Monday, 19 July 2021, 8:43 am
The NZUS Council welcomes the nomination of Senator Tom
Udall to the role of US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa,
NZUS Council executive director Jordan Small
said. Senator Udall has more than two decades of
service in the US Congress and has extensive experience in
foreign relations, Native American sovereignty, climate
change and conservation. His expertise and experience could
not be more relevant in driving the bilateral relationship
forward as these are issues that matter in New Zealand,
Jordan Small said. Senator Udall has a close
relationship with President Biden, Senators and Congress
which is a huge asset for New Zealand in terms of getting
Monday, 19 July 2021, 11:01 am
National has written to the Auditor General requesting an
investigation into two separate Government Mongrel
Mob-related funding; the $2.75 million payment to lifetime
Mongrel-Mob Member Harry Tam for a drug rehabilitation
programme and the Chief Human Rights Commissioners $200
donation to the Waikato Mongrel Mob.
“It has become
clear that the Government does not see the seriousness of
New Zealand’s gang problem,” Leader of the Opposition
Judith Collins says.
“The Prime Minister has
repeatedly stood by her decision to sign the $2.75 million
payment off and is expressing that really this is all being
blown out of proportion. The money should never have gone to
The project, a New
Zealand first titled
Accuracy and Equity in Prostate
Cancer Diagnosis, will be led by the Clinical Lead at
Mātai, Dr Daniel Cornfeld, and is aimed at vastly improving
this country’s current diagnostic pathway in prostate
cancer for patients in the public health system,
particularly for those who live in under-served and remote
communities.
Dr Cornfeld, previously Chief of
Abdominal MRI at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Associate
Professor of Radiology at the Yale University School of
Medicine, works adjunctly as Chief Radiologist at Hauora
Tairāwhiti, Gisborne’s public hospital, and says the
project will chart the efficacy in New Zealand of a model of
Monday, 19 July 2021, 11:10 am
Save the Children said at least 13 children have been
killed in a wave of violence in North West Syria, over the
last three days.
Since Thursday, ongoing artillery
attacks and airstrikes have been targeting civilian areas in
the ceasefire zone in Idlib and Aleppo outskirts. The
majority of children killed were aged between four and 14.
In one attack, a one-year-old infant was killed.
The
attacks have intensified recently, reaching a peak only a
few days ahead of the Eid al-Adha holidays. It is not the
first time children have been killed in the run up to
Eid.
AKE
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The trilogy
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into #protect ihumātao, the fight which riveted a
nation.
Tāhuhu Rangapū, Shane Taurima, said Whakaata
Māori was honoured to release this extraordinary journey
first on MĀORI+.
“We thank the whānau for
entrusting this special story to Whakaata Māori. It was
important to bring AKE AKE AKE to the world as soon as
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front row seat,” he said.
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