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Press Release – Local Government NZ The Mayors Taskforce for Jobs (MTFJ) is celebrating a significant milestone, having guided 500 mostly young and Covid-19 displaced workers into sustainable employment through its Community Recovery Programme . The Community Recovery Programme is a … The Mayors Taskforce for Jobs (MTFJ) is celebrating a significant milestone, having guided 500 mostly young and Covid-19 displaced workers into sustainable employment through its Community Recovery Programme....

Press Release – Local Government NZ The Mayors Taskforce for Jobs (MTFJ) is celebrating a significant milestone, having guided 500 mostly young and Covid-19 displaced workers into sustainable employment through its Community Recovery Programme . The Community Recovery Programme is a … The Mayors Taskforce for Jobs (MTFJ) is celebrating a significant milestone, having guided 500 mostly young and Covid-19 displaced workers into sustainable employment through its Community Recovery Programme....

Lawrence Gullery/Stuff Apprentice Pairama Katipa-Maikuku with supervisor Tai Mataroa, buildings maintenance officer Patrick Carr and apprentice Hayze Carr-Rewi inside the workshop they refitted at the Ōtorohanga Kiwi House and Native Bird Park. Rural councils have managed to find 500 jobs for young people and those displaced by Covid-19, as part of a $11.5 million community recovery programme set up mid-2020. It represents just under half of the 1150-job target the 23 rural councils have to m...

Surely the preliminary report of the WHO investigators is good news – certainly puts the hypothesis that Covid-19 leaked from a research lab in the bin. Isnt that a relief? After all, why on earth would anyone hope that hypothesis was true? Peter Daszak, a British-American member of the WHO team in Wuhan, previously told USA TODAY that "in peoples imaginations there might be this image of one person in a lab in China who drops a petri dish and that somehow leads to a massive outbreak. Its j...

Not wearing a tie in Parliament is a weird issue for the Maori Party to get ready to die in a ditch about.  But the rules should be changed.

No Right Turn wrote last week: The Auckland Council will soon be consulting on a Regional Land Transport Plan, setting their transport priorities (and funding) for the next decade. Obviously, this will have a huge impact on the city’s emissions profile. And to make sure they think hard about that, Lawyers for Climate Action is threatening to take them to court if they get it wrong: Climate change lobbyists are warning Auckland Council it could face legal action if its decisions on reducing gr...

South Canterbury's three mayors share their thoughts on 2020 and look ahead to the new year.