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Q+A Panel: In response to Metiria Turei interview
Monday, 30 September 2013, 4:16 pm | Television New Zealand
Did you know – quick question, because I certainly didn’t until we started to do the research around this – Simon, 57 varieties of GM food permitted in New Zealand and Australia? SIMON That’s right. It’s quite a lot, isn’t it? SUSAN Did you ... More >>
Q+A: Jessica Mutch interviews David Carter
Monday, 30 September 2013, 4:15 pm | Television New Zealand
The Speaker of the House and former National MP, David Carter, has told TV One’s Q+A programme that the new Labour leader, David Cunliffe, is going to be “a very effective Leader of the Opposition, in my opinion”. More >>
Q+A: Susan Wood interviews Gareth Morgan
Monday, 30 September 2013, 4:14 pm | Television New Zealand
Processed and unhealthy foods should be taxed to help combat the diseases of ‘affluenza’ says outspoken economist and author Gareth Morgan More >>
Q+A: Jessica Mutch interviews Metiria Turei
Monday, 30 September 2013, 4:12 pm | Television New Zealand
The Greens’ co-leader Metiria Turei has told TV One’s Q+A programme that consumers are not being given full information on food labels as to whether or not the product has been made using genetically modified organisms. More >>
AA Members back lower BAC limit
Monday, 30 September 2013, 3:38 pm | New Zealand Automobile Association
It is time for New Zealand to lower the legal limit for drinking and driving, says the Automobile Association. More >>
A call for Maori tourism in Mangere
Monday, 30 September 2013, 2:12 pm | Mana Movement
Auckland City Council is considering building a multimillion dollar Māori Tourism centre on the waterfront to attract tourism. The basic problem is authenticity – Maori didn’t live in high tech waterfront buildings with electric lighting they ... More >>
Rewards For Whistle-blowers On Electoral Booklet Botch-up
Monday, 30 September 2013, 1:29 pm | Franks and Ogilvie
Wellington specialist public law firm Franks & Ogilvie will pay rewards and prizes for whistle-blowers to establish the scale of the local election booklet botch-up. A client who wishes to remain anonymous will fund the prizes and rewards. More >>
Palino will restore berm cutting services
Monday, 30 September 2013, 12:58 pm | John Palino
Auckland Mayoral candidate John Palino confirmed today that he would reinstate berm services in the old Auckland City area for a temporary period before handing over responsibility and discretional funding to local boards. More >>
More organisations should ‘Say No’ to Violence against women
Monday, 30 September 2013, 12:52 pm | Women's Refuge
At the Zonta NZ Conference in Queenstown this weekend, Ms Heather Henare was announced “Zonta Woman of the Biennium’. More >>
University candidate forum to address Living Wage, housing
Monday, 30 September 2013, 12:50 pm | Living Wage Aotearoa
Living Wage Aotearoa New Zealand is partnering with the Auckland University Students’ Association (AUSA) and Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) to host an election forum at 12pm today (Monday 30 September) at the University of Auckland Quad. More >>
New Zealand Business at Apec Bali
Monday, 30 September 2013, 12:47 pm | International Business Forum
Twelve New Zealand business representatives will participate in the APEC CEO Summit and related meetings in Bali, Indonesia, during the week of 30 September, the NZ International Business Forum said today. More >>
NGOs join global call for more action to change lives
Monday, 30 September 2013, 12:38 pm | Council for International Development
Time for governments to listen to the people and start discussing a post-2015 framework which tackles the structural causes of poverty and injustice. More >>
Anglican Church leads the way in fossil fuel divestment
Monday, 30 September 2013, 12:02 pm | Anglican Church in Aotearoa
350 Aotearoa is celebrating another fossil fuel divestment announcement today, with news that the Dunedin and Taranaki/Waikato Dioceses of the Anglican Church have become the latest to pledge their commitment to remove their money from fossil fuels at ... More >>
LGNZ urges Kiwis to wake up to the importance of voting
Monday, 30 September 2013, 12:01 pm | Local Government NZ
Most reasons people give for not voting in local authority elections simply don’t wash, says Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) Chief Executive, Malcolm Alexander. More >>
Minister's condemnation of seal killing "hypocritical"
Monday, 30 September 2013, 11:54 am | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
Conservation Minister Nick Smith’s condemnation of the killing of 23 seals near Kaikoura as an ‘obscene crime’ is ironic and hypocritical when his department kills countless native birds and other animals a year in 1080 poison drops, says ... More >>
University candidate forum to address Living Wage
Monday, 30 September 2013, 11:22 am | AUSA
