Businesses urge government to launch inquiry into modern slavery

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date March 15, 2021

A coalition of 85 businesses and organisations has asked the government to launch a promised inquiry into whether a modern slavery act is needed in New Zealand.

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet September 20, 2024
Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city, if she’s to fund her ever-diminishing lifestyle. Whanau was elected to lead Wellington in 2022, winning an overwhelming victory against the incumbent mayor: the evil version of Jason Gunn. […]
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Ukrainian militia receives defective shipment of pagers that just send and receive messages September 18, 2024
There’s been a major setback for one Ukrainian-backed militia on the Russian border, after the group ordered a large shipment of pagers to use as improvised explosive devices. The plan was to litter the pagers throughout abandoned homes and buildings in hopes of wounding Russian soldiers. But upon arrival of the shipment, routed through the […]
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Government directs Te Puni Kōkiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English September 17, 2024
The coalition government has issued a directive to Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development, instructing them that – in the interests of clear communication – they are to conduct this year’s Māori Language Week primarily or exclusively in English. The directive is in line with the Government’s policy – signaled when they came […]
Ben Uffindell
Government celebrates fact that New Zealand’s healthcare is so good people are queuing up for it at 5am September 17, 2024
At yesterday’s post-cabinet press conference, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, flanked by his Health Minister Shane Reti and someone we can’t independently verify was a real sign language interpreter, announced that he had some positive news for the country. “Alright team, I’m just going to hand over to uh, Dr. Shane, because I think he’s got […]
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Heartwarming: Thoughtful driver uses indicator to tell you what they’ve just done September 17, 2024
It’s 4:10pm in the morning, and you’re in the middle lane heading north on the great southern motorway of our nation’s capital, Auckland. There are no cars directly in front of you, but quite a few in the lane to your left. Suddenly, without warning, a black ute enters your lane, cutting in front of […]
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NPC teams will now be allowed to actually use the Ranfurly Shield in play September 17, 2024
Following decades of controversy, the governing body of New Zealand rugby, New Zealand Rugby, has ruled that the team currently holding the Ranfurly Shield may once again use it in play during the National Provincial Championship (NPC). The ruling restores the utility of a prize that for many years was rendered merely symbolic, after the […]
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Police say they won’t respond to bomb threats anymore as ‘it’s never anything’ September 16, 2024
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says that New Zealand’s police force will no longer respond to bomb threats, in an attempt to cut costs and redirect police resources to less boring activities. Coster said that threat response and bomb disposal was a “fairly obvious” area for downsizing, as bomb threats are “never anything”, a “huge waste […]
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Air New Zealand flight attendant named CEO after one year on job November 30, 2021
New Zealand’s national carrier, Air New Zealand, has expressed great enthusiasm in announcing its new CEO today: 51-year-old Nathan Guy, a flight attendant who has spent about 1200 hours on the job. Guy joined the company as a fresh-faced, wide-eyed flight attendant serving now-reduced domestic routes in November of 2020, and has since spent a […]
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National Party board denies it unanimously agreed to Collins’ Faustian bargain with Satan November 26, 2021
National Party president Peter Goodfellow is today issuing a strong denial on behalf of the party’s board, saying they did not, at any point, agree to the Faustian bargain that National leader Judith Collins struck with the Evil One, Son of Perdition, the Devil Satan himself. When Collins became the leader of the National Party […]
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Super Saturday recap: Patrick Gower doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do October 16, 2021
It was Aotearoa’s first national day of action in over ten years, the first since 2010, when Prime Minister John Key tried to inspire us to clean up our nation’s berms. It didn’t work. Today, New Zealand’s berms are worse than ever. But history is not destiny, and other cliches. Today, we tried again, this […]
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For plants and people: Alan Matchett's botanic calling January 31, 2025
Alan Matchett at Dunedin Botanic Garden, where he has worked for more than four decades, much of that time as manager. Photos: Peter McIntosh Alan Matchett has been keeper of something close to a sacred trust these past several decades.
Tom McKinlay
From Wicked to wow: Oscar players ranked January 31, 2025
Ariana Grande (left) and Cynthia Erivo in Wicked. Photos: TNS The 2025 best picture Oscar nominees all rank, just some a little higher, writes Amy Nicholson.
Also at the Dunedin Arts Festival 2025 January 31, 2025
March 26 to April 6
Juggling life and the farm January 31, 2025
Animal, by Cirque Alfonse, of Quebec, Canada, is a surreal circus show that promises jaw-dropping acrobatics and agricultural antics. Photo: supplied The worldwide circus sensation, Cirque Alfonse, is finally on its way to New Zealand.
Bruce Munro
Scanning the horizons of our future January 31, 2025
Wind turbines some 30 kilometres off Helgoland, Germany. Photo: Getty Images A new studies shows where the pathways may lie to our future.
Alone with our phones January 31, 2025
"I have previously suggested that the cachet of having lots of real-life friends has declined, particularly among the young". Photo: Getty Images There’s a word for people who prefer phones to meeting friends.
Whistling up the tune to which we still dance January 31, 2025
43,000 year old bone and ivory flutes from southern Germany. Towards the end of last year, the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra put on an evening of music from ABBA.
Moon meets Matariki January 31, 2025
The moon reaches its first quarter on Wednesday at 9.02pm.
Beets and squash for salad days January 31, 2025
Enjoy summer squash while they last. Photo: Getty Images Nigel Slater’s recipes for baked summer squash, and beetroot with lentils and feta.
Honouring our commitments January 31, 2025
Kuia wait for waka on the beach at Waitangi last year during the annual celebrations. Photo: Getty Images It is remembering season for some of the colonies — our neighbours "across the ditch" (Australia, not the North Island) have just had their day, that memorialises an event, the coming of a specific ship into the […]

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