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Auckland University research fellow Kate Hannah tells you what to look for to identify misinformation about the Covid-19 virus and vaccine.
The Pharmacy Council has issued a warning after an Auckland chemist unwittingly helped distribute an magazine. The owner of Lambs Pharmacy & Natural Therapies Centre on Karangahape Rd, who asked not to be named, told
Stuff copies of the first edition of a Covid misinformation magazine were dropped off about five weeks ago. They remained on display at the front of the shop for about four days before a customer commented on them, after which the owner said they were binned.
The NZ Outdoors Party is very concerned by the newly released recommendations of the Fish and Game review two person panel set up by Eugenie Sage when she was Conservation Minister. “They need full, open and proper debate and should not be undemocratically .
Covid 19 coronavirus: Gisborne health board member posts vaccine misinformation, is reprimanded
9 Apr, 2021 02:49 AM
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Meredith Akuhata-Brown. Photo / Aaron van Delden
Local Democracy Reporter
A Gisborne health board member has been reprimanded after posting misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine on social media.
Hauora Tairāwhiti board member Meredith Akuhata-Brown, who is also a Gisborne district councillor, said New Zealanders were being asked to take a vaccine that had not been effectively trialled or met any real Medsafe approval .
Medsafe approved the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine before it was signed off for use by Cabinet on February 10.
Associate Health Minister Peeni Henare wasn t impressed.
Candidates deny voter interference in Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board byelection
2 Feb, 2021 02:30 AM
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The Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board byelection has been rocked by allegations of voter interference. Photo / File
Candidates standing in an Auckland Council byelection for the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board deny any part in allegations of voter interference.
The police have been brought in to investigate the allegations, including a claim a man looking like one of the candidates made an elderly person fill in their ballot form and hand it to him.
The allegations were made by Malcolm Turner of the right-leaning Communities & Residents ticket in a complaint to the electoral officer, Dale Ofsoske, who has passed them to the police to investigate.
Meet the fascinating bunch running to represent a South Auckland community
Justin Latif | Local Democracy Reporter, South Auckland
There’s a by-election happening in South Auckland and, as Justin Latif reports, you’d struggle to find a more diverse group of candidates.
What do a globetrotting singer, a record-breaking weightlifter, an ex-fisherwoman, a social media expert, a radio show host and an IT guy all have in common?
Not much, other than that they all want to claim the vacant spot on Māngere-Ōtāhuhu’s seven-person local board, for which postal voting is now open (ballots close at midday, February 17).