Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:02 pm
Immigration New Zealand (INZ) has filed charges against
another employer over the use of unlawful migrant labour in
the building and construction sector in Auckland.
The
prosecution centres on two migrant workers located at a
Tamaki building site on 27 April who were working in breach
of their visa conditions.
A company director faces two
charges under Section 343(1)(a) of the Immigration Act for
aiding and abetting the workers to be employed in breach of
their visa conditions. The penalty for such an offence is a
prison term of up to seven years, a fine not exceeding
$100,000, or both.
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 9:38 am
Well over half a million Kiwis are preparing to take to
the skies this school holidays in what Air New Zealand is
calling its busiest July break ever winter school holiday
period.
Air New Zealand is preparing for a busy July,
with the airline operating 670,000 seats and 7,500 flights
across its domestic network as a record number of Kiwis
travel around Aotearoa.
Queenstown is the number one
destination for Air New Zealand customers, with 100,000
seats in and out of the picturesque destination. Regional
hubs are booming with Nelson seeing 870 flights over the
break, Napier (568 flights) and Tauranga (554 flights) also
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 11:55 am
Confidence in New Zealand’s financial markets has
continued to rise in the last twelve months, following a
significant rebound in financial market performance, while
more people are shifting from term deposits to
shares.
For the first time, the FMA’s 2021
Investor Confidence survey has found over 70% of
investors are confident in the country’s financial
markets, up from 66% in 2020.
The proportion of people
with investments has remained relatively consistent at 84%.
Although the broad types of investments held by investors
hasn’t shifted significantly over recent surveys, in the
last three years, term deposits have dwindled from 34% to
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 11:42 am
Twenty years ago, New Zealand’s natural hazards
monitoring was catapulted from weeks-long waits for
earthquake information to near instant data streams via
GeoNet that now sit underneath nearly all our natural hazard
science and emergency management writes EQC Chief
Resilience and Research Officer Dr Jo
Horrocks.
This month we’re celebrating
20 years of GeoNet, the natural hazards monitoring platform
established in 2001 by EQC, GNS Science and LINZ, which now
includes more than 700 sensors nationwide and the 24/7
National Geohazards Monitoring Centre supported by
MBIE.
The near instant data streams on earthquakes,
tsunamis, landslides and volcanoes are critical to helping
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 1:08 pm
ŌTAUTAHI, Christchurch. The stories from the
Christchurch Girls High School survey are shocking but
unsurprising to many students. Sexual assault and harassment
is a pervasive issue in schools and across Aotearoa that has
never been properly addressed. Every year sexual assault
stories spark public outrage, from the #MeToo movement to
the murder of Sarah Everard. Yet nothing changes. For many,
sexual assault is an uncomfortable topic. But this attitude
is no longer sustainable, there is a conversation that needs
to take place within schools across Aotearoa about sexual
assault and harassment, and there is a need for