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Wgtn Rape Crisis Groups Respond to Sexual Violence Funding
Wednesday, 30 April 2014, 12:54 pm | Joint Press Release
Wellington’s key survivor agencies have responded to Paula Bennett’s announcement today that the Sexual Violence Sector will receive a 10.4 million dollar boost over the next two years, aimed at providing stability to the sector. More >>
Investors look forward to easy-to-follow IPO offer documents
Wednesday, 30 April 2014, 12:25 pm | Joint Press Release
A New Zealand investor survey conducted on behalf of the Financial Markets Authority and NZX shows there is good support for companies making initial public offerings (IPOs) among those who have invested in recent IPOs. More >>
Conversations With My Penis
Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 11:47 am | Joint Press Release
Conversations With My Penis - the hit new play from Dean Hewison (Live at Six, How To Meet Girls From A Distance) is opening at Wellington's BATS Theatre on Wednesday April 30th for the Comedy Festival. More >>
Global unions applaud NZ ‘slave ships’ progress
Friday, 18 April 2014, 11:34 am | Joint Press Release
Global unions the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) and IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural and Hospitality Workers) today applauded the steps forward made in preventing often shocking abuse of crews on fishing vessels in New Zealand ... More >>
Whitebait partners look for solutions
Wednesday, 16 April 2014, 12:09 pm | Joint Press Release
Waikato-Tainui, local marae, councils and agencies are working together to better manage whitebait fisheries at Port Waikato following the compilation of a new report. More >>
ActivePost Waka Ama championships return to Christchurch
Monday, 14 April 2014, 11:34 am | Joint Press Release
This weekend Christchurch’s Lyttelton Harbour plays host to a showcase of grit and endurance at the 2014 ActivePost National Long Distance Waka Ama Championships. More than 250 paddlers from 17 clubs throughout New Zealand are expected to compete. More >>
Papua New Guinean Female Trainee Pilots Take To Skies in NZ
Monday, 14 April 2014, 11:20 am | Joint Press Release
Four specially selected young women from Papua New Guinea are embarking on the opportunity of a lifetime – training to become commercial pilots. The women start a 68-week course today to secure a New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority Commercial Pilot Licence ... More >>
Revolutionary technology to reduce driver fatigue
Friday, 11 April 2014, 4:50 pm | Joint Press Release
Fleetsafe NZ is working with AIM-listed technology company, Seeing Machines to bring its revolutionary Driver Safety System (DSS) to New Zealand’s roads to help reduce fatigue crash statistics that in 2012 resulted in 46 deaths with a social cost of ... More >>
Business Thinker Gary Hamel to address NZ business leaders
Wednesday, 9 April 2014, 12:00 pm | Joint Press Release
WHY MANAGEMENT IS FAILING INNOVATION – Gary Hamel, one of the world’s leading business thinkers and authority on management innovation is coming to NZ to talk to business leaders about why we need to reinvent management. More >>
New Date and Venue for Charity Wine Auction
Wednesday, 9 April 2014, 11:11 am | Joint Press Release
Stunning vintage lots will be up for grabs at the HB Winegrowers Charity Fine Wine Auction set for Saturday, November 8. The event will join the FAWC! (Food and Wine Classic) summer series and has moved to the Hawke’s Bay Racing Centre following ... More >>
Melbournians Call for Release of Papuan Political Prisoners
Thursday, 3 April 2014, 5:31 pm | Joint Press Release
Wednesday April 2nd is an international day of action to demand the freedom of Papuan andMalukans political prisoners. Actions will be held in Melbourne, London, The Hague, Auckland, Wellington, Edinburgh and West Papua calling for the immediate and unconditional ... More >>
Registrations open for Auckland’s first civic hackathon
Thursday, 27 March 2014, 1:43 pm | Joint Press Release
Designers, developers and innovators are being encouraged to register for a weekend of 'hacking for good’ in what will be Auckland’s first ‘civic hackathon’. More >>
Myele Manzanza to tour Stockholm, Budapest, Berlin & Munich
Wednesday, 26 March 2014, 12:21 pm | Joint Press Release
After a stunning premier performance in Los Angeles which the LA Weekly selected as one of its 'Concerts of the Week' and a successful run of debut shows in the U.S. Myele Manzanza jumps over the Atlantic this week for a handful of shows in Europe ... More >>
Threatened geckos to find sanctuary on Motuihe Island
Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 3:11 pm | Joint Press Release
One hundred of New Zealand’s largest geckos are leaving the Mercury Islands to find a new home on Motuihe Island, just 16km from downtown Auckland. This Sunday (March 30), Duvaucel’s geckos will join other threatened wildlife already on Motuihe ... More >>
Wider debate needed on Change for Ruakura Development Plan
Monday, 24 March 2014, 2:52 pm | Joint Press Release
Leaders from a number of community groups representing Hamilton eastern suburbs’ residents met 19th March to discuss the upcoming hearing of Tainui Group Holdings’ (TGH) application for a major plan change to allow acceleration of their proposed ... More >>
Rebels&Robots + Fleet St Present The Adventures of Suzy Boon
Thursday, 20 March 2014, 11:48 am | Joint Press Release
The show follows the (mis)adventures of our hero, Suzy, who is half Maori/ half Chinese and is trying to find where she belongs in this world - and by world she means New Zealand. She is at the last week of her trial period at the Immigration Service of ... More >>
Assurance for shoppers as retailers sign on to data register
Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 12:49 pm | Joint Press Release
Three of the country’s leading retailers are among the first to adopt a new standard assuring shoppers their personal information is stored and used in accordance with a best practice industry standard. More >>
Suren Unka to Release Debut Album in April
Friday, 14 March 2014, 12:24 pm | Joint Press Release
Electronic house producer Suren Unka is set to release his debut album El Chupacabra this April. El Chupacabra features ten tracks in total – with eight brand new songs alongside previously released singles Early (2011) and Alice (2013). More >>
Support Wellington’s Urban Kai Cycle from the ground up
Thursday, 13 March 2014, 3:25 pm | Joint Press Release
As local food week dawns, a vibrant young woman with a contagious energy needs your help to create a new kind of clean-green with her ‘Urban Kai’ project. Born and bred in California, Ania Upstill is passionate about the potential of Wellington’s ... More >>
Who are these mystery voices of Gallipoli?
Thursday, 13 March 2014, 2:09 pm | Joint Press Release
Families with Hawke’s Bay connections are being asked to try and help identify the voices of ve unidentied Gallipoli veterans, recorded in the 1960s by the late Napier broadcaster Laurie Swindell. More >>
