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Appointment of High Commissioner to Niue a great honour
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:32:14 +1300 | New Zealand Police
Commissioner Peter Marshall says the announcement that Superintendent Ross Ardern will become the next High Commissioner to Niue is a great honour both for Mr Ardern and New Zealand Police.More >>
Govt should refuse Sri Lanka chair
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:27:53 +1300 | Green Party
The Green Party has written to Minister McCully urging him to publicly challenge Sri Lanka and oppose the appointment of President Rajapaksa when it comes time to appoint the Commonwealth Chairperson-In-Office, the Green Party said todayMore >>
PI Governments called to amplify call to ban nuclear weapons
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:23:39 +1300 | femLINKPACIFIC
Campaigners have welcomed the joint statement New Zealand will deliver in the coming week and FemLINKPACIFIC as a member of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict and International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) says ...More >>
Overseas experience to boost FMD preparation
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:17:46 +1300 | New Zealand Government
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has announced that a delegation of 10 veterinarians, farming leaders and MPI staff will take part in foot and mouth disease (FMD) training in Asia next year to experience working with the disease first hand.More >>
Gordon Campbell on Len Brown, trust, and Simon Bridges
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:25:02 +1300 | Gordon Campbell
Leaving aside the tawdry details of Auckland mayor Len Brown’s extramarital affair, the oddest feature is the timing of the revelations. By Brown’s own account to John Campbell last night, the affair ended mid year, just before the election campaign ...More >>
Human rights groups call on MSG leaders
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:19:50 +1300 | Peace Movement Aotearoa
15 October 2012 (London / Wellington) – Ninety-eight international and Pacific non-governmental organisations, including Peace Movement Aotearoa, academics, politicians and individuals have written to the leaders of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), ...More >>
McCully announces High Commissioner to Niue
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:19:50 +1300 | New Zealand Government
Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully today announced the appointment of Superintendent Ross Ardern as New Zealand’s High Commissioner to Niue. More >>
Senior Doctors Endorse Nurses Concerns Over Secret TPP
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:52:41 +1300 | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Senior doctors endorse the concerns raised by nurses about the secret negotiations over the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. Mr Powell was commenting ...More >>
Six Years On From Operation 8, Govt Still Breaking the Law
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:25:59 +1300 | Mana Party
“Six years on from the Police raids of Ruatoki in 2007 and government is still breaking the law” said MANA Leader and MP for Te Tai Tokerau, Hone Harawira. “When the police spied on the people in the Urewera’s they broke the law – pure and ...More >>
TPP Secrecy Creates Serious Risks
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:15:45 +1300 | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has warned that the secrecy surrounding the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement negotiations means future New Zealand governments could be trapped, without warning, at the mercy of multinationals.More >>
Governor-General to visit Niue and the Cook Islands
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:03:55 +1300 | Government House
The Governor-General, Lt Gen Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae, is to visit Niue and the Cook Islands later this week to reaffirm New Zealand’s close ties with the two South Pacific nations.More >>
International Day of Rural Women - 15 October
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:11:05 +1300 | Rural Women New Zealand
Tomorrow, 15 October, marks the International Day of Rural Women, a United Nations day that recognises the contribution of women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating poverty.More >>
International Institutions Call for Net Zero Carbon by 2050
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:08:21 +1300 | Generation Zero
A new OECD report calling for a level of ambition needed to move countries towards net zero carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion echoes what Generation Zero and other young New Zealanders have been saying for some time.More >>
Peace dialogue not police for Indonesia
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:06:20 +1300 | Green Party
If New Zealand is serious about playing a positive role in Indonesia it should be facilitating a peace dialogue not providing police programmes, the Green Party said today.More >>
NZ curators to strengthen ties to Asia
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:05:10 +1300 | Creative New Zealand
Two New Zealand curators will deepen their links with Asia on tours of the region’s cutting-edge art scenes. More >>
Key Notes: My week in Bali and Brunei
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:04:11 +1300 | New Zealand National Party
APEC Leaders' Meeting - Bali; East Asia Summit - Brunei; Trans-Pacific Partnership; Affordable Housing More >>
Oceania Smokefree: big and the small unite against tobacco
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:06:36 +1300 | Cancer Society New Zealand
Delegates from the largest and smallest Pacific countries, and those in between, will be flying into New Zealand later this month for a gathering of the most knowledgeable proponents of how to achieve a smoke-free society as the future norm. More >>
Transforming Worcester Bridge into an Archive of Stories
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:59:01 +1300 | UTS for FESTA
We are a group of Students from the University of Technology Sydney who are creating an installation on the Worcester Street Bridge for The Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA), Christchurch 2013.More >>
President’s Call with Prime Minister John Key of NZ
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:27:33 +1300 | The White House
The President called Prime Minister John Key of New Zealand to thank him for successfully chairing the meeting of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) leaders in Bali, Indonesia on October 8 and to discuss the productive outcomes from the meeting. The two leaders ...More >>
On Q+A This Week: Justice system, retirement savings, US
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:16:26 +1300 | Television New Zealand
On the programme this Sunday: David Bain and Mark Lundy - two high profile cases quashed by the Privy Council in the U.K. and retrials ordered. So what does it say about how well our justice system is working? Justice minister Judith Collins is ...More >>
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