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Biometric Processing Privacy Code 2025

· August 6, 2025

Source: Privacy Commissioner About the code The Biometric Processing Privacy Code 2025 was issued on 21 July 2025. The Code will come into force on: 3 November 2025 for biometric...

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Home DNA tests and privacy

· August 5, 2025

Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog Reviewed for relevance April 2025. Since 2007, companies like 23andMe.com and Ancestry.com have made at-home DNA testing kits accessible to the masses. Through...

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NZ-AU: Minim Martap Development Update

· August 5, 2025

Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-NZ-AU) Highlights Canyon has completed the first drawdown from its US$140 million Credit Facility with AFG Bank Cameroon Canyon secured the Credit Facility on excellent terms, demonstrating the...

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Inaugural International Potato Symposium

· August 5, 2025

Source: Massey University Two Massey University lecturers recently spoke at the inaugural International Potato Symposium. The symposium was jointly organised by Massey University and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences...

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Address to Papua New Guinea Parliament

· August 5, 2025

Source: New Zealand Government The Honourable Job Pomat, Speaker of the Papua New Guinea National Parliament, The Honourable James Marape, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, The Honourable Douglas Tomuriesa, Leader...

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School of Built Environment students awarded scholarships

· August 5, 2025

Source: Massey University Five students from the School of Built Environment have recently been awarded one-year tertiary scholarships for 2022 through Keystone Trust and their Key Scholarship Partners. For more...

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Massey University Oval to gain heritage status

· August 5, 2025

Source: Massey University For nearly 100 years the Oval has been prized for its garden parties, cricket and other sporting events, and casual and organised student activities, and has been...

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Massey author wins British Psychology Society Book Award

· August 5, 2025

Source: Massey University Professor Sarah Riley from the School of Psychology has won the Monograph award at the 2021 British Psychology Society Book Awards. The academic monograph category celebrates a...

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Children’s University pilot graduation

· August 5, 2025

Source: Massey University Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa recently welcomed students, parents and staff from Longburn School and Te Kura o Wairau in Manawatū to celebrate the first graduating class of...

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AUT announces new Head of VC’s Office

· August 5, 2025

Source: Auckland University of Technology 11 Apr, 2022 Amy Malcolm has been appointed to the role of Head of the Vice-Chancellor’s Office and will join the whānau at the end...

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5 questions with Lefaoali’i Dion Enari

· August 5, 2025

Source: Auckland University of Technology 07 Apr, 2022 Lefaoali’i Dion Enari is a lecturer in sport leadership and recreation at AUT and also a PhD candidate exploring Fa’a Samoa (Samoan...

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Steve Henry new Royal Society Fellow

· August 5, 2025

Source: Auckland University of Technology 21 Mar, 2022 Congratulations to Professor Steve Henry of Kode Technology Innovation (DCT) and Kode Biotech, who has been made a Fellow of the Royal...

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Extending manaaki to our community

· August 5, 2025

Source: Auckland University of Technology 16 Mar, 2022 A 40-foot container full of desks and chairs has been shipped over to schools in Tonga following January’s volcanic eruption. Several schools...

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A talk on fashion and sustainability

· August 5, 2025

Source: Auckland University of Technology 07 Mar, 2022 Nancy Johnson-Hunt and Emily Miller-Sharma. The fashion industry can’t talk about a future that’s free from fast fashion without first addressing the...

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Ban on anchoring at Hauturu Little Barrier Island

· August 5, 2025

Source: NZ Ministry for Primary Industries New biosecurity rules are in place at Hauturu o Toi Little Barrier Island, making it illegal to anchor anywhere around the island. Biosecurity New...

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Whale research method confirmed safe

· August 5, 2025

Source: NZ Department of Conservation Date:  26 June 2025 DOC has received a report of a group of southern right whales/tohorā around the mouth of Otago Harbour. This is an unusual...

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Shot kea released after lengthy recovery

· August 5, 2025

Source: NZ Department of Conservation Date:  10 July 2025 The young male kea was found with a shattered leg bone in Golden Bay’s Ligar Bay in February. It was caught by...