand-Spain working holiday scheme gives a huge boost to the number of young people who can live and work in each other’s countries, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. Jacinda Ardern and Spanish President ...
The wild animal management strategy, Te Ara ki Mua, represents a significant opportunity to create enduring management solutions for game animals (deer, tahr, chamois and wild pigs) that will bring major conservation benefits for New Zealand despite the ...
Report from RNZ by Phil Pennington Legal action is possible over the Ministry of Education vacating its Wellington head office due to earthquake risks. The ministry pulled out staff a month ago after engineers rated the 12-storey block at 25 percent of New Building Standard (NBS). The building’s owner, Wellington Investment Group, said the ministry […]
Police are appealing for information following a burglary at a depot on Ferguson Street, Palmerston North overnight on Thursday 23 June.
A significant barrier has been removed for people who want to stand in local government elections, with a change to the requirement to publish personal details in election advertising. The Associate Local Government Minister Kieran McAnulty has taken the ...