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6 days ago · Wellington.Scoop on Twitter. Latest Wellington news. Unions appoint a workers’ observer for WCC – “cut salaries, not services”. Māori health care facility opening GP clinic, with three doctors, in Ōtaki. KiwiRail cutting jobs, calls for staff to take voluntary redundancy. $52.9million to upgrade Johnsonville, Kapiti and Hutt Valley lines.
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Wellington video campaign against Treaty Principles Bill. October 18th, 2024 1 comment. News from Te Tiriti is Us. A new campaign developed in Wellington is asking New Zealanders to voice their opposition to ACT’s Treaty Principles Bill. The advertising campaign suggests the bill is culturally embarrassing and belongs in the 1970s.
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October 11, 2024 50 comments. Wellington.Scoop. Wellington mayor Tory Whanau has said that the need to cut the city council’s capital spending will involve a review of what to cut, which will include the pipes. Read more ».
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Oct 1, 2024 · Wellington, New Zealand. The majority of residents travel to work on electric-powered public transport – be it bus or train. The electricity is nearly one hundred percent generated from renewables. Read more ». « Previous Entries. Scoop Wellington provides news and views from Wellington, New Zealand.
Airport takes credit for 14,500 regional jobs and $2b in GDP
11 hours ago · October 21, 2024 1 comment. A new economic impact report estimates Wellington Airport contributes over 14,500 jobs and $2 billion in GDP to the Wellington region’s economy. The report was completed by Business and Economic Research (BERL). It highlights how the airport enables industries like export education, trade and tourism as well as ...
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Oct 8, 2024 · Most of them, it seems, have been killed off. “Brakes put on more than 370 Kāinga Ora housing developments nationally”. In Wellington the following projects are stopped: Arlington redevelopment and Evans Bay Parade, with other projects stopped in the Hutt, Naenae, Wainuiomata, and Porirua. The list says “paused.”.
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Sep 14, 2024 · by Gordon Campbell Like the arms race, the funding of new cancer drugs is an endless upwards spiral. First though, the good news. Yesterday, the Pharmac office in Wellington announced that from October 1st, the expensive cancer drug Keytruda will be made available to eligible people with advanced triple-negative breast cancer, head and neck cancer, colorectal cancer, bladder cancer, and ...
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Oct 7, 2024 · by Nemo The Luxon-led government continues its attack on anything that the Labour Party ever managed to do, with the release of news about the Kāinga Ora housing projects. Most of them, it seems, have been killed off. “Brakes put on more than 370 Kāinga Ora housing developments nationally”. In Wellington the following projects are stopped ...
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Oct 11, 2024 · by Karl Tiefenbacher The news that the Bordeaux Bakery will close at the end of this week after 30 years in business enrages me. While I will miss the baguettes and mille feuille I often buy at Moore Wilson, what truly angers me is the disgraceful Council decisions and actions that have led to this.
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Oct 7, 2024 · by Pierson Palmer Wellington’s transit future looks a bit dire. Our transit budget is bogged down by basic maintenance. Light rail to Newtown feels like a pipedream, despite the corridor being a classic example of an at-capacity bus route needing a higher capacity mode.