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Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles expects a research project will find links between untreated sewage discharged into Gisborne rivers in rain events and illness.
Dr Wiles, who was named New Zealander of the Year in March for her leadership in the fight against Covid-19, will be researching what she calls nasty bacteria in Gisborne s Waimatā River.
She is part of the University of Auckland s Let the Rivers Speak team, which has just started a three-year initiative finding new ways to give rivers voice and to revitalise rivers as living communities of landscapes, plants, animals and people.
Dan Hikuroa, who is leading the project alongside Dame Anne Salmond, said the study would build on Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River) Act, in which Aotearoa in 2017 became the first nation-state to recognise a river as a legal person.
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The many strange names of New Zealand: From Wet Jacket Arm to Hoon Hay, what s with our oddball place names?
8 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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The name Waikikamukau ( Why kick a moo cow ) has become a running joke in New Zealand for any tiny, rural town. Photo / Herald graphic
Karolin Potter doesn t laugh as much now when she takes the slow sweep south along Lyttelton Street before crossing the Heathcote River and leaving her home suburb of Spreydon for neighbouring Hoon Hay. She used to. I m not a Christchurch native, so when we moved here we thought it was absolutely hilarious. Hoon Hay - what a name!
One-hundred-and-fifty-four people from a variety of sectors including education, sport, health, and science have been honoured.
How does one sum up a distinguished career upon being awarded New Zealand s highest royal honour? “It’s always been this huge adventure,” Dame Anne Salmond says of her career as an anthropologist, environmentalist and multi award-winning author, unable to settle on a particular highlight. Salmond s work has been recognised with a multitude of awards and honours. In 1988, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature and Māori, and in 1995 she was promoted to dame for services to historical research.