Swastika on milk worker s overalls after Christchurch attack leads to sacking
23 Jan, 2021 03:58 AM
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The Christchurch Employment Relations Authority (ERA) dismissed Ivan Ilin s claim of unfair dismissal at milk processing facility Meadow Fresh. Photo / 123rf
The Christchurch Employment Relations Authority (ERA) dismissed Ivan Ilin s claim of unfair dismissal at milk processing facility Meadow Fresh. Photo / 123rf
Tom Dillane is a reporter at the New Zealand Heraldtom.dillane@nzme.co.nz@tomdillane1
A Christchurch milk factory worker will not get his job back after being sacked for drawing a swastika on his overalls in the days after the Christchurch mosque attack.
Liam Dann: Big government is back - let s hope it s smarter this time
23 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern may take a similar economic approach: cautiously hands-on.
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern may take a similar economic approach: cautiously hands-on.
OPINION:
The word, I mean. The jury is still out on the policies.
The word has a ring to it that hasn t sounded so catchy since the days of Reaganomics. We don t know much about Bidenomics yet but we know it won t be that.
Reaganomics, Thatcherism and, locally, Rogernomics came to define the neo-liberal era.
Russell s Go Green Awards are back after Covid cancellation
21 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Richard Robbins, of Project Island Song, accepts the supreme award in the inaugural Far North Go Green Awards in 2019. Photo / Supplied
Richard Robbins, of Project Island Song, accepts the supreme award in the inaugural Far North Go Green Awards in 2019. Photo / Supplied
Northern Advocate
An awards ceremony honouring the Far North s environmental champions, which had to cancelled last year due to Covid, is now set to go ahead in March.
The Far North Go Green Awards brainchild of the Resilient Russell Trust were founded in 2019 with Project Island Song, a community-driven project to restore the flora and fauna of the eastern Bay of Islands, taking out the inaugural supreme prize.