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How and who you exercise with affects your mental wellbeing • Exercising with others improves happiness, energy and wellbeing • Getting active in natural settings improves overall wellbeing • High energy levels yet depressed mood for people who ...

Foreign Minister Murray McCully has released the Whitehead Report, into diplomatic immunity issues surrounding Malaysian Defence attache Mohammad Rizalman.

International Trade Union Confederation TPP Agreement bad for democracy, rights, public services and health Brussels, 4 February 2016 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) a major setback for employment ...

Thursday 4 February 2016 Press Release Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Magali Silva has signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement in New Zealand's city of Auckland today along with her counterparts from 11 Pacific countries. The ...

Community organisations representing more than five and a half million people around the world have united to take joint action and express global opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, as Trade Ministers sign the deal at SkyCity in Auckland.

The Herald editorial: A universal entitlement to three years’ free tertiary education has overwhelming public appeal. Whether it is in the public interest is another question. The policy is expensive: $1.2 billion when fully implemented. That is a considerable lump of public spending. As always when something of this magnitude is proposed, we should not […]

Reserve Bank highlights importance of market discipline The Reserve Bank today highlighted the importance of market discipline as one of three pillars that help maintain the stability of financial institutions. In a speech this evening hosted by the NZ Bankers ...

In the midst of a very good article over at The Spinoff this week - the Top 50 NZ works of non-fiction as selected by a panel of indigenous experts - there was one line that leapt out. "There are now no regular Māori columnists in the mainstream media".
I suspect it stood out because it's one of those deeply uncomfortable things that, once seen, can't be unseen, like white privilege, or The Room. And how has it not been mentioned more often? It was suddenly very striking how obviously whitebread our print media commentary is ... Читать дальше...

Not everyone wants to move on from Windows laptops. Dell makes a case for staying with the touch-screen XPS 13 Touch. The XPS 13 Touch is a business class Ultrabook at a business class price: the reviewed model costs NZ$2800. A dazzling 13.3-inch quad HD+ display sets the XPS 13 Touch apart from the Ultrabook […]

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Unless you’ve avoided either the city or the news for the last day you’ll know that yesterday thousands of people descended on the CBD to protest the signing of the TPP. This post isn’t about the TPP – there are plenty of other places for you to discuss it – but rather about the impact the [...]

Press Release – TEDxWellington The anticipation of a top secret venue, and inspiring local talks, had TEDx fans in a frenzy today with all tickets selling out in two minutes. “This is the fastest we have ever sold out. We’re blown away with the interest from TEDx fans across the Wellington region,” said TEDxWellington founder […]

Press Release – APEC Originally published in Foreign Affairs online https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ on 1 February 2016 and viewable directly at this link .How APEC Reconciles Trade and Climate Policies By Dr Alan Bollard, Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat Originally published in Foreign Affairs online https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ on 1 February 2016 and viewable directly at this link. […]

Video and photos by Del Abcede
AUCKLAND (AsiaPacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Māori protesters at the forefront of a massive people’s protest for democracy in Auckland today against the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).

The Council of Medical Colleges (CMC) today launched A Best Practice Guide for continuous practice improvement for doctors.

BlackBerry‘s Android model, the Priv, failed to revive the company’s phone sales. According to Juniper Research, BlackBerry only sold 734,000 phones in the last quarter of 2015 — a total of 3.7 million for the full year. If anyone is interested, the phone went on sale in Australia today. Microsoft‘s Windows phone fared little better […]

Just as New Zealand is divided into North and South Island, so too is the weather story for Waitangi weekend. As plans are made for the long weekend a low over the north Tasman Sea is expected to move slowly eastwards and passes north of the country, ...

The signing of the landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) in Auckland today, represents a step closer to realizing new beef trade opportunities in the rapidly growing Asia-Pacific region.

The Herald reports: Top of their agenda will be what happens to prospective new members over the next two years, before the deal is able to come into force. Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand and Columbia are among those countries that have expressed some interest in joining. Taiwan has also. What are their GDPs? Indonesia $890b […]

West Coast senior doctors want to know why the Grey Hospital rebuild is being delayed because of a relatively small budget over-run due to previously undetected earthquake vulnerability, says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried ...

Maori students in Taranaki are gaining valuable work experience throughout secondary and tertiary education and in turn, contributing to the aim of decreasing Maori health inequalities thanks to the Why Ora employment pathways program run through ...

Nineteen young Northlanders, some with Type 1 diabetes, enjoyed three nights and four days at the annual Diabetes and Healthy Lifestyles camp last month.

“The 2015/2016 El Nino peaked in late 2015, as expected. It remains a strong event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, but continues its gradual decline. During autumn, conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean are forecast to return to near neutral levels,” ...

I blogged yesterday: So real wages have gone up 1.4% But I got it wrong. The 1.5% increase I referred to was the labour cost index – which is overall cost to employers. That is quite different to how much the average employee earnings have increased. Weekly Gross Earnings average (for FTE) up from $1,102 to […]

The council have released a draft 20-year master plan for the Auckland Domain that if enacted would see some major and positive changes to how people access and use Auckland’s oldest and one of its largest parks. The purpose of the master plan is described as: