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Leaders with hands on experience in Māori development are among the co-chair appointments for the permanent Regional Skills Leadership Groups announced today.
Social Development and Employment Minister Carmel Sepuloni says the group will become a key part of how government addresses future skills and workforce needs in the regions.
They have been asked to identify what change is needed from regional and national stakeholders to achieve a high-skill labour market.
Each group has two co-chairs, one nominated through an Expressions of Interest process and the other selected in consultation with regional iwi and Māori.
Whakatāne health provider Te Puna Ora o Mataatua wins equity award
18 May, 2021 11:29 PM
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Te Puna Ora o Mataatua staff with the Ministry of Health Equity Award. Photo / Supplied
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Te Puna Ora o Mataatua in Whakatāne has been overwhelmed with supportive messages since their win of the Ministry of Health Equity Award at the Primary Health Awards held in Auckland on Saturday night.
Chief Executive Dr Chris Tooley said they had been inundated with congratulations and it was a tribute to how highly they valued equity in the community. Tenei te honore nui kia tātau Te Puna Ora o Mataatua i Wikitoria i tenei pō! It s an honour for Te Puna Ora o Mataatua to win the Ministry of Health Equity award, he said.
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8h | Alan Burkitt-Gray The Australian telecoms regulator has fined the local branch of Lycamobile for what it calls “public safety failures”.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said it had found “prolonged and large-scale customer data failures, which could have put people in danger”, and fined the UK-based company A$600,000 (US$464,000).
The regulator said: “Lycamobile did not provide accurate customer information to an industry database used by police, fire and ambulance services, and 4,207 instances where it failed to comply with ID check rules before signing up prepaid mobile customers”.
National leader Judith Collins
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The authority is part of a suite of reforms the government has proposed to the health system. There is nothing in being Māori that intrinsically makes anyone more in need in the health system, and we could also say the same about Pasifika, we could also say the same in particularly Indian New Zealanders - it is important that we have solutions that work in communities, but they will not be based on someone s ethnicity and it can t be, Collins said.
Prominent Māori GP Dr Rawiri Jansen agreed with Collins to an extent.