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Recent research adds to alarm bells that pregnant people are not getting vaccinated in big enough numbers

Opinion - New Zealand has managed to stamp out onward transmission of the Delta variant, which means it's not dealing with a "double epidemic" and has a better chance to tackle Omicron's spread, experts say.

The United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals for a Better Future led the sustainability session on Day Two of the SCC Scientific Meeting.

Note: This story discusses sexual assault and suicide. More politicians have come forward as having known about a historical rape allegation against a current cabinet minister before it became public last Friday, with Labor MP Daniel Mulino telling the ABC he was contacted by the alleged victim, a friend of his, in December 2019. Liberal MP Celia Hammond was also sent a 31-page dossier outlining the allegations on Wednesday along with the offices of Scott Morrison, Labor’s Sarah Hanson-Yo...

Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn wrote on Thursday: An irrigation company’s decision to relinquish its consent to take extra water from the Rangitata River when in high flow has been hailed as a “gift to New Zealand” by anglers.Rangitata Diversion Race Management Ltd (RDRML) was awarded the consent to take an extra 10 cumecs in water when the river was flowing 110 cumecs or higher by an Environment Canterbury-appointed independent panel in 2018. However, appeals by Fish and Game, Ngāi Tahu ...

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:16 am, February 28th, 2021 - 136 comments Auckland is back into level three lockdown.  The check points around the city have again been put in place and big events, including the round the bays run have been cancelled. The caution is understandable.  The latest two cases, a son and his mother, were potentially exposed to the UK variant B117 thorough a family member who was a casu...

Sabine 3.2 maybe it is the duty of the Government to look after people that cant work rather then the businesses? Maybe the Government a year into covid should have set up a webpage solely for wage -replacements and covid – isolation/quarantine payments that are so easy to use that even someone with lacking literacy skills, or less then best english skills can get onto it, fill out the forms and receive a payment if the criteria applies. In saying that, after April there...

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Trigger-happy people are dangerous, guns shoot people and males get high on guns more than females. Police tried the careful approach to a guman in Aramoana and lost out. There has to be a better program for these lost boys sent away from home by the sleazy-peazy Australian government wanting to slide out of their failures to integrate people. We are much the same here, but we havent the option to pass the parcel. So lets have a sensible program, and give them something to ground the...