Living Wage Aotearoa New Zealand is partnering with the Auckland University Students’ Association (AUSA) and Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) to host an election forum at 12pm today (Monday 30 September) at the University of Auckland Quad. More >>
Low pay makes home lending restrictions worse
Monday, 30 September 2013, 11:01 am | Council of Trade Unions
New loan to value ratios coming into effect tomorrow will hit hard at those on low incomes says the Council of Trade Unions Secretary, Peter Conway. More >>
Let's move from fossil farming to future-proof farming
Monday, 30 September 2013, 10:18 am | Organics Aotearoa New Zealand
"The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a stark choice for New Zealand agriculture," says Brendan Hoare, Chair of OANZ (Organics Aotearoa New Zealand). More >>
Supreme Court no route to Justice for 230,000 NZ children
Monday, 30 September 2013, 9:36 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group has decided not to pursue its long-running human rights case in the Supreme Court but will continue to battle for the rights of New Zealand's poorest children. More >>
Privacy Commissioner colludes with GCSB in cover up
Monday, 30 September 2013, 9:33 am | Valerie Morse
“The Privacy Commissioner has upheld the GCSB’s ‘neither confirm nor deny’ response to people seeking to find out if they are among the 88 who were subject to illegal surveillance by the GCSB. This illegal activity has now been sanctioned ... More >>
Authority acts over breaches of psychoactive substances law
Monday, 30 September 2013, 9:08 am | Ministry of Health
A number of retailers granted psychoactive substances retail licences can no longer trade, after breaching the requirements of the new law. The Psychoactive Substances Regulatory Authority has suspended licences in Hawera and Dunedin after applicants ... More >>
Embassy of Cuba in New Zealand Newsletter 29 September 2013
Monday, 30 September 2013, 8:57 am | Embassy of Cuba in New Zealand
In this issue: - Press Release by the Cuban Delegation on Direct Postal Services with the US - Cuba reaffirms commitment to human rights - Cuba and the U.S. hold talks on search and rescue - Physicians trained in Cuba contribute to health strategy ... More >>
Franks & Ogilvie Announce Rewards for Whistleblowers
Sunday, 29 September 2013, 11:22 am | Franks and Ogilvie
Wellington specialist public law firm Franks & Ogilvie will pay rewards and prizes for whistle-blowers to establish the scale of the local election booklet botch-up. A client who wishes to remain anonymous will fund the prizes and rewards. More >>
Boot Camp Results Provide Positive Lessons for the Future
Sunday, 29 September 2013, 9:52 am | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“While the outcome of the government’s Fresh Start military-style activity camps will be seen as disappointing, there are some valuable learning’s to be had” says Kim Workman, Spokesperson for Rethinking Crime and Punishment. More >>
Carer payments system is not nice, not right, and won't work
Sunday, 29 September 2013, 9:39 am | New Zealand Carers Alliance
The NZ Carers Alliance says the new Government payment scheme for family carers will create more problems than it solves. It will pit disabled people against their closest loved ones, by introducing an employer dimension into family relationships More >>
Sexual violence services funding inquiry
Saturday, 28 September 2013, 2:26 pm | Spin It Wide
National Sexual Violence Survivor Advocate, Louise Nicholas, is hopeful that the Government's inquiry into funding for specialist sexual violence services will bring about real change to people affected by sexual violence now and in the future. More >>
Government’s New Family Carer Payment Flawed and Unfair
Saturday, 28 September 2013, 2:22 pm | New Zealand Carers Alliance
The New Zealand Carers Alliance says the new Government payment scheme for family carers will create more problems than it solves. More >>
Science confirms danger, now governments must act
Saturday, 28 September 2013, 1:46 pm | ITUC
27 September 2013 (ITUC OnLine): Fifty years will be more than sufficient to witness the worst impacts of climate change in our living environment, our oceans, our livelihoods: this is a key conclusion of a major scientific report released today from the Intergovernmental ... More >>
IPCC report highlights urgent need for action
Saturday, 28 September 2013, 1:44 pm | WWF
The IPCC’s latest report confirms the urgent need for action on climate change said WWF-NZ today. More >>
Saving billions by cancelling benefits
Friday, 27 September 2013, 7:57 pm | Beneficiary Advocacy Federation
Kay Brereton from the Beneficiary Advocacy Federation of New Zealand says “It is frightening to hear that the Minister of Social Development is boasting about the prospective financial savings of the Government's 'Welfare Reforms', when more ... More >>
Euthanasia bill withdrawn
Friday, 27 September 2013, 5:27 pm | Euthanasia-Free New Zealand
MP Maryan Street’s reluctant withdrawal of the End of Life Choices Bill from the Parliamentary ballot system until after the next election will provide the much needed time to educate the N.Z. community and Members of Parliament about the hazards of ... More >>
