Новости за 24.07.2024

Adelaide Road, Mount Cook is now clear following a crash involving a car and a motorcycle around 4:45pm. Traffic is now moving through the area. The person with moderate injuries has been transported to hospital.

Police are responding to a collision involving a car and a motorcycle on Adelaide Road, Mount Cook reported around 4:45pm. One person has moderate injuries. The road is blocked and motorists are advised to expect delays. Motorists should avoid the ...

We are proud to work with NZGIF and SolarZero on this pioneering financing model. This initiative builds on the exciting developments and future growth in our sustainable finance markets and aligns with New Zealand’s goals to charge ahead with its renewable ...

We must have a more thoughtful, inclusive, and empathetic approach to language.

Christopher Luxon and his Government have the opportunity to do what no Government has done to date and provide the redress and support for survivors that they are entitled to.

Chief Children’s Commissioner Dr Claire Achmad says the decades of abuse and pain experienced by children and young people while in the care of the State and faith-based institutions is a national shame.

Many of the recommendations are consistent with the Code of Rights which gives people using health and disability services the right to complain, and requires providers to facilitate the fair, simple, speedy resolution of complaints.

ATWC will take time to work through the report and its recommendations, and encourages anyone with an historic abuse claim or complaint to come forward, this can be done confidentially through our website.

We acknowledge that the abuse of people in the care of the Church is real & the failures of Church leaders in responding to reports are real. The impacts of these are present today; for survivors, their whānau, for faith communities, & for society. This is ...

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA)’s current measures to request people to slow down south of Tekapo through to Lake Pukaki/Twizel will remain in place while the cold hoar frost and black ice conditions continue.  Yesterday signs ...

The Minister responsible for coordinating the Crown Response to the Abuse in Care Inquiry, Erica Stanford, says throughout the 1970s patients at Lake Alice were given electric shocks without anaesthetic, as well as painful and immobilising paraldehyde ...

This five-year inquiry involved painstaking collation of stories from people who have experienced grave mistreatment in care. We as a country have a duty to ensure this inquiry wasn’t in vain.

We owe it to survivors to closely read this report, to hear the human stories behind it and work through the recommendations made.

It is important that, as a country, we bring to the surface and understand the hard truths of what happened so we can try and move forward together.

The report made 138 recommendations which the Government will now consider alongside the 95 recommendations from the interim report which was released in December 2021.

Stuff reports: Associate Health Minister Casey Costello has cut the excise tax on Heated Tobacco Products (HTPs), as she aims to make them more attractive as an alternative to smoking. Costello, who is also Customs Minister, has cut the excise rate on HTPs by 50% effective from 1 July – a move silently dropped on […]

In 2012 my great friend – and triathlon coach of my son at the time – sat on his bed and watched the opening of the London Olympics. It was the 28th of July in London and we marveled at the performances of Britain’s best musicians (and Rowan Atkinson) and the wonderful spectacle. Jack reminisced […]

This offending is serious not just from a border but also consumer fraud perspective as the suspect was supplying false import documents as well as duping buyers selling older vehicles for higher profit.

Santini Renney was fined $7,500 in the Taupō District Court yesterday on charges of unlawfully completing sanitary plumbing work and falsely advertising himself as a plumber, when he has never held registration in New Zealand.

Williams Park has about 6.5 hectares of open space and native forest, as well as recreation and leisure amenities. On fine days it regularly attracts hundreds of visitors from across the Wellington region.

Data shared by Water Safety New Zealand in their annual Drowning Report revealed an 11% increase in drowning deaths in 2023 against the ten-year average. Out of 90 drowning deaths in New Zealand, 11 occurred in pools.

Police are working to locate Justin-Soul as he has a warrant to arrest in relation to a recent serious assault.  He is believed to be dangerous and should not be approached. He is around 180cm tall, of an athletic build, with long curly ...

The 12 player, 5 coach/management/support squad represent a unique cross section of professional and athletic backgrounds, coming from 5 clubs from around the North Island – Hamilton Hawks, Tauranga City Tridents, Hutt Valley Spartans, Papatoetoe ...

Poitarawhiti Aotearoa Netball New Zealand and Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum will celebrate one hundred years of one of our most beloved and iconic sports in a new exhibition opening Tuesday 3 September Our Game: A Century of Netball in ...

Indie rock gems Voodoo Bloo are back with a noisy outing! Their latest record, “Dead-end Rodeo”, marks the band’s third studio LP, incorporating the sounds that fans love with new twists, which will hit all listeners at full force. “Dead-end Rodeo'' ...