Friday, 2 July 2021, 11:04 am
Announcing TENT, Aotearoa New Zealand’s newest art
event – a long weekend of pop-up exhibitions and events
all around the country - presented by the team who deliver
the Aotearoa Art Fair . Taking place from Thursday 4 -
Sunday 7 November, the inaugural edition of TENT will
feature more than 30 galleries presenting live exhibitions
and a programme of special events, at multiple locations
throughout Aotearoa, alongside online previews and
presentations.
Galleries will be showing off-site /
pop-up exhibitions, wherever they choose in Aotearoa New
Zealand (but NOT in their own gallery space) – and at the
same time, showing the art online in specially created
A responsible freedom camping advocating group, is again
calling for an inquiry into New Zealand’s Freedom Camping
situation after Minister Maureen Pughs members bill was
pulled from the ballot box yesterday, and the United Nations
report into Homelessness in NZ was released
overnight.
Responsible Campers Association
said the bill highlights the ongoing issues around
assumptions that blame freedom campers for every bit of
litter and pooh on the roadside, when the reality is, as a
group, freedom campers are the least likely to engage in
irresponsible behaviour due to having facilities onboard to
mange waste. The majority of campers have that ability, even
Friday, 2 July 2021, 12:40 pm
Through the course of a tumultuous year globally,
the United Nations Verified initiative has worked to cut
through the noise on social media teaming up with the
finest minds in medical science and behavioural research to
identify factors prolonging the pandemic.
A major part
of that work is the UN’s Pause
campaign, which encourages people to pause to check the
validity of any information they share. Now, a new study by
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says the
Pause campaign can bring about the behavioural change needed
to stop the spread of misinformation.
The MIT study,
The appeal will focus on seeking improvements
and refinements to provisions in the hearings panel
decision.
Waikato Regional Council Chair Russ
Rimmington said: “We have always recognised the positives
that will flow from the proposal, in fact we have worked
hard to grant consents sought from us for the industrial
activity to occur.
“We welcome the creation of jobs
in the region and our appeal seeks to ensure that, in tandem
with job creation, we are ensuring quality communities are
also being created.
“We have regional spatial
planning documents created in conjunction with our local
councils at significant expense. These documents have had
Oceans and Fisheries Minister, David
Parker, announced the Inquiry today and released its terms
of reference.
The industry is well aware of the desire
of government to reduce migrant workers across many sectors
and the seafood industry is already engaged with government
on a plan to transition more New Zealanders into the
industry.
That transition will be challenging and take
time but we look forward to the Inquiry’s recommendations
into how we can reduce our reliance on migrant labour and
how automation and innovation might play a role in
that.
The industry agrees that a skilled New Zealand
workforce will be beneficial in terms of resilience to