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• • Housing: a call for action

    • 30 Mar 2015
    • Welcom
    • April 2015 Feature Shane Olsen The Wellington Archdiocese Justice Peace and Development Commission is a group of Catholics entrusted by Cardinal John Dew to promote Catholic social teaching on matters of justice and peace.
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    Diving into research thanks to award

    • 5 Nov 2015
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Victoria University of Wellington postdoctoral academic Dr Shaun Wilkinson will be advancing his research into protecting corals reefs which are being damaged by climate change, with funding support from a Rutherford Foundation Trust Award.
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• • New Zealand needs to pedal faster on climate change

    • 23 Nov 2015
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The following commentary is provided by Professor David Frame, director of the Climate Change Research Institute at Victoria University and Dr Adrian Macey, a senior associate at Victoria's Institute for Governance and Policy Studies.
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    Proud to Celebrate 25 Years of Making You Laugh

    • 4 May 2015
    • Circa Theatre
    • This week on *drama on the waterfront, The Improvisors are proud to celebrate 25 Years of making you laugh! By Tim Gordon Tim Gordon, actor and facilitator, celebrates 25 years of The ImprovisorsHarris Street.
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    Circa Theatre, Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Vogelmorn's Best Quiz! Back for 2024

    • 14 Jan 2024
    • Vogelmorn Community Group
    • Local Drinks | Epic Quiz | Prizes | Tasty Kai Vogelmorn's Best Quiz! Written and Hosted by Ordish Secure a spot and come jump in on a classic, family friendly quiz night at your favourite new local.
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    Vogelmorn Bowling Club, Mornington Road, Brooklyn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Ariana Gray – Matching Leat An Achievable Feat

    • 30 Jun 2019
    • College Sport Wellington
    • The New Zealand Under-17 women’s football team stunned the World last year when they finished third at the FIFA World Cup, the highest placing by a Kiwi team in a major FIFA tournament.
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    Vogelmorn's Best Quiz

    • 17 Mar 2024
    • Vogelmorn Community Group
    • Local Drinks | Epic Quiz | Prizes | Tasty Kai Vogelmorn's Best Quiz! Written and Hosted by Ordish Secure a spot and come jump in on a classic, family friendly quiz night at your favourite new local.
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    Vogelmorn Bowling Club, Mornington Road, Brooklyn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Wired’s Louise Matsakis did what no other journalist could: break the story on Facebook’s forced malware scans

    • 24 Feb 2018
    • Jack Yan
    • With how widespread Facebook’s false malware accusations were—Facebook itself claims millions were “helped” by them in a three-month period—it was surprising how no one in the tech press covered the story.
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    Fossil record reveals changes in Earth’s movement and rotation

    • 15 May 2018
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Research led by Victoria University of Wellington looks back 450 million years to reveal an important link between changes in our planet’s motion through space, and the extinction and evolution of life on Earth.
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    DOMINION POST: Wellington Airport runway extension plan staying on hold for six more months

    • 13 Jan 2019
    • Guardians of the Bays
    • By Tom Hunt and Thomas Manch, January 8, 2019 Sea​ Rotmann has six more months of uncertainty after a decision allowing Wellington Airport long-lingering runway extension application to remain on hold until May.
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• • R3 Woman Vs Naenae 12/07/07 Won 4 - 3

    • 15 Aug 2007
    • Upper Hutt Hockey Club
    • This week the R3 women came away with another win! Was 4 - 3 vs Naenae. A mighty 3 goals from Maree Houston and also 1 from Sian Scannell.  Good work by the girls! Lisa
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• • COVID – 19 Update

    • 19 Mar 2020
    • College Sport Wellington
    • Dear Principals, Heads of Sport and Partners, Today, College Sport Wellington has been reflecting upon the announcements made by various national sporting bodies, and has been in discussions with the remaining summer sport RSO’s.
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• • Great turnout for bus meeting

