Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced a series of appointments and reappointments to four health regulatory authorities, Midwifery Council, Nursing Council, New Zealand Medical Radiation Technologists Board and Medical Sciences Council of New Zealand. 

Ōtara-raised barrister Ted Johnston says low voter turnout is silencing Pacific voices in Auckland’s democracy.

By Mary Afremata of Local Democracy Reporting Four new Māngere homes are giving Pacific families a life-changing step into home ownership, but a local councillor warns Auckland’s housing crisis is still overwhelming. The Ministry for Pacific Peoples marked the opening of the Penina Trust homes Coptic Place on Thursday, with Minister Dr Shane Reti attending.

A South Auckland community has pleaded with a licensing board not to approve the opening of a new bottle shop in their neighbourhood “for the sake of our rangatahi”.

Project Fetu, a partnership between the Oamaru Pacific Island Trust (OPIT) and Hanga-Aro-Rau Workforce Development Council for the manufacturing, engineering and logistics sectors, will support rural Pacific workers to complete the NZQA-recognised Digital Skills for Manufacturing micro-credential. 

A Pacific councillor in Dunedin says the city must move away from short-term thinking and reconsider how councils are financed, warning that the current rates system is inadequate.