Category: New Zealand
Described by one Auckland scribe as “The Trans Golden Girl of the social set’, Mary Haddock-Staniland has been appointed an Ambassador for the It’s not OK Campaign. Its not Ok launched in September 2007 with the simple message – Family Violence is not OK, but it is OK to ask for help. Mary herself suffered […]
Both the Auckland and Dunedin offices of the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) have recently moved. After many years on K’ Road the Auckland NZPC office is now off upper Queen Street, at 3/2 Canada Street (close to Basement). The Dunedin office is now at 411 Princes Street in the central city. The NZPC was formed […]
Police Commissioner Mike Bush has blogged about values and diversity. The Commissioner and his executive have been discussing the core values they hold dear as an organisation. He writes : While it is important that we reflect the communities we serve, it’s also about celebrating our diversity and treasuring what makes each of us unique. […]
Michael Richardson is sleeping rough by choice. The 2014 Lifewise Big Sleepout is a fundraising event design to bring to light the issue of youth homelessness in Auckland. “I believe that all our young people should have an equal chance to be the best they can be” says Richardson. Having taken part in 2012 Richardson […]
The Labour Party announced on 23 June the list of candidates with Tamati Coffey in 30th spot. According to analysts, this is unlikely to result in out-and-proud Tamati being an MP after the next election unless Labour do a great deal better than their current polling is indicating. Alternatively, he needs to win the electoral […]
New Smoke Free Initiative WERO is a fun quit smoking contest that has proven to promote mass quitting within friends, whanau and community. WERO is now looking at rolling out a strategy that is primarily focussed on engaging the LGBTI community, which anecdotally has a disproportionate number of smokers. This is a first of its kind […]
Neill Bartlett and Stuart Hobbs set up Basement cruise club and retail outlet 10 years ago this July! After six years in Norwich Street they moved the business to their present site in Canada Street, off upper Queen Street. To celebrate, a birthday sale starts mid July so watch their website www.basementnz.com for details. Neil […]
AUT’s strategy and planning team have collaborated with departments across all schools to develop a new way of demonstrating the different contributions that each of the schools make to the University’s priorities. The Schools Scorecard is an initiative to collect data to identify focus areas within AUT. This will better enable the University to provide […]