Diversity Headlines

Listening is first step on path to improving health system

Press Release – West Coast DHB

Listening to patients experiences to determine how to improve the health system is the aim of two consumer representatives on West Coast District Health Boards Clinical Board. Read more »

Linking Minds Scholarships – Making Language Accessible

Press Release – British High Commission

Five Welsh teachers will travel to New Zealand to learn how to encourage the use of the Welsh language in all members of the community, as part of the Linking Minds leadership programme. Read more »

More children getting help to see

Press Release – New Zealand Government

More young New Zealanders in need of glasses to correct their vision have received free spectacles through a Government-funded subsidy. More than 28,000 children aged 15 years or under had their eyes tested and were given glasses if required last … Read more »

Lack of Remorse from Police Won’t Restore Tūhoe Relationship

Press Release – The Maori Party

Waiariki MP, Te Ururoa Flavell, has continued his call for accountability in the wake of the damning IPCA report into Operation Eight. The Authority found there was no lawful basis for the roadblocks at Taneatua and Rutoki; there was no lawful … Read more »

Parents Urged to Exercise Voting Rights

Press Release – NZ School Trustees Association

Parents across New Zealand are urged to vote in the 2013 School Trustee Elections now underway with polls closing at noon on 30 May. This vote from the school community will influence who is leading their childs school over the next three years. Read more »

Martin Doyle cartoon: Hands off our Molotovs

Opinion – Martin Doyle

Both the Police and the people at the training camps need to come clean [in a non-actionable forum] to the public about just what was going on in the Urewera. In my cartoon, the Maori words say “Don’t touch the explosion bottle” [ie Molotov cocktail]. The … Read more »

Northtec Students Gold and Silver: Maori Student Hui

Press Release – NorthTec

NorthTec student nurses scored big at the recent annual National Council of Student Mori Nurses Hui in Nelson, with Kaitaias Caroline Snowden winning gold and Whangareis Aniwaniwa Mahanga taking out silver for their exemplar presentations. Read more »

Government sets $55.3m problem gambling strategy

Press Release – New Zealand Government

Internal Affairs Minister Chris Tremain and Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne today released details of the Governments $55.3 million, three-year gambling harm strategy to be funded and implemented by the Health Ministry, and recouped from the … Read more »

Waitemata Residents Among the Healthiest In New Zealand

Press Release – Waitemata District Health Board

People living in the Waitemata district are among the healthiest in the country, a new report has found. Read more »

Six Nominees For the Labour Candidacy In the Ikaroa-Rawhiti

Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party

With the closure of nominations at 5pm today for Labours Ikaroa-Rawhiti candidature, the Labour Partys General Secretary has announced that six nominations have been received for selection as candidate. They are in alphabetical order: Read more »

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