Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 6:43 am
Entering its decennial year, the Howick Youth Council is
calling for past volunteers to reconnect as it prepares for
a busy 2021.
The youth council, whose mission is to
empower youth in east Auckland, has recently elected their
new leadership team and is now looking forward to a
member’s reunion later in the year.
Current youth
council co-chair Danica Loulié-Wijtenburg says success
couldn’t have been possible without the support of the
group’s stakeholders and the many dozens of volunteer
members who have been part of it.
“None of what we
do today could have been possible without the institutional
Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 6:47 am
Rise For Lives, a new youth-led peace and human rights
movement is organising a national peace walk which will take
place on the 27th of February, 2021 to bring attention to
the Yemeni Crisis, the largest humanitarian crisis on the
planet in the past 100 years.
Nine cities will be
participating in this national peace walk. Some cities will
have amazing speakers, singers, and dancers at their
walks.
To gain a deeper understanding of the situation
in Yemen, the youth behind Rise For Lives have reached out
to the United Nations. They have provided them with facts
about the dire situation in the country and linked the
Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 7:31 am
This
is the second of the annual Dairy Free Awards, which
highlight and showcase the best of New Zealand s available
plant-based dairy alternatives. The awards cover six
categories of products: ice cream, cheese, milk, yoghurt,
chocolate and butter. all fully plant-based, high quality,
delicious and nutritious. No one needs to go without their
favourite foods any more, as the plant-based market keeps on
developing new and better products and growing
exponentially.
The Waikato based Duck Island claimed
both winner and runner up in the ice cream category.
Manufacturing allergen free ice cream desserts has been
their passion since 2015 and with their extensive range of
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 2:24 pm
2021 marks the start of the fourth year since Young
Labour, Young Greens and Rodney Labour petitioned to ban
Conversion Therapy in Aotearoa. Prime Minister Jacinda
Ardern says that she wants to see the bill to ban Conversion
Therapy in Parliament by the end of 2021.
Conversion
therapy is any practice or form of treatment that seeks to
change, suppress, or eliminate someone’s sexual
orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression. The
fundamental principle of conversion therapy is that being
takatāpui, MVPFAFF, LGBTQIA+, or other BIPOC rainbow
identities – collectively known as “rainbow” - is
wrong and can be changed. Both claims are false. The CTAG
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 1:49 pm
Locals, Hauraki District Councillors and Deputy Mayor
Paul Milner gathered in Waihi this morning to protest NZTA s
inaction at reducing the speed limit along the well-known
dangerous entrance to the town. Residents have been
calling for a speed limit reduction in this area for years,
says protest organiser, past Councillor and local business
owner Austin Rattray. We ve long had support from the
Mayor, Council and our local MP Scott Simpson, and still
nothing has been done - the wait is literally killing
us.
In recent years, the stretch of highway coming
out of Waihi town towards Paeroa has seen many serious and