    • 14 Sep 2018
    • Churton Park Community Association
    • A public meeting organised by the Community Association, in conjunction with local list MP Brett Hudson, to give residents an opportunity to express their concerns about the new bus network drew a large turnout.
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• • Thousands of trees to be planted in Polhill Reserve this Winter

    • 27 Apr 2019
    • Wellington Mountain Bike Club
    • Starting soon, volunteer teams led by the Brooklyn Trail Builders will begin Winter planting in the Polhill Reserve, and over 3,000 new trees are expected in the ground before the end of the season.
    • Accepted from WMTBC news 76 months ago by feedreader
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    Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Marvelous modelling

    • 14 Aug 2019
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • A new model, developed by a Victoria University of Wellington PhD student, could help to more accurately predict how Antarctica’s ice sheets will respond to a warming world and impact global sea level rise.
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    Why we should let our buildings die a natural death

    • 24 Jun 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Most of us believe we need to fight natural decay to get good construction outcomes but by forcing materials to resist their natural life cycle, we’re creating long-term environmental hazards, writes Daven Candy.
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    Announcing the Verb Writers Resident 2020

    • 29 Apr 2020
    • Verb Wellington
    •   <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > We are thrilled to be offering a new writers residency in Wellington thanks to our partners Katherine Mansfield House & Garden and Park Hotel. We had a lot of applications from across Aotearoa for our first residency experience. It was a real privilege to read through so many incredible applications and gain new insights into what writers are working on and why residencies are so important.We are delighted to announce that our inaugural resident is Auckland writer Himali McInnes. Himali’s application was exceptional and we look forward to welcoming Himali to Wellington later in 2020. About Himali: Himali McInnes is a family doctor who works in a busy Auckland practice and in the prison system. She enjoys writing short stories, essays, articles, flash fiction and mediocre poetry. She has been published locally and internationally, and has either won or been short-listed in several writing competitions. She is an NZSA Mentorship recipient for 2020. Himali is also a maker of messes - through gardening, beekeeping, cooking and chicken farming. She is humbled and so grateful to be a Verb Wellington Residency recipient, as she loves Wellington (best op shops ever) and is very much looking forward to time spent writing at the Katherine Mansfield House & Garden. Read Himali’s brilliant review of Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other on The Spinoff here.
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• • Good Keen Men at Suite

    • 18 Feb 2009
    • Suite will show work by nine of New Zealand’s most-loved male artists from Wednesday 18 February 2009. Good keen men features John Gully, Theo Schoon, Bill Hammond, Keith Morant, Nigel Brown, Robin Morrison, Henry Winkelmann, George Chance and E. Mervyn Taylor. The exhibition shows rarely-seen works by many of the artists. Highlights include two Bill Hammond works on paper for the mid 1970s and two large vintage silver gelatine prints by Henry Winkelmann, a pioneer of New Zealand photography. Two mid-career Morrison works, from his ‘Images of a House’ and ‘Thorndon’ series juxtapose early 20th century photographer George Chance’s landscape work. Chance is known as a bestselling pictorialist photographer of his day. Good Keen Men runs from Wednesday 18 February to Saturday 7 March 2009.
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    69 Owen Street, Newtown, Wellington
  
  
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    Waiting for light rail? Let’s build a busway now!

