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New Zealand's First Ever Building Implosion to Be Auctioned

Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 1:26 pm | Joint Press Release

Who gets to ‘push the button’ to initiate New Zealand's first ever building implosion will be auctioned to raise money for the restoration of Canterbury's heritage buildings. More >>

Treasury view confirmed by urban water infrastructure study

Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 1:00 pm | Joint Press Release

Treasury’s findings that the governance, regulation and funding of drinking water and wastewater infrastructure need attention were confirmed today with the release of a new study commissioned by the Council for Infrastructure Development and Water ... More >>

Tough questions to be answered at retail conference

Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 12:02 pm | Joint Press Release

What do you do if your building is denied earthquake cover? If you’re the landlord, do you end the lease, or are there legal obligations that must be upheld? What if you’re the tenant? More >>

Companies Lower Accident Insurance Costs for Building Trade

Monday, 16 July 2012, 12:35 pm | Joint Press Release

HazardCo, health and safety providers to the construction industry, and Plus4 Insurance Solutions (Plus4), a national insurance broking and financial adviser group, have entered a partnership to lower the cost of accident insurance and provide income ... More >>

BusinessNZ & the Federation of Maori Authorities join forces

Wednesday, 11 July 2012, 10:35 am | Joint Press Release

New Zealand’s largest business network and the largest Maori business network will join together today in an effort to bring better value to their members, as well as the Maori and New Zealand economies. More >>

Australian, NZ and US Unrest over Canada’s Inclusion in TPP

Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 1:07 pm | Joint Press Release

The recent announcement at the G20 summit of Canada’s inclusion into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has got member countries the United States of America (US), New Zealand (NZ) and Australia up in arms over Canada’s open agricultural subsidisation ... More >>

Free treatment offered to Auckland Meniere's disease patient

Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 11:08 am | Joint Press Release

The featured speaker at this year's Meniere's Disease Research Institute's Work Shop is Dr. Michael T. Burcon, world's leading expert on Meniere's Disease (MD). Burcon has proven a correlation between MD and whiplash (caused by a vehicular accident ... More >>

Auckland Bus Drivers Vote Against Offer From NZ Bus

Thursday, 5 July 2012, 3:21 pm | Joint Press Release

Joint Media Release: Tramways Union & FIRST Union Thursday July 5, 2012 Auckland Bus Drivers Vote Against Offer From NZ Bus A large meeting of bus drivers in Auckland today has voted near unanimously to not accept an offer on pay and conditions from ... More >>

The Writing Is On The Wall: Defense Minister Must Act

Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 11:02 am | Joint Press Release

The Writing Is On The Wall: Defense Minister Must Act To Prevent Next “Price Tag” Incident June 26, 2012 0 comments More >>

Lydia Cole Me & Moon Tour With Special Guest Tom Lark

Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 10:36 am | Joint Press Release

Cuddle in close for a real midwinter treat, a night of song with Lydia Cole and special guest Tom Lark. This is a tale of two of the country’s outstanding young performers taking to the road in July to bring the delightfully hushed tones of their beautiful ... More >>

Bollywood Diva Sunidhi Chauhan in Auckland for ONE SHOW ONLY

Thursday, 21 June 2012, 10:30 am | Joint Press Release

Unique Cars (NZ) Ltd and Team Masala Events & Entertainment in association with DJ Dave’s Entertainment are proud to present SUNIDHI CHAUHAN live in concert for ONE NIGHT ONLY, this Friday 23 June. More >>

Team 2011 RWC Volunteers Reunion

Wednesday, 13 June 2012, 4:59 pm | Joint Press Release

The Team 2011 Rugby World Cup Volunteers Reunion will take place on October 20th 2012. The Theme for the Reunion will be “He Kete Taonga –New Zealand Team 2011 RWC” and the concept is to provide a common ground for Team 2011 Rugby World Cup ... More >>

Education leadership unites on flawed Budget class sizes

Tuesday, 5 June 2012, 4:42 pm | Joint Press Release

The sector meeting acknowledged the current economic climate and agreed that the Government’s Budget announcements, including increases in class size, are educationally flawed, contrary to the best interests of students and are collectively rejected ... More >>

Solidarity with Urewera 4 & Against the State Terror Raids

Thursday, 24 May 2012, 5:04 pm | Joint Press Release

On 24th May Taame, Rangi, Emily & Urs were sentenced 4 and a half years after the state terror raids of October 15th, 2007. After the raids, protests spread around the country and the world in solidarity with Ngai Tuhoe and the arrestees. More >>

Palestinian Prisoners Subject to Collective Punishment

Friday, 4 May 2012, 1:21 pm | Joint Press Release

As organisations dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organisations (PCHRO) is gravely concerned about the series of collective and punitive measures ... More >>

Auckland Transport, Telecom, Westpac to trial Mobile Wallet

Monday, 30 April 2012, 9:44 am | Joint Press Release

Paying for services through your mobile phone is closer to reality after Telecom, Auckland Transport and Westpac have announced plans to start trialling a mobile wallet system from May in collaboration with Gemalto, Thales and Paymark. More >>

New World Porirua and Anchor Thank Shoppers

Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 9:01 am | Joint Press Release

Anchor Growing Communities has announced how the funds raised through its joint funding initiative with New World Porirua will be split amongst three local charities. More >>

Future Of Mobile Phone Payments A Step Closer In New Zealand

Monday, 2 April 2012, 10:14 am | Joint Press Release

Press Release 2nd April 2012 Future Of Mobile Phone Payments A Step Closer In New Zealand More >>

Addameer, PHR-Israel: Shalabi Hunger Strike

Friday, 30 March 2012, 10:44 am | Joint Press Release

Addameer and PHR-Israel Cannot Yet Confirm That Hana Shalabi Has Ended Her Hunger Strike March 29, 2012 More >>

International Bargaining Forum Reaches Three Year Agreement

Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 10:45 pm | Joint Press Release

The IBF (International Bargaining Forum), which comprises representatives of the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation), on behalf of seafarers, and the JNG (Joint Negotiating Group,) on behalf of employers, reached a final agreement ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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