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Mosque attacks: Christchurch to get rare bravery award Mosque attacks: Christchurch to get rare bravery award Wed, 21 Jul 2021, 11:43AM Christchurch city and its citizens are set to receive a rare bravery award for their response to the March 15, 2019 mosque terror attacks. A ceremony this Friday night will see the city and citizens of Christchurch receive a representative Gold medal bravery award from the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand, for their response to the shooti...

“We are not the centre of the universe, we are merely part of it.” She was “delighted” to open the headquarters, across the road from her former high school, Hamilton Girls’ High. Tom Lee/Stuff Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy and the Māori King, Tūheitia, opened the regional council offices, which have been three years in the making. “I feel like I’m returning to my old haunts today, though it looks much different now.” Regional council chief executive Chris McLay said m...

Wilkinson was found two weeks after going missing with wounds likely made by a machete. Moananui represented himself at trial with the help of an amicus curiae, a court-appointed lawyer. He made various legal challenges against the case, including one after he was convicted following the jury trial. The final challenge was an application for a judicial review, which Moananui intended to serve on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern​, Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy​, Attorney-General David P...

  Jacob Dombroski, Rochelle Waters and Amelia Eades were bestowed with a National Achievement Award by Governor General Rt Hon Dame Patsy Reddy. The Governor-General, who is the patron of the New Zealand Down Syndrome Association (NZDSA), also handed out the Val Sturgess Volunteer of the Year Award to Kathryn Sadgrove from Northland. The awards had to be postponed in 2020 due to the Covid 19 lockdown, so the selection panel had a difficult task picking winners from a large group of well-deserv...

Press Release – New Zealand Down Syndrome Association Four members of the New Zealand Down syndrome community have been honoured for their amazing individual achievements at special function at Government House today. Jacob Dombroski, Rochelle Waters and Amelia Eades were bestowed with a National Achievement Award by Governor General Rt Hon Dame Patsy Reddy. The Governor-General, who is the patron of the New Zealand Down Syndrome Association (NZDSA), also handed out the Val Sturgess Volunteer...

Dombroski said he was really proud to receive the award. “I’m really pumped right now. I want to represent myself, my people and my loved ones,” the 29-year-old Wellington local said. Supplied The New Zealand Down Syndrome Associations national executive officer, Zandra Vaccarino, with award winner Jacob Dombrowski and Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy. Along with Dombroski, Rochelle Waters​ and Amelia Eades​ also received National Achievement Awards for their individual successes....

Press Release – New Zealand Down Syndrome Association Four members of the New Zealand Down syndrome community have been honoured for their amazing individual achievements at special function at Government House today.   Jacob Dombroski, Rochelle Waters and Amelia Eades were bestowed with a National Achievement … Four members of the New Zealand Down syndrome community have been honoured for their amazing individual achievements at special function at Government House today. Jacob Dombroski...

Dean has been chief executive of Pacific Trust Otago since 2014, having served an initial term from November 2010 to June 2011. He was the general manager of the Pacific Island Advisory and Cultural Trust in Invercargill from 2011 to 2014. Prior to those roles, he was the principal of Kew School and the founding principal of New River Primary School when it merged. He has helped establish an early childhood centre for Pacific children in 2001 and an after-school programme in the 1990s. Alt...

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