Friday, 30 July 2021, 10:56 am
From
fighting crime, to digital classrooms, and creating the next
financially empowered generation, this year’s finalists
represent the growing shift in entrepreneurism in New
Zealand
New Zealand’s top
entrepreneurs continue to break the mold and overcome
adversity after a year fraught with invisible hurdles and
global uncertainty. Twenty-seven entrepreneurs from eighteen
Kiwi businesses represent the diversity and resilience of
the industry, with finalists hailing from up and down the
country, and industries including investment, marketing,
space and aeronautical, education and food
supplies.
After skipping a year due to the global
pandemic, the finalists, who generate more than $175m in
Friday, 30 July 2021, 12:36 pm
Family First NZ says that the proposed ‘conversion
therapy’ ban will be yet another attack on parents’
rights, is fundamentally flawed and unfair, and has been
opposed by the Ministry of Health, a government select
committee, and by the general public.
A ban would
criminalise parents who wish to protect their child from the
physical, emotional, and psychological harm caused by gender
dysphoria. Shockingly, parents would be criminalised and
potentially liable up to five years in jail simply for
affirming that their sons are boys and their daughters are
girls. These bans will lock children into
transgenderism.
Collaboration enables customers to
more easily build, scale and manage containerised and
virtualised cloud-native applications
Red Hat, the
world’s leading provider of enterprise open source
solutions, and Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in hybrid
multicloud computing, today announced a strategic
partnership to enable a powerful solution for building,
scaling and managing cloud-native applications on-premises
and in hybrid clouds. The collaboration brings together
industry-leading technologies, enabling installation,
interoperability and management of Red Hat OpenShift and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux with Nutanix Cloud Platform, including
Nutanix AOS and AHV.
Key elements of the partnership
include:
Red Hat OpenShift as the
preferred choice for enterprise full stack Kubernetes on
Friday, 30 July 2021, 12:01 pm
The latest findings from IDP Connect’s Crossroads
research shows high numbers of fully vaccinated students,
and a willingness to quarantine. There is also a continued
desire to commence studies on campus, and increasingly
positive perceptions of countries that are open to receiving
international students.
New research by IDP Connect
shows students are willing to do all they can to study
on-campus in the destination of their choice, and
vaccination is playing a significant role in student
flows.
More than half (53 per cent) of students
surveyed were already fully vaccinated, and a further 36 per
cent report they intend to get their vaccines as soon as
Friday, 30 July 2021, 12:25 pm
Go Bus, New Zealand’s leading bus transport business,
has finalised an agreement to acquire Invercargill-based
McDermott Coachlines. The transaction was completed on
Friday 30th July 2021.
Go Bus is the country’s
largest and most diverse bus operator, with dedicated bus
and coach services across 38 depots from Auckland to
Invercargill. Go Bus currently operates approximately 1,800
vehicles and employs over 2,100 people throughout New
Zealand, including 85 in Southland.
McDermott
Coachlines has a fleet of 81 buses and employs 76 staff
operating school and charter services throughout the
Southland region with depots in Winton and Invercargill, and
smaller satellite sites around Southland.