Category: New Zealand
The LEGACY PROJECT is back after a successful first year developing scripts and sharing them with our LGBT community. We are again calling on emerging or established writers to submit scripts and share their unique Kiwi LGBT stories. We want to help create six short plays and will offer you support to grow your stories in […]
In what is believed to be a first, NZ’s only mixed GLBT touch team the LYC Chargers are vying for the top spot in the Newmarket Touch Winter League. The Chargers have been making great progress over the winter season and are currently sitting 2nd on the leaderboard. Tonight they go to battle against the current number […]
Auckland Pride has announced four new board members all hoping to continue to take our festival to new heights. Meet Phylesha Brown-Acton. Please can you tell us a bit about your background and experience to introduce our readers to you? Brown-Acton has worked for Pasefika LGBTQI communities regionally, nationally and internationally, for over two decades. […]
Maddy Drew is the Green Party candidate for Otaki. What do you think are the three greatest problems New Zealanders are facing at the moment? Inequality, environment and the need for a sustainable economy What have you done thus far to help? My best to be an engaged and active citizen. What do you intend […]
Nikki Kaye is the National Party candidate for Auckland Central. What do you think are the three greatest problems New Zealanders are facing at the moment? · More affordable housing particularly for Aucklanders · Continuing strong economic policies to ensure wages keep rising and jobs are created · Reducing the numbers of young people leaving […]
A promotional competition asking two best mates to get married in order to win an all-expenses-paid trip to the 2015 Rugby World Cup is insulting, marriage equality campaign LegaliseLove Aotearoa claims. The competition, run by New Zealand radio station The Edge, asks people to register to marry their ‘bro’, in a ceremony that will be […]
Robert Moore is the Green Party candidate for Taranaki – King Country. What do you think are the three greatest problems New Zealanders are facing at the moment? Climate Change – the single biggest threat to our way of life, ever. Polar ice is melting, sea levels are rising, the science is clear, we need […]
Jan Logie is the Green Party candidate for the Mana electorate. What do you think are the three greatest problems New Zealanders are facing at the moment? Child poverty, a low wage economy based on raw products, and the fact our environment has been degraded to the point we can’t swim in most of our […]