Q+A: Food labelling, Gareth Morgan. David Carter
Friday, 27 September 2013, 4:45 pm | Television New Zealand
On the programme this Sunday, we look at food labelling. Does it give us the whole picture? And how much do we know about genetically modified ingredients in our food? More >>
Amnesty concerned about detention of Greenpeace activists
Friday, 27 September 2013, 4:43 pm | Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand
The news that a Russian court has ordered Greenpeace activists to be detained for two months without charge is disturbing Amnesty International has said. More >>
Customs hot on the heels of ‘P’ imports
Friday, 27 September 2013, 4:10 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
PVC platform shoes destined for Auckland’s streets didn’t make it beyond the border after Customs found methamphetamine or ‘P’ worth up to $145,000 hidden inside the hollowed-out heels. More >>
Change your clocks and check your smoke alarms
Friday, 27 September 2013, 4:02 pm | New Zealand Fire Service
When you move your clocks forward on Sunday for the Daylight Saving change, test your smoke alarms at the same time to make sure they are working. More >>
Euthanasia bill Withdrawn from Ballot
Friday, 27 September 2013, 3:52 pm | Right To Life
Maryan Street, in an unprecedented step has withdrawn her “End of Life Choices Bill” from the ballot. The Member claims that she was concerned that if it was drawn from the ballot in an election year it would be an election year football. ... More >>
Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion
Friday, 27 September 2013, 2:38 pm | ALRANZ
The 28th of September marks the annual Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion across the world. In New Zealand, abortion is still a crime under the Crimes Act (1961) and access and availability vary by region. More >>
GE foods toxicity create major disturbance to health
Friday, 27 September 2013, 2:20 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ has presented to Parliament's Regulatory Review committee raising concerns around public health following the approval by the Food Safety Authority Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) of a GE soy bean, engineered to withstand 3 toxic herbicides ... More >>
Government’s New Family Carer Payment Flawed and Unfair
Friday, 27 September 2013, 2:14 pm | NZ Carers' Alliance
The New Zealand Carers Alliance says the new Government payment scheme for family carers will create more problems than it solves. The Chairman of the NZ Carers Alliance, John Forman, said it will do nothing other than pit disabled people against their ... More >>
Cardiff Council Appoints New Chief Executive
Friday, 27 September 2013, 1:51 pm | Cardiff Council
Paul Orders, the current Chief Executive of Dunedin City Council, has been appointed as Cardiff Council’s new Chief Executive. The decision was agreed at a meeting of full Council today (Thursday, September 26) following a recommendation by Cardiff ... More >>
Council Elections Attract Student Leaders
Friday, 27 September 2013, 1:33 pm | NZUSA
Outgoing student presidents at the University of Canterbury and University of Otago may set a New Zealand first if they are elected to respective city councils in Christchurch and Dunedin in October. More >>
David Shearer food in schools bill welcomed
Friday, 27 September 2013, 1:28 pm | Community Campaign for Food in Schools
The Community Campaign for Food in Schools has welcomed the introduction to parliament of David Shearer’s “Education (Food in Schools) Bill”. The Bill was drawn from the member’s ballot yesterday and would provide for food in Decile 1-3 primary ... More >>
Celebrating International Day of Older Persons
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:49 pm | South Island Alliance
Organisations around the South Island are celebrating International Day of Older Persons on 1 October with events and activities recognising the importance of older people in our communities, as well as their needs. The South Island Alliance, a collaboration ... More >>
Waipareira Hosts Urban Indigenous Group From Australia
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:15 pm | Te Whanau O Waipareira Trust
Waipareira Hosts Urban Indigenous Group From Australia Te Whanau O Waipareira welcomes a group of urban indigenous Australians to find out first-hand how we deliver services to the whanau. On Monday, a high level delegation of aboriginal representatives from ... More >>
Horse Deaths Prompt Call for Boycott of National Jumps Day
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:05 pm | SAFE
The New Zealand public is being asked to boycott National Jumps Day (29 September), the last race of the jumps season. Seven horses have died so far in the 2013 jumps racing season, surpassing last year’s total, and animal advocacy group SAFE says ... More >>
Attempt Does Not match The Facts
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 6:48 pm | NZEI
