Health – Great news that teen smoking is dropping – but we still need...
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: Asthma and Respiratory Foundation
The Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ (ARFNZ) welcomes the release of the ASH Year 10 Snapshot Survey, and the...
COVID-19 media conference — 3 March 2022
Source: Covid-19 New Zealand Government Announcements
03 Mar 2022
Watch the latest update on our response to COVID-19 at 1pm.
The COVID-19 media conference starts at 1pm.
Speakers:
Director-General...
Quick arrest over brazen North Shore assault
Source: New Zealand Police (District News)
Waitematā East Police have taken swift action and arrested a man following an attack on a member of the...
WWF Statement: UNEA-5.2 Global Treaty on Plastic Pollution
Source: World Wildlife Fund
Date March 02, 2022
Media Contact
In This Press Release
In response to today’s announcement by the UN Environment Assembly’s (UNEA-5.2) decision to begin...
New rules proposed for carbon farming of exotic forests in future
Source: New Zealand Government
A new proposal to better manage carbon farming could see future permanent plantings of exotic forests like radiata pine excluded from...
Operation Weirton: Police and Customs make New Zealand’s largest seizure of methamphetamine at the...
Source: New Zealand Police (National News)
An operation investigating the importation of methamphetamine into New Zealand has seen the largest ever interception of the illicit...
Ukraine crisis threatens to push millions more children globally into hunger
Source: Save The Children
Skyrocketing wheat prices due to the Russian military operation in Ukraine could put millions of children in the world’s most fragile...
Free rapid antigen tests now available for home testing
Source: MakeLemonade.nz
Te Whanganui-a-Tara – Kiwis who are symptomatic or a household contact, can now order covid rapid antigen tests (RATs) through a newly launched RAT...
Save the Children raises crypto funds to support their Ukraine response
Source: Save The Children
Cryptocurrency donations are bolstering Save the Children’s efforts to help families worst impacted by the Ukraine crisis with experts expecting the...
New research highlights disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on India’s girls
Source: Save The Children
Only a third (33%) of girls in India attended online classes during the COVID-19 lockdown compared to 39% of boys, according to...
Te Rau Angitū Awards Programme provides support for Māori postgraduate students
Source: Massey University
More than 30 Māori postgraduate diploma, masters and doctoral students were celebrated and will be supported in their learning journey by the...
Engineering students’ agri-tech tech startup ProTag raises $1 million
Source: Massey University
ProTag founders, Tyrel Glass and Baden Parr
Massey University Engineering PhD students and entrepreneurs, Tyrel Glass and Baden Parr, are creating game-changing technology...
