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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...

Announcing the 2021 Guest Editors for The Bulletin! The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) is pleased to announce Sascha Stronach and Yilin Wang will be The Bulletin guest editors in 2021.  Stronach will guest edit Issue #218, slated for September 2021 and Wang will guest edit Issue #219, slated for December 2021. L.D. Lewis was the first guest editor for The Bulletin, helming Issue #215, which was published in Fall 2020. SFWA Editor-in-Chief Michi Trota said, “I...

Mayors and Poutini Ngāi Tahu reject mention of other iwi in new West Coast district plan 24 Feb, 2021 05:45 AM 4 minutes to read Milford Sound. Photo / Mike Scott Local Democracy Reporter Mayors and chairs working on a new district plan for the West Coast have rejected a suggestion that councils should deal with iwi other than Poutini Ngāi Tahu, over historic sites and wahi tapu. Planners presented draft policies for Māori use zones and sites of significance to the monthly meeting of the Tai...

This month with Chinese New Year, the Year of the Ox, falling on Friday, February 12, the figures are expected to be worse. Ngāi Tahu Tourism Dark Sky Project business manager Jared Simcox said typically over Chinese New Year they could expect a significant number of Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking customers. “This year we will most likely see a fraction of these customers,” Simcox said. Their early-mid December 2020 visitor numbers were close to what they expected overall from the dom...

Although the incidence of polio acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) has decreased in India, the nonpolio AFP (NPAFP) rate has increased. Nationwide, the NPAFP rate is 11.82 per 100 000 population, whereas the expected rate is 1 to 2 per 100 000 population. Andre 5.1.1 A few questions: Assuming for the sake of argument that the apparent increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis is in fact due to the version of polio vaccine being used in India being the cheaper of vaccin...

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:36 am, February 4th, 2021 - 73 comments Holy hell. Because they are coming out with the most outlandishly stupid stuff. Like Paora Goldsmith who thinks that as part of New Zealand history our kids should be educated about how Smith and Caugheys developed their business model, rather than how the Treaty of Waitangi and the subsequent egregious breaches are fundamental parts of our hi...

In 2000 New Zealand hosted 30,000 visitors from China, and that had increased more than tenfold by the time the pandemic saw them shut out a year ago. Hamiltonian Sherry Zhen has switched from guiding Chinese visitors to selling houses, closing her small tourism business for the foreseeable future. February 3 marks the first anniversary of New Zealand closing its borders to tourists from China, and the days of hosting groups of Chinese Amway staff or small private tours of a Cambridge Alpaca f...

Panic, xenophobia, and racism won’t stop us from incredible plant-based food. And it shouldn’t stop you either. 

RYAN ANDERSON/STUFF Watch: Some of the best spots to view the Americas Cup racing from the shore around Auckland. Pre-Covid, Auckland city was littered with new building projects, entertainment precincts and tourism activations. The global pandemic slammed the brakes on much of that but Auckland, like the rest of New Zealand, endured. And Heart of the City chief executive Viv Beck says the city has come out the other side with plenty on offer for visitors and locals alike. BROOK SABIN/Stuff T...

Revealed: The most expensive hospital car parking - how your hospital compares 11 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 4 minutes to read Do we need more free parking available at Auckland train stations? Visiting a loved one or making an appointment in hospital is most expensive for South Aucklanders - a Herald survey shows they are stung $9 for just two hours, and $23 for a day. Other hospitals across town make up the countrys most expensive ($8.20 for up to two hours at North Shore and Waita...