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Youth Projects Get Funding Boost In The Regions
Thursday, 11 June 2009, 5:24 pm | Joint Media Statement
The Hastings District Council has been granted government funding for an innovative project that will benefit local young people. Youth Affairs Minister Paula Bennett today announced the successful recipients of the Ministry of Youth Development’s ... More >>
Ryman Healthcare name St John their charity
Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 2:28 pm | Joint Media Statement
Ryman Healthcare has selected St John as their national charity for a year, and will be raising funds to support St John. St John provides ambulance and community services in partnership with communities, and relies on public support to provide their services. ... More >>
Call for picket of Peruvian Embassy on Friday
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 10:19 am | Joint Media Statement
The Wellington Zapatista Support Group and the Latin American Support Committee express our deepest concern and anger at the violent repression on 5th and 6th June of indigenous peoples peacefully manning a blockade in Bagua, a remote area of the Northern Amazon ... More >>
Introducing New Zealand’s Next Top Cat Model
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 10:05 am | Joint Media Statement
A new fundraiser for the SPCA and Lonely Miaow has launched called New Zealand's Next Top Cat Model, where cat lovers around the country can enter their beloved into an online competition to compete for great prizes and the ultimate glory of being ... More >>
Gene-based test to predict lung cancer risk
Monday, 8 June 2009, 10:22 am | Joint Media Statement
A gene-based test is now available to identify smokers and ex-smokers at greatest risk of getting lung cancer. The test is the first in the world to provide a personalised estimate of lung cancer risk, by combining results of DNA analysis with other known ... More >>
Win Win Solution Proposed for CHB Wastewater
Monday, 8 June 2009, 9:53 am | Joint Media Statement
The proposal for a land treatment system using forestry could be the new Central Hawke’s Bay wastewater disposal system and will help clean up the Tukituki River. Hawke's Bay Regional Council has been working with Central Hawke's Bay District Council ... More >>
Is the criminal justice system failing victims?
Friday, 5 June 2009, 12:00 pm | Joint Media Statement
A change to an inquisitorial system for sexual offence trials, with the investigation supervised by a judge rather than the prosecution, is among the ideas to be considered by a new study into improving procedures in sexual offence cases. More >>
A Memoir Of Love, Life And War
Wednesday, 3 June 2009, 3:50 pm | Joint Media Statement
Returning to the stage after a successful season at Auckland Festival 09, Atamira Dance Collective are now revitalising their critically acclaimed work; Memoirs of Active Service from July 2. "Cleverly and dramatically vignettes the world at war ... More >>
Zion Wildlife Garden Temporarily Closed
Friday, 29 May 2009, 4:35 pm | Joint Media Statement
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) has today enacted powers under the Biosecurity Act 1993 and temporarily closed the Zion Wildlife Gardens near Whangarei to the public in the wake of this week’s death of a keeper at the park. The park ... More >>
Lakes and Bay of Plenty DHBs managing H1N1 risk
Friday, 29 May 2009, 3:55 pm | Joint Media Statement
The joint Bay of Plenty / Lakes DHB Emergency Operations Centre set up to manage the influenza A (H1N1) threat has now been operating for five weeks. Currently in the Lakes DHB area, there are two suspected cases (with influenza like symptoms) ... More >>
Summit to further Maori smokefree vision
Friday, 29 May 2009, 10:40 am | Joint Media Statement
Leading Maori public health professionals will converge on Wellington today to attend a Maori Tobacco Intelligence Summit, being held at Te Papa. The expressed intentions of the Summit are to reinvigorate the movement towards achieving smokefree Maori ... More >>
PGP essential for a competitive seafood industry
Friday, 29 May 2009, 9:51 am | Joint Media Statement
The Seafood industry welcomes the opportunity presented by the introduction of the Primary Growth Partnership, which may further enhance its role as a national economic contributor. “This is a great opportunity for the industry to meet the government’s ... More >>
Meet Canadian whistle-blower Dr Shiv Chopra
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 1:53 pm | Joint Media Statement
Two seminars with renowned scientist Dr Shiv Chopra Surviving corporate giants Health Canada whistle-blower Dr Chopra will speak on the dilemma and pressures he faced when he refused to approve drugs of questionable safety intended for food production. More >>
Collective Purchasing To Benefit Communities
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 1:01 pm | Joint Media Statement
The country’s 21 District Health Boards have combined their purchases to provide better oral health services for communities and to avoid duplication of efforts and resources. The first mobile dental surgery has been delivered to Canterbury District ... More >>
Vigil For Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Friday, 22 May 2009, 4:54 pm | Joint Media Statement
This is an urgent call for support for a vigil on Friday in support of Burma’s elected leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. On Monday Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma’s democracy movement, was put on trial charged with breaking the terms of her house ... More >>
Regional Council document ignores rail's potential
Monday, 18 May 2009, 1:50 pm | Joint Media Statement
Rail groups who have made submissions on the Otago Regional Council's Draft Land Transport Strategy have noted that the Council staff preparing the report have not discussed rail's potential role in meeting the Region's transport needs. The Otago ... More >>
Weather Extremes Dominate Natural Hazards In 2008
Friday, 15 May 2009, 10:17 am | Joint Media Statement
The recent wild weather continues a trend that saw storms rack up record amounts of property damage in 2008. Two winter storms in 2008 set a record for the largest number of insurance claims lodged in a single month, according to an annual review ... More >>
Confidence holds for tourism industry
Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 5:08 pm | Joint Media Statement
Data just released from the tourism sector’s Tourism Industry Monitor shows that industry confidence levels are holding across the industry. More >>
Seasonal influenza immunisation campaign record
Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 3:46 pm | Joint Media Statement
More New Zealanders have received seasonal influenza immunisation this year than ever before. Only halfway into its four-month campaign, the National Influenza Strategy Group (NISG) 1 confirmed that 807,539 doses of vaccine had already been distributed ... More >>
Implementation Strategy a first for Waikato River
Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 1:52 pm | Joint Media Statement
For Waikato-Tainui and the Ministry of Fisheries (MFish), the launch of an implementation strategy today means that agreements and mechanisms have been realised to begin collectively managing the aquatic life of the Waikato River catchment in a way that recognises ... More >>
