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Gold award won for flood protection project
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 3:20 pm | Joint Media Statement
Environment Canterbury and Good Earth Matters Consulting have won a national engineering award of excellence. The $40 million Waimakariri Flood Protection Project won praise for its community consultation, planning, project management and resource consent ... More >>
MetService & Trade Me Ads forge partnership
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 9:43 am | Joint Media Statement
MetService and Trade Me have forged a partnership that will see Trade Me's advertising sales team manage advertising bookings and placements on metservice.com and its mobile sister site, m.metservice.com . The new arrangement came into effect this week. More >>
$2.1 million investment into animal health market
Thursday, 29 July 2010, 3:01 pm | Joint Media Statement
The Foundation is investing $2.1 million into New Zealand company Argenta Ltd to support the development of an improved device to administer multiple doses of drugs to sheep and cattle. More >>
Te Arawa and Ngati Raukawa welcome river bill
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 1:32 pm | Joint Media Statement
Te Arawa River Iwi Trust chairman Roger Pikia today joined with Ngati Raukawa Settlement Trust chairman Chris McKenzie in welcoming progress with the Crown in resolving Te Arawa and Ngati Raukawa claims over the Waikato River. More >>
Pesticide Residues in Food : Worst Ever
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 1:21 pm | Joint Media Statement
The Food Safety Authority’s latest pesticide residue results are a nightmare: they are the worst results I have ever seen," said Dr Meriel Watts of Pesticide Action Network Aotearoa New Zealand.(1) More >>
Unions agree to recommend ratification
Monday, 26 July 2010, 9:32 am | Joint Media Statement
Tomorrow, Tuesday 27th July GO Wellington and Valley Flyer bus services will be disrupted between 11am to 2.30pm to allow members of the Wellington Tramways and Manufacturing and Construction Workers Unions to consider the company’s offer of a new Collective ... More >>
Local Government Elections Nominations Open
Thursday, 22 July 2010, 10:48 am | Joint Media Statement
This week, nominations open for candidates wanting to stand in this year’s local authority elections. More >>
Northland Minerals and Research Investigation
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 1:53 pm | Joint Media Statement
Today’s announcement that the Government will contribute more than $2 million to an aeromagnetic minerals survey in Northland has been welcomed by the Far North District and Northland Regional Councils. More >>
Meat Sector Launches Sector Strategy Project
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 11:43 am | Joint Media Statement
The initiation of the meat sector strategy is a critical step towards improved profitability within the sector, according to project Co-chairs Meat Industry Association (MIA) Chairman, Bill Falconer and Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) Chairman, Mike Petersen. More >>
Principals’ bargaining “painfully slow”
Friday, 16 July 2010, 3:05 pm | Joint Media Statement
Secondary principal representatives have returned from two days of bargaining their collective agreement frustrated and disappointed. More >>
Labour Gets Otahuhu its Liquor Ban
Wednesday, 14 July 2010, 10:52 am | Joint Media Statement
Auckland City Council’s City Development Committee has approved liquor bans of 24 hours a day, seven days a week (24/7) for all Otahuhu parks and reserves, contrary to recommendations by Council officers. More >>
Future Whau and Portage Candidates Announced
Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 11:59 am | Joint Media Statement
The Future West and City Vision teams have selected the candidates they wish to stand in the Whau Ward for the Auckland Council elections in October under the banner " Future Whau ". More >>
Paper Reclaim & NDU Agreement Reached
Friday, 9 July 2010, 3:15 pm | Joint Media Statement
The group of twenty-five workers who were taking strike action at Paper Reclaim Limited over wage issues has this morning returned to work following agreement between the company and the National Distribution Union. More >>
NZBIO and MTANZ to collaborate more closely
Friday, 9 July 2010, 1:54 pm | Joint Media Statement
New Zealand’s bio-enterprises will benefit from an agreement between NZBIO and the Medical Technology Association of New Zealand (MTANZ) to work more closely together. More >>
Local Company Gives Charity a Boost!
Monday, 24 May 2010, 12:33 pm | Joint Media Statement
Skylight and HomeTech Solatube today announced a new partnership between the two organisations that will see HomeTech Solatube make a donation to Skylight Charitable Trust for every Solatube Daylighting System sold. More >>
Regulation Robs Vets, Producers of Animal Meds
Monday, 10 May 2010, 12:49 pm | Joint Media Statement
Farmers, vets, and manufacturers of animal medicines are calling for vet medicines to be exempted from the Hazardous Substance and New Organisms Act (HSNO), currently under review. More >>
Waikato-Tainui And EW Share Vision Of Clean River
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 1:00 pm | Joint Media Statement
Waikato-Tainui and Environment Waikato came together around the council’s policy-making table yesterday to start discussions about how to achieve the shared vision of a clean and healthy Waikato River. More >>
Govt torpedoes own flagship water reform group
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 2:17 pm | Joint Media Statement
Five leading environmental and outdoor recreation groups said today that the Government legislation on water conservation orders passed yesterday under urgency has sent a torpedo into the Government-backed national forum working on water management reform. More >>
Dublin Port Dispute Resolved
Friday, 19 February 2010, 10:57 am | Joint Media Statement
The Dublin Port dispute has been resolved by negotiation, the parties involved announced today. The long running dispute ended this morning when SIPTU officials signed a negotiated agreement, the terms of which had been voted for by workers at the port. More >>
Labour And Greens: Meetings On Super City Bill
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 10:27 am | Joint Media Statement
27 January 2009 Media Statement Labour and Greens to run public meetings on super city bill Labour and the Greens are to run a series of public meetings across Auckland to encourage people to make parliamentary submissions on the flawed and undemocratic ... More >>
