Category: News
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 […]
President Putin claims Russia is misunderstood when it comes to its treatment of LGBTI citizens. He was answering questions put to him by the media in Vienna. When asked about the “anti-gay” law that was passed in Russia last June he said: “I would like to note that despite certain stereotypes that exist regarding Russia, […]
University of Cambridge awards honorary doctorate. Regular visitor to Aotearoa, Sir Ian McKellen has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge. This is the second doctorate for the actor, who studied English literature at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. His first was awarded by the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Article | Paul […]
FIFA has started disciplinary proceedings against Brazil and Mexico after the host country’s fans chanted “puto” at Mexico’s goalkeeper during their match. Mexican fans chanted the same jibe in their country’s match against Cameroon. “Puto” loosely translates to “male prostitute or faggot.” Russia and Croatia are also in trouble after their fans displayed racist and anti-semetic […]
The United States has imposed strict sanctions on Uganda because of their anti-gay laws. The US has imposed strict visa restrictions, which will prevent certain Ugandan officials, those involved in human rights abuses, from entering the country. Other sanctions include cancelling a military exercise in Uganda, diverting aid to other African countries and cutting funding […]
RY held their AGM in Auckland recently. The meeting was well attended with more than forty people turning up. A new Board was elected, consisting of new and old faces : Samantha Hewlett, Joe Gatland, Daniel Chorley, Rachel Brebner, Jono Selu, Taine Polkinghorne, Melanie Govender, Stace Robertson, Natasha Gaffin and Beth Maynard. The ANZ Bank […]