Ōpōtiki, 2 December 2022: The people of Te Whakatōhea have spoken, the release of the results in the historic vote on the Whakatōhea Settlement are below. Whakatōhea 2022 settlement results Āe/Yes 67.01% Kāo/No 32.21% For full results of the Whakatōhea ...
Ara Ake and the Auckland Business Chamber have signed a partnership to lead an Aotearoa New Zealand consortium in joining the Enterprise Europe Network (The Network) as the New Zealand International Network Partner. The Network is one of the world’s ...
<img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2212/bd101d3950d3888aa58f.jpeg" width="720" height="360"> The international exhibition Secrets of Stonehenge comes exclusively to Tāmaki Makaurau, opening on Thursday ...
Marlborough volunteer emergency responders are now officially among the best in the country. The Marlborough Response Team recently became the second response team in the country to achieve new national accreditation standards, showing it meets ...
“The Prime Minister needs to explain to New Zealanders whether she was misleading them when she said a controversial change to Three Waters was “not something I would necessarily be aware of” or whether she just wasn’t paying attention in ...
Thousands of kindergarten teachers from across Aotearoa have resoundingly rejected their collective agreement offer from the Ministry of Education and kindergarten associations. NZEI Te Riu Roa members covered by the Kindergarten Teachers' Collective ...
“The salaries for senior staff at Oranga Tamariki have increased by 55 per cent in the past five years but we’re not seeing improved results for children in need,” says ACT’s Children spokesperson Karen Chhour. “Written Parliamentary Questions ...
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Bill Bennett writes: One day shortly before Christmas, a Chorus contractor will connect a slender strand of glass fibre to a family home and power up the hardware needed to drive it. When that line lights up and the data starts flowing, the 11-year Ultra Fast Fibre project will finally end. From where we are in […]
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Renewable energy isn’t replacing fossil fuel energy—it’s adding to it. By Richard Heinberg Despite all the renewable energy investments and installations, actual global greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing. That’s largely due to economic ...
Antimicrobials have been widely used to fight diseases, including sexually transmitted infections (STIs), for nearly 80 years. Penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic, was used for the first time to treat and cure syphilis in 1943. However, bacteria ...
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos Dear President Lula, When I visited you (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) in prison on August 30, 2018, in the brief time that the visit lasted, I experienced a whirlwind of ideas and emotions that remain as vivid today as they ...
“I am delighted to announce that Vision New Zealand will be launching Young Vision, the youth arm of our political party tonight, Friday 2nd December, Lower Hutt Town Hall at 7.30pm”. Said Hannah Tamaki leader of Vision New Zealand. Vision New Zealand ...
Across Africa, efforts to reduce the number of women and infants dying in childbirth are set to slow without a substantial increase in investment, the UN health agency said on Thursday. New data from the World Health Organization ( WHO ) indicates that ...
HONG KONG, Dec 1, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the 23rd Hong Kong Forum once again welcomed in-person participation, while the event was also livestreamed to engage the wider global community. The Forum, ...
Consumer NZ has investigated which New Zealand government agencies keep their customers waiting the longest for support via their contact centres. Some departments, such as Inland Revenue, picked up the phone in less than two minutes. At the other end ...
Geneva – Minors in the UK who are escaping war and persecution in their countries of origin are being misclassified as adults and detained for no ethically sound reason, warned Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor in a statement on Wednesday. Apart from stripping ...
BANGKOK, 1 December 2022— The 2022 UNAIDS World AIDS Day report reveals that inequalities are obstructing the end of AIDS. On current trends the world will not meet agreed global HIV targets. However, urgent action to tackle inequalities can get the AIDS ...
Leading NGOs including Survival International and Amnesty International have released a joint statement in the run-up to December’s COP15 on biodiversity, denouncing the planned target of protecting 30% of Earth by 2030 (“30x30”). In the statement ...
Ministers and high-level officials today renewed commitments from Asia-Pacific countries to boost regional cooperation in climate action, sustainable urban development, the protection of ecosystems and oceans, and implementing environmental rights principles; ...
01 December Police have taken a 23-year-old man into custody following an assault on Lambton Quay this evening, reported to Police just before 8pm. The victim was transported to hospital in a serious condition with stab wounds. Police were able ...
GENEVA (1 December 2022) – UN experts* said today they were concerned a 57- year-old Jordanian citizen may soon be executed for drug offences that do not meet the threshold for “most serious crimes” and continued to recommend the Government of Saudi ...
01 December Yesterday 66 Local Government Elected Members sent an open letter to Cabinet calling on them to allow a separate vote on the voting age for local elections, and urging Parliament to pass that vote. This comes at the same time as Porirua City ...
A who’s who of the urban art scene from Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas will flock to Ōtautahi Christchurch in January for a collaborative exhibition of epic proportions. Their canvas? The internal walls, floors and ceilings of the almost-empty, ...
Auckland, 22 November 2022 – New Zealanders are thinking about their mental wellbeing more often than a year ago, however still less than they think about their physical wellbeing. New Zealand males are less likely to think about their mental health than ...