Proving once again that you have to create a crisis if you want to make dramatic and unpopular changes, Education Minister Hekia Parata has alleged that New Zealand students’ achievement is dropping compared to students in other developed countries. More >>
Animal Strike petition already at 30,000 signatures
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 5:17 pm | Animal Strike
Today, 26 September, all the Animals in NZ are on strike to protest against the law that has made it legal to use animal testing for synthetic party drugs in NZ. More >>
Final AgResearch decision extremely disappointing
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 5:09 pm | Public Service Association
AgResearch’s decision to go ahead with its controversial proposal to move large numbers of staff from the Invermay and Ruakura research centres will result in the loss of experienced and expert scientists, according to the Public Service Association. More >>
Dominion Post newspaper cited for Aged Care story
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 2:48 pm | NZ Aged Care Association
Wellington-based newspaper Dominion Post has misled its readers by publishing the headline “Flood of rest home complaints” the New Zealand Aged Care Association says. More >>
Speakers’ delegation visit boosts NZ – Asia ties
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 2:37 pm | Office of the Clerk
Strengthening New Zealand’s bilateral ties with Asia will be the focus of the upcoming visit to the region by a parliamentary delegation the Speaker, Rt Hon David Carter, said today. More >>
Commission supports policy to recognise gender identity
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 2:25 pm | Human Rights Commission
The Human Rights Commission has given its support to the principled approach taken by the Department of Corrections towards the gender identity of trans prisoners. More >>
Death of Assisted Suicide Bill Welcomed
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 2:17 pm | Family First
Family First NZ is welcoming the news that Labour MP Maryann Street has withdrawn her private members bill which would attempt to decriminalise assisted suicide or euthanasia. More >>
Police Remembrance Day
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 2:02 pm | Police Association
This week, Police staff and others have been wearing the distinctive huia feather-shaped Police Remembrance Pin as they reflect on those who have lost their lives in service to the society they swore to protect. More >>
Aucklanders Care about deep sea oil drilling
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 10:38 am | Deep Sea Oil Watch
Deep Sea Oil Watch Auckland (DSOWA) today launched the ‘Aucklanders Care’ campaign to coincide with the end of applications by international oil companies for deep sea oil drilling permits off the city's West Coast. More >>
Marine Legislation Bill and Human Rights
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 7:37 pm | Aotearoa Human Rights Lawyers Association
Chairperson of the Aotearoa Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA) Edward Miller has expressed concerns about the process and human rights implications of the Marine Legislation Bill, which was amended yesterday and now heads toward its third reading. More >>
Proposed exploratory drilling regulations not good enough
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 5:18 pm | Environmental Defence Society
The Environmental Defence Society has today lodged a submission on proposed regulations covering petroleum exploratory drilling, discharges and dumping within the exclusive economic zone. More >>
Minister Appears to Prejudge Copper Pricing Decision
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 3:10 pm | Coalition for Fair Internet Pricing
Communications & IT Minister Amy Adams may have prejudged her own consultation process, the Coalition for Fair Internet Pricing said today. More >>
Franklin youth have their say on transport
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 3:02 pm | Franklin Youth Advisory Board
Decision-makers are listening to what the Franklin Youth Advisory Board has to say about public transport. The Youth Advisory Board has written a report amassing the voices of young people across Franklin. More >>
Generation Zero Candidate Scorecards Released
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 2:02 pm | Generation Zero
Youth organisation Generation Zero today released scorecards communicating information on candidate stances on important local issues, which it has gathered from conducting interviews around the country. More >>
The PSA seeks clarification on DOC dam leak review
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 1:47 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association will be raising questions with the Department of Conservation about its inquiry into leaked emails and review of decision-making regarding the Ruataniwha Dam project. More >>
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