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National is calling on the Government to introduce urgent temporary legislation to make housing easier to build, and has offered to support the law change through Parliament. At her State of the Nation speech in Auckland today, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins said the time had come for an extraordinary solution to an unfolding…
New compost network provides a solution to doubling landfill levies New Zealand has a new composting network, an online platform that connects foodservice businesses with industrial composters. Backed by restaurateur Nic Watt, the network aims to reduce part of the 157,389 tonnes of food waste created by New Zealand each year, the weight of 271…
New Pacific-NZ partnership to research climate crisis action The University of Canterbury and University of the South Pacific, with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, are partnering on a unique research project to help Pacific countries and the global community understand how climate change will impact the Pacific, and how indigenous knowledge…
Selling a buffalo for a brain scan: India’s COVID-19 crisis reveals deep fractures in its health system UC’s Dr Kaaren Mathias writes about the lack of investment in India’s public sector, which has led to an unaffordable, failing healthcare system, in a new article on The Conversation. Rebecca Conway/Getty Images With more than 300,000 new cases…
OPINION – I am a Māori woman, and I work in tourism. That’s suddenly become a lot rarer because of Covid-19 and I am angry about it. Covid-19 has highlighted the inequalities of our service-based tourism industry, and the deep reliance on a low paid labour sector to deliver our 100% Pure New Zealand experience…
ChristchurchNZ is running twin campaigns aimed at encouraging Christchurch residents to spend locally and to get out-of-town visitors to Canterbury and the West Coast. Tim Loftus, ChristchurchNZ’s General Manager of Marketing, Brand and Communications, says the spending habits of Christchurch residents over the next six months will be vital to the city’s economic recovery and…
I have just been reading up while relaxing in the torrential rain of the west coast on whats actually happened in the world of housing markets and Their falls, and its dam intense. There is so much that is going on that no one person can truely grasp the whole scale of the crisis. But…