Новости за 28.07.2016

The data for the 2014 New Zealand Election Survey was recently released for the general public to make of it what they will, which in the modern world of home data analysis is like parachuting a gazelle into a pride of lions.
One thing I decided to explore is how representative the ideas of "Left" and "Right" are in the New Zealand of today. They are terms that get bandied around, and people and parties get pinned into place with, but do they actually matter?
One of the questions in the... Читать дальше...

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has today welcomed Pharmac’s decision to widen access to the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and varicella (chickenpox) vaccinations. “In Budget 2016 the Government invested an extra $124 million over four years to ...

PHARMAC has today announced changes to funded vaccines, which will benefit an extra 100,000 people, says PHARMAC Director of Operations Sarah Fitt.

Pacific researchers are being challenged to ensure their studies will contribute to Pacific communities and not just to academic knowledge production.

More must be done to improve services for children in order to fulfil Government’s stated commitment to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC), and to ensure a safety net that provides for New Zealand’s most vulnerable children, ...

Two of New Zealand’s indie rock heavyweights have joined forces for a formidable collaboration. In spite of weaving disparate paths over the past few decades, eminent local songwriters Don McGlashan and Shayne Carter are now taking their recently developed ...

Finlay Carlyon, a senior student at Rangitikei College, was one of 400 or so competitors vying for titles at the National Taekwon-Do Championships in Tauranga on 9 and 10 July.

Award winning, internationally acclaimed colossal rockers PANIC! AT THE DISCO are set to return to Auckland on 2 February 2017. The band will perform at the Logan Campbell Centre to support their fifth studio album, Death Of A Bachelor . Tickets ...

JULY 28, 2016: The Australians can expect a potent two-pronged attack when the FIM Oceania Road Race Championships kick off in Queensland next month.

While Parliament might be in recess, there are still plenty of things that Ministers need to answer for. So the Labour team has put together six of the best questions that the Government should be answering today (plus a special bonus question), Labour’s ...

Chris Trotter writes: Paul Gourlie broke all the rules of student politics. In pre-student loans New Zealand, when the universities were still capable of disgorging thousands of student protesters on to the streets, Paul re-defined what it meant to be a student politician. Not for him the varsity student uniform of jeans and T-shirts. To […]

News media and interest groups have, of course, been immersed in the contents of the Independent Hearings Panel recommendations on the Proposed Aucland Unitary Plan since their publication yesterday. But perhaps we should also take a moment to consider the meaning of the panel's report. Because it really does change things.
Right up until yesterday, it has been possible to characterise the desire to plan for intensification and provide for growth, as the work of fools, knaves, loons, vandals, nameless planners and Len Brown. Читать дальше...

An upcoming public lecture from an American professor of marketing will look at the wisdom behind the quote: “It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.” (Will Rodgers).

At a time when the number of international migrants is growing faster than the world’s population (according to the UN), the theme of migration for the New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ annual Social Justice Week is very pertinent.

If you’re sick please don’t come visiting at Christchurch Hospital – that’s the message from Mary Gordon, Canterbury DHB’s Executive Director of Nursing.

Dreams of success in the Kiwi music industry are a little closer to reality for 30 Smokefreerockquest bands and solo-duos who have made it through to the next stage in judging for the 2016 national final.

'A Vinyl Affair' - Wellington's record fair returns on 27th August 2016 at San Fran!

Prime agricultural growing land around Pukekohe must be excluded from any plan to extend Auckland’s boundaries, says New Zealand First Primary Industries Spokesperson Richard Prosser commenting on the proposed new Auckland Unitary Plan.

The Government is stigmatising a whole cohort of young New Zealanders while leaving others behind with its creation of a Ministry for Vulnerable Children, Labour’s Children’s spokesperson Jacinda Ardern says.

For those Wellingtonians for whom ‘gluten-free’ is anything but a passing fad, there is finally some good news. Help is on the way.

HAMILTON, NZ. – 28 July, 2016 - Dr Greg Walker, Senior Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Otago, has received a $25,000 grant from the KiwiNet Emerging Innovator Fund to aid his mission to protect our crops from pests without ...

Jeremy Sammut writes at CIS: Banning Muslim immigration — as TV personality Sonia Kruger has urged — would cause more problems than it would solve. It would, at a minimum, violate the first rule of a successful non-discriminatory immigration program, which is that you cannot invite people into a country, insult them, and not expect […]

Making New Zealand The politically unaligned Making New Zealand blog was launched yesterday by an independent group of professionals who want to raise the level of public debate and understanding about housing, infrastructure, cities and planning. ...

The Commission has received an application for the Wallace Group Limited Partnership (Wallace Group) to acquire up to 100% of the assets and business of Wallace Corporation Limited, Farm Brands. This comprises Farm Brands Limited, Farm Brands Asset Management ...

With the dairy pay out remaining stubbornly low and equity positions becoming more precarious many farmers are seeing more of their bank manager, according to Crowe Horwath’s Head of Corporate Agribusiness, Hayden Dillon. Dillon is quick to point ...