[ad_1] THINGS / Things Taranaki Sawmills Ltd, which markets itself as Bell Block-based Taranakipine, was fined $ 231,000 in court Thursday after an accident partially severed a worker’s hand in 2018. WorkSafe New Zealand has reminded employers to ensure machinery is safe for staff use after a Taranaki company was …
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[ad_1] “In part this is because in New Zealand the right to refuse medical treatments like vaccines is in the Bill of Rights, but this right, like so many others, can be overridden at specific times, such as emergencies. “If New Zealand wanted vaccines to be mandatory for COVID-19, it …
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[ad_1] The mayor of New York’s third-largest city in the US suspended seven police officers involved in the suffocation death of a black man in March 2020 on Thursday (US time). Daniel Prude, 41, known to his Chicago family as “Rell,” died on March 30 when his family took his …
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[ad_1] By RNZ The University of Waikato is commissioning an independent review following claims by leading academics alleging casual and structural racism at the institution, despite having previously rejected the allegations. Indigenous education teacher Linda Tuhiwai Smith, along with six academics, wrote a 13-page letter alerting the Ministry of Education …
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[ad_1] The Taranaki Green School, at the center of a row of political funding, has been revealed to have aspirations to create an ‘ecological village’ on its Ōakura site, which includes 20 houses. This is news for Green Party co-leader James Shaw, who says he knew nothing about it before …
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[ad_1] A rare sighting of a humpback whale and her calf off the coast of Christchurch has been captured on film. South New Brighton resident Hugo Kristinsson, 59, was walking along New Brighton beach when he spotted what appeared to be a mother humpback whale and her calf about 200 …
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[ad_1] University of Otago professor Andrew Geddis, who specializes in electoral law, said that nothing requires Ardern to be careful when using the Beehive podium because he has the right to rule until Election Day. “That said, if the government’s handling of COVID-19 announcements is deemed too politicized, it will …
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[ad_1] COMMENTARY: Once safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines are available, tough decisions will need to be made about who gets the first shots. A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, at the urging of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of …
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[ad_1] Christchurch City Council has been awarded heritage status in recognition of its “outstanding international and national importance.” The brutalist building has been named a Category 1 Historic Site on the New Zealand / Rārangi Kōrero Heritage List. The Kilmore St site opened in 1972, having been designed by Christchurch …
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[ad_1] A new report details multiple cases in which US President Donald Trump made disparaging remarks about members of the US military being captured or killed, including reference to Americans killed in the war in the US Aisne Cemetery. -Marne in France in 2018 as “losers” and “fools”. The president …
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