Monday, 12 July 2021, 1:17 pm
Auckland Theatre Company’s (ATC)
production of
The Haka Party
Incident, described as an “innovative,
brilliant piece of theatre that all New Zealanders need to
see” will tour to venues and festivals across the motu
in October and November. Winner of Playmarket’s Best Play
by a Māori Playwright and the inaugural Dean Parker
Adaptation for Non-Fiction Award earlier this year, judges
said the play was “powerful political theatre which rips
the Band Aid off racism in Aotearoa.”
The Haka
Party Incident, written and directed by renowned
film-maker and theatre director
Katie Wolfe
(Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga), will return
Monday, 12 July 2021, 2:03 pm
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today
released a report finding a support worker in breach of the
Code of Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code)
for failing to attend to an elderly man in her
care.
The elderly man was living alone and received
in-home support services from a community health service,
which included personal care every day.
The support
worker, working for the community health service, said she
attended her scheduled Saturday session with the man at his
home. However, GPS data showed that she wasn’t located at
or around the man’s home at all on this day and that she
Monday, 12 July 2021, 3:18 pm
Research into the IT priorities
and opportunities for New Zealand small and medium
businesses has highlighted the pitfalls and productivity
gains that should be considered by owners and IT
decision-makers.
IT and digital technology services
provider Dynamo6 canvassed more than 300 Kiwi SMEs a year on
from the onset of COVID-19 and found while SMEs display a
large appetite for investing in technology and most budgets
are increasing, many may be at risk of overstretching or
delivering on poor implementation strategies.
“What
struck us were the stark differences when comparing the IT
challenges and plans of small business against those of
Monday, 12 July 2021, 4:03 pm
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will chair a 16
July meeting of APEC Leaders focused on the COVID-19
pandemic and its economic effects.
“This is the
first time in APEC’s history that leaders have held an
extraordinary meeting at leaders’ level, and it reflects
our desire to navigate together out of the COVID-19 pandemic
and economic crisis,” said Prime Minister
Ardern.
“APEC economies have suffered their biggest
contraction since the Second World War over the past year,
with 81 million jobs lost. Responding collectively is vital
to accelerate the economic recovery for the
region.”
“Our region has already responded in
Monday, 12 July 2021, 2:56 pm
New survey data shows almost half of New Zealand’s
small business owners are only ‘somewhat’ confident of
their business thriving in a post-COVID 19 world (42%). A
further one in 10 (10%) are ‘not at all’ confident their
business will survive.
However, in spite of this low
morale, 41% of New Zealand small business owners are
planning on starting a new business in 2021, showing the
entrepreneurial spirit of New Zealand business
owners.
New survey data released from Shopify Inc., a leading
global commerce company, uncovers the key challenges faced
by small business owners in the past 12 months, and what
they turned to in order to survive and recover.