A number of corporate organisations will be walking in the parade, including Tower Insurance, Countdown, ZM, KiwiRail, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, and members of the police force. Several high-profile sports organisations are also planning to take part in the parade in a move to make sport more inclusive.
Event manager for Rainbow Pride Shaughan Woodcock said he was “delighted” a new date for the parade had been found so quickly. The parade was originally scheduled to go ahead on February 20 but when it was announced on Sunday that Auckland would be moving into alert level 3, Woodcock said the decision was made to postpone.
Waikato Nesian Festival - Samoan performance
Photo: Supplied / K aute Pasifika
The event begun in 2007 to give the Pacific community in Hamilton; an annual Pacific festival; a Pacific early learning space; and a Pacific health service.
K aute Pasifika is a charitable trust based in Hamilton, providing health, education and social services to Pasifika communities and other ethnicities.
The trust is also the organisers of the Nesian Festival and this year have announced that it will take place on Saturday 27 March 2021 and for the first time, it will be held at the University of Waikato sportsground.
K aute Pasifika said that as the festival had grown, there was a need for increased parking space and much better traffic flow for the community.
Dozens of people have spent a cold and rainy Auckland day breaching the latest Covid-19 restrictions outside Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Mt Albert elec
Covid-19 coronavirus: Anti-lockdown protesters gather outside PM s Auckland office
15 Feb, 2021 06:28 AM
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Anti-lockdown protestors gather outside Ardern s vacant Electorate office in Morningside. Video / NZ Herald
Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz
Dozens of people have spent a cold and rainy Auckland day breaching the latest Covid-19 restrictions outside Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern s Mt Albert electorate office.
The group, appearing to protest a range of topics from the latest restrictions to vaccination efforts and being silenced in media reporting, were there for several hours despite the fact that Ardern spent Monday in Wellington.
The protests came as Auckland entered day one of alert level 3 restrictions, and the rest of New Zealand alert level 2, after three cases of the highly-transmissible UK variant of Covid-19 were found in a south Auckland family.