Local Government – Mayor encourages Lower Hutt community to continue supporting each other
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: Hutt City Council
Lower Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry has thanked the many groups and individuals who’ve supported our community during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Government invests in New Zealand’s cultural recovery
Source: New Zealand Government
Thousands of artists and creatives at hundreds of cultural and heritage organisations have been given much-needed support to recover from the...
Emergency Committee and Governing Body decision digest – 28 May
Source: Auckland Council
Auckland Council’s Emergency Committee and Governing Body both met today for what was the last Emergency Committee meeting before regular council committees...
Public health units waste our money. Don’t give them more!
Source: Taxpayers Union
28 MAY 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe calls for public health specialists for more taxpayer funding could be taken more seriously if they stopped wasting money...
COVID-19: Number of children living in household poverty to soar by up to 86...
Source: Save The Children
New analysis from Save the Children and UNICEF reveals that without urgent action, the number of children living in poor households...
Cleaning up our rivers and lakes
Source: New Zealand Government
Setting higher health standards at swimming spots
Requiring urban waterways to be cleaned up and new protections for urban streams
Putting controls on...
ESR research nurses go mobile
Source: ESR
Two Wellington nurses have taken an ordinary campervan and turned it into a mobile clinic all in the name of influenza and COVID-19...
Not going viral: How Auckland bounces back from COVID-19
Source: Auckland Council
Prior to COVID-19’s severe impact on the New Zealand economy, Auckland enjoyed GDP growth in the 2 per cent range and a...
Business – It’s the climate for the sustainability professional – Sustainable Business Council
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: Sustainable Business Council
A ground-breaking report launched today in collaboration with Oxygen Consulting, the Sustainable Business Network (SBN), the Sustainable Business Council (SBC)...
Parliament Oral Questions – Oral Questions – 28 May 2020000229
Source: New Zealand Parliament – Oral Questions and Answers
Hon NIKKI KAYE to the Prime Minister: Does she agree with the Rt Hon Winston Peters...
Betrayal in Christchurch: Council abandons rate freeze in favour of dreamland budget
Source: Taxpayers Union
28 MAY 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEChristchurch City Council’s backdown over a rates freeze is a betrayal of ratepayers, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. Union...
Consumer Issues – Air NZ sitting on millions of dollars from cancelled flights
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: Consumer NZ
A Consumer NZ survey found 80 percent of passengers on cancelled Air New Zealand flights have been stuck with credits,...
