Government / April 2020
May 2020 | March 2020-
-
Day in the life of an emergency essential worker
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- The Wellington Region Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) Group, alongside the District Health Boards, and Regional Public Health, has been working hard to support the pandemic response since the State of National Emergency was declared on 25 March 2020.
- Accepted from GW media releases 2019 by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- health
- wellington
-
-
-
COVID 19 – NZ Rugby update (24 April)
- College Sport Wellington
- Please see below and attached updates and advice from NZ Rugby regarding Return to Play Guidelines, following consultation with Government and Sport NZ.
- Accepted from College Sport news HTTPS by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- consultation
- government
- rugby
- covid-19
-
-
-
Is local government up to the COVID-19 recovery?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- What's coming demands innovative and agile responses, and central government alone can't provide the answer, writes Dr Chris Eichbaum.
- Accepted from VUW News feed by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- covid-19
- government
-
-
-
Should the public subsidise media companies?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Peter Thompson outlines government options for shoring up New Zealand's imperilled media.
- Accepted from VUW News feed by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- government
- media
-
-
-
COVID-19: Return to full timetables on trains and buses under level 3
- Metlink
- Following the Government’s COVID-19 alert level 3 announcement, Metlink has revealed its plans to return to full regular timetables on buses starting on Sunday 26 April and trains on Monday 4 May.
- Accepted from Metlink news by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- government
- covid-19
- art
- trains
- buses
-
-
-
Cutting costs is about values - a response to Kerry Prendergast
- Councillor Jenny Condie
- As WCC has worked through the effect of the pandemic on your rates bill many people have been asking us to cut wasteful, “nice-to-have”...
- Accepted from Jenny Condie news by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- covid-19
- wellington-city-council
-
-
-
Covid criminalisation
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Although there to protect us, many of the Government’s recent measures have widened the net of criminal justice. When we move into a post-Covid world, we should be critical of lingering policies that may remain, writes Angus Lindsay.
- Accepted from VUW News feed by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- government
-
-
-
Raise tax on well-paid until we’re through this
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The best way to share the pain of economic downturn is to lift personal tax rates for the better off, for as long as it takes to get unemployment back to pre-crisis rates, writes Dr Simon Chapple.
- Accepted from VUW News feed by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- rates
-
-
-
Harvesting for Rongoā to improve health and wellbeing
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- A collective of Rongoā Māori practitioners recently harvested from plants across the Wellington region to produce traditional medicines for whānau, hapū, iwi and the broader community.
- Accepted from GW media releases 2019 by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- health
- wellington
-
-
-
Regional response to COVID-19 essential to economic recovery and resilience
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Chair of Wellington’s Mayoral Forum and Upper Hutt City Council Mayor Wayne Guppy says the region’s Councils are pulling together to respond to the unprecedented impacts of COVID-19 and developing a coordinated response to the government’s infrastructure investment strategy.
- Accepted from GW media releases 2019 by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- covid-19
- government
- wellington
-
-
-
Kaiwharawhara makes cut as site for new multi user ferry terminal
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Following a reassessment of criteria for development of a Multi-User Ferry Terminal, Greater Wellington Regional Council and Horizons Regional Council, joint shareholders of CentrePort, have both reaffirmed Kaiwharawhara as their preferred location for the terminal.
- Accepted from GW media releases 2019 by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- ferry
- wellington
-
-
-
Dramatic fall in region's air pollutants during first week of lockdown
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council has released details on air quality for the first full week of lockdown showing dramatic falls in pollutants across the region.
- Accepted from GW media releases 2019 by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- wellington
-
-
-
Greater Wellington’s role in consenting process for Masterton’s Henley Lake
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- The future of Masterton’s Henley Lake is being discussed with submissions to Masterton District Council (MDC) for their annual district plan closing on April 20.
- Accepted from GW media releases 2019 by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- wellington
-
-
-
The carnivorous giant snails of Khandallah, Wellington
- Te Papa's blog
- Endangered giant snails that suck up earthworms like spaghetti are living in a small colony in Khandallah. Curator Invertebrates Rodrigo Salvador tells us more.Read more The post The carnivorous giant snails of Khandallah, Wellington appeared first on Te Papa’s Blog.
- Accepted from Te Papa blog feed by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- khandallah
- te-papa
- wellington
- art
- rates
Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
-
-
-
Community take the lead with pest control on lockdown
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- With Greater Wellington Regional Council’s professional predator hunters locked down, Greater Wellington is urging backyard trappers to use this time to keep the heat on rats, stoats and other predators.
- Accepted from GW media releases 2019 by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- wellington
-
-
-
Letter to Councillors in response to Covid-19 Pandemic Response Plan
- Cycle Wellington
- The following email was sent to Councillors in response to the plan outlined in the meeting agenda here.
- Accepted from Cycle Wellington news by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- councillors
- covid-19
-
-
-
WCC Parking Policy Proposal
- Hataitai Community Website
- WCC are asking Wellingtonians to go online and provide feedback on the Parking Policy Proposals.
- Accepted from Hataitai Community website posts by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- parking
- wellington
- wellington-city-council
-
-
-
Post-COVID stimulus: THE WELLINGTON UPGRADE!
- Talk Wellington
- As loads of government folks burn midnight oil defending us from the COVID-19 pandemic, others are looking at how to stimulate our economy.
- Accepted from Talk Wellington posts by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- covid-19
- government
- wellington
-