    • 20 Oct 2019
    • Talk Wellington
    • One question on the mind of everyone suffering from Wellington’s transport problems is – when will Let’s Get Wellington Moving actually get us moving? Guest poster Marko Garlick sees a supercharger hiding in plain sight There seem to be lots of abstract projects planned to be delivered, maybe years from now: urban State Highway 1 “improvement” with more tunnels, and a rapid (or maybe just frequent) mass transit line from Lambton through Newtown and to the Airport.  But where will these actually go? And how do we deal with difficult questions about flows around the Basin Reserve? Wellingtonians waiting for new transport infrastructure to be built… Where does mass transit go? For mass transit, there are many things to consider. Is it along the waterfront quays or along Lambton Quay / the Golden Mile? Along Taranaki St or along Cambridge Terrace? Where does it go through the Basin Reserve? Many people are speculating. And the big one: light rail or trackless trams, or both? Mock-up of a route down Taranaki St What about the urban motorway? The LGWM proposal has a pretty good plan to maintain the amenity of the city above. They want to underground the motorway from the Terrace to Mt Vic. A new Te Aro park will be created on top. However people are questioning the need for more lanes created by a new Terrace and a new general traffic Mt Vic tunnel. More lanes in urban motorways creates induced demand. More lanes means make people drive more which kills off any travel savings created by the bigger road. It’s a transport strategy just as smart as trying to lose weight by buying bigger pants! Bigger roads take up valuable space and just fill up with more traffic (looking at you Auckland, thanks for showing us what not to do) This uncertainty is paralysing! Those who are in the “pro-car” camp say they like mass-transit but that must come after their bigger road. Those in the “pro-PT” camp want light rail first and a smaller road. Finger-pointing and party lines are drawn. Tough and costly decisions will have to be made about irreversible projects around the Basin. Once you make a flyover, tunnel or lay down tracks you can’t (quickly) go back. I think we can break out of this inaction and stupor with an interim middle ground: a busway. Case Study: Auckland’s Northern busway The idea for this has come from the success of Auckland’s northern busway. It is a dedicated two-lanes for buses from the northern foot of the Harbour Bridge up SH1 to Constellation Drive with world-class stations and frequent congestion-free services into the city.  It has seen year-on-year double-digit growth numbers over its 11 years in service, and is being extended to Albany and beyond shortly. Eventually tracks will be laid down for a second-harbour crossing for light-rail. Radical incrementalism Initially the busway was just a narrow shoulder each side of the northern motorway. People were sceptical initially but its success was undeniable and has provided the basis for upgrades and extensions. What the Northern busway shows is that doing something now, and building on it, is more practical and politically palatable than trying to justify a massive spend up front. This is applicable to Wellington’s light rail situation. It is relatively low-cost initially, can display almost mass-transit qualities and is more flexible as progress is made towards light-rail. Why a busway? A busway is what Wellington needs now. We cannot wait another 10-15 years for a big decision on the Basin and Mt Vic tunnel. A busway will provide many benefits: It is far cheaper to implement right away and far quicker to implement (I envisage 3 years for the first stage).It also demonstrates demand for mass-transit and will allow us to see whether a certain route is a good idea or not.It also allows for land-use intensification now, providing greater density and amenity to a future light rail line. What will it look like? So what would this look like? I think that the busway should start at the train station, go along the waterfront quays, and then either go along Taranaki St or Cambridge/Kent Terrace. Ideally, it should run in the centre of street with weather protected stops and room for cycleway and signal-priority. Stops should mirror light rail ones, being spaced out for speed and reliability.  Along most of the route the buses could probably hit 60km/h speeds, congestion free, all day. [Ed: just let that sink in. Congestion free. A clear run.] Separate branding would be an excellent addition. The Northern Express (NEX) is what Auckland has; the Wellington Express (WEX) is what we could have. This post is about incrementalism and the key takeaway is something half-done is better than waiting ages for the ‘perfect’ solution. If the busway is barebones at first before getting upgrades then so be it. The mess at the Basin can be avoided by stopping bus priority at the start, then resuming it into Newtown. This is what the Northern Busway does with dedicated lanes ending at the Harbour Bridge, then resuming on Fanshawe St. What the waterfront quays look like now (shudders). Hardly the “walkable city”. A thing of beauty: What a complete Wellington busway could look like The busway can be upgraded over time. Greenspace, cycleways, better stops, a possible underpass on Waterloo Quay to connect to the railway station. Summing up In an ideal world, we can all agree on the light-rail and grade-separation issues at the Basin and they may already have been implemented. But that is not the case. Although there is lots of details to work, the principle of a busway now then future conversion to higher-capacity light-rail is a sound one in my mind. Do you have any ideas why Wellington has not had bus priority – via a busway, or anything else – for so long? What do you think of fast buses in the city centre, and in the suburbs? A version of this post was originally published on TraNZport; see the original here. Image credits Cover image by Smarter TransportSkeleton waiting, original unknownTaranaki mock-up by LGWMAuckland rush hour by Getty imagesAuckland busway by Greater AucklandQuays now, screen grabBusway by AT
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    Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • New Waikanae station toilets bring residents relief

    • 23 Nov 2020
    • Greater Wellington Regional Council
    • Today a new public toilet facility opened at Waikanae Station, enhancing customer experience when opting for sustainable forms of transport, a co-funded project by Greater Wellington Regional Council and Kāpiti Coast District Council (KCDC).
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    Theatre for Young Audiences panel event

    • 27 May 2021
    • Capital E
    • An event was held for the Theatre for Young Audiences sector hosted by Capital E and Circa Theatre, in collaboration with PAYPA (Performing Arts for Young People Aotearoa) on 19th April at Circa Theatre Wellington.
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• • Get your hands dirty for a clean green future with Greater Wellington's planting days

    • 9 Jun 2021
    • Greater Wellington Regional Council
    • Environmentally-minded folks can get their hands dirty at one of the dozens of planting events the council will host this winter, as part of a programme to green up our region by 400,000 trees.
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• • Ngā āhuatanga ka akona mai ki a tātou e te ao Māori, mō te ao pakihi o āpōpō

    • 14 Sep 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • A group of researchers from the School of Business and Government explain what te ao Māori can teach us about sustainable management. This article was translated from English into te reo Māori by Piripi Walker.
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• • Expert review puts spotlight on police use of facial recognition technology

    • 8 Dec 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Police to tighten guidance on facial recognition technology following expert review by Dr Nessa Lynch from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and Dr Andrew Chen from Waipapa Taumata Rau—The University of Auckland.
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    Stars of the Matariki cluster: Waitī

    • 29 Jun 2022
    • Te Papa's blog
    • The star Waitī (Greek: Maia) is associated with all freshwater, and food sources that are sustained by those waters. Curator Mātauranga Māori Matiu Baker talks about a connection to this whetū in our collections.Read more
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• • Three-peat of CSW Regional Tournament futsal titles for Onslow College

    • 7 Apr 2022
    • College Sport Wellington
    • Boosted by the return of a couple of key players, Onslow College successfully defended the College Sport Wellington Regional Championship Senior Girls Futsal title at the one-day tournament at the ASB Centre last week.
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• • Race information available for Hoe Tonga Paddler Series 2022

    • 3 Jun 2022
    • Hoe Tonga Pacifica Waka Ama Association
    • Check out the details for this year’s winter series, available at https://hoetonga.co.nz/2022/04/13/hoe-tonga-paddler-series-2022/. The first race is hosted by Tunui & Tai Tonga and entries are now open.
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• • Remembering the culture, but not the language

    • 21 Oct 2022
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • Fakalofa Atu! Join our Niue Language Week celebrations by taking in this story of a staff member who took drastic action after managing to keep their culture alive within their family, but not the language.
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• • Friends of the Turnbull Library present Letters Out Loud

    • 27 Aug 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Following the resounding success of Live Letters: Raising the Roof for Randell Cottage, we are excited to support a new event, Letters Out Loud, presented by our colleagues from the Friends of the Turnbull Library.
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    Randell Cottage, 14, St Mary Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Green green room

    • 31 Jan 2024
    • Urban Dream Brokerage
    • A pilot scheme for a resource library for the independent theatre community in Wellington. This project has been brought to reality by Trick of the Light, Barbarian Productions, Fiē Neo, Marcus McShane & Anne-Lisa Noordover.
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    Courtenay Place, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)