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Prime Minister meets with Church leaders
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 11:21 am | Joint Media Statement
Church leaders from the Anglican, Baptist, Catholic. Methodist, Presbyterian, Assemblies of God and Salvation Army churches met at the Beehive yesterday with Prime Minister John Key and Minister of Finance Bill English to discuss pragmatic responses to the ... More >>
AK councils response to Govt re Royal Commission
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 5:07 pm | Joint Media Statement
Yesterday six Auckland councils, including their mayors, met to share their real concerns over the Royal Commission recommendations, and to provide some constructive feedback to Government prior to the Cabinet meeting this Monday. They were North ... More >>
Summit on the future of NZ’s aid - Communique
Friday, 27 March 2009, 5:13 pm | Joint Media Statement
Representatives of parties, civil society, trade unions, and academics call on the Prime Minister to act on the following recommendations: • Set up public consultation processes immediately on the future of NZAID (the semi-independent body mandated ... More >>
Wellington artists exhibit in Frankfurt
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 5:09 pm | Joint Media Statement
Dave Lefleming and Sandro Kopp celebrated the opening of the exhibition "Go Figure" at Frankfurt's Krauts Gallery last week. The event was held at the legendary Cocoon Club and drew a crowd of about a thousand people, including the cream of the city's ... More >>
Stop banks and bridge - potential tourism assets
Monday, 23 March 2009, 3:32 pm | Joint Media Statement
The Kopu Bridge and mangrove-fringed stopbanks along the Firth of Thames could form a new cycleway and walking trail according to district mayors. More >>
Nelson Pine redundancy process unsatisfactory
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:44 pm | Joint Media Statement
Consultation over redundancies at Nelson Pine has ended with serious issues unresolved say the National Distribution Union (NDU) and the Engineering, Printing & Manufacturing Union (EPMU). More >>
NZers For NZ’s Largest Flu Clinical Trial
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:14 pm | Joint Media Statement
New Zealand researchers have started recruiting in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin for one of the largest flu clinical trials ever conducted in Australia and New Zealand. More >>
For our children’s sake, be fair and sensible
Friday, 20 March 2009, 12:17 pm | Joint Media Statement
A coalition of organisations committed to positive outcomes for children and families wishes to set the record straight regarding the child discipline law. More >>
Nelson Pine layoffs a blow to region
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 5:36 pm | Joint Media Statement
Nelson Pine’s announcement that it plans to shed 60 jobs is a further blow to a region already reeling from job losses at Sealord, say the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and the National Distribution Union. More >>
Dismay at rejection of tobacco display ban
Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 5:20 pm | Joint Media Statement
Leading medical and nursing organisations are disappointed the Government has not moved to ban the display of tobacco products in shops. More >>
Call to get tobacco out of sight in shops
Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 5:06 pm | Joint Media Statement
The Paediatric Society of New Zealand, the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society, Barnardos New Zealand and Parents Centres New Zealand have joined forces to put their weight behind calls to get tobacco out of sight in shops. More >>
Council and police join forces
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 11:07 am | Joint Media Statement
Working together to reduce crime and improve community safety is the focus of a renewed agreement between Waitakere City Council and the New Zealand Police. The signing of the updated Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) last night sets out ways the two ... More >>
Commitment needed for international drug control
Friday, 20 February 2009, 12:25 pm | Joint Media Statement
A visiting United Nations official told the Healthy Drug Law Symposium in Wellington today that the UN-led international drug control system has been successful, despite criticism and that it is essential the world community works together on reforming ... More >>
Law & health must co-operate to reduce drug harm
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 3:02 pm | Joint Media Statement
Law & health must co-operate to reduce drug harm More >>
Auckland blackout protest
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 2:42 pm | Joint Media Statement
Accused Murderer? Innocent until proven guilty. Accused Arsonist? Innocent until proven guilty. Accused File Sharer? Guilty. No trial. No penalty for false accusations. Think that's wrong? Join us in our protest against the unfair, controversial copyright ... More >>
Treatment smartest option for drug offenders
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 12:29 pm | Joint Media Statement
The New Zealand government could save millions of dollars by diverting New Zealanders with drug problems out of the court system and into the health system, says a major international expert visiting New Zealand for the Healthy Drug Law Symposium (being ... More >>
Communities need to re-think drug attitudes
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 5:15 pm | Joint Media Statement
Not my family, and never my child. Tony Trimingham says that, like most people, he knew little about drug-taking and thought it wasn't something that would ever affect him. Then he discovered his son, Damien, was using heroin. He says if he hadn't been ... More >>
What alternative to the War on Drugs?
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 2:38 pm | Joint Media Statement
Drug control in the form of prohibition or a ‘War on Drugs’ has been a spectacular failure, a visiting American expert told a symposium in Wellington today. However, he says the alternative is not to abandon the effort altogether, but to figure out ... More >>
Wait makes for momentous day
Monday, 16 February 2009, 10:14 am | Joint Media Statement
A long wait to get the former Shelly Bay Air Force Base land back in their possession makes for a momentous day for local iwi, the Chairman of the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust said today. More >>
Focus on road building wrong for New Zealand
Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 3:30 pm | Joint Media Statement
New Zealand's two leading transport unions say that pouring public money only into roading and ignoring other transport infrastructure is a mistake. More >>
