Новости за 22.05.2016

Minister of Conservation, Maggie Barry, told Q+A this morning that the Department of Conservation got the budget it required, and denied it was being increasingly underfunded, despite reports from DOC staff that there were not enough of them – ...

Central Otago Police and Search and Rescue volunteers are responding to a group of 34 people who are stuck on the Waikaia Bush Road above PIano Flat as a result of inclement weather and vehicle break downs.

Stuff reports: Labour’s Invercargill candidate for the 2017 general election says National’s policies are failing Southland and she wants discussions on state housing, health funding and digital infrastructure in the city. Dr Liz Craig, a public health doctor, was named as the party’s candidate on Friday. … Craig is best known for her child poverty advocacy […]

The absence of rail as well as walking and cycling options to the North Shore has been considered an oversight by many probably ever since the Harbour Bridge was first approved for construction over 60 years ago. While Skypath will finally rectify the walking and cycling situation, many have looked to the prospect of an [...]

by Mazin Qumsiyeh Life and death go on in this land where religion has increasingly political structure. Before Zionism, Western Asia (aka the “Middle East”) could potentially move into the modern era and shed anachronistic ideas of going back centuries to find governance models. Liberal trends were on the rise. I remember a time when […]

PRESS RELEASE UNRWA UNRWA Showcases its Innovative “Education in Emergency” Response Istanbul, 22 May 2016: Of the many tragedies occurring in the Middle-East, the story of embattled schools may be one of the least well known. Front-lines shift and run through school-grounds, artillery rounds hit installations, incursions by armed forces or groups occur, access is […]

Press Release – Wellington City Mission The Wellington City Mission is grateful to be receiving close to 300 pairs of quality shoes from Shoe Clinic, worth approximately $60,000. Donated by their Wellington and Lower Hutt stores, this is the third year Shoe Clinic has stepped up to provide hardy footwear for those who are most […]

Press Release – Hutt City Council The Hutt City Council has won an international award for its innovative use of a popular mapping software program used by many governments and the world’s most successful companies. The award recognises outstanding work related to managing emergency events with a mapping software program called ArcGIS, which connects users […]

Press Release – Hurricanes The Hurricanes can truly say that new sponsor bucqi has their back in 2016. Wellington’s innovative and exciting new app bucqi has become a key partner in the Hurricanes family of sponsors and the team will proudly wear the company logo on the back of their jerseys for the remainder of […]

News from ANZ Championship Netball Shaking off a week’s worth of cobwebs, the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel strengthened their hold on top spot in the New Zealand Conference with a 67-63 victory over the Central Pulse in Wellington. The Steel, coming fresh from a bye, were understandably a little rusty in patches. And they […]

Press Release – Air Tahiti Nui Air Tahiti Nui has reduced the price of fares for teenagers travelling to Los Angeles bringing a family holiday to the States within reach of more New Zealanders.Air Tahiti Nui has reduced the price of fares for teenagers travelling to Los Angeles bringing a family holiday to the States […]

Press Release – Peace Action Wellington Peace Action Wellington calls for the New Zealand government to cease any involvement in foreign conflicts that ultimately lead to the creation of refugees. To remember those who have lost their lives while seeking asylum and those who still struggle for it, Peace Action Wellington yesterday placed lifejackets on […]

Press Release – New Zealand Peace Foundation The Peace Foundation celebrates four decades of peacebuilding initiatives, awareness and education that include (1) peer mediation programme for schools; (2) support for the establishment of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, NCPACS, …Peace Foundation Celebrates Four Decades of Peacebuilding Initiatives and Shares Future Vision Monday, […]

Stuff reports: Hamilton residents and New Zealand First supporters are among four groups which want fewer migrants allowed in the country. In a recent Colmar-Brunton political poll, people were asked about the number of migrants the Government should let in to the country. The results showed 42 per cent of those polled in Hamilton, wanted […]

WELLINGTON (Radio NZ Sunday/Pacific Media Watch): Pala Molisa is the son of two of the leading lights of Vanuatu's independence movement, onetime Vanua'aku Pati cabinet minister Sela Molisa and civil servant and author/poet Grace Molisa.

He represented Vanuatu in weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games, and he is an advocate of a radical new accountancy that brings a whole raft of social indicators to your typical balance sheet.

Stuff reports: Mayoral candidate Phil Goff says the government needs to cough up more funding for Auckland infrastructure if it wants the New Zealand economy to keep growing. So Phil Goff thinks the residents of Timaru should pay for the infrastructure of Auckland. The city was at its debt limit and even modest rate rises would go nowhere near […]

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Stuff reports: The Government has announced seven new charter schools will open in 2018 and 2019. The new schools will expand the flagship ACT policy that saw five schools open, mostly in Auckland and Northland in 2014 – one of which, in Whangaruru has since been closed by the Education Minister – and another four in […]

Trans-Tasman writes: On one level it is funny, the other level it is far from hilarious. To deal with the humour first: Labour Party leader Andrew Little and his backroom team – a team which tends to have a higher public profile than most Labour MPs – thought it would be a very good way […]

Welcome back to Sunday reading. This week, we’re leading off with two articles on innovative ideas from European places. The first is a Wired article explaining “why you should become an e-resident of Estonia“. Ben Hammersley reports on the Baltic country’s innovative approach to delivering government services digitally: