[ad_1] New Zealand First has published its list, with a significant demotion for MP Jenny Marcroft. Winston Peters. Source: rnz.co.nz Leader Winston Peters and MP Fletcher Tabuteau are first and second, respectively. Marcroft has gone from his ninth place in the last election to number 17, making his way back …
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[ad_1] By Alex McLeod of RugbyPass.com Less than a fortnight has passed since Ian Foster named his first All Blacks team, but the New Zealand head coach already plans to add 10 to 11 more players to his 35-man team for the Rugby Championship. The quarantine restrictions upon their arrival …
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[ad_1] Green Party co-leader James Shaw may not have turned up with the $ 26 million that Taranaki director Kealy Warren billed him, but he is hopeful that he will receive more government funding as a result of his visit. On August 28, the acting principal of Marfell Community School …
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[ad_1] The Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) alerted the school on Wednesday to the positive case and announced that the school would be closed for cleaning until at least next week. He also asked earlier Thursday that everyone at the school get tested, though he believes there are very …
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[ad_1] COMMENTARY: The delay to date of the New Zealand elections, to which not all citizens of the countries would have adapted so quickly, was only the latest event in a year in which the unexpected and the extraordinary have become characteristic constant of a fragile “new normal”. What was …
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[ad_1] Meghan Lawrence / Stuff 21012016. News photo. MEGHAN LAWRENCE / FAIRFAX NZ. Chapel Downs Elementary School. This story was originally posted on RNZ.co.nz and is being republished with permission. A mother is frustrated that it took two days for parents to discover that a student at her son’s school …
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[ad_1] SUPPLIED A new AUT study based on data from 28 central public service departments and 20 district health boards shows large disparities in pay across ethnicities. Maori and Pacific staff in government departments and district health boards are much less likely to earn six-figure salaries than their Pākehā counterparts. …
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[ad_1] Proceedings Early childhood education has been linked to children’s positive social and emotional well-being, but it also exposes them to infections. (File photo) Children who attend early childhood education have better social outcomes than their stay-at-home peers, but are more likely to get sick, according to a study. The …
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[ad_1] Robyn Edie / Stuff Cameron McIntosh has been named the new executive director of the Southland District Council. (File photo) The Southland District Council has appointed Cameron McIntosh as its new Executive Director. McIntosh has been the director of works and services at Invercargill City Council for the past …
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[ad_1] CAMPAIGN JOURNAL: Could Hemp Ice Cream Help Save New Zealand’s Tailing Economy? When the country officially entered recession on Thursday, Labor leader Jacinda Ardern was in Palmerston North tasting the non-dairy dessert and inspecting hybrid meat products. Little was said about the recession. Mayor Grant Smith welcomed Ardern and …
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