Новости за 27.05.2016

Jemima Garrett reporting for RA's Pacific Beat
SYDNEY (RA's Pacific Beat/ Asia Pacific Report/ Pacific Media Centre): Journalists, lawyers and corruption-fighters are sounding the alarm as one of the Pacific’s most comprehensive online databases faces an uncertain funding future.

This is a guest post from Wellington contributor Andy C who has previously written about the capital’s laneways and missing bus lanes

I’ve blogged previously on the campaign to ban NZ hoki because a dolphin was caught in a net three years ago. It wasn’t one of the very rare Maui’s dolphon (pop 55) but a Hector’s dolphin (pop 7400). But the misinformation is even worse than that, Cameron Slater points out: Maui Dolphins are a coastal and […]

Tourism Industry Aotearoa is dismayed by a significant cut in Department of Conservation funding in yesterday’s Budget.

The Physics Room Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Jamie Hanton to the position of Director of The Physics Room. Jamie comes to The Physics Room from the University of Canterbury where he was Kaitiaki Taonga Toi, Curator of Art Collections. ...

For the second year running the winemakers at Mission Estate are celebrating double gold medal and trophy success for their Syrah at the prestigious International Wine Challenge in London.

“Imagine if I’d smoked for the last 25 years, well I’d be dead I’m sure of it,” says Pauline Mohi. World Smokefree Day will take place on 31 May, and the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ is encouraging people across New Zealand to ...

AUCKLAND: May 27, 2016: It will take radical, fresh ideas and new technology to break some New Zealanders of their smoking habit and for smoking prevalence to be less than the Government’s goal of five percent in NZ by 2025.

Benefits for te iwi Maori from having its own political party “at the table” of New Zealand’s governing coalition have been hailed by the president of the Maori Party, Rangimarie Naida Glavish.

Health Strategy facing a missed opportunity The PHO Alliance has responded to today's Budget announcement of additional health and social investment funding saying that it is good in parts but misses the opportunity to appropriately recognise that a ...

Breast cancer research had a boost this week with the funding of two exceptional projects by University of Auckland scientists.

Youth climate change organisation Generation Zero is pleased the Government is at last removing the two-for-one pollution subsidy in the Emissions Trading Scheme, but says the slow phase-out and the indefinite extension of the $25 per tonne price ...

• 2nd quarter is expected to be weaker and the Group expects to record a loss for the year 2016, but ahead of plan to be sustainably profitable by 2018

University of Canterbury Emeritus Professor Patrick Evans, who was instrumental in legitimising New Zealand literature, has officially retired following a significant career spanning over four decades.

NZ Defence Force Troops Return From Iraq About 70 New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) soldiers deployed to help train Iraqi Security Forces returned home this evening. The returning personnel were welcomed home at RNZAF Base Ohakea by the Chief of Air ...

Vodafone’s mobile phone network has been named ‘Best in Test’ by the international leader in mobile performance testing, P3 Communications.

Federated Farmers welcomes funding for the control of Wilding Pines but warns that more money is needed for biosecurity incursion response measures.

NZSO receives $1.2 million funding increase in Budget 2016 The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has received $1.2 million of additional annual baseline funding, announced yesterday in the 2016 Budget.

Over 180 truck drivers, transport operators and forest owners have attended two Rollover Prevention Safer Journeys seminars in Whangarei over the last two days.

The Mission (Uk) To Play Auckland & Wellington 2016 is shaping up to be a wonderful year for all Kiwi goths at heart (and fans of great British music). Hot on the heels of news THE CURE are coming, now Leeds' finest THE MISSION have announced their return ...

National president of the Grey Power Federation, Tom O’Connor has greeted the Government’s budget, announced today, with cautious optimism for some aspects and disappointment for others.

The Pharmaceutical Society is delighted to see an extra $2.2B of Health funding over the next four years in the Budget announced this afternoon by Finance Minister the Hon Bill English.

Labour has launched an interactive Health Map allowing Kiwis to see how the Budget and National’s $1.7 billion of health cuts have hurt services in their area, says Labour’s Health spokesperson Annette King.

Stuff reports: Dairy farmers across the Tasman are looking to politicians to support them through the current milk price slump but their New Zealand counterparts do not expect any such treatment from the Budget. Deputy Australian Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, after a three-day trip to Victoria, last week called for a bipartisan approach to develop […]

Pasifika Futures welcomes the additional funding recently announced by the government in the Budget 2016 to further support Whānau Ora work.