Friday, 2 July 2021, 11:21 am
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group
Several
New Zealand health experts have warned that Jacinda
Ardern’s Labour Party-Greens coalition government has
become “complacent“ over COVID-19 and didn’t act fast
enough to suspend travel with the Australian state of New
South Wales after a positive case from Sydney surfaced in
Wellington last week.
The New Zealand capital went
from alert level 1 to 2, which mandates some social
distancing measures, on June 23 after an Australian visitor
who spent the previous weekend in the city tested positive
on his return to Sydney. That city had been under limited
restrictions following an outbreak that began on June
The
symposium, entitled Who’s doing what with your data?
Information governance in a digital world, features
keynote speakers including New Zealand’s Privacy
Commissioner and Government Chief Privacy Officer alongside
industry panellists, including a representative of
Facebook.
Issues like the value of our personal data,
who owns it, how it’s stored, and how it’s used will be
discussed, alongside the urgent need for trained
professionals who can navigate the laws and regulations that
control the way we use data.
The event will also mark
the launch of innovative new programmes in Information
Governance at the University’s Business School, taught by
Friday, 2 July 2021, 10:29 am
Māori-owned, independent creative agency RUN have
launched a new campaign for Rotorua Economic Development,
running over the next 3 months across digital, bus backs,
billboards, street posters, social and press.
The campaign features 13
Rotorua locals telling their stories, while visualising
their wairua and āhua as they speak. A unique aspect of the
campaign is the technology developed, allowing each kōrero
to be used as individual unique designs, which are showcased
across all collateral.
Haydn Marriner, Marketing
Director for Rotorua Economic Development said “There’s
one very special thing that makes Rotorua stand out, and
that’s our people. We wanted this campaign to address the
Friday, 2 July 2021, 11:25 am
Hundreds of chocolate lovers will descend on Eva Street
and Hannah s Laneway this weekend to meet the best craft
chocolate makers at Chocstock, New Zealand s first craft
chocolate festival.
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The brainchild of WCF and The Chocolate Bar,
the Festival celebrates NZ s local craft chocolate industry,
featuring makers including Baron Hasselfhoff s, Lucid
Chocolatier, Ocho, Foundry Chocolate, Shirl & Moss,
Raglan Chocolate and Flint Chocolate.
Bird Snake,
Melbourne Craft Chocolate maker, is unable to attend the
Festival in person due to Covid-19 restrictions, but their
chocolate will be available to taste and buy. Eva Street and
Hannah s Laneway will also offer everything from a beer made
Friday, 2 July 2021, 11:51 am
The scientists behind a groundbreaking new book and
Netflix documentary credit their time in New Zealand with an
“awakening” on the importance of indigenous knowledge in
preventing environmental catastrophe.
Scientist Owen
Gaffney came to New Zealand as part of the Edmund Hillary
Fellowship, which brings global changemakers to New Zealand
to create local and international impact on high-stakes
projects like climate change mitigation.
At the same
time as Gaffney was in New Zealand, 2017 Hillary Foundation
Laureate Johan Rockström was in the country, and the two
scientists shared the same orientation experience with
Wellington iwi Te Ātiawa.