Card spending drops in February as Omicron spreads – Stats NZ media and information...
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Card spending drops in February as Omicron spreads – Media release
10 March 2022
Credit and debit card spending decreased for all sectors between January...
Economy – Reserve Bank seeks feedback on insurance enforcement and distress management
Source: MIL-OSI SubmissionsSource: Reserve Bank of New Zealand
10 March 2022 – The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua – is seeking feedback...
Health and Action – Wellington man completes 21 half-marathons in 21 weeks to raise...
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: Asthma and Respiratory Foundation
Shane Ross, 56, of Upper Hutt, has been running a half-marathon each week since October last year, and will...
Plastic not so fantastic: Consumer NZ reveals top five worst packaging offenders
Source: MIL-OSI SubmissionsSource: Consumer NZ
Complaints to Consumer NZ shows some consumers aren’t pleased with excess and convoluted packaging.
“Customers are getting increasingly frustrated with all...
Conservation – Sharks subject to “brutal” and needless killing, official reports reveal
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: Forest and Bird
The reports reveal a series of incidents where fishers have brutally killed or maimed sharks, cut out the hook and...
Greenpeace – Peace flotilla pressures Govt to put new sanctions law to work
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: Greenpeace
As Parliament debates a new law to enable the New Zealand Government to impose sanctions over the war in Ukraine, a peace...
First Responders – UPDATE: 4.15pm Update – Arthur’s Pass fire
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Source: Fire and Emergency New Zealand
Just after midday today, Fire and Emergency was called to a vegetation fire on Riversdale Road, Arthurs Pass....
Porirua City – Positive growth for Porirua
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: Porirua City Council
Porirua is shrugging off the effects of Covid and lockdowns, with a strong December quarter for the local economy built...
PSA Union – We are the “bureaucrats” you are demeaning
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: PSA
Uninformed comments this morning about wasteful spending on new public servants is offensive to the people who have come together, as part...
HEALTH – ProCare announces new Nurse Representative to its Health (PHO) Limited Board
Source: MIL-OSI SubmissionsSOURCE: PROCARE
Leading healthcare provider ProCare has today announced the appointment of Ann Davis as a new Director to the ProCare Health (PHO)...
BusinessNZ – Less isolation a pragmatic response
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Source: BusinessNZ
BusinessNZ has welcomed the decision to reduce self-isolation periods from 10 to 7 days as a pragmatic response by the Government.
BusinessNZ Chief...
Federated Farmers’ survey: Farmer confidence at lowest ebb since 2009
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Source: Federated Farmers
Farmer confidence is the lowest it has been since Federated Farmers began twice-a-year surveys in 2009, the January survey results show.
Of...