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Time to digest Opus recommendation

Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 2:41 pm | Joint Media Statement

Councillor Greg McKeown, Eastern Transport Corridor Steering Group chairperson, says that time is needed for city politicians and officials to digest the latest Opus International reports before decisions are made by the Auckland and Manukau city ... More >>

International Women’s Day – Women and HIV/AIDS

Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 9:15 am | Joint Media Statement

New Zealand and its Pacific neighbours have a small window of opportunity to stem the rising rates of HIV/AIDS, Family Planning Association Executive Director, Dr Gill Greer, told a Wellington audience celebrating International Women’s Day at Parliament ... More >>

University Unions Foreshadow 10 Days Strike Action

Thursday, 4 March 2004, 10:18 pm | Joint Media Statement

University staff across New Zealand have indicated they will take up to ten days strike action if satisfactory national collective employment agreements are not agreed between universities and their unions. More >>

Councils approve new chairman for Techscape board

Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 2:32 pm | Joint Media Statement

Waitakere and North Shore City Councils have appointed a new chairman to the board of their jointly-owned company, Techscape Limited. More >>

A winter storm in summer

Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 6:09 pm | Joint Media Statement

The wild weather that saw parts of the lower North Island and top of the South Island under water last week had a definite touch of winter about it. More >>

Minister launches hydrogen to electricity project

Monday, 23 February 2004, 2:12 pm | Joint Media Statement

Associate Energy Minister, Harry Duynhoven, will today launch the first step in a multi-million New Zealand research project designed to produce hydrogen fuel cells from coal for electricity generation. More >>

Northland tourism focusing on sustainability

Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 2:06 pm | Joint Media Statement

Six Northland tourism businesses are focusing on sustainability in a project which is a New Zealand first. More >>

BCSD, Westpac Work With Northern Iwi

Monday, 9 February 2004, 5:44 pm | Joint Media Statement

Business Council for Sustainable Development and Westpac work together with Northern Iwi to build sustainable business model More >>

Book that helps businesses strangled by red tape

Monday, 9 February 2004, 5:38 pm | Joint Media Statement

Today (9 February) in Wellington, Minister of Small Business Hon John Tamihere will launch a book and website designed to help owners and managers of small to medium sized (SMEs) businesses in New Zealand cut through red tape. More >>

Energy Companies Team Up To Explore LNG Potential

Wednesday, 28 January 2004, 10:25 am | Joint Media Statement

Planning to ensure that national electricity demand continues to be reliably met took an important step forward today with the announcement of advisers to lead studies into the logistical and market implications of importing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) ... More >>

BP and POAL reach agreement on tank farm sites

Tuesday, 27 January 2004, 5:16 pm | Joint Media Statement

BP Oil New Zealand (BP) and Ports of Auckland (POAL) have reached agreement on BP’s early exit from its leases in the Western Reclamation, Freemans Bay. More >>

Unions To Fight Contracting Out Of Food Services

Tuesday, 27 January 2004, 5:10 pm | Joint Media Statement

''Unions are opposed to the contracting out proposal from the CDHB which would see private firms cooking meals for patients from mid way through this year,'' said Campbell Duignan, Spokesperson for the Combined Unions and Regional Secretary of the Service ... More >>

Smartest parking machines in the country trialed

Monday, 26 January 2004, 8:05 am | Joint Media Statement

Wellington City Council is starting a six-month trial of TXT-a-Park – the country’s first pay-and-display parking machine system that allows Vodafone customers to pay for parking via Txt. More >>

Pilot Project For Financial Reporting System

Monday, 22 December 2003, 2:14 pm | Joint Media Statement

Investors, the financial markets and regulators can look forward to accessing more accurate and reliable financial information faster as the result of an electronic reporting initiative currently being trialed in New Zealand. More >>

Armstrong Report Fails To Identify Real Villain

Friday, 19 December 2003, 3:49 pm | Joint Media Statement

The report of the Auditor-General into payments made by Television New Zealand, New Zealand Post and Industrial Research Ltd to the former chair of all three, Dr Ross Armstrong, was never going to identify the real culprit - Prime Minister Helen Clark, ... More >>

Revised Intl. Accounting Standards Welcomed

Friday, 19 December 2003, 2:29 pm | Joint Media Statement

The Securities Commission of New Zealand, the Accounting Standards Review Board (ASRB) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Financial Reporting Standards Board (FRSB) have welcomed the publication of two revised International Accounting Standards addressing ... More >>