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OPINION How do we break down barriers between communities to improve social cohesion in New Zealand? That’s the question Year 12 and 13 students were invited...

Local Focus: Jazz for peace 3 May, 2021 06:00 PM 3 minutes to read International Jazz day shows cooperation through music. Made with funding from NZ On Air. Video Journalist Whanganui, Manawatū and Taranaki, NZH Local Focusgeorgie@localfocus.nz Friday marked the 10th anniversary of International Jazz Day and it was the second time the milestone has been celebrated in Whanganui. The international event was started by jazz legend Herbie Hancock, a goodwill ambassador for United Nations arm Unesco, who says the mutual co-operation needed to play jazz is a skill the world could use in everyday l...

Whanganui leads the way again 18 Apr, 2021 10:35 PM 4 minutes to read We are the Most Beautiful in the Keep New Zealand Beautiful contest, and have put ourselves forward to be the first New Zealand community to be designated a UNESCO City of Design. We are also the only town in New Zealand to celebrate International Jazz Day - another UNESCO initiative. Perhaps that is why it has been a well-kept secret. This will be our fourth annual event, last year having been cancelled due to the lockdown. And what an event it will be, with some 40 musicians from all over the country playing a wide variet...

Kiwi-Indian champion of gender equality recognised in Queen’s New Year Honours Wednesday, January 13, 2021 Sandeep Singh Vanisa Dhiru – the Wellington-based Kiwi-Indian champion of gender equality was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to community and gender rights as part of the New Year Honours on December 31, 2020. Born locally in Palmerston North to a Gujarati migrant family from India, Vanisa has taken a plunge in advocacy and capacity building work, both locally and nationally, from very early in her youth and have built an influential pro...

Wellington.Scoop Two Wellingtonians have become Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit in today’s New Year Honours List: Sue Chetwin, for services to consumer rights. Having begun her career in journalism, Ms Chetwin was editor of the Sunday News from 1994 to 1998, the Sunday Star-Times from 1998 to 2003, and founding editor of the Herald on Sunday from 2003 to 2005. As Chief Executive of Consumer New Zealand from 2007 to 2020 she successfully campaigned for many important consumer law reforms, including prohibitions on unfair contract terms, fairness in consumer credit contracts, c...