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Transpower To Consult On Rebuilding Redclyffe Substation On Existing Site
Thu, 9 May 2024 10:54:31 +1200 | Transpower
Transpower, the owner and operator of the national electricity grid, has announced today its preferred plan to improve the resilience of Hawke’s Bay’s electricity supply by strengthening its Redclyffe substation against future weather events.More >>
AgriZeroNZ Invests $9.9M In US Company In Race For ‘Holy Grail’ Methane Vaccine
Thu, 9 May 2024 09:59:41 +1200 | AgriZeroNZ
It is AgriZeroNZ’s second investment in vaccine development, having already invested in the New Zealand research programme. More >>
How Is Our Infrastructure Tracking?
Thu, 9 May 2024 09:49:05 +1200 | New Zealand Infrastructure Commission
"Overall, infrastructure is becoming more expensive to build and maintain. There is an opportunity to improve the efficiency of our capital investment and maximising the value of our existing assets requires greater focus," says Copland.More >>
NZ Post Remind Kiwis Of Mother's Day Parcel Cut-off Dates
Fri, 3 May 2024 14:18:53 +1200 | NZ Post
Sending parcels to loved ones will have to be done by Thursday 9 May – to ensure your gift arrives in time for Mother’s Day on Sunday 12 May. More >>
Southland Jobs In Uniform – Uniformed Services Expos 7-9 May 2024
Fri, 3 May 2024 12:34:37 +1200 | Ministry of Social Development
Open to the public, everyone is welcome to pop along and learn about opportunities with Defence, FENZ, Police, St John and LSV! More >>
NZ Post Give Free Domestic Courier Services To 13 Kiwi Charities - Public Vote Opens Today
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:49:50 +1200 | NZ Post
The People’s Choice vote opens today and closes on Sunday 19 May. Voting can be done via the Delivering for Good website. The winner will be announced the following week.More >>
Watercare Spends More Than $40 Million To Prevent Overflows In Auckland’s East Coast Bays
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:03:23 +1200 | Watercare Services
Watercare project manager Dirk Du Plessis says the new Mairangi Bay wastewater pump station can handle flows of up to 625 litres per second – double that of the old pump station now being demolished on Sidmouth Street.More >>
Auckland Rail Chaos Unacceptable
Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:19:04 +1200 | Public Transport Users Association
The PTUA is concerned that Auckland One Rail is not able to deploy staff quickly and respond to simple delays in a way that is not very disruptive to services and the customers they serve. More >>
New Fairfield Freight Hub Gets More Goods On Rail
Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:00:34 +1200 | KiwiRail
The new rail hub at Fairton sits alongside our business estate and it’s perfectly placed for those industries sending product to the North Island or to ports and overseas markets.More >>
National Road Carriers Praises NZTA State Highway Investment Proposal Turnaround
Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:00:47 +1200 | National Road Carriers
NZTA released its State Highway Investment Proposal (SHIP) on Friday 12 April in response to the draft GPS that set out plans for 15 Roads of National Significance (RoNS) released by Transport Minister Simeon Brown on 6 March.More >>
Government Must Clamp Down Harder On Managerial Class With Public Service Cuts
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:32:58 +1200 | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to concerns from public servants that managers seem to be ‘immune’ from staffing cuts, Taxpayers’ Union Spokesman, Alex Murphy, said: "The whole point of the Government's spending cuts was to axe the back-office bureaucracy and ...More >>
Essential Mercury Lane Works As CRL Prepares For The Future
Tue, 9 Apr 2024 14:53:20 +1200 | City Rail Link
The initial closure starts next Monday, 15 April, at the southern end of the lane, from the southern corner of Cross Street / Mercury Lane, to just above the Wilson parking building entry / exit on Mercury Lane. This section of work is expected to ...More >>
CTU Stands In Solidarity With Public Service Workers
Fri, 5 Apr 2024 11:03:50 +1300 | Council of Trade Unions
“It is the role of government to invest in services and prevent rising unemployment. Yet here we have a government that is actively pushing people into unemployment in their ideological pursuit of tax cuts for landlords and high-income earners.More >>
Roadkill And Official Information Release Shows Growing Mustelid Pest Problem For Region
Thu, 4 Apr 2024 12:14:47 +1300 | Greater Wellington Te Pane Matua Taiao
“Despite writing to Transport Minister Simeon Brown back in December, the pest control investment for Transmission Gully remains at $16,400 per annum. This is incredibly light, and the 226 animals trapped could be the tip of the roadkill iceberg along ...More >>
Funding For Emergency Services
Thu, 4 Apr 2024 09:57:16 +1300 | Northland Regional Council
Central government should be filling the funding gap for critical emergency services like Northland’s rescue choppers rather than the region’s ratepayers, the Northland Regional Council says.More >>
Busy Summer Puts The Zing Back In Tourism’s Stride
Tue, 2 Apr 2024 14:26:49 +1300 | Tourism Industry Aotearoa
“The end of March is the end of the peak season for our international visitors and domestic holidaymakers, and the warm sunny weather has made it one of the busiest for many of our members,” says Tourism Industry Aotearoa Chief Executive Rebecca ...More >>
Function Versus Form: Public Service Cuts
Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:00:39 +1300 | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses the public service staffing cuts being pushed by the new government in the context of the relationship between function and form along with process improvement. More >>
Funding And Financing Key To Public-private Infrastructure Partnership
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:52:07 +1300 | Infrastructure New Zealand
Bringing the public and private sectors together to chart a path ahead for the investment required to bridge our growing infrastructure gap is the key concern of today’s Infrastructure Funding and Financing Conference in Wellington. The sold-out conference, ...More >>
Auckland Transport Welcomes First Double Decker Electric Bus
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:36:55 +1300 | Auckland Transport
Auckland now has 138 zero-emission buses in the fleet, making it the largest number for a New Zealand city and in the top two for the whole of Australasia. More >>
NZ Post's proposal to lay-off 700 posties - Postal Workers Union counter-proposal
Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:25:14 +1300 | Postal Workers Union of Aotearoa
Postal Workers Union counter-proposal response to NZ Post proposing to lay off 700 posties and expanding its ‘third class’ workforce The Postal Workers Union has a counter-proposal in response to NZ Post’s proposal to lay off all 700 posties ...More >>
