Author: Kip Brook

Is the aim to eliminate covid folly?

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By Sir Ray Avery Auckland - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has pledged that New Zealand will be the first country in the world to eliminate the covid -19 virus. The PM is not alone in this quest. More than 60 University of Auckland health academics have confirmed their desire to eliminate covid-19. Jacinda

Water, water everywhere but not a drop to spare

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 Auckland - Auckland’s water shortage has been exacerbated by a lack of investment in technology, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. Auckland’s drought and subsequent water restrictions is the most severe the country has seen in nearly 30 years. Water sustainability is top of mind for much of New Zealand, Muller says. “Without

Covid airborne transmission is being underestimated, expert warns

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Auckland - Director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says covid-19 community transmission is now inevitable and Kiwi families should start stocking up on their own personal supplies of masks. Pharmaceutical scientist and medical device expert Sir Ray Avery says Bloomfield is 100 percent correct but it is important that people buy the

More important than ever: New Zealand’s tech sector

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Auckland - It is difficult for most Kiwis to think about the world before the covid pandemic but the nation's digital future is no longer a conversation about what the future may hold, because it is happening now – thanks to covid, NZTech chair Mitchell Pham says in their annual report. The

World-first for NZ software company Rfider

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 Auckland -  A world first, Rfider, a cutting-edge New Zealand software company, is powering a next generation digital supply chain for the Latin American coffee industry,  Rfider chief executive John Pennington says. Mastercol, a Colombian specialty coffee company, compares similarly to high-end Kiwi wine or honey producers, Pennington says. With this

Aroma NZ buys leading NZ flower supplier

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Christchurch - New Zealand’s biggest green-lipped mussel health food company has bought one of the country’s largest flower growing companies. Aroma NZ has successfully purchased Moffatt’s Flowers, which has been growing roses and other flowers in their Christchurch glasshouses since 1949. As one of the largest rose growers and flower wholesalers in New Zealand, Moffatt’s grows

Kiwibank policy doesn’t pass litmus test

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Auckland - Kiwibank’s new responsible banking policy includes a number of businesses that it would not do business with. This included places such as brothels and strip clubs which the bank put in the same category as fossil fuels, military and nuclear weapons and palm oil companies. However, Kiwibank has stepped back from

NZ helping countries prepare for life after covid

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Christchurch - New Zealand is helping other countries’ exercise industry organisations and registration bodies to prepare to open fully up exercise facilities, post-covid lockdown or after nations start returning to business as normal, ExerciseNZ chief executive Richard Beddie says. New Zealand was one of the first countries in the world to re-open