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Widespread Gratitude For Roadside Checkpoints
Saturday, 2 May 2020, 10:52 am | Joint Press Release
Non-Māori across the North Island have expressed their gratitude for roadside checkpoints organised by hapū and iwi to reduce the spread of Covid-19. “I’m very grateful for the checkpoints” says pākehā Maketu resident Bonnie Jackson. “The operators ... More >>
Critical We Keep Taking Restrictions Seriously Say Mayors
Friday, 1 May 2020, 11:47 am | Joint Press Release
The Mayors of Mackenzie, Timaru, Waimate and Waitaki are asking our communities to keep taking COVID-19 restrictions seriously, warning of significant harm if we go back to Level 4. The mayors thanked our communities for doing their bit to flatten ... More >>
Avis And Budget NZ Offer $10 Rentals to Essential Workers
Wednesday, 29 April 2020, 11:39 am | Joint Press Release
Avis and Budget New Zealand have announced rentals from $10 a day for essential workers to help keep them moving safely as they support the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic. More >>
Open Letter Covid19: Calling For A Sustainable Economic Re-set
Tuesday, 28 April 2020, 7:15 pm | Joint Press Release
Dear Prime Minister, Ministers, MPs and Local Government, In this time of chaos and uncertainty we must be honest with ourselves about the world at our doorstep, about what we are up against, and the opportunity we have been presented on the back ... More >>
Open Letter To Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern And Cabinet
Saturday, 25 April 2020, 10:55 am | Joint Press Release
Dear Prime Minister Your strategy of “going hard and going early” with Covid-19 has been quite rightly applauded around the world. It would have been great if the same strategy had been adopted for pay equity. Community-based midwives have been ... More >>
Northern Region DHBs Test Over 40,000 People For COVID-19
Friday, 24 April 2020, 3:55 pm | Joint Press Release
Latest Northern Region Health Communication Centre (NRHCC) data shows that since testing began in February, the Northern Region DHBs (Northland, Waitematā, Auckland and Counties Manukau) have tested more than 40,000 people for COVID-19. NRHCC Lead ... More >>
Start-ups Join Forces To Improve The Nation’s Resilience
Saturday, 18 April 2020, 12:03 pm | Joint Press Release
Two start-ups from different parts of the country have come together over an ambitious goal - to increase New Zealand’s collective resilience. Gisborne-based Riposte and Christchurch-based Wanderble met online through the Hack the Crisis NZ challenge, ... More >>
New Zealand’s Four Largest Electricity Distributors Offer Businesses Payment Deferrals
Friday, 17 April 2020, 10:50 am | Joint Press Release
New Zealand’s Four Largest Electricity Distributors Come Together To Offer Businesses Payment Deferrals During COVID-19 Electricity lines companies Orion, Powerco, Vector and Wellington Electricity serve 60% of New Zealand’s electricity customers. The ... More >>
Hospitality Industry Calls On The Minister Of Justice To Make Emergency Law Change
Tuesday, 14 April 2020, 12:41 pm | Joint Press Release
Members of the hospitality industry have written to Minister of Justice Hon. Andrew Little to call for urgent changes to the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act (2012), using the provisions set out in the Epidemic Preparedness Act (2006). MP for Wellington ... More >>
Senior Motel Industry Leaders Unite To Support An Industry In Crisis
Saturday, 11 April 2020, 1:10 pm | Joint Press Release
With the local tourism industry severely affected by the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis, senior business broker and ex motelier Ray Hart along with Gordon Fridge of LINK Hawke's Bay Central Plateau have set up an industry wide fundraiser to raise ... More >>
Non-food Export Manufacturers Call For Urgent Risk-based Restart
Tuesday, 7 April 2020, 11:52 am | Joint Press Release
New Zealand non-food export manufacturers shut down during the COVID19 Alert level 4 face irreversible market loss if they’re unable to restart production as soon as possible, say manufacturing industry bodies. Metals New Zealand, the Wood Processors ... More >>
South Taranaki Iwi Celebrating Court Of Appeal Decision To Stop Seabed Mining
Friday, 3 April 2020, 3:27 pm | Joint Press Release
Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ruanui and Te Kaahui o Rauru are celebrating the decision of the Court of Appeal, announced today, to stop Trans-Tasman Resources plans for risky seabed mining off the South Taranaki Bight. The Court of Appeal found that there ... More >>
COVID-19 Community Testing Network Expands In Auckland, With Five Additional Centres
Monday, 30 March 2020, 4:07 pm | Joint Press Release
Five additional COVID-19 testing centres are now up-and-running across metro Auckland, ensuring even better community-based access to swabbing for those who meet the clinical criteria. In addition to the five urban clinics and two rural clinics opened a week ... More >>
Rushed Vaping Bill During Covid-19, Grossly Unfair
Sunday, 29 March 2020, 4:11 pm | Joint Press Release
New Zealand vaping representatives have joined forces to condemn the Government continuing with its plan to rush legislation through Parliament to regulate vaping despite the Covid-19 lockdown. The Vaping Trade Association of New Zealand (VTANZ), ... More >>
What? No More Beach Walks Or Bear Hunts?
Saturday, 28 March 2020, 3:39 pm | Joint Press Release
Charlotte Hardy, MSc in Biology (Ecology) Rosalie Liddle Crawford, NZCS (Paramedical), Cert.Med.Microbiology, Spec.Immunohaematology. Two members of Tauranga’s science community are taking a stand today against heading to the beach or participating ... More >>
We All Need To Do Our Bit - BusinessNZ & CTU Call On Kiwi Workplaces To Do Our Best
Wednesday, 25 March 2020, 8:35 pm | Joint Press Release
The Council of Trade Unions and BusinessNZ are calling on all Kiwi businesses to do the right thing and do everything possible they can to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus and simultaneously maintain jobs as best we can through this very ... More >>
Resources Available To Help Patients Move To Using Telehealth
Monday, 23 March 2020, 7:23 pm | Joint Press Release
NZ Telehealth Resources Centre and Health Navigator NZ have today released online information to help people begin to use telehealth more to access health services, ie, secure email, phone, text, video and patient portals. NZ Telehealth Leadership ... More >>
Horowhenua And Kāpiti District Councils Move To Protect Communities From COVID-19
Sunday, 22 March 2020, 5:26 pm | Joint Press Release
Horowhenua District Council and Kāpiti Coast District Council are joining other councils around the country in closing its community centres and swimming pools following the government’s announcement that New Zealand is at Alert Level 2. Closures in ... More >>
Racing Industry Taking Steps In The Face Of COVID-19 Threat
Friday, 20 March 2020, 2:58 pm | Joint Press Release
Leaders of New Zealand’s racing industry are working closely together to combat the threat posed to the sector from COVID-19. More >>
Councils Commit To Working Together On Regulating Forestry In Wairoa District
Monday, 16 March 2020, 12:13 pm | Joint Press Release
The Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and Wairoa District Council have committed to working together on managing the growth in the planting and harvest of forestry in the Wairoa District. The two councils met recently to discuss the sustainable development ... More >>
