Technology – Digital inclusion essential for COVID-19 response
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: InternetNZ
InternetNZ is today calling on the Government and Internet Service Providers to ensure all New Zealanders are able to be online as...
Taxpayers’ Union: Relief package a solid first step
Source: Taxpayers Union
17 MARCH 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming temporary measures to ease pressure on employers contained in today’s economic relief package.Taxpayers’ Union spokesman...
Taxpayers’ Union welcomes decision to repurpose PGF money for COVID-19
Source: Taxpayers Union
17 MARCH 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming the decision to repurpose a portion of the Provincial Growth Fund for COVID-19...
Idlib, Syria: Two schools a day damaged or abandoned during escalation in fighting
Source: Save The Children
For all children to attend school, each functioning classroom in Idlib would need to accommodate 240 students
Save the Children and partner...
COVID-19: Taxpayers’ Union release recommendations for economic response
Source: Taxpayers Union
COVID-19: Taxpayers’ Union release recommendations for New Zealand’s immediate economic response 16 MARCH 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEResponding to the developing threat of COVID-19 to...
Major steps taken to protect New Zealanders from COVID-19
Source: New Zealand Government
Every person entering New Zealand from anywhere in the world will be required to self-isolate for 14 days, excluding the Pacific....
Save the Children: European countries must bring more migrant and refugee children from Greece...
Source: Save The Children
Today (Thursday 12th March 2020) European Union Migration Commissioner Johansson has travelled to Greece to set-up an initiative to relocate unaccompanied migrant...
Green-fingered PhD students get satisfaction from shared garden
Source: Massey University
Some of the doctoral students with Professor Tracy Riley (seated): Stefi Romero from Paraguay (left), Ermanno Brosch from Austria, Thu Nguyen from...
If SFO investigation into electoral fraud isn’t reason to stand down, we don’t know...
Source: Taxpayers Union
11 MARCH 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union is joining calls for the Mayors of New Zealand’s two largest cities to temporarily stand down...
New Zealanders Detained in Australia Call For NZ Government Action
Source: Human Rights Commission
New Zealanders being detained in Australia were amongst those who tabled a petition in Parliament today, calling on the New Zealand...
Taxpayers’ Union Scrutiny Does What Ministry of Health Couldn’t
Source: Taxpayers Union
11 MARCH 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union welcomes this morning’s announcement that taxpayer-funded charity Quit Group will spend its remaining funding on...
Generation Equality: Unfinished business
Source: Save The Children
“Don’t stop advocating, even if you are not getting immediate benefits, you will be rewarded someday. We, as advocates, should join...
