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IHC – Quality education for disabled students
Source: IHC 11 December 2025 – IHC and the Ministry of Education have settled a landmark litigation case to enable the New Zealand education system to work better for disabled students....
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Animal Welfare – SAFE: A Dark Day for Mother Pigs in Aotearoa
Source: SAFE For Animals SAFE is condemning the Government’s decision to push the Animal Welfare (Regulations for Management of Pigs) Amendment Bill through its next stages under urgency today, calling it...
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Amnesty International – Welcoming the Interim Report from the Youth Online Harm Inquiry
Source: Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand and Tāhono Trust [1] welcome the Interim Report from the Education and Workforce Select Committee, from their Inquiry into youth online harm [2] . Our organisations both submitted...
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Unlocking Career Growth: SIM Academy Helps Working Adults Tap National Funding Schemes
Source: Media Outreach SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 11 December 2025 – In a labour market reshaped by digitalisation and industry transitions, working adults in Singapore increasingly turn to...
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Local News – Porirua City Council meeting wrap – 11 December
Source: Porirua City Council The newly elected Porirua City Council held its first substantive meeting since being sworn in, covering a wide range of subjects. To start, Mayor Anita Baker gave...
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Newmarket Business Association calls for government help to deal with crime
Source: Radio New Zealand Westfield Newmarket in Auckland. File picture. RNZ / Katie Doyle Two years on from setting up its own security service a popular Auckland shopping precinct says...
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Positive Ageing mobilises after council scraps aged working party
Source: Radio New Zealand Mayor Max Brough. LDR /Te Korimako o Taranaki New Plymouth’s Positive Ageing group has issued a call to arms over the council’s decision to scrap its...
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Local councils need to be doing more to prepare for flooding, report shows
Source: Radio New Zealand Tasman weather – Riwaka, Motueka RNZ/Mark Papalii A government report has found local councils need to be doing more to prepare for flooding and to mitigate...
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Do the All Blacks need more coaches, or fewer?
Source: Radio New Zealand Analysis – Even in the increasingly chaotic environment of rugby coaching, the news that Jason Holland has returned to the Hurricanes feels odd. Holland was the...
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The House: MPs’ week begins with an RMA shakeup precursor
Source: Radio New Zealand RMA folio Bill McKay While many people ease into Christmas, head to drinks, write cards and mentally check out, in its penultimate sitting week of 2025...
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Philippine Industry Leaders Honoured at ACES Awards 2025 for Responsible Transformation
Source: Media Outreach BALI, INDONESIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 11 December 2025 – A distinguished cohort of Philippine enterprises was celebrated at the Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability (ACES)...
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Proposal to remove mana whenua voice at Napier City Council fails
Source: Radio New Zealand Napier City Council. RNZ / Tom Kitchin A proposal from new Napier Mayor Richard McGrath to remove mana whenua voices and voting rights in the council’s...
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Coalition strains over stewardship land shake-up
Source: Radio New Zealand Conservation Minister Tama Potaka. RNZ / Mark Papalii The Conservation Minister has re-classified swathes of stewardship land on the West Coast of the South Island. Tama...
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Do the All Blacks need more coaches, or less?
Source: Radio New Zealand Analysis – Even in the increasingly chaotic environment of rugby coaching, the news that Jason Holland has returned to the Hurricanes feels odd. Holland was the...
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Aon Survey Projects 4.8 Percent Salary Growth for Malaysia in 2026
Source: Media Outreach KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 11 December 2025 –Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm, has announced the findings from its...
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‘Clowns to the left, jokers to the right’: Willis-Richardson debate in doubt after ultimatum
Source: Radio New Zealand Finance Minister Nicola Willis (left) has challenged her predecessor Ruth Richardson. RNZ/Reece Baker/Supplied Finance Minister Nicola Willis and her 1990s predecessor Ruth Richardson are now debating...
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Minister welcomes longer submission period for Arms Bill
Source: New Zealand Government Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee is welcoming the Justice Select Committee’s decision to allow a longer submission period for the Arms Bill and is urging New...
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Speech to Australia and New Zealand conference on Optics and Photonics
Source: New Zealand Government Good evening. Thank you, Professor Frédérique Vanholsbeeck, for your warm introduction, and for the energy and passion you bring to advancing our photonics and optics sector...
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Farmers get long-awaited clarity on stewardship land
Source: Federated Farmers Today’s decisions on West Coast stewardship land will deliver the long-overdue clarity that farmers and many others have been waiting for, Federated Farmers say. Conservation Minister Tama Potaka...
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Wellington’s City to Sea bridge saved from demolition – for now
Source: Radio New Zealand People on Wellington’s City to Sea bridge. (File photo) RNZ / Pretoria Gordon Wellington city councillors have saved the City to Sea bridge from the bulldozers...
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Decisions on stewardship land delivered
Source: New Zealand Government Conservation Minister Tama Potaka has announced decisions that will provide clarity for approximately 80 per cent of stewardship land assessed on the West Coast of the...
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Local Water Done Well: Council plans to cost $9b higher than expected
Source: Radio New Zealand Local Government Minister Simon Watts. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Spending on water services will be nearly $9 billion higher under the Local Water Done Well model...
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External project management team to run Nelson Hospital redevelopment
Source: Radio New Zealand Nelson Hospital. RNZ / Samantha Gee Health New Zealand is hiring an external project management team to run the Nelson Hospital redevelopment for the next six...
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Health – Asthma Foundation supports stop-smoking provider threatened for rejecting vapes
Source: Asthma and Respiratory Foundation The Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ is appalled that a Wellington stop-smoking provider is at risk of losing its Government contract for refusing to supply vapes...
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Spin – Shameless right wing stunt fudges truth of brutal spending and job cuts
Source: PSA The Taxpayers’ (not-a-) Union stunt with Ruth Richardson “debating” Finance Minister Nicola Willis and promoting this with expensive boxes of fudge is a deliberate false-flag operation to make Willis...
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Legislation – Dangerous Fast-Track changes made as nature is reaching breaking point – Greenpeace
Source: Greenpeace Greenpeace says the passing of the Fast-Track Approvals Amendment Bill last night makes an already damaging law even more dangerous for Aotearoa’s environment. “The original Fast Track Approvals Act...
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Greenpeace: Denmark moves to lower limits on nitrate in drinking water – when will NZ follow suit?
Source: Greenpeace Denmark’s Environment Minister is making moves to dramatically lower the legal limit for nitrate in drinking water, after a government-commissioned report recommended reducing the legal limit for nitrate contamination to...